Notice2024-19137
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
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Published
August 27, 2024
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Agriculture Department
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 166 (Tuesday, August 27, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68576-68577]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-19137]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Agriculture has submitted the following
information
[[Page 68577]]
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 <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. 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: Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
OMB Control Number: 0584-0055.
Summary of Collection: The Richard B. Russell National School Lunch
Act (NSLA) (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) authorizes the Child and Adult Care
Program (CACFP). 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 the Child Nutrition
Programs authorized under the NSLA and the CNA. The CACFP provides
reimbursements for nutritious meals and snacks to eligible children and
adults who are enrolled for care at participating childcare centers,
day care homes, and adult care centers, in addition to children and
adolescents participating in afterschool care programs. 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 new
recordkeeping requirements for the CACFP. Under the CACFP, FNS is
required to develop nutrition requirements that are consistent with the
goals of the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans. In addition,
institutions and facilities 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 CACFP
institutions and facilities that serve primarily American Indian or
Alaska Native children to serve vegetables to meet the grains
requirements. FNS is also accounting for start-up costs of $305,000 for
the CACFP 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 requirements and burden changes 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 new recordkeeping requirements into this collection. CACFP
program operators at institutions and facilities must maintain
documentation required by this rule. This final rule contains
information requirements that are required to obtain or retain a
benefit. The CACFP institutions and facilities 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.
Description of Respondents: Individuals/Households; State, Local or
Tribal Governments; Non-profit Business Institutions.
Number of Respondents: 3,794,949.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping: On Occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 4,213,974.
Rachelle Ragland-Greene,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-19137 Filed 8-26-24; 8:45 am]
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