2025-00372Notice

Mystery Agency Submits Mystery Thing for Mystery Review

Published Date: 1/10/2025

Notice

Summary

The Department of Agriculture is asking for public feedback on a new info collection that helps track farm and livestock stats. Farmers, researchers, and agencies will be involved, and comments are due by February 10, 2025. This update aims to make data gathering easier and clearer without adding extra costs or hassle.

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.

Up to 10 cooperator surveys yearly

You could be asked to respond to one of up to 10 cooperator-funded surveys NASS may run each year. The notice says responses are voluntary, the surveys will be conducted on a full-cost recovery basis, NASS expects 225,000 respondents, and the total estimated burden is 111,512 hours; comments are due by February 10, 2025.

Federal legal protection for responses

If you respond, NASS says the data you report are protected by Federal law (18 U.S.C. 1905; 7 U.S.C. 2276; and title III of Pub. L. 115-435 codified in 44 U.S.C. ch. 35). NASS also says published summaries will be used by the sponsoring cooperators and agricultural stakeholders.

Topics you may be asked about

You may be asked questions on topics such as farm management practices, food safety, workplace safety, conservation and land use, chemical use management practices, crop quality, and agri‑tourism or local foods. NASS says these topic surveys would be requested by cooperators and used to analyze production and program impacts.

Your PRIA Score

Score Hidden

Personalized for You

How does this regulation affect your finances?

Sign up for a PRIA Policy Scan to see your personalized alignment score for this federal register document and every other regulation we track. We analyze your financial profile against policy provisions to show you exactly what matters to your wallet.

Free to start

Key Dates

Published Date
1/10/2025

Department and Agencies

Department
Independent Agency
Source: View HTML

Related Federal Register Documents

Previous / Next Documents

Back to Federal Register