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verify and ensure that benefits are not
issued to individuals who are deceased,
and that data source is the Social
Security Administration’s (SSA) Death
Master File. The information required
for the Annual State Report on
Verification of SNAP Participation is
obtained by validating that the State had
the appropriate systems in place and
followed procedures currently
mandated at 7 CFR 272.14 and 7 CFR
273.16 for the preceding fiscal year. The
burdens associated with establishing a
system to verify and ensure that benefits
are not issued to deceased individuals
or those permanently disqualified from
SNAP using both the SSA Death Master
File and eDRS are already approved
under OMB burden number 0584–0064,
expiration date July 31, 2020.
In order to meet the reporting
requirements specified in section 4032
of the Act, States are required to confirm
via email to their FNS Regional SNAP
Program Director that in the
immediately preceding Federal fiscal
year, they had the appropriate systems
in place to meet the requirements of
regulations at 7 CFR 272.14 and
273.16(i)(4) and that they conducted the
matches required by these regulations.
States are required to submit their
section 4032 reports to the FNS
Regional SNAP Director by March 31
each year for the preceding Federal
fiscal year. The estimated annual
burden for this collection is 57.41 hours.
This estimate includes the time it takes
each State agency to confirm that they
have complied with FNS regulations for
performing mandated checks against
both eDRS and the SSA Death Master
File, send an email to their FNS
Regional Office SNAP Program Director
to provide the verification, and any
additional recordkeeping associated
with this burden. States must perform
this verification once a year and must
retain these records for 3 years.
Annual Reporting Burden Estimates
Affected Public: State, Local and
Tribal Government Agencies.
Number of Respondents: 53 State
Agencies.
Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1.
Total Annual Responses: 53.
Reporting time per Response: 1 Hour.
Estimated Annual Reporting Burden
Hours: 53.
Annual Recordkeeping Burden
Estimates
Affected Public: State, Local and
Tribal Government Agencies.
Number of Respondents: 53 State
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Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1.
Total Annual Responses: 53.
Reporting time per Response: 0.08333
Hours or 5 minutes.
Estimated Annual Reporting Burden
Hours: 4.41649.
Annual Grand Total Burden Estimates
for Reporting and Recordkeeping: 57.41
hours.
Dated: February 1, 2019.
Brandon Lipps,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
[FR Doc. 2019–01726 Filed 2–8–19; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Natural Resources Conservation
Service
Information Collection Request for
Volunteer Program—Earth Team
Natural Resources
Conservation Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act, the Natural
Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
is requesting comments from all
interested individuals and organizations
on an extension and a revision of a
currently approved information
collection associated with Volunteer
Program—Earth Team. The Volunteer
Interest and Placement Summary and
the Timesheet forms are used by the
respondents. The information NRCS
collects on the forms is used to match
the skills of individuals, who are 14
years of age or older and interested in
volunteering for opportunities that will
further NRCS’s mission.
APPLICABLE DATES: We will consider
comments that we receive by April 12,
2019.
ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit
comments on this notice. In your
comments, include OMB Control
Number 0578–0024. You may submit
comments through the Federal
eRulemaking Portal website: http://
www.regulations.gov via docket number
NRCS–2018–0011. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments
electronically.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
specific questions related to the
collection activities or to request a copy
of the information collection, contact
Alan Benge, Program Specialist, NRCS
Distribution Center/Earth, USDA Farm
Production and Conservation, 4407
121st Street, Urbandale, IA 50323, (515)
776–3846, or alan.benge@usda.gov.
SUMMARY:

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Title: Volunteer Program—Earth
Team.
OMB Number: 0578–0024.
Expiration Date of Approval: February
28, 2019.
Type of Request: Revision.
Abstract: NRCS is collecting
information from individuals who are
interested in volunteering to work with
NRCS. The information will be used by
NRCS to assign the volunteer to an
appropriate position, and to track their
volunteer time. Collection of this
information is necessary to match
volunteers with NRCS assignments as
authorized by section 1526 of the Food
and Agriculture Act of 1981 (Pub. L. 97–
98). NRCS is authorized to recruit, train,
and accept (following Civil Service
classification laws, rules, or regulations)
individuals to serve without
compensation. Subject to certain
conditions, most volunteers may assist
in agency programs or projects, and may
perform activities that the employees
may perform. The two forms Volunteer
Interest and Placement Summary Forms,
NRCS–PER–002, and Timesheet Form,
NRCS–PER–004, are used to collect
information from the individuals.
The timesheet is an optional form and
provides the volunteer or volunteer’s
supervisor a simplified method for
tracking the volunteer’s time. The form
is placed in a volunteer ‘‘case file’’ and
will be destroyed 3 years after the
volunteer has completed service. In the
event the volunteer is injured while
engaged in volunteer activities and
claims workman’s compensation, the
‘‘case file’’ will be transferred to an
Official Personnel Folder.
The information collection burden
estimates have been updated. There
were no other revisions required.
Estimate of Average Time to Respond:
Public reporting burden for this
collection of information is estimated to
average 4 minutes per response.
Type of Respondents: Retirees,
students, teachers, or senior citizens.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 7,120.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1.5.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
14,440.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 1,010.80 hours.
We are requesting comments on all
aspects of this information collection to
help us to:
(1) Evaluate whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of NRCS,
including whether the information will
have practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the
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of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(4) 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 other forms of
information technology.
All responses received in response to
this notice, including names and
addresses when provided, will be a
matter of public records. Comments will
be summarized and included in the
submission for Office of Management
and Budget approval.
Matt Lohr,
Chief, Natural Resources Conservation
Service.
[FR Doc. 2019–01811 Filed 2–8–19; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Housing Service
Notice of Request for Extension of
Currently Approved Information
Collection
Rural Housing Service, USDA.
Notice and request for
comments.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the Rural
Development’s intention to request an
extension for a currently approved
information collection in support of the
program, Environmental Policies and
Procedures.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by April 12, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Thomas P. Dickson, Rural Development
Innovation Center—Regulatory Team 2,
USDA, 1400 Independence Avenue SW,
STOP 1522, Room 5164, South
Building, Washington, DC 20250–1522.
Telephone: (202) 690–4492. Email
Thomas.dickson@usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office
of Management and Budget’s (OMB)
regulation (5 CFR 1320) implementing
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13) requires
that interested members of the public
and affected agencies have an
opportunity to comment on information
collection and recordkeeping activities
(see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)). This notice
identifies an information collection that
Rural Development is submitting to
OMB for extension.
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Comments are invited on: (a) 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; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
collection of information including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions 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
respondents, including through the use
of appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology. Comments may
be sent to: Thomas P. Dickson, Rural
Development Innovation Center—
Regulatory Team 2, USDA, 1400
Independence Avenue SW, STOP 1522,
Room 5164, South Building,
Washington, DC 20250–1522.
Telephone: (202) 690–4492. Email
Thomas.dickson@usda.gov.
Title: Environmental Policies and
Procedures.
OMB Number: 0575–0197.
Type of Request: Extension of
currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: The National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) and other applicable
environmental and historic preservation
statutes require all Federal agencies to
consider the potential environmental
consequences of their actions on the
quality of the human environment and
historic properties before agency
decisions are made and prior to it taking
an action; in RD’s case the ‘‘action’’ is
the approval of financial assistance and
obligation of Federal funds. To comply
with NEPA and other environmental
laws, regulations and Executive Orders,
RD requires applicants submitting
applications for financial assistance to
include project-specific environmental
information along with other
underwriting requirements. The
purpose of this information is to
evaluate and document the
environmental implications of
applicant’s proposals.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting
burden for this collection is estimated to
average 60 hours per response.
Respondents: Cooperatives, local
municipalities, private citizens,
companies, not-for-profit companies.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
94,000.
Estimate Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 5,608,800 hours.

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Copies of this information collections
can be obtained from Diane M. Berger,
Rural Development Innovation Center—
Regulatory Team; phone—(715) 619–
3124; or email diane.berger@usda.gov.
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.
Joel Baxley,
Administrator, Rural Housing Service.
[FR Doc. 2019–01829 Filed 2–8–19; 8:45 am]
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CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION
Sunshine Act Meeting Notice
United States Commission on
Civil Rights.
ACTION: Notice of Commission Public
Briefing, Women in Prison: Seeking
Justice Behind Bars.
AGENCY:

Friday, February 22, 2019, 9:00
a.m. ET.
ADDRESSES: Place: National Place
Building, 1331 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
11th Floor, Suite 1150, Washington, DC
20245 (Entrance on F Street NW).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brian Walch, (202) 376–8371; TTY:
(202) 376–8116; publicaffairs@
usccr.gov.
DATES:

The U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights will hold a
public briefing to evaluate the civil
rights of women in prison, including
deprivations of women’s medical needs
that may violate the constitutional
requirement to provide adequate
medical care for all prisoners;
implementation of the Prison Rape
Elimination Act; and the sufficiency of
programs to meet women’s needs after
release. The Commission will also
examine consequences of discipline
practices in women’s prisons and the
impact on families when women are
placed far from home or parental rights
are terminated despite their caregiving
role. Commissioners will hear from state
and federal corrections officials, women
who have experienced incarceration,
academic and legal experts, and
advocates. Members of the public will
be able to address the Commission in an
open comment session (see below).
This briefing is open to the public;
doors open at 8:30 a.m. ET. The event
will also live-stream at https://
www.youtube.com/user/USCCR/videos.
(Streaming information subject to
change.) If attending in person, we ask
that you RSVP to publicaffairs@
usccr.gov. Persons with disabilities who

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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