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AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Delegation of Authority Under Section
6501(b)(2) of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022
Agency for International
Development.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
On January 17, 2023,
President Biden delegated authority of
approval vested in the President by the
National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2022 to designate an
employee of the relevant Federal
department or agency with fiduciary
responsibility for United States
contributions to the Coalition for
Epidemic Preparedness Innovations
(CEPI) to serve on the CEPI Investors
Council and, if nominated, on the CEPI
Board of Directors, as a representative of
the United States. The President
authorized and directed the Agency for
International Development to publish
this memorandum in the Federal
Register. The text of the memorandum
is set out below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Allison Walker (alwalker@usaid.com,
+1(202)368–1985).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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SUMMARY:
Memorandum for the Administrator of
the United States Agency for
International Development
SUBJECT: Delegation of Authority Under
Section 6501(b)(2) of the National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 2022
By the authority vested in me as
President by the Constitution and the
laws of the United States of America,
including section 301 of title 3, United
States Code, I hereby delegate to the
Administrator of the United States
Agency for International Development
the authority vested in the President by
section 6501(b)(2) of the National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
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Year 2022 (Pub. L. 117–81) (22 U.S.C.
276c–5(b)) to designate an employee of
the relevant Federal department or
agency with fiduciary responsibility for
United States contributions to the
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness
Innovations (CEPI) to serve on the CEPI
Investors Council and, if nominated, on
the CEPI Board of Directors, as a
representative of the United States. The
delegation in this memorandum shall
apply to any provision of any future
public law that is the same or
substantially the same as the provision
referenced in this memorandum.
You are authorized and directed to
publish this memorandum in the
Federal Register.
Joseph R. Biden, Jr., and Allison Walker,
USAID Global Health Security Technical
Advisor.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
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; 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; the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of burden including
the validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; ways to enhance the
quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; and 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 March 20, 2023
will be considered. Written comments
and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
publication of this notice on the
following website www.reginfo.gov/
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public/do/PRAMain. Find this
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
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.
Food and Nutrition Service
Title: Understanding the Relationship
Between Poverty, Well-Being, and Food
Security.
OMB Control Number: 0584–NEW.
Summary of Collection: The
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) is the nation’s largest
federal program aimed at reducing food
insecurity and increasing access to
healthy food. SNAP is administered by
the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
(USDA), Food and Nutrition Service
(FNS) and provides nutrition assistance
benefits to program participants, the
majority of whom are children, the
elderly, or people with disabilities.
Through this data collection effort, FNS
seeks to understand the interrelated
factors that lead to household food
insecurity. Data will be collected in six
counties experiencing persistent
intergenerational poverty through a
study titled Understanding the
Relationship Between Poverty, WellBeing, and Food Security. The Food and
Nutrition Act of 2008, as amended
through Public Law 116–94, enacted
December 20, 2019, provides the
legislative authority for the USDA’s FNS
to administer SNAP. Section 17 of the
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008
provides the authority to FNS to
conduct research to help improve the
administration and effectiveness of
SNAP.
Need and Use of the Information:
Understanding the Relationship
Between Poverty, Well-Being, and Food
Security will allow FNS to gain a deeper
understanding of the interrelated factors
that affect the food security status of
SNAP beneficiaries and SNAP-eligible
nonparticipants, information which has
not previously collected in persistently
poor counties. The USDA’s Economic
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Research Service (ERS) defines counties
as being persistently poor if 20 percent
or more of county residents were poor
at each of several points in time over a
30-year period, measured by the 1980,
1990, and 2000 censuses and the 2007–
2011 American Community Survey.
Examining food insecurity and poverty
in these populations will help FNS
better understand the association
between SNAP, other USDAadministered programs, and
community-based assistance with wellbeing and the food environment. Study
objectives include:
Objective 1: Produce descriptive
statistics on key sociodemographic and
economic variables, including
household food security in a
representative sample of all residents in
each of six persistent-poverty counties.
Objective 2: Produce descriptive
statistics on key sociodemographic and
economic variables, including
household food insecurity in two
representative stratified subsamples of
low and very low food-secure residents,
in each county of six persistent-poverty
counties.
Objective 3: Produce descriptive
statistics for each subgroup in each
county on key social, geospatial, and
other policy-actionable elements of
well-being and material deprivation
associated with both household food
security and SNAP participation.
