80 FR 23765 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request-Special Milk Program for Children
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 82 (April 29, 2015)
Food and Nutrition Service
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 82 (April 29, 2015)
| Page Range | 23765-23767 | |
| FR Document | 2015-09997 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 82 (Wednesday, April 29, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 23765-23767] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-09997] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Food and Nutrition Service Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request--Special Milk Program for Children AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), USDA. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 collection is a revision of a currently approved collection which FNS employs to determine public participation in Special Milk Program for Children. DATES: Written comments must be received on or before June 29, 2015. ADDRESSES: 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. Comments may be sent to: Lynn Rodgers-Kuperman, Branch Chief, Program Monitoring, Child Nutrition Programs, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 3101 Park Center Drive, Room 636, [[Page 23766]] Alexandria, VA 22302-1594. Comments may also be submitted via fax to the attention of Lynn Rodgers-Kuperman at 703-305-2879 or via email to lynn.rodgers@fns.usda.gov. 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 written comments will be open for public inspection at the office of the Food and Nutrition Service during regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday) at 3101 Park Center Drive, Room 640, Alexandria, Virginia 22302. 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 Lynn Rodgers-Kuperman at 703-305-2595. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: 7 CFR part 215, Special Milk Program for Children. Form Number: FNS-66B. OMB Number: 0584-0005. Expiration Date: October 31, 2015. Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection. The Special Milk Program for Children Abstract: Section 3 of the Child Nutrition Act (CNA) of 1966, (42 U.S.C. 1772) authorizes the Special Milk Program (SMP). It provides for the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to encourage the consumption of fluid milk by children in the United States in: (1) Nonprofit schools of high school grade and under; and (2) nonprofit nursery schools, child care centers, settlement houses, summer camps, and similar nonprofit institutions devoted to the care and training of children, which do not participate in a food service program authorized under the CNA or the National School Lunch Act. Section 10 of the CNA (42 U.S.C. 1779) requires the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe such regulations as deemed necessary to carry out this Act and the National School Lunch Act. Pursuant to that provision, the Secretary has issued 7 CFR part 215, which sets forth policies and procedures for the administration and operation of the SMP. State and local operators of the SMP are required to meet Federal reporting and accountability requirements. This information collection is required to administer and operate this program. The Program is administered at the State, school food authority (SFA), and child care institution levels; and operations include the submission of applications and agreements, submission and payment of claims, and maintenance of records. The reporting and record keeping burden associated with this revision has decreased from 21,246 to 14,914 hours. This change is mainly due to adjustments, such as corrections in the number of institutions and the amount of burden per response. All of the reporting and recordkeeping requirements associated with the SMP are currently approved by the Office of Management and Budget and are in force. This is a revision of the currently approved information collection. Affected Public: State agencies, Non-profit Institutions. Number of Respondents: 3,933 (54 State Agencies, 3,879 Non-profit Institutions). Frequency of Responses per Respondent: 1.32. Total Annual Responses: 5,175. Reporting Time per Response: .25. Estimated Annual Reporting Burden: 1,294. Number of Recordkeepers: 3,933 (54 State Agencies, 3,879 Non-profit Institutions). Number of Records per Recordkeeper: 23.87. Estimated Total Number of Records/Response to Keep: 93,876. Recordkeeping time per Response: 0.15. Total Estimated Recordkeeping Burden: 13,620. Total Annual Responses for Reporting/Recordkeeping: 99,051. Annual Recordkeeping and Reporting Burden: 14,914. Current OMB Inventory for Part 215: 21,246. Difference (change in burden with this renewal): (6,332). Refer to the table below for estimated total annual burden for each type of respondent. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimated Frequency of Affected public number of responses per Total annual Hours per Estimated respondents respondent responses response total burden ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reporting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- State agencies.................. 54 24 1,296 0.25 324 Non-profit Institutions......... 3,879 1 3,879 0.25 970 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Estimated Reporting 3,933 1.32 5,175 0.25 1,294 Burden..................... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recordkeeping ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- State agencies.................. 54 965.83 52,155 0.10 5,276 Non-profit Institutions......... 3,879 10.76 41,721 0.20 8,344 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Estimated 3,933 23.87 93,876 0.15 13,620 Recordkeeping Burden....... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Reporting and Recordkeeping ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimated Number of Total annual Estimated Estimated number of responses per responses total hours total burden respondents respondent per response ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reporting....................... 3,933 1.32 5,175 0.25 1,294 Recordkeeping................... 3,933 23.87 93,876 0.15 13,620 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total....................... .............. .............. 99,051 .............. 14,914 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[Page 23767]] Dated: April 20, 2015. Audrey Rowe, Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service. [FR Doc. 2015-09997 Filed 4-28-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410-30-P
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samples from the post-hide/pre- Other Topics automatic and customized access to
evisceration and pre-chill locations; The following comment topics that selected food safety news and
following the same safety procedures were received are outside the scope of information. This service is available at:
provided for employees at that this notice: disappearing schedule dates http://www.fsis.usda.gov/subscribe.
