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Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No.
97.036, Disaster Grants—Public Assistance
(Presidentially Declared Disasters).
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No.
97.036, Disaster Grants—Public Assistance
(Presidentially Declared Disasters).
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
W. Craig Fugate,
Administrator, Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
W. Craig Fugate,
Administrator, Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
[Docket ID FEMA–2015–0002]
Notice of Adjustment of Disaster Grant
Amounts
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
FEMA gives notice of an
increase of the maximum amount for
Small Project Grants made to state,
tribal, and local governments and
private nonprofit facilities for disasters
declared on or after October 1, 2015.
DATES: Effective date: October 1, 2015,
and applies to major disasters and
emergencies declared on or after
October 1, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
William Roche, Recovery Directorate,
Federal Emergency Management
Agency, 500 C Street SW., Washington,
DC 20472, (202) 646–3834.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C.
5121–5207, as amended by the Sandy
Recovery Improvement Act, Public Law
113–2, provides that FEMA will
annually adjust the maximum grant
amount made under section 422,
Simplified Procedures, relating to the
Public Assistance program, to reflect
changes in the Consumer Price Index for
All Urban Consumers published by the
Department of Labor.
FEMA gives notice of an increase to
$121,800 in the maximum amount of
any Small Project Grant made to state,
tribal, and local governments or to the
owner or operator of an eligible private
nonprofit facility under section 422 of
the Stafford Act for all major disasters
or emergencies declared on or after
October 1, 2015.
FEMA bases the adjustment on an
increase in the Consumer Price Index
for All Urban Consumers of 0.2 percent
for the 12-month period that ended in
August 2015. This is based on
information released by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics at the U.S. Department
of Labor on September 16, 2015.
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Notice of Adjustment of Statewide Per
Capita Impact Indicator
AGENCY:
SUMMARY:
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ACTION:
Notice.
FEMA gives notice that the
statewide per capita impact indicator
under the Public Assistance program for
disasters declared on or after October 1,
2015, will remain the same.
SUMMARY:
Effective Date: October 1, 2015,
and applies to major disasters declared
on or after October 1, 2015.
DATES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
William Roche, Recovery Directorate,
Federal Emergency Management
Agency, 500 C Street SW., Washington,
DC 20472, (202) 646–3834.
44 CFR
206.48 provides that FEMA will adjust
the statewide per capita impact
indicator under the Public Assistance
program to reflect changes in the
Consumer Price Index for All Urban
Consumers published by the
Department of Labor.
FEMA gives notice that the statewide
per capita impact indicator will remain
at $1.41 for all disasters declared on or
after October 1, 2015.
FEMA bases the adjustment on an
increase in the Consumer Price Index
for All Urban Consumers of 0.2 percent
for the 12-month period that ended in
August 2015. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the U.S. Department of
Labor released the information on
September 16, 2015.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No.
97.036, Disaster Grants—Public Assistance
(Presidentially Declared Disasters).
W. Craig Fugate,
Administrator, Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Application for
Naturalization, Form N–400; Revision
of a Currently Approved Collection
U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
ACTION: Extension of comment period
past original 30-day notice end date.
AGENCY:
The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS) has
submitted the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995. The information collection notice
requesting comments for 30 days was
previously published on September 28,
2015, at 80 FR 58292. The comment
period is being extended to allow
additional time to review the
documentation submitted in support of
this information collection request. All
detail in this Notice other than the
updated comment end period and the
Action remains the same. The
information collection notice was
previously published in the Federal
Register on April 8, 2015, at 80 FR
18856, allowing for a 60-day public
comment period. USCIS did receive 6
comments in connection with the 60day notice.
DATES: The purpose of this notice is to
allow an additional 30 days for public
comments. Comments are encouraged
and will be accepted until November 12,
2015. This process is conducted in
accordance with 5 CFR 1320.10.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and/or
suggestions regarding the item(s)
contained in this notice, especially
regarding the estimated public burden
and associated response time, must be
directed to the OMB USCIS Desk Officer
via email at oira_submission@
omb.eop.gov. Comments may also be
submitted via fax at 202–395–5806.
(This is not a toll-free number.) All
submissions received must include the
agency name and the OMB Control
Number 1615–0052.
You may wish to consider limiting the
amount of personal information that you
provide in any voluntary submission
you make. For additional information,
please read the Privacy Act notice that
SUMMARY:
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is available via the link in the footer of
https://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
USCIS, Office of Policy and Strategy,
Regulatory Coordination Division, Laura
Dawkins, Chief, 20 Massachusetts
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20529–
2140, Telephone number 202–272–
8377. (This is not a toll-free number;
comments are not accepted via
telephone message.) Please note contact
information provided here is solely for
questions regarding this notice. It is not
for individual case status inquiries.
Applicants seeking information about
the status of their individual cases can
check Case Status Online, available at
the USCIS Web site at https://
www.uscis.gov, or call the USCIS
National Customer Service Center at
800–375–5283; TTY 800–767–1833.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Comments
You may access the information
collection instrument with instructions
or additional information by visiting the
Federal eRulemaking Portal site at:
https://www.regulations.gov and enter
USCIS–2008–0025 in the search box.
Written comments and suggestions from
the public and affected agencies should
address one or more of the following
four points:
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
(2) 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;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(4) 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.
Overview of This Information
Collection
(1) Type of Information Collection
Request: Revision of a Currently
Approved Collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection:
Application for Naturalization.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the DHS
sponsoring the collection: N–400;
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(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Primary: Individuals or
households. USCIS uses the information
gathered on Form N–400 to make a
determination as to a respondent’s
eligibility to naturalize and become a
U.S. citizen.
