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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 75, No. 95 

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Economic Research Service 

Notice of Intent To Request a 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 Survey 

Field Test. 

DATES: Written comments on this notice 

must be received on or before July 19, 

2010 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, 1800 M St., NW., Room 

N2164, Washington, DC 20036–5801. 

Comments may also be submitted via 

fax to the attention of Mark Denbaly at 

202–694–5661 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 1800 

M St., NW., Room N2164, Washington, 

DC 20036–5801. 

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 Survey Field 

Test. 

OMB Number: 0536–XXXX. 

Expiration Date: Three years from the 

date of approval. 

Type of Request: New collection. 

Abstract: This field test of the 

National Food Survey will be conducted 

over a two-month period with about 400 

households to test survey procedures for 

the planned full-scale, nationally 

representative National Food Survey. 

Legislative authority for the planned 

data collection is Section 17 [7 U.S.C. 

2026](a)(1) of the Food and Nutrition 

Act of 2008. 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 

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance 

Program (SNAP) in delivering nutritionrelated benefits. 

The information to be collected by the 

National Food Survey 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 

participants in the Supplemental 

Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, 

formerly the Food Stamp Program) and 

nonparticipants. 

The field test will collect data from 

about 400 low-income households 

selected at random from within two 

Primary Sampling Units (counties). The 

sample will be selected from an addressbased 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 all foods with barcodes 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 household 

respondent will also be asked to 

complete three interviews: 

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(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 by telephone in the 

middle of the data collection week and 

will collect information about non-food 

expenditures, income, and assets; 

(3) Household Interview #3 will be 

conducted in person at the end of the 

data collection week and will collect 

information about health status, diet 

and nutrition knowledge, and food 

security. 

The field test will test the efficacy of 

two alternate survey protocols for 

collecting food data (‘‘simple’’ and 

‘‘comprehensive’’) and two different 

incentive levels for time spent 

completing the forms. Respondent 

households will be randomly assigned 

to different survey protocols and 

incentive levels. 

All study instruments will be kept as 

simple and respondent-friendly as 

possible. Responses are voluntary and 

confidential. Responses will be 

combined for statistical purposes and 

reported only in aggregate or statistical 

form. Data files from the field test will 

not be released to the public. 

Affected Public: Respondent groups 

include: (1) Households participating in 

the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance 

Program (SNAP); and (2) low-income 

households not participating in SNAP, 

where low-income is defined as 

household income at or below 185 

percent of the poverty guidelines. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

The estimated number of respondents 

for the field test includes: (1) 1,476 

households screened for income 

eligibility (it is expected that 1,063 

households, or 72 percent, will 

complete the screener and 413, or 28 

percent, will not); (2) of the 585 

households expected to be determined 

to be eligible for the survey after 

completing the screener, 503 (86 

percent) are expected to agree to 

participate and complete Household 

Interview #1 and to collect food data, 

and 82, (14 percent) will not; (3) of the 

82 households expected to decline 

participation in the survey, 61 (74 

percent) are expected to complete the 

Short Form for Refusals, and 21 (26 

percent) are expected to decline; (4) of 

the 503 households who complete 

Household Interview #1 and are eligible 

for remaining survey components, 453 

(90 percent) are expected to complete 

Household Interview #2, reporting of 

food obtained for home preparation and 

consumption, and the food diary for all 

household members, and 50 (10 

percent) will not; (5) of the 503 

households who complete Household 

Interview #1, 402 (80 percent) are 

expected to complete Household 

Interview #3 and three Telephone 

interviews to report food diary 

information, and 101 (20 percent) will 

not; and (6) of the of the expected 1,207 

food diaries to be completed (i.e., an 

average of 2.4 family members per 

household), 1,086 diaries (90 percent) 

are expected to be completed and 121 

(10 percent) will not. 

Estimates of the percentages of 

respondents who will agree to complete 

the forms are based, insofar as possible, 

on experience with previous data 

collections of similar complexity. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 9.37 (average). Estimated 

responses per respondent are as follows: 

All 1,476 sampled households will be 

asked to respond to the screener once; 

an estimated 585 survey-eligible 

households will be asked to respond to 

the Household Interview #1 once; an 

estimated 81 households will be asked 

to respond to the Short Form for 

Refusals once; an estimated 503 

household completing Household 

Interview #1 will be asked to respond to 

Household Interview #2 once; and an 

estimated 452 households completing 

Household Interview #2 will be asked to 

respond to Household Interview #3 

once. 

The estimated 503 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 1,207 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 503 households will be asked 

to report food diary information over the 

telephone three times. 

Estimated Total Annual Responses: 

13,827. 

