[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 26 (Friday, February 7, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7423-7424]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-02642]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
February 3, 2014.
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
regarding (a) 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; (b) the accuracy
of the agency's estimate of burden 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 are
to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology should be addressed to: Desk
Officer for Agriculture, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), [email protected] or
fax (202) 395-5806 and to Departmental Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO,
Mail Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250-7602. Comments regarding these
information collections are best assured of having their full effect if
received within 30 days of this notification. Copies of the
submission(s) may be obtained by calling (202) 720-8958.
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: The Loving Support Award of Excellence.
OMB Control Number: 0584--NEW.
Summary of Collection: The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kid Act of 2010
(HHFKA) (Pub. L. 111-296, Sec 231) which requires the U.S. Department
of Agriculture (USDA) to implement a program to recognize exemplary
breastfeeding support practices at Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
local agencies and clinics. The WIC program provides breastfeeding
promotion and support for pregnant and postpartum mothers as a part of
its mission to improve the health of the approximately 9 million
Americans it serves each month. The WIC program has achieved many
accomplishments in promoting, encouraging and supporting breastfeeding
as the preferred feeding method for all infants. The HHFKA requires the
USDA to annually compile and publish breastfeeding performance
measurements. The collection and publication of breastfeeding
performance measurements is one of several provisions in the HHFKA that
strengthens the WIC Program's emphasis on breastfeeding promotion and
support and underscores the importance of exclusive, continued
breastfeeding to the health of WIC participants. This reporting
requirement provides an exciting opportunity to help further the
efforts of WIC State and local agencies by highlighting agencies that
demonstrate success in breastfeeding through high breastfeeding rates
and by motivating other agencies to strengthen their breastfeeding
promotion and support services with the goal of increasing their
breastfeeding rates. The breastfeeding performance measurements will be
used in the process to determine awardees for the top two level awards.
Need and Use of the Information: The award application period is
open one time, annually, and has been designed to allow local WIC
agencies at different stages of progress in breastfeeding promotion and
support program development to apply for an award. Agencies may apply
for a recognition award for their level of efforts and success one
year, continue to develop their local programs, and then apply for a
higher level award in a following year when further success is
achieved. The information collection will strengthen the breastfeeding
promotion and support efforts of local WIC agencies by recognizing
exemplary activities as well as provide models to assist and motivate
other local WIC agencies and clinics to
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strength their breastfeeding promotion and support activities.
Description of Respondents: State, Local or Tribal Government;
Federal Government.
Number of Respondents: 697.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 1,942.
Food and Nutrition Service
Title: Issuance Reconciliation Report, FNS-46.
OMB Control Number: 0584-0080.
Summary of Collection: Section 7(d) of the Food and Nutrition Act
of 2008, as amended, (the Act) (7 U.S.C. 2016(d)) and Regulations at 7
CFR 274.4(a) and 274.4(b)(2), requires State agencies to report on
their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit issuance
operations not less than monthly. Section 11(a) of the Act (7 U.S.C.
2020(a)) requires State agencies to assume responsibility for the
issuance, control, and accountability of SNAP benefits. The Food and
Nutrition Service (FNS), administers the SNAP in cooperation with State
and local governments. FNS regulations require State agencies to
account for all issuance through a reconciliation process and to submit
a report on this process using Form FNS-46, Issuance Reconciliation
Report.
Need and Use of the Information: The FNS-46 report is a program
management report which is used on an ongoing basis to document the
reconciliation process by which State agencies compare all issuances,
including Disaster SNAP (D-SNAP) benefits made during the month to the
record for issuance. The record-for-issuance is then compared with the
master issuance file. Findings from this comparison are reported on the
Form FNS-46. The data from the FNS-46 report is also used for reports
to Congress, to establish State issuance liabilities, and to determine
national performance measures for Quality Control.
Description of Respondents: State, Local, or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 54.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Monthly.
Total Burden Hours: 2,592.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-02642 Filed 2-6-14; 8:45 am]
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