Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Rated Orders, Adjustments, Exceptions, or Appeals Under the Emergency Management Priorities and Allocations System (EMPAS), 14135 [2021-05206]

Agencies

• Federal Emergency Management Agency
• DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 47 (Friday, March 12, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 14135]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-05206]



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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

[Docket ID: FEMA-2020-0040; OMB No. 1660-0150]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; Rated Orders, Adjustments, Exceptions, or 
Appeals Under the Emergency Management Priorities and Allocations 
System (EMPAS)

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for comments.

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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 April 12, 2021.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the information collection should be made to Director, 
Information Management Division, email address [email protected] or Marc Geier, Office of Policy and 
Program Analysis, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 500 C Street SW, 
Washington, DC 20472, 202.924.0196 or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposed information collection 
previously published in the Federal Register on January 4, 2021 at 86 
FR 113 with a 60-day public comment period. No comments were received. 
The purpose of this notice is to notify the public that FEMA will 
submit the information collection abstracted below to the Office of 
Management and Budget for review and clearance.

Collection of Information

    Title: Rated Orders, Adjustments, Exceptions, or Appeals Under the 
Emergency Management Priorities and Allocations System (EMPAS).
    Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved 
information collection.
    OMB Number: 1660-0150.
    FEMA Forms: No forms.
    Abstract: To help ensure the timely delivery of goods and services 
in support of approved emergency management programs, section 333.13 of 
the Emergency Management Priorities and Allocations System regulation 
requires suppliers to accept or reject priority rated orders for these 
goods and services within established time periods (10 working days for 
a ``DX'' rated order and 15 working days for a ``DO'' rated order). 
Rated orders may be placed directly by the Federal Government on a 
contractor or supplier, or they may ``flow down'' from a contractor to 
subsequent subcontractors or suppliers. Additionally, FEMA may 
facilitate sales to third parties. Section 333.13 also requires that 
certain emergency preparedness rated orders must be accepted or 
rejected within shorter time periods as specified in section 333.12(b). 
Section 333.13(d)(3) of the EMPAS regulation requires that, if after 
acceptance of a rated order the supplier discovers that shipment or 
performance against the order will be delayed, the supplier must notify 
the customer immediately in written electronic format, giving the 
reasons for the delay and advising the customer of a new shipment or 
performance date. This collection of information involves order 
communications between a Federal Government prime contractor and its 
subcontractors, unless FEMA is facilitating a sale to a third party. In 
those situations, FEMA would collect information on the customer as 
part of the sale facilitation.
    Finally, under section 333.70 each request for adjustment or 
exception must be in writing and contain a complete statement of all 
the facts and circumstances related to 44 CFR part 333 or official 
action from which adjustment is sought and a full and precise statement 
of the reasons why relief should be provided. Under section 333.71, any 
person who has had a request for adjustment or exception denied by FEMA 
under section 333.70 may appeal to the Administrator. Each appeal must 
be in writing and contain a complete statement of all the facts and 
circumstances related to the action appealed from a full and precise 
statement of the reasons the decision should be modified or reversed.
    Affected Public: For Profit Business; Private Non-Profit; State, 
local or Tribal government.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 26.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 26.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 8.5.
    Estimated Total Annual Respondent Cost: $533.
    Estimated Respondents' Operation and Maintenance Costs: None.
    Estimated Respondents' Capital and Start-Up Costs: None.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to the Federal Government: $188.

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.

Millicent L. Brown,
Sr. Manager, Records Management Branch, Office of the Chief 
Administrative Officer, Mission Support, Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2021-05206 Filed 3-11-21; 8:45 am]
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