Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, 68576 [2024-19138]

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• DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 166 (Tuesday, August 27, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 68576]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-19138]


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Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 166 / Tuesday, August 27, 2024 / 
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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 
September 26, 2024 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 
particular 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: Summer Food Service Program.
    OMB Control Number: 0584-0280.
    Summary of Collection: The Richard B. Russell National School Lunch 
Act (NSLA) (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) authorizes the Summer Food Service 
Program (SFSP) 7 CFR part 225. Section 10 of the Child Nutrition Act of 
1966 (CNA) (Pub. L. 111-296) requires the Secretary of Agriculture to 
prescribe such regulations as deemed necessary to carry out Child 
Nutrition Programs authorized under the NSLA and CNA. The SFSP is 
directed toward children in low-income areas when school is not in 
session and is administered by FNS in partnership with State agencies 
and local program sponsors. FNS published a final rule, ``Child 
Nutrition Programs: Meal Patterns Consistent with the 2020-2025 Dietary 
Guidelines for Americans'' (RIN 0584-AE88) in the Federal Register on 
April 25, 2024 (89 FR 31962) which introduces a new recordkeeping 
requirement for the SFSP. Under the SFSP, FNS is required to develop 
nutrition requirements that are consistent with the goals of the most 
recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans. In addition, SFSP sponsors are 
required by regulation to comply with the meal requirements. This 
rulemaking finalizes long-term school, institution, and facility 
nutrition requirements based on the most recent Dietary Guidelines for 
Americans and feedback from Child Nutrition Program stakeholders. The 
final rule allows SFSP sponsors, including non-profit institutions and 
camps, that serve primarily American Indian or Alaska Native children 
to serve vegetables to meet the grains requirement. FNS is also 
accounting for start-up costs of $10,000 for the SFSP operators 
associated with menu changes because of this final rule.
    FNS is publishing a 30-Day Notice for this final rule submission 
because the agency changed how the requirement and burden change were 
submitted for approval in the final rule from what was used in the 
proposed rule. Due to uncertain timing of the rules in conjunction with 
the renewal of OMB Control Number 0584-0006, FNS decided to request a 
new OMB control number for the collections related to the rule and 
later merge them into the existing information collections that are 
related to these requirements. By the time of the final rule, however, 
OMB Control Number 0584-0006 was renewed, so FNS decided to switch to 
revisions of the existing collections, rather than requesting a new OMB 
control number. OMB reviewed the proposed submission as ``filed with 
comment'' on March 21, 2023, and assigned the preliminary OMB Control 
Number 0584-0679 to the collection. However, because FNS decided to 
submit revisions to the existing information collections, this 
preliminary OMB control number was not used for the final rule 
submission.
    Need and Use of the Information: The revisions to this ongoing 
information collection are due to the final rule, ``Child Nutrition 
Programs: Meal Patterns Consistent with the 2020-2025 Dietary 
Guidelines for Americans'', which amends Program regulations and 
introduces a new recordkeeping requirement into this collection. SFSP 
program sponsors, including non-profit institutions and camps, must 
maintain documentation required by this rule. This final rule contains 
an information requirement that is required to obtain or retain a 
benefit. The SFSP sponsors (institutions and camps) are required to 
maintain documentation to show that they are eligible, when they are 
serving primarily American Indian or Alaska Native children, to 
implement the menu planning options to serve vegetables to meet the 
grains requirement. Maintaining these records ensures program 
integrity. FNS uses this information to ensure compliance with the 
final rule requirements concerning this menu planning option.
    Description of Respondents: Individuals/Households, State, Local or 
Tribal Government; Non-profit Business Institutions.
    Number of Respondents: 63,942.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting; Recordkeeping: On Occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 462,724.

Rachelle Ragland-Greene,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-19138 Filed 8-26-24; 8:45 am]
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