Appendix O Child Nutrition Response #91: The Nationwide Waiver to Allow Specific Meal Pattern Flexibility in the Child and Adult

OMB Control Number: 0584-0654
Expiration Date: 01/31/2022

Appendix O
Child Nutrition Response #91:
The Nationwide Waiver to Allow Specific Meal Pattern
Flexibility in the Child and Adult Care Food Program
for School Year 2021-2022

The information is being collected to meet the requirement established at Section 2202(a)(2) of the Family First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) (P.L.
116-127), as extended by the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions Act (P.L. 116-159), for States to elect to be subject to each
Nationwide waiver prior to implementing the flexibilities granted in the waiver. In addition, this Nationwide waiver requires Child Nutrition Program
(CNP) operators to develop and submit requests to their respective State agencies to utilize the meal pattern flexibilities authorized in the waiver; requests
should be targeted and justified based upon disruptions to the availability of food products resulting from impacts of the novel Coronavirus. FNS uses the
information collected via this waiver to evaluate Nationwide waiver participation and maintain program integrity. This collection does not request any
personally identifiable information under the Privacy Act of 1974. According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, an agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number. The valid OMB control
number for this information collection is 0584-0654. The time required for States to notify FNS of their election to be subject to a Nationwide waiver is 5
minutes (.0835 hours). The time required for a local program operator to develop and submit a request to waive meal pattern requirements is 1 hour, and
the burden associated with a State agency’s responsibility to review each request and respond to a program operator is 15 minutes (.25 hours). Send
comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to: U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, Office of Policy Support, 1320 Braddock Place, 5th Floor, Alexandria, VA 22314 ATTN: PRA
(0584-0654).

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