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1 88 FR 1266 (Jan. 9, 2023); see also 88 FR 26329 

(Apr. 28, 2023). 

2 88 FR 1243 (Jan. 9, 2023); see also 26 FR 327 

(Apr. 28, 2023). 

email address: FEMA-InformationCollections-Management@fema.dhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: According 

to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 

and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford 

Act), 42 U.S.C. 5121, et seq., FEMA is 

authorized to provide assistance before, 

during, and after a disaster has impacted 

a State, Tribe, or Territory (STT). For a 

major disaster, the Stafford Act 

authorizes FEMA to direct any agency to 

utilize its existing authorities and 

resources in support of STT assistance 

response and recovery efforts. See 42 

U.S.C. 5170(a)(1). For an emergency, the 

Stafford Act authorizes FEMA to direct 

any agency to utilize its existing 

authorities and resources in support of 

STT emergency efforts. See 42 U.S.C. 

5192(a)(1). FEMA may task other 

Federal agencies to assist during 

disasters and to support emergency 

efforts by STT governments by issuing 

a mission assignment to the appropriate 

agency. See 44 CFR 206.5, 206.208. 

FEMA collects the information 

necessary to determine what resources 

are needed and if a mission assignment 

is appropriate. The information 

collected explains which STT requires 

assistance, what needs to be 

accomplished, details any resource 

shortfalls, and explains what assistance 

is required to meet these needs. 

Collection of Information 

Title: Request for Federal 

Assistance—How to Process Mission 

Assignments in Federal Disaster 

Operations. 

Type of Information Collection: 

Revision of a currently approved 

collection. 

OMB Number: 1660–0047. 

FEMA Forms: FEMA Form FF–104– 

FY–21–119 (formerly 010–0–8), Mission 

Assignment Form; FEMA Form FF–104– 

FY–21–120 (formerly 010–0–7), 

Resource Request Form; FEMA Form 

FF–104–FY–21–121 (formerly 010–0– 

8A), Mission Assignment Task Order 

Form. 

Abstract: A written request for 

Federal assistance may be submitted on 

an Resource Request Form (RRF). The 

RRF is a working document requesting 

Federal assistance and may be sourced 

as a Mission Assignment. The Mission 

Assignment (MA) form is used to record 

a request for Federal assistance by 

States/Tribes/Territories to FEMA, and 

is the official FEMA obligating 

document that tasks another Federal 

agency to perform work. 

Affected Public: State, local, or Tribal 

governments. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

84. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 

4,200. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 1,367. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondent 

Cost: $175,701. 

Estimated Respondents’ Operation 

and Maintenance Costs: $41,130. 

Estimated Respondents’ Capital and 

Start-Up Costs: $0. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to the 

Federal Government: $77,090. 

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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BILLING CODE 9111–24–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Services 

[OMB Control Number 1615–0157] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Revision of a Currently 

Approved Collection: Online Request 

To Be a Supporter and Declaration of 

Financial Support 

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 March 29, 2024. 

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 http://

www.regulations.gov under e-Docket ID 

number USCIS–2023–0004. All 

submissions received must include the 

OMB Control Number 1615–0157 in the 

body of the letter, the agency name and 

Docket ID USCIS–2023–0004. 

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 http://www.uscis.gov, or call the 

USCIS Contact Center at 800–375–5283 

(TTY 800–767–1833). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This notice seeks comment on the 

USCIS Form I–134A, Online Request to 

be a Supporter and Declaration of 

Financial Support, information 

collection package, which DHS uses in 

connection with certain parole 

processes. In January 2023, at DHS’s 

request, the Office of Management and 

Budget approved this new collection in 

accordance with emergency procedures 

set forth at 5 CFR 1320.13. DHS uses 

this collection to implement processes 

through which nationals of certain 

countries and their immediate family 

members may request to come to the 

United States in a safe and orderly way. 

The collection is an outgrowth of Form 

I–134 (OMB Control Number 1615– 

0014), and has been used in connection 

with Uniting for Ukraine; the parole 

processes for certain Cubans,1 Haitians,2


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3 88 FR 1255 (Jan. 9, 2023). 

4 87 FR 63507 (Oct. 19, 2022); see also 88 FR 1279 

(Jan. 9, 2023). 

5 88 FR 43591 (July 10, 2023). 

6 88 FR 43611 (July 10, 2023). 

7 88 FR 43581 (July 10, 2023). 

8 88 FR 43601 (July 10, 2023). 

9 88 FR 78762 (Nov. 16, 2023). 

