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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). 

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. 

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 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

ACTION: 60-Day notice of new collection 

and request for comments. 

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, 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 http://

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 http://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 

http://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 


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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, 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. 

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 

AGENCY: Department of Homeland 

Security. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: 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 

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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