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observation by a program representative
is used to collect the data when the
individual does not self-identify. In
either case the information is recorded
on the application form and entered into
the agency’s information system. The
Federal reporting forms do not identify
individual participants. Local agencies
use the two forms referenced above (i.e.,
the FNS–191 and FNS–101) to report
data on the Commodity Supplemental
Food Program (CSFP), the Food
Distribution Program on Indian
Reservations (FDPIR), and the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) to FNS as explained
below. FNS’ data collection requirement
for operators is found in the regulations
for the CSFP at 7 CFR 247.29(b), and for
the SNAP at 7 CFR 272.6(g); the
requirement for the FDPIR is found in
FNS Handbook 501.
Affected Public: State, Local and
Tribal agencies. All State or local
agencies must submit the appropriate
form in order to receive Federal
assistance and comply with applicable
legislation. If a State or local agency
does not comply voluntarily, the State
or local agency is subject to fund
termination, suspension, or denial, or to
judicial action. Respondent groups
identified include: (1) CSFP local
agencies complete the FNS–191 (FNS
requires local agencies to provide
annually the actual number and racial/
ethnic designations of participants who
receive CSFP benefits during the month
of April); and (2) SNAP and FDPIR
State, local or Tribal agencies complete
the FNS–101 (FNS requires State, local
or Tribal agencies to report annually the
actual number of participants who
receive FDPIR and/or SNAP benefits in
the month of July).
Estimated Number of Respondents:
The total estimated number of
respondents is 2,927. This includes: 192
for local CSFP agencies, 134 local FDPIR
agencies; and 2,601 for SNAP local
agencies.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: The local CSFP agencies
Estimated
number of
respondents
Respondent
Responses
annually per
respondent
respond to the FNS–191 form once a
year, both the FDPIR and SNAP local
agencies respond to the FNS–101 once
a year.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
2,927 responses.
Estimated Time per Response:
Form FNS–191: The local CSFP
agencies submit Form FNS–191 at an
estimate of 2 hours per respondent
(including respondent time of 1.92 and
an additional recordkeeping burden of
.08 hours per respondent for
maintaining the response) or 384 total
hours.
Form–FNS 101: The local FDPIR and
SNAP agencies submit Form FNS–101
at an estimate of 2 hours per respondent
(including respondent time of 1.92 and
an additional burden of .08 hours per
respondent for maintaining the
responses) or 5,470 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 5,854 hours. See the table
below for estimated total annual burden
for each type of respondent.
Total annual
responses
(Col. bxc)
Estimated avg.
number of
hours per
response
Estimated total
hours
(Col. dxe)
Reporting Burden
SNAP local agencies, FNS 101 ...........................................
FDPIR local agencies, FNS 101 ..........................................
CSFP local agencies, FNS 191 ...........................................
2,601
134
192
1.00
1.00
1.00
2,601.00
134.00
192.00
2
2
2
5,202
268
384
Total ..............................................................................
2,927
1.00
2,927
6
5,854
Dated: February 3, 2012.
Jeffrey J. Tribiano,
Acting Administrator, Food and Nutrition
Service.
proposed information collection for the
APEC–II Study.
Written comments must be
received by April 9, 2012.
DATES:
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request—National School
Lunch Program and School Breakfast
Program Access, Participation,
Eligibility, and Certification Study II
(APEC–II Study)
Food and Nutrition Service
(FNS), USDA.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice.
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice invites the general public and
other public agencies to comment on the
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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 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
through the use of appropriate,
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Comments may be sent to: Steven
Carlson, Office of Research and
Analysis, Food and Nutrition Service,
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USDA, 3101 Park Center Drive, Room
1014, Alexandria, VA 22302. Comments
may also be submitted via fax to the
attention of Steven Carlson at 703–305–
2576 or via email to
Steve.Carlson@fns.usda.gov. Comments
will also be accepted through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to
https://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
Research and Analysis, 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 1014, 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
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should be directed to Steven Carlson at
703–305–2017.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: National School Lunch Program
and School Breakfast Program Access,
Participation, Eligibility, and
Certification Study II (APEC–II Study).
OMB Number: 0584–0530.
Expiration Date: Not yet determined.
Type of Request: Reinstatement.
