The collected information is necessary
to evaluate an applicants request to purchase inventory property
and is used by the agency to determine an applicants eligibility
to lease or purchase inventory property and to ensure payment of
the lease or purchase amount.
As a result of the information
collection analysis completed for this renewal request, the total
burden hours for FLP were increased by 119. The current annual
burden hours are 551, and the previous burden hours was 432. The
current number of respondents is 314, and the previous number of
respondents was 280. The previous number of responses was 290 and
the current number of responses is 325 so the number of responses
has increased by 35 in this request. The increase is primarily due
to an overall increase in agency inventory property since approval
of the previous burden request. The largest increase is to the
number of respondents who will review FSA-2593 "Standard Sales
Contract" as part of anticipated sales of FSA inventory property.
Additionally, a large increase in burden hours is due to the
increase in travel time associated with customers who will drive to
their local office to provide the information requested in this
collection. Other items were increased slightly to reflect the
increasing number of borrowers which are being serviced by the
agency and are therefore subject to the information collection
contained in this request.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.