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instruments under this new generic
collection for use across FEMA’s grant
programs. These instruments will
replace the current quarterly
performance reporting that does not
have a standard format.
Grant performance reporting is a
Federal requirement; standardized
instruments under this generic
collection will serve as the minimum
performance reporting requirement for
all programs. FEMA grants will collect
both performance and project
effectiveness measures via the required
instruments under this new generic
collection. Each FEMA grant program
will collect only relevant, useful data.
FEMA will utilize a standard framework
under this generic collection but will
not require each program to create the
same end-product. Programs will tailor
grant performance reporting instruments
based on the grant’s specific objectives,
activities, indicators, targets, and
reporting measures most appropriate for
each program’s funding objectives.
Instruments under this generic
collection are not intended to replace all
existing information collection
instruments that are programmatic or
statutorily specific (i.e., existing grant
specific reporting).
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Collection of Information
Title: Generic Clearance for FEMA’s
Standardized Grants Performance
Reporting.
Type of Information Collection: New
information collection.
OMB Number: 1660–NW170.
FEMA Forms: Not Applicable.
Abstract: Performance reporting is
required for recipients of Federal
Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) grants. However, the scope and
detail of previous performance reporting
varied across different FEMA grant
programs. FEMA is changing its
programmatic reporting to facilitate
better data collection. The instruments
under this generic collection will satisfy
the minimum performance reporting
requirement for all programs while
introducing a common performance
reporting framework. Individual grant
programs will use this framework as a
starting point and then develop tailored
program-specific instruments based on
the program’s objectives, activities,
indicators, and targets. Each FEMA
grant program will collect only relevant,
useful data. Performance data is used by
FEMA to track recipient progress,
monitor project execution, evaluate
program outcomes, and respond to
requests from Congress.
Affected Public: State, Local, and
Tribal Governments; Private Sector.
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Estimated Number of Respondents:
6,200.
Estimated Number of Responses:
24,800.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 744,000.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Cost: $41,753,280.
Estimated Respondents’ Operation
and Maintenance Costs: $0.
Estimated Respondents’ Capital and
Start-Up Costs: $0.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the
Federal Government: $10,104,456.
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; 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
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
[Docket ID: FEMA–2023–0031; OMB No.
1660–NW157]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection,
Comment Request; Generic Clearance
for Hazard Mitigation Assistance
Programs
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, Department of
Homeland Security.
ACTION: 60-Day notice of new collection
and request for comments.
AGENCY:
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The Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
invites the general public to take this
opportunity to comment on a new
information collection. In accordance
with the requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks
comments concerning a new generic
information collection allowing FEMA
to individually update instruments
needed to provide financial, nonfinancial, program management, and
technical assistance for FEMA’s major
disaster, emergency response,
emergency recovery, and hazard
mitigation activities.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before February 9, 2024.
ADDRESSES: To avoid duplicate
submissions to the docket, please
submit comments at https://
www.regulations.gov under Docket ID
FEMA–2023–0031. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
All submissions received must
include the Agency name and Docket
ID. Regardless of the method used to
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 and Security Notice that is
available via a link on the homepage of
https://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jennie Orenstein, Branch Chief, FEMA’s
Federal Insurance and Mitigation
Administration’s Policy, Tools and
Training Branch, at jennie.gallardy@
fema.dhs.gov or (202) 212–4071. You
may contact the Information
Management Division for copies of the
proposed collection of information at
email address: FEMA-InformationCollections-Management@fema.dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act (Pub. L. 93–
288, as amended), 42 U.S.C. 5121–5207
(Stafford Act) provides broad authority
to FEMA for disaster and emergency
relief operations, reducing risk to people
and property from hazards, and related
activities and operations. The Stafford
Act authorizes FEMA to provide
financial and technical assistance to
assist state, local, territorial, and Tribal
(SLTT) governments and certain private
non-profit (PNP) entities with the
response to and recovery from
Presidentially declared major disasters
and emergencies, and the
SUMMARY:
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implementation of hazard mitigation
measures and related activities that
reduce or eliminate long-term risk to
people and property from hazards and
their effects.
