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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Comment Request;
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program Pre-Screening Tool
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 is a revision of a currently
approved collection for a web-based
pre-screening tool used by the general
public to determine potential eligibility
for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) benefits.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before February 6, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to:
Sasha Gersten-Paal, Branch Chief,
Certification Policy Branch, Program
Development Division, Food and
Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, 3101 Park Center Drive,
Room 812 Alexandria, VA 22302.
Comments may also be submitted via
fax to the attention of Sasha GerstenPaal at 703–305–2507 or via email to
Sasha.Gersten-Paal@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 responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for Office of Management and Budget
approval. All comments will be a matter
of public record.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of this information collection
should be directed to Sasha GerstenPaal at 703–305–2705.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Comments
are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
SUMMARY:
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for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions that were
used; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to
respond, including use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Title: Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Pre-Screening Tool.
Form Number: None.
OMB Number: 0584–0519.
Expiration Date: 03/31/2018.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Abstract: In June 2003, The Food and
Nutrition Service (FNS) deployed an
interactive web-based pre-screening tool
that can be utilized by the general
public to determine the potential
eligibility for benefits in the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP). The pre-screening tool
allows the English and Spanish
speaking user to enter the household
size, income, expenses and resource
information in order to calculate an
estimated range of benefits that the
household may be eligible to receive.
Since SNAP eligibility and benefit
amount may vary based on program
options States have implemented, FNS
makes it clear that the tool is only an
estimator and the household will need
to contact the local agency to determine
actual eligibility and the associated
benefit amount.
Some other data requested by the tool
include:
• State or territory in which the user
resides;
• Number of People: Number of
people living in the household;
• First Name/Age/Disability;
Estimated
number of
respondents
Requirement
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Responses
annually per
respondent
• Citizenship: Whether each member
is a U.S. citizen;
• Earned Income/Assets/Motor
Vehicle Ownership;
• Migrant Workers: Whether anyone
in the household is a seasonal or
migrant farm worker;
• Homeless: Whether the household
is homeless or living in a shelter;
• Utility expenses: Whether the client
is billed for utility costs.
Although the tool also requests the
name and age of the user, FNS does not
retain this information nor does it
request other personally identifiable
information such as social security
numbers or birthdates of the household
members. Once the user logs out of the
system, none of the user-provided
information is retained by FNS. FNS
estimates it will take approximately
380,283 users about 10 minutes (.167
hours) to provide the required
information to receive potential
eligibility benefit information using the
pre-screening tool. Users are expected to
access the system once for a total annual
response of 380,283. FNS estimates
63,507 burden hours for this activity.
In reviewing SNAP participation data
for FY 2014 to FY 2016, it was noticed
that participation has decreased each
year and this downward trajectory
suggests that household participation in
SNAP may continue to decline. Based
on this analysis, and the number of
potential applicants estimated to use the
prescreening tool, FNS requests an
annual burden inventory of 63,507
hours, which represents a decrease in
3,716 hours since the last extension of
this collection, which approved for
67,223 hours.
Affected Public: Individuals and
households, potential SNAP clients.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
380,283.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
380,283.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.167.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 63,507.
Total annual
responses
Hours per
response
Annual
burden
hours
INDIVIDUAL AND HOUSEHOLDS
Potential SNAP Clients
Reporting Burden ................
Completion of SNAP
Pre-screening Tool .............
380,283
1
380,283
0.167
63,507
Reporting Totals ...........................................................
380,283
1
380,283
0.167
63,507
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Dated: October 23, 2017.
Brandon Lipps,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
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Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Commerce (DOC)
will submit to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.).
Agency: Economic Development
Administration (EDA or Agency).
Title: Revolving Loan Fund Reporting
and Compliance Requirements.
OMB Control Number: 0610–0095.
Form Number(s): ED–209.
Type of Review: Revision of a
collection currently under review.
Number of Respondents: 866.
Average Hours per Response: 1.5
hours.
Burden Hours: 1,299 hours.
