Summary
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice invites the general public and other public agencies to comment on this proposed information collection. This collection is a revision of a currently approved collection to conduct short, quick-turnaround surveys of state and local agencies providing food, education, and other services in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Child Nutrition Programs, and Supplemental Nutrition and Safety Programs administered at the federal level by the Food and Nutrition Administration (FNA). These programs include the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); National School Lunch Program (NSLP); School Breakfast Program (SBP); Special Milk Program (SMP); Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP); Summer Food Service Program (SFSP); Summer EBT (SEBT); Team Nutrition; the Patrick Leahy Farm to School Program; the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP); USDA Foods in Schools; Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR); The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP); and the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP).
Request for Comments
Written comments must be received on or before Nov. 23, 2026.
Comments may be submitted to Darcy Gungor via email at darcy.gungor@usda.gov or by mail at George Washington Carver Center, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20740. Comments will also be accepted through the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to Regulations.gov, and follow the online instructions for submitting comments electronically.
All responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the request for Office of Management and Budget approval. All comments will be a matter of public record.
Abstract
The Food and Nutrition Administration (FNA) intends to request the renewal of a generic clearance that allows FNA to conduct short, quick-turnaround surveys of state, local, and Tribal agencies and businesses that receive food, funds, and nutrition information through programs administered by FNA. This generic clearance enables FNA to better meet the goals of Executive Order 13777, Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda, by allowing FNA to improve the efficiency and responsiveness of the programs it administers.
These programs include the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); National School Lunch Program (NSLP); School Breakfast Program (SBP); Special Milk Program (SMP); Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP); Summer Food Service Program (SFSP); Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer (SEBT); the Patrick Leahy Farm to School Program; Team Nutrition; the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP); USDA Foods in Schools; Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR); The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP); and the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP).
Legislation authorizing these programs requires operators to cooperate with USDA program research and evaluation activities. Traditionally, FNA conducts large, program-specific studies to collect information on numerous features of each program. Such studies often take several years to complete. Quick response surveys provide a system for rapidly collecting current information on a specific feature or issue, and, therefore, enable FNA to administer the programs more effectively.
The data collection activities under this clearance will include: (1) sample frame data collections and (2) quick-response surveys. The sample frame data collections are used to request contact information from state agencies for the local program operators within their purview. The quick-response survey data collections will be used to survey key administrators of FNA programs at the state, local, and site level to answer policy and implementation questions.
Following standard OMB requirements, FNA will submit a change request to OMB for each data collection activity undertaken under this generic clearance. The respondents will be identified at the time that each change request is submitted to OMB. FNA will provide OMB with the instruments and supporting materials describing the research project and specific pre-testing activities.