OMB control number

Conservation Effects Assessment Project

OMB 0535-0245 · USDA/NASS.

OMB 0535-0245

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) requests approval for non-substantive change to NASS’s Confidentiality Pledge. In the summer of 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that NASS update its confidentiality pledge. This change to NASS Confidentiality Pledge would affect all surveys conducted under NASS’s 34 active Information Collections (ICs). Current Language: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.” Proposed Revision: “Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation without your consent is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.”

The latest form for Conservation Effects Assessment Project expires 2027-03-31 and can be found here.

Latest Forms, Documents, and Supporting Material

Document Name
Form SurveyID: 3273 Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Questionnaire Updated CIPSEA Form and Instruction
Form SurveyID: 3273 Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Questionnaire Form and Instruction
Form Survey ID: 9119 Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Quality Control Worksheet Form and Instruction
Form SMETA 3273 Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Chemical & Pesticide Applications Consent Form Form and Instruction
Form SurveyID: 3273 Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Questionnaire Form and Instruction
Form SurveyID: 3641 Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Screener Form and Instruction
0245- CEAP - Example Email and Text Reminder.docx Supplementary Document
0535-0000 NonSub Change for NASS CIPSEA Statement .docx Justification for No Material/Nonsubstantive Change
0245 - CEAP - Supplementary Supporting Statements AB - Substantive Change Request - SPD-15 Exemption Request - April 2025.docx Supplementary Document
PC - 0245 - CEAP - Public Comment - Anonymous Anonymous - Reply - 01-18-2024.pdf Supplementary Document
0245 - Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Operator Card - January 30, 2024.pdf Supplementary Document
0245 - Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Door Hanger - January 30, 2024.pdf Supplementary Document
0245 - Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Customer Relationship Mgmt Postcard - January 30, 2024.pdf Supplementary Document
Public Law 115-435 - Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018.pdf Supplementary Document
Title 7 USC - Sec 3601.1 - General Statement of Public Information (FOIA).docx Supplementary Document
Title 18 USC - Sec 1905 - Disclosure.docx Supplementary Document
Title 7 USC - Sec 2276-Confidentiality[1] - Section 1770 of Food Security Act.docx Supplementary Document
Title 7 USC - Sec 2204(a) Gen Duties.docx Supplementary Document
0245 - Final Report from the Blue Ribbon Panel Conducting an External Review of the US Department of Agriculture Conservation Effects Assessment Project - 2006.pdf Supplementary Document
0245 - CEAP - SSB - 2026.docx Supporting Statement B
0245 - CEAP - SSA - 2026.docx Supporting Statement A
0245 - Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Highlights - January 30, 2024.pdf Supplementary Document
0245 - NRCS Impacts of Conservation Adoption on Cultivated Acres of Cropland in the Chesapeake Bay Region - 2003-06 to 2011 - Dec 2013.pdf Supplementary Document
0245 - Conservation Practices on Cultivated Cropland A Comparison of CEAP I and CEAP II Survey Data and Modeling - March 2022.pdf Supplementary Document
0245 - Statistical Methodology for the Conservation Effects Assessment Project Cropland Farmer National Surveys - Feb 2021.pdf Supplementary Document
FRN - SORN - Apr 27, 2009.pdf Supplementary Document
0245 - Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Thank You Postcard - January 30, 2024.pdf Supplementary Document
0245 - Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Backgrounder - January 30, 2024.pdf Supplementary Document
0245 - Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Presurvey Letter - Phase 2 - January 30, 2024.docx Supplementary Document
0245 - Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Presurvey Letter - Phase 1 - January 30, 2024.docx Supplementary Document
0245 - Conservation Effects Assessment Project - News Release Template - January 30, 2024.docx Supplementary Document
0245 - Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Full Page Ad - January 30, 2024.JPG Supplementary Document
0245 - Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Brochure - January 30, 2024.pdf Supplementary Document
PIA - NASS DA MA PIA v2_2 - Dec 1, 2017.pdf Supplementary Document
NASDA - 004 Revised - Dec 2020.pdf Supplementary Document
CEAP Non-response Other-Non Response Statement
Conservation Effects Assessment Project Form and Instruction
Conservation Effects Assessment Project Form and Instruction
Conservation Effects Assessment Project Form and Instruction
Conservation Effects Assessment Project Form and Instruction
Conservation Effects Assessment Project Form and Instruction
Conservation Effects Assessment Project Form and Instruction
Conservation Effects Assessment Project Other-Sample Map

All Historical Document Collections

202604-0535-001	Revision of a currently approved collection	2026-04-13
202601-0535-021 Approved with change	No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	2026-01-26
202504-0535-001	Revision of a currently approved collection	2025-05-28
202401-0535-003 Approved without change	Reinstatement with change of a previously approved collection	2024-02-21
201504-0535-003 Approved without change	No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	2015-04-28
201406-0535-001 Approved without change	Revision of a currently approved collection	2014-07-17
201301-0535-003 Approved without change	No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	2013-01-14
201206-0535-003 Approved without change	No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	2012-06-19
201107-0535-002 Approved without change	Reinstatement with change of a previously approved collection	2011-08-23
200506-0535-001 Approved with change	Reinstatement with change of a previously approved collection	2005-06-23
200406-0535-002 Approved with change	Revision of a currently approved collection	2004-06-30
200306-0535-001 Approved with change	New collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number)	2003-06-19

OMB Details

Conservation Effects Assessment Project

Federal Enterprise Architecture: Economic Development - Industry Sector Income Stabilization

Form SurveyID: 3641	Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Screener	Fillable Fileable	Form and instruction
Form SurveyID: 3273	Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Questionnaire	Paper Only	Form and instruction
Form Survey ID: 9119	Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Quality Control Worksheet	Paper Only	Form and instruction
Form SMETA 3273	Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Chemical & Pesticide Applications Consent Form	Paper Only	Form and instruction
Form SurveyID: 3273	Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Questionnaire	Paper Only	Form and instruction

Review document collections for all forms, instructions, and supporting documents - including paper/printable forms.