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methods, FSA proposes to target
enrollment of environmentally sensitive
land through a reverse auction approach
for select conservation practices.
Targeted enrollment could enable FSA
to meet the reduced CRP enrollment cap
while preserving the ability to enroll
land that would provide the greatest
environmental benefit. This approach
would be similar to Continuous Signup, but with an annual enrollment
period, sign-up, and offer selection.
Managed Harvesting and Routine
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grazing of CRP acres provided these
activities are included in the
Conservation Plan and are consistent
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the Primary Nesting Season. The State
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requirements and identify periods
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request—Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Employment and Training Study
Food and Nutrition Service
(FNS), USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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AGENCY:
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. This is
a new collection for the Supplemental
SUMMARY:
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Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Employment and Training (E&T) Study.
ADDRESSES: Comments are invited on:
(a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of Agency functions,
including whether the information shall
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of
the Agency’s estimated burden of the
proposed information collection,
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 information collection
on respondents, including use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
methods of data collection.
Written comments may be sent to:
Richard Lucas, Office of Policy Support,
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 Richard Lucas at 703–305–2576 or via
email to Richard.Lucas@fns.usda.gov.
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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.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before September 15,
2014.
To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans, contact
Richard Lucas, Office of Policy Support,
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 Richard Lucas at 703–305–2576 or via
email to Richard.Lucas@fns.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP)
Employment and Training Study
Form Number: N/A.
OMB Number: 0584–NEW.
Expiration Date: Not yet determined.
Type of Request: New collection.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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Abstract: The Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP) serves as a
safety net for families who are having
difficulty obtaining adequate nutrition.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
Food and Nutrition Service (FNS),
which administers SNAP, also
administers the SNAP Employment and
Training (E&T) Program to assist
members of households participating in
SNAP in gaining skills, training or
experience to ‘‘increase their ability to
obtain regular employment’’ (Food
Security Act of 1985). Congress
established the SNAP Employment and
Training program through the Food
Security Act of 1985.
Of the 47 million people who
received SNAP benefits in fiscal year
2013, 13.3 million were designated as
work registrants (they were not federally
exempt from SNAP work requirements
and subject to mandatory participation
in an E&T program 1), and about 629,000
people actually participated in an E&T
program.
It has been 20 years since FNS sought
information about the characteristics of
work registrants, E&T participants, and
the providers that serve them. This
nationally representative study will
identify the characteristics of registrants
and participants, the challenges they
face and the E&T services available to
SNAP participants. The information
generated will help FNS understand
how these programs serve clients, what
participants need to develop their skills,
and whether current programs meet
clients’ needs.
This study has three objectives: (1) To
provide FNS with a detailed description
of the characteristics of SNAP work
registrants and SNAP E&T participants;
(2) to describe the needs and challenges
faced by registrants and participants in
finding and retaining employment in
the changing economy; and (3) to
describe the characteristics of the E&T
service providers and the types of
services available to participants. To
meet these objectives, data will be
collected from two sources:
• Surveys. A nationally representative
sample of SNAP work registrants and
E&T participants, along with a sample of
E&T providers, will be surveyed for the
study. Twenty-five states were
randomly sampled using a stratified
probability proportional to size (or PPS)
sampling design for national
representativeness.
1 Federally exempt individuals include those who
are younger than 16 or older than 59, disabled,
working 30 hours a week or taking part in another
work program, receiving unemployment, caring for
an incapacitated adult or a child under age 6, in a
drug or alcohol treatment program, or enrolled at
least half time in school.
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Data on the number of work
registrants and E&T participants by state
as of fiscal year 2013 were used to create
a composite size measure for sampling
(measure of size). States with a measure
of size large enough to be included in
the sample of 25 states with probability
of one were called ‘‘certainty states’’ and
were automatically included in the
sample. The remaining states were
selected based on their measure of size
and type of work activities offered by
the E&T programs.
A total of 3,000 survey interviews
(1,500 work registrants and 1,500 E&T
participants) are planned from across
the 25 states. A target number of
interviews will be assigned to each state
based on the state’s share of the work
registrant and E&T participant
populations. Sampled individuals will
be surveyed by telephone or online
about their experiences in SNAP and
the E&T program. SNAP work
registrants and E&T participants will
receive an advance letter about the
survey instructing them to take the
survey online or to call to complete the
survey by phone. The survey will take
20 minutes to complete. Follow-up
letters throughout the 10-week survey
period will be sent to people who have
not responded, including a ‘‘time is
running out’’ letter with a $5 preincentive in week seven. Respondents
will receive a $40 incentive if they
complete the interview online or initiate
and complete the interview by phone.
