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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection
Activities: WIC Participant and
Program Characteristics 2024 & 2026
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 reinstatement, with
change, of a previously approved
collection for which approval has
expired for the WIC Participant and
Program Characteristics 2024 and 2026
Study.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before August 22, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to:
Rachel Zack at rachel.zack@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.
SUMMARY:
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of this information collection
should be directed to Rachel Zack at
rachel.zack@usda.gov or 703–305–2127.
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
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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: WIC Participant and Program
Characteristics 2024 & 2026 Study.
Form Number: N/A.
OMB Number: 0584–0609.
Expiration Date: 12/31/2022.
Type of Request: Reinstatement, with
change, of a previously approved
collection for which approval has
expired.
Abstract: The Special Supplemental
Nutrition Program for Women, Infants,
and Children (WIC) is administered by
the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
(USDA) Food and Nutrition Service
(FNS). WIC provides supplemental
foods, health care referrals,
breastfeeding promotion and support,
and nutrition education to nutritionally
at-risk, income-eligible pregnant,
breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding
postpartum women, infants, and
children up to age five years. WIC is
administered through 89 State agencies
consisting of the 50 States, the District
of Columbia, 5 territories, and 33 Indian
Tribal Organizations (ITOs).
Since 1988, FNS has produced the
biennial WIC Participant and Program
Characteristics Study (PC) report that
describes demographic, income,
breastfeeding, and health-related
information of a census of WIC
participants as well as information on
the benefits they receive through WIC.
Data used to produce the PC reports are
collected from participants by State
agencies at the time of participant
certification in WIC and then submitted
to FNS biennially. FNS uses the
regularly updated PC reports to evaluate
the impact of the program, support State
agencies, estimate budgets, submit civil
rights reporting, identify research needs,
and review current and proposed WIC
policies and procedures.
The WIC Participant and Program
Characteristics 2024 and 2026 Study
will be the 19th and 20th completed in
the biennial PC study series. The
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information collection subject to this
notice includes the following, including
a few changes and additions to the
previous PC study collections:
1. Collection of the WIC PC Minimum
and Supplemental Data Sets from 89
State agencies: Like all PC studies since
1992, Minimum and Supplemental Data
Sets consisting of administrative
information used by State agencies to
certify WIC applicants and to issue
benefits will be collected using a
reference month of April of the PC
reference year. The 20-item Minimum
Data Set (e.g., birth date, race, ethnicity,
height, weight, hemoglobin
measurements) will be obtained from all
State agency’s existing Management
Information Systems (MIS) and the 11item Supplemental Data Set (SDS) (e.g.,
date of first WIC certification, years of
education, birth length) will be obtained
from those State agencies which can
provide SDS items if they are available.
2. Collection of longitudinal WIC PCrelated data from 89 State agencies: To
enhance the utility of the PC data and
allow for assessment of participant-level
retention and health outcomes over
time, this study will include a new pilot
effort to collect up to two years of
longitudinal retrospective PC-related
data from as many State agencies as
possible (it is possible that not all State
agencies have the capability and
capacity to provide these data).
Longitudinal data will be collected in a
similar manner as the MDS and SDS
data and will include MDS and SDS
variables over a specified time period
plus any variables deemed necessary for
useful longitudinal evaluation of WIC
participant and program characteristics
such as participant ID and date of first
certification.
3. Collection of WIC Electronic
Benefits Transfer Data (EBT) from 4 EBT
processors and 17 State agencies: Like
all PC studies since 2016, information
on WIC food package issuance and costs
will be reported for this study. However,
this study will include a new data
collection element that will allow for
more accurate reporting on food package
issuance and costs and will also allow
for reporting on food package
redemption. The new element will
consist of collecting EBT data from the
four WIC EBT processors and from 17
State agencies that operate EBT offline.
Affected Public: State, Local and
Tribal Government include State WIC
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officials. Business and other for profit
include WIC EBT processor staff.
Respondent groups include State WIC
officials and EBT processor staff.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
The total estimated number of
respondents is 364. This includes, for
each of the two rounds of the study: 89
WIC State agency office and
administrative support staff, 89 WIC
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State agency state database
administrators, and 4 WIC EBT
processor staff.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 5.88.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
2,158. This includes 2,140 responses
from respondents and 18 responses from
non-respondents.
Estimated Time per Response: 64.8
minutes (1.08 hours). The estimated
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time of response varies from 3 minutes
(0.05 hours) for reminder emails to 35
hours for running the data reports.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: The total estimated
annual burden for respondents and nonrespondents is 2325.4 hours. See the
table below for estimated total annual
burden for each type of respondent.
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Tameka Owens,
Assistant Administrator, Food and Nutrition
Service.
[FR Doc. 2023–13313 Filed 6–22–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–570–088]
Certain Steel Racks and Parts Thereof
From the People’s Republic of China:
Amended Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review, 2020–2021
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of
Commerce (Commerce) is amending the
final results of the administrative review
of the antidumping duty order on
certain steel racks and parts thereof
from the People’s Republic of China
(China) to correct a ministerial error.