establishment which may require the from PHIS, returned FedEx sample Options range from recalls to export
use of a harness; slowing or stopping boxes, FSIS training materials, and information, regulations, directives, and
production lines; and acquiring needed purge studies. notices. Customers can add or delete
tools to safely collect samples. subscriptions themselves, and have the
Information on the Beef-Veal carcass USDA Non-Discrimination Statement option to password protect their
baseline can be found at the following No agency, officer, or employee of the accounts.
link http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/ USDA shall, on the grounds of race, Done, at Washington, DC.
connect/5d3552e7-9b81-4b2c-aa20- color, national origin, religion, sex, Dated: April 23, 2015.
cfaeef77f251/36-14.pdf?MOD=AJPERES. gender identity, sexual orientation, Alfred V. Almanza,
Comment: One industry organization disability, age, marital status, family/ Acting Administrator.
asked what type of carcass sampling the parental status, income derived from a
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Agency will use for the carcass baseline public assistance program, or political
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study. beliefs, exclude from participation in,
deny the benefits of, or subject to
Response: As was done during the discrimination any person in the United
shakedown, FSIS is obtaining samples DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
States under any program or activity
following the procedures described in conducted by the USDA. Food and Nutrition Service
the United States Department of
Agriculture Agricultural Research How To File a Complaint of
Discrimination Agency Information Collection
Service Meat Animal Research Center Activities: Proposed Collection;
Carcass Sampling Protocol 2 available at To file a complaint of discrimination, Comment Request—Special Milk
the following link: http://www.ars.usda. complete the USDA Program Program for Children
gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/54380530/ Discrimination Complaint Form, which
protocols/USMARC%20Carcass%20 may be accessed online at http://www. AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service
Sampling%20Protocol.pdf. ocio.usda.gov/sites/default/files/docs/ (FNS), USDA.
2012/Complain_combined_6_8_12.pdf, ACTION: Notice.
Comment: One consumer organization
stated that FSIS should conduct a or write a letter signed by you or your
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
baseline study to estimate the authorized representative.
Send your completed complaint form Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
prevalence of E. coli O157:H7 in beef notice invites the general public and
manufacturing trimmings and ground or letter to USDA by mail, fax, or email:
Mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture, other public agencies to comment on
beef in order to improve the confidence this information collection. This
in FSIS’s efforts to detect contaminated Director, Office of Adjudication, 1400
Independence Avenue SW., collection is a revision of a currently
product and effectively verify process approved collection which FNS
controls. Washington, DC 20250–9410, Fax: (202)
690–7442, Email: program.intake@ employs to determine public
Response: FSIS decided to focus on usda.gov. participation in Special Milk Program
sampling carcasses for this baseline and Persons with disabilities who require for Children.
not trimmings and ground beef because alternative means for communication DATES: Written comments must be
of resource limitations. The Beef–Veal (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.), received on or before June 29, 2015.
