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the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information collected;
and (4) ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who respond, including through the use
of appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for OMB approval. All comments will
become a matter of public record.
Dated: March 15, 2016.
Elanor Starmer,
Acting Administrator, Agricultural Marketing
Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request—Understanding the
Anti-Fraud Measures of Large SNAP
Retailers
Food and Nutrition Service
(FNS), USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
invites the general public and other
public agencies to comment on this
proposed information collection. This is
a new collection for the purpose of
learning about the types of
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) related fraud activity
observed by large retailers and the
methods they use to prevent fraud and
minimize their losses. The goal of the
information collection is to learn more
about the types of SNAP fraud that
occur in large retailer settings;
document retailer practices to detect,
deter, and deal with fraud (collectively
known as loss prevention or loss
prevention practices); and determine
which practices could provide
information that would help FNS in
detecting and preventing SNAP fraud.
DATES: Written comments must be
received by May 17, 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 time and cost burden for this
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proposed collection, 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 reporting burden on those
who are asked to respond, including the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments may be sent to Eric Sean
Williams, Food and Nutrition Service,
USDA, 3101 Park Center Drive, Room
1014, Alexandria, VA 22312. Comments
may also be submitted via fax to the
attention of Eric Sean Williams at (703)
305–2576 or via email to Eric.Williams@
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 FNS
during regular business hours (8:30 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday)
located at 3101 Park Center Drive, Room
1014, Alexandria, Virginia 22312.
All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for OMB approval. All comments will
be a matter of public record.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of this information collected
should be directed to Eric Sean
Williams, Office of Policy Support,
Food and Nutrition Service, USDA,
3101 Park Center Drive, Room 1014,
Alexandria, VA 22302.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Understanding the Anti-Fraud
Measures of Large SNAP Retailers.
OMB Number: 0584—NEW.
Expiration Date: Not Yet Determined.
Abstract: FNS is responsible for
authorizing retailers for participation in
SNAP as well as monitoring their
compliance with applicable regulations.
Fraud in the context of SNAP can come
from client-level program violations or
retailer-level fraud. The latter, which is
the focus of this study, can involve
different actions such as the buying and
selling of benefits or selling ineligible
items like alcohol and tobacco. FNS
believes that any type of fraud in SNAP
weakens the program by diverting
benefits from the intended purpose of
helping low-income Americans
purchase food and undermining the
public confidence in the program. Thus,
the Agency continually seeks new ways
to detect and prevent fraud.
Research has consistently
demonstrated that fraud rates are lowest
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among large retailers. There are several
theories for why this may be true, one
of which is that large regional or
national retail chains of stores have
sophisticated loss prevention systems
that prevent or detect numerous types of
fraud. Thus, a loss prevention system
built to discover an employee engaging
in credit card fraud could easily be
modified to detect an employee
engaging in SNAP benefit fraud.
Similarly, a system built to prevent
internal theft may be able to detect the
sale of ineligible items.
Despite theories as to why large stores
have low SNAP fraud rates, there is
limited understanding of how they
prevent SNAP fraud. If internal loss
prevention systems prevent SNAP
fraud, then it is possible that a better
understanding of large store procedures
could help FNS refine its procedures for
detecting and reducing retailer-level
fraud. Thus, FNS desires to understand
more about the steps large retailers take
to protect themselves from fraud in
general and SNAP fraud specifically.
The information collection activities
to be undertaken subject to this notice
include: Survey of Companies that own/
franchise large SNAP authorized retail
chains: Surveys will be administered to
company SNAP representatives in
companies that own, franchise and/or
have cooperative agreements with the
largest chains of SNAP-authorized
stores. These include super store chains,
large supermarket chains, convenience
store chains, and other chain stores that
sell a combination of food and other
products, such as household products,
pharmaceuticals, or gasoline. The
surveys will address the loss prevention
systems used by these companies.
Survey of SNAP Authorized Stores
owned/franchised/affiliated with large
retail chains: Surveys will be
administered to managers of super
stores, large supermarkets, convenience
stores and other chain stores that sell a
combination of food and other products.
The surveys will address fraud
detection and prevention policies and
practices.