The period of review is September 1,
2020, through August 31, 2022.
DATES: Applicable June 23, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jonathan Hill, AD/CVD Operations,
Office IV, Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–3518.
AGENCY:
Background
On April 10, 2023, Commerce
published in the Federal Register the
final results of the 2020–2021
administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on certain steel
racks and parts thereof from China.1 On
May 24, 2023, the Coalition for Fair
Rack Imports (the Coalition), timely
alleged that Commerce made a
ministerial error in calculating the
weighted-average dumping margin for
Nanjing Ironstone Storage Equipment
Co., Ltd. (Ironstone) in the Final
Results.2
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1 See
Certain Steel Racks and Parts Thereof from
the People’s Republic of China: Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and
Final Determination of No Shipments; 2020–2021,
88 FR 21179 (April 10, 2023) (Final Results) and
accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum.
2 See Coalition’s Letter, ‘‘Resubmission of
Ministerial Error Comments on Final Dumping
Margin of Nanjing Ironstone Storage Equipment Co.,
Ltd.,’’ dated May 24, 2023 (Ministerial Error
Allegation). Commerce rejected the ministerial error
allegation that the Coalition submitted on May 2,
2023, because one of the allegations in the
submission was untimely filed. See Commerce’s
Letter, ‘‘Rejection, in Part, of Untimely Filed
Ministerial Error Allegation,’’ dated May 22, 2023.
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Legal Framework
Pursuant to section 751(h) of the
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act),
a ministerial error is an error ‘‘in
addition, subtraction, or other
arithmetic function, clerical errors
resulting from inaccurate copying,
duplication, or the like, and any other
type of unintentional error which
{Commerce} considers ministerial.’’ 3
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.224(e),
Commerce will analyze any comments
received and, if appropriate, correct any
ministerial error by amending the final
results of review.
Ministerial Error Allegation
After analyzing the Coalition’s
allegation, we find that Commerce made
a ministerial error within the meaning
of section 751(h) of the Act in
calculating the Chinese movement
expenses for Ironstone; we multiplied
freight and brokerage and handling
expenses rather than adding those
expenses.4 For details regarding this
ministerial error, see Ministerial Error
Memorandum. Consistent with 19 CFR
351.24(e), we are correcting this error
and, consequently, revising Ironstone’s
weighted-average dumping margin in
the Final Results (i.e., from 3.13 percent
to 4.92 percent).5 Because the weightedaverage dumping margin of the nonindividually examined respondent to
which we granted a separate rate is
based on that of the mandatory
respondents, we also have revised the
review-specific rate assigned to the nonexamined company (i.e., from 10.18
percent to 10.80 percent).6
Amended Final Results
Correcting for the ministerial error
described above results in the following
weighted-average dumping margins for
the period September 1, 2020, through
August 31, 2021:
3 See also 19 CFR 351.224(f) (Commerce has
adopted the statutory definition of ‘‘ministerial
error’’ in its regulations).
4 See Ministerial Error Allegation and
Memorandum, ‘‘Ministerial Error Allegation,’’ dated
concurrently with this notice (Ministerial Error
Memorandum).
5 See Memorandum, ‘‘Amended Final Results
Analysis Memorandum for Nanjing Ironstone
Storage Equipment Co, Ltd.,’’ dated concurrently
with this notice.
6 See Memorandum, ‘‘Calculation of the Dumping
Margin for Respondent Not Selected for Individual
Examination for the Amended Final Results,’’ dated
concurrently with this notice.
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Exporter
Nanjing Ironstone Storage
Equipment Co., Ltd .................
Weightedaverage
dumping
margin
(percent)
4.92
Review-Specific Rate Applicable to the
Non-Examined Company
Nanjing Kingmore Logistics
Equipment Manufacturing Co.,
Ltd ...........................................
10.80
Disclosure
Commerce intends to disclose the
calculations performed in connection
with these amended final results to
parties to the proceeding within five
days of the date of publication of this
notice in the Federal Register, in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Assessment Rates
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the
Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1),
Commerce has determined, and U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
shall assess, antidumping duties on all
appropriate entries of subject
merchandise covered by these amended
final results of review. Commerce
intends to issue assessment instructions
to CBP for the companies listed in the
table above, no earlier than 35 days after
the date of publication of these
amended final results of review in the
Federal Register. If a timely summons is
filed at the U.S. Court of International
Trade, the assessment instructions will
direct CBP not to liquidate relevant
entries until the time for parties to file
a request for a statutory injunction has
expired (i.e., within 90 days of
publication).
