Justification

OMB Control Number: 0560-0183.

Title of Clearance: Assignment of Payment Form and Joint Payment Authorization Forms.

Agency Form Number affected by Change Worksheet: CCC-36 Assignment of Payment – Revised, and CCC-37 Joint Payment Authorization – Revised.

Other Changes: The specific changes to the Form CCC-36 are the following:

1. In part A – General Information, Items 2 and 4, updated to “Producer’s (Assignor’s)”.

2. In Part A, Item 6, was added this section for “Assignee’s Electronic Fund Transfer Information and added the following fields: “Direct Deposit to Account Type”, “Checking”, “Savings”, “Bank Information Routing Number”, and “Account Number”.

3. In Part B –Title name updated to “FSA Applicable Program(s)”,

Item numbers updated as follows:

Item 7 updated to “Program (FSA use only)”;

Item 8 updated to “Assigned Amount for Each Applicable Program Year”; and

Item 9 updated to “State, County and Reference Number, If Applicable”.

4. Item 7 updated to “Program (FSA use only)”, and added three additional programs as follow:

1. A – Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP),

2. B – Coronavirus Food Assistance Program 2.0 (CFAP2),

3. C – Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program Plus (WHIP+).

5. Item 8 updated to “Assigned Amount for Each Applicable Program Year.

6. Item 9 updated to State, County and Refence Number, if Applicable.

7. Items10 updated to “Other Program Name (FSA use only).

8. Item 11 updated to “Program Year or Payment Year.

9. Item 12 updated to “Assigned Amount.

10. Item 13 updated to “State County and Reference Number, if applicable”.

11. In part C – NRCS use only included Items 14 through 17.

12. In part D – updated title to “Representation of Assignor and Assignee”.

Item 18A. updated to “ Producer’s (Assignor’s) Signature (By)”,

Item 18B “Title/Relationship of the individual if Signature in a Representative Capacity”,

Item 18C updated to “ Date (MM-DD-YYYY)”, Item 19A updated to “Assignee’s Signature (By)”,

Item 19B, updated to “Title/Relationship of the Individual if Signing in a Representative Capacity”, and

Item 19C updated to “ Date (MM-DD-YYYY)”.

13. In part E – Revocation of Assignment, the titles updated to “Revocation of Assignment”.

Item 20A updated to “Assignee’s Signature (By)”,

Item 20B updated to “Title/Relationship of the Individual if Signing in a Representative Capacity”, and

Item 20C updated to “Date (MM-DD-YYYY)”.

14. The Section For County Office Use Only: Item 21 updated to “Receiving State and County”,

Item 22 updated to “ Date Filed (MM-DD-YYYY)”,

Item 23 updated to “Time Filed”,

Item 24A. updated to “FSA County Office Name and Address (Including Zip Code)”, and

Item 24B updated to “Telephone No. (Including area code)”.

15. The Paperwork Reduction Act reference updated for CRP to the correct citation is 16 U.S.C. 3846(b)(1).

16. Removed the check boxes for “NRCS” “County FSA Committee”, “Assignee”, and “Participant” at the bottom of the form. No longer required.

The specific changes to the Form CCC-37 are the following:

1. In part A, General Information, Item 1 updated to “Producer’s (Assignor’s) Name and Address (Including Zip Code)”, and Item 3 Producer’s (Assignor’s) Tax Identification moved to the second row.

2. In part B, Applicable Program(s), Item 4 added three new farm programs: Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), Coronavirus Food Assistance 2.0 (CFAP2) and Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program Plus (WHIP+).

3. Part C, Joint Payment Authorization: First paragraph second sentence changed the word “agreement” to “authorization”. Second paragraph the word “local” was removed.

4. Special Provisions Relating to Joint Payment Authorization, updated A, added “County” office. B. change “1” to “one”.

5. Updated the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) Statement corrected the CRP citation to “16 U.S.C.3846(b)(1)”.

6. Removed the check boxes for “County FSA Committee”, “Joint Payee”, and “Assignor” at the bottom of form CCC- 37. No longer required.

There are no changes to the burden hours. The Spanish forms/instructions of CCC-36 and CCC-37 are also submitted.