Objective 4: Characterize the social
context and the life course of
individuals, within a multigenerational
family unit, as they define their
experiences with food insecurity
through In-Depth Interviews (IDIs).
Description of Respondents: State and
Local Government, Individuals and
Households, Businesses or other ForProfit and Not-for-Profit.
Number of Respondents: 20,349.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On Occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 7,792.
Food and Nutrition Service
Title: Servicing SNAP Applicants and
Participants with Limited English
Proficiency (LEP).
OMB Control Number: 0584–NEW.
Summary of Collection: The
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) provides a monthly
benefit to eligible households to spend
on food so that households and
individuals with low incomes have
access to enough nutritious food to lead
healthy, active lives. The U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s (USDA)
Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
administers SNAP in partnership with
53 State agencies (the 50 States, the
District of Columbia [DC], Guam, and
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the U.S. Virgin Islands [USVI]). In three
U.S. Territories—American Samoa, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands (CNMI), and Puerto Rico—
nutrition assistance to low-income
individuals and households is provided
through the Nutrition Assistance
Program (NAP).
As Federally assisted programs, both
SNAP and NAP are required to comply
with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of
1964 (Title VI) and its implementing
regulations for the USDA at 7 CFR 15.
(U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights
Division n.d.). Title VI prohibits entities
that receive Federal financial assistance
from discriminating against or otherwise
excluding individuals on the basis of
race, color, or national origin. In order
to avoid discrimination against LEP
persons on the ground of national
origin, administrators of Federal
financial assistance programs must take
reasonable steps to ensure that LEP
persons receive the language assistance
necessary to afford them meaningful
access to SNAP or NAP as applicable,
free of charge. LEP individuals are
defined as those who do not speak
English as their primary language and
have a limited ability to read, speak,
write, or understand English (USDA
2014, p. 70775). Meaningful access
requires that State agencies provide
language assistance services that allow
equal participation in and access to the
benefits of a given program. To support
meaningful access, language assistance
must be provided at a time and place
that avoids the effective denial of the
service, benefit, or right at issue or the
imposition of an undue burden on or
delay in important rights, benefits, or
services to the LEP person (USDA 2014,
p. 70779–70780).
Need and Use of the Information: As
the agency responsible for providing
oversight and monitoring for both SNAP
and NAP, it is critical that FNS
understands whether and how SNAP
and NAP agencies are complying with
LEP requirements. The LEP study will
provide FNS with actionable insights
about how States and Territories operate
language access policies and
requirements. The study will gather
detailed data from all 53 State SNAP
agencies via a web-based survey, the
three Territories that operate NAP via
in-depth interviews, and will conduct
case studies in four States. The study
will provide FNS with a comprehensive
summary of findings on policies and
practices related to LEP access. It will
increase FNS’ understanding of SNAP
LEP access policies and practices across
the nation, including how States make
decisions about these policies and
practices, how they train staff on them,
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and their perceptions of Federal
regulations. The findings from the study
will help inform policymakers efforts to
provide more meaningful access to
SNAP and NAP.
Description of Respondents: State,
Local, and Tribal Governments.
Number of Respondents: 100.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On Occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 238.
Food and Nutrition Service
Title: Rapid Cycle Evaluation of
Operational Improvements in
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) Employment &
Training (E&T) Programs.
OMB Control Number: 0584–NEW.
Summary of Collection: Section 17 of
the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, as
amended in March 2022, authorizes the
Secretary of Agriculture to contract with
private organizations and conduct
research to improve the administration
and effectiveness of SNAP. In addition
to providing nutrition assistance
benefits to millions of low-income
individuals experiencing economic
hardship, the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP) provides
work supports through Employment and
Training (E&T) programs that help
SNAP participants gain skills and find
work. State agencies are required to
operate an E&T program and have
considerable flexibility to determine the
services they offer and populations they
serve. The U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition
Service (FNS) seeks to ensure the
quality of the services and activities
offered through SNAP E&T programs by
investing resources and providing
technical assistance to help States build
capacity, create more robust services,
and increase engagement in their
programs.
Need and Use of the Information: The
Rapid Cycle Evaluation of Operational
Improvements in SNAP E&T Programs
(SNAP E&T RCE) evaluation will use
rapid cycle evaluation (RCE) to test
small-scale interventions in SNAP E&T
operations or service delivery to
determine their effectiveness in
improving program engagement and
service take-up. RCE is an approach that
involves cycles of identifying, testing,
and refining small scale, low-cost
operational interventions to determine
their effectiveness.