carcass baseline survey will provide should contact USDA’s TARGET Center ADDRESSES: Comments are invited on:
FSIS the necessary data on percent at (202) 720–2600 (voice and TDD). (a) Whether the proposed collection of
positives and quantitative levels of information is necessary for the proper
select foodborne bacterial pathogens Additional Public Notification performance of the functions of the
(e.g., Salmonella, STEC, and certain Public awareness of all segments of agency, including whether the
indicator organisms). FSIS will use the rulemaking and policy development is information shall have practical utility;
data from the Beef–Veal carcass baseline important. Consequently, FSIS will (b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
survey to estimate the national announce this Federal Register of the burden of the proposed collection
prevalence of select microorganisms in publication on-line through the FSIS of information, including the validity of
carcasses, not trimmings and ground Web page located at: http://www.fsis. the methodology and assumptions that
beef; to develop industry performance usda.gov/federal-register. were used; (c) ways to enhance the
guidelines; to assess process control FSIS also will make copies of this quality, utility, and clarity of the
across the industry; and to inform publication available through the FSIS information to be collected; and (d)
additional policy considerations. Constituent Update, which is used to ways to minimize the burden of the
Results of this study will be used to provide information regarding FSIS collection of information on those who
estimate volume-weighted prevalence policies, procedures, regulations, are to respond, including use of
and bacterial loads immediately after Federal Register notices, FSIS public appropriate automated, electronic,
hide removal and at pre-chill. Moreover, meetings, and other types of information mechanical, or other technological
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FSIS has made changes to both the that could affect or would be of interest collection techniques or other forms of
trimmings and ground beef verification to our constituents and stakeholders. information technology.
testing programs to be able to obtain on- The Update is available on the FSIS Comments may be sent to: Lynn
going prevalence of both E. coli Web page. Through the Web page, FSIS Rodgers-Kuperman, Branch Chief,
O157:H7 and Salmonella (79 FR 32437). is able to provide information to a much Program Monitoring, Child Nutrition
broader, more diverse audience. In Programs, Food and Nutrition Service,
2 U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) addition, FSIS offers an email U.S. Department of Agriculture, 3101
Carcass Sampling Protocol. subscription service which provides Park Center Drive, Room 636,
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Dated: April 20, 2015. collection, including the validity of the applicants prior to certification. SNAP
Audrey Rowe, methodology and assumptions used; (c) regulations at 7 CFR 272.14 require that
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service. ways to enhance the quality, utility, and each State agency establish a system to
[FR Doc. 2015–09997 Filed 4–28–15; 8:45 am] clarity of the information to be verify and ensure that benefits are not
BILLING CODE 3410–30–P collected; and (d) ways to minimize the issued to individuals who are deceased,
burden of the information collection on and that data source is the Social
those who are to respond, including the Security Administration’s (SSA) Death
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE use of appropriate automated, Master File. The information required
electronic, mechanical, or other for the Annual State Report on
Food and Nutrition Service technological collection techniques or Verification of SNAP Participation is
other forms of information technology. obtained by validating that the State had
Agency Information Collection Comments may be sent to Jane the appropriate systems in place and
Activities: Proposed Collection; Duffield, Branch Chief, State followed procedures currently
Comment Request—Annual State Administration Branch, Program mandated at 7 CFR 272.14 and 7 CFR
Report on Verification of Supplemental Accountability and Administration 273.16 for the preceding fiscal year.
Nutrition Assistance Program Division, Food and Nutrition Service, The burdens associated with the
Participation U.S. Department of Agriculture, 3101 activity of establishing a system to
AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service Park Center Drive, Room 818, verify and ensure that benefits are not
(FNS), USDA. Alexandria, VA 22302. You may also issued to deceased individuals or those
ACTION: Notice. download an electronic version of this permanently disqualified from SNAP
notice at http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/ using both the SSA Death Master File
SUMMARY: In accordance with the federal-register-documents/rules/view- and eDRS are already conducted during
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this all and comment via email at the SNAP eligibility benefit process and
notice invites the general public and SNAPSAB@fns.usda.gov or the Federal is currently approved under OMB
other public agencies to comment on the e-Rulemaking Portal. Go to http:// burden number 0584–0064, expiration
proposed information collection for the www.regulations.gov and follow the date April 30, 2016.
