The Food and Nutrition Service administers the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program as mandated by the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act. School Food Authorities and State agencies must maintain records documenting compliance with professional standards for all child nutrition program personnel.
This is a new collection. As a resulted of program changes associated with rulemaking for 0584-NEW, Professional Standards for State and Local School Nutrition Programs Personnel for the National School Lunch Program under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Acts of 2010. This information collection will increase the OMB inventory by 30,680 burden hours for recordkeeping to comply with the statutory requirements in Section 306 of Public Law 111-296. There are no changes in recordkeeping burden between proposed rule and final rule.
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.