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View ICR - OIRA Conclusion

OMB Control No: 0581-0250	ICR Reference No: 201302-0581-001
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 200901-0581-001
Agency/Subagency: USDA/AMS	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling of Covered Commodities
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 05/13/2013
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 03/06/2013
Terms of Clearance: In accordance with 5 CFR 1320, the information is approved for three years. As part of its next request to extend approval, USDA must confirm the accuracy of the burden estimates and provide better estimates of whether the burden is associated with recordkeeping or with third party disclosure by actively conducting outreach to the regulated community. As part of this effort, USDA should also consider whether burden can be reduced or otherwise minimized.

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	05/31/2016	36 Months From Approved	05/31/2013
Responses	1,655,905	0	2,632,795
Time Burden (Hours)	31,437,002	0	37,673,956
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	1,655,905	2,632,795	-976,890
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	31,437,002	37,673,956	-6,236,954
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	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: There is a decrease of -6,236,954 burden hours due to a decrease in firms that are subject to COOL and would need to establish a record collection system. Since the information collection requirement for the COOL regulations was part of the initial rule, established firms should not have any additional burden hours due to establishing a system record keeping system.