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Dated: October 19, 2023. 

Cikena Reid, 

Committee Management Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food and Nutrition Service 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request—Generic Clearance 

for FNS Quick Response Surveys (FNS 

QRS) 

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 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 

Service (FNS). 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 

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 December 26, 

2023. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted via email to conor.mcgovern@

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 Conor McGovern 

at conor.mcgovern@usda.gov, 703–457– 

7740. 

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 FNS 

Quick Response Surveys (FNS QRS). 

Form Number: N/A. 

OMB Number: 0584–0613. 

Expiration Date: 05/31/2024. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: The Food and Nutrition 

Service (FNS) intends to request the 

renewal of a generic clearance that 

allows FNS to conduct short, quickturnaround surveys of State, local, and 

Tribal agencies and businesses that 

receive food, funds, and nutrition 

information through programs 

administered by FNS. This generic 

clearance enables FNS to better meet the 

goals of Executive Order 14058, 

Transforming Federal Customer 

Experience and Service Delivery to 

Rebuild Trust in Government, by 

allowing FNS to expeditiously gather 

information from program operators to 

improve and refine customer experience 

and service delivery. 

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, 

FNS 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 FNS to 

administer the programs more 

effectively. 

The data collection activities under 

this clearance will include: (1) sample 

frame data collections and (2) quickresponse 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 FNS 

programs at the State, local, and site 

level to answer policy and 

implementation questions. 

Following standard OMB 

requirements, FNS 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. FNS will 

provide OMB with the instruments and 

supporting materials describing the 

research project and specific pre-testing 

activities. 

This revision makes some changes to 

the information collection as previously 

approved. SNAP, Summer EBT, and the 

Patrick Leahy Farm to School Program 

have been added as separate programs, 

thereby expanding it to all current FNS 

programs. The type of information to be 

collected and the methods of collection 

will remain broadly the same. In this 

revision, FNS has changed the manner 

in which we account for burden on 

respondents. Previously, we requested 

burden for exactly one survey per 

program per year at the state and local 

levels. This had several downsides. 

First, it overestimated the burden of the 

clearance itself on many respondent 

groups, as some programs are surveyed 

more commonly than others. Second, it 

reduced flexibility for FNS to perform 

multiple surveys for a given program 

when there were significant policy or 


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operational needs. In making these 

revisions, we still take steps to ensure 

that a given individual respondent 

receives no more than three surveys 

about the same program each year, with 

an average of one per program per year 

expected. 

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 

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 total estimated number of annual 

respondents is 41,346. This includes all 

State Program Directors (675 total) and 

a sample of local-level program 

administrators from local government 

agencies (20,391 total) and businesses 

(20,280 total). The total number of 

respondents includes an estimated 

34,213 total responsive entities as well 

as 7,133 local program administrators 

from both local agencies (3,479 total) 

and (3,654 total) whom FNS 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 FNS 

program in a given year, with each 

expected to receive a single survey in a 

given year. Including recruitment 

requests for the surveys, FNS estimates 

that respondents will average 2 

responses per year. 

Estimated Total Annual Responses: 

82,692. 

Estimated Time per Response: The 

estimated time of response ranges from 

3 minutes (0.05 hours) to 1 hour for 

respondents and 1 minute (.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 19,744 hours, for a 

total of 59,231 over the clearance 

period. See the table below for 

estimated total annual burden for each 

type of collection and respondent. 

Tameka Owens, 

Assistant Administrator, Food and Nutrition 

Service. 

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