[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 113 (Friday, June 13, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 25017]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-10811]


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Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 113 / Friday, June 13, 2025 / 
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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 July 14, 
2025 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: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): Mobile 
Payment Pilots (MPPs).
    OMB Control Number: 0584-0672.
    Summary of Collection: Section 4006(e) of the Agricultural Act of 
2018 (Pub. L. 115-334) authorizes the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) 
to allow up to five Mobile Payment Pilots (MPPs) to allow the use of 
personal mobile devices, such as cellular phones, tablets and smart 
watches in place of SNAP Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards to 
conduct SNAP transactions. Respondents (SNAP State agencies (State 
agencies) and their SNAP business partners) will conduct pilots to test 
the use of mobile payment technologies for the redemption of SNAP 
benefits by SNAP households at participating retailers, to determine 
their feasibility and implications for program integrity. FNS will 
conduct these projects to evaluate whether allowing mobile payments is 
in the best interest of the Program, and to therefore recommend 
allowing their use to the Secretary.
    Need and Use of the Information: In order to implement this 
statutory requirement, FNS approved proposals from SNAP State agencies 
(State agencies) to conduct Mobile Payment Pilots (MPPs) that test the 
use of mobile payment technology in SNAP and meet several sets of 
requirements outlined in the Code, such as providing protections to 
participants that is similar to existing EBT technology, providing 
price parity between foods purchased with mobile payment technology and 
those purchased by other methods, ensuring adequate documentation and 
security measures to deter fraud, and other criteria as determined by 
FNS.
    Description of Respondents: State, Local, or Tribal Government, 
Business-for-profit, Individuals/Households.

Reporting Burden for State Agencies

    Affected Public: State SNAP agencies.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 5 State agencies.
    Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 5,048.
    Estimated Total Annual Responses: 25,240.
    Estimated Time per Response: .94.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 23,675.

Reporting Burden for Businesses

    Affected Public: Business (Respondent Types: EBT Stakeholders (EBT 
Processors, SNAP Retailers, Mobile Payment Vendors or Contractors).
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 20.
    Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 12.
    Estimated Total Annual Responses: 240.
    Estimated Time per Response: 120 hours per response.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 28,800 hours.

Reporting Burden for Individual Households

    Affected Public: SNAP Recipients.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 25,000 (15,000 respondents and 
10,000 non-respondents).
    Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: .83 responses.
    Estimated Total Annual Responses: 30,000 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: .07 hour.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 2,167 hours.

Total Number

    Number of Respondents: 25,025.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Occasionally; Annually.
    Total Burden Hours: 54,642.

Rachelle Ragland-Greene,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-10811 Filed 6-12-25; 8:45 am]
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