10 88 FR 54639 (Aug. 11, 2023). 

11 88 FR 54635 (Aug. 11, 2023). 

Nicaraguans,3 and Venezuelans; 4 family 

reunification parole processes for 

certain Colombians,5 Salvadorans,6

Guatemalans,7 Hondurans,8 and 

Ecuadorians; 9 and procedural changes 

to the previously established Cuban 10

and Haitian 11 Family Reunification 

Parole processes. The emergency 

processing activities associated with 

implementing these parole processes 

were necessary for multiple reasons, 

including to address the urgent 

humanitarian events transpiring in 

Ukraine, to prevent complications for 

the United States’ ongoing efforts to 

engage hemispheric partners to increase 

their efforts to collaboratively manage 

and reduce irregular migration that 

could have arisen without timely action 

by the United States, and to avoid 

incentivizing irregular migration during 

a public comment period. 

Under these processes, certain 

beneficiaries who are outside the United 

States and lack U.S. entry documents 

may be considered, on a case-by-case 

basis, for advance authorization to travel 

and a temporary period of parole for 

urgent humanitarian reasons or 

significant public benefit. To 

participate, eligible beneficiaries must: 

• Have a confirmed supporter in the 

United States; 

• Undergo and clear robust security 

vetting; 

• Demonstrate that a grant of parole is 

warranted based on urgent 

humanitarian reasons or significant 

public benefit; 

• Meet other eligibility criteria; and 

• Demonstrate that they warrant a 

favorable exercise of discretion. 

Beneficiaries participating in these 

processes must have a supporter in the 

United States who agrees to provide 

them with financial support for the 

duration of their parole in the United 

States. Potential supporters file a Form 

I–134A for each potential beneficiary, 

including, if applicable, immediate 

family members of the principal 

beneficiary, with USCIS through the 

USCIS online web portal to initiate the 

parole process. Form I–134A identifies 

and collects information on both the 

supporter and the beneficiary. The 

potential supporter must submit 

evidence establishing their income and 

assets and commit to provide financial 

support to the beneficiary for the 

duration of parole. A potential 

supporter filing Form I–134A under a 

family reunification parole process is 

also required to submit evidence 

establishing the family relationships 

between the principal beneficiary and 

all derivative beneficiaries. No fee is 

required to file Form I–134A. 

USCIS will perform background 

checks on the potential supporter and 

verify their financial information to 

ensure that the potential supporter is 

able to financially support the 

beneficiary. If the potential supporter’s 

Form I–134A is confirmed, the 

beneficiary named in the Form I–134A 

will receive an email from USCIS with 

instructions to create a USCIS online 

account and next steps for completing 

the request. See Advance Travel 

Authorization (ATA) (OMB Control 

Number 1651–0143) for the approved 

collection of information for the next 

steps in relevant parole processes. 

Comments 

The information collection notice was 

previously published in the Federal 

Register on September 12, 2023, at 88 

FR 175, allowing for a 60-day public 

comment period. USCIS did receive two 

comments 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: 

http://www.regulations.gov and enter 

USCIS–2023–0004 in the search box. 

Comments must be submitted in 

English, or an English translation must 

be provided. 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 http://

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 

http://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 

Request: Revision of a Currently 

Approved Collection. 

(2) Title of the Form/Collection: 

Online Request to be a Supporter and 

Declaration of Financial Support. 

(3) Agency form number, if any, and 

the applicable component of the DHS 

sponsoring the collection: I–134A; 

USCIS. 

(4) Affected public who will be asked 

or required to respond, as well as a brief 

abstract: Primary: Individuals or 

households. USCIS uses Form I–134A to 

determine whether a U.S.-based 

individual has sufficient financial 

resources and access to those funds to 

support the beneficiary named on the 

Form I–134A for the duration of their 

temporary stay in the United States, as 

well as to obtain information concerning 

whether the beneficiary merits a 

favorable exercise of discretion under 

the statutory parole standard. 

Form I–134A is filed by a U.S.-based 

individual (the potential supporter) to 

request to be a supporter, agree to 

provide financial support to the 

beneficiary named on the form during 

the beneficiary’s period of stay in the 

United States, and to provide 

information concerning why the 

beneficiary warrants a discretionary 

grant of parole. 

(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–134A is 1,205,600 and the 

estimated hour burden per response is 

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(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 $2,543,816 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 $0.00. 

Dated: February 22, 2024. 

