To establish Child and Adult Care Food
Program (CACFP) eligibility and insure that the program is
administered according to statutory and USDA implementing
regulations. The CACFP provides cash reimbursement and commodity
assistance, on a per meal basis, for food service to children in
nonresidential child care centers and family day care homes, and to
eligible adults in nonresidential adult day care centers. The Food
and Nutrition Service has established application, monitoring,
recordkeeping, and reporting requirements to manage the CACFP
effectively. This change request proposes separating the
requirements for verifying the eligibility of for-profit centers
from the requirements for submitting claims for reimbursement that
all of the sponsors/institutions must meet. These two requirements
are currently combined in one line item under 7 CFR 226.10,
226.15(i), and 226.13(b). FNS has now separated them into two
separate line items and both of them have been entered separately
into ROCIS.
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USC 1766 Name of Law: National School Lunch Act
This collection is currently
approved with 7,897,289 responses and 2,481,136 burden hours.
Through a change worksheet, FNS is proposing to split out the
eligibility requirements for the for-profit institutions that are
currently rolled up into the broader requirements for claims
submissions for all institutions so that there will be two separate
requirements - one for the claims submissions for all of the
sponsors/institutions and one for the eligibility requirements for
the for-profit institutions. Both of these line items have been
entered separately into ROCIS. This action does not affect the
overall burden for the collection, but it does increase the
responses because the for-profits have additional eligibility
requirements to fulfill. FNS estimates that the responses will
increase by 117,240 responses due to a program change. With this
change request, FNS estimates that the burden for this collection
will be 2,481,136 hours and 8,014,529 responses.
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.