FSA is implementing ERP 2022, which will assist crop producers who suffered losses due to qualifying disaster events. The application period for ERP 2022 has ended; however, the collection is continuing because additional information is needed to implement a provision of the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025, and to verify participantsâ compliance with the requirement to purchase crop insurance or Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) coverage for the next 2 available years.
The current burden inventory is 230,000 estimated annual respondents: 327,855 estimated annual responses and 100,072 estimated annual burden hours. With this revision the agency is seeking 192,000 estimated annual respondents, 218,640 estimated annual responses and 22,255 estimated annual burden hours. This reflects a decrease in the number of estimated respondents -38,000; decrease in the estimated number of responses -109,215, and a decrease in the number of estimated annual burden hours -77,817 since the last OMB submission.
These changes are the result of adjustments. The burden hours and respondents have been updated to remove the respondents and burden hours associated with forms that are no longer being collected because the application period for ERP 2022 has closed.
The burden hours and respondents have also been updated due to program changes to include notification letters and response time for implementing the de minimis provision and for compliance activities to ensure participants met the statutory required to obtain crop insurance or NAP coverage for the next two crop years.
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.