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The data elements in eDRS provide
information about individuals who have
been disqualified, the disqualification
details, and the agency that imposed the
disqualification. State agencies submit
this information about disqualifications
imposed in their State and this
information is then available to all
participating State agencies with access
to eDRS. State agencies use personally
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for the individual being matched.
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Tameka Owens,
Acting Administrator and Assistant
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) Mobile Payment
Pilots (MPPs)
Food and Nutrition Service
(FNS), USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice invites the general public and
other public agencies to comment on the
proposed information collection. This is
a revision of an existing information
collection to conduct demonstration
pilot projects to test the redemption of
SUMMARY:
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SNAP benefits through mobile payment
technologies.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before October 22, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent via
the following methods:
• Preferred Method: Comments can be
submitted through the Federal
eRulemaking Portal. Go to https://
www.regulations.gov and follow the
online instructions for submitting
comments electronically.
• Email: Send comments to
RPMDHQ-WEB@USDA.GOV.
• Mail: Send comments to Shelly
Pierce, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, 1320
Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314.
All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) 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 Eden Temple, at
(703) 457–7734 or via email to
RPMDHQ-WEB@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 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: SNAP Mobile Payment Pilots
(MPPs)
Form Number: None.
OMB Number: 0584–0672.
Expiration Date: 6/30/2025.
Type of Request: Revision to existing
collection.
Abstract: Section 4006(e) of the
Agricultural Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115–
334) authorizes the Food and Nutrition
Service (FNS) to allow up to five Mobile
Payment Pilots (MPPs) to allow the use
of personal mobile devices, such as
cellular phones, tablets and smart
watches in place of SNAP Electronic
Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards to conduct
SNAP transactions. Respondents (SNAP
State agencies (State agencies) and their
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SNAP business partners) will conduct
pilots to test the use of mobile payment
technologies for the redemption of
SNAP benefits by SNAP households at
participating retailers, to determine
their feasibility and implications for
program integrity. FNS will conduct
these projects to evaluate whether
allowing mobile payments is in the best
interest of the Program, and to therefore,
recommend allowing their use to the
Secretary.
The information collected in the pilot
evaluation (to be submitted for OMB
approval under a separate information
collection request) will help FNS
determine the success of and best
practices for the use of mobile payment
technologies to redeem SNAP benefits.
This information will inform Program
design, standards, rulemaking, and
guidance for approval of SNAP mobile
payment technologies as well as
Departmental decisions and
recommendations to Congress with
respect to requiring all State EBT
systems to accept mobile payment
technologies in the future.
To achieve these objectives, FNS
seeks OMB approval only for
implementation of MPP by State
agencies. Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act, FNS will seek a separate
OMB approval to evaluate the results of
completed MPPs under a separate 60day Federal Register Notice and
information collection request.
1. Assumptions
In 2022, FNS issued a request for
volunteers for participate in the MPP.
FNS received 12 proposals and selected
5 States to participate. Because the
request for volunteers (RFV) process has
already occurred and its burden was
covered in the initial 2022 information
collection request, FNS is removing the
hours associated with the RFV process
from this renewal. Because pilot
projects are still being designed, it is
impossible for FNS to know in advance
the design and structure of pilots that
may be proposed or the specific
activities each State and associated
partners will undertake while
conducting a MPP. Therefore, we have
provided general estimates based on an
assumed pilot model. Actual pilots may
vary widely from this model and
include a variety of potential
stakeholders; this information collection
does not intend to establish a standard
model; this model will be used
throughout this notice simply for ease of
estimation.
If there are substantive changes to this
data collection request, the agency will
seek OMB approval to revise this
information collection request following
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the Paperwork Reduction Act process.
Because the pilots are still being
designed by the 5 States, the estimates
below are based on a model in which
one State agency partners with an
average of four (4) stakeholder
businesses (2 retailers, 1 EBT processor,
and 1 mobile payment vendor) and
recruits 1,000 SNAP participants per
pilot proposal. It is important to note for
burden estimation purposes that, while
there are numerous retailer and mobile
payment vendors the States may choose
to partner with, there are only 4 EBT
processors nationally. Therefore, EBT
processors may partner with multiple
pilot proposals submitted by the various
State agencies; this has been considered
in our estimation.
