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Federal Register
Vol. 77, No. 108
Tuesday, June 5, 2012

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Economic Research Service
Notice of Intent To Request New
Information Collection
Economic Research Service,
USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

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 to provide state-level
estimates of the prevalence and
geographic distribution of School Food
Authorities (SFAs) conducting Farm to
School activities.
DATES: Written comments on this notice
must be received on or before August 6,
2012 to be assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: Address all comments
concerning this notice to Katherine
Ralston, Food Economics Division,
Economic Research Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, STOP 1800,
1400 Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20250–1800.
Comments may also be submitted via
fax to the attention of Katherine Ralston
at 202–245–4779 or via email to
kralston@ers.usda.gov, or through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal (http://
www.regulations.gov), which provides
online instructions for submitting
comments electronically.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Katherine Ralston,
kralston@ers.usda.gov, Tel. 202–694–
5463.

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SUMMARY:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Farm to School Census.
OMB Number: 0536–XXXX.
Expiration Date: Three years from the
date of approval.
Type of Request: New collection.

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Abstract: The Healthy, Hunger-Free
Kids Act of 2010 directed USDA to carry
out, through grants and technical
assistance, a program to help eligible
schools, State and local agencies, Indian
tribal organizations, agricultural
producers or groups of agricultural
producers, and nonprofit entities
implement farm to school activities that
promote and improve access to local
foods in eligible schools. The Act
funded this requirement with an
authorization of $5,000,000, to be
allocated with consideration for
geographic diversity and equitable
treatment of rural, urban, and tribal
communities as it relates to the
distribution of farm to school programs.
The Farm to School Census will be
used to establish a baseline measure of
local food purchases in schools and set
priorities for USDA programming
related to local school food sourcing.
The Farm to School Census data will be
used in mapping School Food
Authorities (SFAs) that procured local
foods for school meal programs in 2011–
12 in order to characterize the
geographic distribution of farm to
school programs and obtain State-level
estimates of the prevalence of local
procurement among SFAs. These data
will be used to set priorities for USDA
outreach and technical support.
The 2011–12 Farm to School Census
questionnaire will be disseminated
electronically to all public school
district SFA food service directors as
part of an invitation to participate from
the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
Child Nutrition Division, through State
Child Nutrition Directors. State Child
Nutrition Directors will also forward 3
reminder emails from FNS. A sample of
non-respondents will be followed up by
phone as part of an analysis of nonresponse. Data collection instruments
will be kept as simple and respondentfriendly as possible. Responses are
voluntary.
The map of local procurement by
SFAs will require geocode boundary
coordinates for each SFA. While
boundary coordinates are available from
the U.S. Census Bureau for school
districts, SFAs can include more than
one school district. Available data on
SFAs from the Food and Nutrition
Service is only available for SFAs that
submit verification reports and is thus
not a complete list of SFAs. Therefore,
in order to obtain a more complete list,

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we will ask State Child Nutrition
Directors to submit a list of SFAs with
business contact information for SFA
Food Service Directors in each State.
This list will be matched to geocode
boundary coordinates from the U.S.
Census Bureau and characteristics such
as enrollment and rural/urban status
from the Common Core of Data, a data
file compiled annually by the U.S.
Department of Education’s National
Center of Education Statistics. Geocode
boundary coordinates will be used to
map SFAs purchasing local foods.
Characteristics such as enrollment and
rural/urban status will be used to
analyze non-response and develop nonresponse weights. Business contact
information will be used to follow-up a
sample of non-respondents by telephone
for an analysis of non-response.
Respondents will be informed that the
information collected will be used for
non-statistical purposes, i.e., to map
each individual School Food Authority
and the proportion of food expenditures
going to locally-produced foods. Given
the intended purpose of this
information collection, to create a
publicly accessible map of the extent of
local purchasing by individual SFAs,
this information collection is not
covered by the Confidential Information
Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act
of 2002. The questionnaire will inform
respondents that ERS will treat all
information generated or gathered in the
Farm to School Census in accordance
with the Freedom of Information Act (5
U.S.C. 552).
Affected Public: The first respondent
group is the universe of State Child
Nutrition Directors from the 50 States
and the District of Columbia, numbering
51 in total. The second respondent
group is the universe of SFA food
service directors in the 50 States and the
District of Columbia, excluding private
schools and charter schools, numbering
13,629.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
All 51 State Child Nutrition Directors
are expected to forward the invitation to
participate in the Census and 3
reminder emails from FNS. Forty State
Child Nutrition Directors (78 percent)
are expected to provide a list of SFAs
in the State with contact information,
and 10,494 SFA Food Service Directors
(77 percent) are expected to complete
the Census questionnaire. The expected
response rate for State Child Nutrition