They will receive a $20 incentive if the
evaluator initiates the call and the
respondent completes the interview by
phone.
For the SNAP E&T provider survey,
providers will be randomly sampled
from across the 25 states after the E&T
participant sample is selected. The
providers will be limited to those
serving the areas in which the SNAP
E&T sample resides. The provider
survey will describe the characteristics
of providers and the services they offer,
as well as the types of skills E&T
participants have and how those skills
match the skills needed by employers in
the area. The provider survey will be
conducted online and will take about 15
minutes to complete.
Providers will be able to complete the
survey by telephone, if necessary, and
will not be offered an incentive.
• Focus groups. Fifteen focus groups
with about 8 SNAP E&T participants
each (a total of 120 participants) will be
conducted in five states. The focus
group locations will be selected to
represent variation in geography and
type of program. Participants in the
focus groups will be selected using
administrative data and will represent a
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broad range of demographic
characteristics. The focus group
discussions, which will last about 90
minutes, will delve into detail about
participants’ experiences with SNAP
E&T, and will provide a better
understanding of participants’ skill sets,
training needs and barriers to education,
training and employment. All
participants will receive a $25 stipend
for participation and transportation.
Tailored instruments with simple and
respondent-friendly language will be
used for the survey and focus groups.
Responses to all questions will be
voluntary. The contractor will follow
two rules to ensure that respondent data
are treated confidentially: (1) No data
will be released in a form that identifies
individual respondents by name, and (2)
information collected through
interviews will be combined across
other respondents in the same category
and reported only in aggregate form.
Respondents will be notified of these
confidentiality rules during data
collection. All data will be recorded on
a password-protected laptop. At the end
of each session, the recordings will be
sent to a data transcription service via
a secure file transfer protocol (FTP) site.
All recordings and transcripts will be
stored on a 256-bit encrypted secure
server and available only to those with
a valid user identification and
password.
Other data collections will include
the use of state administrative data to
examine characteristics of work
registrants and E&T participants. This
data will also be used to create the
sampling frames for the surveys and
focus groups.
Affected Public:
Members of the public affected by the
data collection include individuals and
households. Respondent groups
identified include (1) SNAP work
registrants, (2) SNAP E&T participants,
and (3) SNAP E&T providers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
The study will include 5,206 people
across 25 states (see table below). Of
those, an estimated 1,586 will likely
refuse to respond, will be ineligible or
will not show up for a focus group. An
estimated 3,620 people will participate
in the study or focus groups (1,500 work
registrants; 1,620 E&T participants
(1,500 for the survey and 120 for the
focus groups); and 500 E&T providers).
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent:
Each respondent in the work
registrant survey, E&T participant
survey, provider survey and focus group
will provide one response.
Estimated Time per Response:
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For the work registrant and
participant surveys, the burden estimate
for each respondent is 0.42 hours (25
minutes), including time to read the
advance letter and complete the survey.
For survey nonrespondents, the burden
estimate is 0.08 hours (5 minutes),
including time to read the advance letter
and field a call regarding the survey. For
the SNAP E&T provider survey, the
burden estimate is 0.33 hours (20
minutes) for each respondent, including
time to read the advance letter and
complete the survey. For provider
survey nonrespondents, the burden
estimate is 0.08 hours (5 minutes),
including time to read the advance letter
and field a call regarding the survey. For
all participants in the focus groups, the
burden estimate is 1.67 hours (100
minutes). This includes eligibility
screening, receiving a reminder call,
Affected public
Individuals & households.
Total .....................
reading a reminder letter and
participating in the group. For all those
who decline to participate in the focus
groups, the burden estimate is 0.08
hours (5 minutes), including the time to
be screened (see the table below).
