The National School Lunch Program
safeguards the health and well-being of the Nation's children and
provides free or reduced-price school lunches to eligible students
through subsidies to schools. The National School Lunch Program is
administered at the State and school food authority levels and the
operations include the submission and approval of applications, the
execution of agreements, submission of claims, payment of claims,
and program monitoring. 7 CFR sets forth the policies and
procedures for the administration of this program. This is a
revision of the currently approved information collection.
US Code:
42
USC 1751 Name of Law: Richard B. Russell National School Lunch
Act (NSLA)
US Code:
42 USC 1779 Section 10 Name of Law: Child Nutrition Act of
1966
This is a revision of a
currently approved collection. This collection is currently
approved with 9,808,454 burden hours and 47,631,996 responses. For
this renewal, FNS has adjusted the decimal conversions for the time
estimates for some of the information requirements to keep the
conversions consistent across the agency's collections. These
adjustments have increased the burden for the collection by 247
hours. The estimated number of responses (and respondents) remain
unchanged from the previous renewal. The increase in burden hours
is due to an adjustment. With this renewal, FNS estimates that this
collection will have 9,808,701 burden hours and 47,631,996
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.