The School Breakfast Program is a
nutrition assistance program whose benefit is providing breakfasts
to children that meet nutritional requirements prescribed by the
Department. This Program is authorized to issue payments to the
States to assist them to initiate, maintain, or expand nonprofit
breakfast programs in schools.
This information collection is
currently approved with 33,432,713 responses and 3,924,902 burden
hours. With this renewal, FNS estimates an increase of 216,656
responses and a decrease of 100,595 hours. The changes in burden
are due to adjustments in the numbers of SFAs and schools in the
School Breakfast Program and in respondents submitting late claims,
the removal of duplicate reporting burden, adjustments in time
estimates, and the removal of burden for requirements that are
either not occurring or are not information requirements. With this
renewal, FNS estimates that this collection will have 33,649,369
responses and 3,824,307 burden hours.
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.