Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request-Summer Meals Study, 39750-39757 [2017-17643]
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Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 161 / Tuesday, August 22, 2017 / Notices
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
attention of Alice Ann Gola at 703–305–
2576 or via email to AliceAnn.Gola@
fns.usda.gov. Comments will also be
accepted through the Federal
eRulemaking Portal. Go to https://
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Food and Nutrition Service during
regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5
p.m. Monday through Friday) at 3101
Park Center Drive, Alexandria, Virginia
22302.
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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:
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copies of this information collected
should be directed to Alice Ann Gola at
703–305–4347 or aliceann.gola@
fns.usda.gov.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Title: Summer Meals Study.
Form Number: Not applicable.
OMB Number: 0584–NEW.
Expiration Date: Not Yet Determined.
Type of Request: New collection.
Abstract: The Federally-funded
Summer Food Service Program (SFSP)
and the National School Lunch
Program’s Seamless Summer Option
(SSO) provide healthy meals and snacks
to children through 18 years of age, in
low-income areas during summer
months when school is not in session.
Open summer sites provide free meals
to children in geographical areas where
at least 50 percent of children are
eligible for free or reduced price school
meals (i.e., at or below 185 percent of
the Federal poverty level). Closed
enrolled summer sites provide free
meals to children enrolled in an activity
program where at least half of the
children are individually determined
eligible for free or reduced price meals.
Open and enrolled sites, as well as sites
that predominantly serve children of
migrant workers, receive reimbursement
from the United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA) for the meals they
serve to all children in attendance. The
reimbursement rates vary depending on
the type of meal served (i.e., breakfast,
lunch, supper, or snack) and whether
the site is operating SFSP or SSO. The
SFSP and SSO sites operate at State,
Local or Tribal locations such as public
and private nonprofit schools, local
government agencies, business
organizations such as youth sports
programs, churches, and food pantries.
In July 2016, 5,525 sponsors managed
intended to be used as one indicator in
targeting and designing outreach
activities and in assessing compliance
with civil rights laws in program
delivery. The data may also be used as
an indicator in directing compliance
reviews to geographic areas where there
are indications of low participation in
USDA programs by minorities and
women, thus serving as an ‘‘early
warning system’’ that warrants further
investigations. Failure to collect this
information will have a negative impact
on USDA’s outreach activities and could
result in an inability of the agencies to
equitably deliver programs and services
to applicant and producers.
Description of Respondents:
Individuals or households.
Number of Respondents: 3,200,000.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Other (once).
Total Burden Hours: 106,667.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request—Summer Meals
Study
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
this proposed information collection.
This collection is a new collection. The
purpose of the Summer Meals Study is
for the Food and Nutrition Service to
understand the facilitators and barriers
to program implementation, perceived
benefits and challenges for sponsor and
site participation, nutritional quality of
meals served, parental awareness,
factors influencing child participation,
and experience with the Summer Food
Service Program and the National
School Lunch Program’s Seamless
Summer Option.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before October 23, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to:
Alice Ann Gola, 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
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48,618 sites and served 3.85 million
summer meals to participating
children.1 However, summer meals
reach only a small percent of the
children receiving free or reduced price
meals during the school year. This study
will help identify strategies to increase
participation in summer meals as well
as assess the nutritional quality of the
meals served to children. Legislation
requires those programs participating in
the SFSP or SSO to cooperate with
program research and evaluation
(Section 305 of the Healthy Hunger Free
Kids Act).
The six study objectives are: (1)
Identify reasons children and their
caregivers participate in summer meals
and their satisfaction levels with the
program; (2) Assess how characteristics
differ between participants and eligible
nonparticipants of SFSP and SSO; (3)
Determine the reasons eligible families
do not participate in SFSP and SSO; (4)
Determine the food service
characteristics of SFSP and SSO sites;
(5) Describe the characteristics and
content of SFSP and SSO meals and
snacks; and (6) Assess facilitators and
barriers to preparing and serving SFSP
and SSO meals and snacks.
A nationally representative study
with a mixed-methods research design
will be used to address the six study
objectives. States will be selected for the
study using FNS administrative data on
SFSP and SSO program size. In the
selected States, State agencies
administering SFSP and SSO will
provide lists of participating sites and
sponsors from which the sample of sites
will be drawn. State agencies
administering the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in
these States will provide SNAP caseload
data. These data will be used in
conjunction with postal data to identify
children in the catchment areas of
sampled sites. Quantitative and
qualitative data will be collected from
SFSP and SSO sponsors and sites,
former sponsors, and participants and
eligible nonparticipants.
