81 FR 1602 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request-Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 8 (January 13, 2016)
Food and Nutrition Service
Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 8 (January 13, 2016)
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| FR Document | 2016-00514 |
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 13, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 1602-1603] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-00514] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Food and Nutrition Service Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request--Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service, 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 is a revision of a currently approved collection for determining eligibility for free and reduced price meals and free milk as stated in 7 CFR part 245. These federal requirements affect eligibility under the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, and the Special Milk Program and are also applicable to the Child and Adult Care Food Program and the Summer Food Service Program when individual eligibility must be established. The current approval for the information collection burden associated with 7 CFR part 245 expires on April 30, 2016. The revisions being requested are primarily adjustments due to updating the number of respondents. DATES: Written comments must be submitted by March 14, 2016. 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 will 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 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: Sarah Smith-Holmes, Director of Program Monitoring and Operational Support Division, Child Nutrition Programs, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 3101 Park Center Drive, Alexandria, Virginia 22302-1594. 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 (OMB) approval, and will become a matter of public record. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sarah Smith-Holmes, Director of Program Monitoring and Operational Support Division; [email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: 7 CFR part 245--Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk in Schools. OMB Number: 0584-0026. Expiration Date: April 30, 2016. Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection. Abstract: The Food and Nutrition Service administers the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, and the Special Milk Program as mandated by the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (NSLA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 1751, et seq.), and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1771, et seq.). Per 7 CFR part 245, schools participating in these meal and milk programs must make free and reduced price meals and free milk available to eligible children. This information collection obtains eligibility information for free and reduced price meals and free milk and also incorporates verification procedures as required to confirm eligibility. The Programs are administered at the State and local educational agency levels and [[Page 1603]] operations include direct certification, the submission of household size and income applications for school meal/milk benefits, record maintenance, and public notification. The information collection burden associated with this revision is summarized in the chart below. The difference in burden is mainly due to updating the number of participating school food authorities and local educational agencies and the number of households having to submit an application. All of the reporting and recordkeeping requirements associated with this information collection 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, School Food Authorities, Schools, and Individuals/Households. Estimated Number of Respondents: 5,449,186 (56 SAs, 19,822 SFAs, 5,390,000 households). Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 3.035. Estimated Total Annual Responses: 16,540,513. Estimated Hours per Response: 0.0580889. Estimated Total Annual Reporting Burden: 947,920. Estimated Total Annual Recordkeeping Burden: 5,958. Estimated Total Annual Public Disclosure Burden: 6,943. Estimated Total Annual Burden: 960,821. Current OMB Inventory for Part 245: 966,023. Difference (Burden Revisions Requested with this renewal): -5,202. Refer to the following table for estimated annual burden per each type of respondent: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (c) Estimated (d) Estimated (f) Estimated (b) Estimated number total annual (e) Estimated total annual (a) Affected public number responses per responses (b x hours per burden hours respondents respondent c) response (d x e) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reporting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- State Agencies.................. 56 5.018 281 0.637 179 School Food Authorities......... 19,600 557.247 10,922,050 0.025 274,741 Individuals/Households.......... 5,390,000 1.03 5,551,000 0.121 673,000 Total Reporting Burden...... 5,409,656 3.045 16,473,331 0.058 947,920 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recordkeeping ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- State Agencies.................. 54 125.772 6,792 0.249 1,691 School Food Authorities......... 19,600 1.056 20,692 0.206 4,267 Total Recordkeeping Burden.. 19,654 1.398 27,484 0.217 5,958 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public Notification ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- State Agencies.................. 54 1 54 0.100 5 School Food Authorities......... 19,822 2 39,644 0.175 6,938 Total Recordkeeping Burden.. 19,876 2 39,698 0.17 6,943 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Reporting, Recordkeeping and Public Disclosure ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reporting....................... 5,409,656 3.045 16,473,331 0.058 947,920 Recordkeeping................... 19,654 1.398 27,484 0.217 5,958 Public Disclosure............... 19,876 2 39,698 0.17 6,943 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Reporting, 5,449,186 .............. 16,540,513 .............. 960,821 Recordkeeping, and Public Disclosure Burden.......... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: December 29, 2015. Audrey Rowe, Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service. [FR Doc. 2016-00514 Filed 1-12-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410-30-P
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The Agency will only submit a system of records containing privacy agency, including whether the
collection for approval under this information and will not ask questions information will have practical utility;
generic clearance if it meets the of a sensitive nature, such as sexual (b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
following conditions: behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs, of the burden of the proposed collection
• The collections are voluntary; and other matters that are commonly of information, including the validity of
• The collections are low-burden for considered private. the methodology and assumptions that
respondents (based on considerations of Below we provide projected average were used; (c) ways to enhance the
total burden hours, total number of estimates for the next 3-years: quality, utility, and clarity of the
respondents, or burden-hours per Affected Public: Individuals and information to be collected; and (d)
respondent) and are low-cost for both Households, Businesses and ways to minimize the burden of
the respondents and the Federal Organizations, State, Local or Tribal collection of information on those who
Government; Government. are to respond, including use of
• The collections are non- Estimated Number of Respondents: appropriate automated, electronic,
controversial and do not raise issues of 30,000. mechanical, or other technological
concern to other Federal agencies; Estimated Number of Responses per collection techniques or other forms of
• Any collection is targeted to the Respondent: 1. information technology.
