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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 226 / Monday, November 29, 2021 / Notices
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
National Institute of Food and Agriculture Notice of Intent To Extend and Revise a Currently Approved Information Collection National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
ACTION: Approval of notice and request for comments.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and Office of Management and Budget OMB regulations, this notice announces the National Institute of Food and Agricultures NIFA intention to extend and revise, a currently approved information collection entitled, Reporting Requirements for State Plans of Work for Agricultural Research and Extension Formula Funds. NIFA is also proposing to modify the collection in response to audit findings of the USDA Office of Inspector General.
DATES: Written comments on this notice must be received by January 28, 2022 to be assured of consideration. Comments received after that date will be considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be submitted by any of the following methods: Email: robert.martin3@
usda.gov. Mail: Office of Information Technology OIT, NIFA, USDA, STOP
2216, 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 202502216. You may also submit comments, through the Federal eRulemaking Portal:
www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robert Martin, Records Officer; email:
robert.martin3@usda.gov; phone: 202
4455388.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Reporting Requirements for State Plans of Work for Agricultural Research and Extension Capacity Grants.
OMB Number: 05240036.
Expiration Date of Current Approval:
September 30, 2022.
Type of Request: Notice of intent to extend, for one year, a currently approved information collection. The burden for this collection remains unchanged.
The agency is building a new reporting system, the NIFA Reporting System, NRS that will consume the Reporting Requirements for Research, Education, and Extension project reporting tool REEport and this collection upon completion. At the
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appropriate time, NIFA will request approval for a new information collection to include all competitive and capacity programs. In addition, NIFA
will work with university partners in extension and research to review and identify measures to further streamline the submission, reporting under, and implementation of plan of work requirements under USDA extension and research capacity programs, as required by section 7505 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, Public Law 110246 7 U.S.C. 7614b.
The adoption of new technology and elimination of data fields that are not required by law or are not used by NIFA
for informational purposes, will reduce the burden of collecting and reporting information to our grantees. At that time, we will be better able to estimate the actual burden.
In addition to the Plan of Work requirements described below, NIFA
seeks to collect two digital identifiers to assist with collecting information on publications that result from NIFAfunded projects. The first digital identifier is the Digital Object Identifier DOI assigned to journal articles by publishers. The DOI will allow NIFA to eliminate the manual entry of publication data by grantees. NIFA also seeks to collect the Open Researcher and Contributor ID ORCID. The ORCID
is a persistent digital identifier, available to individuals at no cost.
Increasingly, researchers are placing their ORCIDs in publication metadata.
Together, the DOI and ORCID will help NIFA improve the robustness of its publication data and be better positioned to demonstrate the value of its investments.
NIFA also seeks to collect information from its grantees in support of its key performance indicator KPI, Workforce Development. NIFA, in collaboration with the Office of Chief Scientist, defines the KPI as the number of students trained as part of a NIFAfunded project or program. This data is currently collected from a segment of NIFAs programs. The Agency seeks to expand this to all relevant programs as they are brought over to the NIFA
Reporting System.
Abstract: The purpose of this collection of information is to continue implementing the requirement that a plan of work must be submitted by each institution and approved by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture NIFA before formula funds may be provided to the 1862 and 1890
land-grant institutions.
The formula funds are authorized under the Hatch Act of 1887, as amended 7 U.S.C. 361ai for
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agricultural research activities at the 1862 land-grant institutions, under the Smith-Lever Act 7 U.S.C. 341349 for the extension activities at the 1862 landgrant institutions, and under sections 1444 and 1445 of AREERA 7 U.S.C.
32213222 for research and extension activities at the 1890 land-grant institutions. The requirement for the submission of a plan of work may be found in 7 U.S.C. 344c for the SmithLever Act, in 7 U.S.C. 361gd for the Hatch Act, and in 7 U.S.C. 3221d3
and 3222c2 respectively for Research and Extension at the 1890 Institutions.
The plan of work must address critical agricultural issues in the State and describe the programs and projects targeted to address these issues using the NIFA formula funds. The plan of work also must describe the institutions multistate activities and include their integrated research and extension activities.
This collection of information also includes the reporting requirements of section 102c of AREERA 7 U.S.C.
7612c for the 1862 and 1890 landgrant institutions. This section requires the 1862, 1890, and 1994 land-grant institutions, and Hispanic-serving agricultural colleges and universities receiving agricultural research, education, and extension formula funds from NIFA of the Department of Agriculture USDA to establish and implement processes for obtaining input from persons who conduct or use agricultural research, extension, or education concerning the use of such funds.
Section 102c further requires that the Secretary of Agriculture promulgate regulations that prescribe what the institutions must do to meet this requirement and the consequences of not complying with this requirement.
The Stakeholder Input Requirements for Recipients of Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Formula Funds 7 CFR 3418 final rule 65 FR
5998, Feb. 8, 2000 applies not only to the land-grant institutions and Hispanic-serving agricultural college and universities receiving formula funds but also to the veterinary and forestry schools that are not land-grant institutions but receive forestry research funds under the McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Act of 1962 16 U.S.C. 582a17 and animal health and disease research funds under section 1433 of NARETPA 7 U.S.C.
3195a.
Failure to comply with the requirements of this rule may result in the withholding of a recipient institutions formula funds and redistribution of its share of formula
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