81_FR_74670 81 FR 74463 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) Application and Reporting

81 FR 74463 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) Application and Reporting

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 207 (October 26, 2016)

Page Range74463-74464
FR Document2016-25896

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on an extension, without change, of a currently approved information collection. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks comments concerning the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program application and reporting requirements.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 207 (Wednesday, October 26, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 207 (Wednesday, October 26, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74463-74464]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-25896]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

[Docket ID: FEMA-2016-0024; OMB No. 1660-0076]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) Application and 
Reporting

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency Management Agency, as part of its 
continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites 
the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity 
to comment on an extension, without change, of a currently approved 
information collection. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995, this notice seeks comments concerning the Hazard Mitigation 
Grant Program application and reporting requirements.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before December 27, 2016.

ADDRESSES: To avoid duplicate submissions to the docket, please use 
only one of the following means to submit comments:
    (1) Online. Submit comments at www.regulations.gov under Docket ID 
FEMA-2016-0024. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
    (2) Mail. Submit written comments to Docket Manager, Office of 
Chief Counsel, DHS/FEMA, 500 C Street SW., 8NE, Washington, DC 20472-
3100.
    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 http://www.regulations.gov, and will include any 
personal information you provide. Therefore, submitting this 
information makes it public. You may wish to read the Privacy Act 
notice that is available via the link in the footer of 
www.regulations.gov.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennie Orenstein, Chief, HMA Grants 
Policy Branch, 202-212-4071. You may contact Records Management 
Division for copies of the proposed collection of information at email 
address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 404 of the Robert T. Stafford 
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5170c, 
established the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program. Grant requirements and 
grants management procedures of the program are outlined in 44 CFR part 
206 Subpart N and 2 CFR part 200. FEMA administers the HMGP, and 
Grantees implement the grants under the HMPG per grant agreement and 
rules and regulations. The HMGP is a post-disaster program that 
contributes funds toward the cost of hazard mitigation activities in 
order to reduce the risk of future damage, hardship, loss or suffering 
in any area affected by a major disaster. Grantees are defined as any 
State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the 
Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands, or an Indian tribal government that chooses 
to act as a grantee.

Collection of Information

    Title: Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) Application and 
Reporting.
    Type of Information Collection: Extension, without change, of a 
currently approved information collection.
    OMB Number: 1660-0076.
    FEMA Forms: FEMA Form 009-0-111A, Quarterly Progress Reports.
    Abstract: FEMA administers the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, 
which is a post-disaster program that contributes funds toward the cost 
of hazard mitigation activities in order to reduce the risk of future 
damage hardship, loss or suffering in any area affected by a major 
disaster. FEMA uses applications to provide financial assistance in the 
form of grant awards and, through grantee quarterly reporting, monitor 
grantee project activities and expenditure of funds.
    Affected Public: State, local or Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 56.
    Number of Responses: 4,626.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 48,572.
    Estimated Cost: None.

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.

