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Appendix A-8a

60-Day Federal Register Notice

National Food Study Pilot
Agency: Economic Research Service
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

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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 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice
announces the Economic Research
Service’s intention to request approval
for a new information collection for a
Pilot Survey on Food Acquisition
among American Households.
DATES: Written comments must be
received by June 6, 2016 to be assured
of consideration.
ADDRESSES: Address all comments
concerning this notice to John Kirlin,
Food Assistance Branch, Food
Economics Division, Economic Research
Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
1400 Independence Ave. SW., Mailstop
1800, Washington, DC 20250–0002.
Comments may also be submitted via
email to JKIRLIN@ers.usda.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John
Kirlin, JKIRLIN@ers.usda.gov. Tel. 202–
694–5398.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: National Food Study Pilot.
OMB Number: To be assigned by
OMB.
Expiration Date: Three years from the
date of approval.
Type of Request: New information
collection.
Abstract: The National Food Study
(NFS) pilot will be conducted over a
four-month period from October 2016
through January 2017. The survey will
collect nationally representative data
from 500 households, including 150
households participating in the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP, formerly the Food

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Stamp Program). Each eligible
household will be asked to record their
food acquisitions for each household
member over a 7-day period.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture
collected similar data in 2012–2013
with the National Household Food
Acquisition and Purchase Survey
(FoodAPS, OMB Control Number 0536–
0068). Participating household members
in that survey used food booklets and a
hand-held scanner to record information
about all food acquisitions during a 7day period. There is evidence in the
FoodAPS data of some drop-off in the
frequency of reported food acquisitions
toward the end of the 7-day reporting
periods. FoodAPS was a nationally
representative survey with oversampling of households participating in
the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) and non-SNAP
households with low incomes.
The main objective of the NFS pilot
is to test an alternative method of
collecting data on the foods acquired by
American households that leads to more
complete and accurate information
about patterns of food acquisitions.
Other objectives are to explore the
feasibility of expanding the population
of interest to include households
receiving benefits from the Special
Supplemental Nutrition Program for
Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
and to collect more complete and
accurate information on income. Data
will be collected from households in
nine states.
The sample will be selected from an
address-based sampling frame. A total of
2,154 households from 12 Primary
Sampling Units (PSUs) in nine states
will receive a letter requesting their
participation in the study. The pilot will
also test the effectiveness of using WIC
and SNAP administrative data at
identifying SNAP and WIC participants.
The NFS pilot data collection begins
by screening households via an inperson interview to determine eligibility
and identifying a primary respondent
(person who does the majority of the
grocery shopping and cooking for the
household) within eligible households.
Next, an in-person initial interview is
completed with the primary respondent.
Then, all members of the household age
11 years and older are asked to access
a web-based system daily to report food
or drinks obtained during their assigned
data collection week. Upon completion

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of the week-long data collection, a final
in-person interview is completed with
the primary respondent. To determine
measurement error, immediately after
the final interview, a follow-up reinterview will be conducted with two
household members about their last two
reporting days and to probe for missing
information.
Food obtained by household members
includes food purchased or obtained for
free and brought into the home as well
as food purchased or acquired for free
outside of the home. Information to be
collected about each food event will
include place name and type, location,
date, total cost, and method(s) of
payment. Food item information to be
collected will include an item
descriptor, quantity acquired, unit price,
and use of coupons or store loyalty
cards that reduce actual cost.
Participants also will be asked to upload
photos of receipts. Participants will
receive reminder email messages or text
messages throughout the week if they do
not report acquisitions for a day. If
needed, households will be provided
electronic equipment for the duration of
their data collection period to assist
them in accessing the web instrument.
Recruited households will receive $50
upon completion of the initial
interview. Households will accumulate
a $3 per day credit for each eligible
household member whose food
purchase behavior (including
affirmation of no acquisitions) is
recorded in the web system for that day,
and a bonus of $50 for households
whose members record food
acquisitions for all 7 days and that
complete the final interview. Finally, $5
will be provided to the household if
members complete the income
questions online.
All data collection instruments will
ask only the most pertinent information,
and the web-based system will be as
respondent- and user-friendly as
possible. Responses are voluntary and
confidential. The instruments and
procedures will be pretested prior to the
finalization.
Responses from the National Food
Study pilot will be combined for
statistical purposes and reported only in
aggregate or statistical form. A final
report summarizing the findings will
include an evaluation on the accuracy of
administrative data used to select WIC
and SNAP households as well as an

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evaluation of the feasibility of the webbased data collection system. Because
this is a pilot test of a new data
collection mode, there are no plans to
make the collected data available to the
public. The data will be analyzed and
used as the Agency makes plans for a
full-scale data collection at a future
date.
Authority: These data will be collected
under the authority of 7 U.S.C. 2204(a). ERS
will comply with OMB Implementation
Guidance, ‘‘Implementation Guidance for
Title V of the E-Government Act,
Confidential Information Protection and
Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA)’’,
72 FR 33362, June 15, 2007. Respondent
information will be protected under the
CIPSEA and the 7 U.S.C. 2276.

