Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Correction

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National Agricultural Statistics Service

Title: Agricultural Resource Management and Chemical Use Surveys—Substantive Change.

OMB Control Number: 0535-0218.

Summary of Collection: The Department of Agriculture published a document in the Federal Register on July 22, 2022, Volume 87, page 43780 concerning a request for comments for the substantive change request on the Information Collection “Agricultural Resource Management and Chemical Use Surveys” OMB control number 0535-0218. In this FRN, it was stated there was a decrease in burden due to the removal of questions from the Production Practices Report (Potatoes) that were previously requested by the USDA Office of Pest Management Policy (OPMP). The removal of questions reduced the average time per respondent from 50 to 35 minutes.

That statement needs to be corrected to state, “there is an overall increase in number of responses burden due to presurvey, initial mailings, and possible electronic mail follow-up for the ARMS Phase 2 and Vegetable Chemical Use Surveys, resulting in a new total of 109,277 hours.

There is no change to the number of respondents and frequency of responses. The burden needs to be updated from 106,015 to 109,277.