2. Mobile Payment Pilot
Implementation
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The pilot period will last a total of
eighteen (18) months, and Pilot
Participants (State agencies and
associated business partner
organizations) will join on a rolling
basis with the condition that they must
each participate for a minimum of nine
(9) months. Per the requirement in
Section 4006(e) of the Agricultural Act
of 2018 (Pub. L. 115–334) FNS has
selected 5 MPPs. FNS estimates that,
based on the assumed model in this
notice, each State agency may require 80
hours to conduct the following activities
during each month of implementation of
an MPP (as applicable). These activities
include:
1. Design of mobile payment
integration and changes to EBT systems
and functionality to accommodate
mobile payments,
2. Testing of EBT systems to ensure
compatibility,
3. Provision of technical assistance
and support to SNAP households that
participate in an MPP, and/or
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4. Coordination with EBT processors,
SNAP retailers, and mobile payment
contractors.
FNS estimates that, based on the
assumed model in this notice, each of
the 5 State agencies may issue 1
recruitment notice for the MPP to 5,000
individuals who are members of SNAP
households in each State for a total of
25,000 individuals. These notices may
be issued to SNAP households
electronically or via mail, depending on
the State. Generation and issuance of
each notice by the State agency is
expected to take approximately 3
minutes (0.05 hours). FNS also
estimates that each of the 25,000
individual household members will
require up to 3 minutes (0.05 hours) to
read the recruitment notice for
participation in the pilot. FNS estimates
that approximately 5,000 of the
recruited participants will opt to
participate in the pilot (1,000 per State)
and that each of the 5,000 participants
will require 15 minutes to enroll in an
MPP. Potential enrollment activities for
SNAP household respondents are based
on the assumed model in this
information collection may include
calling or emailing the State agency to
indicate interest, reviewing instructions,
downloading an application (as known
as app), technical assistance, and/or
enrolling in the app.
Because the RFV process has already
occurred and its burden was covered in
the 2022 information collection request,
FNS is removing the hours associated
with the RFV process from this renewal.
This results in a decrease of 23,510
burden hours.
Reporting Burden for State Agencies
Affected Public: State SNAP agencies.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 5
State agencies.
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Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 5,048.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
25,240.
Estimated Time per Response: .94.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 23,675.
Reporting Burden for Businesses
Affected Public: Business
(Respondent Types: EBT Stakeholders
(EBT Processors, SNAP Retailers,
Mobile Payment Vendors or
Contractors).
Estimated Number of Respondents:
20.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 12.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
240.
Estimated Time per Response: 120
hours per response.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 28,800 hours.
Reporting Burden for Individual
Households
Affected Public: SNAP Recipients.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
25,000 (15,000 respondents and 10,000
non-respondents).
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: .83 responses.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
30,000 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: .07
hour.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 2,167 hours.
Recordkeeping Burden for State
Agencies
There is no recordkeeping or thirdparty reporting burden associated with
this information collection.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Business-Cooperative Service
[Docket #: RBS–24–BUSINESS–0010]
Notice of Solicitation of Applications
for the Rural Economic Development
Loan and Grant Programs for Fiscal
Year 2025
Rural Business-Cooperative
Service, USDA.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice.
The Rural BusinessCooperative Service (RBCS or Agency),
a Rural Development (RD) agency of the
United States Department of Agriculture
(USDA), invites applications for loans
and grants under the Rural Economic
Development Loan and Grant Programs
(REDLG or Programs) for fiscal year (FY)
2025, subject to the availability of
funding. This notice is being issued
prior to the passage of a FY 25
Consolidated Appropriations Act,
which may or may not provide funding
for this program, to allow applicants
sufficient time to leverage financing,
prepare and submit their applications,
and give the Agency time to process
applications within FY 2025. Based on
FY 2024 appropriated funding and
current budget situation, the Agency
estimates that approximately
$50,000,000 will be available for FY
2025. Successful applications will be
selected by the Agency for funding and
subsequently awarded to the extent that
funding may ultimately be made
available through appropriations. All
applicants are responsible for any
expenses incurred in developing their
applications.
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The deadlines for completed
applications to be received in the RD
State Office for quarterly funding
competitions are no later than 4:30 p.m.
(local time) on: First Quarter, September
30, 2024; Second Quarter, December 31,
2024; Third Quarter, March 31, 2025,
and Fourth Quarter, June 30, 2025. The
Agency will not consider any
application received after the deadline
for funding competition in that fiscal
quarter.
ADDRESSES: Applications must be
submitted in paper or electronically to
the RD State Office for the state where
the project is located. A list of the RD
State Office contacts can be found at:
www.rd.usda.gov/about-rd/state-offices.
