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Properties Using FEMA Hazard
Mitigation Assistance Grant Funds;
FEMA Form FF–206–FY–22–157, Model
Deed Restriction; and FEMA Form FF–
206–FY–22–156, Model Statement of
Assurances for Property Acquisition
Projects.
Abstract: The Federal Emergency
Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) Flood
Mitigation Assistance (FMA) and
Building Resilient Infrastructure and
Communities (BRIC) programs use an
automated grant application and
management system called FEMA GO.
The Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM)
program and the FMA program also uses
an automated grant application and
management system called Mitigation
(MT) eGrants. The FEMA GO and MT
eGrants systems include application
information needed to apply for funding
under these grant programs. FEMA uses
the BRIC Panel Review Form to solicit
volunteers from State, local, Tribal
governments and Other Federal
Agencies (OFA), to review applications
that are routed to the qualitative panel
reviews. The volunteers will review,
and score applications based on a predetermined scoring criteria. The PDM,
FMA, and BRIC programs will use the
same FEMA Form FF–206–FY–22–151
Quarterly Progress Report (QPR) Form.
Affected Public: State, local or Tribal
governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
617.
Estimated Number of Responses:
17,249.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 97,858.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Cost: $5,914,144.
Estimated Respondents’ Operation
and Maintenance Costs: $0.
Estimated Respondents’ Capital and
Start-Up Costs: $0.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the
Federal Government: $7,739,695.
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,
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electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Millicent Brown Wilson,
Records Management Branch Chief, Office
of the Chief Administrative Officer, Mission
Support, Federal Emergency Management
Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
[Docket ID FEMA–2022–0040; OMB No.
1660–0076]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Hazard
Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)
Application Reporting
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, Department of
Homeland Security.
ACTION: 60 Day notice of revision and
request for comments.
AGENCY:
The Federal Emergency
Management Agency, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent burden, invites the
general public to take this opportunity
to comment on an extension, with
change, of a currently approved
information collection. In accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, this notice seeks comments
regarding the requirements, grants
management procedures, and
implementation of grants awarded
under the Hazard Mitigation Grant
Program (HMGP), which is a postdisaster program that contributes funds
toward the cost of hazard mitigation
activities to reduce the risk of future
damage, hardship, loss or suffering in
any area affected by a major disaster.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before January 23, 2023.
ADDRESSES: To avoid duplicate
submissions to the docket, please
submit comments at
www.regulations.gov under Docket ID
FEMA–2022–0040. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jennie Orenstein, Chief, HMA Grants
Policy Branch, at (202) 212–4071 or
jennie.orenstein@fema.dhs.gov. You
may contact the Information
Management Division for copies of the
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proposed collection of information at
email address: FEMA-InformationCollections-Management@fema.dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act,
42 U.S.C. 5170c, authorizes the Hazard
Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP).
Program grant requirements and grants
management procedures are outlined in
44 CFR part 206 subpart N, and 2 CFR
parts 200 and 3002. The Federal
Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) administers the HMGP, and
Recipients implement the grants under
the HMPG per grant agreement, rules,
and regulations. The HMGP is a postdisaster program that contributes funds
toward the cost of hazard mitigation
activities to reduce the risk of future
damage, hardship, loss or suffering in
any area affected by a major disaster or
any area affected by a fire for which
assistance was provided under section
420 of the Stafford Act (42 U.S.C. 5187).
Section 102 of the Stafford Act (42
U.S.C. 5122(4)) defines a ‘‘state’’ 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. ‘‘Recipient’’, as
provided in 2 CFR 200, means a nonFederal entity that receives a Federal
award directly from a Federal awarding
agency to carry out an activity under a
Federal program, or an Indian tribal
government that chooses to act as a
recipient rather than as a subrecipient.
