[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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