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OMB Control No: 0535-0020	ICR Reference No: 200805-0535-003
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 200805-0535-002
Agency/Subagency: USDA/NASS	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Milk and Milk Products
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Emergency	Approval Requested By: 06/10/2008
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved with change	Conclusion Date: 06/13/2008
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 06/02/2008
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	12/31/2008	6 Months From Approved	01/31/2011
Responses	92,470	0	92,470
Time Burden (Hours)	11,061	0	11,061
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: Provides data to estimate U.S. milk production, milk cows, amounts and value of feed fed to milk cows, and production of manufactured dairy products in all States. Data are also used by USDA in milk and milk products price formulas.

Emergency Justfication: This is a request for an emergency approval of a revision of the NASS milk and milk products information collection. The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Interim Final Rule was published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, July 3, 2007. That rule established a Dairy Product Mandatory Reporting Program. In preparation for this new ruling, NASS submitted an emergency review request in May 2007 to get approval of the new mandatory constraint that was added to all of the affected questionnaires. The Interim Final Rule was given an expiration date of 12 months. The Interim Final Rule had an extended comment period, which closed on December 3, 2007. In January 2008, NASS received a regular 3 year approval for the Milk and Dairy Products docket (0535-0020). Since the closing of the comment period AMS has had time to review both the comments and the Final Rule. AMS has deemed it necessary to make some fine tuning changes to the questionnaires to clarify a few points that were missed when they submitted the questionnaires for the previous approval process. These substantive changes serve to add clarity to the questionnaires and help to insure the intent of the Final Rule is adhered too. The Dairy Product Prices Annual Validation Worksheet was approved for use in the previous OMB approval process. After it had been used for one cycle, NASS received input from some of our Field Offices with suggestions for changes that would improve the usefulness of the questionnaire. The annual validation was designed to have three primary purposes; first, it is used as a tool in establishing the firms that need to reply to the four weekly surveys. Secondly, it is used as a training instrument to instruct respondents on which items to include or exclude in the various questions when calculating their responses, and lastly to record each respondents answers as to their ability to report dairy product prices consistent with the needs of AMS. In the event that there should be an audit of the Dairy Product Price program, AMS needed to have proper documentation that the data was reported in a consistent and accurate manner. Screening questions were added to the front page of the Dairy Product Prices Annual Validation Worksheet. These questions were added to streamline the questionnaire along with reduce the amount of time (burden) it takes for the respondent to complete the questionnaire. There have been no changes to the survey or sampling methodology or procedures previously approved. The minor adjustments made to the Dairy Product Prices Program that AMS is managing, have been approved and are scheduled to be released to the public in mid June, 2008. NASS requests the Emergency approval of this collection with the questionnaire changes by June 10, 2008, so that we are collecting data that are consistent with the new ruling being published by AMS.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 7 USC 2204 Name of Law: Duties of Secretary

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses	92,470	92,470
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	11,061	11,061
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement:

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $1,500,000

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? Yes Part B of Supporting Statement

Is the Supporting Statement intended to be a Privacy Impact Assessment required by the E-Government Act of 2002? Yes

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? Uncollected

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? Uncollected

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? Uncollected

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Uncollected

Agency Contact: David Hancock 202-690-2388 dhancock@nass.usda.gov

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