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Estimated Number of Respondents: 

10. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 1. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 2 hours. 

Comments are invited on: (1) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (2) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (3) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (4) 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 Pernell Ridley 

at U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

Office of Property and Environmental 

Management, Docket Clerk, 1400 

Independence Ave. SW, Mailstop 9304, 

Suite 1069, Washington, DC 20250– 

9304. All comments received will be 

available for public inspection during 

regular business hours at the same 

address. 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments will 

become a matter of public record. 

Willie Scott Davis, 

Director. 

[FR Doc. 2021–03199 Filed 2–17–21; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food and Nutrition Service 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request—Study of Nutrition 

and Activity in Child Care Settings II 

(SNACS–II) 

AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service 

(FNS), USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

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 new collection for 

the Study of Nutrition and Activity in 

Child Care Settings II (SNACS–II). 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before April 19, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to: 

Constance Newman, Food and Nutrition 

Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 

22314, 202–213–9856. Comments may 

also be submitted via fax to the attention 

of Constance Newman at 703–305–2576 

or via email to constance.newman@

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 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 Constance 

Newman at 202–213–9856. 

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: Study of Nutrition and Activity 

in Child Care Settings II (SNACS–II). 

Form Number: N/A. 

OMB Number: Not Yet Assigned. 

Expiration Date: Not Yet Determined. 

Type of Request: New Collection. 

Abstract: The Child and Adult Care 

Food Program (CACFP), administered 

by the U.S. Department of Agriculture 

(USDA) Food and Nutrition Service 

(FNS), provides reimbursement for 

nutritious meals and snacks served to 

eligible children enrolled in 

participating child care programs. 

Reimbursable meals and snacks must 

meet CACFP’s meal pattern 

requirements. 

SNACS–II is the second 

comprehensive, nationally 

representative assessment of CACFP 

providers and the infants, children, and 

teens they serve. It will update the 

picture of the CACFP after updated meal 

pattern requirements went into effect in 

October 2017. Under the updated 

requirements, CACFP meals and snacks 

must include a wider variety of fruits 

and vegetables, more whole grains, and 

less added sugar and saturated fat. The 

updated requirements are also designed 

to encourage breastfeeding. 

SNACS–II will collect data in program 

year 2022–2023 to address eight broad 

objectives: (1) CACFP provider 

characteristics, (2) nutritional quality of 

foods offered, (3) children’s dietary 

intakes, (4) children’s physical activity 

and household characteristics, (5) 

CACFP plate waste, (6) teens’ physical 

activity and household characteristics, 

(7) infants’ dietary intakes and physical 

activity while in care, and (8) the cost 

to produce CACFP meals and snacks. 

SNACS–II will largely replicate the 

methods used in the first Study of 

Nutrition and Activity in Child Care 

Settings because comparing key 

outcomes at the two points in time is an 

important focus of the study. SNACS–II 

will collect data from nationally 

representative samples of CACFP 

providers, including family day care 

homes, child care centers, Head Start 

centers, at-risk afterschool centers, and 

outside-school-hours care centers; 

infants, children, and teens; and 

parents/guardians. To address the array 

of research questions under the eight 

study objectives, the data collection 

activities to be undertaken subject to 

this notice include the following: 

• The Provider Survey and 

Environmental Observation Form will 

be used to describe the characteristics of 

CACFP providers. 

• The Menu Survey will be used to 

assess the nutritional quality of foods 

offered. 

• The Meal Observation Booklet and 

the Automated Self-Administered 24- 

Hour dietary recall interview (ASA24) 

will be used to describe children’s 

dietary intakes. 

• The Parent Interview and Height 

and Weight Form collect data on 

children’s physical activity and 

household characteristics. 

• The Food and Physical Activity 

Experiences Survey and Teen Parent 

Interview collect data on teens’ physical 

activity and household characteristics. 

• The Infant Menu Survey will be 

used to assess the nutrition quality of 

foods offered to infants. The Infant 

Intake Form collect information on 

infants’ dietary intakes while in care. 

• The Pre-Visit Cost Interview, PreVisit Cost Form, Sponsor/Center Cost 

Interview, Center Director Cost 

Interview, Center Food Service Cost 

Interview, and Self-Administered Cost 

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the cost to produce CACFP meals and 

snacks. 

