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AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Clara Cohen,
USAID Designated Federal Officer for BIFAD,
Bureau for Food Security, U.S. Agency for
International Development.
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Notice of Meeting of the Board for
International Food and Agricultural
Development
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Pursuant to the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, notice is hereby given of
the public meeting of the Board for
International Food and Agricultural
Development (BIFAD). The meeting will
be held from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EDT
on Tuesday, September 12, 2017, at the
National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW.,
13th Floor, Washington, DC 20045, or
online at https://www.aplu.org/projectsand-initiatives/international-programs/
bifad/bifad-meetings.html.
This public meeting, Global Food
Security Research Strategy: From
Upstream Research to Development
Impact, will be co-hosted with the Feed
the Future Innovation Labs. The
purpose of the meeting will be to launch
the new Global Food Security Research
Strategy and to highlight the
contributions, collaborations, and
synergies among the U.S. Government
interagency, universities, international
agricultural research centers, and
private sector on food security research
for development. The meeting will
include panels on Cutting Edge Science
for Development, Practical Applications
of Research Results, Applying Research
to Emerging Threats, Opportunities for
More Intentional USG Intentional
Interagency Alignment and
Complementarity, and Opportunities for
Leveraging Private Sector Innovation. A
public comment period is scheduled
from 4:00 to 4:30 EDT.
Those wishing to participate in the
meeting in person should arrive early as
seating is limited. More information,
including a detailed agenda, can be
found on the BIFAD landing page at
https://www.aplu.org/projects-andinitiatives/international-programs/
bifad/bifad-meetings.html.
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To obtain additional information
about this public meeting or BIFAD,
interested parties should contact Clara
Cohen, Designated Federal Officer for
BIFAD in the Bureau for Food Security
at USAID. Interested persons may write
to her in care of the U.S. Agency for
International Development, Ronald
Reagan Building, Bureau for Food
Security, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20523–2110 or
telephone her at (202) 712–0119.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
August 17, 2017.
The Department of Agriculture has
submitted the following information
collection requirement(s) to OMB for
review and clearance under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13. Comments are
requested regarding (1) Whether the
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (2) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of burden including
the validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments regarding this information
collection received by September 21,
2017 will be considered. Written
comments should be addressed to: Desk
Officer for Agriculture, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), New Executive Office Building,
725—17th Street NW., Washington, DC
20502. Commenters are encouraged to
submit their comments to OMB via
email to: OIRA_Submission@
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OMB.EOP.GOV or fax (202) 395–5806
and to Departmental Clearance Office,
USDA, OCIO, Mail Stop 7602,
Washington, DC 20250–7602. Copies of
the submission(s) may be obtained by
calling (202) 720–8958.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor a collection of information
unless the collection of information
displays a currently valid OMB control
number and the agency informs
potential persons who are to respond to
the collection of information that such
persons are not required to respond to
the collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Civil Rights
Title: USDA Race, Ethnicity and
Gender Data Collection.
OMB Control Number: 0503–0019.
Summary of Collection: Section 14006
and 14007 of the Food, Conservation,
and Energy Act of 2008, 7 U.S.C. 8701
(referred to as the 2008 Farm Bill)
establishes a requirement for the
Department of Agriculture (USDA) to
annually compile application and
participation rate data regarding socially
disadvantaged farmers or ranchers by
computing for each program of the
USDA that serves agriculture producers
and landowners (a) raw numbers of
applicants and participants by race,
ethnicity, and gender, subject to
appropriate privacy protection, as
determined by the Secretary; and (b) the
application and participation rate, by
race, ethnicity and gender as a
percentage of the total participation rate
of all agricultural producers and
landowners for each county and State in
the United States.
Need and Use of the Information:
Data will be collected on a voluntary
basis through a questionnaire to
determine the race, ethnicity and gender
of farmers and ranchers who apply for
and who participate in USDA programs
and services. The data will enable the
Secretary and the Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Civil Rights and the
agencies’ outreach offices in reaching
current and prospective socially
disadvantaged farmers or ranchers in a
linguistically appropriate manner to
focus resources in a particular county or
region where low participation is
indicated by the data to improve the
participation of those farmers and
ranchers in USDA programs. The data is
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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://
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.
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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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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
August 17, 2017.
The Department of Agriculture has submitted the following
information collection requirement(s) to OMB for review and clearance
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. Comments
are requested regarding (1) Whether the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility; (2) the
accuracy of the agency's estimate of burden including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are
to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments regarding this information collection received by
September 21, 2017 will be considered. Written comments should be
addressed to: Desk Officer for Agriculture, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), New
Executive Office Building, 725--17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20502.
Commenters are encouraged to submit their comments to OMB via email to:
OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or fax (202) 395-5806 and to Departmental
Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250-
7602. Copies of the submission(s) may be obtained by calling (202) 720-
8958.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information
unless the collection of information displays a currently valid OMB
control number and the agency informs potential persons who are to
respond to the collection of information that such persons are not
required to respond to the collection of information unless it displays
a currently valid OMB control number.
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
Title: USDA Race, Ethnicity and Gender Data Collection.
OMB Control Number: 0503-0019.
Summary of Collection: Section 14006 and 14007 of the Food,
Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, 7 U.S.C. 8701 (referred to as the
2008 Farm Bill) establishes a requirement for the Department of
Agriculture (USDA) to annually compile application and participation
rate data regarding socially disadvantaged farmers or ranchers by
computing for each program of the USDA that serves agriculture
producers and landowners (a) raw numbers of applicants and participants
by race, ethnicity, and gender, subject to appropriate privacy
protection, as determined by the Secretary; and (b) the application and
participation rate, by race, ethnicity and gender as a percentage of
the total participation rate of all agricultural producers and
landowners for each county and State in the United States.
Need and Use of the Information: Data will be collected on a
voluntary basis through a questionnaire to determine the race,
ethnicity and gender of farmers and ranchers who apply for and who
participate in USDA programs and services. The data will enable the
Secretary and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
and the agencies' outreach offices in reaching current and prospective
socially disadvantaged farmers or ranchers in a linguistically
appropriate manner to focus resources in a particular county or region
where low participation is indicated by the data to improve the
participation of those farmers and ranchers in USDA programs. The data
is
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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.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-17692 Filed 8-21-17; 8:45 am]
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