The information collected allows CCC to effectively provide disaster assistance to producers of commercial crops and agriculture commodities as authorized by 7 U.S.C. Sec. 7333, and measure compliance according to 7 CFR 1437. For Report of Acreage, the noninsured crop disaster assistance program requires producers certify crop, commodity, and acreage in order to determine eligibility, level of assistance and compliance with program provisions.
Approved form FSA-578 has been incorporated in this request since the last information collection package approval. FSA is revising the estimates currently approved under OMB control number 0560-0004 to the numbers to reflect current respondents, responses and burden hours. The burden hours increase by 86.103 while the number of responses increase by 7,193.
The number of respondents decrease by 219,206 (291,500 (0560-0004)-72,294 (0560-0175. The number of respondents, 291,500, under 0560-0004 was the number of producers reporting acreage nationwide for all FSA programs; therefore, the number of respondents, 72,294, in this request are only NAP participants reporting acreage for NAP eligibility.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
NAP Supporting Statement 2016.doc
Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and and Report of Acreage