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents and Nonrespondents:
SNAP work registrants, E&T
participants, and providers will be
interviewed or will participate in a
focus group only once. Thus, the total
hours for this effort is 1,748.9, including
625 hours for respondents to the SNAP
work registrant survey and 39.5 hours
for nonrespondents; 625 hours for the
SNAP E&T participant survey and 39.5
hours for nonrespondents; 166.7 hours
for respondents to the SNAP E&T
provider survey and 13.2 hours for
nonrespondents; and 200 hours for the
focus group participants and 40 hours
Estimated
number of
respondents
Respondent type
Responses
annually per
respondent
for the nonparticipants. The number of
survey nonrespondents is based on the
assumption that the sample will contain
1,974 people for each group (work
registrants and E&T participants) and
658 providers, of which 95 percent will
be eligible for the survey, and 80
percent of those will complete the
survey. The burden for E&T participants
in the focus groups is estimated at 200
hours; for people who elect not to
participate in the focus groups
(nonparticipants), the estimated total
burden is 40 hours.
The number of nonparticipants is
based on the assumption that to have
120 people attend the focus groups, 300
people need to be recruited. To recruit
300 people, twice as many, or 600, will
need to be contacted initially (five-toone ratio).
Total annual
responses
Estimated average
number of hours per
response
Estimated total
hours
SNAP work registrants
survey respondents a.
SNAP work registrant
survey nonresponders a.
SNAP E&T participant
survey respondents a.
SNAP E&T participant
survey nonresponders a.
SNAP E&T provider survey respondents a.
SNAP E&T provider survey nonresponders a.
SNAP E&T focus group
participants b.
SNAP E&T focus group
nonparticipants c.
1,500
1
1,500
0.42 (25 minutes) .......
625.0
474
1
474
0.08 (5 minutes) .........
39.5
1,500
1
1,500
0.42 (25 minutes) .......
625.0
474
1
474
0.08 (5 minutes) .........
39.5
500
1
500
0.33 (20 minutes) .......
166.7
158
1
158
0.08 (5 minutes) .........
13.2
120
1
120
1.67 (100 minutes) .....
200.0
480
1
480
0.08 (5 minutes) .........
40.0
.......................................
5,206
........................
5,206
.....................................
1,748.9
a An
advance letter will be sent before contacting the individual for an interview.
group participants will take part in a brief screening call or interview, participate in the focus group, and receive a reminder call and letter before the focus group.
c Focus group nonparticipants include individuals who refuse to participate, are ineligible, or do not show up for the focus group. These individuals will participate in a brief screening call or interview.
b Focus
Dated: July 8, 2014.
Audrey Rowe,
FNS Administrator, Food and Nutrition
Service.
ACTION:
This notice announces the
national average value of donated foods
or, where applicable, cash in lieu of
donated foods, to be provided in school
year 2015 (July 1, 2014 through June 30,
2015) for each lunch served by schools
participating in the National School
Lunch Program (NSLP), and for each
lunch and supper served by institutions
participating in the Child and Adult
Care Food Program (CACFP).
SUMMARY:
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Donated Foods From July 1, 2014
Through June 30, 2015
DATES:
Effective Date: July 1, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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Division, Food and Nutrition Service,
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 3101
Park Center Drive, Alexandria, Virginia
22302–1594, or telephone (703) 305–
2662.
These
programs are listed in the Catalog of
Federal Domestic Assistance under Nos.
10.555 and 10.558 and are subject to the
provisions of Executive Order 12372,
which requires intergovernmental
consultation with State and local
officials. (See 7 CFR part 3015, subpart
V, and final rule related notice
published at 48 FR 29114, June 24,
1983.)
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request--Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Employment and Training 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. This is a new collection for
the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment and
Training (E&T) Study.
ADDRESSES: Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection
of information is necessary for the proper performance of Agency
functions, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the Agency's estimated burden of the
proposed information collection, 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 information collection on
respondents, including use of appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological methods of data collection.
Written comments may be sent to: Richard Lucas, Office of Policy
Support, 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 Richard Lucas at 703-305-2576 or via email to
Richard.Lucas@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.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before September 15,
2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans,
contact Richard Lucas, Office of Policy Support, 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 Richard
Lucas at 703-305-2576 or via email to Richard.Lucas@fns.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) Employment and Training Study
Form Number: N/A.
OMB Number: 0584-NEW.
Expiration Date: Not yet determined.
Type of Request: New collection.
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Abstract: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
serves as a safety net for families who are having difficulty obtaining
adequate nutrition. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and
Nutrition Service (FNS), which administers SNAP, also administers the
SNAP Employment and Training (E&T) Program to assist members of
households participating in SNAP in gaining skills, training or
experience to ``increase their ability to obtain regular employment''
(Food Security Act of 1985). Congress established the SNAP Employment
and Training program through the Food Security Act of 1985.
