Justification for Change (LPS-2 merge)

Justification of Change Worksheet

Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board Form Merger

OMB No. 0581-0093

July 2018

On April 25, 2018, OMB issued its approval to AMS on revision of currently approved collection form related to the Beef Research and Promotion: Producer Request for State to Retain Checkoff Assessment (Form LPS-2); and assigned it OMB No. 0581-0302. This Justification for Change Worksheet requests OMB’s approval to merge this form into OMB No. 0581-0093, National Research, Promotion, and Consumer Information Programs. As indicated in the Supporting Statement to OMB No. 0581-0302, upon approval of the collection, AMS will submit a justification request to merge form LPS-2 into the parent OMB No. 0581-0093, National Research, Promotion, and Consumer Information Programs so all forms pertaining to National Research, Promotion, and Consumer Information Programs are contained in one collection to prevent duplicity of burden hours.

With this request we are modifying the form to change first paragraph, last sentence, changing “received” to signed, and changing “State beef council” to producer. Once OMB approves this merge request, AMS will submit a discontinuation request in ROCIS to delete OMB No. 0581-0302 collection to keep all forms in one parent collection. The burden hours in the 0581-0093 collection will increase by 8.30 burden hours with this merge.

	Total Annual Responses	Total Hours
Current 0581-0093	440,418	150,918.00
Current 0581-0302	100	8.30
New Combined 0581-0093	440,518	150,926.30