Abstract: The Improper Payments
Information Act of 2002, Public Law
107–300, requires the United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA) to
identify and reduce erroneous payments
in various programs, including the
National School Lunch Program (NSLP)
and School Breakfast Program (SBP). An
OMB directive, issued May 21, 2003,
states that an annual erroneous payment
estimate is the gross (not net) total of
both overpayments and underpayments,
i.e., the sum of the absolute value of
overpayments and underpayments. To
comply with the Improper Payments
Information Act of 2002, USDA needs a
reliable measure to estimate NSLP and
SBP erroneous payments on an annual
basis. The Access, Participation,
Eligibility, and Certification (APEC)
study was conducted by FNS under
OMB Number 0584–0530, expired
August 31, 2008, and provided the first
reliable national estimates of erroneous
payments for the NSLP and SBP.
Information was collected during the
2005–06 school year and results were
released in November 2007.
USDA is seeking to renew OMB
Clearance 0584–0530 granted on 08/
2005 for The Access, Participation,
Eligibility, and Certification (APEC)
study. The new study will produce
national estimates of overpayment,
underpayment and overall erroneous
payments made under the National
School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the
School Breakfast Program (SBP). The
study will measure certification error
and meal counting and claiming error
Affected public
State Agencies ....................
for School Year (SY) 2012–2013; and
develop and validate estimation models
to be used by USDA’s FNS staff for
updating the erroneous payment
estimate annually with NSLP and SBP
administrative records and extant data
(i.e. without extensive collection of new
data between national studies). Models
are being developed because it would be
cost prohibitive to conduct a large
nationally representative data collection
effort to measure improper payments
comprehensively on an annual basis.
The development of an estimation
model to produce updated annual
estimates using available extant data is
a pragmatic approach to meeting the
intent of the Improper Payments
Information Act of 2002. In addition,
this study will produce separate
estimates of erroneous payments for
Local Education Agencies participating
in the Community Eligibility Option
and will examine alternatives to
develop estimates of erroneous payment
estimates at the State level. Data
collected from school districts and
households will be used to produce
estimates of erroneous payments in at
least one state and to create and validate
estimation models for generating annual
estimates of erroneous payments at the
State level.
In School Year 2012–2013, on-site
data collection activities will be
conducted in a nationally representative
sample of school districts and schools
across the 48 contiguous States and the
District of Columbia. Data to be
collected will include school
administrative records, household
income from parents/guardians, direct
observation of school meal transactions
and other information that will inform
this study. OMB approval will be
requested for the data collection
instruments to be used for the APEC–II
Study.
Estimated
number of
respondents
Respondent
Responses
annually per
respondent
Affected Public: State Agencies
(School district staff, school staff) and
Individual/households.
Respondent Type: Staff in school
districts and schools participating in the
National School Lunch Program and the
School Breakfast Program; student
households certified for or having
applied for free or reduced price meals.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
8,075: Sample members are estimated to
include: (a) 176 School Food Service
Directors (the total estimated number of
respondents to complete the SFA survey
and other collected information is 167,
FNS anticipates 9 will not complete this
survey); (b) 528 school financial
administrative staff; (c) 528 school
liaisons; and we anticipate 100 percent
participation from these two groups (d)
6,843 households (the total estimated
number of respondents to the household
who will complete the survey is 5,474;
we anticipate 1,369 will not complete
the survey).
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: Most of the respondents
will fill out 3 separate instruments at
one time and individual household will
participant in 1 survey (the number of
forms are 3 from School Food Service
Directors, 3 from School Financial
Administrators, 2 from School Liaisons
and 1 from Households). Multiple
responses will be obtained from most
respondents with the exception of
households, who will be interviewed
once.
Estimated Time per Response: The
estimated average response time will
range from 45 minutes for the
household interview to 170 minutes for
School Food Service Directors to
complete fact sheets, provide claim data
and be interviewed.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: The total estimated
response time is 5,836.85 hours. See the
table below for estimated total annual
burden.
Estimated
average
number of
hours per
response
Total annual
responses
Estimated total
annual hours
of response
burden
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Completed ...................
167
1
167
1.5
250.5
Attempted ....................
9
1
9
0.033
0.297
Completed ...................
167
1
167
0.333
55.611
Attempted ....................
9
1
9
0.083
0.747
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Affected public
Estimated
number of
respondents
Respondent
Responses
annually per
respondent
Estimated
average
number of
hours per
response
Total annual
responses
Estimated total
annual hours
of response
burden
Reimbursement Claims Data
Completed ...................
