83 FR 44258 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request-Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP)
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 169 (August 30, 2018)
Food and Nutrition Service
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 169 (August 30, 2018)
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| FR Document | 2018-18787 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 169 (Thursday, August 30, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 44258-44260] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-18787] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Food and Nutrition Service Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request--Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program--Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP) 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 [[Page 44259]] other public agencies to comment on the proposed information collection. This is a revision of a currently approved collection associated with requests by State agencies to operate a Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP) to temporarily provide food assistance to households following a disaster. DATES: Written comments must be received on or before October 29, 2018. 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 used; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology. Comments may be sent to Sasha Gersten-Paal, Chief, Certification Policy Branch, Program Development Division, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 3101 Park Center Drive, Room 812, Alexandria, VA 22302. Comments may also be faxed to the attention of Ms. Gersten-Paal at (703) 305-2507 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 written comments will be open for public inspection at the office of the FNS during regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday) at 3101 Park Center Drive, Room 800, Alexandria, Virginia 22302. All responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the request for OMB approval. All comments will be a matter of public record. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information should be directed to Ms. Gersten-Paal at (703) 305-2507. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP). OMB Number: 0584-0336. Expiration Date: 1/31/2019. Type of Request: Revision of a previously approved collection. Abstract: Pursuant to Sec. 412 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5179, and Sec. 5(h)(1) the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, 7 U.S.C. 2014(h), the Secretary of Agriculture has the authority to establish a Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP), which is a temporary program State agencies may operate to provide food assistance to households affected by disasters. D-SNAP is separate and distinct from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) because it has different standards of eligibility, is operated for a limited duration, and only provides one month's worth of benefits to eligible households. State agencies must submit formal requests to operate D-SNAP to the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) for approval, and may only request to operate D-SNAP in areas that have received a Presidential Disaster Declaration with authorization for Individual Assistance, also known as an IA declaration, from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In their D-SNAP requests, State agencies must outline their proposed procedures for conducting D-SNAP, designate the areas where they wish to operate, and provide sufficient supporting information. FNS reviews all D-SNAP requests and supporting information to ensure that all necessary requirements to operate D-SNAP are met. The information collected under this notice is required for State agencies to obtain FNS approval to operate D-SNAP. The burden associated with the certification of D-SNAP applicants by State agencies is included under currently approved OMB information collection 0584-0064 (SNAP Forms: Applications, Periodic Reporting, Notices; expiration date: 07/31/2020), and the burden associated with the submission of form FNS-292B: Report of Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Benefit Issuance by State agencies is covered under the currently approved OMB information collection 0584-0037 (Report of D-SNAP Benefit Issuance and Commodity Distribution for Disaster Relief; expiration date: 02/28/2021). Neither of these burden activities will be reflected in this submission. Because it is impossible to predict the number of natural disasters and extreme weather events that result in an IA declaration in a given year, and because some State agencies may find that operation of a D- SNAP is not warranted even upon receipt of an IA declaration, FNS is revising this burden estimate based on the annual average number of formal D-SNAP requests that were submitted and approved since this collection was last approved. From fiscal year 2015 to 2017, and average of 5 State agencies requested and were approved to operate D- SNAP each year. Once approved by FNS to operate D-SNAP, State agencies must submit any subsequent request to modify or expand operations to newly eligible areas to FNS for approval. These modification or expansion requests are typically reserved for when a large-scale disaster impacts different areas of a State in different ways or at different times. While these subsequent modification and expansion requests require substantially less time to prepare than initial D-SNAP requests, FNS is revising this burden estimate to account for these is slight increase in total annual burden. Summary of burden hours: Affected Public: State agencies and local governments. Estimated Total Annual Number of Respondents: The total estimated number of respondents is 7. This includes: An average of 5 State agencies that submit D-SNAP requests, and 2 State agencies that submit subsequent requests to modify or expand approved D-SNAPs. Estimated Frequency of Responses per Respondent: State agencies usually submit 1 D-SNAP request per year, and may occasionally submit 1 subsequent modification or expansion request. Estimated Total Annual Responses: 7. Estimated Total Hours per Response: Approximately 10 hours for State agency D-SNAP requests, and approximately 3 hours for each subsequent modification or expansion request. Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 56. [[Page 44260]] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimated Estimated Responses Total annual average number Estimated Respondent number of annually per responses of hours per total hours respondents respondent response (col. dxe) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- State Agency--Submission of D- 5 1 5 10 50 SNAP Request................... State Agency--Submission of D- 2 1 2 3 6 SNAP modification or expansion request........................ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total reporting burden...... 7 .............. 7 .............. 56 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: August 21, 2018. Brandon Lipps, Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service. 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production and for ownership share, it To start the MFP information electronic, mechanical, or other
needs to be verifiable records that collection approval, FSA received technological collection techniques or
substantiate the reported amounts. The emergency approval from OMB for 6 other forms of information technology.
