The Food and Nutrition Service
administers the National School Lunch Program and the School
Breakfast Program as mandated by the National School Lunch Act and
the Child Nutrition Act. School Food Authorities and State agencies
must maintain records documenting compliance with professional
standards for all child nutrition program personnel.
This is a new collection. As a
resulted of program changes associated with rulemaking for
0584-NEW, Professional Standards for State and Local School
Nutrition Programs Personnel for the National School Lunch Program
under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Acts of 2010. This information
collection will increase the OMB inventory by 30,680 burden hours
for recordkeeping to comply with the statutory requirements in
Section 306 of Public Law 111-296. There are no changes in
recordkeeping burden between proposed rule and final rule.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.