Notice2023-27121
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection, Comment Request; Generic Clearance for Hazard Mitigation Assistance Programs
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Published
December 11, 2023
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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 requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks comments concerning a new generic information collection allowing FEMA to individually update instruments needed to provide financial, non-financial, program management, and technical assistance for FEMA's major disaster, emergency response, emergency recovery, and hazard mitigation activities.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 236 (Monday, December 11, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 85898-85899]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-27121]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency
[Docket ID: FEMA-2023-0031; OMB No. 1660-NW157]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection,
Comment Request; Generic Clearance for Hazard Mitigation Assistance
Programs
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 requirements of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks comments concerning
a new generic information collection allowing FEMA to individually
update instruments needed to provide financial, non-financial, program
management, and technical assistance for FEMA's major disaster,
emergency response, emergency recovery, and hazard mitigation
activities.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before February 9, 2024.
ADDRESSES: To avoid duplicate submissions to the docket, please submit
comments at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a> under Docket ID FEMA-2023-0031.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
All submissions received must include the Agency name and Docket
ID. Regardless of the method used to submitting comments or material,
all submissions 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">http://www.regulations.gov</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennie Orenstein, Branch Chief, FEMA's
Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration's Policy, Tools and
Training Branch, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c9a3aca7a7a0ace7aea8a5a5a8bbadb089afaca4a8e7ada1bae7aea6bf"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="452f202b2b2c206b222429292437213c05232028246b212d366b222a33">[email protected]</span></a> or (202) 212-4071. 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#c680838b87eb8fa8a0a9b4aba7b2afa9a8eb85a9aaaaa3a5b2afa9a8b5eb8ba7a8a7a1a3aba3a8b286a0a3aba7e8a2aeb5e8a1a9b0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5b1d1e161a7612353d3429363a2f32343576183437373e382f3234352876163a353a3c3e363e352f1b3d3e363a753f3328753c342d">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act (Pub. L. 93-288, as amended), 42 U.S.C. 5121-
5207 (Stafford Act) provides broad authority to FEMA for disaster and
emergency relief operations, reducing risk to people and property from
hazards, and related activities and operations. The Stafford Act
authorizes FEMA to provide financial and technical assistance to assist
state, local, territorial, and Tribal (SLTT) governments and certain
private non-profit (PNP) entities with the response to and recovery
from Presidentially declared major disasters and emergencies, and the
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implementation of hazard mitigation measures and related activities
that reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and property from
hazards and their effects.
The National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (``NFIA''), as amended,
and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, as amended (42 U.S.C.
4001, et. seq.) authorize FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program
(NFIP), including a wide range of related activities. For instance, the
NFIA authorizes FEMA to provide financial assistance for planning and
carrying out projects and activities designed to reduce the risk of
flood damage to NFIP-insured structures.
FEMA routinely receives additional guidance from Congress, through
new legislation, and the President, through Executive Orders, that
requires changes to previously approved collection instruments in a few
months to provide timely assistance to survivors. FEMA is proposing
moving instruments from currently approved information collections into
this new generic information collection to provide the necessary
flexibility to update individual existing instruments and create new
instruments as new guidance from Congress and the President is
received, deliver timely assistance to survivors (both before and after
a disaster), and maintain compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act.
Collection of Information
Title: Generic Clearance for Hazard Mitigation Assistance Programs.
Type of Information Collection: New information collection.
OMB Number: 1660-NW157.
FEMA Forms: Not Applicable.
Abstract: The Stafford Act authorizes FEMA to provide financial,
non-financial, program management and technical assistance to state,
local, territorial, and Tribal (SLTT) governments and certain private
non-profit (PNP) entities with the response to and recovery from
Presidentially declared major disasters and emergencies, and the
implementation of hazard mitigation measures and related activities
that reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and property from
hazards and their effects. The information collected is required for
FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) programs, the Revolving Loan
Fund capitalization program, and the Public Assistance (PA) Program,
for ongoing program implementation and optimization.
Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal Governments; Private, Non-
Profits.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 671,356.
Estimated Number of Responses: 671,356.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 633,775.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Cost: $39,908,812.
Estimated Respondents' Operation and Maintenance Costs: $0.
Estimated Respondents' Capital and Start-Up Costs: $0.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the Federal Government: $20,801,492.
Comments
Comments may be submitted as indicated in the ADDRESSES 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 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 Brown Wilson,
Records Management Branch Chief, Office of the Chief Administrative
Officer, Mission Support, Federal Emergency Management Agency,
Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2023-27121 Filed 12-8-23; 8:45 am]
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