Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 223 / Friday, November 19, 2004 / Notices 67749

Infertility Loan Repayment Program, National 

Institutes of Health, HHS)

Dated: November 15, 2004. 

LaVerne Y. Stringfield, 

Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

Center for Scientific Review; Amended 

Notice of Meeting 

Notice is hereby given of a change in 

the meeting of the Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel, 

November 10, 2004, 10 a.m. to 

November 10, 2004, 4 p.m., Sofitel 

Lafayette Square Hotel, 806 15th Street, 

NW., Washington, DC 20005 which was 

published in the Federal Register on 

November 3, 2004, 69 FR 64078–64081. 

The meeting will be held December 3, 

2004. The meeting time and location 

remain the same. The meeting is closed 

to the public.

Dated: November 15, 2004. 

LaVerne Y. Stringfield, 

Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Customs and Border Protection 

Annual User Fee for Customs Broker 

Permit and National Permit: General 

Notice

AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection, Department of Homeland 

Security.

ACTION: Notice of due date for Customs 

broker user fee. 

SUMMARY: This is to advise Customs 

brokers that the annual fee of $125 that 

is assessed for each permit held by a 

broker whether it may be an individual, 

partnership, association or corporation, 

is due by January 21, 2005. This 

announcement is being published to 

comply with the Tax Reform Act of 

1986.

DATES: Due date for payment of fee: 

January 21, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Bruce Raine, Broker Management 

Branch, (202) 344–2580.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

13031 of the Consolidated Omnibus 

Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (Pub. 

L. 99–272) established that an annual 

user fee of $125 is to be assessed for 

each Customs broker permit and 

National permit held by an individual, 

partnership, association or corporation. 

This fee is set forth in the Customs 

Regulations in section 111.96 (19 CFR 

111.96). 

Customs Regulations provide that this 

fee is payable for each calendar year in 

each broker district where the broker 

was issued a permit to do business by 

the due date which will be published in 

the Federal Register annually. Broker 

districts are defined in the General 

Notice published in the Federal 

Register, Volume 60, No. 187, 

September 27, 1995. 

Section 1893 of the Tax Reform Act of 

1986 (Pub. L. 99–514) provides that 

notices of the date on which the 

payment is due for each broker permit 

shall be published by the Secretary of 

the Treasury in the Federal Register by 

no later than 60 days before such due 

date. 

This document notifies brokers that 

for 2005, the due date of the user fee is 

January 21, 2005. It is expected that the 

annual user fees for brokers for 

subsequent years will be due on or 

about the twentieth of January of each 

year.

Dated: November 9, 2004. 

Jayson P. Ahern, 

Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field 

Operations.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, Emergency 

Preparedness and Response Directorate, 

U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

ACTION: Notice of emergency clearance 

request and request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency 

Management Agency has submitted a 

request for emergency processing of two 

information collection requests to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and clearance under 

the provisions of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13, 

44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.). FEMA is 

requesting OMB to review and approve 

the requests by December 1, 2004. The 

two information collection requests 

propose revisions to currently approved 

collections under OMB control numbers 

1660–0071 and 1660–0072, which are 

used by grantees to apply for and report 

on eGrant awards and by FEMA to 

evaluate, award, and monitor 

expenditures and program/project 

performance for Pre-Disaster Mitigation 

(PDM) and the Flood Mitigation 

Assistant (FMA) program activities.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

proposed information collection 

requests, upon approval by OMB, will 

enable FEMA to open the FY 2005 

eGrant application periods for the PreDisaster Mitigation (PDM) program and 

the Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) 

program, which are essential to FEMA’s 

mission to lead America to prepare for 

prevent, respond to, and recover from 

disasters. The PDM grant program is the 

only source of Federal pre-disaster 

funding available to States and local 

governments for hazard mitigation. 

Hazard mitigation is an ongoing effort to 

lessen the impact disasters have on 

people’s lives and property through 

damage prevention measures such as 

removing homes from the floodplain, 

engineering buildings and infrastructure 

to withstand earthquakes, installing safe 

rooms and retrofitting buildings to 

withstand high winds from tornadoes or 

hurricanes. The Disaster Mitigation Act 

of 2000 (Pub. L. 106–390) authorizes 

and funded the Pre-Disaster Mitigation 

(PDM) program to provide a continuous 

source of pre-disaster mitigation 

funding independent of disaster 

declarations to assist States and local 

communities to take actions to reduce 

the overall risks to populations and to 

properties from future disasters. The 

Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) 

program is an annual program targeted 

toward reducing flood damages and 

risks to people and properties. The 

National Flood Insurance Act of 2004 

(Pub. L. 108–264) amended the FMA 

program by expanding the authorized 

funds from $20 million to $40 million 

annually to reduce the risk of floods to 

the nation’s insured properties. Based 

on comments received from the FY 2003 

PDM grant applicants, sub-grant 

applicants, and participants in the 

program evaluation and grant award 

process, FEMA has revised the eGrant 

application to solicit information that is 

more relevant to the evaluation of 

competitive applications for PDM and 

the evaluation of mitigation proposals in 

general for both the FMA and PDM 

programs. 

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In addition to program specific 

changes to the sub-grant application for 

PDM and FMA eGrants, the information 

collection requests have been revised to 

include as part of the eGrant quarterly 

and final reporting requirement, the 

financial and performance status 

reports, outlay reports, property 

management reports, and closeout 

reports required of each grant awarded. 