The National Flood Insurance Act of
1968 (‘‘NFIA’’), as amended, and the
Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 4001, et. seq.)
authorize FEMA’s National Flood
Insurance Program (NFIP), including a
wide range of related activities. For
instance, the NFIA authorizes FEMA to
provide financial assistance for
planning and carrying out projects and
activities designed to reduce the risk of
flood damage to NFIP-insured
structures.
FEMA routinely receives additional
guidance from Congress, through new
legislation, and the President, through
Executive Orders, that requires changes
to previously approved collection
instruments in a few months to provide
timely assistance to survivors. FEMA is
proposing moving instruments from
currently approved information
collections into this new generic
information collection to provide the
necessary flexibility to update
individual existing instruments and
create new instruments as new guidance
from Congress and the President is
received, deliver timely assistance to
survivors (both before and after a
disaster), and maintain compliance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act.
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Collection of Information
Title: Generic Clearance for Hazard
Mitigation Assistance Programs.
Type of Information Collection: New
information collection.
OMB Number: 1660–NW157.
FEMA Forms: Not Applicable.
Abstract: The Stafford Act authorizes
FEMA to provide financial, nonfinancial, program management and
technical assistance to state, local,
territorial, and Tribal (SLTT)
governments and certain private nonprofit (PNP) entities with the response
to and recovery from Presidentially
declared major disasters and
emergencies, and the implementation of
hazard mitigation measures and related
activities that reduce or eliminate longterm risk to people and property from
hazards and their effects. The
information collected is required for
FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Assistance
(HMA) programs, the Revolving Loan
Fund capitalization program, and the
Public Assistance (PA) Program, for
ongoing program implementation and
optimization.
Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal
Governments; Private, Non-Profits.
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Estimated Number of Respondents:
671,356.
Estimated Number of Responses:
671,356.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 633,775.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Cost: $39,908,812.
Estimated Respondents’ Operation
and Maintenance Costs: $0.
Estimated Respondents’ Capital and
Start-Up Costs: $0.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the
Federal Government: $20,801,492.
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
Notice Regarding the Uyghur Forced
Labor Prevention Act Entity List
Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Department of
Homeland Security (DHS), as the Chair
of the Forced Labor Enforcement Task
Force (FLETF), announces the
publication and availability of the
updated Uyghur Forced Labor
Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List, a
consolidated register of the four lists
required to be developed and
maintained pursuant to the UFLPA, on
the DHS UFLPA website. The updated
SUMMARY:
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UFLPA Entity List is also published as
an appendix to this notice. This update
adds three entities to one of the lists of
the UFLPA, which identifies entities
working with the government of the
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to
recruit, transport, transfer, harbor or
receive forced labor or Uyghurs,
Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, or members of other
persecuted groups out of the Xinjiang
Uyghur Autonomous Region. Details
related to the process for revising the
UFLPA Entity List are included in this
Federal Register notice.
DATES: This notice announces the
publication and availability of the
UFLPA Entity List updated as of
December 11, 2023, included as an
appendix to this notice.
ADDRESSES: Persons seeking additional
information on the UFLPA Entity List
should email the FLETF at
FLETF.UFLPA.EntityList@hq.dhs.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cynthia Echeverria, Director of Trade
Policy, Trade and Economic Security,
Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans,
DHS. Phone: (202) 891–2331, Email:
FLETF.UFLPA.EntityList@hq.dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S.
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), on behalf of the Forced Labor
Enforcement Task Force (FLETF), is
announcing the publication of the
updated UFLPA Entity List, a
consolidated register of the four lists
required to be developed and
maintained pursuant to Section
2(d)(2)(B) of the Uyghur Forced Labor
Prevention Act (Pub. L. 117–78)
(UFLPA), to https://www.dhs.gov/uflpaentity-list. The UFLPA Entity List is
available as an appendix to this notice.
