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information collection. In accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, this notice seeks comments
concerning the requirements of the
WYO Transaction Record Reporting and
Processing Plan.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before December 15, 2014.
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–2014–0030. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
(2) Mail. Submit written comments to
Docket Manager, Office of Chief
Counsel, DHS/FEMA, 500 C Street SW.,
Room 8NE, Washington, DC 20472–
3100.
(3) Facsimile. Submit comments to
(202) 212–4701.
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 https://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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kevin Montgomery, Financial
Management Analyst, Federal Insurance
& Mitigation Administration, (202) 212–
2324 for additional information. You
may contact the Records Management
Division for copies of the proposed
collection of information at facsimile
number (202) 202–4701 or email
address: FEMA-Information-CollectionsManagement@dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Write Your Own (WYO) Program, FEMA
regulation 44 CFR 62.23 authorizes the
Federal Insurance Administrator to
enter into arrangements with individual
private sector insurance companies that
are licensed to engage in the business of
property insurance. These companies
may offer flood insurance coverage to
eligible property owners utilizing their
customary business practices. To
facilitate the marketing of flood
insurance, the Federal Government will
be a grantor of flood insurance coverage
for WYO Company policies issued
under the WYO arrangement. To ensure
that any policyholders’ monies are
accounted for and appropriately
expended, the Federal Insurance
Administrator implemented a Financial
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Control Plan (FCP) under FEMA
regulation 44 CFR 62.23(f). This plan
requires that each WYO Company
submit financial data on a monthly basis
into the National Flood Insurance
Program’s Transaction Record Reporting
and Processing Plan (TRRPP) system, as
referenced in 44 CFR 62.23(h)(4). The
regulation explains the operational and
financial control procedures governing
the issuance of flood insurance coverage
under the National Flood Insurance
Program (NFIP) by private sector
property insurance companies under the
WYO Program.
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Collection of Information
Title: Write Your Own (WYO)
Program.
Type of Information Collection:
Extension, without change, of a
currently approved information
collection.
OMB Number: 1660–0020.
Form Titles and Numbers: FEMA
Form 129–1, Write Your Own Program.
Abstract: FEMA enters into
arrangements with individual private
sector insurance companies that are
licensed to engage in the business of
property insurance. These companies
may offer flood insurance coverage to
eligible property owners utilizing their
customary business practices. WYO
Companies are expected to meet the
recording and reporting requirements of
the WYO Transaction Record Reporting
and Processing Plan.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents: 88.
Number of Responses: 1056.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 62304.
Estimated Cost: There is no annual
start-up or capital costs.
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
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,
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Dated: October 1, 2014.
Charlene D. Myrthil,
Director, Records Management Division,
Mission Support Bureau, Federal Emergency
Management Agency, Department of
Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
[Docket ID FEMA–2014–0025; OMB No.
1660–0130]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Generic
Clearance for the Collection of
Qualitative Feedback on Agency
Service Delivery
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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 November 14, 2014.
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 oira.submission@
omb.eop.gov 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–
3100, facsimile number (202) 212–4701,
or email address FEMA-InformationCollections-Management@fema.dhs.gov.
SUMMARY:
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Collection of Information
Title: Generic Clearance for the
Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Agency Service Delivery.
Type of information collection:
Revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Form Titles and Numbers: None.
Abstract: The information collection
activity will garner qualitative customer
and stakeholder feedback in an efficient,
timely manner, in accordance with the
Administration’s commitment to
improving service delivery. By
qualitative feedback, we mean
information that provides useful
insights on perceptions and opinions,
but are not statistical surveys that yield
quantitative results that can be
generalized to the population of study.
This feedback will provide insights into
customer or stakeholder perceptions,
experiences and expectations, provide
an early warning of issues with service,
or focus attention on areas where
communication, training or changes in
operations might improve delivery of
products or services. These collections
will allow for ongoing, collaborative and
actionable communications between the
Agency and its customers and
stakeholders. It will also allow feedback
to contribute directly to the
improvement of program management.
Feedback collected under this generic
clearance will provide useful
information, but it will not yield data
that can be generalized to the overall
population. This type of generic
clearance for qualitative information
will not be used for quantitative
information collections that are
designed to yield reliably actionable
results, such as monitoring trends over
time or documenting program
performance. Such data uses require
more rigorous designs that address: The
target population to which
generalizations will be made, the
sampling frame, the sample design
(including stratification and clustering),
the precision requirements or power
calculations that justify the proposed
sample size, the expected response rate,
methods for assessing potential nonresponse bias, the protocols for data
collection, and any testing procedures
that were or will be undertaken prior to
fielding the study. Depending on the
degree of influence the results are likely
to have, such collections may still be
eligible for submission for other generic
mechanisms that are designed to yield
quantitative results.
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Affected Public: Individuals or
Households.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
326,207.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 54,436.
Estimated Cost: There are no annual
start-up or capital costs.
Charlene D. Myrthil,
Director, Records Management Division,
Mission Support Bureau, Federal Emergency
Management Agency, Department of
Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
[Docket ID FEMA–2014–0002]
Changes in Flood Hazard
Determinations
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Final notice.
