[Federal Register: April 20, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 76)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Commodity Credit Corporation
Request for Extension of a Currently Approved Information
Collection: Application for Payment of Amounts Due Persons Who Have
Died, Disappeared or Have Been Declared Incompetent
AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation, USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the intention of the Commodity Credit Corporation
(CCC) to request the extension of a currently approved information
collection. This information collection is used by CCC to document or
determine whether heirs or beneficiaries of a producer are entitled to
receive payments earned by a producer who dies, disappears, or is
declared incompetent before receiving payments or other disbursements.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received on or before June 21,
2004 to be assured consideration.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR COMMENTS: Contact David Tidwell, Agricultural
Program Specialist, Production, Emergencies, and Compliance Division,
USDA, FSA, STOP 0517, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC
20250-0517, telephone (202) 720-4542.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Application for Payment of Amounts Due Persons Who Have
Died, Disappeared, or Have Been Declared Incompetent.
OMB Control Number: 0560-0026.
Expiration Date: September 30, 2004.
Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: Persons desiring to claim payment due a person who has
died, disappeared, or has been declared incompetent must do so on Form
FSA-325, ``Application for Payment of Amounts Due Persons Who Have
Died, Disappeared, or Have Been Declared Incompetent''. This
information is used by FSA county office employees to document the
relationship of heirs or beneficiaries and determine the order of
precedence for disbursing payments to heirs or beneficiaries of the
person who
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has died, disappeared, or been declared incompetent.
Information is obtained only when a producer eligible to receive a
payment or disbursement dies, disappears, or is declared incompetent,
and documentation is needed to determine if any heirs or beneficiaries
are entitled to receive such payments or disbursements.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting burden for this collection of
information is estimated to average .5 hours (\1/2\ hour) per response.
Respondents: Individual producers.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 2,000.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 1,000.
Proposed topics for comment include: (a) 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; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of burden including
the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information collected;
or (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of the 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 should be
sent to the Desk Officer for Agriculture, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC
20503 and to David Tidwell, Agricultural Program Specialist,
Production, Emergencies, and Compliance Division, USDA, FSA, STOP 0517,
1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250-0517, (202) 720-
4542.
Copies of the information collection may be obtained from David
Tidwell, at the above address.
Signed at Washington, DC, on April 12, 2004.
Verle E. Lanier,
Acting Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit Corporation.
[FR Doc. 04-8845 Filed 4-19-04; 8:45 am]
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