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number of milk servings, and revenues
received from milk sales. State and local
operators are also required to maintain
records regarding eligibility to operate
the program, review results, and
accounts of revenues and expenditures.
The reporting and record keeping
burden associated with this revision is
decreased from 508,485 to 21,246 hours.
This change is mainly due to program
adjustments and the reduction in
number of State agencies operating the
Program.
Affected Public: State agencies,
Institutions.
Number of Respondents: 5,623 (54
State Agencies, 5569 Institutions).
Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1.31869.
Total Annual Responses: 7,415.
Reporting Time per Response: .87367.
Estimated Annual Reporting Burden:
6,478.
Number of Recordkeepers: 5,623 (54
State Agencies, 5,569 Institutions).
Number of Records per
Recordkeepers: 13.96970.
Estimated Total Number of Records/
Response to Keep: 78,552.
Estimated
respondents
Affected Public
Response
annually per
respondent
Recordkeeping Time per Response:
.188.
Total Estimated Recordkeeping:
14,768.
Total Annual Responses for
Reporting/Recordkeeping: 91,590.
Annual Recordkeeping and Reporting
Burden: 21,246.
Current OMB Inventory for Part 215:
508,485.
Difference (change in burden with this
renewal): (487,239).
Refer to the table below for estimated
total annual burden for each type of
respondent.
Total annual
responses
Hours per
response
Estimated total
burden
Reporting Burden
State agencies .................................................................
Institutions ........................................................................
54
5,569
Total Estimated Reporting Burden ...........................
34
1.0018
5,623
1.31869
1,836
5,579
.487
1.0009
7,415
894
5,584
.87367
6,478
.12604
9,199
5,569
Recordkeeping Burden
State agencies .................................................................
Institutions ........................................................................
54
5,569
Total Estimated Recordkeeping Burden ...................
5,623
Estimated
number of
respondents
1351.53
1
13.96970
Number of
responses per
respondent
72,983
5,569
1
78,552
Total annual
responses
.188
14,768
Estimated total
hours per
response
Estimated total
burden
Total Reporting and Recordkeeping
Reporting ..........................................................................
Recordkeeping .................................................................
5,623
5,623
1.31869
13.96970
7,415
78,552
.87367
.188
6,478
14,768
Total ...................................................................
........................
..........................
*91,590
..........................
21,246
* Added total number of recordkeepers to the total annual responses.
Dated: March 16, 2012.
Jeffrey J. Tribiano,
Acting Administrator, Food and Nutrition
Service.
this information collection. This
collection is a revision of a currently
approved collection which FNS
employs to determine public
participation in the National School
Lunch Program.
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Written comments must be
received on or before May 21, 2012.
DATES:
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
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
ADDRESSES:
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request—Information
Collection for the National School
Lunch Program
Food and Nutrition Service
(FNS), USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice invites the general public and
other public agencies to comment on
SUMMARY:
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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 Analysis and 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
Lynn.Rodgers@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 the
Food and Nutrition Service during
regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5
p.m., Monday through Friday) at 3101
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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 RodgersKuperman at the address indicated
above or by phone at 703–305–2600.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Information Collection for the
National School Lunch Program.
Forms: FNS–66, FNS–66A, FNS–640.
OMB Number: 0584–0006.
Expiration Date: May 31, 2012.
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 low
cost or free school lunch meals 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
production records to demonstrate
compliance with the meal requirements.
To the extent practicable, schools
ensure that participating children gain a
full understanding of the relationship
between proper eating and good health.
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. State and
local operators of the NSLP are required
to meet Federal reporting and
accountability requirements. The vast
majority of reporting relates to
information regarding eligibility
determinations of the children
(including verification of a required
sample size), the number of meals
served, and data from required reviews
conducted by the State agency. State
and local operators are also required to
maintain records regarding eligibility to
operate the program, review results, and
school food service accounts of
revenues and expenditures. The
reporting and recordkeeping burden
associated with this revision is
decreased from 11,806,566 to
11,755,891 hours. This change is mainly
due to reduction in number of State
agencies operating the program, and
other program changes.
This information collection is
required to administer and operate this
program in accordance with the NSLA.
The Program is administered at the State
and school food authority (SFA) levels,
and the operations include the
submission and approval of
applications, execution of agreements,
Estimated
number of
respondents
Affected public
Number of
responses per
respondent
submission of claims, payment of
claims, providing monitoring and
technical assistance. 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: Schools; School food
authorities; and State agencies.
Number of Respondents: 122,661.
This includes 101,747 schools; 20,858
school food authorities (SFAs); and 56
State agencies (SAs).
Number of Responses per
Respondent: 20.1784.
Total Annual Responses: 2,475,102.
Reporting Time per Response:
1.176681.
Estimated Annual Reporting Burden:
2,912,405.
Number of Recordkeepers: 122,661
(101,747 schools, 20,858 SFAs, 56 SAs).
Number of Records per Record
Keeper: 510.2643.
Estimated total Number of Records/
Response to Keep: 62,589,529.
Recordkeeping Time per Response:
0.14129338.
