Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 232 / Tuesday, December 3, 2024 / Notices 95801 

Dated: November 27, 2024. 

Malabika J. Ghosh, 

Technology Transfer and Patent Specialist, 

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, 

Office of Technology Transfer and 

Development. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

National Cancer Institute; Notice of 

Closed Meeting 

Pursuant to section 1009 of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, notice is hereby given of the 

following meeting. 

The meeting will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The purpose of this 

meeting is to evaluate requests for 

preclinical development resources for 

potential new therapeutics for the 

treatment of cancer. The outcome of the 

evaluation will provide information to 

internal NCI committees that will 

decide whether NCI should support 

requests and make available contract 

resources for development of the 

potential therapeutic to improve the 

treatment of various forms of cancer. 

The research proposals and the 

discussions could disclose confidential 

trade secrets or commercial property 

such as patentable material, and 

personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the 

proposed research projects, the 

disclosure of which would constitute a 

clearly unwarranted invasion of 

personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: National Cancer 

Institute Special Emphasis Panel; OCT2024 

Cycle 48 NExT SEP Committee Meeting. 

Date: December 10, 2024. 

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To evaluate the NCI Experimental 

Therapeutics Program Portfolio. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 9000 

Rockville Pike, Building 31, Room 3A44, 

Bethesda, Maryland 20892 (Virtual Meeting). 

Contact Persons: Barbara Mroczkowski, 

Ph.D., Executive Secretary, Discovery 

Experimental Therapeutics Program, 

National Cancer Institute, NIH, 31 Center 

Drive, Room 3A44, Bethesda, Maryland 

20817, 301–496–4291, mroczkoskib@

mail.nih.gov. 

Toby Hecht, Ph.D., Executive Secretary, 

Development Experimental Therapeutics 

Program, National Cancer Institute, NIH, 

9609 Medical Center Drive, Room 3W110, 

Rockville, Maryland 20850, 240–276–5683, 

toby.hecht2@nih.gov. 

This notice is being published less than 15 

days from the meeting date due to 

exceptional circumstances. An unanticipated 

number of projects for clinical trial support 

of promising experimental therapeutics 

treating various cancer types, including 

pediatric cancer, were received which 

delayed the identification of panel members 

with the appropriate expertise. If the meeting 

is not held on December 10, 2024, there will 

be a profound negative impact on 

translational cancer research resulting in a 6– 

9-month delay in funding which will 

significantly slow down the initiation of 

meritorious projects/clinical trials by one 

year. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.392, Cancer Construction; 

93.393, Cancer Cause and Prevention 

Research; 93.394, Cancer Detection and 

Diagnosis Research; 93.395, Cancer 

Treatment Research; 93.396, Cancer Biology 

Research; 93.397, Cancer Centers Support; 

93.398, Cancer Research Manpower; 93.399, 

Cancer Control, National Institutes of Health, 

HHS) 

Dated: November 27, 2024. 

Lauren A. Fleck, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

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National Institutes of Health 

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National 

Institute of Child Health & Human 

Development; Notice of Closed 

Meeting 

Pursuant to section 1009 of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, notice is hereby given of the 

following meeting. 

The meeting will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The grant applications and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the grant 

applications, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: Eunice Kennedy 

Shriver National Institute of Child Health 

and Human Development Initial Review 

Group Function, Integration, and 

Rehabilitation Sciences Study Section. 

Date: March 17–18, 2025. 

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Address: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National 

Institute of Child Health and Human 

Development, 6710 Rockledge Drive, 

Bethesda, MD 20892. 

Meeting Format: Virtual Meeting. 

Contact Person: Helen Huang, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Branch, Eunice Kennedy 

Shriver National Institute of Child Health 

and Human Development, NIH 6710B 

Rockledge Drive, Room 2137D Bethesda, MD 

20892, (301) 435–8207, Helen.Huang@

nih.gov. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.864, Population Research; 

93.865, Research for Mothers and Children; 

93.929, Center for Medical Rehabilitation 

Research; 93.209, Contraception and 

Infertility Loan Repayment Program, National 

Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: November 26, 2024. 

