Letter to USDA: Advocacy Comments on the Food and Nutrition Service’s Proposed Rule on Administrative Actions and FOIAs
On February 19, 2019, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) published a proposed rule titled: Taking Administrative Actions Pending Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Processing. The Office of Advocacy (Advocacy) urges the FNS to better consider the impacts of this rule on small food retailers and to improve the factual basis underlying the agency’s certification of no significant impact on a substantial number of small entities as is required under the Regulatory Flexibility Act.