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 HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–7082–N–01] 

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: HUD Environmental Review 

Online System (HEROS); OMB Control 

No.: 2506–0202 

AGENCY: The Office of Community 

Planning and Development, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: HUD is seeking approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for the information collection 

described below. In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is 

requesting comment from all interested 

parties on the proposed collection of 

information. The purpose of this notice 

is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment. 

DATES: Comments Due Date: April 29, 

2024. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this proposal. Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection can be submitted 

within 60 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 60-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. Interested persons are 

also invited to submit comments 

regarding this proposal by name and/or 

OMB Control Number and can be sent 

to: Colette Pollard, Reports Management 

Officer, REE, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 451 7th Street 

SW, Room 8210, Washington, DC 

20410–5000 or email at 

PaperworkReductionActOffice@

hud.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Glenn Schroeder, Program Analyst, 

OEE, Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 7th Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20410; email at 

glenn.a.schroeder@hud.gov or telephone 

(202) 402–5849. This is not a toll-free 

number. HUD welcomes and is prepared 

to receive calls from individuals who 

are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as 

individuals with speech or 

communication disabilities. To learn 

more about how to make an accessible 

telephone call, please visit https://

www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/ 

telecommunications-relay-service-trs. 

Copies of available documents 

submitted to OMB may be obtained 

from Ms. Pollard. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice informs the public that HUD is 

seeking approval from OMB for the 

information collection described in 

Section A. 

A. Overview of Information Collection 

Title of Information Collection: HUD 

Environmental Review Online System 

(HEROS). 

OMB Approval Number: 2506–0202. 

Type of Request: Extension of 

currently approved collection. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Description of the need for the 

information and proposed use: 24 CFR 

part 58, ‘‘Environmental Review 

Procedures for Entities Assuming HUD 

Environmental Responsibilities’’ 

requires units of general local 

government receiving HUD assistance to 

maintain a written environmental 

review record for all projects receiving 

HUD funding documenting compliance 

with the National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA), the regulations of the 

Council on Environmental Quality, 

related federal environmental laws, 

executive orders, and authorities, and 

part 58 procedure. Various laws that 

authorize this procedure are listed in 24 

CFR 58.1(b). 24 CFR part 50, ‘‘Protection 

and Enhancement of Environmental 

Quality,’’ implements procedures for 

HUD to perform environmental reviews 

for projects where part 58 is not 

permitted by law. Under Part 50, HUD 

staff complete the environmental review 

records, but they may use any 

information supplied by an applicant or 

contractor, provided HUD 

independently evaluates the 

information and is responsible for its 

accuracy and prepares the 

environmental finding. HEROS allows 

users to complete, store, and submit 

their environmental review records and 

documents online. HEROS is currently 

optional for Responsible Entity and 

other non-HUD users, who may 

continue to use paper-based 

environmental review formats. 

Respondents: The respondents are 

State, local, and Tribal governments 

receiving HUD funding who are 

required to complete environmental 

reviews as well as sub-recipients, 

applicants, and third-party providers 

who submit information to be used in 

the completion of environmental review 

records. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

500. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 25 

per year per unit of government or 

organization. 

Frequency of Response: 58.44. 

Average Hours per Response: varies. 

Total Estimated Burdens: 36,662. 

Information collection Number of 

respondents 

Frequency 

of 

response 

Responses 

per annum 

Burden 

hour per 

response 

Annual 

burden 

hours 

Hourly 

cost per 

response 

Annual 

cost 

Exempt/CENST reviews ........................................................ 500 34.75 17,376 0.75 13,032 $39.63 $205,312.50 

Reviews that convert to exempt ........................................... 500 12.35 6,147 2 12,294 39.63 292,000.00 

CEST/EA reviews .................................................................. 250 11.34t 2,834 4 11,336 39.63 102,200.00 

Total ............................................................................... 500 58.44 26,357 varies 36,662 39.63 1,452,915.06 

Note: Average hours per response varies 

substantially depending on level of review. 

Reviews that are exempt or Categorically 

Excluded Not Subject To the related laws and 

authorities (CENST) take roughly 45 minutes 

to complete. Reviews that are Categorically 

Excluded Subject To the related laws (CEST) 

or require an Environmental Assessment (EA) 

take an average of 4 hours to complete. Some 

CEST reviews ‘‘convert to exempt,’’ and 

require roughly 2 hours to complete. 

HUD grants cover all eligible costs 

including staff work. Hourly cost per 

response based on hourly mean wage of 

urban planners working for local government 

(Bureau of Labor Statistics, https://

www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes193051.htm). 


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