Needs and Uses: The EDA Revolving
Loan Fund (RLF) Program, authorized
under section 209 of the Public Works
and Economic Development Act of
1965, as amended (42 U.S.C. 3149), has
been part of EDA investment programs
since the establishment of the RLF
Program in 1975. The purpose of the
RLF Program is to provide regions with
a flexible and continuing source of
capital, to be used with other economic
development tools, for creating and
retaining jobs and inducing private
investment that will contribute to longterm economic stability and growth.
EDA provides RLF grants to eligible
recipients, which include State and
local governments, Indian tribes, and
non-profit organizations, to operate a
lending program that offers loans with
flexible repayment terms, primarily to
small businesses in distressed
communities that are unable to obtain
traditional bank financing. These loans
enable small businesses to expand and
lead to new employment opportunities
that pay competitive wages and benefits.
A unique feature of the RLF Program
is that EDA must monitor RLF grants in
perpetuity because, absent statutory
authority providing otherwise, the
Federal interest in an RLF never expires.
EDA regulations currently require RLF
recipients to submit a financial report to
EDA on a semi-annual basis for each
RLF (13 CFR 307.14(a)), which is
currently submitted via Form ED–209,
Revolving Loan Fund Financial Report.
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In addition, RLF recipients must also
submit on a semi-annual basis a
completed Form ED–209I, RLF Income
and Expense Statement, if either of the
following conditions apply: RLF
administrative expenses for the
reporting period exceeded $100,000, or
RLF administrative expenses for the
reporting period exceeded 50 percent of
RLF income earned during the reporting
period (13 CFR 307.14(c)). EDA requires
both reports to be completed using
standardized, auto-calculable fillable
PDF (Portable Document Format) forms.
EDA is revising its regulations
implementing the RLF Program through
a final rule published in the Federal
Register on December 1, 2017,
‘‘Revolving Loan Fund Program Changes
and General Updates to Public Works
and Economic Development Act
Regulations’’ (82 FR 57034). The revised
regulations update RLF Program
requirements to reflect best practices
within financial institutions and to
strengthen EDA’s efforts to evaluate,
monitor, and improve RLF performance
by moving to a risk-based approach to
assess individual RLFs. The measures
EDA plans to use to assess performance
under the new risk-based approach were
published in a notice in the Federal
Register on December 1, 2017,
‘‘Implementation of Revolving Loan
Fund Risk Analysis System’’ (82 FR
56942).
In the transition to a risk-based
approach, EDA has revised the RLF
regulations to eliminate the requirement
that RLF recipients submit Form ED–
209I. The revised RLF regulations
instead encourage RLF recipients to
keep administrative expenses to a
minimum in order to maintain and grow
the capital base of RLFs, in part by
incorporating the percentage of RLF
income used for administrative
expenses as a performance measure in
the new risk-based approach. Because of
this change, EDA has determined that it
is no longer necessary for RLF recipients
to submit income and expense
statements through Form ED–209I. In
addition, EDA is revising Form ED–209
to reflect the new regulations and to
ensure that the Form collects only the
data necessary, including individual
loan detail, to oversee the RLF Program
under the new risk-based approach. As
such, the revised Form ED–209 is
shorter and easier to complete. The
revised regulations will allow those RLF
recipients that earn a high rating under
the new risk-based monitoring approach
to be placed on an annual reporting
cycle, while RLF recipients receiving
lower ratings will be required to
maintain semi-annual reporting.
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The reduction in burden associated
with the revised Form ED–209 and
eliminated Form ED–209I is not a
distinct ‘‘deregulatory action’’ for the
purposes of Executive Order 13771,
‘‘Reducing Regulation and Controlling
Regulatory Costs.’’ The revised Form
ED–209 and eliminated Form ED–209I
are one piece of EDA’s transition to a
risk-based approach to monitor and
manage the RLF Program. As such, the
reduction in burden stemming from the
shortened and simplified Form ED–209
and eliminated Form ED–209I are
already accounted for as part of the
broader ‘‘deregulatory action’’ made
pursuant to the recently published final
rule that revised the regulations
governing the RLF Program.