solicitation of opinions from Estimated Annual responses: 30,000. Comments may be sent to: Sarah
respondents who have experience with Estimated time per response: 60
Smith-Holmes, Director of Program
the program or may have experience minutes.
Monitoring and Operational Support
with the program in the near future; Burden hours: 30,000.
Division, Child Nutrition Programs,
• Personally identifiable information Audrey Rowe, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S.
(PII) is collected only to the extent Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service. Department of Agriculture, 3101 Park
necessary and is not retained; Center Drive, Alexandria, Virginia
• Information gathered will be used [FR Doc. 2016–00505 Filed 1–12–16; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3410–30–P 22302–1594. Comments will also be
only internally for general service
accepted through the Federal
improvement and program management
eRulemaking Portal. Go to http://
purposes and is not intended for release
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE www.regulations.gov, and follow the
outside of the agency;
online instructions for submitting
• Information gathered will not be Food and Nutrition Service comments electronically. All responses
used for the purpose of substantially
to this notice will be summarized and
informing influential policy decisions; Agency Information Collection included in the request for Office of
and Activities: Proposed Collection;
• Information gathered will yield Management and Budget (OMB)
Comment Request—Determining approval, and will become a matter of
qualitative information; the collections Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price
will not be designed or expected to public record.
Meals and Free Milk
yield statistically reliable results or used FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
as though the results are generalizable to AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service, Sarah Smith-Holmes, Director of
the population of study. USDA. Program Monitoring and Operational
Feedback collected under this generic ACTION: Notice. Support Division; Sarah.Smith-
clearance provides useful information, Holmes@fns.usda.gov.
but it does not yield data that can be SUMMARY: In accordance with the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
generalized to the overall population. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this Title: 7 CFR part 245—Determining
This type of generic clearance for notice invites the general public and Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price
qualitative information will not be used other public agencies to comment on Meals and Free Milk in Schools.
for quantitative information collections this information collection. This is a OMB Number: 0584–0026.
that are designed to yield reliably revision of a currently approved Expiration Date: April 30, 2016.
actionable results, such as monitoring collection for determining eligibility for Type of Request: Revision of a
trends over time or documenting free and reduced price meals and free currently approved collection.
program performance. Such data usage milk as stated in 7 CFR part 245. These Abstract: The Food and Nutrition
require more rigorous designs that federal requirements affect eligibility Service administers the National School
address: The target population to which under the National School Lunch Lunch Program, the School Breakfast
generalizations will be made, the Program, School Breakfast Program, and Program, and the Special Milk Program
sampling frame, the sample design the Special Milk Program and are also as mandated by the Richard B. Russell
(including stratification and clustering), applicable to the Child and Adult Care National School Lunch Act (NSLA), as
the precision requirements or power Food Program and the Summer Food amended (42 U.S.C. 1751, et seq.), and
calculations that justify the proposed Service Program when individual the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, as
sample size, the expected response rate, eligibility must be established. The amended (42 U.S.C. 1771, et seq.). Per
methods for assessing potential non- current approval for the information 7 CFR part 245, schools participating in
response bias, the protocols for data collection burden associated with 7 CFR these meal and milk programs must
collection, and any testing procedures part 245 expires on April 30, 2016. The make free and reduced price meals and
that were or will be undertaken prior to revisions being requested are primarily free milk available to eligible children.
