Notice2026-19556
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request-Generic Clearance for FNA Quick Response Surveys (FNA QRS)
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September 24, 2026
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Agriculture DepartmentFood and Nutrition Administration
Abstract
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 revision of a currently approved collection to conduct short, quick-turnaround surveys of State and local agencies providing food, education, and other services in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Child Nutrition Programs, and Supplemental Nutrition and Safety Programs administered at the federal level by the Food and Nutrition Administration (FNA). These programs include the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); fNational School Lunch Program (NSLP); School Breakfast Program (SBP); Special Milk Program (SMP); Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP); Summer Food Service Program (SFSP); Summer EBT (SEBT); Team Nutrition; the Patrick Leahy Farm to School Program; the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP); USDA Foods in Schools; Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR); The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP); and the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP).
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 184 (Thursday, September 24, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60575-60576]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-19556]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request--Generic Clearance for FNA Quick Response Surveys (FNA
QRS)
AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Administration (FNA), 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 revision
of a currently approved collection to conduct short, quick-turnaround
surveys of State and local agencies providing food, education, and
other services in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Child
Nutrition Programs, and Supplemental Nutrition and Safety Programs
administered at the federal level by the Food and Nutrition
Administration (FNA). These programs include the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP); Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for
Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); fNational School Lunch Program
(NSLP); School Breakfast Program (SBP); Special Milk Program (SMP);
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP); Summer Food Service Program
(SFSP); Summer EBT (SEBT); Team Nutrition; the Patrick Leahy Farm to
School Program; the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP); USDA
Foods in Schools; Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations
(FDPIR); The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP); and the
Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP).
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before November 23,
2026.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted to Darcy G[uuml]ng[ouml]r via
email at mailto:<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a2c6c3d0c1db8cc5d7ccc5cdd0e2d7d1c6c38cc5cdd4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="583c392a3b21763f2d363f372a182d2b3c39763f372e">[email protected]</span></a> or by mail at George Washington
Carver Center, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20740. Comments
will also be accepted through the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to
<a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>, 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 Darcy
G[uuml]ng[ouml]r at mailto:<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#284c495a4b51064f5d464f475a685d5b4c49064f475e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8ce8edfeeff5a2ebf9e2ebe3feccf9ffe8eda2ebe3fa">[email protected]</span></a> or 703-305-4345.
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: Generic Clearance for FNA Quick Response Surveys (FNA QRS).
Form Number: N/A.
OMB Number: 0584-0613.
Expiration Date: 06/30/2027.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Abstract: The Food and Nutrition Administration (FNA) intends to
request the renewal of a generic clearance that allows FNA to conduct
short, quick-turnaround surveys of State, local, and Tribal agencies
and businesses that receive food, funds, and nutrition information
through programs administered by FNA. This generic clearance enables
FNA to better meet the goals of Executive Order 13777, Enforcing the
Regulatory Reform Agenda, by allowing FNA to improve the efficiency and
responsiveness of the programs it administers.
These programs include the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP), Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women,
Infants, and Children (WIC); National School Lunch Program (NSLP);
School Breakfast Program (SBP); Special Milk Program (SMP); Fresh Fruit
and Vegetable Program (FFVP); Summer Food Service Program (SFSP);
Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer (SEBT); the Patrick Leahy Farm to
School Program; Team Nutrition; the Child and Adult Care Food Program
(CACFP); USDA Foods in Schools; Food Distribution Program on Indian
Reservations (FDPIR); The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP);
and the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP).
Legislation authorizing these programs requires operators to
cooperate with USDA program research and evaluation activities.
Traditionally, FNA conducts large, program-specific studies to collect
information on numerous features of each program. Such studies often
take several years to complete. Quick response surveys provide a system
for rapidly collecting current information on a specific feature or
issue, and, therefore, enable FNA to administer the programs more
effectively.
The data collection activities under this clearance will include:
(1) sample frame data collections and (2) quick-response surveys. The
sample frame data collections are used to request contact information
from State agencies for the local program operators within their
purview. The quick-response survey data collections will be used to
survey key administrators of FNA programs at the State, local, and site
level to answer policy and implementation questions.
Following standard OMB requirements, FNA will submit a change
request to OMB for each data collection activity undertaken under this
generic clearance. The respondents will be identified at the time that
each change request is submitted to OMB. FNA will provide OMB with the
instruments and supporting materials describing the research project
and specific pre-testing activities.
Affected Public: State, Local and Tribal Governments and
Businesses. State, Local and Tribal government respondents will
include: (1) State Program Directors, including SNAP State agency
directors, WIC State Agency directors and nutrition education and
breastfeeding coordinators, directors of the Child Nutrition programs
(NSLP, SBP, FFVP, SFSP, SEBT, Farm to School, CACFP), directors of
State Distributing Agencies (CSFP, TEFAP, USDA Foods in Schools), and
FDPIR State Agencies and Indian Tribal Organizations; and (2) local-
level program administrators, including Local WIC Agencies and Sites,
School Food Authorities (SFAs), Schools, SFSP Sponsors and Sites, USDA
Foods in Schools Local Agencies and Providers, TEFAP Eligible Recipient
Agencies (ERAs) and Emergency Food Organizations (EFOs), CSFP Local
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Agencies, etc. Business respondents include not-for-profit local WIC
Sites, not-for-profit SFSP Sponsors and Sites, for-profit and not-for-
profit CACFP Sponsors and Providers, not-for-profit TEFAP ERAs and
EFOs, not-for-profit CSFP Local Agencies, etc.
Estimated Number of Respondents: The estimated number of annual
respondents is 19,626, which includes State Program Directors (326
total) and local-level program administrators from local government
agencies (9,500 total) and businesses (9,800 total). The total number
of respondents includes an estimated 15,766 total responsive entities
as well as 3,860 local program administrators from both local agencies
(1,900 total) and businesses (1,960 total) whom FNA expects will not
respond to the information collection request.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: Approximately once
each year, State agencies responsible for a program will be asked to
update contact information for their respective local agencies as part
of the sample frame data collection. Any single individual respondent,
State agency or local program operator, will receive no more than three
surveys about the same FNA program in a given year, with each expected
to receive a single survey in a given year. Including recruitment
requests for the surveys, FNA estimates that respondents will average 2
responses per year.
Estimated Total Annual Responses: There will be an estimated 39,252
annual responses, or 117,756 responses over the three-year clearance
period.
Estimated Time per Response: The estimated time per response ranges
from 3 minutes (0.05 hours) to 1 hour for respondents and 1 minute
(0.02 hours) for non-respondents, depending on the data collection
activity, as shown in the table below. The average estimated time
across all responses is approximately 14 minutes (0.24 hours).
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: The estimated total
annual burden is 9,135.40 hours, for a total of 27,406.20 over the
three-year clearance period. See the table below for estimated total
annual burden for each type of collection and respondent.
Eve Stoody,
Deputy Administrator, Nutrition Research and Regulations.
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[FR Doc. 2026-19556 Filed 9-23-26; 8:45 am]
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