[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 116 (Monday, June 17, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28003-28004]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-12637]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Food and Nutrition Service


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request--Form FNS-380, Worksheet for Supplemental Nutrition 
Assistance Program (SNAP) Quality Control (QC) Reviews

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 proposed information collection. This collection is a renewal 
of a currently approved information collection request.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before August 16, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to: Stephanie Proska, Food and 
Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 3101 Park Center 
Drive, Room 822, Alexandria, VA 22302. Comments may also be submitted 
via fax to the attention of Stephanie Proska at 703-305-0928 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 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 Stephanie 
Proska at 703-305-2437.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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.
    Title: Worksheet for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance 
Program's Quality Control Reviews.
    Form Number: FNS 380.
    OMB Control Number: 0584-0074.
    Expiration Date: September 30, 2019.
    Type of Request: Renewal of a currently approved collection.
    Abstract: Section 16 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 provides 
the legislative basis for the operation of the Quality Control (QC) 
system. Part 275, Subpart C, of SNAP regulations implements the 
legislative mandates found in Section 16. Regulations at 7 CFR 275.1, 
275.14(d) and 275.21(a) and (b)(1) provide the regulatory basis for the 
QC reporting requirements.
    Section 11(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 provides the 
legislative basis for the recordkeeping requirements. SNAP regulations, 
at 7 CFR 272.1(f), specify that program records must be retained for 
three years from the month of origin. Regulations at 7 CFR 275.4 
specifically address record retention requirements for form FNS-380.
    Form FNS-380, is a SNAP worksheet used to determine eligibility and 
benefits for households selected for review in the QC sample of active 
SNAP cases. This form provides a systematic means of aiding the State's 
Quality Control Reviewer in analyzing the case record, planning and 
doing field investigation and gathering, comparing, analyzing and 
evaluating data.
    We estimate the total reporting burden for the collection of 
information to support SNAP QC as 428,745.53 hours. This includes 
approximately 8.9 hours for State Agencies to analyze each household 
case record including planning and carrying out the field 
investigation; gathering, comparing, analyzing and evaluating the 
review data and forwarding selected cases to the Food and Nutrition 
Service for Federal validation, totaling approximately 404,923.30 hours 
for the entire caseload. We are also including an average interview 
burden of 30 minutes (0.5 hours) for each household, creating a 
reporting burden for them for 22,748.50 hours. Additionally, we 
estimate the recordkeeping burden per record for the State Agencies to 
be 0.0236 hours, thereby making the recordkeeping burden associated 
with this information collection for the State Agencies to be 1,073.73 
hours. The total estimated reporting and recordkeeping burden for this 
collection is 428,745.53 hours and 136,491 total annual responses for 
reporting and recordkeeping.
    Based on the most recent table of active case sample sizes and 
completion rates (FY2017), we estimate 45,497 FNS-380 worksheets and 
interviews will now be completed annually. We are requesting a three-
year approval from OMB for this information collection.
    Affected Public: 45,550 (Households, and State, Local and Tribal 
Governments: Respondent groups identified include: 45,497 Households 
and 53 State Agencies).
    Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1,718 (The total 
number of responses per household is 1 and total number of responses 
per State, Local and Tribal Governments is 1,717 to include reporting 
and recordkeeping responses).
    Estimated Total Annual Responses: 136,491. This includes 45,497 
sampled active cases for QC review, 45,497 reporting households, and 
45,497 records being maintained by 53 State Agencies.
    Estimated Time per Response: 9.42 hours (The estimated time of 
response for State Agencies to report is approximately 534 minutes, 30 
minutes for households to report, and the estimated response time for 
State Agencies to do recordkeeping is approximately 1.42 minutes. 
Therefore, the total time per response is approximately 565.42 minutes 
or 9.42 hours.)
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 428,745.53 hours. 
This includes 405,997.03 for State Agencies reporting and recordkeeping 
plus 27,748.50 Households reporting only. See the table below for 
estimated total annual burden for each type of respondent.

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                                                              Estimated     Estimated    Estimated
                                               Estimated        total         total       average     Estimated
                 Respondent                     number        responses       annual     number of   total hours
                                              respondents   annually per    responses    hours per    (Col. dxe)
                                                             respondent     (Col. bxc)    response
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                                       Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden
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State Agencies Reporting...................            53          858.43       45,497          8.9   404,923.30
State Agencies Recordkeeping...............            53          858.43       45,497       0.0236     1,073.73
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    Subtotal Weighted Estimate States                  53        1,716.86       90,994       8.9236   405,997.03
     Reporting and Recordkeeping...........
Households Reporting.......................        45,497               1       45,497           .5    22,748.50
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    Subtotal Households Reporting Only.....        45,497               1       45,497           .5    22,748.50
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        Grand Total Reporting &                    45,550           1,718      136,491       9.4236   428,745.53
         Recordkeeping Burden for the
         entire collection--State Agencies
         and Households....................
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    Dated: May 29, 2019.
Brandon Lipps,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
[FR Doc. 2019-12637 Filed 6-14-19; 8:45 am]
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