167
1
167
1
167
Attempted ....................
9
1
9
0.083
0.747
528
1
528
0.25
132
528
1
528
1
528
528
1
528
0.25
132
528
1
528
0.5
264
Completed ...................
528
1
528
0.25
132
SUBTOTALS ......................
1,232
........................
3,168
........................
1,662.90
Completed ...................
5,474.00
1
5,474
0.75
4,105.50
Attempted ....................
1,369
1
1,369
0.05
68.45
SUBTOTALS ......................
GRAND TOTAL ..................
6,843
8,075
........................
........................
6,843
10,011
........................
........................
4,173.95
5,836.85
School Financial Administrators
Roster Verification Form
Completed ...................
School Meal Count Verification Form
Completed ...................
Meal Transaction Observation Form
Completed ...................
School Liaisons
Student Certification and Enrollment Form
Completed ...................
Meal Claims
Households
Household Survey
Dated: February 3, 2012.
Jeffrey J. Tribiano,
Acting Administrator, Food and Nutrition
Service.
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Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests;
Idaho; Clear Creek Integrated
Restoration Project
Forest Service, USDA.
Notice of intent to prepare an
environmental impact statement.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Forest Service gives
notice of its intent to prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement for the
Clear Creek Integrated Restoration
Project. The Proposed action would use
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a combination of timber harvest, precommercial thinning, prescribed fire
and reforestation to achieve the desired
range of age classes, size classes,
vegetative species distributions habitat
complexity (diversity) and landscape
pattern across the forested portions of
the project area. Road decommissioning,
culvert replacement and road
improvements are also proposed to
improve watershed health. The EIS will
analyze the effects of the proposed
action and alternatives. The Nez PerceClearwater Forests invites comments
and suggestions on the issues to be
addressed. The agency gives notice of
the National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) analysis and decision making
process on the proposal so interested
and affected members of the public may
participate and contribute to the final
decision.
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Comments concerning the scope
of the analysis must be received by
February 15th, 2012. The draft
environmental impact statement is
expected in February 2013 and the final
environmental impact statement is
expected in November 2013.
DATES:
Send written or electronic
comments to Attn: Lois Foster,
Interdisciplinary Team Leader; 903 3rd
St.; Kamiah, ID 83536; FAX 208–935–
4257; Email comments-northernnezperce-moose-creek@fs.fed.us.
ADDRESSES:
Lois
Foster, Interdisciplinary Team Leader,
(208) 935–4258.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
The
objective of the Clear Creek Integrated
Restoration Project is to manage forest
vegetation to restore natural disturbance
patterns, improve long term resistance
and resilience at the landscape level;
restore natural fire regimes and reduce
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request--National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast
Program Access, Participation, Eligibility, and Certification Study II
(APEC-II Study)
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 the proposed information collection for the APEC-II Study.
DATES: Written comments must be received by April 9, 2012.
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 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 through the use of appropriate, automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments may be sent to: Steven Carlson, Office of Research and
Analysis, Food and Nutrition Service, USDA, 3101 Park Center Drive,
Room 1014, Alexandria, VA 22302. Comments may also be submitted via fax
to the attention of Steven Carlson at 703-305-2576 or via email to
Steve.Carlson@fns.usda.gov. Comments will also be accepted through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to https://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 Research and Analysis, 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 1014, 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
[[Page 6777]]
should be directed to Steven Carlson at 703-305-2017.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program
Access, Participation, Eligibility, and Certification Study II (APEC-II
Study).
OMB Number: 0584-0530.
Expiration Date: Not yet determined.
Type of Request: Reinstatement.
Abstract: The Improper Payments Information Act of 2002, Public Law
107-300, requires the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to
identify and reduce erroneous payments in various programs, including
the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program
(SBP). An OMB directive, issued May 21, 2003, states that an annual
erroneous payment estimate is the gross (not net) total of both
overpayments and underpayments, i.e., the sum of the absolute value of
overpayments and underpayments. To comply with the Improper Payments
Information Act of 2002, USDA needs a reliable measure to estimate NSLP
and SBP erroneous payments on an annual basis. The Access,
Participation, Eligibility, and Certification (APEC) study was
conducted by FNS under OMB Number 0584-0530, expired August 31, 2008,
and provided the first reliable national estimates of erroneous
payments for the NSLP and SBP. Information was collected during the
2005-06 school year and results were released in November 2007.
