Annual Burden Worksheet

(0596-0010) Annual Burden Worksheet

Affected Public/Type of Respondents: Private Sector Businesses and Non-Profit Organizations

Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 5,737 (note – this includes respondents and non-respondents)

Estimate of Annual Burden Per Response: an average of 30 minutes for the National Mill Instrument – Pulpwood for 132 respondents (estimated); an average of 42 minutes for all other Regional Mills Instruments (i.e., Northern, Southern, Western) for 2,875 respondents (estimated); an average of 11 minutes for all forms of the Loggers Survey Instruments for 435 respondents (estimated). Please see Table 1 below for more specific details.

Estimated Annual Number of Responses per Respondent: 1 response/respondent

Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 2,223 hours (note – this includes burden hours respondents and non-respondents)

Table 1 Annualized Burden Estimates

			RESPONDENTS (R)				NON-RESPONDENTS (NR)
(a) Description of the Collection Activity Assume 60% response rate for all instruments	(b) Total Number of Contacts (sample size)	(c) Number of Responses Annually for Respondents and Non-respondents	(d) Number of Respondents	(e) Total Annual Responses for R (c x d)	(f) Estimate of Burden Hours per Respondents	(g) Annual Burden Hours for R (e x f)	(h) Number of Non-respondents	(i) Total Annual Responses for Non-respondents (c x h)	(j) Estimate of Burden Hours per Non-respondents	(k) Annual Burden Hours for Non-respondents (i x j)	(l) Total Annual Burden Hours for R and NR (g + k)
MILL SURVEY INSTRUMENTS
National Mills Instrument – Pulpwood	220	1	132	132	0.50	66	88	88	0.033	2.9	68.9
Regional Mills Instruments – Northern – Composite Northern – Primary Southern – Primary Western – Out-of-State Western – Primary Western – Pulp, Board, Biomass	3850	1	2310	2310	0.83	1918	1540	1540	0.033	50.8	1968.8
Western Mill Instrument – Short-form	220	1	132	132	0.37	49	88	88	0.033	2.9	51.9
Western Mill Instrument – Postcard	722	1	433	433	0.08	34	289	289	0.033	9.5	43.5
LOGGERS SURVEY INSTRUMENTS
Loggers Survey – North	292	1	175	175	0.08	15	117	117	0.033	3.9	18.9
Loggers Survey – South & West	433	1	260	260	0.25	65	173	173	0.033	5.7	70.7
TOTAL	5737	-	3442	3442	-	2147	2295	2295	-	76	2223