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Dated: February 5, 2018.
Jeffrey G. Lantz,
Director of Commercial Regulations and
Standards.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
[Docket ID FEMA–2014–0022]
Technical Mapping Advisory Council
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Committee management; request
for applicants for appointment to the
Federal Emergency Management
Agency’s Technical Mapping Advisory
Council.
AGENCY:
The Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) is
requesting qualified individuals
interested in serving on the Technical
Mapping Advisory Council (TMAC) to
apply for appointment. As provided for
in the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance
Reform Act of 2012, the TMAC makes
recommendations to the FEMA
Administrator on how to improve, in a
cost-effective manner, the accuracy,
general quality, ease of use, and
distribution and dissemination of flood
insurance rate maps (FIRMs) and risk
data; and improve performance metrics
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and milestones required to effectively
and efficiently map flood risk areas in
the United States. Applicants will be
considered for one of ten vacancies on
the TMAC. Appointments will be for
terms beginning October 1, 2018, and
lasting two years.
DATES: Applications will be accepted
until 11:59 p.m. EST on March 12, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Applications for
membership should be submitted by
one of the following methods:
• Email: FEMA–TMAC@
fema.dhs.gov.
• Mail: FEMA, Federal Insurance and
Mitigation Administration, Risk
Management Directorate, Attn: Mark
Crowell, 400 C Street SW, Suite 313,
Washington, DC 20472–3020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mark Crowell (Designated Federal
Officer for the TMAC); FEMA, Federal
Insurance and Mitigation
Administration, Risk Management
Directorate, 400 C Street SW, Suite 313,
Washington, DC 20472–3020; telephone:
(202) 646–3432; and email: FEMA–
TMAC@fema.dhs.gov. The TMAC
website is: https://www.fema.gov/TMAC.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
TMAC is an advisory committee that
was established by the Biggert-Waters
Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, 42
U.S.C. 4101a, and in accordance with
provisions of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App.
(Pub. L. 92–463). The TMAC is required
to make recommendations to FEMA on
mapping-related issues and activities.
This includes mapping standards and
guidelines, performance metrics and
milestones, map maintenance,
interagency and intergovernmental
coordination, map accuracy, funding
strategies, and other mapping-related
issues and activities. In addition, the
TMAC is required to submit an annual
report to the FEMA Administrator that
contains: (1) A description of the
activities of the Council; (2) an
evaluation of the status and
performance of flood insurance rate
maps and mapping activities to revise
and update Flood Insurance Rate Maps;
and (3) a summary of recommendations
made by the Council to the FEMA
Administrator.
Members of the TMAC will be
appointed based on their demonstrated
knowledge and competence regarding
surveying, cartography, remote sensing,
geographic information systems, or the
technical aspects of preparing and using
FIRMs. To the maximum extent
practicable, FEMA will ensure that
membership of the TMAC has a balance
of Federal, State, local, Tribal, and
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private members, and includes
geographic diversity.
FEMA is requesting qualified
individuals who are interested in
serving on the TMAC to apply for
appointment. Applicants will be
considered for appointment for ten
vacancies on the TMAC, the terms of
which start on October 1, 2018. Certain
members of the TMAC, as indicated
below, will be appointed to serve as
Special Government Employees (SGE)
as defined in section 202(a) of title 18
United States Code. Candidates selected
for appointment as SGEs are required to
complete a Confidential Financial
Disclosure Form (Office of Government
Ethics (OGE) Form 450). This form can
be obtained by visiting the website of
the Office of Government Ethics (https://
www.oge.gov). Please do not submit this
form with your application. Qualified
applicants will be considered for one or
more of the following membership
categories with vacancies:
a. One representative of a State
government agency that has entered into
a cooperating technical partnership with
the FEMA Administrator and has
demonstrated the capability to produce
FIRMs;
b. One member of a recognized
professional surveying association or
organization (SGE appointment);
c. One member of a recognized
professional mapping association or
organization (SGE appointment);
d. One member of a recognized
professional engineering association or
organization (SGE appointment);
e. One representative of a State
national flood insurance coordination
office;
f. Two representatives of local
government agency that has entered into
a cooperating technical partnership with
the FEMA Administrator and has
demonstrated the capability to produce
FIRMs;
g. One member of a recognized
floodplain management association or
organization (SGE appointment);
h. One member of a recognized risk
management association or organization
(SGE appointment); and
i. One State mitigation officer (SGE
appointment).