Total Estimated Recordkeeping
Burden: 8,843,486.
Annual Recordkeeping and Reporting
Burden: 11,755,891.
Current OMB Inventory for Part 210:
11,806,566.
Difference (change in burden with this
renewal): 50,675.
Refer to the table below for estimated
total annual burden for each type of
respondent.
Total annual
responses
Estimated total
hours per
response
Estimated total
burden
Reporting
State Agencies ...................................................................
School Food Authorities .....................................................
Schools ..............................................................................
56
20,858
101,747
263
21.39668
20
14,728
425,434
2,034,940
1.42636
4.81132
0.415
21,005
2,046,900
844,500
Total Estimated Reporting Burden .............................
122,661
........................
2,475,102
..........................
2,912,405
Recordkeeping
State Agencies ...................................................................
School Food Authorities .....................................................
Schools ..............................................................................
56
20,858
101,747
4607
12
610.1530
257,992
250,296
62,081,241
0.273312
8.638333
0.1064868
70,512
2,162,140
6,610,833
Total Estimated Recordkeeping Burden .....................
122,661
........................
62,589,529
..........................
8,843,486
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Total of Reporting and Recordkeeping
Reporting ............................................................................
Recordkeeping ...................................................................
122,661
122,661
20.178
510.264
2,475,102
62,589,529
1.176681
0.14129338
2,912,405
8,843,486
Total ............................................................................
........................
........................
65,064,631
..........................
11,755,891
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Dated: March 16, 2012.
Jeffrey J. Tribiano,
Acting Administrator, Food and Nutrition
Service.
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Forest Service
Tongass National Forest Wrangell
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Island Project Environmental Impact
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Forest Service, USDA.
Corrected Notice of Intent to
prepare an environmental impact
statement; Correction.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
A Corrected Notice of Intent
(NOI) to prepare an environmental
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Federal Register (77 FR 14727) on
March 13, 2012 concerning a request for
scoping comments. The document
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tim
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SUMMARY:
Correction
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New or additional comments must be
received April 27, 2012. The draft
environmental impact statement is expected
in December 2012, and the final
environmental impact statement is expected
in June 2013.
Dated: March 13, 2012.
Forrest Cole,
Forest Supervisor, Tongass National Forest.
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Rural Housing Service, USDA.
Notice.
AGENCY:
This Notice announces the
availability of $8,611,000 of FYs 2011
and 2012 funding of competitive grant
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The deadline for receipt of an
application—May 9, 2012. The
application date is firm. The Agency
will not consider any application
received after the deadline. Applicants
intending to mail applications must
provide sufficient time to permit
delivery on or before the closing
deadline date and time. Acceptance by
the United States Postal Service or
private mailer does not constitute
delivery. Facsimile (FAX) and postage
due applications will not be accepted.
DATES:
Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA)
Inviting Applications for the Rural
Community Development Initiative
(RCDI) for Fiscal Year 2011 and Fiscal
Year 2012
ACTION:
funds for the RCDI program through the
Rural Housing Service (RHS), an agency
within the USDA Rural Development
mission area (Agency). Appropriation
Acts made available $4,990,000 in FY
2011 and $3,621,000 in FY 2012 for the
RCDI program for a total of $8,611,000
for the two fiscal years.
The RCDI grant program includes an
initiative called the Rural Jobs and
Innovation Accelerator Challenge. For
FY 2011 and the FY 2012 RCDI funds
will be divided between the traditional
RCDI Program and the Rural Jobs and
Innovation Accelerator Challenge as
follows: $2,500,000 of the FY 2011
funds and $1,811,000 of the FY 2012
funds will be available for the
traditional RCDI program and
$2,490,000 of the FY 2011 funds and
$1,810,000 of the FY 2012 will be
reserved for awards through a Federal
Funding Opportunity Announcement in
partnership with the Department of
Commerce Economic Development
Administration (EDA) for the Rural Jobs
and Innovation Accelerator Challenge.
An application for ‘‘Rural Jobs and
Innovation Accelerator Challenge’’
funds must be submitted to both USDA
and EDA by an organization or a team
of organizations that is individually or
collectively eligible to receive funding
from USDA and EDA. Additional
information regarding the Rural Jobs
and Innovation Accelerator Challenge
can be found in Part VI and Part VII of
this NOFA. Requirements outlined in
Parts II, III, VIII, IX, X, and XI of this
NOFA apply to both the Traditional
RCDI Program and the Rural Jobs and
Innovation Accelerator Challenge.
All applicants must provide matching
funds in an amount at least equal to the
Federal grant. These grants will be made
to qualified intermediary organizations
that will provide financial and technical
assistance to recipients to develop their
capacity and ability to undertake
projects related to housing, community
facilities, or community and economic
development. This Notice lists the
information needed to submit an
application for these funds.
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Entities wishing to apply for
assistance may download the
application documents and
requirements delineated in this Notice
from the RCDI Web site: https://
www.rurdev.usda.gov/rhs/rcdi/
index.htm. Application information for
electronic submissions may be found at
https://www.grants.gov. Applicants may
also request paper application packages
from the Rural Development office in
their state. A list of Rural Development
offices is included in this Notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The
Rural Development office for the state
the applicant is located in. A list of
Rural Development State Office contacts
is included in this Notice.
