[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 6, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 19840]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-07301]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

April 1, 2022.
    The Department of Agriculture has submitted the following 
information collection requirement(s) to OMB for review and clearance 
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. Comments 
are requested regarding; whether the collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility; the 
accuracy of the agency's estimate of burden including the validity of 
the methodology and assumptions used; ways to enhance the quality, 
utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and ways to 
minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are 
to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology.
    Comments regarding this information collection received by May 6, 
2022 will be considered. Written comments and recommendations for the 
proposed information collection should be submitted within 30 days of 
the publication of this notice on the following website 
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information 
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for 
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
    An agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information 
unless the collection of information displays a currently valid OMB 
control number and the agency informs potential persons who are to 
respond to the collection of information that such persons are not 
required to respond to the collection of information unless it displays 
a currently valid OMB control number.

Economic Research Service

    Title: Conservation Auction Behavior: Effects of Default Offers and 
Score Updating.
    OMB Control Number: 0536-NEW.
    Summary of Collection: Data collection for this project is 
conducted under the authority of the 7 U.S.C. 2204(a). This data 
collection will use an online simulated auction experiment with former 
participants in the USDA Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) general 
signup to (1) Study the anchoring effect of using a high-scoring 
default offer in the CRP enrollment software rather than an active-
choice default, and (2) study how the timing of information about final 
ranking score in the software influences responsive to baseline ranking 
scores. Outputs for the experiment will be used to inform potential 
updates to the CRP software and enrollment software as well as future 
lab experiments on general conservation auctions.
    Need and Use of the Information: This study will collect data on 
choice made using a lab-in-the-field experiment, in which the study 
participants, farmers who have previously participated in a recent CRP 
signup, will be asked to make a set of hypothetical offers to a 
simulated CRP signup. The data collection is being conducted by USDA 
Economic Research Service in collaboration with researchers from the 
University of Delaware's Center for Behavioral and Experimental 
Agrienvironmental Research. This information will potentially be of use 
to USDA's Farm Service Agency when conducting signups for CRP.
    If this study is not conducted, USDA would lack context-specific 
research when considering program spending on software redesign to 
change the defaults used in the enrollment software or training of 
field agents to change the defaults used when advising farmers on 
program enrollment.
    Description of Respondents: Farmers or Farmland Owners.
    Number of Respondents: 11,000.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 1,467.

Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-07301 Filed 4-5-22; 8:45 am]
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