Lauren A. Fleck, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[Docket ID: FEMA–2023–0009] 

Community Disaster Resilience Zones 

and the National Risk Index 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency 

Management Agency (FEMA) is issuing 

this Notice to provide an update on 

responses to the Community Disaster 

Resilience Zones and the National Risk 

Index request for information and share 

FEMA’s initial designations of census 

tracts as Community Disaster Resilience 

Zones. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Samantha A. Medlock, Assistant 

Administrator for Resilience Strategy, 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency, fema-actionoffice-resiliencestrategy@fema.dhs.gov, 202–212–8007. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

A. Community Disaster Resilience Zones 

Act 

The Community Disaster Resilience 

Zones Act of 2022, Public Law 117–255, 

136 Stat. 2363, amended title II of the 

Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 

Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 

5121 et seq.) (Stafford Act) to add a new 

section 206 (42 U.S.C. 5136) that 

requires the: (1) maintenance of a 

natural hazard assessment program and 


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1More information about data availability can be 

found in FEMA’s National Risk Index Technical 

Documentation. FEMA, National Risk Index, 

Technical Documentation, Chapters 5–1 to 5–2 

(March 2023), https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/ 

files/documents/fema_national-risk-index_

technical-documentation.pdf (last visited Sept. 9, 

2024). 

2FEMA, National Risk Index for Natural Hazards, 

https://www.fema.gov/nri (last visited Sept. 10, 

2024). 

3More information about these risk components 

can be found in FEMA’s National Risk Index 

Technical Documentation (March 2023), http://

www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_

national-risk-index_technical-documentation.pdf; 

FEMA, Data Glossary, https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/ 

data-glossary (last visited May 29, 2024). 

4More information on the review and selection 

process for data used in the National Risk Index is 

available in the Technical Documentation. See 

FEMA, National Risk Index, Technical 

Documentation, 2–4 to 2–6 (March 2023), https:// 

www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_

national-risk-index_technical-documentation.pdf 

(last visited Sept. 8, 2024). 

5FEMA, Risk Index Contributors, https://

hazards.fema.gov/nri/contributors (last visited May 

29, 2024). 

6FEMA, National Risk Index, Technical 

Documentation (March 2023), https://

www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_

national-risk-index_technical-documentation.pdf 

(last visited Sept. 19, 2024). 

7 88 FR 34171 (May 26, 2023). 

8The comments received on the request for 

information may be found in the docket, available 

on the Federal eRulemaking Portal at https://

www.regulations.gov/docket/FEMA-2023-0009. 

development and maintenance of 

products for the public’s use that show 

the risk of natural hazards through use 

of risk ratings at the census tract level; 

and (2) designation, at the census tract 

level, of community disaster resilience 

zones based on the natural hazard risk 

ratings derived from a natural hazard 

risk product maintained by the natural 

hazard assessment program. 

Section 206 also provides FEMA the 

discretion to: (1) increase the Federal 

cost share to not more than 90 percent 

under the Building Resilient 

Infrastructure and Communities grant 

program for mitigation projects within, 

or primarily benefiting, a community 

disaster resilience zone; (2) provide 

financial and technical assistance to 

State, local, Tribal, and Territorial 

governments for project planning 

assistance to carry out activities in 

preparation for a mitigation project 

within, or primarily benefiting, a 

community disaster resilience zone; and 

(3) establish a process for FEMA 

certification, and provide certification 

for mitigation projects within, or 

primarily benefiting, a community 

disaster resilience zone. 

B. National Risk Index 

The National Risk Index is a publicly 

available dataset and online mapping 

application that identifies the U.S. 

communities most at risk for 18 

different natural hazards. The 18 hazard 

types evaluated by the National Risk 

Index were chosen after reviewing 

FEMA-approved State Hazard 

Mitigation Plans for all 50 States in 

early 2016.1 FEMA announced the 

availability of the National Risk Index 

with limited access to data in November 

2020 and released a full web 

application, which enhanced the data 

and report functionality, on August 16, 

2021.2 The National Risk Index data and 

application was last updated on March 

23, 2023. 