Of the 47 million people who received SNAP benefits in fiscal year
2013, 13.3 million were designated as work registrants (they were not
federally exempt from SNAP work requirements and subject to mandatory
participation in an E&T program \1\), and about 629,000 people actually
participated in an E&T program.
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\1\ Federally exempt individuals include those who are younger
than 16 or older than 59, disabled, working 30 hours a week or
taking part in another work program, receiving unemployment, caring
for an incapacitated adult or a child under age 6, in a drug or
alcohol treatment program, or enrolled at least half time in school.
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It has been 20 years since FNS sought information about the
characteristics of work registrants, E&T participants, and the
providers that serve them. This nationally representative study will
identify the characteristics of registrants and participants, the
challenges they face and the E&T services available to SNAP
participants. The information generated will help FNS understand how
these programs serve clients, what participants need to develop their
skills, and whether current programs meet clients' needs.
This study has three objectives: (1) To provide FNS with a detailed
description of the characteristics of SNAP work registrants and SNAP
E&T participants; (2) to describe the needs and challenges faced by
registrants and participants in finding and retaining employment in the
changing economy; and (3) to describe the characteristics of the E&T
service providers and the types of services available to participants.
To meet these objectives, data will be collected from two sources:
Surveys. A nationally representative sample of SNAP work
registrants and E&T participants, along with a sample of E&T providers,
will be surveyed for the study. Twenty-five states were randomly
sampled using a stratified probability proportional to size (or PPS)
sampling design for national representativeness.
Data on the number of work registrants and E&T participants by
state as of fiscal year 2013 were used to create a composite size
measure for sampling (measure of size). States with a measure of size
large enough to be included in the sample of 25 states with probability
of one were called ``certainty states'' and were automatically included
in the sample. The remaining states were selected based on their
measure of size and type of work activities offered by the E&T
programs.
A total of 3,000 survey interviews (1,500 work registrants and
1,500 E&T participants) are planned from across the 25 states. A target
number of interviews will be assigned to each state based on the
state's share of the work registrant and E&T participant populations.
Sampled individuals will be surveyed by telephone or online about their
experiences in SNAP and the E&T program. SNAP work registrants and E&T
participants will receive an advance letter about the survey
instructing them to take the survey online or to call to complete the
survey by phone. The survey will take 20 minutes to complete. Follow-up
letters throughout the 10-week survey period will be sent to people who
have not responded, including a ``time is running out'' letter with a
$5 pre-incentive in week seven. Respondents will receive a $40
incentive if they complete the interview online or initiate and
complete the interview by phone. They will receive a $20 incentive if
the evaluator initiates the call and the respondent completes the
interview by phone.
For the SNAP E&T provider survey, providers will be randomly
sampled from across the 25 states after the E&T participant sample is
selected. The providers will be limited to those serving the areas in
which the SNAP E&T sample resides. The provider survey will describe
the characteristics of providers and the services they offer, as well
as the types of skills E&T participants have and how those skills match
the skills needed by employers in the area. The provider survey will be
conducted online and will take about 15 minutes to complete.
Providers will be able to complete the survey by telephone, if
necessary, and will not be offered an incentive.
Focus groups. Fifteen focus groups with about 8 SNAP E&T
participants each (a total of 120 participants) will be conducted in
five states. The focus group locations will be selected to represent
variation in geography and type of program. Participants in the focus
groups will be selected using administrative data and will represent a
broad range of demographic characteristics. The focus group
discussions, which will last about 90 minutes, will delve into detail
about participants' experiences with SNAP E&T, and will provide a
better understanding of participants' skill sets, training needs and
barriers to education, training and employment. All participants will
receive a $25 stipend for participation and transportation.
Tailored instruments with simple and respondent-friendly language
will be used for the survey and focus groups. Responses to all
questions will be voluntary. The contractor will follow two rules to
ensure that respondent data are treated confidentially: (1) No data
will be released in a form that identifies individual respondents by
name, and (2) information collected through interviews will be combined
across other respondents in the same category and reported only in
aggregate form. Respondents will be notified of these confidentiality
rules during data collection. All data will be recorded on a password-
protected laptop. At the end of each session, the recordings will be
sent to a data transcription service via a secure file transfer
protocol (FTP) site. All recordings and transcripts will be stored on a
256-bit encrypted secure server and available only to those with a
valid user identification and password.