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 on the
proposed collection of information,
1 The USDA FNS National Data Bank provides a
single official repository to support the analysis and
public release of FNS program information through
the Food Programs Reporting System (FPRS) OMB
Control No. 0584–0594 Expiration 6/2019, data
from various FNS programs are extracted and
imported into the NDB database. This number
includes meals served through both SFSP and SSO.
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including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions that were
used; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information
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.
Affected Public: Respondent groups
identified include: (1) Individuals/
Households (preschool- and school-aged
children and teens eligible for
participation in summer meals and their
caregivers); (2) State/Local Government
(SFSP and SSO State agencies, SNAP
State agencies, and SFSP and SSO
sponsors, former sponsors, and sites);
and (3) Businesses-for-not-for-Profit
(SFSP sponsors, former sponsors, and
sites).
Estimated Number of Respondents:
88, 222.48. Out of the 88,222 sample
size initially contacted, FNS anticipates
approximately 44,340.59 will respond
and 43,881 will not respond during the
initial contact. FNS will continue to recontact non-respondents to reach the
desired participation rates. This
includes: 85,575 individuals and
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households, 59 State, Local or Tribal
agencies; 1,108 sponsors (665 in the
State/Local Government category and
443 in the Business category); and1,480
site supervisors (888 in the State/Local
Government category and 592 in the
Business category).
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 3.67. SFSP and SSO State
agencies will be asked to provide lists
of participating sites/sponsors twice:
Once to draw the initial sample (based
on sites and sponsors participating in
the Summer of 2017), and then again to
finalize the sample to include sites and
sponsors participating in the Summer of
2018. SNAP State agencies will be asked
to provide caseload data once.
Caregivers and their children will be
asked to respond to one survey, and a
subset of caregivers will be invited to
participate in a follow-up key informant
interview. Sponsors and site supervisors
will respond to one survey, and a subset
will be invited to participate in a followup telephone interview. Those sponsors
and site supervisors responsible for
menu planning for the sampled site will
also be asked to respond to a menu
planning survey, and to provide details
on the meals from one week of menus.
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in details missing from their original
submission of menu information.
Former sponsors will be asked to
respond to one telephone interview.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
323,788. There are approximately
169.470.33 total annual responses from
participants and approximately
154,307.74 non-responses for those we
contacted. Some non-participants were
re-contacted more than once.
Estimated Average Time per
Response: 0.6875. The estimated time of
response varies from 1 minute to 60
minutes depending on the respondent
group, as shown in the table below; the
average estimated response is 0.13
hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 22,262. The total public
reporting burden for this collection of
information is estimated at 22,261.68
rounded up to 22,262 burden hours and
323,778 total annual responses. Out of
the 22,262 burden hours 18,924 are for
respondents and 3337.67 burden hours
are for non-respondents. See the table
below for estimated total annual burden
for each type of respondent.
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Dated: August 10, 2017.
Brandon Lipps,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
[FR Doc. 2017–17643 Filed 8–21–17; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection
Comment Requested—Supplemental
Nutritional Assistance Program
Education (SNAP-Ed) Collection
Recipe Submission and Review Forms
Food and Nutrition Service
(FNS), USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 this
notice announces the Food and
Nutrition Service’s (FNS) intent to
request approval to collect information
via online forms. This is a revision of a
currently approved information
collection request which was transferred
from Agricultural Research Service.
These voluntary forms (SNAP-Ed
Connection Recipe Submission and
Review Forms) will be used by
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program Education (SNAP-Ed)
instructors, Individuals/Households
(consumers from the general public),
Business (the private sector), USDA
Food program operators, and other
Federal entities and State Agencies
(school nutrition experts, State Agency
nutrition programs) to submit recipes.
These same groups will also be able to
review recipes. These two voluntary
forms (The Recipe Finder Submission
Form and The Recipe Review Form) give
consumers and nutrition program
experts the opportunity to share recipes
that they have developed and review
recipes that have been submitted by
either group.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by October 23, 2017 to be
assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to:
Usha Kalro, Food and Nutrition Service,
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program, Program Administration and
Accountability Division, SNAP-Ed
Connection, 3101 Park Center Drive,
Room 822, Alexandria, VA 22302, or via
fax 703 305 0928. Submit electronic
comments to snap-edconnection@
fns.usda.gov. Comments will also be
accepted through the Federal
eRulemaking Portal. Go to https://
www.regulations.gov and follow the
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comments electronically.
All written comments will be open for
public inspection at the office of the
Food and Nutrition Service during
regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5
p.m. Monday through Friday) at 3101
Park Center Drive, Alexandria, Virginia
22302.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of this information collected
should be directed to Usha Kalro,
telephone (703) 305–2397, or at
usha.kalro@fns.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 on 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
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.