The National Risk Index application 

visualizes natural hazard risk metrics 

and includes important data about 

expected annual loss, social 

vulnerability, and community 

resilience.3 The data are derived from 

probabilistic data sources or built from 

historic event and historic loss 

information and are aggregated to the 

county and census tract levels, thus 

providing a baseline risk assessment 

and natural hazard risk profiles. 

In addition to Federal collaborators, 

the National Risk Index incorporates 

data from a wide range of relevant 

sources across the country to ensure the 

tool’s robustness.4 This includes more 

than 90 partners across the public and 

private sectors, including State, 

regional, and local government agencies; 

academia; private organizations; and 

nonprofits. While natural hazard 

occurrences can induce secondary 

natural hazard occurrences, only 

primary natural hazard occurrences 

(and not their results or after-effects) are 

considered in the National Risk Index. 

Currently, the National Risk Index does 

not account for future conditions or 

anticipated impacts due to climate 

change. 

With current National Risk Index 

information, users can discover a 

holistic view of their community’s 

baseline and current risk from natural 

hazards via online maps and data 

downloads. Potential users might be 

planners and emergency managers at the 

State, local, Tribal, Territorial, and 

Federal levels; as well as other decision 

makers, private sector entities, and 

interested members of the public. 

The interactive mapping application 

can help decision makers better prepare 

for and mitigate natural hazard events 

by providing standardized risk data for 

planning and an overview of multiple 

risk factors. In turn, this data can help 

State, local, Tribal, or Territorial 

governments develop FEMA-approved 

hazard mitigation plans, required to 

apply for and/or receive certain FEMA 

assistance and mitigation grants. More 

importantly, use of this data can help all 

users plan for disasters and increase 

resilience. 

The National Risk Index is different 

from other traditional hazard data and 

models because of the scope and scale 

of its analyses. For communities that do 

not have access to natural hazard risk 

assessment services, the National Risk 

Index is a valuable product because it 

uses authoritative data from a variety of 

Federal, State, local, academic, nonprofit, and private sector partners and 

contributors,5 and it provides users 

analysis of their risk to a natural hazard. 

The National Risk Index leverages bestavailable source data and methods to 

provide a holistic view of the current 

and baseline community-level risk 

nationwide by combining multiple 

hazards with socioeconomic and built 

environment factors. 

FEMA publishes and maintains a 

publicly available National Risk Indexspecific technical document to highlight 

the National Risk Index research and 

methodologies for developing all 

components of the tool.6 Previously 

released National Risk Index data 

versions, documentation, and data 

updates documentation are available 

through the National Risk Index Data 

Archive. 

II. Request for Information 

On May 26, 2023, FEMA issued a 

notice and request for information to 

seek input from the public on 

implementation of the Community 

Disaster Resilience Zones Act of 2022. 

This included updates to the 

methodology and data used for the 

National Risk Index and any other 

hazard assessment products; potential 

improvements to FEMA’s provision of 

hazard data; the process used to 

designate community disaster resilience 

zones; financial and technical assistance 

for resilience or mitigation projects in or 

primarily benefitting community 

disaster resilience zones; and the 

community disaster resilience zone 

project application and certification 

process.7

This request for information closed 

for comments on July 25, 2023, during 

which time FEMA received responses 

from over 100 commentors.8 The 

request for information responses 

indicated six themes: designation 

methodology, post-designation support, 

community engagement, data and the 

National Risk Index, equity, and 

community displacement. 

FEMA has summarized the comments 

and developed summary responses 

based on the general themes noted 

above. Comments and responses may be 


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9FEMA, FEMA Designates First Communities to 

Receive Targeted Assistance for Hazards Resilience 

(Sept. 6, 2023), https://www.fema.gov/press-release/ 

20230906/fema-designates-first-communitiesreceive-targeted-assistance-hazards (last visited 

Sept. 10, 2024). 

10Council on Environmental Quality, Climate 

and Economic Justice Screening Tool, https://

screeningtool.geoplatform.gov/en/ (last visited May 

29, 2024). 

found at https://www.fema.gov/factsheet/summary-request-informationimplementation-community-disasterresilience-zones. 

