[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 142 (Wednesday, July 24, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35589-35590]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-15668]
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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 September 23,
2019.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to: Tina Namian, School Programs
Branch, Policy and Program Development Division, Food and Nutrition
Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 3101 Park Center Drive, Room
1206, Alexandria, VA 22302-1594. Comments may also be submitted via fax
to the attention of Tina Namian at 703-305-6294 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 Tina Namian
at 703-305-2590.
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: 7 CFR part 210, National School Lunch Program.
Forms: FNS-10, FNS-13, FNS-640, FNS-777, and FNS-828.
OMB Control Number: 0584-0006.
Expiration Date: September 30, 2019.
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)/Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) 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 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.
The reporting, recordkeeping, and public notification burden
associated with this revision decreased from 10,030,000 to 9,808,439
hours. This change is due to the removal of public notification burden
that occurred only once and decreases in the number of schools and SFAs
participating in the Program. Other changes include the addition of
304,640 hours of recordkeeping burden originating from
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the ``Administrative Reviews in the School Nutrition Programs'' Final
Rule (RIN 0584-AE30) (published in the Federal Register on July 29,
2016), which have not been accounted for in the burden. This change
accounts for the time needed for State agencies to conduct an
administrative review and maintain the associated documentation. This
renewal also includes the addition of 56 hours of reporting burden to
account for the quarterly performance-based reimbursement report, which
was mistakenly removed during the previous renewal.
FNS collects program data from the State agencies on Forms FNS-10
Report of School Operations, FNS-13 Annual Report of State Revenue
Matching, FNS-640 Administrative Review Data Report Form, FNS-777
Financial Status Report, and FNS-828 School Food Authority Paid Lunch
Price Report. These forms are approved under OMB Control # 0584-0594
Food Program Reporting System (FPRS), which expires September 30, 2019.
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.
This information collection is required to administer and operate
this program in accordance with the NSLA. 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: 115,935 (56 State agencies, 19,019 school
food authorities, and 96,860 schools.)
Number of Responses per Respondent (Reporting): 4.2543.
Total Annual Responses: 493,226.
Reporting time per Response: 0.6937.
Estimated Annual Reporting Burden: 342,130.
Number of Recordkeepers: 115,935 (56 State agencies, 19,019 school
food authorities, and 96,860 schools.)
Number of Records per Record Keeper: 406.2685.
Estimated Total Number of Records: 47,100,736.
Recordkeeping time per Response: 0.1999.
Total Estimated Recordkeeping Burden: 9,414,007.
Number of Respondents (Public Notification): 19,075 (56 State
agencies and 19,019 school food authorities).
Number of Responses per Respondent (Public Notification): 1.6612.
Total Annual Responses: 31,687.
Reporting time per Response: 1.6506.
Estimated Annual Public Notification Burden: 52,301.
Annual Reporting, Recordkeeping, and Public Notification Burden:
9,808,439.
Current OMB Inventory for Part 210: 10,030,000.
Difference (change in burden with this renewal): -221,561
Refer to the table below for estimated total annual burden for each
type of respondent.
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Number of Estimated
Affected public Estimated number responses per Total annual average hours Estimated total
of respondents respondent responses per response burden (hours)
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Reporting
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State Agencies........................................... 56 119 6,664 7.6345 50,876
School Food Authorities.................................. 19,019 15 292,842 0.928428 271,882
Schools.................................................. 96,860 2 193,720 0.1 19,372
Total Estimated Reporting Burden......................... 115,935 ................. 493,226 ................. 342,130
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Recordkeeping
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State Agencies........................................... 56 1,475 82,619 5.1556 425,949
School Food Authorities.................................. 19,019 21 399,399 4.3338 1,730,919
Schools.................................................. 96,860 481 46,618,718 0.15567 7,257,139
Total Estimated Recordkeeping Burden..................... 115,935 ................. 47,100,736 ................. 9,414,007
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Public Notification
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State Agencies........................................... 56 113 6,328 .25 1,582
School Food Authorities.................................. 19,019 1.3334 25,359 2 50,719
Total Estimated Public Notification Burden............... 19,075 ................. 31,687 ................. 52,301
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Total of Reporting, Recordkeeping, and Public Notification
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Reporting................................................ 115,935 4.2543 493,226 0.6936588 342,130
Recordkeeping............................................ 115,935 406.2685 47,100,736 0.19986964 9,414,007
Public Notification...................................... 19,075 1.6612 31,687 1.6506 52,301
Total.................................................... ................. ................. 47,625,649 ................. 9,808,439
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Dated: July 12, 2019.
Brandon Lipps,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
[FR Doc. 2019-15668 Filed 7-23-19; 8:45 am]
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