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Vol. 76, No. 193 

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Economic Research Service 

Notice of Intent To Request New 

Information Collection 

AGENCY: Economic Research Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice invites the general public and 

other public agencies to send comments 

regarding any aspect of this proposed 

information collection. This is a new 

collection for the National Food Study. 

DATES: Written comments on this notice 

must be received on or before December 

5, 2011 to be assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Address all comments 

concerning this notice to Mark Denbaly, 

Food Economics Division, Economic 

Research Service, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, 355 E St., SW., Room 

05N09, Washington, DC 20024–3221. 

Comments may also be submitted via 

fax to the attention of Mark Denbaly at 

202–245–4779 or via e-mail to 

mdenbaly@ers.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 the 

Economic Research Service during 

regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 

5 p.m., Monday through Friday) at 355 

E St., SW., Washington, DC 20024–3221. 

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. 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 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information contact Mark 

Denbaly at the address in the preamble. 

Tel. 202–694–5390. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: National Food Study. 

OMB Number: 0536–XXXX. 

Expiration Date: Three years from the 

Date of Approval. 

Type of Request: New Collection. 

Abstract: The National Household 

Food Acquisition and Purchase Study 

(the National Food Study) will be 

conducted over a six-month period from 

April through September 2012. The 

survey will collect nationally 

representative data from 5,000 

households, including 1,500 households 

participating in the Supplemental 

Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, 

formerly the Food Stamp Program). 

Each participating household will be 

asked to provide the pertinent 

information over a one-week period. 

Legislative authority for the planned 

data collection is Section 17 (a)(1) of the 

Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, 7 

U.S.C. 2026. This section authorizes the 

Secretary to enter into contracts with 

private institutions to undertake 

research that will help improve the 

administration and effectiveness of the 

SNAP in delivering nutrition-related 

benefits. 

The information to be collected by the 

National Food Study is necessary to 

assess and understand the relationships 

among: (1) Foods purchased for 

consumption at home and away from 

home over a one-week period, as well as 

foods acquired through food and 

nutrition assistance programs (both 

public and private); (2) household 

access to food, including locations 

where food is acquired and distance to 

acquisition points; (3) number of meals 

and snacks consumed by each 

household member during a one-week 

period; and (4) household 

characteristics, including income, 

participation in federal food assistance 

programs, non-food expenditures, food 

security, health status, and diet and 

nutrition knowledge of the primary food 

shopper. 

This survey will provide data not 

currently available to program officials 

and researchers, thereby broadening the 

scope of economic analyses of food 

choices made by U.S. households and 

how those choices influence diet quality 

and reflect decisions about participation 

in food assistance programs. The 

information to be collected by the 

survey is necessary to assess and 

understand the relationships among: (1) 

The types of foods and beverages 

households purchase, including those 

obtained and consumed away from 

home; (2) the nutritional quality of these 

foods and beverages; (3) the types of 

food retailers within proximity to 

households; (4) the influence of 

household income and food prices on 

purchases of food brought home and 

food consumed away from home; (5) 

levels of food security and the 

relationships between food security and 

types of food purchases; (6) levels of 

dietary knowledge and the relationship 

with types of food purchases; and (7) 

differences in food acquisition and food 

security outcomes between SNAP 

participants and nonparticipants. 

This nationally representative survey 

will collect data from a planned 5,000 

households selected at random from 

within 50 Primary Sampling Units 

(counties or groups of counties) in 27 

States. The sample will be selected from 

an address-based sampling frame. 

Households residing at selected 

addresses will be asked to complete a 

brief screener to determine eligibility. 

Eligible households will be asked to 

participate in the one-week survey. The 

primary respondent, identified as the 

primary food shopper, will be asked to 

use a handheld scanner provided by the 

study to scan barcodes on all foods 

brought into the home for a one-week 

period. All members of the household 

age 11 years and older will be asked to 

keep a food diary of all foods that they 

acquire and consume away from home 

during the one-week period; primary 

respondents will report the food diary 

information for all household members 

via brief telephone interviews three 

times during the week. The primary 

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household respondent will also be 

asked to complete two interviews: (1) 

Household Interview #1 will be 

conducted in person by a field 

interviewer at the start of the data 

collection week and will collect 

information about household 

demographics, food shopping, and 

participation in food assistance 

programs; (2) Household Interview #2 

will be conducted in person at the end 

of the data collection week and will 

collect information about non-food 

expenditures, income, health status, diet 

and nutrition knowledge, and food 

security. The primary household 

respondent will be asked to complete 

two paper forms: (1) the Meals and 

Snacks form contains a grid with 

checkboxes to indicate the meals and 

snacks consumed by each household 

member on each day of the one-week 

data collection period; (2) the 

Respondent Feedback form contains 

four questions about household 

participation in the survey, to be 

completed at the end of the data 

collection week. To conduct the 

economic analyses of household food 

choice behavior, data from state 

agencies about participation in food 

programs may be used in combination 

with collected data. Any state data 

obtained will be kept strictly 

confidential. The confidential program 

data and linked files will be used solely 

for statistical and economic research 

purposes that inform program 

administration, not for enforcement 

purposes. 