Estimated Time per Response: 0.25 

hours. As shown in the table below, the 

estimated time of response varies from 

0.13 hours (8 minutes) to 0.58 hours (35 

minutes) per instrument for respondents 

and from 0.03 hours (2 minutes) to 0.08 

hours (5 minutes) per instrument for 

non-respondents. These estimates of 

respondent burden are based on 

experience with previous data 

collections of similar complexity. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 3,400.67 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 ................................................... 1,063 1.00 1,063 0.25 265.75 

Attempted interviews .................................................... 413 1.00 413 0.08 34.42 

Household Interview #1: 

Completed interviews ................................................... 503 1.00 503 0.42 209.58 

Attempted interviews .................................................... 82 1.00 82 0.08 6.83 

Short Form for Refusals: 

Completed interviews ................................................... 61 1.00 61 0.13 8.13 

Attempted interviews .................................................... 21 1.00 21 0.03 0.70 

Household Interview #2: 

Completed interviews ................................................... 453 1.00 453 0.58 264.25 

Attempted interviews .................................................... 50 1.00 50 0.05 2.50 

Household Interview #3: 

Completed interviews ................................................... 402 1.00 402 0.33 134.00 

Attempted interviews .................................................... 101 1.00 101 0.05 5.05 

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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 

Reporting food obtained for home preparation or consumption: 

Completed reports ........................................................ 453 3.00 1,359 0.17 226.50 

Attempted reports ......................................................... 50 1.00 50 0.05 2.50 

Food diary: 

Completed reports ........................................................ 1,086 7.00 7,602 0.25 1,900.54 

Attempted reports ......................................................... 120 3.00 360 0.08 30.00 

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

Completed interviews ................................................... 402 3.00 1206 0.25 301.50 

Attempted interviews .................................................... 101 1.00 101 0.08 8.42 

Total responding burden ....................................... 1,476 9.37 13,827 0.25 3,400.67 

* Estimates are rounded to the nearest hundredth. 

Dated: April 30, 2010. 

Katherine R. Smith, 

Administrator, Economic Research Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–11832 Filed 5–17–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Humboldt Resource Advisory 

Committee (RAC) 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Humboldt Resource 

Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet in 

Eureka, California. The committee 

meeting is authorized under the Secure 

Rural Schools and Community SelfDetermination Act (Pub. L. 110–343) 

and in compliance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act. The purpose 

of the meeting is to orient new 

committee members to the Secure Rural 

Schools Act, guidelines for Title II, and 

Federal Advisory Committee Act and 

receive public comment on the meeting 

subjects and proceedings. 

DATES: The meeting will be held June 9, 

2010, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Six Rivers National Forest Office, 

1330 Bayshore Way, Eureka, CA 95501. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie 

Ranieri, Committee Coordinator, Six 

Rivers National Forest, 1330 Bayshore 

Way, Eureka, CA 95503; (707) 441– 

3673; e-mail jranieri@fs.fed.us. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting is open to the public. Agenda 

items to be covered include: (1) 

Welcome and Committee introductions; 

(2) Federal Advisory Committee Act 

overview; (3) review of Secure Rural 

Schools Act and discussion of 

requirements related to Title II funding; 

(4) discussion of Committee member, 

Designated Federal Official and RAC 

Coordinator roles; (5) selection of RAC 

Chair; (6) next meeting agenda, location, 

and date; and (7) receive public 

comment. An opportunity will be 

provided for the public to address the 

Committee. 

Dated: May 12, 2010. 

Tyrone Kelley, 

Forest Supervisor. 

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BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

National Urban and Community 

Forestry Advisory Council 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The National Urban and 

Community Forestry Advisory Council 

will meet in Washington, DC, June 2–3, 

2010. The purpose of the meeting is to 

discuss emerging issues in urban and 

community forestry, work on Council 

administrative items and hear public 

input related to urban and community 

forestry. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on June 

2–3, 2010, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or until 

Council business is completed. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Hall of States Building, 444 North 

Capitol Street, NW., Room 283, 

Washington, DC 20001, phone: 202– 

624–5373. Written comments 

concerning this meeting should be 

addressed to Nancy Stremple, Executive 

Staff to National Urban and Community 

Forestry Advisory Council, 201 14th 

Street SW., Yates Building (1 Central) 

MS–1151, Washington, DC 20250–1151. 

Comments may also be sent via e-mail 

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

to 202–690–5792. 

All comments, including names and 

addresses when provided, are placed in 

the record and are available for public 

inspection and copying. Visitors who 

would like to inspect the record are 

encouraged to call ahead to facilitate 

entry into the Forest Service building. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary Dempsey, Staff Assistant to 

National Urban and Community 

Forestry Advisory Council, 201 14th 

Street, SW., Yates Building (1 Central) 

MS–1151, Washington, DC 20250–1151, 

phone 202–205–1054. 

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. Those 

interested in attending should contact 

Mary Dempsey to be placed on the list 

at lobby security desk, Council 

discussion is limited to Forest Service 

staff and Council members; however, 

persons who wish to bring urban and 

community forestry matters to the 

attention of the Council may file written 

statements with the Council staff (201 

14th Street SW., Yates Building (1 

Central) MS–1151, Washington, DC 

20250–1151, e-mail: nstremple@fs. 

fed.us) before or after the meeting. 

Public input sessions will be provided 

at the meeting. Public comments will be 

compiled and provided to the Secretary 

of Agriculture along with the Council’s 

recommendations. 

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