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Vol. 77, No. 32 

Thursday, February 16, 2012 

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT 

FOUNDATION 

Board of Directors Meeting 

Time: Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 

8:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

Place: African Development 

Foundation, Conference Room, 1400 I 

Street NW., Suite 1000, Washington, DC 

20005. 

Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2012. 

Status: 

1. Open session, Tuesday, February 

28, 2012, 8:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.; and 

2. Closed session, Tuesday, February 

28, 2012, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. 

Due to security requirements and 

limited seating, all individuals wishing 

to attend the open session of the 

meeting must notify Sarah Conway at 

(202) 233–8811 or sconway@usadf.gov 

of your request to attend by 5 p.m. on 

Thursday, February 23, 2012. 

Lloyd O. Pierson, 

President & CEO, USADF. 

[FR Doc. 2012–3593 Filed 2–15–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6117–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food and Nutrition Service 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comments Request—Study of 

Organizations Providing or 

Administering SNAP Incentives at 

Farmers’ Markets 

AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice invites the public and other 

public agencies to comment on this 

proposed information collection. This is 

a revision to a previous data collection 

to understand better the shopping 

patterns of SNAP participants at 

farmers’ markets. The purpose of this 

collection is for the Food and Nutrition 

Service to understand how private 

organizations operate Supplemental 

Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) 

financial incentive programs for clients 

purchasing fruits and vegetables at 

farmers’ markets. Information collected 

will be used to examine how these 

organizations design, operate, and 

evaluate incentive programs to 

encourage SNAP clients to shop for 

fruits and vegetables at farmers’ 

markets. It will also assist in assessing 

how much these programs influence the 

purchase of fruits and vegetables at 

farmers’ markets using SNAP benefits. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before April 16, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: 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 on 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 collected; and (d) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Comments may be sent to: Steven 

Carlson, Office of Research and 

Analysis, Food and Nutrition Service/ 

USDA, 3101 Park Center Drive, Room 

1014, Alexandria, VA 22302. Comments 

may also be submitted via fax to the 

attention of Steven Carlson at 703–305– 

2576 or via email to 

Steve.Carlson@fns.usda.gov. Comments 

will also be accepted through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments electronically. 

All written comments will be open for 

public inspection at the Office of 

Research and Analysis, Food and 

Nutrition Service during regular 

business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Monday through Friday) at 3101 Park 

Center Drive, Room 1014, Alexandria, 

Virginia 22302. 

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 Steven Carlson at 

703–305–2017. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Study of Organizations 

Providing or Administering SNAP 

Incentives at Farmers’ Markets. 

OMB Number: 0584–0564. 

Expiration Date of Approval: 

November 30, 2014. 

Abstract: The USDA, Food and 

Nutrition Service (FNS), is undertaking 

initiatives to improve access to healthy 

foods among nutrition assistance 

program participants. Among these are 

steps to support access to fresh fruits 

and vegetables through farmers’ 

markets. The overall objective of this 

collection is to understand how private 

organizations provide and administer 

financial incentives for SNAP 

participants shopping at farmers’ 

markets. In addition, this collection 

aims to assess how well these incentive 

programs work concerning the purchase 

of fresh fruits and vegetables at farmers’ 

markets by SNAP participants. The two 

main study objectives are to: (1) 

Describe and compare how private 

organizations design, operate, and 

evaluate incentive program for SNAP 

clients at farmers’ markets; and (2) 

describe and compare the performance, 

outcomes and/or impacts of each 

incentive program for SNAP clients 

operated during 2012 based upon the 

FNS SNAP Anti-Fraud Locator for EBT 

Redemption Transactions (ALERT) data 

and incentive organization selfevaluation data. 

This study is not intended to be 

nationally representative. Organizations 

to be included in this study will be 

chosen from a list of private 

organizations that is developed based on 

responses received from farmers’ market 

managers responding to the FNS study, 

Nutrition Assistance in Farmers’ 

Markets: Understanding Current 

Operations (76 FR 79646, 12/22/11). To 

assist in the selection process, the list 

will tentatively categorize the 

organizations (Business-for and not-forprofit) into three groups: 


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