    Dated: October 20, 2016.
Richard W. Mattison,
Records Management Program Chief, Mission Support, Federal Emergency 
Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2016-25896 Filed 10-25-16; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 207 / Wednesday, October 26, 2016 / Notices 74463 only one of the following means to includes an appendix with guidance on Dated: October 19, 2016. submit comments: providing photographs with the EHP Richard W. Mattison, (1) Online. Submit comments at submission. Recipients are no longer Records Management Program Chief, Mission www.regulations.gov under Docket ID required to submit floodplain and Support, Federal Emergency Management FEMA–2016–0026. Follow the wetlands maps or information about the Agency, Department of Homeland Security. instructions for submitting comments. proposed project’s relationship to an [FR Doc. 2016–25800 Filed 10–25–16; 8:45 am] (2) Mail. Submit written comments to existing master plan. BILLING CODE 9111–46–P Docket Manager, Office of Chief Counsel, DHS/FEMA, 500 C Street SW., Collection of Information 8NE, Washington, DC 20472–3100. Title: Environmental and Historic DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND All submissions received must Preservation Screening Form. SECURITY include the agency name and Docket ID. Type of Information Collection: Regardless of the method used for Revision of a currently approved Federal Emergency Management submitting comments or material, all information collection. Agency submissions will be posted, without OMB Number: 1660–0115. [Docket ID: FEMA–2016–0024; OMB No. change, to the Federal eRulemaking FEMA Forms: FEMA Form 024–0–1, 1660–0076] Portal at http://www.regulations.gov, Environmental and Historic and will include any personal Preservation Screening Form. Agency Information Collection information you provide. Therefore, Abstract: NEPA requires that each Activities: Proposed Collection; submitting this information makes it Federal agency to examine the impact of Comment Request; Hazard Mitigation public. You may wish to read the its actions (including the actions of Grant Program (HMGP) Application Privacy Act notice that is available via recipients using grant funds) on the and Reporting the link in the footer of human environment, to look at potential www.regulations.gov. alternatives to that action, and to inform AGENCY: Federal Emergency both decision-makers and the public of Management Agency, DHS. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Beth those impacts through a transparent ACTION: Notice. McWaters-Bjorkman, Environmental Protection Specialist, FEMA, Grant process. This Screening Form will SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency Programs Directorate, 202–786–9854, facilitate FEMA’s review of recipient Management Agency, as part of its elizabeth.mcwaters-bjorkman@ actions in FEMA’s effort to comply with continuing effort to reduce paperwork fema.dhs.gov. You may contact the the environmental requirements. and respondent burden, invites the Records Management Division for Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal general public and other Federal copies of the proposed collection of Government; Not-for-Profit Institutions. agencies to take this opportunity to Number of Respondents: 2,000. information at email address: FEMA- comment on an extension, without Number of Responses: 2,000. Information-Collections-Management@ Estimated Total Annual Burden change, of a currently approved fema.dhs.gov. Hours: 16,000. information collection. In accordance SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FEMA’s Estimated Cost: The estimated annual with the Paperwork Reduction Act of Grant Programs Directorate (GPD) cost to respondents for the hour burden 1995, this notice seeks comments awards thousands of grants and each is $796,320. There are no annual costs concerning the Hazard Mitigation Grant year through various grant programs. to respondents’ operations and Program application and reporting These programs award funds for maintenance costs for technical requirements. projects used to improve homeland services. There are no annual start-up or DATES: Comments must be submitted on security and emergency preparedness. capital costs. The cost to the Federal or before December 27, 2016. The National Environmental Policy Act Government is $5,504,580. ADDRESSES: To avoid duplicate of 1969 (NEPA), Public Law 91–190, submissions to the docket, please use Sec. 102(B) and (C), 42 U.S.C. 4332, the Comments only one of the following means to National Historic Preservation Act of Comments may be submitted as submit comments: 1966 (NHPA), Public Law 89–665, 16 indicated in the ADDRESSES caption (1) Online. Submit comments at U.S.C. 470f and a variety of other above. Comments are solicited to (a) www.regulations.gov under Docket ID environmental and historic preservation evaluate whether the proposed data FEMA–2016–0024. Follow the laws and Executive Orders (E.O.) collection is necessary for the proper instructions for submitting comments. require the Federal government to performance of the agency, including (2) Mail. Submit written comments to examine the potential impacts of its whether the information shall have Docket Manager, Office of Chief proposed actions on communities, practical utility; (b) evaluate the Counsel, DHS/FEMA, 500 C Street SW., public health and safety, and cultural, accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 8NE, Washington, DC 20472–3100. historic, and natural resources prior to burden of the proposed collection of All submissions received must undertaking those actions. The GPD information, including the validity of include the agency name and Docket ID. process of considering these potential the methodology and assumptions used; Regardless of the method used for impacts is called an environmental and (c) enhance the quality, utility, and submitting comments or material, all historic preservation (EHP) review clarity of the information to be submissions will be posted, without which is employed to examine collected; and (d) minimize the burden change, to the Federal eRulemaking asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES compliance with multiple EHP of the collection of information on those Portal at http://www.regulations.gov, authorities through one consolidated who are to respond, including through and will include any personal process. the use of appropriate automated, information you provide. Therefore, With input from recipients, FEMA is electronic, mechanical, or other submitting this information makes it proposing to revise the EHP Screening technological collection techniques or public. You may wish to read the Form for clarity and ease of use. The other forms of information technology, Privacy Act notice that is available via 2013 EHP Screening Form does not e.g., permitting electronic submission of the link in the footer of require any new information, and responses. www.regulations.gov. VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:25 Oct 25, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00073 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\26OCN1.SGM 26OCN1