Personally identifiable information (PII) 

will not be used to retrieve survey 

records or data. 

Affected Public: State and local 

government respondents are CACFP 

State agency managers. For-profit and 

not-for-profit business respondents 

include (1) sponsor staff, (2) directors, 

(3) food preparers, and (4) provider staff. 

Individual respondents include (1) 

children, (2) teens, and (3) their parents/ 

guardians. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: A 

total of 16,301 members of the public 

will be initially contacted to participate 

in the study. This includes 25 State and 

local government respondents, 5,880 

for-profit and not-for-profit business 

respondents, and 10,396 individuals. 

Initial contact will vary by type of 

respondent and may include study 

notification and recruiting or data 

collection. FNS anticipates that 

approximately 11,677 of these 

individuals will respond to initial 

contact, and 6,382 will not respond. 

Some who respond to the initial contact 

may subsequently become 

nonrespondents to one or more 

components of the data collection. The 

number of unique respondents expected 

to provide data for the study is 10,157 

(25 from State and local government, 

3,997 from for-profit and not-for-profit 

businesses, and 6,135 individuals). 

The expected completed sample to be 

used to describe CACFP provider 

characteristics and the nutritional 

quality of foods offered includes 1,340 

providers. Child care center and family 

day care home directors will complete 

the Provider Survey, and food preparers 

will complete the Menu Survey. Study 

staff will complete the Environmental 

Observation Form for a subset of 420 of 

these providers (no public burden is 

associated with this activity). 

The expected completed sample that 

will be used to describe children’s 

dietary intakes, physical activity, 

household characteristics, and plate 

waste includes 2,160 children and their 

parents or guardians. Parents and 

guardians will be recruited into the 

study and provide consent. Trained 

study staff will observe children’s meals 

and snacks and plate waste using the 

Meal Observervation Booklet, and 

measure their height and weight using 

the Height and Weight Form. Parents 

and guardians will complete the Parent 

Interview and ASA24 for one in-care 

day and an ASA24 for one out-of-care 

day. Independent 10 percent 

subsamples of parents will complete a 

separate in- or out-of-care day ASA24 to 

estimate usual intakes of nutrients. 

The expected completed sample that 

will be used to measure teens’ physical 

activity and household characteristics 

includes 720 teens and their parents or 

guardians. Parents and guardians will be 

recruited into the study and provide 

consent. Teens will provide assent and 

complete the Food and Physical 

Activity Experiences Survey. Parents 

and guardians will complete the Teen 

Parent Interview. 

The expected completed sample that 

will be used to measure infants’ dietary 

intakes and physical activity while in 

care includes: (1) 548 food preparers 

who will complete the Infant Menu 

Survey, (2) 139 caregivers or teachers 

who will complete the Infant Intake 

Form, and (3) 375 parents/guardians 

who will be recruited into the study, 

provide consent, and report infant 

weight-for age. 

The expected completed sample that 

will be used to estimate the cost to 

produce CACFP meals and snacks 

includes 444 providers. Individuals who 

complete data collection will include 

sponsor and provider staff. Sponsor 

program staff or center directors will 

complete the Pre-Visit Cost Interview, 

Pre-Visit Cost Form, and Sponsor/ 

Center Cost Interview. Center directors 

will complete the Center Director Cost 

Interview and Self-Administered Cost 

Questionnaire. Food preparers will 

complete the Center Food Service Cost 

Interview. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: All respondents will be 

asked to respond to each specific data 

collection activity only once. The 

overall average number of responses per 

respondent across the entire data 

collection is 2.31. 

Estimated Total Annual Responses: 

41,514. 

Estimated Time per Response: 37 

minutes (0.62 hours). The estimated 

time of response varies from 2 minutes 

to 2.49 hours depending on respondent 

group, as shown in the table below. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 25,843 hours. This 

includes 24,252 hours for respondents 

and 1,591 hours for nonrespondents. 

See the table below for estimated total 

annual burden for each type of 

respondent. 

Cindy Long, 

Acting Administrator, Food and Nutrition 

Service. 

