Notice2021-13869
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; FEMA-Administered Disaster Case Management Intake Form
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June 29, 2021
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Homeland Security DepartmentFederal Emergency Management Agency
Abstract
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public to take this opportunity to comment on a new information collection. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks comments concerning information collected during the intake process for a FEMA-administered Disaster Case Management (DCM) program implemented following a major disaster declaration.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 122 (Tuesday, June 29, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34266-34267]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-13869]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency
[Docket ID: FEMA-2021-0018; OMB No. 1660-NW132]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; FEMA-Administered Disaster Case Management Intake Form
AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: 60-Day notice of new collection and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites
the general public to take this opportunity to comment on a new
information collection. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, this notice seeks comments concerning information collected
during the intake process for a FEMA-administered Disaster Case
Management (DCM) program implemented following a major disaster
declaration.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before August 30, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> under Docket ID FEMA-
2021-0018. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
All submissions received must include the agency name and Docket
ID, and will be posted, without change, to the Federal eRulemaking
Portal at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>, and will include any personal
information you provide. Therefore, submitting this information makes
it public. You may wish to read the Privacy and Security Notice that is
available via a link on the homepage of <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rebekah Kennedy, Team Lead, Community
Services Section, Individual Assistance Division,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f0829592959b9198de9b959e9e959489b096959d91de949883de979f86"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="037166616668626b2d68666d6d66677a4365666e622d676b702d646c75">[email protected]</span></a> or (202) 212-1175. You may contact the
Information Management Division for copies of the proposed collection
of information at email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4006050d016d092e262f322d2134292f2e6d032f2c2c252334292f2e336d0d212e2127252d252e340026252d216e2428336e272f36"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2a6c6f676b0763444c4558474b5e43454407694546464f495e4345445907674b444b4d4f474f445e6a4c4f474b044e4259044d455c">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 12148, as
amended by E.O. 12673 and E.O. 13286, the President of the United
States has delegated to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),
including FEMA, the authority to provide case management services as
stated in the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act (Stafford Act), 42 U.S.C. 5189d. Under the Stafford Act,
FEMA may provide DCM services directly to survivors through financial
assistance to state, tribal, or local government agencies or qualified
private organizations. DCM services include identifying and addressing
disaster-caused unmet needs of survivors through identification of, and
referrals to, available resources. A disaster-caused unmet need is an
un-resourced item, support, or assistance that has been assessed and
verified as necessary for a survivor to recover from a disaster. This
may include food, clothing, shelter, first aid, emotional and spiritual
care, household items, home repair, or rebuilding.
When a case manager speaks to a survivor, they will ask the
survivor to provide information through a series of questions (data
elements), as outlined within the intake form. This will allow the case
manager to better understand the survivor's disaster-caused unmet needs
and to then assist them with obtaining the resources needed. The
information gathered within this collection tool is used to determine
the survivor's disaster-caused unmet needs, to identify what types of
referrals the case manager may provide, and to decide whether there is
a need to meet again to address continuing disaster-caused unmet needs.
Case managers then type the responses to the data elements into their
proprietary electronic secured case management database.
Collection of Information
Title: FEMA-Administered Disaster Case Management Intake Form.
Type of Information Collection: New information collection.
OMB Number: 1660-NW132.
FEMA Forms: FF-104-FY-21-146 and FF-104-FY-21-147.
Abstract: This collection tool will primarily be used as a guide to
support FEMA-administered DCM case managers by outlining the allowable
data elements they can collect from survivors on behalf of FEMA. While
there will be a paper collection tool, the case managers will primarily
be using the tool as a reference of data elements they can collect, and
using their own case management database systems to guide the order in
which the elements are collected. The elements within the tool are used
to assess, screen, and refer disaster survivors to available resources
that address their specific disaster-related unmet needs. Case managers
then take the information from the intake form and manually upload the
data into their secured case management database.
Prior to any data collection, survivors will complete and sign a
FEMA-administered DCM Consent Form, authorizing FEMA, or its agent, to
collect data from the survivor in order to effectively provide case
management services.
Affected Public: Survivors of Presidentially declared major
disasters where a FEMA-administered Disaster Case Management program is
implemented.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 75,000.
Estimated Number of Responses: 75,000.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 48,000 burden hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Cost: $1,746,240.
Estimated Respondents' Operation and Maintenance Costs: $0.
Estimated Respondents' Capital and Start-Up Costs: $0.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the Federal Government: $51,640,374.
Comments
Comments may be submitted as indicated in the ADDRESS caption
above. Comments are solicited to (a) evaluate whether the proposed data
collection is necessary for the proper performance of the agency,
including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b)
evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and
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assumptions used; (c) enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d) minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who are to respond, including
through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection techniques or other forms of information
technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses.
Millicent L. Brown,
Senior Manager, Records Management Branch, Office of the Chief
Administrative Officer, Mission Support, Federal Emergency Management
Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2021-13869 Filed 6-28-21; 8:45 am]
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