ADDRESSES:
Programs Affected
This program is listed in the Catalog
of Federal Domestic Assistance under
Number 10.446. This program is not
subject to the provisions of Executive
Order 12372, which requires
intergovernmental consultation with
State and local officials because it is not
listed by the Secretary of Agriculture,
pursuant to 7 CFR 3015.302, as a
covered program.
Paperwork Reduction Act
The paperwork burden has been
cleared by the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) under OMB Control
Number 0575–0180.
National Environmental Policy Act
This Notice has been reviewed in
accordance with 7 CFR part 1940,
subpart G, ‘‘Environmental Program.’’
Rural Development has determined that
an Environmental Impact Statement is
not required because the issuance of
regulations and instructions, as well as
amendments to them, describing
administrative and financial procedures
for processing, approving and
implementing the Agency’s financial
programs is categorically excluded in
the Agency’s NEPA regulation found at
7 CFR 1940.310(e)(3) of Subpart G,
Environmental Program. Thus, in
accordance with the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of
1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321–4347), Rural
Development has determined that this
NOFA does not constitute a major
Federal action significantly affecting the
quality of the human environment.
Furthermore, individual awards under
this NOFA are hereby classified as
Categorical Exclusions according to
1940.310(e), the award of financial
assistance for planning purposes,
management and feasibility studies, or
environmental impact analysis, which
do not require any additional
documentation.
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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 collection 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 May 21, 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 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 Analysis and 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 Lynn.Rodgers@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 the Food and Nutrition Service during regular business hours
(8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday) at 3101
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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-
2600.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Information Collection for the National School Lunch
Program.
Forms: FNS-66, FNS-66A, FNS-640.
OMB Number: 0584-0006.
Expiration Date: May 31, 2012.
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 low cost or free school lunch meals 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 production records to demonstrate compliance with the meal
requirements. To the extent practicable, schools ensure that
participating children gain a full understanding of the relationship
between proper eating and good health.
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. State and local operators of the NSLP are
required to meet Federal reporting and accountability requirements. The
vast majority of reporting relates to information regarding eligibility
determinations of the children (including verification of a required
sample size), the number of meals served, and data from required
reviews conducted by the State agency. State and local operators are
also required to maintain records regarding eligibility to operate the
program, review results, and school food service accounts of revenues
and expenditures. The reporting and recordkeeping burden associated
with this revision is decreased from 11,806,566 to 11,755,891 hours.
This change is mainly due to reduction in number of State agencies
operating the program, and other program changes.
This information collection is required to administer and operate
this program in accordance with the NSLA. The Program is administered
at the State and school food authority (SFA) levels, and the operations
include the submission and approval of applications, execution of
agreements, submission of claims, payment of claims, providing
monitoring and technical assistance. 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: Schools; School food authorities; and State
agencies.
Number of Respondents: 122,661. This includes 101,747 schools;
20,858 school food authorities (SFAs); and 56 State agencies (SAs).
Number of Responses per Respondent: 20.1784.
Total Annual Responses: 2,475,102.
Reporting Time per Response: 1.176681.
Estimated Annual Reporting Burden: 2,912,405.
Number of Recordkeepers: 122,661 (101,747 schools, 20,858 SFAs, 56
SAs).
Number of Records per Record Keeper: 510.2643.
Estimated total Number of Records/Response to Keep: 62,589,529.
Recordkeeping Time per Response: 0.14129338.
Total Estimated Recordkeeping Burden: 8,843,486.
Annual Recordkeeping and Reporting Burden: 11,755,891.
Current OMB Inventory for Part 210: 11,806,566.
Difference (change in burden with this renewal): 50,675.
Refer to the table below for estimated total annual burden for each
type of respondent.
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Estimated Number of Estimated
Affected public number of responses per Total annual total hours Estimated
respondents respondent responses per response total burden
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Reporting
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State Agencies.................. 56 263 14,728 1.42636 21,005
School Food Authorities......... 20,858 21.39668 425,434 4.81132 2,046,900
Schools......................... 101,747 20 2,034,940 0.415 844,500
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Total Estimated Reporting 122,661 .............. 2,475,102 .............. 2,912,405
Burden.....................
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Recordkeeping
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State Agencies.................. 56 4607 257,992 0.273312 70,512
School Food Authorities......... 20,858 12 250,296 8.638333 2,162,140
Schools......................... 101,747 610.1530 62,081,241 0.1064868 6,610,833
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Total Estimated 122,661 .............. 62,589,529 .............. 8,843,486
Recordkeeping Burden.......
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Total of Reporting and Recordkeeping
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Reporting...................... 122,661 20.178 2,475,102 1.176681 2,912,405
Recordkeeping................... 122,661 510.264 62,589,529 0.14129338 8,843,486
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Total....................... .............. .............. 65,064,631 .............. 11,755,891
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Dated: March 16, 2012.
Jeffrey J. Tribiano,
Acting Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
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