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.
Title: SNAP-Ed Connection Recipe
Submission and Review Forms.
OMB Number: 0584–0624.
Form Number: N/A.
Expiration Date: 10.31.17.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved information collect
request.
Abstract: We are requesting an update
in the name of this form. The name
change from Food Stamp to SNAP was
based on the Farm Bill, The Food,
Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
(Pub. L. 110–234, H.R. 2419, 122 Stat.
923, Section 4001 enacted May 22,
2008, also known as the 2008 U.S. Farm
Bill).
The What’s Cooking? USDA Mixing
Bowl (formerly the Food Stamp
Nutrition Connection Recipe Finder,
and then SNAP-Ed Connection Recipe
Finder) https://
whatscooking.fns.usda.gov is an on-line
recipe database. This database is a
central location for recipe users to
submit and search for healthy recipes
that support the Dietary Guidelines for
Americans 2015 (DGA). The recipe
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recipes from other USDA Food and
Nutrition Service (FNS) programs such
as the Food Distribution Programs (FDP)
(Food Distribution on Indian
Reservations, Commodity Supplemental
Food Program, and The Emergency
Food Assistance Program), Child
Nutrition Programs (CNP), and the
Center for Nutrition Policy and
Promotion (CNPP). The recipes benefit
(individuals/households) consumers,
State Agency staff, SNAP-Ed instructors,
school nutrition experts, and (businessfor-not-for-profit) the private sector.
The Recipe Finder Submission Form
allows SNAP-Ed instructors,
individuals/household consumers from
the general public, USDA Foods
program operators, other Federal
entities and State Agency nutrition
programs, school nutrition experts, and
(business-for-not-for-profit) the private
sector to submit recipes on-line, making
the submission process efficient. The
criteria for recipe inclusion vary by
program area. Staff from SNAP-Ed
Connection, CNPP, FDP, and CNP
reviews the data collected from the
voluntary Recipe Finder Submission
Form. Only Staff will review the form to
determine whether a recipe is eligible
for inclusion in the database.
Data collected (such as names,
addresses, emails and affiliations) from
The Recipe Review Form allows recipe
users to provide feedback about the
recipe that may help future users &
allows the Federal entity to reach out to
request any changes in the recipe to
meet the DGA. Any Web site user is able
to leave comments. Estimated burden
for each form and affected public is
defined in the table below.
Form 1: The Recipe Finder Submission
Form
Affected Public: State Agencies (15);
Business-for-not-for-profit (5) and
Individuals or Households (5).
Estimated Total Number of
Respondents: 25 (There are15 State
Agencies—who SNAP-Ed instructors,
school nutrition experts, state agency
nutrition programs), 5 business from the
private sector, 5 individuals and
household consumers from the general
public, the USDA Foods program
operators, and Federal. We are not
counting burden for the Federal
Government entities since these
agencies specializes in food nutrition
which falls within the scope of their
mission.
Estimated Frequency of Responses: 1.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: 25.
Estimated Burden per Response:
0.1837 (The Recipe Submission Form
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request--Summer Meals 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 this proposed information collection. This collection is a new
collection. The purpose of the Summer Meals Study is for the Food and
Nutrition Service to understand the facilitators and barriers to
program implementation, perceived benefits and challenges for sponsor
and site participation, nutritional quality of meals served, parental
awareness, factors influencing child participation, and experience with
the Summer Food Service Program and the National School Lunch Program's
Seamless Summer Option.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before October 23, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to: Alice Ann Gola, 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 Alice Ann Gola at 703-305-2576 or via email to
AliceAnn.Gola@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 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 collected should be directed to Alice Ann
Gola at 703-305-4347 or aliceann.gola@fns.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Summer Meals Study.
Form Number: Not applicable.
OMB Number: 0584-NEW.
Expiration Date: Not Yet Determined.
Type of Request: New collection.
Abstract: The Federally-funded Summer Food Service Program (SFSP)
and the National School Lunch Program's Seamless Summer Option (SSO)
provide healthy meals and snacks to children through 18 years of age,
in low-income areas during summer months when school is not in session.
