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Non-Substantive Change Request

OMB Control Number: 0535-0000 – All Information Collections

Subject: Confidentiality Pledge Update

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) requests approval for non-substantive change to NASS’s Confidentiality Pledge. In the summer of 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that NASS update its confidentiality pledge. This change to NASS Confidentiality Pledge would affect all surveys conducted under NASS’s 34 active Information Collections (ICs), listed in Table 1 below.  Included below is the abbreviated supporting statement that describes the needed changes to the Confidentiality Pledge.  The revised Confidentiality Pledge was approved by NASS, USDA’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) and Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO).
Table 1: NASS’s Active Information Collections 
OMB No.
Information Collection Name
0535-0001
Cold Storage
0535-0002
Field Crops Production
0535-0003
Agricultural Prices
0535-0004
Egg, Chicken, and Turkey Surveys
0535-0005
Livestock Slaughter
0535-0007
Stocks Reports
0535-0020
Milk and Milk Products
0535-0037
Vegetable Surveys
0535-0039
Fruit, Nuts, and Specialty Crops
0535-0088
Objective Yield Surveys
0535-0093
Commercial Floriculture Survey
0535-0140
List Sampling Frame Surveys
0535-0150
Aquaculture Survey
0535-0153
Honey and Honey Bee Surveys
0535-0213
Agricultural Surveys Program
0535-0218
Agricultural Resource Management Phase 1 & 2 and Chemical Use Surveys
0535-0220
Cotton Ginnings
0535-0236
Census of Horticultural Specialties
0535-0240
Tenure, Ownership, and Transition of Agricultural Land (TOTAL)
0535-0245
Conservation Effects Assessment Project
0535-0248
Generic Clearance of Survey Improvement Projects
0535-0249
Organic Survey
0535-0254
Current Agricultural Industrial Reports (CAIR)
0535-0258
Cost of Pollination Survey
0535-0259
Local Food Marketing Practices Survey
0535-0261
Fast Track Generic Clearance for Qualitative Feedback on Customer Satisfaction Surveys
0535-0262
Water Use Survey 
0535-0264
Quick Response for Cooperator funded Surveys Generic Clearance
0535-0266
Custom Work Surveys
0535-0270
Hemp Production and Disposition Inquiry
0535-0273
Cooperator Funded Chemical Use Surveys
0535-0274
NASS Data Security Requirements for Accessing Confidential Data
0535-0275
Agricultural Resource Management Phase 3 Economic Surveys
3145-0271
Standard Application Process Portal


Current Language:

“Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.”

Proposed Revision:

“Your responses will be kept confidential and any person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about you or your operation without your consent is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.”

This change will be applied to all active NASS Information Collections and reflected in the 2026 NASS CIPSEA Report, which is published at: https://www.nass.usda.gov/About_NASS/Confidentiality_Pledge/