AGENCY:
New or modified Base (1%
annual-chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs),
base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard
Area (SFHA) boundaries or zone
designations, and/or regulatory
floodways (hereinafter referred to as
flood hazard determinations) as shown
on the indicated Letter of Map Revision
(LOMR) for each of the communities
listed in the table below are finalized.
Each LOMR revises the Flood Insurance
Rate Maps (FIRMs), and in some cases
the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) reports,
currently in effect for the listed
communities. The flood hazard
determinations modified by each LOMR
will be used to calculate flood insurance
premium rates for new buildings and
their contents.
DATES: The effective date for each
LOMR is indicated in the table below.
ADDRESSES: Each LOMR is available for
inspection at both the respective
Community Map Repository address
listed in the table below and online
through the FEMA Map Service Center
at www.msc.fema.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Luis
Rodriguez, Chief, Engineering
Management Branch, Federal Insurance
and Mitigation Administration, FEMA,
500 C Street SW., Washington, DC
20472, (202) 646–4064, or (email)
Luis.Rodriguez3@fema.dhs.gov; or visit
the FEMA Map Information eXchange
SUMMARY:
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(FMIX) online at
www.floodmaps.fema.gov/fhm/fmx_
main.html.
The
Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) makes the final flood hazard
determinations as shown in the LOMRs
for each community listed in the table
below. Notice of these modified flood
hazard determinations has been
published in newspapers of local
circulation and ninety (90) days have
elapsed since that publication. The
Deputy Associate Administrator for
Mitigation has resolved any appeals
resulting from this notification.
The modified flood hazard
determinations are made pursuant to
section 206 of the Flood Disaster
Protection Act of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 4105,
and are in accordance with the National
Flood Insurance Act of 1968, 42 U.S.C.
4001 et seq., and with 44 CFR part 65.
For rating purposes, the currently
effective community number is shown
and must be used for all new policies
and renewals.
The new or modified flood hazard
information is the basis for the
floodplain management measures that
the community is required either to
adopt or to show evidence of being
already in effect in order to remain
qualified for participation in the
National Flood Insurance Program
(NFIP).
This new or modified flood hazard
information, together with the
floodplain management criteria required
by 44 CFR 60.3, are the minimum that
are required. They should not be
construed to mean that the community
must change any existing ordinances
that are more stringent in their
floodplain management requirements.
The community may at any time enact
stricter requirements of its own or
pursuant to policies established by other
Federal, State, or regional entities.
This new or modified flood hazard
determinations are used to meet the
floodplain management requirements of
the NFIP and also are used to calculate
the appropriate flood insurance
premium rates for new buildings, and
for the contents in those buildings. The
changes in flood hazard determinations
are in accordance with 44 CFR 65.4.
Interested lessees and owners of real
property are encouraged to review the
final flood hazard information available
at the address cited below for each
community or online through the FEMA
Map Service Center at
www.msc.fema.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency
[Docket ID FEMA-2014-0025; OMB No. 1660-0130]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Generic Clearance for the Collection of
Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
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 November 14, 2014.
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
oira.submission@omb.eop.gov 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
20472-3100, facsimile number (202) 212-4701, or email address FEMA-Information-Collections-Management@fema.dhs.gov.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Collection of Information
Title: Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback
on Agency Service Delivery.
Type of information collection: Revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Form Titles and Numbers: None.
Abstract: The information collection activity will garner
qualitative customer and stakeholder feedback in an efficient, timely
manner, in accordance with the Administration's commitment to improving
service delivery. By qualitative feedback, we mean information that
provides useful insights on perceptions and opinions, but are not
statistical surveys that yield quantitative results that can be
generalized to the population of study. This feedback will provide
insights into customer or stakeholder perceptions, experiences and
expectations, provide an early warning of issues with service, or focus
attention on areas where communication, training or changes in
operations might improve delivery of products or services. These
collections will allow for ongoing, collaborative and actionable
communications between the Agency and its customers and stakeholders.
It will also allow feedback to contribute directly to the improvement
of program management.
Feedback collected under this generic clearance will provide useful
information, but it will not yield data that can be generalized to the
overall population. This type of generic clearance for qualitative
information will not be used for quantitative information collections
that are designed to yield reliably actionable results, such as
monitoring trends over time or documenting program performance. Such
data uses require more rigorous designs that address: The target
population to which generalizations will be made, the sampling frame,
the sample design (including stratification and clustering), the
precision requirements or power calculations that justify the proposed
sample size, the expected response rate, methods for assessing
potential non-response bias, the protocols for data collection, and any
testing procedures that were or will be undertaken prior to fielding
the study. Depending on the degree of influence the results are likely
to have, such collections may still be eligible for submission for
other generic mechanisms that are designed to yield quantitative
results.
Affected Public: Individuals or Households.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 326,207.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 54,436.
Estimated Cost: There are no annual start-up or capital costs.
Charlene D. Myrthil,
Director, Records Management Division, Mission Support Bureau, Federal
Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2014-24481 Filed 10-14-14; 8:45 am]
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