USDA is seeking to renew OMB Clearance 0584-0530 granted on 08/2005
for The Access, Participation, Eligibility, and Certification (APEC)
study. The new study will produce national estimates of overpayment,
underpayment and overall erroneous payments made under the National
School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the School Breakfast Program (SBP). The
study will measure certification error and meal counting and claiming
error for School Year (SY) 2012-2013; and develop and validate
estimation models to be used by USDA's FNS staff for updating the
erroneous payment estimate annually with NSLP and SBP administrative
records and extant data (i.e. without extensive collection of new data
between national studies). Models are being developed because it would
be cost prohibitive to conduct a large nationally representative data
collection effort to measure improper payments comprehensively on an
annual basis. The development of an estimation model to produce updated
annual estimates using available extant data is a pragmatic approach to
meeting the intent of the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002. In
addition, this study will produce separate estimates of erroneous
payments for Local Education Agencies participating in the Community
Eligibility Option and will examine alternatives to develop estimates
of erroneous payment estimates at the State level. Data collected from
school districts and households will be used to produce estimates of
erroneous payments in at least one state and to create and validate
estimation models for generating annual estimates of erroneous payments
at the State level.
In School Year 2012-2013, on-site data collection activities will
be conducted in a nationally representative sample of school districts
and schools across the 48 contiguous States and the District of
Columbia. Data to be collected will include school administrative
records, household income from parents/guardians, direct observation of
school meal transactions and other information that will inform this
study. OMB approval will be requested for the data collection
instruments to be used for the APEC-II Study.
Affected Public: State Agencies (School district staff, school
staff) and Individual/households.
Respondent Type: Staff in school districts and schools
participating in the National School Lunch Program and the School
Breakfast Program; student households certified for or having applied
for free or reduced price meals.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 8,075: Sample members are
estimated to include: (a) 176 School Food Service Directors (the total
estimated number of respondents to complete the SFA survey and other
collected information is 167, FNS anticipates 9 will not complete this
survey); (b) 528 school financial administrative staff; (c) 528 school
liaisons; and we anticipate 100 percent participation from these two
groups (d) 6,843 households (the total estimated number of respondents
to the household who will complete the survey is 5,474; we anticipate
1,369 will not complete the survey).
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: Most of the
respondents will fill out 3 separate instruments at one time and
individual household will participant in 1 survey (the number of forms
are 3 from School Food Service Directors, 3 from School Financial
Administrators, 2 from School Liaisons and 1 from Households). Multiple
responses will be obtained from most respondents with the exception of
households, who will be interviewed once.
Estimated Time per Response: The estimated average response time
will range from 45 minutes for the household interview to 170 minutes
for School Food Service Directors to complete fact sheets, provide
claim data and be interviewed.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: The total estimated
response time is 5,836.85 hours. See the table below for estimated
total annual burden.
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Estimated
Estimated Responses Estimated total annual
Affected public Respondent number of annually per Total annual average number hours of
respondents respondent responses of hours per response
response burden
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State Agencies............................ School Food Service Directors
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Fact Sheet
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Completed................ 167 1 167 1.5 250.5
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Attempted................ 9 1 9 0.033 0.297
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SFA Survey
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Completed................ 167 1 167 0.333 55.611
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Attempted................ 9 1 9 0.083 0.747
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Reimbursement Claims Data
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Completed................ 167 1 167 1 167
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Attempted................ 9 1 9 0.083 0.747
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School Financial Administrators
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Roster Verification Form
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Completed................ 528 1 528 0.25 132
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School Meal Count Verification Form
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Completed................ 528 1 528 1 528
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Meal Transaction Observation Form
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Completed................ 528 1 528 0.25 132
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School Liaisons
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Student Certification and Enrollment Form
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Completed................ 528 1 528 0.5 264
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Meal Claims
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Completed................ 528 1 528 0.25 132
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SUBTOTALS................... 1,232 .............. 3,168 .............. 1,662.90
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Households
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Household Survey
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Completed................ 5,474.00 1 5,474 0.75 4,105.50
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Attempted................ 1,369 1 1,369 0.05 68.45
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SUBTOTALS................... 6,843 .............. 6,843 .............. 4,173.95
GRAND TOTAL................. 8,075 .............. 10,011 .............. 5,836.85
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Dated: February 3, 2012.
Jeffrey J. Tribiano,
Acting Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
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