Members of the TMAC serve terms of
office for two years. There is no
application form. However, applications
must include the following information:
• The applicant’s full name,
• home and business phone numbers,
• preferred email address,
• home and business mailing
addresses,
• current position title and
organization,
• resume or curriculum vitae, and
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• the membership category of interest
(e.g., member of a recognized
professional association or organization
representing flood hazard determination
firms).
Applicants can submit a cover letter
along with their resume to the listed
contact (i.e. the POC listed in the
Further Information section of the FR
notice).
The TMAC shall meet as often as
needed to fulfill its mission, but not less
than twice a year. Members may be
reimbursed for travel and per diem
incurred in the performance of their
duties as members of the TMAC. All
travel for TMAC business must be
approved in advance by the Designated
Federal Officer.
The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) does not discriminate in
employment on the basis of race, color,
religion, sex, national origin, political
affiliation, sexual orientation, gender
identity, marital status, disability and
genetic information, age, membership in
an employee organization, or other nonmerit factor. DHS strives to achieve a
widely diverse candidate pool for all its
recruitment actions. Current DHS and
FEMA employees will not be considered
for membership. Federally registered
lobbyists will not be considered for SGE
appointments.
Dated: January 31, 2018.
Roy Wright,
Associate Administrator, Federal Insurance
and Mitigation Administration.
[FR Doc. 2018–02486 Filed 2–7–18; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
[Docket ID: FEMA–2017–0028; OMB No.
1660–0058]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Fire
Management Assistance Grant
Program
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Correction notice and request
for comments.
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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
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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. FEMA is publishing this
notice to correct a misstatement in a
previous notice that this collection was
a reinstatement, with change, of a
currently approved information
collection. This collection is actually
being submitted to the Office of
Management of Budget for review and
clearance as an extension, without
change, of a currently approved
collection.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before February 26, 2018.
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 dhsdeskofficer@
omb.eop.gov.
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,
Washington, DC 20472, email address
FEMA-Information-CollectionsManagement@fema.dhs.gov or Allen
Wineland, FMAG Program Manager,
Office of Response & Recovery, FEMA,
(202) 702–1472.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
proposed information collection notice
previously published in the Federal
Register on January 26, 2018 at 83 FR
3763 with a 30 day public comment
period. The notice incorrectly stated
that this collection was a reinstatement,
with change, of a currently approved
information collection. This collection
is being submitted to the Office of
Management of Budget for review and
clearance as an extension, without
change, of a currently approved
collection.
Collection of Information
Title: Fire Management Assistance
Grant Program.
Type of information collection:
Extension, without change, of a
currently approved information
collection.
OMB Number: 1660–0058.
Form Titles and Numbers: FEMA
Form 078–0–1, Request for Fire
Management Assistance Declaration;
FEMA Form 089–0–24, Request for Fire
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Management Sub-grant; FEMA Form
078–0–2, Principal Advisor’s Report.
Abstract: The information collection
is required to make grant eligibility
determinations for the Fire Management
Assistance Grant Program (FMAGP).
These eligibility-based grants and
subgrants provide assistance to any
eligible State, Indian tribal government,
or local government for the mitigation,
management, and control of a fire on
public or private forest land or grassland
that is threatening such destruction as
would constitute a major disaster. The
data/information gathered in the forms
is used to determine the severity of the
threatening fire, current and forecast
weather conditions, and associated
factors related to the fire and its
potential threat as a major disaster.
Affected Public: State, local, or Tribal
Government.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
178.
Estimated Number of Responses: 553.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 811.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Cost: The estimated annual cost to
respondents for the hour burden is
$56,281.
Estimated Respondents’ Operation
and Maintenance Costs: There are no
annual costs to respondents operations
and maintenance costs for technical
services.
Estimated Respondents’ Capital and
Start-Up Costs: There is no annual startup or capital costs.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the
Federal Government: The cost to the
Federal Government is $612,370.
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.
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[FR Doc No: 2018-02486]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency
[Docket ID FEMA-2014-0022]
Technical Mapping Advisory Council
AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Committee management; request for applicants for appointment to
the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Technical Mapping Advisory
Council.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is requesting
qualified individuals interested in serving on the Technical Mapping
Advisory Council (TMAC) to apply for appointment. As provided for in
the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, the TMAC makes
recommendations to the FEMA Administrator on how to improve, in a cost-
effective manner, the accuracy, general quality, ease of use, and
distribution and dissemination of flood insurance rate maps (FIRMs) and
risk data; and improve performance metrics and milestones required to
effectively and efficiently map flood risk areas in the United States.
