Appendix H1a FNS Response to North Carolina

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Food and
Nutrition
Service
Park Office
Center
3101 Park
Center Drive
Alexandria
VA 22302

United States Department of Agriculture

DEC 17 2019
Pat Moore
Administrator
Food & Nutrition Services Quality Control Program
820 S. Boylan A venue, Hargrove Building
2416 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-24 16
Dear Ms. Moore:
Thank you for your comments in response to the Quality Control (QC) Branch' s
inquiry on November 1, 2019 through the QC Technical Advisory Group, regarding
the Office of Management and Budget collection 0584-0074, FNS 380, Worksheet
for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program's Quality Control Reviews.
In your comments you mentioned that thirty minutes for an interview time was too
low, that it did not take into consideration time for a State QC reviewer (SQCR) to
do data matches on the household, time to travel to meet the household, or time to
have a second party review a case to ensure its accuracy. In determining the amount
of time that is included in the burden, we exclude the following: lag time between
the time it takes for the State agency to request verification from a household and the
receipt of that information; travel time to and from household interviews, since that
will vary based on any given SQCR' s location and the mutually agreed upon
location; and the time for a second party review to be done- all of this is, however,
considered in the amount of days a State agency is allotted for completing cases
within 11 5 days.
We would like to thank you for the information you provided regarding the time
your State agency estimates for gathering household information, contacting
households and collateral contacts, and preparing for interviews. Since we are
unsure where, among the regulatory citations noted in the burden estimates you are
suggesting the burden be dedicated, we will be maintaining the proposed burden
estimates and ask that when these estimates are up for renewal again you or your
office will offer additional comments.

Sincerv

Ja~cC!eskey
Acting Chief
Quality Control Branch
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