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agencies and sponsors to comply with 

new timeframes? 

2. On average, what percentage of 

final meal claims have been modified 

annually since the initial claim? Are 

modified final meal claims usually 

higher or lower than the initial claims? 

a. How often are meal claims revised? 

b. Why are meal claims revised? 

c. How often do sponsors appeal State 

imposed meal claim disallowances? 

What are the outcomes of these appeals? 

3. a. How accurate is the data for 

meals served which is submitted by the 

State agency in the 30-day report when 

compared with the subsequent 90-day 

report? 

b. What accounts for the difference in 

actual (versus estimated) meals served 

between the 30-day and 90-day reports? 

4. The FNS–418 only requires State 

agencies to report the number of 

sponsors, the number of sites, and the 

average daily attendance (ADA) of 

sponsors for the month of July. 

a. Would it be feasible for States to 

report this for every month during the 

summer? 

b. How much time would States need 

to report this to FNS after each month? 

5. FNS currently collects the ADA of 

sponsors, which is calculated as the 

total number of meals served in a 

sponsor’s primary meal service during 

the claim period divided by the number 

of operating or meal service days for 

that claim period. 

a. Is this an effective method for 

calculating ADA? 

b. Is the current reporting of ADA 

accurate at the sponsor and/or State 

level? 

c. How could ADA be calculated more 

accurately? 

6. FNS is interested in tracking the 

number of unique children that 

participate in the SFSP each day. Do 

you have any suggestions for how this 

information could be captured and 

reported? 

7. FNS is interested in tracking the 

number of meals served through rural 

sites. Would it be feasible to separate 

‘‘self-prep’’ meals served from ‘‘rural’’ 

meals served on the FNS–418? 

8. In your State, do sponsors submit 

meal claims electronically or manually? 

9. Are there any data that sponsors or 

State agencies currently collect that are 

not reported to FNS? 

a. If yes, please describe these data 

and how they are used. 

b. Would sponsors and State agencies 

be able to regularly report these data to 

FNS? 

10. What are the best indicators or 

data elements to track changes to 

program participation from the previous 

summer? 

11. Please provide any additional 

information that would assist FNS with 

understanding State agency and sponsor 

administrative capacities, and how to 

enhance the quality and utility of the 

data collected while also minimizing 

any additional reporting burden. 

National School Lunch Program and 

School Breakfast Program Summer 

Meal Reporting 

Seamless Summer Option 

1. Are schools able to easily separate 

the meal claims for children served 

during the regular school year and 

children served through the Seamless 

Summer Option? Could these meals be 

separately tracked on the FNS–10? 

2. Are there any State agency 

concerns about separately reporting 

meals served to children through the 

Seamless Summer Option? 

3. Please provide any additional 

information that would assist FNS with 

understanding State agency and school 

administrative capacities, and how to 

enhance the quality and utility of the 

data collected while also minimizing 

the reporting burden. FNS is 

particularly interested in receiving 

feedback from State agencies that 

already separately track meals served 

through the Seamless Summer Option 

from those served through NSLP during 

the traditional school year. 

Serving Meals to Children Enrolled in 

Summer School 

1. For schools that do not participate 

in the SFSP or the Seamless Summer 

Option, but serve meals to children 

enrolled in summer school through the 

NSLP and SBP, would it be feasible to 

separately report the meals served to 

these children? Could these meals be 

separately tracked on the FNS–10? 

2. Please provide any additional 

information that would assist FNS with 

understanding State agency and school 

administrative capacities, and how to 

enhance the quality and utility of the 

data collected while also minimizing 

any additional reporting burden. 

FNS appreciates your thoughtful and 

responsive comments. 

Dated: February 24, 2015. 

Audrey Rowe, 

Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service. 

[FR Doc. 2015–05314 Filed 3–6–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–30–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Revision and Extension of 

Approved Collection; Comment 

Request; Generic Clearance for the 

Collection of Qualitative Feedback on 

Agency Service Delivery 

March 4, 2015. 

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection 

Service, USDA. 

ACTION: 30-Day notice of submission of 

information collection approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

and request for comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of a Federal 

Government-wide effort to streamline 

the process to seek feedback from the 

public on service delivery, the 

Department of Agriculture (USDA), the 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

(FSIS) has submitted a Generic 

Information Collection Request (Generic 

ICR): ‘‘Generic Clearance for the 

Collection of Qualitative Feedback on 

Agency Service Delivery’’ to OMB for 

approval under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et. 

seq.). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted by 

April 8, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

submitted to the Desk Officer for 

Agriculture, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503; OIRA_Submission@

OMB.EOP.GOV or fax (202) 395–5806 

and to Departmental Clearance Office, 

USDA, OCIO, Mail Stop 7602, 

Washington, DC 20250–7602. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information, please 

contact Ruth Brown (202) 720–8958 or 

Charlene Parker (202) 720–8681. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Generic Clearance for the 

Collection of Qualitative Feedback on 

Agency Service Delivery. 

Abstract: The information collection 

activity will garner qualitative customer 

and stakeholder feedback in an efficient, 

timely manner, in accordance with the 

Administration’s commitment to 

improving service delivery. By 

qualitative feedback we mean 

information that provides useful 

insights on perceptions and opinions, 

but are not statistical surveys that yield 

quantitative results that can be 

generalized to the population of study. 

