OMB Bulletin
on Good
Guidance Practices
Under the Office of Management and
Budget's " Final Bulletin for
Agency Good Guidance Practices,"
published in the Federal Register on
January 25, 2007 (72 Federal Register
3432-3440), the Food and Nutrition
Service is required to make available on
the web, and accept comments with regard
to the "significant guidance
documents" The Bulletin defines a
"significant guidance
document" as a guidance document
disseminated to regulated entities or
the general public that may reasonably
be anticipated to either:
-
lead
to an annual effect of $100 million
or more or adversely affect in a
material way the economy,
productivity, competition, jobs, the
environment, public health or
safety, or State, local, or tribal
governments or communities;
-
create
a serious inconsistency or otherwise
interfere with an action taken or
planned by another agency;
-
materially
alter the budgetary impact of
entitlements, grants, user fees, or
loan programs or the rights or
obligations of recipients thereof;
or
-
raise
novel legal or policy issues arising
out of legal mandates, the
President's priorities, etc.
FNS has reviewed its existing
guidance and identified the following
significant guidance documents:
Guidance
Document: Food
Stamp Nutrition Education Guidance
Date of
Issuance: March 6, 2007
Replaces: 2007
Guidance
Regulation that
the Guidance Interprets: 7
CFR PART 271.1, 272.2(d)
Guidance
Document: Food
Buying Guide for Child Nutrition
Programs
Date of
Issuance: November 2001
Replaces: January
1984 version
Regulation that
the Guidance Interprets: 7
CFR Parts 210, 220, 225, 226
Guidance
Document: Child
Nutrition Labeling for Non-Meat Products
Date of
Issuance: December 2004
Replaces: January
1997 version
Regulation that
the Guidance Interprets: Appendix
C of 7 CFR Parts 210, 220, 225, 226
To review a copy of the OMB Bulletin
on Final Bulletin for Agency Good
Guidance Practices, click
here.
To make a comment or raise a concern
with regard to any of these guidance
documents, or to comment on FNS's
implementation of the OMB Bulletin,
contact:
Office of Research and Analysis
Attn: Rich Lucas
3101 Park Center Drive
Alexandria, VA 22302
E-mail: Richard.Lucas@fns.usda.gov
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