Description of Respondents: State and
Local Government, Individuals and
Households, Businesses or other ForProfit and Not-for-Profit.
Number of Respondents: 61,783.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On Occasion.
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Total Burden Hours: 16,216.
Food and Nutrition Service
Title: Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program: Trafficking
Controls and Investigations (Card
Replacement Revision).
OMB Control Number: 0584–0587.
Summary of Collection: The Food and
Nutrition Service (FNS) requires States
agencies to issue a warning notice to
withhold replacement electronic benefit
transfer (EBT) cards or a warning notice
for excessive EBT card replacements for
individual members of a Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
household requesting four EBT cards in
a 12-month period. These notices are
being issued to educate SNAP recipients
on use of the EBT card and to deter
fraudulent activity.
Need and Use of the Information: The
data collected will be used for a variety
of purposes, mainly statutory and
regulatory compliance. The data is
gathered at various times, ranging from
monthly, quarterly, annual or final
submissions. Without the information,
FNS would be unable to ensure integrity
or effectively monitor any over-issued,
under-issued, or trafficking.
Description of Respondents: 372,285
Individuals/Households and 53 State,
Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 372,338.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Quarterly, Semi-annually, Monthly;
Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 35,863.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Notice of Intent To Seek Reinstatement
of an Information Collection
National Agricultural Statistics
Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the intention of the
National Agricultural Statistics Service
(NASS) to seek reinstatement of an
information collection, the 2023 Census
of Aquaculture. Revision to previous
burden hours may be needed due to
changes in the size of the target
population, sampling design, and/or
questionnaire length.
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Comments on this notice must be
received by April 17, 2023 to be assured
of consideration.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by docket number 0535–0237,
by any of the following methods:
• Email: ombofficer@nass.usda.gov.
Include the docket number above in the
subject line of the message.
• E-fax: (855) 838–6382.
• Mail: Mail any paper, disk, or CD–
ROM submissions to: Richard Hopper,
NASS Clearance Officer, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Room 5336
South Building, 1400 Independence
Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250–
2024.
• Hand Delivery/Courier: Hand
deliver to: Richard Hopper, NASS
Clearance Officer, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Room 5336 South Building,
1400 Independence Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20250–2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kevin L. Barnes, Associate
Administrator, National Agricultural
Statistics Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, (202) 720–2707. Copies of
this information collection and related
instructions can be obtained without
charge from Richard Hopper, NASS—
OMB Clearance Officer, at (202) 720–
2206 or at ombofficer@nass.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: 2023 Census of Aquaculture.
OMB Control Number: 0535–0237.
Type of Request: Statement to Seek
Reinstatement of an Information
Collection.
Abstract: The population for the 2023
Census of Aquaculture will include any
farm or operation from which $1,000 or
more of aquaculture products were
produced and sold, or produced and
distributed for restoration, conservation,
enhancement, or recreational purposes
in 2023. The aquaculture census will
provide data on the number of farms,
acreage, method of production,
production and sales by aquaculture
species, and sales outlets. Census data
are used by the farmers, their
representatives, the government, and
many other groups of people concerned
with the aquaculture industry. The
census will provide a comprehensive
inventory of aquaculture farms and their
production. Results from the census will
be used to evaluate new programs,
disburse Federal funds, analyze market
trends, and help determine the
economic impact aquaculture has on the
economy. The aquaculture census will
provide the only source of dependable,
comparable data by State.
Authority: The census of agriculture
and subsequent follow-on censuses are
required by law under the ‘‘Census of
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Agriculture Act of 1997,’’ Public Law
105–113, 7 U.S.C. 2204(g). Individually
identifiable data collected under this
authority are governed by Section 1770
of the Food Security Act of 1985 as
amended, 7 U.S.C. 2276, which requires
USDA to afford strict confidentiality to
non-aggregated data provided by
respondents. This Notice is submitted in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104–
13 (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) and Office
of Management and Budget regulations
at 5 CFR part 1320.