Annual State Report of Verification of online instructions for submitting In order to meet the reporting
SNAP Participation. This is a new comments electronically. requirements specified in section 4032
collection. The purpose of the Annual All written comments will be open for of the Act, States are required to confirm
State Report of Verification of public inspection at the office of the via email to their FNS Regional SNAP
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Food and Nutrition Service during Program Director that in the
Program (SNAP) Participants is to regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5 immediately preceding Federal fiscal
ensure that no person who is deceased, p.m., Monday through Friday) at 3101 year, they had the appropriate systems
or has been permanently disqualified Park Center Drive, Room 822, in place to meet the requirements of
from SNAP, improperly received SNAP Alexandria, Virginia 22302. regulations at 7 CFR 272.14 and
benefits for the fiscal year preceding the All comments to this notice will be 273.16(i)(4) and that they conducted the
report submission. Section 4032 of the included in the request for Office of matches required by these regulations.
Agriculture Act of 2014 is the basis for Management and Budget approval. All States are required to submit their
this collection. Section 4032 mandates comments will also become a matter of section 4032 reports to the FNS
that States will ‘‘submit to the Secretary public record. Regional SNAP Director by March 31
a report containing sufficient FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: each year for the preceding Federal
information for the Secretary to Requests for additional information or fiscal year. The estimated annual
determine whether the State agency has, copies of this information collection burden for this collection is 57.41 hours.
for the most recently concluded fiscal should be directed to Clyde Thompson This estimate includes the time it takes
year preceding that annual date, verified at (703) 305–2461. each State agency to confirm that they
that the State agency in that fiscal SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: have complied with FNS regulations for
year—(1) did not issue benefits to a Title: Annual State Report on performing mandated checks against
deceased individual; and (2) did not Verification of SNAP Participation. both eDRS and the SSA Death Master
issue benefits to an individual who had OMB Number: 0584—NEW. File, send an email to their FNS
been permanently disqualified from Expiration Date: Not Yet Determined. Regional Office SNAP Program Director
receiving benefits.’’ An annual email Type of Request: New collection. to provide the verification, and any
from each State agency to the Abstract: SNAP regulations at 7 CFR additional recordkeeping associated
corresponding Food and Nutrition 273.16 require that State agencies with this burden. States must perform
Service (FNS) Regional SNAP Program disqualify an individual who has this verification once a year and must
Director will be used as the mechanism committed an intentional program retain these records for 3 years.
for State agencies to report their violation (IPV). Paragraph 7 CFR
compliance with section 4032 of the 273.16(e)(8) requires that these Annual Reporting Burden Estimates
Agriculture Act of 2014. individuals ‘‘be disqualified in Affected Public: State, Local and
DATES: Written comments must be accordance with the disqualification Tribal Government Agencies.
submitted on or before June 29, 2015. periods and procedures in paragraph (b) Number of Respondents: 53 State
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ADDRESSES: Comments are invited on: of this section’’ (273.16(b)). Paragraph 7 Agencies.
(a) Whether the proposed information CFR 273.16(i) requires State agencies to
Number of Responses per
collection is necessary for the proper report information concerning each
Respondent: 1.
performance of the functions of the individual disqualified for an IPV to the
agency, including whether the disqualified recipient database, the Total Annual Responses: 53.
information has practical utility; (b) the electronic Disqualified Recipient Reporting Time per Response: 1 Hour.
accuracy of the agency’s estimated System (eDRS), and to use eDRS data to Estimated Annual Reporting Burden
burden for the proposed information determine the eligibility of individual Hours: 53.
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