This feedback will provide insights into 

customer or stakeholder perceptions, 

experiences and expectations, provide 

an early warning of issues with service, 

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or focus attention on areas where 

communication, training or changes in 

operations might improve delivery of 

products or services. These collections 

will allow for ongoing, collaborative and 

actionable communications between the 

Agency and its customers and 

stakeholders. It will also allow feedback 

to contribute directly to the 

improvement of program management. 

Feedback collected under this generic 

clearance will provide useful 

information, but it will not yield data 

that can be generalized to the overall 

population. This type of generic 

clearance for qualitative information 

will not be used for quantitative 

information collections that are 

designed to yield reliably actionable 

results, such as monitoring trends over 

time or documenting program 

performance. Such data uses require 

more rigorous designs that address: the 

target population to which 

generalizations will be made, the 

sampling frame, the sample design 

(including stratification and clustering), 

the precision requirements or power 

calculations that justify the proposed 

sample size, the expected response rate, 

methods for assessing potential nonresponse bias, the protocols for data 

collection, and any testing procedures 

that were or will be undertaken prior 

fielding the study. Depending on the 

degree of influence the results are likely 

to have, such collections may still be 

eligible for submission for other generic 

mechanisms that are designed to yield 

quantitative results. 

The Agency received no comments in 

response to the 60-day notice published 

in the Federal Register on September 

17, 2014 (79 FR 55745). No comments 

were received. 

The Food Safety and Inspection 

Service—0583–0151 

Current Actions: Revision and 

Extension of Currently Approved 

Collection. 

Type of Review: Revision and 

Extension. 

Affected Public: Not-for-profit 

institutions. 

Average Expected Annual Number of 

Activities: 10. 

Respondents: 10,000. 

Annual Responses: 10,000. 

Frequency of Response: Once per 

request. 

Average Minutes per Response: 60. 

Burden Hours: 10,000. 

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 

Office of Management and Budget 

control number. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2015–05401 Filed 3–6–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Housing Service 

Rural Development Voucher Program 

AGENCY: Rural Housing Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Agriculture (USDA) in fiscal year (FY) 

2006 established the demonstration 

Rural Development Voucher Program 

(RDVP), as authorized under Section 

542 of the Housing Act of 1949 as 

amended (42 U.S.C. 1490R) (without 

regard to Section 542(b)). This Notice 

informs the public of the general 

policies and procedures for the RDVP 

for FY 2015. Rural Development 

Vouchers are only available to lowincome tenants of Rural Development 

(RD)-financed multi-family properties 

where the Rural Rental Housing loan 

(Section 515) has been prepaid (either 

through prepayment or foreclosure 

action), prior to the loan’s maturity date. 

DATES: In order for eligible tenants to 

participate, a voucher obligation form 

must be submitted within 10 months of 

the foreclosure or pre-payment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephanie B.M. White, Director, MultiFamily Housing Portfolio Management 

Division, Rural Development, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW., STOP 0782, 

Washington, DC 20250, telephone (202) 

720–1615. Persons with hearing or 

speech impairments may access this 

number via TDD by calling the toll-free 

Federal Information Relay Service at 

(800) 877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

This Notice outlines the process for 

providing voucher assistance to eligible 

tenants when a property owner either 

prepays a Section 515 loan or USDA 

action results in a foreclosure after 

September 30, 2005. 

II. Design Features of the RDVP 

This section sets forth the design 

features of the RDVP, including the 

eligibility of tenants, the inspection of 

the housing units, and the calculation of 

the subsidy amount. 

Rural Development Vouchers under 

this part are administered by the Rural 

Housing Service, an agency under the 

RD mission area, in accordance with 

requirements set forth in this Notice and 

further explained in, ‘‘The Rural 

Development Voucher Program Guide,’’ 

which can be obtained by contacting 

any RD Office. Contact information for 

RD offices can be found at: http://

www.rurdev.usda.gov/

StateOfficeAddresses.html. These 

requirements are generally based on the 

housing choice voucher program 

regulations of the Department of 

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 

set forth at 24 CFR part 982, unless 

otherwise noted by this Notice. 

The RDVP is intended to offer 

protection to eligible Multi-Family 

Housing tenants in properties financed 

through RD’s Section 515 Rural Rental 

Housing program (Section 515 property) 

who may be subject to economic 

hardship due to the property owner’s 

prepayment of the RD mortgage. When 

the owner of a Section 515 property 

pays off the loan prior to the loan’s 

maturity date (either through 

prepayment or foreclosure action), the 

RD affordable housing requirements and 

Rental Assistance (RA) subsidies 

generally cease to exist. Rents may 

increase, thereby making the housing 

unaffordable to tenants. Regardless, the 

tenant may become responsible for the 

full payment of rent when a prepayment 

occurs, whether or not the rent 

increases. 

The Rural Development Voucher is 

intended to help tenants by providing 

an annual rental subsidy, renewable on 

the terms and conditions set forth 

herein and subject to the availability of 

funds, that will supplement the tenant’s 

rent payment. This program enables a 

tenant to make an informed decision 

about remaining in the property, moving 

to a new property, or obtaining other 

financial housing assistance. Lowincome tenants in the prepaying 

property are eligible to receive a 

voucher to use at their current rental 

property, or to take to any other rental 

unit in the United States and its 

territories. Tenants in properties 

foreclosed on by RD are eligible for a 

Rural Development Voucher under the 

same conditions as properties that go 

through the standard prepayment 

process. 

There are some general limitations on 

the use of a voucher: 

• The rental unit must pass a RD 

health and safety inspection, and the 

owner must be willing to accept a Rural 

Development Voucher. 

• Rural Development Vouchers 

cannot be used for units in subsidized 

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