[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 90 (Tuesday, May 10, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 27984]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-09954]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

May 4, 2022.
    The Department of Agriculture has submitted the following 
information collection requirement(s) to OMB for review and clearance 
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. Comments 
are requested regarding; whether the collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility; the 
accuracy of the agency's estimate of burden including the validity of 
the methodology and assumptions used; ways to enhance the quality, 
utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and ways to 
minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are 
to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology.
    Comments regarding this information collection received by June 9, 
2022 will be considered. Written comments and recommendations for the 
proposed information collection should be submitted within 30 days of 
the publication of this notice on the following website 
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.
    An agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information 
unless the collection of information displays a currently valid OMB 
control number and the agency informs potential persons who are to 
respond to the collection of information that such persons are not 
required to respond to the collection of information unless it displays 
a currently valid OMB control number.

Food and Nutrition Service

    Title: Food Security Status and Well-Being of Nutrition Assistance 
Program (NAP) Participants in Puerto Rico.
    OMB Control Number: 0584-NEW.
    Summary of Collection: Following Hurricane Maria, Congress 
appropriated additional disaster relief funds provided by section 309 
of Public Law 115-72 that were distributed through the Nutrition 
Assistance Program (NAP) to program participants in Puerto Rico. Under 
H.R. 2157, section 105, funds were appropriated for the Secretary of 
Agriculture to conduct an independent study, including a survey of NAP 
participants, to examine the food security, health status, and well-
being of NAP participants and low-income residents in Puerto Rico.
    Need and Use of the Information: FNS is conducting this study to 
establish baseline estimates of household food security status in 
Puerto Rico. FNS has identified five objectives for this study:
    Produce descriptive statistics on key sociodemographic and economic 
variables, including household food security, in a representative 
sample of Puerto Rico households.
    Produce descriptive statistics on key sociodemographic and economic 
variables, including household food insecurity, in multiple 
representative subsamples in Puerto Rico stratified according to the 
following classifications: NAP participants and low-income 
nonparticipants, adults aged 60 and older, disability status, 
employment status, and educational level.
    Produce descriptive statistics for each subsample in Puerto Rico on 
key social, geospatial, and other policy-relevant elements of health 
and well-being associated with household food security.
    Characterize the social context of food insecurity through in-depth 
interviews with individuals within the NAP participant and low-income 
nonparticipant subgroups. Each interview will ask the individual to 
consider the household or family, community and Federal food 
assistance, and disaster relief contexts.
    Develop a detailed concept/problem map of the systemic factors that 
shape the implementation of the NAP program, particularly as a disaster 
relief tool. The concept mapping process will include data collection 
from key informants with knowledge of one or more of the stages of the 
Puerto Rican food and nutrition system: Production, processing, 
distribution, acquisition, preparation, consumption, digestion, 
transport, and metabolism.
    Description of Respondents: Individuals/Households, State, Local, 
or Tribal government, Businesses or other for-Profits/Not-for-Profit 
Institutions.
    Number of Respondents: 12,504.
    Frequency of Responses: On Occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 4,994.

Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-09954 Filed 5-9-22; 8:45 am]
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