[Federal Register: October 7, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 194)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
October 3, 2005.
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
regarding (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 to be collected; (d) 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 should be addressed to: Desk
Officer for Agriculture, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or
fax (202) 395-5806 and to Departmental Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO,
Mail Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250-7602. Comments regarding these
information collections are best assured of having their full effect if
received within 30 days of this notification. Copies of the
submission(s) may be obtained by calling (202) 720-8958.
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.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Dried Prunes Produced in California--Dried Prune Handler
Compensation Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0581-0208.
Summary of Collection: Marketing Orders (Orders) and Agreements
(Agreements) covering the respective commodities emanate from the
Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, Secs. 1-19, 48 Stat. 31,
as amended; 7 U.S.C. 601-674. This regulation, hereinafter referred to
as the Act, was designed to permit regulation of certain agricultural
commodities for the purpose of providing orderly marketing conditions
in interstate commerce and improving returns to producers. The Act
provides in section 608(d)(1) that information necessary to determine
the extent to which an order has effectuated the declared policy of the
Act shall be furnished at the request of the Secretary of Agriculture
(Secretary). Under the Prune Marketing Order, handlers are compensated
for such costs as inspection, receiving, storing, grading and
fumigation of reserve prunes held for the account of the Prune
Marketing Committee. A formula has been established in the
administrative rules and regulations that allow the Committee to
compute the level of handler payments that reflect current industry
costs. The Committee will obtain current industry costs through surveys
of dried prune handlers, and average costs will be computed based on
the number of handlers participating in the survey and the compensation
rate will be updated based on the survey.
Need and Use of the Information: When volume regulations are in
effect, the survey is filled out by handlers on a voluntary basis to
inform the Prune Marketing Committee of their costs associated with
inspection, receiving, storing, grading, handling and fumigation, as
well as other costs.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; farms.
Number of Respondents: 22.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion;
Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 6.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Dried Prunes Produced in California--Prune Dehydrator
Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0581-0211.
Summary of Collection: Marketing Orders (Orders) and Agreements.
(Agreements) covering the respective commodities emanate from the
Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, Secs. 1-19, 48 Stat. 31,
as amended; 7 U.S.C. 601-674. This regulation, hereinafter referred to
as the Act, was designed to permit regulation of certain agricultural
commodities for the purpose of providing orderly marketing conditions
in interstate commerce and improving returns to producers. Under the
Prune Marketing Order, prune producers may participate in a voluntary
prune plum diversion program, when a reserve pool is implemented. Under
this program, prune producers can elect to divert part of their prune
plum crop from normal prune or prune product markets. Because dry-away
ratios are the basis for computing the dried weight equivalent of
diverted fresh prune plums, and those currently established are
outdated, the Prune Marketing Committee will obtain current dry-away
ratios through a voluntary survey submitted by commercial prune
dehydrators, when the program is implemented.
Need and Use of the Information: The commercial prune dehydrators
inform the Committee of their annual dry-away ratios for the preceding
five years by completing this survey. The Prune Marketing Committee
will use the information to average those ratios and compute a five-
year average dray-away ratio for each producing region, and apply that
ratio to diverted prune plums in those regions. The information to be
provided is on a voluntary basis and includes the most recent six years
of dry-away ratios for each commercial prune dehydrator owned or
operated, the dehydrator location, the county(ies) where the dehydrator
receives prunes, and in cases of dehydrators receiving prunes from
multiple counties, the estimated percentage of production each county
supplies to the dehydrator.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; farms.
Number of Respondents: 17.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion;
annually.
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Total Burden Hours: 5.
Charlene Parker,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 05-20166 Filed 10-6-05; 8:45 am]
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