The School Breakfast Program is a nutrition assistance program whose benefit is providing breakfasts to children that meet nutritional requirements prescribed by the Department. This Program is authorized to issue payments to the States to assist them to initiate, maintain, or expand nonprofit breakfast programs in schools.
US Code:
42 USC 1773
Name of Law: Child Nutrition Act (CNA) of 1966
This collection is currently approved with 3,824,307 burden hours and 33,649,369 responses. FNS estimates that the burden hours will increase by 33,463 hours and that the responses will increase by 400,360 responses. These increases are from changes in the number of SFAs and schools participating in the program, resulting in an adjustment to this collection. As a result of this revision, FNS estimates that this collection will have 3,857,770 burden hours and 34,049,729 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.