APPENDIX A to Supporting Statement - Justification for Adding Application and Reporting Forms Specific to TEFAP RR - Round 2 Gra

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APPENDIX A - Additional Questions for TEFAP Reach and Resiliency – Round 2 Grant
FNS will ask applicants/grantees up to ten additional questions (outside of the standard uniform
grant application package) and up to two additional reporting questions on a biannual
basis. These questions are largely the same as those asked in Round 1, with slight adjustments
made to reflect ongoing Round 1 projects. These additional questions (beyond the standard grant
application package) will be incorporated into the Round 2 Request for Applications, the Round
2 Reach and Resiliency grant application template, and Round 2 supplemental reporting
questions template. These questions may be tweaked prior to use:
Supplemental Application Questions
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As an attachment, please provide a list of all TEFAP eligible recipient agencies (ERAs)
currently operating in the State/Territory, including those ERAs that have an agreement
with another ERA, as outlined in FD-123, Maintenance of Lists of Eligible Recipient
Agencies (ERA) Participating in TEFAP. The list should indicate whether or not the
ERA is operating TEFAP under an agreement with the State agency or another ERA, the
name of the other ERA (if applicable), and the street address(es) of any TEFAP
distribution sites (as defined in 7 CFR 251.3(c)) that are operated by the ERA.

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For those State agencies that did not receive a Reach and Resiliency – Round 1 grant,
please provide a detailed narrative assessment of current TEFAP reach within the
State/Territory and identify any remote, rural, Tribal, and/or low-income areas that are
currently underserved by TEFAP. Please also provide an explanation of how the
assessment was conducted and provide any attachments (e.g., a map of
served/underserved areas within the State/Territory, or a map of TEFAP ERAs overlaid
with a map of remote, rural, Tribal, and/or low-income areas) as necessary.

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If you plan to utilize grants funds to complete such an assessment, you should indicate
that in your response, and you are not required to provide the detailed narrative
assessment outlined above. However, you must include a detailed explanation of how the
planned assessment will be conducted, in your response to Question #X (The appropriate
question number will be inserted into the final version of the RFA).

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For those State agencies that did receive a Reach and Resiliency – Round 1 grant, please
provide a brief summary of planned Round 1 project activities and an update on
implementation of those activities, indicating how the proposed Round 2 project plan will
expand or complement Round 1 activities (if applicable). If Reach and Resiliency –
Round 1 grant funds were utilized to conduct an assessment of TEFAP reach within the
State/Territory, this update must include a brief description of any interim or final results
of the Round 1 assessment, or a description of progress made on the assessment thus far.

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Please provide the definitions of “remote,” “rural,” “Tribal,” and “low-income” that will
be utilized for the proposed Round 2 project and an explanation of why specific
definitions were chosen.

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Please describe how you consulted with relevant stakeholders and/or utilized available
data to form your Round 2 project plans.

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Please state the percentage of requested Round 2 grant funds that will be kept at the State
level or that will be expended on State expenses.

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Pending the availability of funds, is the State agency interested in requesting additional
funding to carry out additional allowable Reach and Resiliency activities? Please note
that only those State agencies requesting their maximum eligible funding amount as
outlined in Appendix X of the RFA, or an amount of funding close to their maximum
eligible funding amount, are eligible to request additional funding. Requesting additional
funding may also require the submission of an updated project plan and budget at a later
date. (The appropriate Appendix number will be inserted into the final version of the
RFA).

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If interested in requesting additional funding, is there a maximum amount of additional
funds that the State agency would be able to utilize on allowable activities?

Supplemental Reporting Questions
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If applicable, please provide a list of any remote, rural, Tribal, and/or low-income areas
that have been incorporated into the State’s TEFAP network or that are being better
served as a result of Round 2 grant funding, to date.

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If grant funds were utilized to conduct an assessment of current TEFAP reach within the
State/Territory, and such assessment was finalized within the last reporting period, please
provide a narrative summary of the assessment here. The summary should include a list
of any remote, rural, Tribal, and/or low-income areas that were identified as underserved
via the assessment, how “remote,” “rural,” “Tribal,” and “low-income” areas were
defined, and an explanation of how the assessment was conducted.

OMB BURDEN STATEMENT: This information is being collected to assist the Food and
Nutrition Service in awarding TEFAP Reach and Resiliency grants and in monitoring progress
on the grants. This is a voluntary collection and FNS will use the information to select the most
appropriate grantees for the program, to measure impact of the grants, and to determine whether
the grants achieve their intended purpose. This collection does not request any personally
identifiable information under the Privacy Act of 1974. According to the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a
collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number. The valid OMB control
number for this information collection is 0584-0512. The time required to complete this
information collection, meaning the TEFAP grant application package, is estimated to average
88.22 hours per response. This burden estimate includes the time for reviewing instructions,
searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and
reviewing the collection of information for all aspects of the TEFAP Reach and Resiliency
Grant, including the pre-award, post-award, and recordkeeping burden. The burden for the
Additional Application and Reporting Questions included here is a part of the estimate. Send

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comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information,
including suggestions for reducing this burden, to: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and
Nutrition Service, Office of Policy Support, 1320 Braddock Place, 5th Floor, Alexandria, VA
22306 ATTN: PRA (0584-0512). Do not return the completed form to this address.