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The Department of Agriculture plans to submit an information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act. The request involves the Agricultural Surveys Program, which collects data to help make estimates about crop production, livestock inventories, and more. Due to COVID-19, many changes were made to the surveys for 2020, such as suspending face-to-face interviews. For 2021, some survey questions were modified to allow data collection via telephone, continuing social distancing efforts. The program is crucial for providing farmers, policymakers, and others with necessary agricultural statistics, and it has a large number of respondents, predominantly farms and ranches.

The Department of Agriculture has submitted a request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval of an information collection requirement. This survey is about livestock producers' perceptions of predators and the methods they use to manage predator damage. The survey will collect data from producers who have experienced livestock losses to predators and have participated in nonlethal management programs by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). This information will help APHIS improve its programs and policies by understanding producers' experiences and attitudes towards different predator management methods.

The Department of State is asking for public comments on a new information collection related to the TechGirls program, which is a summer scholarship for girls aged 15-17 to explore STEM careers in the U.S. The Department aims to evaluate how well the program has met its goals over roughly ten years, with feedback from alumnae, their host families, job shadow hosts, and program staff. They have hired Dexis Consulting Group to conduct online surveys, and the public can comment on this effort until March 5, 2021.

The U.S. Corps of Engineers is proposing to collect public information and is seeking comments on this plan by April 27, 2021. This collection is meant to judge whether the information is helpful for agency functions and accurately assesses any burden it might pose. The information will be used to improve regulatory services provided to the public by gathering feedback through a customer service survey. It will be a voluntary survey with an estimated 2,000 respondents, each taking about 10 minutes to complete, affecting various public and private groups.