‘‘Subrecipient’’ refers to a non-Federal
entity that receives a subaward from a
pass-through entity to carry out part of
a Federal program; but does not include
an individual that is a beneficiary of
such program. A subrecipient may also
be a recipient of other Federal awards
directly from a Federal awarding
agency. The term ‘‘Indian tribal
government’’ is defined in Section 102
of the Stafford Act, 42 U.S.C. 5122(6), as
the governing body of any Indian or
Alaska Native tribe, band, nation,
pueblo, village, or community that the
Secretary of the Interior acknowledges
to exist as an Indian tribe under the
Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List
Act of 1994. In addition, the Sandy
Recovery Improvement Act of 2013
(Pub. L. 113–2, 42 U.S.C. 5170(b))
amended the Stafford Act to allow the
Chief Executive of a federally
recognized Indian tribe to make a direct
request for a major disaster or
emergency declaration to the President
of the United States.
The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) adopted in its entirety
the Uniform Administrative
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Requirements, Cost Principles, and
Audit Requirements for Federal Awards
(2 CFR part 200) on December 26, 2014,
at 2 CFR part 3002, (79 FR 75867,
December 19, 2014). This rule
eliminates overlapping and duplicative
requirements for stakeholders, including
states, territories and Indian tribal
governments, by using general terms
such as ‘‘recipient’’ and ‘‘pass-through
entity.’’
The HMGP regulation describes the
application process in 44 CFR 206.436.
Information collected through the
financial award application is the
minimum information necessary for the
financial award administration under
the HMGP and includes the project
narrative, analysis of the measure’s costeffectiveness referred to as the benefitcost determination, and environmental
review used in conjunction with OMB
No. 1660–0025.
44 CFR 206.436(d) states: ‘‘The State
must submit all local HMGP
applications and funding requests for
the purpose of identifying new projects
to the Regional Administrator within 12
months of the date of disaster
declaration.’’ Furthermore, Section 311
of the DHS Appropriations Act, 2022
(Pub. L. 117–103, 136 Stat. 331) states:
‘‘beginning between January 1, 2020,
and December 31, 2021, the Federal
share of assistance, including direct
Federal assistance, provided under such
sections shall be not less than 90
percent of the eligible cost of such
assistance.’’ The legislation applies to
all current FY 2022 HMGP local and
Tribal sub applicants and significantly
alters application and program financial
management information collection
requirements. The DHS Appropriations
Act, 2022 does not provide additional
funding for HMGP COVID–19 relief
beyond the already established $3.46
billion.
Per 44 CFR 206.438(c), progress
reports must be submitted by the HMGP
Recipient to the Regional Administrator
on a quarterly basis, certifying how the
funds are being used and reporting on
the progress of activities funded under
the subrecipient awards made to the
Recipient by FEMA. The Regional
Administrator and Recipient negotiate
the date for submission of the first
report. Quarterly progress reports
describe the status of those projects on
which a final payment of the Federal
share has not been made to the
recipient, and outline any problems or
circumstances expected to result in
noncompliance with the approved
award conditions.
The legislative changes are expected
to trigger a significant increase in
requests by local sub applicants who
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have not yet developed FY 2022 project
applications. The requests will likely
extend the application deadline beyond
the standard 12-month deadline of
August 5, 2022. Applications Period
extension requests, authorized under 44
CFR 206.436(e), may add additional
information collection burden.
The Foundations for Evidence-Based
Policymaking Act of 2018 (Evidence
Act) (Pub. L. 115–435, 5 U.S.C. 311–
315) establishes evaluation using
systematic data collection and analysis
of programs, policies, and organizations
intended to assess their effectiveness
and efficiency as an essential program
activity. Hazard Mitigation programs are
currently revising information
collections to simply data collection,
reduce burden, coordinate data
collection across programs, develop
performance metrics, and meet goals
and priorities as stipulated in the
Evidence Act. Program implementation
of the Evidence Act will necessitate
changes to information collections.
Additionally, the Build America, Buy
America Act (BABAA) (Pub. L. 117–58,
70901–70927) and Executive Order
(E.O.) 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis
At Home and Abroad, (86 FR 7619,
February 1, 2021) establishes additional
information collection requirements,
goals and priorities.
