Farm Water Meters Get Bureaucratic Tune-Up (Less Paperwork!)
Published Date: 9/11/2026
Notice
Summary
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the intention of the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) to request approval to revise and extend a currently approved information collection to gather data related to water usage for North Carolina agricultural operations that likely use between 10,000 and 1,000,000 gallons per day. A revision to the burden hours will be necessary due to a decrease in the sample size.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
NC Farms Face Annual 30‑Minute Survey
If you operate a North Carolina farm that likely uses between 10,000 and 1,000,000 gallons per day, NASS plans a voluntary Water Use Survey that is collected annually. The sample size is about 3,000 respondents, each expected to spend about 30 minutes to complete the survey (plus about 5 minutes for instructions), and the total estimated annual burden is 1,438 hours.
Survey Data Protected by Confidentiality Laws
If you respond, individually identifiable answers are protected: data are collected under 7 U.S.C. 2204(a) and 7 U.S.C. 2276 (Food Security Act confidentiality) and must comply with the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (CIPSEA) of 2018. NASS says it will use the information only for statistical purposes and publish only tabulated totals.
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