This study does not seek to represent
all SNAP retailers. It targets the
practices of one segment of the SNAP
authorized retailer population—the
largest retail chains. These chains are
likely to have the most sophisticated
loss prevention systems. Therefore, the
study includes the large national and
regional chain retailers responsible for
transacting about half of all SNAP
redemptions. A total of the 35 largest
retail corporations and a sample of
2,000 of their store outlets are expected
to respond to surveys.
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Company SNAP representatives and
store managers will be asked questions
regarding organizational structure, roles
and responsibilities, and tactics used to
limit or eliminate fraud in general and
SNAP fraud in particular. At a
minimum the following fraud abatement
methods will be studied at the corporate
and store levels: Point of sale systems,
analytics, training, surveillance,
investigation, and liaison with law
enforcement. The surveys will be
administered using a web-based survey
tool.
Companies and SNAP authorized
stores that do not respond to the webbased surveys will receive internet
reminders. Those that still do not
respond will receive a telephone call
through a Computer Aided Telephone
Interviewing (CATI) system where
trained interviewers will prompt the
participant to respond to the survey
online or to complete the survey by
telephone via CATI.
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Affected Public: Businesses-for-andnot-for-profit (4,054):
A total of 45 large companies with
stores participating in SNAP, and 4,000
SNAP authorized company owned and
operate stores, franchised stores or
affiliated stores and 5 pretest
companies.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
4,054.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 2.4430.
Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 9,904.
Estimated Time per Response:
0.11378.
Pretesting the company surveys will
take a total of 10 hours (four 2.5-hour
interviews), and pretesting the store
surveys will take 5 hours (five 1-hour
interviews).
FNS plans to contact 45 companies.
We anticipate the SNAP representative
at 35 companies will respond and spend
1.65 hours identifying key informants
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and compiling information from various
organizational units involved in SNAP.
They are likely to include human
resources (for training), loss prevention
(for loss prevention management and
loss prevention procedures used), point
of sale management and analytics. The
company SNAP representative will
spend between .25 (web-based response)
to .33 (CATI survey response) hours
completing the survey, including time
to report on SNAP-specific activities
and policies carried out by the SNAP
representative and information
compiled from other units involved in
SNAP. Managers of 2,000 stores will
spend an average of .4 hours each to
respond to the Store Manager Survey.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 1,126.9 hours.
See the burden table below for
estimated total burden for each type of
business respondent and nonrespondents.
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Dated: March 8, 2016.
Audrey Rowe,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
This notice does not contain reporting
or recordkeeping requirements subject
to approval by the Office of
Management and Budget in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3507).
[FR Doc. 2016–05896 Filed 3–17–16; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3410–30–P
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Executive Order 12372
Food and Nutrition Service
This program is listed in the Catalog
of Federal Domestic Assistance
Programs under No. 10.557, and is
subject to the provisions of Executive
Order 12372, which requires
intergovernmental consultation with
State and local officials (7 CFR part
3015, subpart V, 48 FR 29100, June 24,
1983, and 49 FR 22675, May 31, 1984).
Special Supplemental Nutrition
Program for Women, Infants and
Children (WIC): 2016/2017 Income
Eligibility Guidelines
Food and Nutrition Service
(FNS), USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture (‘‘Department’’) announces
adjusted income eligibility guidelines to
be used by State agencies in
determining the income eligibility of
persons applying to participate in the
Special Supplemental Nutrition
Program for Women, Infants and
Children Program (WIC). These income
eligibility guidelines are to be used in
conjunction with the WIC Regulations.
DATES: Effective date July 1, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kurtria Watson, Chief, Policy Branch,
Supplemental Food Programs Division,
FNS, USDA, 3101 Park Center Drive,
Alexandria, Virginia 22302, (703) 605–
4387.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Executive Order 12866
This notice is exempt from review by
the Office of Management and Budget
under Executive Order 12866.
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Regulatory Flexibility Act
This action is not a rule as defined by
the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C.
601–612) and thus is exempt from the
provisions of this Act.