This notice will also be announced at
www.grants.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cindy Mason at cindy.mason@usda.gov,
Program Management Division,
Business Programs, Rural BusinessCooperative Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, 1400 Independence Avenue
SW, Stop 3226, Room 5160-South,
Washington, DC 20250–3226, or call
(202) 720–1400. For further information
on this notice, please contact the RD
State Office in the state which the
applicant’s headquarters is located. A
list of RD State Office contacts is
provided at the following link:
www.rd.usda.gov/about-rd/state-offices.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DATES:
Overview
Federal Awarding Agency Name:
Rural Business-Cooperative Service
(RBCS).
Funding Opportunity Type: Rural
Economic Development Loans and
Grants (REDLG).
Announcement Type: Notice of
Solicitation of Applications (NOSA).
Funding Opportunity Number: RD–
RBCS–25–REDLG.
Assistance Listing Number: 10.854.
Dates: The deadlines for complete
applications to be received in the RD
State Office for quarterly funding
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competitions are no later than 4:30 p.m.
(local time) on: First Quarter, September
30, 2024; Second Quarter, December 31,
2024; Third Quarter, March 31, 2025,
and Fourth Quarter, June 30, 2025.
Rural Development Key Priorities: The
Agency encourages applicants to
consider projects that will advance the
following key priorities (more details
available at www.rd.usda.gov/prioritypoints):
• Addressing Climate Change and
Environmental Justice; Reducing
climate pollution and increasing
resilience to the impacts of climate
change through economic support to
rural communities.
• Advancing Racial Justice, PlaceBased Equity, and Opportunity;
Ensuring all rural residents have
equitable access to RD programs and
benefits from RD funded projects.
• Creating More and Better Market
Opportunities; Assisting rural
communities recover economically
through more and better market
opportunities and through improved
infrastructure.
A. Program Description
1. Purpose of the Program. The Rural
Economic Development Loan (REDL)
and Grant (REDG) Programs (REDLG or
Program(s)) provide financing to eligible
Rural Utilities Service (RUS) electric or
telecommunications borrowers
(Intermediaries) to promote rural
economic development and job creation
projects. Assistance provided to rural
and Tribal areas, as defined, under this
program may include business startup
costs, business expansion, business
incubators, technical assistance
feasibility studies, advanced
telecommunications services and
computer networks for medical,
educational, and job training services,
and Community Facilities, as defined at
7 CFR 4280.3, projects for economic
development.
2. Statutory and Regulatory Authority.
These Programs are authorized under
section 313B of the Rural Electrification
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Mobile Payment Pilots
(MPPs)
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 the proposed information collection. This is a revision of an
existing information collection to conduct demonstration pilot projects
to test the redemption of SNAP benefits through mobile payment
technologies.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before October 22, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent via the following methods:
Preferred Method: Comments can be submitted through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to https://www.regulations.gov and follow
the online instructions for submitting comments electronically.
Email: Send comments to [email protected].
Mail: Send comments to Shelly Pierce, Food and Nutrition
Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1320 Braddock Place,
Alexandria, VA 22314.
All responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the
request for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 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 Eden
Temple, at (703) 457-7734 or via email to [email protected].
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: SNAP Mobile Payment Pilots (MPPs)
Form Number: None.
OMB Number: 0584-0672.
Expiration Date: 6/30/2025.
Type of Request: Revision to existing collection.
Abstract: Section 4006(e) of the Agricultural Act of 2018 (Pub. L.
115-334) authorizes the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to allow up to
five Mobile Payment Pilots (MPPs) to allow the use of personal mobile
devices, such as cellular phones, tablets and smart watches in place of
SNAP Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards to conduct SNAP
transactions. Respondents (SNAP State agencies (State agencies) and
their SNAP business partners) will conduct pilots to test the use of
mobile payment technologies for the redemption of SNAP benefits by SNAP
households at participating retailers, to determine their feasibility
and implications for program integrity. FNS will conduct these projects
to evaluate whether allowing mobile payments is in the best interest of
the Program, and to therefore, recommend allowing their use to the
Secretary.
The information collected in the pilot evaluation (to be submitted
for OMB approval under a separate information collection request) will
help FNS determine the success of and best practices for the use of
mobile payment technologies to redeem SNAP benefits. This information
will inform Program design, standards, rulemaking, and guidance for
approval of SNAP mobile payment technologies as well as Departmental
decisions and recommendations to Congress with respect to requiring all
State EBT systems to accept mobile payment technologies in the future.
To achieve these objectives, FNS seeks OMB approval only for
implementation of MPP by State agencies. Under the Paperwork Reduction
Act, FNS will seek a separate OMB approval to evaluate the results of
completed MPPs under a separate 60-day Federal Register Notice and
information collection request.