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Directors is based on consultation with
FNS Farm to School Program liaisons in
FNS regional offices. The expected
response rate for SFA Food Service
Director is based on experience with the
2008 North Carolina Farm to School
Survey, which was an email survey of
similar length distributed by email with
3 reminders from the State Child
Nutrition Director. A sample of 100 nonresponding SFA Food Service Directors
will be followed up by phone as part of
an analysis of non-response.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 4 responses from State
Child Nutrition Directors for the request
to forward the invitation to participate
and 3 reminder emails to SFAs, 1
response from State Child Nutrition
Directors for a list of SFAs with contact
information, 1 response from SFA Food
Service Directors for the Farm to School
Census, and 1 response from Census
non-responders contacted by telephone
for follow-up.
Estimated Total Responses: 204
responses from 51 State Child Nutrition
Directors to the request to forward the
survey invitation and 3 reminder
emails, 40 responses from State Child
Nutrition Directors to the request for a

list of SFAs in the State, 10,494
responses from SFAs completing the
Farm to School Census, and 100 SFAs
selected as a sample of nonrespondents.
Estimated Time per Response: State
Child Nutrition Directors. The request to
State Child Nutrition Directors to
forward the Census invitation and 3
reminder emails from the Director of
Child Nutrition to SFA Food Service
Directors is estimated to each take 15
minutes, for a total of 1 hour.
The request to State Child Nutrition
Directors to provide the list of SFAs in
the State is estimated to take 1 hour.
Non-responding State Child Nutrition
Directors are expected to take 10
minutes determining that they are
unable to provide this list in a timely
fashion.
SFA Food Service Directors. We
estimate the average time for responding
SFA Food Service Directors as 9
minutes on average. This average
includes 20 minutes for SFAs that have
a local procurement program, and 5
minutes for those that do not, based on
reviews of the data collection
instrument by food service directors
who are registered as members of the

National Farm to School Network.
About 20 percent of SFAs are estimated
to have a local procurement program,
based on results from the 2009–10
School Food Purchase Study. In
addition, responding Food Service
Directors are expected to spend an
average of 1 minute total reading
reminder emails either before they
respond or after they respond, since
reminders will be sent to all SFAs
regardless of whether they have already
responded.
We estimate that non-responding SFA
Food Service Directors will spend 1
minute each reading the initial
invitation to participate, a first reminder
email, a second reminder email, and a
third reminder email for a total of 4
minutes.
Non-responding Food Service
Directors contacted by phone are
expected to spend an average of 15
minutes answering an abridged set of
questions about the presence and
volume of local food procurement for
the SFA.
Estimated Total Burden on
Respondents: 1,901 hours. See the table
below for details.

REPORTING BURDEN
Estimated
number of respondents or
non-respondents

Responses or
non-responses
annually per
respondent

Total annual
reponses or
non-responses

Estimated average number
of minutes per
response or
non-response*

Estimated total
annual hours
of response
and non-response burden

51

4

204

15

51

40
11

1
1

40
11

60
10

40
2

Total Burden, State Child Nutrition Directors .........
Farm to School Census for School Food Authority Directors ....................................................................................
Non-respondents ..................................................................
Follow-up phone calls for non-response analysis ...............

........................

........................

........................

........................

93

10,494
3,135
100

1
1
1

10,494
3,135
100

9
4
15

1,574
209
25

Total Burden, School Food Authority Directors .....

........................

........................

........................

........................

1,808

Total Burden ................................................................

........................

........................

........................

........................

1,901

Description

Forwarding request to participate from FNS Child Nutrition
Division to SFA Food Service Directors, plus 3 reminders .....................................................................................
Request to State Directors for list of School Food Authorities and Director Contact Information ..............................
Non-respondents to request for list .....................................

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* Average minutes per response and nonresponse are based on reviews of the questionnaire by School Food Authority Directors that are
members of the National Farm to School Network. Complete responses to the Farm to School Census questionnaire are estimated to require 20
minutes in School Food Authorities that purchase food locally, and 5 minutes for School Food Authorities that do not purchase food locally, with
an estimated 20 percent purchasing locally produced food based on the 2009–10 School Food Purchase Study. In addition, respondents are estimated to spend an average of 1 minute total reading reminder emails either before they respond, or after they respond, since reminders will be
sent to all SFAs regardless of whether they have already responded.

Comments: All written comments will
be open for public inspection in the
Resource Center of the Economic
Research Service during regular
business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.,
Monday through Friday) at 355 E St.
SW., Room 04P33, Washington, DC
20024–4221. All responses to this notice

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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

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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
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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.
Dated: May 22, 2012.
Mary Bohman,
Administrator, Economic Research Service.
[FR Doc. 2012–13497 Filed 6–4–12; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3410–18–P

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Plumas National Forest, California,
Sugarloaf Hazardous Fuels Reduction
Project
Forest Service, USDA.
Notice of intent to prepare an
environmental impact statement.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

