Providing Regulatory Flexibility for Retailers in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Reopening of Comment Period
| Published date | 14 June 2019 |
| Record Number | 2019-12630 |
| Section | Proposed rules |
| Court | Agriculture Department,Food And Nutrition Service |
Federal Register, Volume 84 Issue 115 (Friday, June 14, 2019)
[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 115 (Friday, June 14, 2019)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 27743]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-12630]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
7 CFR Parts 271 and 278
RIN 0584-AE61
Providing Regulatory Flexibility for Retailers in the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Reopening of Comment Period
AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), USDA.
ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS, or the Agency) proposed
to make changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
regulations pertaining to the eligibility of certain SNAP retail food
stores in a document published on April 5, 2019. FNS inadvertently
excluded from publication two supporting documents to the proposed
rule, the Regulatory Impact Analysis and the Regulatory Flexibility
Analysis. These have now been published as part of the docket for the
proposed rule. The agency is extending the comment period to provide
the public an opportunity to review and provide comment on these
documents as part of the rulemaking record. This document reopens the
comment period until June 20, 2019.
DATES: The comment period for the information collection requirements
published on April 5, 2019, 84 FR 13555, has been reopened from June
14, 2019 through June 20, 2019. To be assured of consideration,
comments must be received on or before June 20, 2019.
ADDRESSES: The Food and Nutrition Service, USDA, invites interested
persons to submit written comments on this proposed rule. Comments may
be submitted in writing by one of the following methods:
Preferred Method: Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments.
Mail: Send comments to Vicky Robinson, Chief, Retailer
Management and Issuance Branch, Retailer Policy and Management
Division, FNS, 3101 Park Center Drive, Room 418, Alexandria, Virginia
22302.
All written comments submitted in response to this
proposed rule will be included in the record and will be made available
to the public. Please be advised that the substance of the comments and
the identity of the individuals or entities submitting the comments
will be subject to public disclosure. FNS will make the written
comments publicly available on the internet via http://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vicky Robinson, Chief, Retailer
Management and Issuance Branch, Retailer Policy and Management
Division, FNS, 3101 Park Center Drive, Room 418, Alexandria, Virginia
22302; telephone 703-305-2476, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FNS proposes to make changes to the SNAP
regulations pertaining to the eligibility of certain SNAP retail food
stores. These proposed changes are in response to the Consolidated
Appropriations Acts of 2017 and 2018, which prohibited the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) from implementing two retailer
stocking provisions (the ``Breadth of Stock'' provision and the
``Definition of `Variety' '' provision) of the 2016 final rule titled,
``Enhancing Retailer Standards in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP)'', until such a time as regulatory modifications to the
definition of ``variety'' are made that would increase the number of
food items that count as acceptable staple food varieties for purposes
of SNAP retailer eligibility. Using existing authority in the Food and
Nutrition Act of 2008, the Agency proposes to modify the definition of
the term ``variety'' as it pertains to the stocking requirements for
SNAP authorized retail food stores. FNS inadvertently excluded from
publication on www.regulations.gov two supporting documents to the
proposed rule, the Regulatory Impact Analysis and the Regulatory
Flexibility Analysis. These have now been published as part of Docket
FNS-2019-0003. The agency is extending the comment period to provide
the public an opportunity to review and provide comment on these
documents as part of the rulemaking record. For additional information,
see the proposed rule published April 5, 2019 (84 FR 13555).
Dated: June 7, 2019.
Brandon Lipps,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
[FR Doc. 2019-12630 Filed 6-13-19; 8:45 am]
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