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16. The HSGP is a resource among a 

limited pool of funding for the 

development of new and sustained 

capabilities. Given the limited funding, 

how do you prioritize building new 

capabilities versus sustaining existing 

capabilities? A complete answer would 

provide examples. 

17. The HSGP contains an element of 

the State Homeland Security Program 

(SHSP) that provides the legislative 

requirement to subaward at least 80% of 

state funds to local units of government. 

Do you believe this an adequate 

measure to help ensure that funds are 

properly invested for building 

capabilities? If not, why not? 

18. What suggestions do you have for 

proper alignment and balancing of 

SHSP funds to build capabilities? 

19. What can FEMA and DHS do to 

help ensure law enforcement needs are 

met while also balancing the needs of 

other state and urban area grant 

recipient stakeholders such as fire and 

emergency management? 

20. The Law Enforcement Terrorism 

Prevention Activity (LETPA) program 

imposes a minimum spend requirement 

on law enforcement terrorism 

prevention. How can FEMA and DHS 

refine LETPA requirement to ensure 

state and local capabilities to prevent 

terrorist attacks are being supported? 

21. What can FEMA and DHS do to 

ensure campus law enforcement 

agencies understand how to access the 

Homeland Security Grant Program 

funding, to include Urban Area Security 

Initiative funding? 

22. What can FEMA and DHS do to 

simplify the grant requirements for 

applicants and recipients to enhance the 

Operation Stonegarden Grant Program? 

(3) Urban Areas Security Initiative 

Program 

The Urban Areas Security Initiative 

Program is subject to the evolving and 

expanding threat landscape. Threats 

faced by the nation have changed 

dramatically over the last twenty years, 

becoming more dispersed in nature and 

often carried out by a single individual 

or small groups using very simple 

tactics. As a result, risk is no longer 

concentrated in the largest urban areas; 

the risk to smaller urban areas has risen, 

as well. 

23. The Urban Areas Security 

Initiative Program must address this 

new threat environment, both in terms 

of eligible urban areas and risk-based 

funding allocations. Please provide your 

input on how this can best be 

accomplished without undermining the 

progress made over the past 20 years in 

building capacity to prevent, protect, 

and respond to terrorist acts. 

(4) Emergency Management 

Performance Grant (EMPG) 

24. Do you find the current EMPG 

work plan template preferable to the 

previous narrative format? 

25. How much does the 50% cost 

share/match, which requires that the 

federal share applied toward the EMPG 

Program be no more than 50% of the 

total budget, factor into the State 

Administrative Agency’s ability and 

approach to pass through EMPG funding 

to subrecipients? 

C. 2021 Request for Information Follow 

Up Questions 

FEMA released an RFI in April 2021 

to receive input from the public on 

specific FEMA programs, regulations, 

collections of information, and policies 

for the agency to consider modifying, 

streamlining, expanding or repealing in 

light of Executive Order 13985, 

‘‘Advancing Racial Equity and Support 

for Underserved Communities Through 

the Federal Government’’, among 

executive actions. The questions in this 

Simplifying FEMA Preparedness Grants 

2023 RFI expands on the 2021 RFI 

feedback, and explores opportunities to 

identify and redress potential inequities 

in how partners access, apply and 

receive preparedness grant funds. 

The 2021 RFI identified areas for 

improving the NSGP Investment 

Justification (IJ) process. As another 

example, one commentator suggested 

that communities that meet the small, 

impoverished community definition 

could use simpler forms or receive 

direct assistance from FEMA staff or 

FEMA-hired contractors to prepare the 

grant application. 

1. What steps can FEMA take to 

improve the application process for our 

preparedness suite of grant programs? 

2. How can FEMA better engage with 

underserved communities about 

national preparedness initiatives and 

grant programs? 

3. Are there entities that are excluded 

from preparedness grant programs that 

could meet the priorities of one or more 

programs and provide a benefit to their 

community? Please provide the name of 

the grant program(s), entity type and 

how they can support a priority of the 

program(s). 

4. How does your organization 

capture data on underserved 

communities serviced with 

preparedness grant resources? 

FEMA notes that this notice is issued 

solely for information and programplanning purposes. Responses to this 

notice do not bind FEMA to any further 

actions related to the response. 

Deanne Criswell, 

Administrator, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Services 

[OMB Control Number 1615–0017] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Revision of a Currently 

Approved Collection: Application for 

Advance Permission to Enter as a 

Nonimmigrant 

AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

ACTION: 30-Day notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland 

Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services (USCIS) will be 

submitting the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995. The purpose of this notice is to 

allow an additional 30 days for public 

comments. 