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Description
Section 17(d)(2)(A) of the Child
Nutrition Act of 1966, as amended (42
U.S.C. 1786(d)(2)(A)), requires the
Secretary of Agriculture to establish
income criteria to be used with
nutritional risk criteria in determining a
person’s eligibility for participation in
the WIC Program. The law provides that
persons will be income-eligible for the
WIC Program only if they are members
of families that satisfy the income
standard prescribed for reduced-price
school meals under section 9(b) of the
Richard B. Russell National School
Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1758(b)). Under
section 9(b), the income limit for
reduced-price school meals is 185
percent of the Federal poverty
guidelines, as adjusted.
Section 9(b) also requires that these
guidelines be revised annually to reflect
changes in the Consumer Price Index.
The annual revision for 2016/2017 was
published by the Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS) at 81 FR
4036, January 25, 2016. The guidelines
published by HHS are referred to as the
‘‘poverty guidelines.’’
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Section 246.7(d)(1) of the WIC
regulations (Title 7, Code of Federal
Regulations) specifies that State
agencies may prescribe income
guidelines either equaling the income
guidelines established under section 9
of the Richard B. Russell National
School Lunch Act for reduced-price
school meals, or identical to State or
local guidelines for free or reducedprice health care. However, in
conforming WIC income guidelines to
State or local health care guidelines, the
State cannot establish WIC guidelines
which exceed the guidelines for
reduced-price school meals, or which
are less than 100 percent of the Federal
poverty guidelines. Consistent with the
method used to compute income
eligibility guidelines for reduced-price
meals under the National School Lunch
Program, the poverty guidelines were
multiplied by 1.85 and the results
rounded upward to the next whole
dollar.
At this time, the Department is
publishing the maximum and minimum
WIC income eligibility guidelines by
household size for the period of July 1,
2016 through June 30, 2017. Consistent
with section 17(f)(17) of the Child
Nutrition Act of 1966, as amended (42
U.S.C. 1786(f)(17)), a State agency may
implement the revised WIC income
eligibility guidelines concurrently with
the implementation of income eligibility
guidelines under the Medicaid Program
established under Title XIX of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396, et seq.).
State agencies may coordinate
implementation with the revised
Medicaid guidelines, i.e., earlier in the
year, but in no case may
implementation take place later than
July 1, 2016. State agencies that do not
coordinate implementation with the
revised Medicaid guidelines must
implement the WIC income eligibility
guidelines on or before July 1, 2016.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request--Understanding the Anti-Fraud Measures of Large SNAP
Retailers
AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) invites the general public and
other public agencies to comment on this proposed information
collection. This is a new collection for the purpose of learning about
the types of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) related
fraud activity observed by large retailers and the methods they use to
prevent fraud and minimize their losses. The goal of the information
collection is to learn more about the types of SNAP fraud that occur in
large retailer settings; document retailer practices to detect, deter,
and deal with fraud (collectively known as loss prevention or loss
prevention practices); and determine which practices could provide
information that would help FNS in detecting and preventing SNAP fraud.
DATES: Written comments must be received by May 17, 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 time and cost
burden for this proposed collection, 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 reporting burden on those who are asked to respond,
including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Comments may be sent to Eric Sean Williams, Food and Nutrition
Service, USDA, 3101 Park Center Drive, Room 1014, Alexandria, VA 22312.
Comments may also be submitted via fax to the attention of Eric Sean
Williams at (703) 305-2576 or via email to Eric.Williams@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 FNS during regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.,
Monday through Friday) located at 3101 Park Center Drive, Room 1014,
Alexandria, Virginia 22312.
All responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the
request for OMB approval. All comments will be a matter of public
record.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of this information collected should be directed to Eric Sean
Williams, Office of Policy Support, Food and Nutrition Service, USDA,
3101 Park Center Drive, Room 1014, Alexandria, VA 22302.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Understanding the Anti-Fraud Measures of Large SNAP
Retailers.
OMB Number: 0584--NEW.
Expiration Date: Not Yet Determined.
Abstract: FNS is responsible for authorizing retailers for
participation in SNAP as well as monitoring their compliance with
applicable regulations. Fraud in the context of SNAP can come from
client-level program violations or retailer-level fraud. The latter,
which is the focus of this study, can involve different actions such as
the buying and selling of benefits or selling ineligible items like
alcohol and tobacco. FNS believes that any type of fraud in SNAP
weakens the program by diverting benefits from the intended purpose of
helping low-income Americans purchase food and undermining the public
confidence in the program. Thus, the Agency continually seeks new ways
to detect and prevent fraud.
