justification of change

Justification of Change Request OMB No. 0581-0189

April 2021

This Justification of Change is to merge the 0581-0304 and the 0581-0313 packages into the Fruit Crops package 0581- 0189. On October 10, 2017, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) granted approval for five cranberry forms CMC-OUT, CMC-DISP, CMC-APPL, CMC-JUN, CMC-CONF under OMB control number 0581-0304. On April 9, 2018, OMB issued an approval of one form, CMC-AUG and assigned it OMB No. 0581-0313. AMS is seeking to merge all six of these cranberry forms into the parent information collection package 0581-0189, so all forms pertaining to the cranberry marketing order are contained in one forms collection and so AMS can prevent duplicity of burden hours and prevent multiple collections for one commodity.

In both collections it was stated that upon approval of the collections, the forms would be merged into 0581-0189

OMB No. 0581-0304 and 0581-0313 should be discontinued after both packages are merged into OMB No 0581-0189. Once OMB approves this merge request, AMS will submit a discontinuation request in ROCIS to keep all forms in one parent collection.

Merging the forms from 0581-0304 and 0581-0313 into 0581-0189 fruit crops package will slightly increase the burden hours by 32.13 hours. Below is a description of the burden hour changes:

Form		# of Respondents (A)	Responses per Respondents (B)	Total Annual Response (AxB) = C	Hours per Response D	Total Hours (CxD)=E
Adding
Handler Application for Outlets for Withheld Fruit (CMC-OUT)		10	12.000	120.00	0.0800	.80
Handler Disposal Certification (CMC-DISP)		10	12.000	120.00	0.1700	20.40
Handler Withholding Appeal (CMC-APPL)		5	2.000	10.00	0.0800	.80
Handler Withholding Report (CMC-JUN)		10	1.000	10.00	0.0800	.80
Third Party Confirmation (CMC-CONF)		10	12.000	120.00	0.0500	6.00
Handler Withholding Final Report (CMC-AUG)		10	1.0000	10.00	0.3330	3.33
TOTAL ADDING		55				32.13