Notice2024-06621
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review, Comment Request; Generic Clearance for FEMA's Major Disaster, Emergency Response, Emergency Recovery, and Hazard Mitigation Programs
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Published
March 28, 2024
Issuing agencies
Homeland Security DepartmentFederal Emergency Management Agency
Abstract
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will submit the information collection abstracted below to the Office of Management and Budget for review and clearance in accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The submission 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 89, Number 61 (Thursday, March 28, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21529-21530]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-06621]
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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: Submission for OMB
Review, Comment Request; Generic Clearance for FEMA's Major Disaster,
Emergency Response, Emergency Recovery, and Hazard Mitigation Programs
AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: 30-Day notice of new collection and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will submit the
information collection abstracted below to the Office of Management and
Budget for review and clearance in accordance with the requirements of
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The submission 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 April 29, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection should be made to Director,
Information Management Division, 500 C Street SW, Washington, DC 20472,
email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1f595a525e32567179706d727e6b767071325c7073737a7c6b7670716c32527e717e787a727a716b5f797a727e317b776c31787069"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0442414945294d6a626b766965706d6b6a29476b68686167706d6b6a772949656a65636169616a7044626169652a606c772a636b72">[email protected]</span></a> or
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#3b515e5555525e155c5a57575a495f427b5d5e565a155f5348155c544d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ed878883838488c38a8c81818c9f8994ad8b88808cc389859ec38a829b">[email protected]</span></a> or (202) 212-4071.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act (Pub. L. 93-288, as amended), 42 U.S.C. 5121-
5207
[[Page 21530]]
(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
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 (E.O.).
Congressional and E.O. mandates often require significant adjustments
to previously approved information collections to provide timely
assistance to survivors and are often required within weeks. 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.
This proposed information collection previously published in the
Federal Register on December 11, 2023, at 88 FR 85898 with a 60-day
public comment period. No comments were received. The purpose of this
notice is to notify the public that FEMA will submit the information
collection abstracted below to the Office of Management and Budget for
review and clearance.
Collection of Information
Title: Generic Clearance for FEMA's Major Disaster, Emergency
Response, Emergency Recovery, and Hazard Mitigation 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: $21,641,036.
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. 2024-06621 Filed 3-27-24; 8:45 am]
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