Application for Plant Variety Protection Certificate and Objective Description of Variety
No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection
No
Regular
04/15/2020
Requested
Previously Approved
01/31/2022
01/31/2022
3,212
2,039
3,570
2,082
0
0
The Plant Variety Protection Act provides for the issuance of intellectual property protection on novel varieties of seed reproduced crops. Information collected provides expert examiners in the PVPO a basis for issuing or denying a certificate of protection.
The Justification for Change is to address 8 new crops that have been added to this collection. There is an increase of 1,173 responses and an increase of 1,488 burden hours to the currently approved collection due to the addition of these new crops..
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.