OMB Justification Memo

United States

Department of

Agriculture

Food and

Nutrition

Service

3101 Park

Center Drive

Alexandria, VA

22302-1500

TO: Steph Tatham

OMB Desk Officer

THROUGH: Rachelle Ragland-Greene rg

Information Collection Officer, Planning and Regulatory Affairs, Food and Nutrition Service

FROM: Lael Lubing

Director, Grants and Fiscal Policy Division

Food and Nutrition Service

SUBJECT: Request for Approval to Add Grant to OMB Docket #0584-0512

The Uniform Grant Application for Non-Entitlement Discretionary Grants, OMB Number 0584-0512 allows the Food and Nutrition Service to add programs to the list of approved programs that use this generic clearance process periodically, provided that approval is obtained in advance.

The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is requesting OMB approval to add the grant information collection: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment and Training (E&T) Data and Technical Assistance (DATA) Grants to the list of approved grants. FNS intends to award grants to State, Local or Tribal agencies that administer SNAP to support the development, collection, reporting, analysis and use of SNAP E&T participant outcomes data. We are requesting to use 711 hours and 155 responses of the currently approved 109,360 hours and 20,205 responses for State agencies to respond to the Request for Applications to operate these grants.

	Approved	Currently Available	Requested for use with this IC	Difference (Remaining)
Burden Hours	150,000	109,360	711	108,649
Responses	30,000	20,205	155	20,050

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