Affected Public: Respondent groups
identified include: SNAP households,
WIC households, and non-SNAP and
non-WIC households.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
The number of respondents is 2,154
households, of which 580 are expected
to include SNAP participants. This
includes: (i) Advance Letter: 2,154
households; (ii) Screener: 1,551
households (assumes a10% vacancy rate
for SNAP households, a 15% vacancy
rate for non-SNAP households, and a
72% response rate); (iii) Initial
Interview: 593 responding households

an 85% response rate for SNAP
households and a 75% response rate for
non-SNAP households); (viii) Food
Reporting System and Meals and Snack
Form: 1026 respondents (assumes an
80% response rate); and (ix) Reinterview: 961 respondents (assumes a
90% response rate, 2 persons per
household).
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: All respondents 11 years
and older who access the web once
daily, will respond seven times.
Respondents who complete the
screener, initial, and final interviews
will respond an additional three times.
Respondents completing the reinterview will provide one additional
response.
Estimated Time per Response:
Reading the advance letter and
completing the screener, initial, final,
and feedback instruments will average
1.33 hours per household (or primary
respondent). Individuals (including the
primary respondent) who access the
web to receive training, provide
information on food acquisitions,
income, and meals/snacks, and
complete the re-interview will average
1.97 hours per respondent.
Estimated Total Burden on
Respondents: 6,394 hours. See table for
details.

and 958 non-responding or non-eligible
households composed of 540
households screened out due to
unfamiliarity with smartphone or
internet technology (assumes 45% of
SNAP and 40% of non-SNAP
households), 248 households screened
out due to high income (assumes 21%
of remaining non-SNAP households),
and 170 households declining to
participate in the study (assumes
completion rates of 85% for eligible
SNAP households and 75% for eligible
non-SNAP households); (iv) Final
Interview: 534 households (assumes a
90% response rate); and (v) Respondent
Feedback Form: 507 households
(assumes a 95% response rate). Data
collection at the individual level
contributes to household-level burden
estimates, and the number of individual
respondents is the number of
households completing the Initial
Interview (593) times estimated average
household size (2.4), or 1424
individuals. The number of individual
respondents is: (vi) Training: 1424
respondents (assumes an average of 2.4
individuals per household); It is
assumed that 10% of households decide
not to continue with the survey after the
training, leaving 534 households and
1282 individuals. (vii) Income
Worksheet: 999 respondents (assumes

REPORTING BURDEN
Responses
Sample
size

Instrument

Freq

Resp.
count

Freq
×
count

Non-response/Not eligible

Min./
Resp.

Burden
hours

Nonresp.
count

Freq
×
count

Min./
Resp.

Burden
hours

Total
burden
hours

Advance letters .......................................................................................
Household-level Data Collection:
Household Screener ........................................................................
Initial Household Interview ...............................................................
Final Household Interview ...............................................................
Respondent Feedback Form ...........................................................

2154

1

2154

2154

3

108

0

0

0

0

108

2154
1551
593
534

1
1
1
1

1551
593
534
507

1551
593
534
507

12
30
30
5

310
297
267
42

603
958
59
27

603
958
59
27

5
1.8
3
3

50
29
3
1

360
326
270
44

Total Responding Burden—HH ................................................

2154

..........

2154

..........

..........

1024

..........

..........

..........

83

1107

Individual-level Data Collection:
Training ............................................................................................
Income Worksheet—Individual ........................................................
Food Reporting System ...................................................................
Meals and Snacks Form ..................................................................
Re-interview .....................................................................................

1424
1282
1282
1282
1068

1
1
7
7
1

1424
999
1026
1026
961

1424
999
7182
7182
961

45
15
25
3
30

1068
250
2993
359
481

0
283
256
256
107

0
283
1792
1792
107

0
3
3
1
1

0
14
90
30
2

1068
264
3083
389
482

Total Responding Burden—Ind. ...............................................

1424

..........

1424

..........

..........

5148

301

..........

..........

136

5286

Total Responding Burden ..................................................

