[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 222 (Wednesday, November 18, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72040-72041]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-29390]
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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 222 / Wednesday, November 18, 2015 /
Notices
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request--Information Collection for the National School Lunch
Program
AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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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 which FNS employs to determine public participation
in the National School Lunch Program.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before January 19, 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 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 Division, Food and Nutrition
Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 3101 Park Center Drive,
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
[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 Food and Nutrition Service during regular business hours
(8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday) at 3101 Park Center Drive,
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 the address indicated above or by phone at 703-305-
2595.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: 7 CFR part 210, National School Lunch Program.
Forms: FNS-640, FNS-66, FNS-66A, and FNS-828.
OMB Control Number: 0584-0006.
Expiration Date: February 29, 2016.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Abstract: The Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (NSLA),
as amended, authorizes the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to
safeguard the health and well-being of the nation's children and
provide free or reduced price school lunches to qualified students
through subsidies to schools. The United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA) provides States with general and special cash
assistance and donations of foods to assist schools in serving
nutritious lunches to children each school day. Participating schools
must serve lunches that are nutritionally adequate and maintain menu
and food production records and the latest nutritional analysis to
demonstrate compliance with the meal requirements.
Section 10 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1779)
requires the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe such regulations as
deemed necessary to carry out this Act and the NSLA (42 U.S.C. 1751 et
seq.). Pursuant to that provision, the Secretary has issued 7 CFR part
210, which sets forth policies and procedures for the administration
and operation of the NSLP. The Program is administered at the State and
school food authority (SFA) levels and operations include the
submission of applications and agreements, submission of the number of
meals served and payment of claims, submission of data from required
monitoring reviews conducted by the State agency, and maintenance of
records. State and local operators of the NSLP are required to meet
Federal reporting and accountability requirements and are also required
to maintain records that include school food service accounts of
revenues and expenditures.
In addition, FNS collects program data from the State agencies on
Forms FNS-10, Report of School Operations; FNS-13, Annual Report of
State Revenue Matching; and FNS-777, Financial Status Report. These
forms are approved under OMB Control # 0584-0594, Food Program
Reporting System (FPRS), which expires June 30, 2017. The reporting
burden associated with these reports is covered under #0584-0594 and is
not associated with this information collection. However, the
recordkeeping burden is still maintained in this collection.
The reporting and recordkeeping burden associated with this
revision is decreased from 11,337,788 to 9,871,395 hours. This change
is mainly due to adjustments, the majority of which is the removal of
duplicate burden, removal of burden that occurs only once, burden
changes for an increase in schools participating in the Program and a
decrease in number of School Food Authorities operating the Program,
and other program changes.
This information collection is required to administer and operate
this program in accordance with the NSLA. All of the reporting and
recordkeeping requirements associated with the NSLP 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: (1) State agencies; (2) School Food Authorities;
and (3) schools.
Number of Respondents: 121,210 (56 State agencies (SAs), 19,822
school food authorities (SFAs), and 101,332 schools).
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Number of Responses per Respondent: 4.14573.
Total Annual Responses: 502,504.
Reporting Time per Response: 0.703875.
Estimated Annual Reporting Burden: 353,700.
Number of Recordkeepers: 121,210 (56 SAs, 19,822 SFAs, 101,332
schools).
Number of Records per Record Keeper: 406.294827.
Estimated Total Number of Records: 49,246,996.
Recordkeeping Time per Response: 0.19326446.
Total Estimated Recordkeeping Burden: 9,517,694.
Annual Recordkeeping and Reporting Burden: 9,871,395.
Current OMB Inventory for Part 210: 11,337,788.
Difference (change in burden with this renewal): (1,466,393).
Refer to the table below for estimated total annual burden for each
type of respondent.
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Estimated Number of Estimated Estimated
Affected public number of responses per Total annual average hours total burden
respondents respondent responses per response (hours)
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Reporting
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State Agencies.................. 56 122 6,832 7.7762 53,127
School Food Authorities......... 19,822 15 293,008 0.956653 280,307
Schools......................... 101,332 2 202,664 0.1 20,266
Total Estimated Reporting 121,210 .............. 502,504 .............. 353,700
Burden.....................
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Recordkeeping
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State Agencies.................. 56 1419 79,464 1.5913 126,451
School Food Authorities......... 19,822 20 396,440 4.5380 1,799,045
Schools......................... 101,332 481 48,771,092 0.15567 7,592,199
Total Estimated 121,210 .............. 49,246,996 .............. 9,517,694
Recordkeeping Burden.......
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Total of Reporting and Recordkeeping
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Reporting....................... 121,210 4.14573 502,504 0.703875 353,700
Recordkeeping................... 121,210 406.294827 49,246,996 0.19326446 9,517,694
Total....................... .............. .............. 49,749,500 .............. 9,871,395
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Dated: November 9, 2015.
Audrey Rowe,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
[FR Doc. 2015-29390 Filed 11-17-15; 8:45 am]
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