All NASS employees and NASS
contractors must also fully comply with
all provisions of the Confidential
Information Protection and Statistical
Efficiency Act (CIPSEA) of 2018, Title
III of Public Law 115–435, codified in
44 U.S.C. Ch. 35. CIPSEA supports
NASS’s pledge of confidentiality to all
respondents and facilitates the agency’s
efforts to reduce burden by supporting
statistical activities of collaborative
agencies through designation of NASS
agents, subject to the limitations and
penalties described in CIPSEA. NASS
uses the information only for statistical
purposes and publishes only tabulated
total data.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting
burden for this collection of information
is estimated to average 30 minutes per
positive response, 2 minutes per screenout, and 2 minutes per refusal. The
sample will equal the number of
respondents who reported positive
aquaculture data in the 2022 Census of
Agriculture.
Respondents: Farmers and Farm
Managers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
6,000.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 3,400 hours.
Comments: 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 will 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 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
through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical,
technological or other forms of
information technology collection
methods.
All responses to this notice will
become a matter of public record and be
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
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; 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; the
accuracy of the agency's estimate of burden including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used; ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and 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 March
20, 2023 will be considered. Written comments and recommendations for
the proposed information collection should be submitted within 30 days
of the publication of this notice on the following website
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this information collection by
selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments''
or by using the search function.
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.
Food and Nutrition Service
Title: Understanding the Relationship Between Poverty, Well-Being,
and Food Security.
OMB Control Number: 0584-NEW.
Summary of Collection: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) is the nation's largest federal program aimed at
reducing food insecurity and increasing access to healthy food. SNAP is
administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA), Food and
Nutrition Service (FNS) and provides nutrition assistance benefits to
program participants, the majority of whom are children, the elderly,
or people with disabilities. Through this data collection effort, FNS
seeks to understand the interrelated factors that lead to household
food insecurity. Data will be collected in six counties experiencing
persistent intergenerational poverty through a study titled
Understanding the Relationship Between Poverty, Well-Being, and Food
Security. The Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, as amended through Public
Law 116-94, enacted December 20, 2019, provides the legislative
authority for the USDA's FNS to administer SNAP. Section 17 of the Food
and Nutrition Act of 2008 provides the authority to FNS to conduct
research to help improve the administration and effectiveness of SNAP.
Need and Use of the Information: Understanding the Relationship
Between Poverty, Well-Being, and Food Security will allow FNS to gain a
deeper understanding of the interrelated factors that affect the food
security status of SNAP beneficiaries and SNAP-eligible
nonparticipants, information which has not previously collected in
persistently poor counties. The USDA's Economic
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Research Service (ERS) defines counties as being persistently poor if
20 percent or more of county residents were poor at each of several
points in time over a 30-year period, measured by the 1980, 1990, and
2000 censuses and the 2007-2011 American Community Survey. Examining
food insecurity and poverty in these populations will help FNS better
understand the association between SNAP, other USDA-administered
programs, and community-based assistance with well-being and the food
environment. Study objectives include:
Objective 1: Produce descriptive statistics on key sociodemographic
and economic variables, including household food security in a
representative sample of all residents in each of six persistent-
poverty counties.
Objective 2: Produce descriptive statistics on key sociodemographic
and economic variables, including household food insecurity in two
representative stratified subsamples of low and very low food-secure
residents, in each county of six persistent-poverty counties.
Objective 3: Produce descriptive statistics for each subgroup in
each county on key social, geospatial, and other policy-actionable
elements of well-being and material deprivation associated with both
household food security and SNAP participation.
Objective 4: Characterize the social context and the life course of
individuals, within a multigenerational family unit, as they define
their experiences with food insecurity through In-Depth Interviews
(IDIs).
Description of Respondents: State and Local Government, Individuals
and Households, Businesses or other For- Profit and Not-for-Profit.
Number of Respondents: 20,349.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On Occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 7,792.
Food and Nutrition Service
Title: Servicing SNAP Applicants and Participants with Limited
English Proficiency (LEP).
OMB Control Number: 0584-NEW.
Summary of Collection: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) provides a monthly benefit to eligible households to
spend on food so that households and individuals with low incomes have
access to enough nutritious food to lead healthy, active lives. The
U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service
(FNS) administers SNAP in partnership with 53 State agencies (the 50
States, the District of Columbia [DC], Guam, and the U.S. Virgin
Islands [USVI]). In three U.S. Territories--American Samoa, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), and Puerto Rico--
nutrition assistance to low-income individuals and households is
provided through the Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP).
