Notice2025-10281
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection, Comment Request; National Flood Insurance Program-Ask the Advocate Web Form
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Published
June 6, 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 requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks comments concerning the Office of the Flood Insurance Advocate's (OFIA) Ask the Advocate web form and the removal of two instruments that are no longer needed.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 108 (Friday, June 6, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24150-24151]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-10281]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency
[Docket ID: FEMA-2025-0013; OMB No. 1660-0086]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection,
Comment Request; National Flood Insurance Program--Ask the Advocate Web
Form
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
requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks
comments concerning the Office of the Flood Insurance Advocate's (OFIA)
Ask the Advocate web form and the removal of two instruments that are
no longer needed.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before August 5, 2025.
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-2025-0013.
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: Joe Cecil, Advocate Representative
Team Lead, Office of the Flood Insurance Advocate, National Flood
Insurance Program, Federal Emergency Management Agency, at (202) 701-
3465 or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#054f6a7660756d2b4660666c6945636068642b616d762b626a73"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="99d3f6eafce9f1b7dafcfaf0f5d9fffcf4f8b7fdf1eab7fef6ef">[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#5f191a121e72163139302d323e2b363031721c3033333a3c2b3630312c72123e313e383a323a312b1f393a323e713b372c71383029"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7533303834583c1b131a071814011c1a1b58361a19191016011c1a1b065838141b14121018101b0135131018145b111d065b121a03">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 24 of the Homeowner Flood Insurance
Affordability Act of 2014 (Pub. L. 113-89, codified at 42 U.S.C. 4033),
requires FEMA to designate a Flood Insurance Advocate that would
advocate for the fair treatment of National Flood Insurance Program
(NFIP) policyholders and property owners by: (1) providing education
and guidance on all aspects of the NFIP, (2) identifying trends
affecting the public, and (3) making recommendations for NFIP program
improvements to FEMA leadership. Pursuant to this authority, FEMA
established the OFIA on December 22, 2014.
Members of the public regularly contact OFIA seeking assistance on
the NFIP. OFIA seeks to facilitate the timely and effective management
of these inquiries by using a web form on OFIA's web page at <a href="https://www.fema.gov/flood-insurance/advocate">https://www.fema.gov/flood-insurance/advocate</a>. The web form allows users to
provide information that includes all the data necessary for OFIA to
perform its Congressionally-mandated duties and responsibilities.
The Federal Insurance Directorate determined the Mortgage Portfolio
Protection Program (MPPP) form is no longer necessary due to the
implementation of Risk Rating 2.0 and therefore will not be renewed
under this effort. This revision removes both the Financial Assistance/
Subsidy Arrangement Notice of Acceptance and MPPP Agreement Receipt for
Materials instruments from this information collection, as they are no
longer needed. This revision also corrects a technical error within
ROCIS that inflates the burden imposed by the remaining FEMA Form FF-
206-FY-21-121, Ask the Advocate Web Form.
Collection of Information
Title: National Flood Insurance Program--Ask the Advocate Web Form.
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved
information collection.
OMB Number: 1660-0086.
FEMA Forms: FEMA Form FF-206-FY-21-121, Ask the Advocate Web Form.
Abstract: OFIA advocates for the fair treatment of NFIP
policyholders and property owners by providing education
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and guidance, identify trends that affect the public, and making
recommendations for NFIP program improvements. OFIA uses the Ask the
Advocate Web Form as an electronic intake instrument to gather the
required data for each case.
Affected Public: Individuals or Households; Businesses or other
For-Profit.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,000.
Estimated Number of Responses: 1,000.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 83.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Cost: $3,931.
Estimated Respondents' Operation and Maintenance Costs: $0.
Estimated Respondents' Capital and Start-Up Costs: $0.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the Federal Government: $39,631.
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.
Russell R. Bard,
Acting Senior Director for Information Management, Office of the Chief
Administrative Officer, Mission Support, Federal Emergency Management
Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2025-10281 Filed 6-5-25; 8:45 am]
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