FEMA encourages the use of the PDM 

and FMA eGrants application described 

in this notice; however, applicants may 

also use the Agency’s grant 

administration paper-based forms 

currently under OMB control number 

1660–0025 to apply. 

Information Collection Requests 

1. Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program 

Title: Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) 

Program eGrants. 

OMB Number: 1660–0071. 

Abstract: FEMA uses the PDM 

program eGrant application, evaluation, 

and award process to provide Federal 

grant assistance to grantees (State and 

federally recognized tribal government) 

who administer grant awards for subgrantee applicants (State-level agencies, 

federally recognized Indian tribal 

governments, local governments, public 

colleges and universities, tribal colleges 

and universities, and regional planning 

districts and councils of governments). 

Private-non-profit (PNP) organizations 

and private colleges and universities are 

not eligible sub-applicants; however, a 

relevant State agency or local 

government may apply to the grant 

applicant for assistance on their behalf. 

The grant assistance must be used to 

develop mitigation plans in accordance 

with section 322 of the Disaster 

Mitigation Act of 2000 to implement 

pre-disaster mitigation projects that 

reduce the risks of natural and 

technological hazards on life and 

property, and to provide information 

and technical assistance on costeffective mitigation activities. 

Affected Public: The category of 

affected public includes State, local and 

tribal governments. 

Number of Responses: 1,176 (Grantees 

(applicants)—56 States and territories 

and sub-grantees (sub-applicants)—20 

per State or territory.) Sub-applicants 

submit their eGrant applications to the 

States to review, coordinate and forward 

PDM grant applications to FEMA for 

approval. 

Estimated Time per Respondent:

FEMA has estimated the burden 

associated with this information 

collection request as follows: 

Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) 

Program eGrants—Grant Supplemental 

Information—Sub-grant applications. 

• Benefit Cost Determination—5 

hours per response. 

• Environmental Review—7.5 hours 

per response. 

• Project Narrative (including PDM 

Evaluation Information Questions)—12 

hours per response. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 50,887. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

and quarterly. 

2. Flood Mitigation Assistance Program 

Title: Flood Mitigation Assistance 

(FMA) Program eGrants. 

OMB Number: 1660–0072. 

Abstract: FEMA uses the FMA 

program eGrant application, evaluation, 

and award process to provide Federal 

grant assistance to grantees for three 

types of grants—Planning, Project, and 

Technical Assistance. FMA Planning 

Grants are available to States, National 

Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) 

participating communities, and Indian 

tribal governments to prepare Flood 

Mitigation Plans. FMA Project Grants 

are available to States, NFIP 

participating communities, and Indian 

tribal governments to implement 

measures to reduce flood losses. Ten 

percent of the Project Grant is made 

available to States, NFIP participating 

communities, Indian tribal 

governments, and communities in nonparticipating States as a Technical 

Assistance Grant. The National Flood 

Insurance Reform Act (42 U.S.C. 1366), 

as amended by the Bunning-BereuterBlumenauer Flood Insurance Reform 

Act of 2004, (Pub. L. 108–264) 

authorizes the Flood Mitigation 

Assistance program. The FMA program 

is designed to award grants to States, 

NFIP participating communities, and 

Indian tribal governments so that 

measures can be taken to reduce or 

eliminate the long-term risk of flood 

damage to buildings, manufactured 

homes, and other structures insurable 

under the National Flood Insurance 

Program. 

FEMA encourages the use of the PDM 

and FMA eGrants application described 

in this notice; however, applicants may 

also use the Agency’s grant 

administration paper-based forms 

currently under OMB control number 

1660–0025 to apply. 

Affected Public: The category of 

affected public includes State, local and 

tribal governments and not-for-profit 

institutions. 

Number of Responses: 280. 

Estimated Time per Respondent:

FEMA has estimated the burden 

associated with this information 

collection request as follows: 

Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) 

Program eGrants—Grant Supplemental 

Information—Sub-grant applications. 

• Benefit Cost Determination—5 

hours per response. 

• Environmental Review—7.5 hours 

per response. 

• Project Narrative—12 hours per 

response. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 4,088. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

and quarterly. 

Comments: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments on 

the proposed information collection 

requests to the Office of Management 

and Budget, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Desk 

Officer for the Department of Homeland 

Security/FEMA at the following e-mail 

address 

Michael_A._Sauers@omb.eop.gov or 

facsimile number (202) 395–7285. We 

ask that you submit comments not later 

than December 1, 2004, to ensure 

consideration of your comments before 

OMB evaluates and acts on these 

requests.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

requests should be made to Muriel B. 

Anderson, Section Chief, Records 

Management, FEMA at 500 C Street, 

SW., Room 316, Washington, DC 20472, 

facsimile number (202) 646–3347, or email address FEMA-InformationCollections@dhs.gov.

Dated: November 12, 2004. 

Edward W. Kernan, 

Branch Chief, Information Resources 

Management Branch, Information 

Technology Services Division.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[FEMA–1564–DR] 

New York; Amendment No. 3 to Notice 

of a Major Disaster Declaration

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, Emergency 

Preparedness and Response Directorate, 

Department of Homeland Security.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice amends the notice 

of a major disaster declaration for the