As Federally assisted programs, both SNAP and NAP are required to
comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) and its
implementing regulations for the USDA at 7 CFR 15. (U.S. Department of
Justice Civil Rights Division n.d.). Title VI prohibits entities that
receive Federal financial assistance from discriminating against or
otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or
national origin. In order to avoid discrimination against LEP persons
on the ground of national origin, administrators of Federal financial
assistance programs must take reasonable steps to ensure that LEP
persons receive the language assistance necessary to afford them
meaningful access to SNAP or NAP as applicable, free of charge. LEP
individuals are defined as those who do not speak English as their
primary language and have a limited ability to read, speak, write, or
understand English (USDA 2014, p. 70775). Meaningful access requires
that State agencies provide language assistance services that allow
equal participation in and access to the benefits of a given program.
To support meaningful access, language assistance must be provided at a
time and place that avoids the effective denial of the service,
benefit, or right at issue or the imposition of an undue burden on or
delay in important rights, benefits, or services to the LEP person
(USDA 2014, p. 70779-70780).
Need and Use of the Information: As the agency responsible for
providing oversight and monitoring for both SNAP and NAP, it is
critical that FNS understands whether and how SNAP and NAP agencies are
complying with LEP requirements. The LEP study will provide FNS with
actionable insights about how States and Territories operate language
access policies and requirements. The study will gather detailed data
from all 53 State SNAP agencies via a web-based survey, the three
Territories that operate NAP via in-depth interviews, and will conduct
case studies in four States. The study will provide FNS with a
comprehensive summary of findings on policies and practices related to
LEP access. It will increase FNS' understanding of SNAP LEP access
policies and practices across the nation, including how States make
decisions about these policies and practices, how they train staff on
them, and their perceptions of Federal regulations. The findings from
the study will help inform policymakers efforts to provide more
meaningful access to SNAP and NAP.
Description of Respondents: State, Local, and Tribal Governments.
Number of Respondents: 100.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On Occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 238.
Food and Nutrition Service
Title: Rapid Cycle Evaluation of Operational Improvements in
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment & Training
(E&T) Programs.
OMB Control Number: 0584-NEW.
Summary of Collection: Section 17 of the Food and Nutrition Act of
2008, as amended in March 2022, authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture
to contract with private organizations and conduct research to improve
the administration and effectiveness of SNAP. In addition to providing
nutrition assistance benefits to millions of low-income individuals
experiencing economic hardship, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) provides work supports through Employment and Training
(E&T) programs that help SNAP participants gain skills and find work.
State agencies are required to operate an E&T program and have
considerable flexibility to determine the services they offer and
populations they serve. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and
Nutrition Service (FNS) seeks to ensure the quality of the services and
activities offered through SNAP E&T programs by investing resources and
providing technical assistance to help States build capacity, create
more robust services, and increase engagement in their programs.
Need and Use of the Information: The Rapid Cycle Evaluation of
Operational Improvements in SNAP E&T Programs (SNAP E&T RCE) evaluation
will use rapid cycle evaluation (RCE) to test small-scale interventions
in SNAP E&T operations or service delivery to determine their
effectiveness in improving program engagement and service take-up. RCE
is an approach that involves cycles of identifying, testing, and
refining small scale, low-cost operational interventions to determine
their effectiveness.
Description of Respondents: State and Local Government, Individuals
and Households, Businesses or other For- Profit and Not-for-Profit.
Number of Respondents: 61,783.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On Occasion.
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Total Burden Hours: 16,216.
Food and Nutrition Service
Title: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Trafficking
Controls and Investigations (Card Replacement Revision).
OMB Control Number: 0584-0587.
Summary of Collection: The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
requires States agencies to issue a warning notice to withhold
replacement electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards or a warning notice
for excessive EBT card replacements for individual members of a
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) household requesting
four EBT cards in a 12-month period. These notices are being issued to
educate SNAP recipients on use of the EBT card and to deter fraudulent
activity.
Need and Use of the Information: The data collected will be used
for a variety of purposes, mainly statutory and regulatory compliance.
The data is gathered at various times, ranging from monthly, quarterly,
annual or final submissions. Without the information, FNS would be
unable to ensure integrity or effectively monitor any over-issued,
under-issued, or trafficking.
Description of Respondents: 372,285 Individuals/Households and 53
State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 372,338.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Quarterly, Semi-annually,
Monthly; Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 35,863.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-03273 Filed 2-15-23; 8:45 am]
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