[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 222 (Wednesday, November 18, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72040-72041]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-29390]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Food and Nutrition Service


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request--Information Collection for the National School Lunch 
Program

AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 
notice invites the general public and other public agencies to comment 
on this information collection. This is a revision of a currently 
approved collection which FNS employs to determine public participation 
in the National School Lunch Program.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before January 19, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection 
of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions 
of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions that were used; (c) ways to enhance the 
quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and 
(d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on 
those who are to respond, including use of appropriate automated, 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology.
    Comments may be sent to: Lynn Rodgers-Kuperman, Branch Chief, 
Program Monitoring, Child Nutrition Division, Food and Nutrition 
Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 3101 Park Center Drive, 
Alexandria, VA 22302-1594. Comments may also be submitted via fax to 
the attention of Lynn Rodgers-Kuperman at 703-305-2879 or via email to 
[email protected]. Comments will also be accepted through the 
Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to http://www.regulations.gov, and 
follow the online instructions for submitting comments electronically.
    All written comments will be open for public inspection at the 
office of the Food and Nutrition Service during regular business hours 
(8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday) at 3101 Park Center Drive, 
Alexandria, Virginia 22302.
    All responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the 
request for Office of Management and Budget approval. All comments will 
be a matter of public record.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of this information collection should be directed to Lynn 
Rodgers-Kuperman at the address indicated above or by phone at 703-305-
2595.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: 7 CFR part 210, National School Lunch Program.
    Forms: FNS-640, FNS-66, FNS-66A, and FNS-828.
    OMB Control Number: 0584-0006.
    Expiration Date: February 29, 2016.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Abstract: The Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (NSLA), 
as amended, authorizes the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to 
safeguard the health and well-being of the nation's children and 
provide free or reduced price school lunches to qualified students 
through subsidies to schools. The United States Department of 
Agriculture (USDA) provides States with general and special cash 
assistance and donations of foods to assist schools in serving 
nutritious lunches to children each school day. Participating schools 
must serve lunches that are nutritionally adequate and maintain menu 
and food production records and the latest nutritional analysis to 
demonstrate compliance with the meal requirements.
    Section 10 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1779) 
requires the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe such regulations as 
deemed necessary to carry out this Act and the NSLA (42 U.S.C. 1751 et 
seq.). Pursuant to that provision, the Secretary has issued 7 CFR part 
210, which sets forth policies and procedures for the administration 
and operation of the NSLP. The Program is administered at the State and 
school food authority (SFA) levels and operations include the 
submission of applications and agreements, submission of the number of 
meals served and payment of claims, submission of data from required 
monitoring reviews conducted by the State agency, and maintenance of 
records. State and local operators of the NSLP are required to meet 
Federal reporting and accountability requirements and are also required 
to maintain records that include school food service accounts of 
revenues and expenditures.
    In addition, FNS collects program data from the State agencies on 
Forms FNS-10, Report of School Operations; FNS-13, Annual Report of 
State Revenue Matching; and FNS-777, Financial Status Report. These 
forms are approved under OMB Control # 0584-0594, Food Program 
Reporting System (FPRS), which expires June 30, 2017. The reporting 
burden associated with these reports is covered under #0584-0594 and is 
not associated with this information collection. However, the 
recordkeeping burden is still maintained in this collection.
    The reporting and recordkeeping burden associated with this 
revision is decreased from 11,337,788 to 9,871,395 hours. This change 
is mainly due to adjustments, the majority of which is the removal of 
duplicate burden, removal of burden that occurs only once, burden 
changes for an increase in schools participating in the Program and a 
decrease in number of School Food Authorities operating the Program, 
and other program changes.
    This information collection is required to administer and operate 
this program in accordance with the NSLA. All of the reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements associated with the NSLP are currently 
approved by the Office of Management and Budget and are in force. This 
is a revision of the currently approved information collection.
    Affected Public: (1) State agencies; (2) School Food Authorities; 
and (3) schools.
    Number of Respondents: 121,210 (56 State agencies (SAs), 19,822 
school food authorities (SFAs), and 101,332 schools).

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    Number of Responses per Respondent: 4.14573.
    Total Annual Responses: 502,504.
    Reporting Time per Response: 0.703875.
    Estimated Annual Reporting Burden: 353,700.
    Number of Recordkeepers: 121,210 (56 SAs, 19,822 SFAs, 101,332 
schools).
    Number of Records per Record Keeper: 406.294827.
    Estimated Total Number of Records: 49,246,996.
    Recordkeeping Time per Response: 0.19326446.
    Total Estimated Recordkeeping Burden: 9,517,694.
    Annual Recordkeeping and Reporting Burden: 9,871,395.
    Current OMB Inventory for Part 210: 11,337,788.
    Difference (change in burden with this renewal): (1,466,393).
    Refer to the table below for estimated total annual burden for each 
type of respondent.

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                                     Estimated       Number of                       Estimated       Estimated
         Affected public             number of     responses per   Total annual    average hours   total burden
                                    respondents     respondent       responses     per response       (hours)
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                                                    Reporting
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State Agencies..................              56             122           6,832          7.7762          53,127
School Food Authorities.........          19,822              15         293,008        0.956653         280,307
Schools.........................         101,332               2         202,664             0.1          20,266
    Total Estimated Reporting            121,210  ..............         502,504  ..............         353,700
     Burden.....................
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                                                  Recordkeeping
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State Agencies..................              56            1419          79,464          1.5913         126,451
School Food Authorities.........          19,822              20         396,440          4.5380       1,799,045
Schools.........................         101,332             481      48,771,092         0.15567       7,592,199
    Total Estimated                      121,210  ..............      49,246,996  ..............       9,517,694
     Recordkeeping Burden.......
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                                      Total of Reporting and Recordkeeping
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Reporting.......................         121,210         4.14573         502,504        0.703875         353,700
Recordkeeping...................         121,210      406.294827      49,246,996      0.19326446       9,517,694
    Total.......................  ..............  ..............      49,749,500  ..............       9,871,395
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    Dated: November 9, 2015.
Audrey Rowe,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
[FR Doc. 2015-29390 Filed 11-17-15; 8:45 am]
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