80 FR 10138 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) v5.0

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 37 (February 25, 2015)

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 will describe the nature of the information collection, the categories of respondents, the estimated burden (i.e., the time, effort and resources used by respondents to respond) and cost, and the actual data collection instruments FEMA will use.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 37 (Wednesday, February 25, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 10138]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-03838]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

[Docket ID: FEMA-2014-0031; OMB No. 1660-0069]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; National Fire Incident Reporting System 
(NFIRS) v5.0

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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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 will describe the 
nature of the information collection, the categories of respondents, 
the estimated burden (i.e., the time, effort and resources used by 
respondents to respond) and cost, and the actual data collection 
instruments FEMA will use.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before March 27, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments on the proposed information 
collection to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office 
of Management and Budget. Comments should be addressed to the Desk 
Officer for the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency 
Management Agency, and sent via electronic mail to 
[email protected] or faxed to (202) 395-5806.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the information collection should be made to Director, 
Records Management Division, 500 C Street SW., Room 7NE, Washington, DC 
20472, facsimile number (202) 212-4701, or email address [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 10, 2014, FEMA published in the 
Federal Register at 79 FR 64610 a 60 day Federal Register notice 
requesting comment on FEMA's proposed revision to the National Fire 
Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) v5.0 informaton collection. FEMA 
subsquently received 8 comments providing positive and constructive 
feedback regarding the information collected by NFIRS. The cost and 
hour burden of the NFIRS to users was not addressed directly in any of 
the comments received. All comments received regarding the content of 
information collected, the suggested combination of the NFIRS with 
other data collection systems, the suggested enhancements to the user 
interface experience of some specific systems (which would impact 
average time burden in reporting), the suggested ``mandatory 
reporting'' by all fire agencies (including Wildland), and the 
capability for fire departments to review other fire department and 
regional fire incident data were provided to the program office for 
their consideration when updating or modifiying the NFIRS.

Collection of Information

    Title: National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) v5.0.
    Type of information collection: Revision of a currently approved 
information collection.
    Form Titles and Numbers: FEMA Form The National Fire Incident 
Reporting System (NFIRS) v5.0.
    Abstract: NFIRS was established in 1975 by the USFA as a 
cooperative effort of local, State, and Federal authorities to improve 
uniformity in fire incident reporting and to ensure that data are 
useable for fire protection planning and management. The program 
provides a well-established mechanism, using standardized reporting 
methods, to collect and analyze fire incident data at the Federal, 
State, and local levels with a myriad of life and property saving uses 
and benefits.
    Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal, and Federal Governments.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 23,856. The number of respondents 
has increased by 856 since FEMA published the 60 day Federal Register 
notice on October 30, 2014 because of a clerical error.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 13,500,230. The annual burden 
hours decreased by 204,670 hours from the previous inventory due to 
discontinuation of use of NFIRS paper forms and a small decrease in the 
number of students receiving the NFIRS Program Management Training and 
Orientation.
    Estimated Cost: The estimated annual operations and maintenance 
costs to respondents or record keepers resulting from the collection of 
information is $13,915,000. The estimated annual cost to the Federal 
Government is $2,416,255.

    Dated: February 5, 2015.
Charlene D. Myrthil,
Director, Records Management Division, Mission Support, Federal 
Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2015-03838 Filed 2-24-15; 8:45 am]
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