[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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