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[FR Doc. 2021–03228 Filed 2–17–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–30–C 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

[OMB Control No. 2900–0862] 

Agency Information Collection Activity 

Under OMB Review: Decision Review 

Request: Higher-Level Review 

AGENCY: Veterans Benefits 

Administration, Department of Veterans 

Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, this notice announces that the 

Veterans Benefits Administration 

(VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs, 

will submit the collection of 

information abstracted below to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and comment. The 

PRA submission describes the nature of 

the information collection and its 

expected cost and burden and it 

includes the actual data collection 

instrument. 

DATES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to 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. Refer to ‘‘OMB Control 

No. 2900–0862. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maribel Aponte, Office of Enterprise 

and Integration, Data Governance 

Analytics (008), 1717 H Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20006, (202) 266–4688 

or email maribel.aponte@va.gov. Please 

refer to ‘‘OMB Control No. 2900–0862’’ 

in any correspondence. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority: Public Law 115–55; 38 CFR 

3.2601. 

Title: Decision Review Request: 

Higher-Level Review (VA Form 20– 

0996). 

OMB Control Number: 2900–0862. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: VA Form 20–0996, Decision 

Review Request: Higher-Level Review is 

used by a claimant to formally request 

a Higher-Level Review of an initial VA 

decision, in accordance with the 

Appeals Modernization Act. The 

information collected is used by VA to 

identify the issues in dispute which the 

claimant seeks review of in the HigherLevel Review Lane. Additionally, the 

information collected is used to 

schedule a telephonic informal 

conference, when requested. 

This is revision to the form. Changes 

include significant revisions to the 

instructions section to make them easier 

to understand. New sections were added 

to the form to provide clarify and easier 

completion: Claimant’s Identification 

Information, Benefit Type, SOC/SSOC 

Opt-In from Legacy Appeals System, 

and Authorized Representative 

Signature. The section on requesting 

informal conferences was edited to 

make it easier to understand and 

complete. Examples were added to the 

Issues for Higher-Level Review section. 

Formatting changes were made to 

simplify the form. Optical character 

recognition boxes were added to assist 

scanning technology. 

There is a decrease in the respondent 

burden because the associated control 

number originally included two forms 

but we are using this revision to 

separate the two forms into two control 

numbers and only VA Form 20–0996 

will remain under the current control 

number. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. The Federal Register 

Notice with a 60-day comment period 

soliciting comments on this collection 

of information was published at 85 FR 

81287 on December 15, 2020, pages 

81287 and 81288. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

Households. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 23,375 

hours. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Respondent: 15 minutes. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

85,500 per year. 

By direction of the Secretary. 

Maribel Aponte, 

VA PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

Enterprise and Integration, Data Governance 

Analytics, Department of Veterans Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2021–03206 Filed 2–17–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8320–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

[OMB Control No. 2900–NEW] 

Agency Information Collection Activity 

Under OMB Review: Decision Review 

Request: Supplemental Claim 

AGENCY: Veterans Benefits 

Administration, Department of Veterans 

Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, this notice announces that the 

Veterans Benefits Administration 

(VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs, 

will submit the collection of 

information abstracted below to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and comment. The 

PRA submission describes the nature of 

the information collection and its 

expected cost and burden and it 

includes the actual data collection 

instrument. 

DATES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to 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. Refer to ‘‘OMB Control 

No. 2900–NEW. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maribel Aponte, Office of Enterprise 

and Integration, Data Governance 

Analytics (008), 1717 H Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20006, (202) 266–4688 

or email maribel.aponte@va.gov. Please 

refer to ‘‘OMB Control No. 2900–NEW’’ 

in any correspondence. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority: Public Law 115–55; 38 

CFR 3.2501. 

Title: Decision Review Request: 

Supplemental Claim (VA Form 20– 

0995). 

OMB Control Number: 2900–NEW. 

Type of Review: New collection. 

Abstract: VA Form 20–0995, Decision 

Review Request: Supplemental Claim 

will be used by a claimant to formally 

request a Supplemental Claim of an 

initial VA decision based on new and 

relevant evidence, in accordance with 

the Appeals Modernization Act. The 

information collected will be used by 

VA to identify the issues in dispute 

which the claimant seeks review of in 

the Supplemental Claim Lane. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. The Federal Register 

Notice with a 60-day comment period 

soliciting comments on this collection 

of information was published at 85 FR 

80895 on December 14, 2020, page 

80895. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

Households. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 66,250 

hours. 


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