Other data collections will include the use of state administrative
data to examine characteristics of work registrants and E&T
participants. This data will also be used to create the sampling frames
for the surveys and focus groups.
Affected Public:
Members of the public affected by the data collection include
individuals and households. Respondent groups identified include (1)
SNAP work registrants, (2) SNAP E&T participants, and (3) SNAP E&T
providers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
The study will include 5,206 people across 25 states (see table
below). Of those, an estimated 1,586 will likely refuse to respond,
will be ineligible or will not show up for a focus group. An estimated
3,620 people will participate in the study or focus groups (1,500 work
registrants; 1,620 E&T participants (1,500 for the survey and 120 for
the focus groups); and 500 E&T providers).
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent:
Each respondent in the work registrant survey, E&T participant
survey, provider survey and focus group will provide one response.
Estimated Time per Response:
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For the work registrant and participant surveys, the burden
estimate for each respondent is 0.42 hours (25 minutes), including time
to read the advance letter and complete the survey. For survey
nonrespondents, the burden estimate is 0.08 hours (5 minutes),
including time to read the advance letter and field a call regarding
the survey. For the SNAP E&T provider survey, the burden estimate is
0.33 hours (20 minutes) for each respondent, including time to read the
advance letter and complete the survey. For provider survey
nonrespondents, the burden estimate is 0.08 hours (5 minutes),
including time to read the advance letter and field a call regarding
the survey. For all participants in the focus groups, the burden
estimate is 1.67 hours (100 minutes). This includes eligibility
screening, receiving a reminder call, reading a reminder letter and
participating in the group. For all those who decline to participate in
the focus groups, the burden estimate is 0.08 hours (5 minutes),
including the time to be screened (see the table below).
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents and Nonrespondents:
SNAP work registrants, E&T participants, and providers will be
interviewed or will participate in a focus group only once. Thus, the
total hours for this effort is 1,748.9, including 625 hours for
respondents to the SNAP work registrant survey and 39.5 hours for
nonrespondents; 625 hours for the SNAP E&T participant survey and 39.5
hours for nonrespondents; 166.7 hours for respondents to the SNAP E&T
provider survey and 13.2 hours for nonrespondents; and 200 hours for
the focus group participants and 40 hours for the nonparticipants. The
number of survey nonrespondents is based on the assumption that the
sample will contain 1,974 people for each group (work registrants and
E&T participants) and 658 providers, of which 95 percent will be
eligible for the survey, and 80 percent of those will complete the
survey. The burden for E&T participants in the focus groups is
estimated at 200 hours; for people who elect not to participate in the
focus groups (nonparticipants), the estimated total burden is 40 hours.
The number of nonparticipants is based on the assumption that to
have 120 people attend the focus groups, 300 people need to be
recruited. To recruit 300 people, twice as many, or 600, will need to
be contacted initially (five-to-one ratio).
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Estimated Responses Estimated average
Affected public Respondent type number of annually per Total annual number of hours per Estimated
respondents respondent responses response total hours
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Individuals & households............. SNAP work registrants 1,500 1 1,500 0.42 (25 minutes)...... 625.0
survey respondents a.
SNAP work registrant 474 1 474 0.08 (5 minutes)....... 39.5
survey nonresponders a.
SNAP E&T participant 1,500 1 1,500 0.42 (25 minutes)...... 625.0
survey respondents a.
SNAP E&T participant 474 1 474 0.08 (5 minutes)....... 39.5
survey nonresponders a.
SNAP E&T provider survey 500 1 500 0.33 (20 minutes)...... 166.7
respondents a.
SNAP E&T provider survey 158 1 158 0.08 (5 minutes)....... 13.2
nonresponders a.
SNAP E&T focus group 120 1 120 1.67 (100 minutes)..... 200.0
participants b.
SNAP E&T focus group 480 1 480 0.08 (5 minutes)....... 40.0
nonparticipants c.
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Total............................ ........................ 5,206 .............. 5,206 ....................... 1,748.9
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a An advance letter will be sent before contacting the individual for an interview.
b Focus group participants will take part in a brief screening call or interview, participate in the focus group, and receive a reminder call and letter
before the focus group.
c Focus group nonparticipants include individuals who refuse to participate, are ineligible, or do not show up for the focus group. These individuals
will participate in a brief screening call or interview.
Dated: July 8, 2014.
Audrey Rowe,
FNS Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
[FR Doc. 2014-16586 Filed 7-14-14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3410-30-P