(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: 774,634.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: 7,570,500.
(7) An estimate of the total public
burden (in cost) associated with the
collection: $131,230,065.
Dated: October 7, 2015.
Laura Dawkins,
Chief, Regulatory Coordination Division,
Office of Policy and Strategy, U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services
[OMB Control Number 1615–0012]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Petition for Alien Relative,
Form I–130, and Form I–130A; Revision
of a Currently Approved Collection
U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
ACTION: 60-Day Notice.
AGENCY:
The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS), invites
the general public and other Federal
agencies to comment upon this
proposed revision of a currently
approved collection of information. In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the information
collection notice is published in the
Federal Register to obtain comments
regarding the nature of the information
collection, the categories of
respondents, the estimated burden (e.g.,
the time, effort, and resources used by
the respondents to respond), the
estimated cost to the respondent, and
the actual information collection
instruments.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted for 60 days until
December 14, 2015.
ADDRESSES: All submissions received
must include the OMB Control Number
SUMMARY:
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1615–0012 in the subject box, the
agency name, and Docket ID USCIS–
2007–0037. To avoid duplicate
submissions please use only one of the
following methods to submit comments:
(1) Online. Submit comments via the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at https://
www.regulations.gov under e-Docket ID
number USCIS–2007–0037;
(2) Email. Submit comments to
USCISFRComment@uscis.dhs.gov; or
(3) Mail. Submit written comments to
DHS, USCIS, Office of Policy and
Strategy, Chief, Regulatory Coordination
Division, 20 Massachusetts Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20529–2140.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
USCIS, Office of Policy and Strategy,
Regulatory Coordination Division, Laura
Dawkins, Chief, 20 Massachusetts
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20529–
2140, telephone number 202–272–8377.
(This is not a toll-free number.
Comments are not accepted via
telephone message.) Please note contact
information provided here is solely for
questions regarding this notice. It is not
for individual case status inquiries.
Applicants seeking information about
the status of their individual cases can
check Case Status Online, available at
the USCIS Web site at https://
www.uscis.gov, or call the USCIS
National Customer Service Center at
800–375–5283 (TTY 800–767–1833).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Comments
You may access the information
collection instrument with instructions,
or additional information, by visiting
the Federal eRulemaking Portal site at
https://www.regulations.gov and entering
USCIS–2007–0037 in the search box.
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 consider
limiting the amount of personal
information that you provide in any
voluntary submission you make to DHS.
DHS may withhold information
provided in comments from public
viewing that it determines may impact
the privacy of an individual or is
offensive. For additional information,
please read the Privacy Act notice that
is available via the link in the footer of
https://www.regulations.gov.
Written comments and suggestions
from the public and affected agencies
should address one or more of the
following four points:
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
[OMB Control Number 1615-0052]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Application for
Naturalization, Form N-400; Revision of a Currently Approved Collection
AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
ACTION: Extension of comment period past original 30-day notice end
date.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services (USCIS) has submitted the following
information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. The information collection notice requesting
comments for 30 days was previously published on September 28, 2015, at
80 FR 58292. The comment period is being extended to allow additional
time to review the documentation submitted in support of this
information collection request. All detail in this Notice other than
the updated comment end period and the Action remains the same. The
information collection notice was previously published in the Federal
Register on April 8, 2015, at 80 FR 18856, allowing for a 60-day public
comment period. USCIS did receive 6 comments in connection with the 60-
day notice.
DATES: The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for
public comments. Comments are encouraged and will be accepted until
November 12, 2015. This process is conducted in accordance with 5 CFR
1320.10.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and/or suggestions regarding the item(s)
contained in this notice, especially regarding the estimated public
burden and associated response time, must be directed to the OMB USCIS
Desk Officer via email at oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. Comments may
also be submitted via fax at 202-395-5806. (This is not a toll-free
number.) All submissions received must include the agency name and the
OMB Control Number 1615-0052.
You may wish to consider limiting the amount of personal
information that you provide in any voluntary submission you make. For
additional information, please read the Privacy Act notice that
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is available via the link in the footer of https://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: USCIS, Office of Policy and Strategy,
Regulatory Coordination Division, Laura Dawkins, Chief, 20
Massachusetts Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20529-2140, Telephone number
202-272-8377. (This is not a toll-free number; comments are not
accepted via telephone message.) Please note contact information
provided here is solely for questions regarding this notice. It is not
for individual case status inquiries. Applicants seeking information
about the status of their individual cases can check Case Status
Online, available at the USCIS Web site at https://www.uscis.gov, or
call the USCIS National Customer Service Center at 800-375-5283; TTY
800-767-1833.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Comments
You may access the information collection instrument with
instructions or additional information by visiting the Federal
eRulemaking Portal site at: https://www.regulations.gov and enter USCIS-
2008-0025 in the search box. Written comments and suggestions from the
public and affected agencies should address one or more of the
following four points:
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
(2) 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;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) 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.
Overview of This Information Collection
(1) Type of Information Collection Request: Revision of a Currently
Approved Collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection: Application for Naturalization.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the
DHS sponsoring the collection: N-400; USCIS.
(4) Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as
well as a brief abstract: Primary: Individuals or households. USCIS
uses the information gathered on Form N-400 to make a determination as
to a respondent's eligibility to naturalize and become a U.S. citizen.
(5) An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount
of time estimated for an average respondent to respond: 774,634.
(6) An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated
with the collection: 7,570,500.
(7) An estimate of the total public burden (in cost) associated
with the collection: $131,230,065.
Dated: October 7, 2015.
Laura Dawkins,
Chief, Regulatory Coordination Division, Office of Policy and Strategy,
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland
Security.
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