74464 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 207 / Wednesday, October 26, 2016 / Notices FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: above. Comments are solicited to (a) www.fema.gov/firegrants, as well as Jennie Orenstein, Chief, HMA Grants evaluate whether the proposed data www.grants.gov. Policy Branch, 202–212–4071. You may collection is necessary for the proper Authority: 15 U.S.C. 2229. contact Records Management Division performance of the agency, including DATES: Grant applications for the for copies of the proposed collection of whether the information shall have Assistance to Firefighters Grants will be information at email address: FEMA- practical utility; (b) evaluate the accepted electronically at https:// Information-Collections-Management@ accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the portal.fema.gov, from October 11, 2016 fema.dhs.gov. burden of the proposed collection of through November 18, 2016, at 5:00 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section information, including the validity of p.m. Eastern Time. 404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster the methodology and assumptions used; (c) enhance the quality, utility, and ADDRESSES: Assistance to Firefighters Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, clarity of the information to be Grants Branch, DHS/FEMA, 400 C Street 42 U.S.C. 5170c, established the Hazard collected; and (d) minimize the burden SW., 3N, Washington, DC 20472–3635. Mitigation Grant Program. Grant requirements and grants management of the collection of information on those FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: procedures of the program are outlined who are to respond, including through Catherine Patterson, Branch Chief, in 44 CFR part 206 Subpart N and 2 CFR the use of appropriate automated, Assistance to Firefighters Grant Branch, part 200. FEMA administers the HMGP, electronic, mechanical, or other 1–866–274–0960. and Grantees implement the grants technological collection techniques or SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The AFG under the HMPG per grant agreement other forms of information technology, Program awards grants directly to fire and rules and regulations. The HMGP is e.g., permitting electronic submission of departments, nonaffiliated emergency a post-disaster program that contributes responses. medical services (EMS) organizations, funds toward the cost of hazard Dated: October 20, 2016. and state fire training academies mitigation activities in order to reduce Richard W. Mattison, (SFTAs) for the purpose of enhancing the risk of future damage, hardship, loss Records Management Program Chief, Mission the abilities of first responders to protect or suffering in any area affected by a Support, Federal Emergency Management the health and safety of the public, as major disaster. Grantees are defined as Agency, Department of Homeland Security. well as first-responder personnel facing any State of the United States, the [FR Doc. 2016–25896 Filed 10–25–16; 8:45 am] fire and fire-related hazards. District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the BILLING CODE 9111–47–P Applications for the FY 2016 AFG Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Program will be submitted and and the Commonwealth of the Northern processed online at https:// Mariana Islands, or an Indian tribal DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND portal.fema.gov. Before the application government that chooses to act as a SECURITY period starts, the FY 2016 AFG Notice grantee. of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) will be Federal Emergency Management published on the AFG Web site Collection of Information Agency www.fema.gov/firegrants. The AFG Web Title: Hazard Mitigation Grant site will also provide additional Program (HMGP) Application and [Docket ID FEMA–2016–0030] information and materials useful to Reporting. applicants including: (1) Frequently Type of Information Collection: Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program Asked Questions; (2) Get Ready Guide; Extension, without change, of a and (3) Quick Reference Guide. Based currently approved information AGENCY: Federal Emergency on past AFG application periods, it is collection. Management Agency (FEMA), expected that 10,000 to 15,000 OMB Number: 1660–0076. Department of Homeland Security applications will be submitted for FY FEMA Forms: FEMA Form 009–0– (DHS). 2016 AFG Program grant funds. FEMA 111A, Quarterly Progress Reports. anticipates that it will be able to award Abstract: FEMA administers the ACTION: Notice of availability of grant application and application deadline. approximately 3,000 grants with the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, available grant funding. which is a post-disaster program that SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Fire contributes funds toward the cost of Prevention and Control Act of 1974, as Appropriations hazard mitigation activities in order to amended (15 U.S.C. 2229), the For the FY 2016 Assistance to reduce the risk of future damage Administrator of the Federal Emergency Firefighters Grant Program, Congress hardship, loss or suffering in any area Management Agency (FEMA) is appropriated $345,000,000 (see: the affected by a major disaster. FEMA uses publishing this notice describing the Department of Homeland Security applications to provide financial Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Assistance to Appropriations Act, 2016, Public Law assistance in the form of grant awards Firefighters Grant (AFG) Program 114–1130. From this amount, and, through grantee quarterly application process, deadlines, and $310,500,000 will be made available for reporting, monitor grantee project award selection criteria. This notice AFG awards. In addition, the Federal activities and expenditure of funds. explains the differences, if any, between Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974, Affected Public: State, local or Tribal these guidelines and those as amended (15 U.S.C. 2229), requires Government. recommended by representatives of the that a minimum of 10 percent of asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Number of Respondents: 56. Number of Responses: 4,626. national fire service leadership during available funds be expended for Fire Estimated Total Annual Burden the annual meeting of the Criteria Prevention and Safety Grants (FP&S), to Hours: 48,572. Development Panel, which was held be made directly to local fire Estimated Cost: None. November 9–10, 2015. The application departments and to local, regional, state, period for the FY 2016 AFG Program or national entities recognized for their Comments will be held October 11, 2016 through expertise in the fields of fire prevention Comments may be submitted as November 18, 2016, and will be and firefighter safety research and indicated in the ADDRESSES caption announced on the AFG Web site development. Funds appropriated for VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:25 Oct 25, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00074 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\26OCN1.SGM 26OCN1


Document Created: 2016-10-26 02:17:12
Document Modified: 2016-10-26 02:17:12
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesComments must be submitted on or before December 27, 2016.
ContactJennie Orenstein, Chief, HMA Grants Policy Branch, 202-212-4071. You may contact Records Management Division for copies of the proposed collection of information at email
FR Citation81 FR 74463 
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