The USDA Forest Service,
Feather River Ranger District of the
Plumas National Forest (PNF) will
prepare an environmental impact
statement (EIS) on the Sugarloaf
Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project
proposed to modify fire behavior,
promote forest and watershed health,
while contributing to the economic
stability of rural communities through:
fuels treatments; group selections (GS);
area and variable density thinning from
below; road improvements; and
prescribed fire treatments on National
Forest System (NFS) lands. The
Sugarloaf Project is located south of
Little Grass Valley Reservoir, from Goat
Mountain in the north to American
House in the south, surrounding the
community of La Porte; including the
Valley Creek Special Interest Area (SIA)
administered by the PNF.
DATES: Comments concerning the scope
of the analysis must be received within
45 days from date of publication in the
Federal Register. The draft
environmental impact statement is
expected July 2012 and the final
environmental impact statement is
expected August 2012. A decision is
expected in September 2012 and
implementation may begin as early as
spring of 2013.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments to
Carol Spinos, Interdisciplinary Team
Leader, Feather River Ranger District
Ranger District, 875 Mitchell Avenue,
Oroville, CA 95965. Comments may be:
(1) Mailed; (2) hand delivered between
the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
weekdays Pacific Time; (3) faxed to
(530) 532–1210; or (4) electronically
mailed to: comments-pacificsouthwest-

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SUMMARY:

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plumas-featherrvr@fs.fed.us. Please
indicate the name ‘‘Sugarloaf Hazardous
Fuels Reduction Project’’ on the subject
line of your email. Comments submitted
electronically must be in Rich Text
Format (.rtf), plain text format (.txt.) or
Word (.doc).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carol Spinos, Interdisciplinary Team
Leader, Feather River Ranger District
Ranger District, 875 Mitchell Avenue,
Oroville, CA 95966. Telephone: (530)
534–6500 or electronic address:
cspinos@fs.fed.us.
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
Time, Monday through Friday.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
proposed action is designed to meet the
standards and guidelines for land
management activities described in the
Plumas National Forest Land and
Resource Management Plan (PNF
LRMP) (USDA 1988) as amended by
Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group
(HFQLG) Final Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement
(FSEIS) and Record of Decision (ROD)
(USDA 1999a, 1999b, 2003b, 2003c),
and the Sierra Nevada Forest Plan
Amendment (SNFPA) FSEIS and ROD
(USDA 2004a, 2004b). This project is
being planned under authorization of
the Healthy Forest Restoration Act (H.R.
1904; Pub. L. 108–148; 36 CFR part
218—Predecisional Administrative
Review Process).
The Sugarloaf Hazardous Fuels
Reduction Project boundary
encompasses all or portions of T. 21 N.,
R. 8 E., sec. 24–26; T. 21 N., R. 9 E., sec.
2, 3, 5–10, 15–22, 27–32 in Plumas
County, CA, MDM.
Purpose and Need for Action
This Project is proposed to establish
defensible fuel profile zones (DFPZs),
modify fire behavior, promote forest and
watershed health, while contributing to
the economic stability of rural
communities in Plumas County, CA.
Fire behavior needs to be modified in
selected forest stands in order to reduce
high fuel loading and resulting
increased risks to people, structures,
and resources in the wildland urbaninterface (WUI). There is a need for
forest health, tree species diversity and
structural complexity to be altered in
the Sugarloaf Project area, because stand
densities are unnaturally overcrowded
and dominated by shade-tolerant tree
species (e.g. Douglas-fir and white-fir)
and high fuel loads, at-risk from standreplacing wildfire, insect infestations

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and disease. There is a need to improve
watershed health as road surfaces are
eroding, contributing sedimentation
downstream to degrade water quality.
There is a need to contribute to local
forestry-related employment and
provide forest products offerings, vital
for rural communities such as La Porte
and American House, isolated from
urban job markets.
Proposed Action
The USDA Forest Service, Feather
River Ranger District of the Plumas
National Forest will prepare an
environmental impact statement (EIS)
for the Sugarloaf Hazardous Fuels
Reduction Project. The proposed action
would establish 992 acres of defensible
fuel profile zones (DFPZs) using 763
acres of variable density and 229 acres
of thinning from below; 100 acres of
group selection (GS); 5 miles of NFS
classified road reconstruction, 5 miles of
unclassified (temporary) road
construction (closed post operations)
and the construction of up to 52 new log
landing sites; 223 acres of mastication;
455 acres of hand thin, pile, and burn;
3,195 acres of prescribed fire using
manual ignition (i.e., drip torch)
techniques, and 28 miles of National
Forest System (NFS) road improvements
to mitigate resource damage; consistent
with the Plumas National Forest Travel
Management decision. The selected NFS
land roads would be improved using
various methods, such as grading,
removing and upgrading culverts,
ripping and seeding, slope recontouring, and installing barriers.
Wood by-products from these
treatments are expected to produce 7
million board feet of commerciallyvaluable timber, while retaining all live
trees greater than 29.9 inches diameter
at breast height (DBH) and a minimum
of 40 percent forest canopy cover.
Possible Alternatives
In addition to the proposed action, a
no-action alternative and a noncommercial funding alternative aimed
solely at reducing hazardous fuels as
required by the Memorandum and
Order dated 11/04/2009 (Case 2:05–CV–
00205–MCE–GGH). Additional
alternatives may be developed and
analyzed during the environmental
analysis process.
Responsible Official
The Plumas National Forest
Supervisor is the Responsible Official.
Nature of Decision To Be Made
The decision to be made is whether
to: (1) Implement the proposed action;
(2) meet the purpose and need for action

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