All study instruments will be kept as 

simple and respondent-friendly as 

possible. Responses are voluntary and 

confidential. Study instruments and 

procedures were tested during the 

National Food Study Field Test, 

conducted from February through May 

2011. The field test collected data from 

400 households selected at random from 

within two Primary Sampling Units 

(counties), and tested the efficacy of two 

alternate survey protocols for collecting 

food data and two different incentive 

levels for time spent completing the 

forms. 

Responses from the National Food 

Study will be combined for statistical 

purposes and reported only in aggregate 

or statistical form. Two sets of data files 

will be prepared from survey data: (1) 

Public use data files that will not 

contain any personal identifiers like 

names and addresses of respondents; 

and (2) restricted-access files that will 

contain all data items in the public use 

files, plus geocodes for households and 

public locations (stores and restaurants) 

where foods were acquired. 

Affected Public: Respondent groups 

include: (1) Households participating in 

SNAP; (2) non-SNAP households with 

incomes below 100% of the Federal 

Poverty Level (FPL); (3) non-SNAP 

households with incomes between 

100% and 185% of the FPL; and (4) 

non-SNAP households with incomes 

above 185% of the FPL. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

The estimated number of respondents 

includes: (1) 24,675 households 

screened for income eligibility (it is 

expected that 19,740 households, or 80 

percent, will complete the screener and 

4,935, or 20 percent, will not); (2) of the 

7,726 households expected to be 

determined to be eligible for the survey 

after completing the screener, 5,795 (75 

percent) are expected to agree to 

participate and complete Household 

Interview #1 and collect food data, and 

1,932, (25 percent) will not; (3) of the 

5,795 households who complete 

Household Interview #1 5,099 (88 

percent) are expected to complete 

reporting of food obtained for home 

preparation and consumption, three 

Telephone interviews to report food 

away from home, and Household 

Interview #2, while 695 (12 percent) 

will not; (4) of the 5,795 households 

who complete Household Interview #1, 

4,925 (85 percent) are expected to 

complete the Meals and Snacks form 

and Respondent Feedback form, and 

869 (15 percent) will not; and (5) of the 

expected 13,892 food diaries to be 

completed (i.e., an average of 2.4 family 

members per household), 12,225 diaries 

(88 percent) are expected to be 

completed and 1,667 (12 percent) will 

not. 

Estimates of the percentages of 

respondents who will agree to complete 

the forms are based on the National 

Food Study Field Test (conducted from 

February through May 2011) and, 

insofar as possible, on experience with 

previous data collections of similar 

complexity. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 6.51 (average). Estimated 

responses per respondent are as follows: 

all 24,675 sampled households will be 

asked to respond to the screener once; 

an estimated 7,726 survey-eligible 

households will be asked to respond to 

Household Interview #1 once; and an 

estimated 5,795 households completing 

Household Interview #1 will be asked to 

respond to Household Interview #2 

once. 

The estimated 5,795 households 

completing Household Interview #1 will 

be asked to complete reports on and 

scan food brought into the home, with 

an estimated frequency of three times 

during the seven-day data collection 

period. An estimated 13,892 family 

members aged 11 and above (an average 

of 2.4 members per household) will be 

asked to complete seven daily food 

diaries for food not brought home. An 

estimated 5,795 households will be 

asked to report food diary information 

over the telephone three times, 

complete the Meals and Snacks form on 

each of 7 days, and complete the 

Respondent Feedback form once. 

Estimated Total Annual Responses: 

160,755. 

Estimated Time per Response: 0.23 

hours. As shown in the table below, the 

estimated time of response varies from 

0.02 hours (1 minute) to 0.58 hours (35 

minutes) per instrument for respondents 

and from 0.02 hours (1 minute) to 0.08 

hours (5 minutes) per instrument for 

non-respondents. These estimates of 

respondent burden are based on the 

National Food Study field test. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 37,562.55 hours. See the 

table below for the estimated total 

annual burden for each type of 

instrument. 

