[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 166 (Tuesday, August 27, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68579-68580]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-19140]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Agriculture has submitted the following 
information collection requirement(s) to OMB for review and clearance 
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. Comments 
are requested regarding; whether the collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility; the 
accuracy of the agency's estimate of burden including the validity of 
the methodology and assumptions used; ways to enhance the quality, 
utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and ways to 
minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are 
to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology.
    Comments regarding this information collection received by 
September 26, 2024 will be considered. Written comments and 
recommendations for the proposed information collection should be 
submitted within 30 days of the publication of this notice on the 
following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this 
particular information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day 
Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. An 
agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless 
the collection of information displays a currently valid OMB control 
number and the agency informs potential persons who are to respond to 
the collection of information that such persons are not required to 
respond to the collection of information unless it displays a currently 
valid OMB control number.

Food and Nutrition Service

    Title: School Breakfast Program.
    OMB Control Number: 0584-0012.
    Summary of Collection: Section 4 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 
(CNA) (Pub. L. 111-296) authorizes the School Breakfast Program (SBP) 7 
CFR part 220, as a nutrition assistance program. Section 10 of the CNA 
requires the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe such regulations as 
deemed necessary to carry out Child Nutrition Programs authorized under 
the CNA. The CNA authorizes payments to the States to assist them to 
initiate, maintain or expand nonprofit breakfast programs in the 
schools. FNS published a final rule, ``Child Nutrition Programs: Meal 
Patterns Consistent with the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for 
Americans'' (RIN 0584-AE88) in the Federal Register on April 25, 2024 
(89 FR 31962) which introduces new recordkeeping requirements for the 
SBP. Under the SBP and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), FNS is 
required to develop school nutrition requirements that are consistent 
with the goals of the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans. In 
addition, schools are required by regulation to comply with the meal 
requirements. This rulemaking finalizes long-term school nutrition 
requirements based on the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans 
and feedback from Child Nutrition Program stakeholders. The final rule 
strengthens the Buy American provision which requires the purchase of 
domestic commodities or products ``to the maximum extent practicable,'' 
maintains circumstances where limited exceptions to those requirements 
are permitted and requires school food authorities (SFAs) to include 
the Buy American provisions in procurement procedures, solicitations, 
food contracts, and awarded contracts. The final rule allows SFAs and 
schools that are tribally operated, operated by the Bureau of Indian 
Education, and that serve primarily American Indian or Alaska Native 
children to serve vegetables to meet the grains requirements. In 
addition, the final rule updates school meal nutrition requirements, 
including implementing quantitative limits for the following leading 
sources of added sugars in school breakfast meals: breakfast cereals, 
yogurts, and flavored milks. The rulemaking will also implement a 
dietary specification limiting added sugars to less than 10 percent of 
calories per week in the school breakfast programs. This means that 
SFAs will need to do additional development and editing of their menus.
    FNS is publishing a 30-Day Notice for this final rule submission 
because the agency changed how the requirements and burden changes were 
submitted for approval in the final rule from what was used in the 
proposed rule. Due to uncertain timing of the rules in

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conjunction with the renewal of OMB Control Number 0584-0006, FNS 
decided to request a new OMB control number for the collections related 
to the rule and later merge them into the existing information 
collections that are related to these requirements. By the time of the 
final rule, however, OMB Control Number 0584-0006 was renewed, so FNS 
decided to switch to revisions of the existing collections, rather than 
requesting a new OMB control number. OMB reviewed the proposed 
submission as ``filed with comment'' on March 21, 2023, and assigned 
the preliminary OMB Control Number 0584-0679 to the collection. 
However, because FNS decided to submit revisions to the existing 
information collections instead, this preliminary OMB control number 
was not used for the final rule submission.
    Need and Use of the Information: The revisions to this ongoing 
information collection are due to the final rule, ``Child Nutrition 
Programs: Meal Patterns Consistent with the 2020-2025 Dietary 
Guidelines for Americans'', which amends Program regulations and 
introduces new recordkeeping requirements into this collection. Staff 
at the SFA level must maintain the information required by this rule. 
This final rule encompasses both mandatory and required to obtain or 
retain a benefit information requirements. The SFAs are responsible for 
maintaining documentation and records to demonstrate their compliance 
with the Buy American provisions, the flexibility for SFAs or its 
schools which are tribally operated, operated by the Bureau of Indian 
Education, or serve primarily American Indian or Alaska Native students 
to serve vegetables in place of grains, and to maintain menu records 
that reflect the updated nutrition specifications in accordance with 
the final rule. FNS will use this information to ensure compliance with 
the final rule requirements.
    Description of Respondents: State, Local, or Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 105,700.
    Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping: On occasion; Annually, Other 
(every 3 years).
    Total Burden Hours: 4,036,508.

Rachelle Ragland-Greene,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-19140 Filed 8-26-24; 8:45 am]
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