For Ironstone, we calculated importerspecific per-unit assessment rates for
entries of Ironstone’s subject
merchandise by dividing the total
amount of dumping calculated for all
reviewed U.S. sales to the importer by
the total quantity of those sales. We also
calculated estimated ad valorem
importer-specific assessment rates to
determine whether the per-unit
assessment rates are de minimis (i.e.,
0.50 percent or less).7 Where we
calculated an importer-specific
estimated ad valorem assessment rate
for entries of Ironstone’s subject
merchandise that is zero or de minimis,
we will instruct CBP to liquidate the
appropriate entries without regard to
antidumping duties.8 If sales of subject
merchandise exported by Ironstone
7 Id.
8 See
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[FR Doc No: 2023-13313]
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or proposed rules that are applicable to the public. Notices of hearings
and investigations, committee meetings, agency decisions and rulings,
delegations of authority, filing of petitions and applications and agency
statements of organization and functions are examples of documents
appearing in this section.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection Activities: WIC Participant and
Program Characteristics 2024 & 2026 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
reinstatement, with change, of a previously approved collection for
which approval has expired for the WIC Participant and Program
Characteristics 2024 and 2026 Study.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before August 22, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to: Rachel Zack at
[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 Rachel Zack
at [email protected] or 703-305-2127.
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: WIC Participant and Program Characteristics 2024 & 2026
Study.
Form Number: N/A.
OMB Number: 0584-0609.
Expiration Date: 12/31/2022.
Type of Request: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously
approved collection for which approval has expired.
Abstract: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women,
Infants, and Children (WIC) is administered by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). WIC provides
supplemental foods, health care referrals, breastfeeding promotion and
support, and nutrition education to nutritionally at-risk, income-
eligible pregnant, breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding postpartum
women, infants, and children up to age five years. WIC is administered
through 89 State agencies consisting of the 50 States, the District of
Columbia, 5 territories, and 33 Indian Tribal Organizations (ITOs).
Since 1988, FNS has produced the biennial WIC Participant and
Program Characteristics Study (PC) report that describes demographic,
income, breastfeeding, and health-related information of a census of
WIC participants as well as information on the benefits they receive
through WIC. Data used to produce the PC reports are collected from
participants by State agencies at the time of participant certification
in WIC and then submitted to FNS biennially. FNS uses the regularly
updated PC reports to evaluate the impact of the program, support State
agencies, estimate budgets, submit civil rights reporting, identify
research needs, and review current and proposed WIC policies and
procedures.
The WIC Participant and Program Characteristics 2024 and 2026 Study
will be the 19th and 20th completed in the biennial PC study series.
The information collection subject to this notice includes the
following, including a few changes and additions to the previous PC
study collections:
1. Collection of the WIC PC Minimum and Supplemental Data Sets from
89 State agencies: Like all PC studies since 1992, Minimum and
Supplemental Data Sets consisting of administrative information used by
State agencies to certify WIC applicants and to issue benefits will be
collected using a reference month of April of the PC reference year.
The 20-item Minimum Data Set (e.g., birth date, race, ethnicity,
height, weight, hemoglobin measurements) will be obtained from all
State agency's existing Management Information Systems (MIS) and the
11-item Supplemental Data Set (SDS) (e.g., date of first WIC
certification, years of education, birth length) will be obtained from
those State agencies which can provide SDS items if they are available.
2. Collection of longitudinal WIC PC-related data from 89 State
agencies: To enhance the utility of the PC data and allow for
assessment of participant-level retention and health outcomes over
time, this study will include a new pilot effort to collect up to two
years of longitudinal retrospective PC-related data from as many State
agencies as possible (it is possible that not all State agencies have
the capability and capacity to provide these data). Longitudinal data
will be collected in a similar manner as the MDS and SDS data and will
include MDS and SDS variables over a specified time period plus any
variables deemed necessary for useful longitudinal evaluation of WIC
participant and program characteristics such as participant ID and date
of first certification.
3. Collection of WIC Electronic Benefits Transfer Data (EBT) from 4
EBT processors and 17 State agencies: Like all PC studies since 2016,
information on WIC food package issuance and costs will be reported for
this study. However, this study will include a new data collection
element that will allow for more accurate reporting on food package
issuance and costs and will also allow for reporting on food package
redemption. The new element will consist of collecting EBT data from
the four WIC EBT processors and from 17 State agencies that operate EBT
offline.
Affected Public: State, Local and Tribal Government include State
WIC
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officials. Business and other for profit include WIC EBT processor
staff. Respondent groups include State WIC officials and EBT processor
staff.
Estimated Number of Respondents: The total estimated number of
respondents is 364. This includes, for each of the two rounds of the
study: 89 WIC State agency office and administrative support staff, 89
WIC State agency state database administrators, and 4 WIC EBT processor
staff.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 5.88.
Estimated Total Annual Responses: 2,158. This includes 2,140
responses from respondents and 18 responses from non-respondents.
Estimated Time per Response: 64.8 minutes (1.08 hours). The
estimated time of response varies from 3 minutes (0.05 hours) for
reminder emails to 35 hours for running the data reports.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: The total estimated
annual burden for respondents and non-respondents is 2325.4 hours. See
the table below for estimated total annual burden for each type of
respondent.
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