Notice2025-01203
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Consolidated FEMA-National Training and Education Division (NTED) Level 3 Training Evaluation Forms
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January 17, 2025
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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 revision of a currently approved information collection. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks comments concerning the consolidation of all previous instruments into two evaluation forms to be shared by three FEMA offices to evaluate training programs.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 11 (Friday, January 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5924-5925]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01203]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency
[Docket ID: FEMA-2024-0038; OMB No. 1660-0132]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Consolidated FEMA-National Training and Education
Division (NTED) Level 3 Training Evaluation Forms
AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: 60-Day notice of revision 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 revision of
a currently approved information collection. In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks comments concerning
the consolidation of all previous instruments into two evaluation forms
to be shared by three FEMA offices to evaluate training programs.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before March 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: To avoid duplicate submissions to the docket, please submit
comments at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> under Docket ID FEMA-2024-0038. Follow
the instructions for submitting comments.
All submissions received must include the agency name and Docket
ID. Regardless of the method used for 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">www.regulations.gov</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Samuel Phillips, Supervisory Emergency
Management Specialist, NTED, (202) 786-9573, and
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d083b1bda5b5bcfe80b8b9bcbcb9a0a390b6b5bdb1feb4b8a3feb7bfa6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f7a4969a82929bd9a79f9e9b9b9e8784b791929a96d9939f84d9909881">[email protected]</span></a>. Dr. Pamela Moore, Assistant Director,
Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP), (256) 847-2629, and
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#550534383039347b183a3a273015333038347b313d267b323a23"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="045465696168652a496b6b766144626169652a606c772a636b72">[email protected]</span></a>. Dalia Abdelmeguid, Supervisory Instructional
Systems Specialist, National Disaster and Emergency Management
University (NDEMU), (202) 212-8524, and <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#da9ebbb6b3bbf49bb8bebfb6b7bfbdafb3be9abcbfb7bbf4beb2a9f4bdb5ac"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c783a6abaea6e986a5a3a2abaaa2a0b2aea387a1a2aaa6e9a3afb4e9a0a8b1">[email protected]</span></a>.
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#f2b4b7bfb3dfbb9c949d809f93869b9d9cdfb19d9e9e9791869b9d9c81dfbf939c9395979f979c86b294979f93dc969a81dc959d84"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="aee8ebe3ef83e7c0c8c1dcc3cfdac7c1c083edc1c2c2cbcddac7c1c0dd83e3cfc0cfc9cbc3cbc0daeec8cbc3cf80cac6dd80c9c1d8">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The National Training and Education Division
(NTED), the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) and the National
Disaster and Emergency Management University (NDEMU) are geographically
separated components of FEMA's National Preparedness Directorate. As
such, all three organizations are part of the National Preparedness
Directorate Training Enterprise with unique training missions for
specific target audiences and are responsible for supporting and
enabling national preparedness Core Capability, Community Lifelines,
and Recovery Sector Preparedness performance outcomes described in
Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) 8 National Preparedness, the
National Preparedness Goal (NPG), the National Preparedness System
(NPS), and 2022-2026 FEMA Strategic Plan objectives 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, and
3.1.
Like other Federal training organizations, the NTED, CDP and NDEMU
utilize the Kirkpatrick Training Evaluation Model Level 3 survey
results as one of several training evaluation tools to inform component
program managers and leadership with metrics that monitor and report
organizational performance and compliance with the Government
Performance, Results and Modernization Act of 2010 (the ``GPRA
Modernization Act of 2010''). 31 U.S.C. 1115(b)(6) requires ``. . .a
balanced set of performance indicators to be used in measuring or
assessing progress toward each performance goal, including, as
appropriate, customer service, efficiency, output, and outcome
indicators [emphasis added].'' Due to the qualitative nature of
participants' feedback obtained from this survey measuring impact or
changes in course graduates work performance, their occupations or
organizational performance behavior the results, with other data, are
used to monitor performance of NTED, CDP and NDEMU training programs.
NTED and CDP are members of the National Domestic Preparedness
Consortium (NDPC). Per 6 U.S.C. 1102(c),the NDPC ``shall identify,
develop, test, and deliver training to State, local, and tribal
emergency response providers, provide on-site and mobile training at
the performance and management and planning levels, and facilitate the
delivery of training by the training partners of the Department
[emphasis added].'' FEMA interprets this authority to ``test training''
as the ability to assess its effectiveness, which this survey directly
facilitates.
6 U.S.C. 748(a)(1) directs the FEMA Administrator to, ``in
coordination with heads of appropriate Federal agencies, the National
Council on Disability, and the National Advisory Council, [ ] carry out
a national training program to implement the national preparedness
goal, National Incident Management System, National Response Plan, and
other related plans and strategies.'' In addition, 6 U.S.C. 748(a)(2)
directs the FEMA Administrator, in developing and implementing the
national training program, to ``work with government training
facilities, academic institutions, private organizations, and other
entities that provide specialized, state-of-the-art training for
emergency managers or emergency response providers; and utilize, as
appropriate, training courses provided by community colleges, State and
local public safety academies, State and private universities, and
other facilities.''
The Level 3 data collected from course graduates three to six
months following training provides NTED, CDP and NDEMU with information
and data on how training knowledge, skill and attitudes (KSA's) gained
from training transfer to the student's job and organization and if the
training was applied to the job, an exercise, or during an operational
mission. Note: The
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number of NTED CTG training providers may fluctuate, increase, or
decrease based on fiscal year grant funding levels approved by
Congress.
This revision consolidates all evaluation forms for all offices
into two shared instruments.
Collection of Information
Title: Consolidated FEMA-National Training and Education Division
(NTED) Level 3 Training Evaluation Forms.
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved
information collection.
OMB Number: 1660-0132.
FEMA Forms: CDP, NDEMU, and NTED Level 3 Student Evaluation Form,
FEMA Form FF-008-FY-25-100; CDP, NDEMU, and NTED Level 3 Supervisor
Evaluation Form, FEMA Form FF-008-FY-25-101.
Abstract: NTED, CDP, and NDEMU all utilize the Kirkpatrick Four
Level Training Evaluation Model to assess training effectiveness.
Donald Kirkpatrick developed the four-level model of training
evaluation: Level 1 evaluation captures the students' perception or
reaction to training. Level 2 completes a pre-post comparison of
learning via tests/examinations and performance assessment checklists
of the student learning (change in behavior). Level 3 evaluation
instruments capture how the training transfers to the students' work
environment and their particular job. Lastly, Level 4 captures
information about the return on key stakeholder expectations of the
course or training program. The data collected by these training
evaluation forms is shared with representatives from each course/
program's respective target audience during three-year course/program
reviews. All three organizations analyze the data to determine what
revisions are needed in curriculum, delivery, and to elicit inputs to
improve training while providing documentation as to how training was
applied, and how it impacts the individual and organization.
Affected Public: State, Local, and Tribal Government; Private
Sector.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 20,224.
Estimated Number of Responses: 20,224.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 5,057.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Cost: $302,117.
Estimated Respondents' Operation and Maintenance Costs: $0.
Estimated Respondents' Capital and Start-Up Costs: $0.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the Federal Government: $41,797.
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.
Maile Rasco-Arthur,
Acting Records Management Branch Chief, Office of the Chief
Administrative Officer, Mission Support, Federal Emergency Management
Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2025-01203 Filed 1-16-25; 8:45 am]
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