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fielding the study. Depending on the adjustments due to updating the number This information collection obtains
degree of influence the results are likely of respondents. eligibility information for free and
to have, such collections may still be DATES: Written comments must be reduced price meals and free milk and
eligible for submission for other generic submitted by March 14, 2016. also incorporates verification
mechanisms that are designed to yield ADDRESSES: Comments are invited on: procedures as required to confirm
quantitative results. (a) Whether the proposed collection of eligibility. The Programs are
As a general matter, information information is necessary for the proper administered at the State and local
collections will not result in any new performance of the functions of the educational agency levels and
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operations include direct certification, currently approved by the Office of Estimated Total Annual Reporting
the submission of household size and Management and Budget and are in Burden: 947,920.
income applications for school meal/ force. This is a revision of the currently Estimated Total Annual
milk benefits, record maintenance, and approved information collection. Recordkeeping Burden: 5,958.
public notification. The information Affected Public: State Agencies, Estimated Total Annual Public
collection burden associated with this School Food Authorities, Schools, and Disclosure Burden: 6,943.
revision is summarized in the chart Individuals/Households. Estimated Total Annual Burden:
Estimated Number of Respondents:
below. The difference in burden is 960,821.
5,449,186 (56 SAs, 19,822 SFAs,
mainly due to updating the number of 5,390,000 households). Current OMB Inventory for Part 245:
participating school food authorities Estimated Number of Responses per 966,023.
and local educational agencies and the Respondent: 3.035. Difference (Burden Revisions
number of households having to submit Estimated Total Annual Responses: Requested with this renewal): ¥5,202.
an application. All of the reporting and 16,540,513. Refer to the following table for
recordkeeping requirements associated Estimated Hours per Response: estimated annual burden per each type
with this information collection are 0.0580889. of respondent:
(c) (d) (f)
(b) (e)
Estimated Estimated Estimated
(a) Estimated Estimated
number total annual total annual
Affected public number hours per
responses per responses burden hours
respondents response
respondent (b × c) (d × e)
Reporting
State Agencies ..................................................................... 56 5.018 281 0.637 179
School Food Authorities ....................................................... 19,600 557.247 10,922,050 0.025 274,741
Individuals/Households ........................................................ 5,390,000 1.03 5,551,000 0.121 673,000
Total Reporting Burden ................................................ 5,409,656 3.045 16,473,331 0.058 947,920
Recordkeeping
State Agencies ..................................................................... 54 125.772 6,792 0.249 1,691
School Food Authorities ....................................................... 19,600 1.056 20,692 0.206 4,267
Total Recordkeeping Burden ........................................ 19,654 1.398 27,484 0.217 5,958
Public Notification
State Agencies ..................................................................... 54 1 54 0.100 5
School Food Authorities ....................................................... 19,822 2 39,644 0.175 6,938
Total Recordkeeping Burden ........................................ 19,876 2 39,698 0.17 6,943
Total Reporting, Recordkeeping and Public Disclosure
Reporting .............................................................................. 5,409,656 3.045 16,473,331 0.058 947,920
Recordkeeping ..................................................................... 19,654 1.398 27,484 0.217 5,958
Public Disclosure ................................................................. 19,876 2 39,698 0.17 6,943
Total Reporting, Recordkeeping, and Public Disclo-
sure Burden ............................................................... 5,449,186 ........................ 16,540,513 ........................ 960,821
Dated: December 29, 2015. the Summer Food Service Program for Suite 628, Alexandria, Virginia 22302;
Audrey Rowe, Children. These adjustments address 703–305–4375.
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service. changes in the Consumer Price Index, as SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
[FR Doc. 2016–00514 Filed 1–12–16; 8:45 am] required under the Richard B. Russell Summer Food Service Program (SFSP)
BILLING CODE 3410–30–P
National School Lunch Act. The 2016 is listed in the Catalog of Federal
reimbursement rates are presented as a Domestic Assistance under No. 10.559
combined set of rates to highlight and is subject to the provisions of
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE simplified cost accounting procedures. Executive Order 12372, which requires
The 2016 rates are also presented intergovernmental consultation with
Food and Nutrition Service individually, as separate operating and State and local officials. (See, 2 CFR part
administrative rates of reimbursement, 415 and final rule-related notice
Summer Food Service Program 2016 to show the effect of the Consumer Price published at 48 FR 29114, June 24,
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Reimbursement Rates Index adjustment on each rate. 1983.)
AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service, DATES: Effective Date: January 1, 2016. In accordance with the Paperwork
USDA. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501–
ACTION: Notice. Steve Hortin, Program Monitoring and 3518, no new recordkeeping or
Operational Support Division, Child reporting requirements have been
SUMMARY: This notice informs the public Nutrition Programs, Food and Nutrition included that are subject to approval
of the annual adjustments to the Service, United States Department of from the Office of Management and
reimbursement rates for meals served in Agriculture, 3101 Park Center Drive, Budget.
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