DATES: Comments are encouraged and 

will be accepted until October 10, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and/or 

suggestions regarding the item(s) 

contained in this notice, especially 

regarding the estimated public burden 

and associated response time, must be 

submitted via the Federal eRulemaking 

Portal website at https://

www.regulations.gov under e-Docket ID 

number USCIS–2008–0009. All 

submissions received must include the 

OMB Control Number 1615–0017 in the 

body of the letter, the agency name and 

Docket ID USCIS–2008–0009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

USCIS, Office of Policy and Strategy, 

Regulatory Coordination Division, 

Samantha Deshommes, Chief, telephone 

number (240) 721–3000 (This is not a 

toll-free number; comments are not 

accepted via telephone message.). Please 

note contact information provided here 

is solely for questions regarding this 

notice. It is not for individual case 

status inquiries. Applicants seeking 

information about the status of their 

individual cases can check Case Status 

Online, available at the USCIS website 

at https://www.uscis.gov, or call the 


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USCIS Contact Center at 800–375–5283 

(TTY 800–767–1833). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Comments 

The information collection notice was 

previously published in the Federal 

Register on May 8, 2023, at 88 FR 

29685, allowing for a 60-day public 

comment period. USCIS received one 

comment in connection with the 60-day 

notice. 

You may access the information 

collection instrument with instructions, 

or additional information by visiting the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal site at: 

https://www.regulations.gov and enter 

USCIS–2008–0009 in the search box. 

The comments submitted to USCIS via 

this method are visible to the Office of 

Management and Budget and comply 

with the requirements of 5 CFR 

1320.12(c). 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 

consider limiting the amount of 

personal information that you provide 

in any voluntary submission you make 

to DHS. DHS may withhold information 

provided in comments from public 

viewing that it determines may impact 

the privacy of an individual or is 

offensive. For additional information, 

please read the Privacy Act notice that 

is available via the link in the footer of 

https://www.regulations.gov. 

Written comments and suggestions 

from the public and affected agencies 

should address one or more of the 

following four points: 

(1) Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

(2) 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; 

(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

(4) 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. 

Overview of This Information 

Collection 

(1) Type of Information Collection: 

Revision of a Currently Approved 

Collection. 

(2) Title of the Form/Collection: 

Application for Advance Permission to 

Enter as a Nonimmigrant. 

(3) Agency form number, if any, and 

the applicable component of the DHS 

sponsoring the collection: I–192; eSAFE; USCIS. 

(4) Affected public who will be asked 

or required to respond, as well as a brief 

abstract: Primary: Individuals or 

households. The data collected will be 

used by CBP and USCIS to determine 

whether the applicant is eligible to enter 

the United States temporarily under the 

provisions of section 212(d)(3), 

212(d)(13), and 212(d)(14) of the INA. 

The respondents for this information 

collection are certain inadmissible 

nonimmigrant aliens who wish to apply 

for permission to enter the United States 

and applicants for T nonimmigrant 

status or petitioners for U nonimmigrant 

status. CBP has developed an electronic 

filing system, called Electronic Secured 

Adjudication Forms Environment (eSAFE), through which Form I–192 can 

be submitted when filed with CBP. 

(5) An estimate of the total number of 

respondents and the amount of time 

estimated for an average respondent to 

respond: The estimated total number of 

respondents for the information 

collection I–192 is 61,050 and the 

estimated hour burden per response is 

1 hour and 11 minutes; the estimated 

total number of respondents for the 

information collection e-SAFE is 7,000 

and the estimated hour burden per 

response is 56 minutes. 

(6) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

collection: The total estimated annual 

hour burden associated with this 

collection is 78,549 hours. 

(7) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in cost) associated with the 

collection: The estimated total annual 

cost burden associated with this 

collection of information is $17,522,875. 

Dated: September 1, 2023. 

Samantha L Deshommes, 

Chief, Regulatory Coordination Division, 

Office of Policy and Strategy, U.S. Citizenship 

and Immigration Services, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

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BILLING CODE 9111–97–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Services 

[OMB Control Number 1615–0023] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Revision of a Currently 

Approved Collection: Application To 

Register Permanent Residence or 

Adjust Status 

AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

ACTION: 60-day notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland 

Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services (USCIS) invites 

the general public and other Federal 

agencies to comment upon this 

proposed revision of a currently 

approved collection of information. In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the 

information collection notice is 

published in the Federal Register to 

obtain comments regarding the nature of 

the information collection, the 

categories of respondents, the estimated 

burden (i.e. the time, effort, and 

resources used by the respondents to 

respond), the estimated cost to the 

respondent, and the actual information 

collection instruments. 

DATES: Comments are encouraged and 

will be accepted for 60 days until 

November 7, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: All submissions received 

must include the OMB Control Number 

1615–0023 in the body of the letter, the 

agency name and Docket ID USCIS– 

2009–0020. Submit comments via the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal website at 

https://www.regulations.gov under eDocket ID number USCIS–2009–0020. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

USCIS, Office of Policy and Strategy, 

Regulatory Coordination Division, 

Samantha Deshommes, Chief, telephone 

number (240) 721–3000 (This is not a 

toll-free number. Comments are not 

accepted via telephone message). Please 

note contact information provided here 

is solely for questions regarding this 

notice. It is not for individual case 

status inquiries. Applicants seeking 

information about the status of their 

individual cases can check Case Status 

Online, available at the USCIS website 

at https://www.uscis.gov, or call the 

USCIS Contact Center at 800–375–5283 

(TTY 800–767–1833). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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