participant’s production for the months. The emergency approval covers All comments received in response to
commodity is based on verifiable or this NOFA and any other MFP this notice, including names and
reliable production records. Examples of information collection activities. addresses when provided, will be a
reliable production records include Title: Marketing Facilitation Program matter of public record. Comments will
evidence provided by the participant (MFP). be summarized and included in the
that is used to substantiate the amount OMB Control Number: 0560—New. submission for Office of Management
of production reported when verifiable Type of Request: New Collection. and Budget approval.
records are not available, including Abstract: This information collection
is required to support all MFP Environmental Review
copies of receipts, ledgers of income,
income statements of deposit slips, information collection activities (NOFA The environmental impacts for MFP
register tapes, invoices for custom and the regulation in 7 CFR part 1409) have been considered in a manner
harvesting, and records to verify to provide eligible producers payments consistent with the provisions of the
production costs, contemporaneous with respect to commodities that have National Environmental Policy Act
measurements, truck scale tickets, or been significantly impacted by actions (NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4321–4347), the
contemporaneous diaries that are of foreign governments resulting in the regulations of the Council on
determined acceptable by the county loss of traditional exports. The Environmental Quality (40 CFR parts
committee. information collection is necessary to 1500–1508), and the FSA regulation for
Reliable record means any evaluate the application and other compliance with NEPA (7 CFR part
nonverifiable record available that required paperwork for determining the 799).
reasonably supports the eligible producer’s eligibilities and assist in As stated in the MFP final rule, the
production, as determined acceptable by producer’s payment calculations. implementation of MFP and the
the FSA county committee. For the following estimated total participation in MFP do not constitute
annual burden on respondents, the major Federal actions that would
Verifiable record means a document
formula used to calculate the total significantly affect the quality of the
provided by the producer that can be
burden hour is the estimated average human environment, individually or
verified by the FSA county committee
time per response multiplied by the cumulatively. The final rule served as
through an independent source and is
estimated total annual responses. documentation of the programmatic
used to substantiate the eligible
Public reporting burden for this environmental compliance decision for
production.
information collection is estimated to this federal program; therefore, CCC will
Payment Limitation include the time for reviewing not prepare additional environmental
instructions, searching existing data compliance documentation for this
For MFP payments, there will be a
sources, gathering and maintaining the NOFA.
single combined $125,000 per person or
data needed and completing and
legal entity payment limitation for the Federal Assistance Programs
reviewing the collections of
five crops announced in this NOFA and The title and number of the Federal
information.
a separate combined per person or legal Type of Respondents: Producers or assistance programs, as found in the
entity $125,000 payment limitation for farmers. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance,
hogs and milk. Estimated Annual Number of to which this NOFA applies is:
Eligible Crops Respondents: 784,439. 10.123 Market Facilitation Program.
Estimated Number of Reponses per
To be eligible to receive an MFP Richard Fordyce,
Respondent: 1.
payment for a crop, the amount of Estimated Total Annual Responses: Administrator, Farm Service Agency.
mechanically harvested production for 784,439. Robert Stephenson,
soybeans, sorghum, wheat, ELS cotton, Estimated Average Time per Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit
upland cotton, and corn will be the Response: 0.6983 hours. Corporation.
amount based on the crop types, Estimated Total Annual Burden on [FR Doc. 2018–18819 Filed 8–28–18; 8:45 am]
intended uses, and status that are Respondents: 863,297. BILLING CODE 3410–05–P
consistent with the Agriculture Risk FSA is requesting comments on all
Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage aspects of this information collection to
(PLC) program regulations in 7 CFR part help us to: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
1412, except grazing is not an eligible (1) Evaluate whether the collection of
intended use for MFP. information is necessary for the proper Food and Nutrition Service
Paperwork Reduction Act performance of the functions of the
Agency Information Collection
Requirements FSA, including whether the information
Activities: Proposed Collection;
will have practical utility;
In accordance with the Paperwork (2) Evaluate the accuracy of the FSA’s Comment Request—Supplemental
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. estimate of burden including the Nutrition Assistance Program—
chapter 35), FSA is requesting validity of the methodology and Disaster Supplemental Nutrition
comments from interested individuals assumptions used; Assistance Program (D–SNAP)
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and organizations on the information (3) Enhance the quality, utility and AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service,
collection activities related to MFP. clarity of the information to be USDA.
After the 60-day period ends, the collected; ACTION: Notice.
information collection request will be (4) Minimize the burden of the
submitted to OMB for the 3-year collection of information on those who SUMMARY: In accordance with the
approval to cover MFP information are to respond, including through the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
collection. use of appropriate automated, notice invites the general public and
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Estimated
Estimated Responses average Estimated
Total annual
Respondent number of annually per number of total hours
responses
respondents respondent hours per (col. dxe)
response
State Agency—Submission of D–SNAP Request ............... 5 1 5 10 50
State Agency—Submission of D–SNAP modification or ex-
pansion request ................................................................ 2 1 2 3 6
Total reporting burden .................................................. 7 ........................ 7 ........................ 56
Dated: August 21, 2018. comments; the comments must be DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Brandon Lipps, received in the Regional Programs Unit
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service. within 30 days following the meeting. Economics and Statistics
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