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0535-0218 201109-0535-001
Historical Active 201006-0535-002
USDA/NASS
Agricultural Resource Management, Chemical Use, and Post-harvest Chemical Use Surveys
Revision of a currently approved collection   No
Regular
Approved without change 12/20/2011
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 10/31/2011
Terms of Clearance: This information collection is approved for 1 year only. NASS and OMB have agreed on the following actions and deliverables in advance of the next submission of the ARMS ICR to OMB: 1. NASS will hold a meeting with the OIRA desk officer no later than the end of February, 2012 to discuss the information collection request agency preparation and OIRA review process. This will not be a discussion on the purpose of ARMS, but a project management and review discussion. The PRA and implementation regulations will be reviewed by the OIRA desk officer. Submission schedules, staff assignments and responsibilities for docket preparation will be reviewed. 2. OIRA expects that information collection instruments will not be printed in advance of PRA clearance in the future, and that the agency’s scheduling will allow at least 120+ days for public comment and OIRA review, as described in the PRA (60 day public notice + 30 day public notice + 30 day review period prior to OIRA’s being required to respond to the request). 3. The supporting statements for the next ARMS ICR will reference specific actions taken to address NAS 2007 report recommendations. A comprehensive response to the NAS 2007 report will be presented to the OIRA desk officer in draft form no later than the end of February, 2012 and in final form within the next ARMS ICR’s supplemental materials. This response will include a schedule of actions with estimated date of completion, staff assignment, priority ranking, and completion status. 4. Supporting statement A will be revised to reference, with limited exception, only the current ARMS information collection procedures. Supporting statement questions B.1 and B.2 will be revised to describe the sampling frame and raking process such that population controls source and raking weights will be clearly identified. Recalibration of weights to adjust for nonresponse bias and transmission of those weights to data users will be discussed. 5. Instruments will be revised. Each instrument should have the information required by the PRA to be communicated to the potential participant. This includes purpose, use, authority for collection, privacy statute citation, voluntary/mandatory nature, estimated average burden, and contact for public to inquire about the information collection. This language in the current documents is incomplete and internally inconsistent. 6. Testing procedures, analysis and recommendations for the mail vs. in person instruments and the use of propensity scoring for targeted follow up will be discussed with the OIRA desk officer at least 30 days prior to submission of the next ARMS ICR to ROCIS. 7. NASS (and ERS, as appropriate) will brief OIRA at least 30 days prior to the submission of the next ARMS ICR to report completion of the stipulations above.
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
12/31/2012 36 Months From Approved 12/31/2011
135,583 0 101,367
79,731 0 61,568
0 0 0