No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection
No
Regular
09/21/2023
Requested
Previously Approved
05/31/2025
05/31/2025
54,730
54,730
11,882
11,882
0
0
The Minnesota Best Management Practices Survey, scheduled for August-September, 2023 was postponed per a request by the client, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA). MDA staff are responsible for the content of the survey instrument and prior to the start of the data collection for this survey, a review of data from another project they conduct suggested that the question wording for this project needed to be clarified to avoid misreporting problems that could reduce the value of the data.
With that new and last minute information, the MDA staff asked us to postpone the data collection and they went back through the questionnaire to clarify the wording of questions, removed a few particularly troublesome questions and replaced those with more direct and understandable questions to collect the data they need.
The purpose, desired goals, and content theme of the Minnesota Best Management Practices Survey have not changed from the original OMB review request. However, a number of the questions have been re-worded, clarified or replaced with others to improve the expected quality of the reported data.
PL:
Pub.L. 115 - 435 302
Name of Law: Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency
US Code:
7 USC 2276
Name of Law: Confidentiality of Information
US Code:
7 USC 2204
Name of Law: General Duties of Secretary
US Code:
7 USC 3601.1
Name of Law: General Statement of Public Information
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.
Non-Responses