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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 2 / Tuesday, January 5, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
number of SNAP applicants and participants who are required by the State agency to participate in an E&T
program, of those the number who begin to participate in an E&T program and an E&T component, and the number of mandatory participants who are determined ineligible for failure to comply. Fourth, the Department requires in new paragraph 7 CFR
273.24a5 to add a State agency requirement to inform every ABAWD in writing about the ABAWD work requirement and time limit, thus creating a new burden to develop and provide this written notice, and to participants to read this notice. This requirement to inform ABAWDs of their work requirement is added to a consolidated written notice that consolidates the requirements to inform ABAWDs, work registrants, and mandatory E&T participants of their work requirements, as applicable. The requirements to inform work registrants and mandatory E&T participants of their work requirements are already covered by an existing burden OMB Control number: 05840064; Expiration Date 12/
31/2020, currently under review with OMB. And fifth, the Department requires in new paragraph 7 CFR
273.14b5 that, at a minimum, the State agency provide households with no earned income and with no elderly or disabled members a list of available employment and training services for household members subject to the general work requirements either electronically e.g., on a website or in an email or in printed form. This requirement creates a new burden on State agencies to develop the list of opportunities and for participants to read the list. The Department notes that the final rule create a new requirement for State agencies to consult with their workforce development boards, and to explain in their E&T State plans the extent to which they coordinate with title 1 of WIOA. Based on the existing regulatory requirement to work with their State workforce development systems, this information is already collected by the Department through the E&T State plans and is included in an existing burden OMB Control Number:
05840083; Expiration Date: 8/31/2023
currently under OMB review, as a result the new requirement in the Act is not expected to increase the existing burden.
The existing burden for the FNS583
is currently covered under the information collection for the Food Programs Reporting System, OMB
Control Number 05840594, expiration
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date 7/31/2023. The recordkeeping burden for the FNS 583 is already sufficient as documented in OMB
Control Number: 05840339; Expiration Date: 1/31/2021. The basic recordkeeping requirement for household case file documentation is part of OMB Control Number: 0584
0064; Expiration Date 10/31/2020. FNS
will add additional burden to this collection to accommodate the increased burden resulting from providing case management to E&T
participants. FNS intends to merge the new reporting burden 05840594 and 05840064, once the final rulemaking information collection request is approved. At that time, FNS will publish a separate notice in the Federal Register announcing OMBs approval.
The Department received some comments directly on the cost and hour burden, as well as comments related to the underlying policy. As a result, the Department has made changes to the rules burden. Regarding the requirement that all E&T participants receive case management, the Department received a comment from a State agency agreeing that the State agency will experience increased costs as a result of the requirement, but the State agency did not dispute the values provided in the burden. The Department did receive one comment that State agency staff will need time to prepare for the case management sessions, thus the Department added 10 minutes per case management meeting to account for this preparation time. Regarding the requirement in the proposed rule to send a Notice of E&T Participation Change NETPC when an individual receives an ill-suited determination, the Department received a comment from a State agency that the notice was unnecessary and more costly to implement than provided for in the burden. The Department, as described in the final rule preamble, has decided not to require the NETPC, and instead will only require that State agencies notify the participant with State discretion regarding the mode for providing the information. The burden has also been updated to account for the act of notifying the individual, rather than sending a formal notice. Regarding the new data elements for the FNS583, the Department received several comments requesting the Department add a third and fourth data element capturing the number of individuals who begin an E&T component and the number of mandatory E&T participants who are sanctioned for failure to comply. The Department agreed with
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these commenters and has added a third and fourth data element to the FNS583
fourth quarter report. The burden for the FNS583 new data elements has been updated to include this third and fourth element and to correct errors in estimation during the proposed rule, resulting in a decrease in burden hours for this element. Regarding the requirement to inform ABAWDs of the ABAWD work requirement, the Department received one comment from a State agency that the impact of the proposal would add burden to the State agency, but on balance, the State agency believed that it may be time well spent if ABAWDs better understand the work requirement, thus reducing churn. The Department has modified the burden for informing ABAWDs of the work requirement by increasing the time to orally inform the ABAWD from two minutes to five minutes to account for the additional information commenters believed should be communicated during the interaction e.g., good cause and exemption. The Department also increased the amount of time it will take State agencies to develop the written notice from 24 to 40 hours to account for the greater amount of information required to be in the notice in the final rule. Regarding the requirement that State agencies advise certain households with zero earned income, the Department received no comments regarding the burden and has made no changes to the burden from what was proposed.
Respondents: State Agencies.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 53
State Agencies.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 108,575.64.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
5,754,509.
Estimated Time per Response:
0.1899868.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 1,093,281.
Respondents: Individuals SNAP E&T
participants.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
8,702,000.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1.1199954034.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
9,746,200.
Estimated Time per Response:
0.100411135.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 978,627.
The total burden for this rulemaking is 2,069,983 burden hours and 15,500,709 total annual responses.

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