This update adds three entities to the
Section 2(d)(2)(B)(ii) list of the UFLPA,
which identifies entities working with
the government of the Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region to recruit,
transport, transfer, harbor or receive
forced labor or Uyghurs, Kazakhs,
Kyrgyz, or members of other persecuted
groups out of the Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region. Future revisions to
the UFLPA Entity List, which may
include additions, removals or technical
corrections, will be published to https://
www.dhs.gov/uflpa-entitylist and in the
appendices of future Federal Register
notices. See Appendix 1.
Beginning on June 21, 2022, the
UFLPA requires the Commissioner of
U.S. Customs and Border Protection to
apply a rebuttable presumption that
goods mined, produced, or
manufactured by entities on the UFLPA
Entity List are made with forced labor,
and therefore, prohibited from
importation into the United States
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[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 2023-27121]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency
[Docket ID: FEMA-2023-0031; OMB No. 1660-NW157]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection,
Comment Request; Generic Clearance for Hazard Mitigation Assistance
Programs
AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: 60-Day notice of new collection and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites
the general public to take this opportunity to comment on a new
information collection. In accordance with the requirements of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks comments concerning
a new generic information collection allowing FEMA to individually
update instruments needed to provide financial, non-financial, program
management, and technical assistance for FEMA's major disaster,
emergency response, emergency recovery, and hazard mitigation
activities.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before February 9, 2024.
ADDRESSES: To avoid duplicate submissions to the docket, please submit
comments at https://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID FEMA-2023-0031.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
All submissions received must include the Agency name and Docket
ID. Regardless of the method used to 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 and
Security Notice that is available via a link on the homepage of https://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennie Orenstein, Branch Chief, FEMA's
Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration's Policy, Tools and
Training Branch, at [email protected] or (202) 212-4071. You
may contact the Information Management Division for copies of the
proposed collection of information at email address: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act (Pub. L. 93-288, as amended), 42 U.S.C. 5121-
5207 (Stafford Act) provides broad authority to FEMA for disaster and
emergency relief operations, reducing risk to people and property from
hazards, and related activities and operations. The Stafford Act
authorizes FEMA to provide financial and technical assistance to assist
state, local, territorial, and Tribal (SLTT) governments and certain
private non-profit (PNP) entities with the response to and recovery
from Presidentially declared major disasters and emergencies, and the
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implementation of hazard mitigation measures and related activities
that reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and property from
hazards and their effects.
The National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (``NFIA''), as amended,
and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, as amended (42 U.S.C.
4001, et. seq.) authorize FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program
(NFIP), including a wide range of related activities. For instance, the
NFIA authorizes FEMA to provide financial assistance for planning and
carrying out projects and activities designed to reduce the risk of
flood damage to NFIP-insured structures.
FEMA routinely receives additional guidance from Congress, through
new legislation, and the President, through Executive Orders, that
requires changes to previously approved collection instruments in a few
months to provide timely assistance to survivors. FEMA is proposing
moving instruments from currently approved information collections into
this new generic information collection to provide the necessary
flexibility to update individual existing instruments and create new
instruments as new guidance from Congress and the President is
received, deliver timely assistance to survivors (both before and after
a disaster), and maintain compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act.
Collection of Information
Title: Generic Clearance for Hazard Mitigation Assistance Programs.
Type of Information Collection: New information collection.
OMB Number: 1660-NW157.
FEMA Forms: Not Applicable.
Abstract: The Stafford Act authorizes FEMA to provide financial,
non-financial, program management and technical assistance to state,
local, territorial, and Tribal (SLTT) governments and certain private
non-profit (PNP) entities with the response to and recovery from
Presidentially declared major disasters and emergencies, and the
implementation of hazard mitigation measures and related activities
that reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and property from
hazards and their effects. The information collected is required for
FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) programs, the Revolving Loan
Fund capitalization program, and the Public Assistance (PA) Program,
for ongoing program implementation and optimization.
Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal Governments; Private, Non-
Profits.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 671,356.
Estimated Number of Responses: 671,356.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 633,775.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Cost: $39,908,812.
Estimated Respondents' Operation and Maintenance Costs: $0.
Estimated Respondents' Capital and Start-Up Costs: $0.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the Federal Government: $20,801,492.
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.
[FR Doc. 2023-27121 Filed 12-8-23; 8:45 am]
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