Open summer sites provide free meals to children in geographical areas
where at least 50 percent of children are eligible for free or reduced
price school meals (i.e., at or below 185 percent of the Federal
poverty level). Closed enrolled summer sites provide free meals to
children enrolled in an activity program where at least half of the
children are individually determined eligible for free or reduced price
meals. Open and enrolled sites, as well as sites that predominantly
serve children of migrant workers, receive reimbursement from the
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the meals they serve
to all children in attendance. The reimbursement rates vary depending
on the type of meal served (i.e., breakfast, lunch, supper, or snack)
and whether the site is operating SFSP or SSO. The SFSP and SSO sites
operate at State, Local or Tribal locations such as public and private
nonprofit schools, local government agencies, business organizations
such as youth sports programs, churches, and food pantries. In July
2016, 5,525 sponsors managed 48,618 sites and served 3.85 million
summer meals to participating children.\1\ However, summer meals reach
only a small percent of the children receiving free or reduced price
meals during the school year. This study will help identify strategies
to increase participation in summer meals as well as assess the
nutritional quality of the meals served to children. Legislation
requires those programs participating in the SFSP or SSO to cooperate
with program research and evaluation (Section 305 of the Healthy Hunger
Free Kids Act).
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\1\ The USDA FNS National Data Bank provides a single official
repository to support the analysis and public release of FNS program
information through the Food Programs Reporting System (FPRS) OMB
Control No. 0584-0594 Expiration 6/2019, data from various FNS
programs are extracted and imported into the NDB database. This
number includes meals served through both SFSP and SSO.
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The six study objectives are: (1) Identify reasons children and
their caregivers participate in summer meals and their satisfaction
levels with the program; (2) Assess how characteristics differ between
participants and eligible nonparticipants of SFSP and SSO; (3)
Determine the reasons eligible families do not participate in SFSP and
SSO; (4) Determine the food service characteristics of SFSP and SSO
sites; (5) Describe the characteristics and content of SFSP and SSO
meals and snacks; and (6) Assess facilitators and barriers to preparing
and serving SFSP and SSO meals and snacks.
A nationally representative study with a mixed-methods research
design will be used to address the six study objectives. States will be
selected for the study using FNS administrative data on SFSP and SSO
program size. In the selected States, State agencies administering SFSP
and SSO will provide lists of participating sites and sponsors from
which the sample of sites will be drawn. State agencies administering
the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in these States
will provide SNAP caseload data. These data will be used in conjunction
with postal data to identify children in the catchment areas of sampled
sites. Quantitative and qualitative data will be collected from SFSP
and SSO sponsors and sites, former sponsors, and participants and
eligible nonparticipants.
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 on the
proposed collection of information,
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used; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information 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.
Affected Public: Respondent groups identified include: (1)
Individuals/Households (preschool- and school-aged children and teens
eligible for participation in summer meals and their caregivers); (2)
State/Local Government (SFSP and SSO State agencies, SNAP State
agencies, and SFSP and SSO sponsors, former sponsors, and sites); and
(3) Businesses-for-not-for-Profit (SFSP sponsors, former sponsors, and
sites).
Estimated Number of Respondents: 88, 222.48. Out of the 88,222
sample size initially contacted, FNS anticipates approximately
44,340.59 will respond and 43,881 will not respond during the initial
contact. FNS will continue to re-contact non-respondents to reach the
desired participation rates. This includes: 85,575 individuals and
households, 59 State, Local or Tribal agencies; 1,108 sponsors (665 in
the State/Local Government category and 443 in the Business category);
and1,480 site supervisors (888 in the State/Local Government category
and 592 in the Business category).
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 3.67. SFSP and SSO
State agencies will be asked to provide lists of participating sites/
sponsors twice: Once to draw the initial sample (based on sites and
sponsors participating in the Summer of 2017), and then again to
finalize the sample to include sites and sponsors participating in the
Summer of 2018. SNAP State agencies will be asked to provide caseload
data once. Caregivers and their children will be asked to respond to
one survey, and a subset of caregivers will be invited to participate
in a follow-up key informant interview. Sponsors and site supervisors
will respond to one survey, and a subset will be invited to participate
in a follow-up telephone interview. Those sponsors and site supervisors
responsible for menu planning for the sampled site will also be asked
to respond to a menu planning survey, and to provide details on the
meals from one week of menus. Some of these sponsors and sites will
receive a follow-up menu report to fill in details missing from their
original submission of menu information. Former sponsors will be asked
to respond to one telephone interview.
Estimated Total Annual Responses: 323,788. There are approximately
169.470.33 total annual responses from participants and approximately
154,307.74 non-responses for those we contacted. Some non-participants
were re-contacted more than once.
Estimated Average Time per Response: 0.6875. The estimated time of
response varies from 1 minute to 60 minutes depending on the respondent
group, as shown in the table below; the average estimated response is
0.13 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 22,262. The total
public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated
at 22,261.68 rounded up to 22,262 burden hours and 323,778 total annual
responses. Out of the 22,262 burden hours 18,924 are for respondents
and 3337.67 burden hours are for non-respondents. See the table below
for estimated total annual burden for each type of respondent.
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Brandon Lipps,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
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