1. Assumptions
In 2022, FNS issued a request for volunteers for participate in the
MPP. FNS received 12 proposals and selected 5 States to participate.
Because the request for volunteers (RFV) process has already occurred
and its burden was covered in the initial 2022 information collection
request, FNS is removing the hours associated with the RFV process from
this renewal. Because pilot projects are still being designed, it is
impossible for FNS to know in advance the design and structure of
pilots that may be proposed or the specific activities each State and
associated partners will undertake while conducting a MPP. Therefore,
we have provided general estimates based on an assumed pilot model.
Actual pilots may vary widely from this model and include a variety of
potential stakeholders; this information collection does not intend to
establish a standard model; this model will be used throughout this
notice simply for ease of estimation.
If there are substantive changes to this data collection request,
the agency will seek OMB approval to revise this information collection
request following
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the Paperwork Reduction Act process. Because the pilots are still being
designed by the 5 States, the estimates below are based on a model in
which one State agency partners with an average of four (4) stakeholder
businesses (2 retailers, 1 EBT processor, and 1 mobile payment vendor)
and recruits 1,000 SNAP participants per pilot proposal. It is
important to note for burden estimation purposes that, while there are
numerous retailer and mobile payment vendors the States may choose to
partner with, there are only 4 EBT processors nationally. Therefore,
EBT processors may partner with multiple pilot proposals submitted by
the various State agencies; this has been considered in our estimation.
2. Mobile Payment Pilot Implementation
The pilot period will last a total of eighteen (18) months, and
Pilot Participants (State agencies and associated business partner
organizations) will join on a rolling basis with the condition that
they must each participate for a minimum of nine (9) months. Per the
requirement in Section 4006(e) of the Agricultural Act of 2018 (Pub. L.
115-334) FNS has selected 5 MPPs. FNS estimates that, based on the
assumed model in this notice, each State agency may require 80 hours to
conduct the following activities during each month of implementation of
an MPP (as applicable). These activities include:
1. Design of mobile payment integration and changes to EBT systems
and functionality to accommodate mobile payments,
2. Testing of EBT systems to ensure compatibility,
3. Provision of technical assistance and support to SNAP households
that participate in an MPP, and/or
4. Coordination with EBT processors, SNAP retailers, and mobile
payment contractors.
FNS estimates that, based on the assumed model in this notice, each
of the 5 State agencies may issue 1 recruitment notice for the MPP to
5,000 individuals who are members of SNAP households in each State for
a total of 25,000 individuals. These notices may be issued to SNAP
households electronically or via mail, depending on the State.
Generation and issuance of each notice by the State agency is expected
to take approximately 3 minutes (0.05 hours). FNS also estimates that
each of the 25,000 individual household members will require up to 3
minutes (0.05 hours) to read the recruitment notice for participation
in the pilot. FNS estimates that approximately 5,000 of the recruited
participants will opt to participate in the pilot (1,000 per State) and
that each of the 5,000 participants will require 15 minutes to enroll
in an MPP. Potential enrollment activities for SNAP household
respondents are based on the assumed model in this information
collection may include calling or emailing the State agency to indicate
interest, reviewing instructions, downloading an application (as known
as app), technical assistance, and/or enrolling in the app.
Because the RFV process has already occurred and its burden was
covered in the 2022 information collection request, FNS is removing the
hours associated with the RFV process from this renewal. This results
in a decrease of 23,510 burden hours.
Reporting Burden for State Agencies
Affected Public: State SNAP agencies.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 5 State agencies.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 5,048.
Estimated Total Annual Responses: 25,240.
Estimated Time per Response: .94.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 23,675.
Reporting Burden for Businesses
Affected Public: Business (Respondent Types: EBT Stakeholders (EBT
Processors, SNAP Retailers, Mobile Payment Vendors or Contractors).
Estimated Number of Respondents: 20.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 12.
Estimated Total Annual Responses: 240.
Estimated Time per Response: 120 hours per response.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 28,800 hours.
Reporting Burden for Individual Households
Affected Public: SNAP Recipients.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 25,000 (15,000 respondents and
10,000 non-respondents).
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: .83 responses.
Estimated Total Annual Responses: 30,000 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: .07 hour.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 2,167 hours.
Recordkeeping Burden for State Agencies
There is no recordkeeping or third-party reporting burden
associated with this information collection.
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Tameka Owens,
Acting Administrator and Assistant Administrator, Food and Nutrition
Service.
[FR Doc. 2024-18947 Filed 8-22-24; 8:45 am]
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