This notice clarifies the notice
previously published in the Federal
Register on November 2, 2017 relating
to this information collection (82 FR
50858) and extends the 30-day period
for public comment established in that
notice to 30 days after publication of
this notice.
Affected Public: EDA RLF recipients,
including state and local governments,
Indian tribes, and non-profit
organizations.
Frequency: Semiannually or annually,
depending on the RLF recipient’s rating
under the risk-based oversight
approach, as explained above.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
This information collection request
may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow
the instructions to view DOC collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov or faxed to (202) 395–5806.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Lead, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request;
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Pre-Screening Tool
AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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 is a revision of a
currently approved collection for a web-based pre-screening tool used
by the general public to determine potential eligibility for
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before February 6, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to: Sasha Gersten-Paal, Branch Chief,
Certification Policy Branch, Program Development Division, Food and
Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 3101 Park Center
Drive, Room 812 Alexandria, VA 22302. Comments may also be submitted
via fax to the attention of Sasha Gersten-Paal at 703-305-2507 or via
email to [email protected]. 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 responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the
request for Office of Management and Budget approval. All comments will
be a matter of public record.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of this information collection should be directed to Sasha
Gersten-Paal at 703-305-2705.
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 of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
that were used; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden
of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including
use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Title: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Pre-Screening Tool.
Form Number: None.
OMB Number: 0584-0519.
Expiration Date: 03/31/2018.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Abstract: In June 2003, The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
deployed an interactive web-based pre-screening tool that can be
utilized by the general public to determine the potential eligibility
for benefits in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
The pre-screening tool allows the English and Spanish speaking user to
enter the household size, income, expenses and resource information in
order to calculate an estimated range of benefits that the household
may be eligible to receive. Since SNAP eligibility and benefit amount
may vary based on program options States have implemented, FNS makes it
clear that the tool is only an estimator and the household will need to
contact the local agency to determine actual eligibility and the
associated benefit amount.
Some other data requested by the tool include:
State or territory in which the user resides;
Number of People: Number of people living in the
household;
First Name/Age/Disability;
Citizenship: Whether each member is a U.S. citizen;
Earned Income/Assets/Motor Vehicle Ownership;
Migrant Workers: Whether anyone in the household is a
seasonal or migrant farm worker;
Homeless: Whether the household is homeless or living in a
shelter;
Utility expenses: Whether the client is billed for utility
costs.
Although the tool also requests the name and age of the user, FNS
does not retain this information nor does it request other personally
identifiable information such as social security numbers or birthdates
of the household members. Once the user logs out of the system, none of
the user-provided information is retained by FNS. FNS estimates it will
take approximately 380,283 users about 10 minutes (.167 hours) to
provide the required information to receive potential eligibility
benefit information using the pre-screening tool. Users are expected to
access the system once for a total annual response of 380,283. FNS
estimates 63,507 burden hours for this activity.
In reviewing SNAP participation data for FY 2014 to FY 2016, it was
noticed that participation has decreased each year and this downward
trajectory suggests that household participation in SNAP may continue
to decline. Based on this analysis, and the number of potential
applicants estimated to use the prescreening tool, FNS requests an
annual burden inventory of 63,507 hours, which represents a decrease in
3,716 hours since the last extension of this collection, which approved
for 67,223 hours.
Affected Public: Individuals and households, potential SNAP
clients.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 380,283.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Responses: 380,283.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.167.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 63,507.
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Estimated Responses
OMB No. 0584-0519 Requirement number of annually per Total annual Hours per Annual burden
respondents respondent responses response hours
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Affected Public........................... INDIVIDUAL AND HOUSEHOLDS
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Potential SNAP Clients
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Reporting Burden.......................... Completion of SNAP
Pre-screening Tool.......... 380,283 1 380,283 0.167 63,507
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Reporting Totals.................................................... 380,283 1 380,283 0.167 63,507
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Dated: October 23, 2017.
Brandon Lipps,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
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