Research has consistently demonstrated that fraud rates are lowest
among large retailers. There are several theories for why this may be
true, one of which is that large regional or national retail chains of
stores have sophisticated loss prevention systems that prevent or
detect numerous types of fraud. Thus, a loss prevention system built to
discover an employee engaging in credit card fraud could easily be
modified to detect an employee engaging in SNAP benefit fraud.
Similarly, a system built to prevent internal theft may be able to
detect the sale of ineligible items.
Despite theories as to why large stores have low SNAP fraud rates,
there is limited understanding of how they prevent SNAP fraud. If
internal loss prevention systems prevent SNAP fraud, then it is
possible that a better understanding of large store procedures could
help FNS refine its procedures for detecting and reducing retailer-
level fraud. Thus, FNS desires to understand more about the steps large
retailers take to protect themselves from fraud in general and SNAP
fraud specifically.
The information collection activities to be undertaken subject to
this notice include: Survey of Companies that own/franchise large SNAP
authorized retail chains: Surveys will be administered to company SNAP
representatives in companies that own, franchise and/or have
cooperative agreements with the largest chains of SNAP-authorized
stores. These include super store chains, large supermarket chains,
convenience store chains, and other chain stores that sell a
combination of food and other products, such as household products,
pharmaceuticals, or gasoline. The surveys will address the loss
prevention systems used by these companies.
Survey of SNAP Authorized Stores owned/franchised/affiliated with
large retail chains: Surveys will be administered to managers of super
stores, large supermarkets, convenience stores and other chain stores
that sell a combination of food and other products. The surveys will
address fraud detection and prevention policies and practices.
This study does not seek to represent all SNAP retailers. It
targets the practices of one segment of the SNAP authorized retailer
population--the largest retail chains. These chains are likely to have
the most sophisticated loss prevention systems. Therefore, the study
includes the large national and regional chain retailers responsible
for transacting about half of all SNAP redemptions. A total of the 35
largest retail corporations and a sample of 2,000 of their store
outlets are expected to respond to surveys.
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Company SNAP representatives and store managers will be asked
questions regarding organizational structure, roles and
responsibilities, and tactics used to limit or eliminate fraud in
general and SNAP fraud in particular. At a minimum the following fraud
abatement methods will be studied at the corporate and store levels:
Point of sale systems, analytics, training, surveillance,
investigation, and liaison with law enforcement. The surveys will be
administered using a web-based survey tool.
Companies and SNAP authorized stores that do not respond to the
web-based surveys will receive internet reminders. Those that still do
not respond will receive a telephone call through a Computer Aided
Telephone Interviewing (CATI) system where trained interviewers will
prompt the participant to respond to the survey online or to complete
the survey by telephone via CATI.
Affected Public: Businesses-for-and-not-for-profit (4,054):
A total of 45 large companies with stores participating in SNAP,
and 4,000 SNAP authorized company owned and operate stores, franchised
stores or affiliated stores and 5 pretest companies.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 4,054.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 2.4430.
Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 9,904.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.11378.
Pretesting the company surveys will take a total of 10 hours (four
2.5-hour interviews), and pretesting the store surveys will take 5
hours (five 1-hour interviews).
FNS plans to contact 45 companies. We anticipate the SNAP
representative at 35 companies will respond and spend 1.65 hours
identifying key informants and compiling information from various
organizational units involved in SNAP. They are likely to include human
resources (for training), loss prevention (for loss prevention
management and loss prevention procedures used), point of sale
management and analytics. The company SNAP representative will spend
between .25 (web-based response) to .33 (CATI survey response) hours
completing the survey, including time to report on SNAP-specific
activities and policies carried out by the SNAP representative and
information compiled from other units involved in SNAP. Managers of
2,000 stores will spend an average of .4 hours each to respond to the
Store Manager Survey.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 1,126.9 hours.
See the burden table below for estimated total burden for each type
of business respondent and non-respondents.
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Dated: March 8, 2016.
Audrey Rowe,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
[FR Doc. 2016-05896 Filed 3-17-16; 8:45 am]
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