Notice2024-19140
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
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Published
August 27, 2024
Issuing agencies
Agriculture Department
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 166 (Tuesday, August 27, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68579-68580]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-19140]
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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 <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: School Breakfast Program.
OMB Control Number: 0584-0012.
Summary of Collection: Section 4 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966
(CNA) (Pub. L. 111-296) authorizes the School Breakfast Program (SBP) 7
CFR part 220, as a nutrition assistance program. Section 10 of the CNA
requires the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe such regulations as
deemed necessary to carry out Child Nutrition Programs authorized under
the CNA. The CNA authorizes payments to the States to assist them to
initiate, maintain or expand nonprofit breakfast programs in the
schools. 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
SBP. Under the SBP and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), FNS is
required to develop school nutrition requirements that are consistent
with the goals of the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans. In
addition, schools are required by regulation to comply with the meal
requirements. This rulemaking finalizes long-term school nutrition
requirements based on the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans
and feedback from Child Nutrition Program stakeholders. The final rule
strengthens the Buy American provision which requires the purchase of
domestic commodities or products ``to the maximum extent practicable,''
maintains circumstances where limited exceptions to those requirements
are permitted and requires school food authorities (SFAs) to include
the Buy American provisions in procurement procedures, solicitations,
food contracts, and awarded contracts. The final rule allows SFAs and
schools that are tribally operated, operated by the Bureau of Indian
Education, and that serve primarily American Indian or Alaska Native
children to serve vegetables to meet the grains requirements. In
addition, the final rule updates school meal nutrition requirements,
including implementing quantitative limits for the following leading
sources of added sugars in school breakfast meals: breakfast cereals,
yogurts, and flavored milks. The rulemaking will also implement a
dietary specification limiting added sugars to less than 10 percent of
calories per week in the school breakfast programs. This means that
SFAs will need to do additional development and editing of their menus.
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
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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 instead, 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. Staff
at the SFA level must maintain the information required by this rule.
This final rule encompasses both mandatory and required to obtain or
retain a benefit information requirements. The SFAs are responsible for
maintaining documentation and records to demonstrate their compliance
with the Buy American provisions, the flexibility for SFAs or its
schools which are tribally operated, operated by the Bureau of Indian
Education, or serve primarily American Indian or Alaska Native students
to serve vegetables in place of grains, and to maintain menu records
that reflect the updated nutrition specifications in accordance with
the final rule. FNS will use this information to ensure compliance with
the final rule requirements.
Description of Respondents: State, Local, or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 105,700.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping: On occasion; Annually, Other
(every 3 years).
Total Burden Hours: 4,036,508.
Rachelle Ragland-Greene,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-19140 Filed 8-26-24; 8:45 am]
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