2154

..........

2154

..........

..........

6175

..........

..........

..........

219

6394

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Estimates of burden hours have been rounded.

Comments: Comments are invited on:
(1) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden of the proposed collection
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the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (4) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond, including
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or

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other forms of information technology.
Comments may be sent to John Kirlin,
Resource and Rural Economics Division,
Economic Research Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, 1400
Independence Ave. SW., Mailstop 1800,
Washington, DC 20250–1800.
Comments may also be submitted via
fax to the attention of John Kirlin at

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202–694–5661—or via email to
JKIRLIN@ers.usda.gov. All comments
received will be available for public
inspection during regular business
hours at the same address.
All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for OMB approval. All comments will
become a matter of public record.
Dated: March 24, 2016.
Mary Bohman,
Administrator, Economic Research Service.
[FR Doc. 2016–07850 Filed 4–5–16; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3410–18–P

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Information Collection;
Comment Request—Report of
Disqualification From Participation—
Institutions and Responsible
Principals/Individuals (FNS–843) and
Report of Disqualification From
Participation—Individually Disqualified
Responsible Principal/Individual or
Day Care Home Provider (FNS–844)
Food and Nutrition Service
(FNS), USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice invites the general public and
public agencies to comment on a
proposed information collection. This
collection is an extension, without
change, of a currently approved
collection for maintaining the National
Disqualified List of institutions, day
care home providers, and individuals
that have been terminated or otherwise
disqualified from Child and Adult Care
Food Program (CACFP) participation.
These federal requirements affect
eligibility under the CACFP. The State
Agencies are required to enter data as
institutions and individuals become
disqualified from participating in the
CACFP. The collection is the result of a
FNS web-based system constructed to
update and maintain the list of

SUMMARY:

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disqualified institutions and individuals
so that no State agency or sponsoring
organization may approve any entity on
the National Disqualified List to ensure
the integrity of the Program.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before June 6, 2016.
ADDRESSES: 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 will 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
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.
Comments may be sent to: Sarah
Smith-Holmes, Director, Program
Monitoring and Operational Support
Branch, Child Nutrition Division, Food
and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department
of Agriculture, 3101 Park Center Drive,
Room 630, Alexandria, Virginia 22302.
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 comment(s) will be open
for public inspection at the office of the
Food and Nutrition Service during
regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5
p.m., Monday through Friday) at 3101
Park Center Drive, Room 640,
Alexandria, Virginia 22302.
All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval, and will become a
matter of public record.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sarah Smith-Holmes (703) 305–2063.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: CACFP National Disqualified
List—Forms FNS–843, FNS–844.

Instrument

Estimated
number of
respondents

Number of responses per
respondent

Form Number: FNS–843 and FNS–
844.
OMB Number: 0584–0584.
Expiration Date: August 31, 2016.
Type of Request: Extension, without
change, of a currently approved
collection.
Abstract: The Food and Nutrition
Service administers the Child Nutrition
Act of 1966, as amended (42 U.S.C.
1771, et seq.). Section 243(c) of Public
Law 106–224, the Agricultural Risk
Protection Act of 2000, amended section
17(d)(5) of the Richard B. Russell
National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C.
1766(d)(5)(E)(i) and (ii)) by requiring the
Department of Agriculture to maintain a
list of institutions, day care home
providers, and individuals that have
been terminated or otherwise
disqualified from Child and Adult Care
Food Program participation. The law
also requires the Department to make
the list available to State agencies for
their use in reviewing applications to
participate in the program and to
sponsoring organizations to ensure that
they do not employ as principals any
persons who are disqualified from the
program. Forms FNS–843 and FNS–844
are used to collect and maintain this
data. This statutory mandate has been
incorporated into § 226.6(c)(7) of the
Program regulations. In addition, the
recordkeeping burden associated with
maintaining documentation related to
institutions and providers terminated
for cause at the State agency level is
captured under the Information
Collection for 7 CFR part 226, Child and
Adult Care Food Program OMB Control
Number 0584–0055, expiration date
September 30, 2016. Therefore, there is
no recordkeeping burden associated
with this collection.
Affected Public: State Agencies.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
56.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 28.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
1,568.
Estimate Time Per Response: .50.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 784.
Total annual
responses

Estimated total
hours per
response

Estimated total
burden

Reporting
State Agencies .........................................
State Agencies .........................................

FNS 843
FNS 844

56
56

6
22

336
1,232

.50
.50

168
616

Total Estimated Reporting Burden ...

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

56

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

1,568

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

784

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