[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 190 (Wednesday, September 30, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 61719]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-21592]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

National Agricultural Statistics Service


Notice of Revision to the Agricultural Labor Survey and Farm 
Labor Reports by Suspending Data Collection for October 2020

AGENCY: National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of change to data collection and publication.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the intention of the National 
Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) not to collect data for the 
currently approved information collection, the Agricultural Labor 
Survey, and its associated publication originally planned for November 
2020.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kevin L. Barnes, Associate 
Administrator, National Agricultural Statistics Service, U.S. 
Department of Agriculture, (202) 720-4333.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Agricultural Labor Survey.
    OMB Control Number: 0535-0109.
    Expiration Date of Approval: February 28, 2022.
    Type of Request: To suspend a currently approved information 
collection.
    Abstract: The primary objective of the National Agricultural 
Statistics Service is to prepare and issue State and national estimates 
of crop and livestock production, disposition, and prices. The 
Agricultural Labor Survey provides quarterly statistics on the number 
of agricultural workers, hours worked, and wage rates. Number of 
workers and hours worked have been used to estimate agricultural 
productivity; wage rates have been used in the administration of the H-
2A Program and for setting Adverse Effect Wage Rates. Survey data have 
also been used to carry out provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment 
Act.
    USDA has determined the public can access other data sources for 
the data collected in the Agricultural Labor Survey. These sources 
include, but are not limited to, the Agricultural Resources Management 
Survey (ARMS), Census of Agriculture (COA), American Community Survey 
(ACS), Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), National 
Economic Accounts, and the National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS). 
Therefore, NASS will not be collecting data in October 2020, as 
originally planned. NASS will not publish the biannual Farm Labor 
report this November.
    Authority: These data were collected under authority of 7 U.S.C. 
2204(a). Individually identifiable data collected under this authority 
are governed by Section 1770 of the Food Security Act of 1985, 7 U.S.C. 
2276, which requires USDA to afford strict confidentiality to non-
aggregated data provided by respondents.
    Estimate of Burden: There will be no further public reporting 
burden for this quarterly collection of information.

    Signed at Washington, DC, September 24, 2020.
William Northey,
Under Secretary, Farm Production and Conservation USDA.
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