REPORTING BURDEN

Description 

Estimated 

number of 

respondents 

Responses 

annually per 

respondent 

Total annual 

reponses 

Estimated 

average number of hours 

per response* 

Estimated total 

annual hours 

of response 

burden 

Household screener: 

Completed interviews ................................................... 19740 1.00 19740 0.17 3290.00 

Attempted interviews (including Short Form for Refusals) ............................................................................. 4935 1.00 4935 0.08 411.25 

Household Interview #1: 

Completed interviews ................................................... 5795 1.00 5795 0.42 2414.38 

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REPORTING BURDEN—Continued 

Description 

Estimated 

number of 

respondents 

Responses 

annually per 

respondent 

Total annual 

reponses 

Estimated 

average number of hours 

per response* 

Estimated total 

annual hours 

of response 

burden 

Attempted interviews .................................................... 1932 1.00 1932 0.08 160.96 

Household Interview #2: 

Completed interviews ................................................... 5099 1.00 5099 0.58 2974.51 

Attempted interviews .................................................... 695 1.00 695 0.05 34.77 

Reporting food obtained for home preparation or consumption: 

Completed reports ........................................................ 5099 3.00 15297 0.17 2549.58 

Attempted reports ......................................................... 695 1.00 695 0.05 34.77 

Food diary: 

Completed reports ........................................................ 12225 7.00 85573 0.25 21393.27 

Attempted reports ......................................................... 1667 3.00 5001 0.08 416.75 

Telephone reporting of ‘‘food away from home‘‘: 

Completed interviews ................................................... 5099 3.00 15297 0.25 3824.37 

Attempted interviews .................................................... 695 1.00 695 0.08 57.95 

Meals and Snacks Form: 

Completed interviews ................................................... 4925 7.00 34477 0.02 574.62 

Attempted interviews .................................................... 869 1.00 869 0.02 14.49 

Respondent Feedback Form: 

Completed interviews ................................................... 4925 1.00 4925 0.08 410.44 

Attempted interviews .................................................... 869 1.00 869 0.02 14.49 

Total responding burden ....................................... 24,675 6.51 160,755 0.23 37562.55 

* Estimates are rounded to the nearest hundredth. 

Dated: September 27, 2011. 

Sarahelen Thompson, 

Acting Administrator, Economic Research 

Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

[FR Doc. 2011–25679 Filed 10–4–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Eastern Washington Cascades 

Provincial Advisory Committee and the 

Yakima Provincial Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Eastern Washington 

Cascades Provincial Advisory 

Committee and the Yakima Provincial 

Advisory Committee will meet on 

October 19, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

at the Okanogan-Wenatchee National 

Forest Headquarters Office, 215 Melody 

Lane, Wenatchee, WA and also on 

November 9, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

at Washington State Park office, 270 9th 

Street, NE., East Wenatchee, WA. 

During these meetings information will 

be shared about Access Travel 

Management. All Eastern Washington 

Cascades and Yakima Province 

Advisory Committee meetings are open 

to the public. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Direct questions regarding this meeting 

to Clint Kyhl, Designated Federal 

Official, USDA, Okanogan-Wenatchee 

National Forest, 215 Melody Lane, 

Wenatchee, Washington 98801, phone 

509–664–9200. 

Dated: September 27, 2011. 

Clinton Kyhl, 

Designated Federal Official, OkanoganWenatchee National Forest. 

[FR Doc. 2011–25671 Filed 10–4–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Collaborative Forest Landscape 

Restoration Program Advisory 

Committee 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Collaborative Forest 

Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) 

Advisory Committee will meet in 

person. The purpose of the meeting is to 

evaluate proposals submitted in 

response to the Fiscal Year 2011 CFLRP 

Request for Proposals and make 

recommendations for project selection 

to the Secretary of Agriculture. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

October 18–20, 2011, from 8 a.m. to 5 

p.m. M.DT. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Peery Hotel, located at 110 West 

Broadway, Salt Lake City, UT 84101. 

Written comments should be sent to 

Lauren Marshall, USDA Forest Service, 

Forest Management, Mailstop–1103, 

1400 Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–1103. 

Comments may also be sent via e-mail 

to Lauren Marshall, 

lemarshall@fs.fed.us, or via facsimile to 

202–205–1045. 

All comments, including names and 

addresses when provided, are placed in 

the record and are available for public 

inspection and copying. The public may 

inspect comments received at USDA 

Forest Service, Forest Management, 201 

14th Street, SW., Yates Building, 

Washington, DC. Visitors are 

encouraged to call ahead to 202–205– 

1218 to facilitate entry into the Forest 

Service building. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lauren Marshall, Biological Scientist, 

Forest Management, 202–205–1218. 

Individuals who use 

telecommunication devices for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 

between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern 

Standard Time, Monday through Friday. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting is open to the public. 

Committee discussion is limited to 

Forest Service staff and Committee 

members. However, persons who wish 

to bring Collaborative Forest Landscape 

Restoration Program matters to the 

attention of the Committee may file 

written statements with the Committee 

staff before or after the meeting. Time 

for public input will be provided, 

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