Collection of Information
Title: Hazard Mitigation Grant
Program (HMGP) Application and
Reporting.
Type of Information Collection:
Extension, with change, of a currently
approved information collection.
OMB Number: OMB No. 1660–0076.
FEMA Forms: Project Narrative;
Benefit-Cost Determination;
Environmental Review; FEMA Form
FF–206–FY–22–154 (formerly 009–0–
111A), Quarterly Progress Reports.
Abstract: The Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA)
administers the Hazard Mitigation Grant
Program, which is a post-disaster
program that contributes funds toward
the cost of hazard mitigation activities
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.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
236.
Estimated Number of Responses:
10,891
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Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 100,280.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Cost: $6,141,147.
Estimated Respondents’ Operation
and Maintenance Costs: $0.
Estimated Respondents’ Capital and
Start-Up Costs: $0.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the
Federal Government: $2,211,399
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 Brown Wilson,
Records Management Branch Chief, Office
of the Chief Administrative Officer, Mission
Support, Federal Emergency Management
Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
[Docket No. CISA–2022–0013]
Notice of President’s National
Infrastructure Advisory Council
Meeting
Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS).
ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory
Committee Act (FACA) meeting; request
for comments.
AGENCY:
CISA is publishing this notice
to announce the following President’s
National Infrastructure Advisory
Council (NIAC) meeting.
DATES: Meeting Registration:
Registration is required to attend the
meeting and must be received no later
than 5 p.m. eastern time (ET) on
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency
[Docket ID FEMA-2022-0040; OMB No. 1660-0076]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)
Application Reporting
AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: 60 Day notice of revision and request for comments.
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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 to take this opportunity to comment on an extension,
with change, of a currently approved information collection. In
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks
comments regarding the requirements, grants management procedures, and
implementation of grants awarded under the Hazard Mitigation Grant
Program (HMGP), which is a post-disaster program that contributes funds
toward the cost of hazard mitigation activities to reduce the risk of
future damage, hardship, loss or suffering in any area affected by a
major disaster.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before January 23, 2023.
ADDRESSES: To avoid duplicate submissions to the docket, please submit
comments at www.regulations.gov under Docket ID FEMA-2022-0040. Follow
the instructions for submitting comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennie Orenstein, Chief, HMA Grants
Policy Branch, at (202) 212-4071 or [email protected]. You
may contact the Information 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,
authorizes the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP). Program grant
requirements and grants management procedures are outlined in 44 CFR
part 206 subpart N, and 2 CFR parts 200 and 3002. The Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) administers the HMGP, and Recipients implement
the grants under the HMPG per grant agreement, rules, and regulations.
The HMGP is a post-disaster program that contributes funds toward the
cost of hazard mitigation activities to reduce the risk of future
damage, hardship, loss or suffering in any area affected by a major
disaster or any area affected by a fire for which assistance was
provided under section 420 of the Stafford Act (42 U.S.C. 5187).
Section 102 of the Stafford Act (42 U.S.C. 5122(4)) defines a ``state''
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. ``Recipient'', as provided in 2 CFR 200,
means a non-Federal entity that receives a Federal award directly from
a Federal awarding agency to carry out an activity under a Federal
program, or an Indian tribal government that chooses to act as a
recipient rather than as a subrecipient. ``Subrecipient'' refers to a
non-Federal entity that receives a subaward from a pass-through entity
to carry out part of a Federal program; but does not include an
individual that is a beneficiary of such program. A subrecipient may
also be a recipient of other Federal awards directly from a Federal
awarding agency. The term ``Indian tribal government'' is defined in
Section 102 of the Stafford Act, 42 U.S.C. 5122(6), as the governing
body of any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo,
village, or community that the Secretary of the Interior acknowledges
to exist as an Indian tribe under the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe
List Act of 1994. In addition, the Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of
2013 (Pub. L. 113-2, 42 U.S.C. 5170(b)) amended the Stafford Act to
allow the Chief Executive of a federally recognized Indian tribe to
make a direct request for a major disaster or emergency declaration to
the President of the United States.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) adopted in its entirety
the Uniform Administrative
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Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal
Awards (2 CFR part 200) on December 26, 2014, at 2 CFR part 3002, (79
FR 75867, December 19, 2014). This rule eliminates overlapping and
duplicative requirements for stakeholders, including states,
territories and Indian tribal governments, by using general terms such
as ``recipient'' and ``pass-through entity.''