Applicants will be considered for one of ten vacancies on the TMAC.
Appointments will be for terms beginning October 1, 2018, and lasting
two years.
DATES: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. EST on March 12,
2018.
ADDRESSES: Applications for membership should be submitted by one of
the following methods:
Email: [email protected].
Mail: FEMA, Federal Insurance and Mitigation
Administration, Risk Management Directorate, Attn: Mark Crowell, 400 C
Street SW, Suite 313, Washington, DC 20472-3020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Crowell (Designated Federal
Officer for the TMAC); FEMA, Federal Insurance and Mitigation
Administration, Risk Management Directorate, 400 C Street SW, Suite
313, Washington, DC 20472-3020; telephone: (202) 646-3432; and email:
[email protected]. The TMAC website is: https://www.fema.gov/TMAC.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The TMAC is an advisory committee that was
established by the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012,
42 U.S.C. 4101a, and in accordance with provisions of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App. (Pub. L. 92-463). The TMAC
is required to make recommendations to FEMA on mapping-related issues
and activities. This includes mapping standards and guidelines,
performance metrics and milestones, map maintenance, interagency and
intergovernmental coordination, map accuracy, funding strategies, and
other mapping-related issues and activities. In addition, the TMAC is
required to submit an annual report to the FEMA Administrator that
contains: (1) A description of the activities of the Council; (2) an
evaluation of the status and performance of flood insurance rate maps
and mapping activities to revise and update Flood Insurance Rate Maps;
and (3) a summary of recommendations made by the Council to the FEMA
Administrator.
Members of the TMAC will be appointed based on their demonstrated
knowledge and competence regarding surveying, cartography, remote
sensing, geographic information systems, or the technical aspects of
preparing and using FIRMs. To the maximum extent practicable, FEMA will
ensure that membership of the TMAC has a balance of Federal, State,
local, Tribal, and private members, and includes geographic diversity.
FEMA is requesting qualified individuals who are interested in
serving on the TMAC to apply for appointment. Applicants will be
considered for appointment for ten vacancies on the TMAC, the terms of
which start on October 1, 2018. Certain members of the TMAC, as
indicated below, will be appointed to serve as Special Government
Employees (SGE) as defined in section 202(a) of title 18 United States
Code. Candidates selected for appointment as SGEs are required to
complete a Confidential Financial Disclosure Form (Office of Government
Ethics (OGE) Form 450). This form can be obtained by visiting the
website of the Office of Government Ethics (https://www.oge.gov). Please
do not submit this form with your application. Qualified applicants
will be considered for one or more of the following membership
categories with vacancies:
a. One representative of a State government agency that has entered
into a cooperating technical partnership with the FEMA Administrator
and has demonstrated the capability to produce FIRMs;
b. One member of a recognized professional surveying association or
organization (SGE appointment);
c. One member of a recognized professional mapping association or
organization (SGE appointment);
d. One member of a recognized professional engineering association
or organization (SGE appointment);
e. One representative of a State national flood insurance
coordination office;
f. Two representatives of local government agency that has entered
into a cooperating technical partnership with the FEMA Administrator
and has demonstrated the capability to produce FIRMs;
g. One member of a recognized floodplain management association or
organization (SGE appointment);
h. One member of a recognized risk management association or
organization (SGE appointment); and
i. One State mitigation officer (SGE appointment).
Members of the TMAC serve terms of office for two years. There is
no application form. However, applications must include the following
information:
The applicant's full name,
home and business phone numbers,
preferred email address,
home and business mailing addresses,
current position title and organization,
resume or curriculum vitae, and
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the membership category of interest (e.g., member of a
recognized professional association or organization representing flood
hazard determination firms).
Applicants can submit a cover letter along with their resume to the
listed contact (i.e. the POC listed in the Further Information section
of the FR notice).
The TMAC shall meet as often as needed to fulfill its mission, but
not less than twice a year. Members may be reimbursed for travel and
per diem incurred in the performance of their duties as members of the
TMAC. All travel for TMAC business must be approved in advance by the
Designated Federal Officer.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not discriminate in
employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin,
political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital
status, disability and genetic information, age, membership in an
employee organization, or other non-merit factor. DHS strives to
achieve a widely diverse candidate pool for all its recruitment
actions. Current DHS and FEMA employees will not be considered for
membership. Federally registered lobbyists will not be considered for
SGE appointments.
Dated: January 31, 2018.
Roy Wright,
Associate Administrator, Federal Insurance and Mitigation
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2018-02486 Filed 2-7-18; 8:45 am]
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