III. List of Community Disaster 

Resilience Zones 

On September 6, 2023, FEMA 

announced the designation of an initial 

set of 483 community disaster resilience 

zones across the United States.9 To 

identify resilience zones, FEMA used 

components of the National Risk Index 

to identify the census tracts most at-risk 

and in-need. FEMA is currently working 

on additional designations and plans to 

announce them soon. These 

designations will help build resilience 

across the nation by driving Federal, 

public, and private resources to these 

designated zones. 

FEMA also used the White House 

Council on Environmental Quality’s 

Climate and Economic Justice Screening 

Tool, a geospatial platform that 

identifies areas across the nation that 

face especially acute climate and other 

resilience burdens, to help focus the 

designations on disadvantaged 

communities.10

A map of the census tracts that were 

designated as community disaster 

resilience zones on September 6, 2023, 

can be found at https://www.fema.gov/ 

partnerships/community-disasterresilience-zones. 

Deanne Criswell, 

Administrator, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[Docket ID: FEMA–2024–0021; OMB No. 

1660–0144] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review, Comment Request; Individual 

& Community Preparedness Division 

(ICPD) Youth Preparedness Council 

(YPC) Application Form 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

ACTION: 30-Day notice of extension and 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency 

Management Agency (FEMA) will 

submit the information collection 

abstracted below to the Office of 

Management and Budget for review and 

clearance in accordance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. FEMA invites 

the general public to take this 

opportunity to comment on an 

extension, without change, of a 

currently approved information 

collection information collection. In 

accordance with the requirements of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice seeks comments concerning this 

collection allowing potential candidates 

to apply for FEMA’s Youth 

Preparedness Council. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before January 2, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

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

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

should be made to Director, Information 

Management Division, 500 C Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20472, email address 

FEMA-Information-CollectionsManagement@fema.dhs.gov or Shanna 

Scherbinske, Emergency Management 

Specialist, Individual and Community 

Preparedness Division, 202–286–3052, 

and Shanna.Scherbinske@fema.dhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

FEMA Youth Preparedness Council 

(YPC) was formed to bring together 

youth leaders from across the country 

who are highly interested and engaged 

in advocating youth preparedness and 

making a difference in their 

communities. This collection meets the 

requirements of 6 U.S.C. 742, National 

Preparedness, and Presidential Policy 

Directive—8 (PPD–8) which emphasize 

the need for involvement from all 

sectors of society in preparing for and 

responding to threats and hazards. 

This application form is used to select 

interested council members based on 

dedication to public service, efforts in 

making a difference in their community, 

and potential for expanding their impact 

as a national advocate for youth 

preparedness. 

Council members’ involvement and 

activities align with goals 5.2 and 5.3 

from the Quadrennial Homeland 

Security Review (QHSR). Members are 

expected to represent the youth 

perspective on emergency preparedness 

and take information back to their 

communities to share. Council members 

are expected to develop and complete 

preparedness-related projects. 

Youth apply using personal 

identifiable demographic and contact 

information, which FEMA retains 

confidentially for the purposes of 

providing acceptance/denial responses 

to applicants and determining a 

representative sample of applicants. 

Letters of recommendation and 

academic records are required, while 

supplemental materials highlighting 

past achievements are encouraged. 

This proposed information collection 

previously published in the Federal 

Register on July 16, 2024, at 89 FR 

57923 with a 60-day public comment 

period. FEMA received no public 

comments. The purpose of this notice is 

to notify the public that FEMA will 

submit the information collection 

abstracted below to the Office of 

Management and Budget for review and 

clearance. 

Collection of Information 

Title: Individual & Community 

Preparedness Division (ICPD) Annual 

Youth Preparedness Council (YPC) 

Application Form. 

Type of Information Collection: 

Extension, without change, of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

OMB Number: 1660–0144. 

FEMA Forms: FEMA Form FF–008– 

FY–21–111 (formerly 008–0–0–24), 

FEMA Youth Preparedness Council 

Application. 

Abstract: The FEMA Youth 

Preparedness Council (YPC) was formed 

to bring together youth leaders from 

across the country who are highly 

interested and engaged in advocating 


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