The HMGP regulation describes the application process in 44 CFR
206.436. Information collected through the financial award application
is the minimum information necessary for the financial award
administration under the HMGP and includes the project narrative,
analysis of the measure's cost-effectiveness referred to as the
benefit-cost determination, and environmental review used in
conjunction with OMB No. 1660-0025.
44 CFR 206.436(d) states: ``The State must submit all local HMGP
applications and funding requests for the purpose of identifying new
projects to the Regional Administrator within 12 months of the date of
disaster declaration.'' Furthermore, Section 311 of the DHS
Appropriations Act, 2022 (Pub. L. 117-103, 136 Stat. 331) states:
``beginning between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2021, the Federal
share of assistance, including direct Federal assistance, provided
under such sections shall be not less than 90 percent of the eligible
cost of such assistance.'' The legislation applies to all current FY
2022 HMGP local and Tribal sub applicants and significantly alters
application and program financial management information collection
requirements. The DHS Appropriations Act, 2022 does not provide
additional funding for HMGP COVID-19 relief beyond the already
established $3.46 billion.
Per 44 CFR 206.438(c), progress reports must be submitted by the
HMGP Recipient to the Regional Administrator on a quarterly basis,
certifying how the funds are being used and reporting on the progress
of activities funded under the subrecipient awards made to the
Recipient by FEMA. The Regional Administrator and Recipient negotiate
the date for submission of the first report. Quarterly progress reports
describe the status of those projects on which a final payment of the
Federal share has not been made to the recipient, and outline any
problems or circumstances expected to result in noncompliance with the
approved award conditions.
The legislative changes are expected to trigger a significant
increase in requests by local sub applicants who have not yet developed
FY 2022 project applications. The requests will likely extend the
application deadline beyond the standard 12-month deadline of August 5,
2022. Applications Period extension requests, authorized under 44 CFR
206.436(e), may add additional information collection burden.
The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018
(Evidence Act) (Pub. L. 115-435, 5 U.S.C. 311-315) establishes
evaluation using systematic data collection and analysis of programs,
policies, and organizations intended to assess their effectiveness and
efficiency as an essential program activity. Hazard Mitigation programs
are currently revising information collections to simply data
collection, reduce burden, coordinate data collection across programs,
develop performance metrics, and meet goals and priorities as
stipulated in the Evidence Act. Program implementation of the Evidence
Act will necessitate changes to information collections. Additionally,
the Build America, Buy America Act (BABAA) (Pub. L. 117-58, 70901-
70927) and Executive Order (E.O.) 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis At
Home and Abroad, (86 FR 7619, February 1, 2021) establishes additional
information collection requirements, goals and priorities.
Collection of Information
Title: Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) Application and
Reporting.
Type of Information Collection: Extension, with change, of a
currently approved information collection.
OMB Number: OMB No. 1660-0076.
FEMA Forms: Project Narrative; Benefit-Cost Determination;
Environmental Review; FEMA Form FF-206-FY-22-154 (formerly 009-0-111A),
Quarterly Progress Reports.
Abstract: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
administers the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, which is a post-
disaster program that contributes funds toward the cost of hazard
mitigation activities 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.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 236.
Estimated Number of Responses: 10,891
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 100,280.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Cost: $6,141,147.
Estimated Respondents' Operation and Maintenance Costs: $0.
Estimated Respondents' Capital and Start-Up Costs: $0.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the Federal Government: $2,211,399
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 Brown Wilson,
Records Management Branch Chief, Office of the Chief Administrative
Officer, Mission Support, Federal Emergency Management Agency,
Department of Homeland Security.
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