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deems appropriate. In carrying out its 

responsibilities, the Board examines 

NFA programs to determine whether 

these programs further the basic 

missions that are approved by the 

Administrator of FEMA, examines the 

physical plant of the NFA to determine 

the adequacy of the NFA’s facilities, and 

examines the funding levels for NFA 

programs. The Board submits a written 

annual report through the United States 

Fire Administrator to the Administrator 

of FEMA. The report provides detailed 

comments and recommendations 

regarding the operation of the NFA. 

Agenda 

1. The Board will receive updates on 

U.S. Fire Administration data, research, 

and response support initiatives. 

2. The Board will discuss deferred 

maintenance and capital improvements 

on the National Emergency Training 

Center campus and Fiscal Year 2015 

Budget Request/Budget Planning. 

3. The Board will review and give 

feedback on NFA program activities, 

including: 

• The Managing Officer Program, a 

new multiyear curriculum that 

introduced emerging emergency 

services leaders to personal and 

professional skills in change 

management, risk reduction, and 

adaptive leadership; a progress report 

on this new program will be discussed; 

• Adoption of the Fire and 

Emergency Services Higher Education 

Model by Foreign Countries; 

• Training, Resource and Data 

Exchange (TRADE) policy discussion; 

• Review of Professional 

Development Crosswalk, national 

standards for Fire Officer competencies 

and their interrelationships with State, 

National and Academic programs; 

• Volunteer Incentive Program (VIP) 

policy change discussion; 

• Off-Campus delivery program 

changes; 

• Status of staff vacancies and 

challenges; 

• Contract instructor issues and 

challenges; 

• Incremental versus radical course 

material policy discussion; 

• Status of Mediated Online courses; 

• Curriculum and Instruction 

program activities; 

• Interagency Agreement with the 

Department of Transportation with 

update on Traffic Incident Management 

Course; 

• Policy and program change 

discussion regarding consolidation of 

Management and Leadership Curricula; 

• Status of the National Professional 

Development Symposium which brings 

national training and education 

audiences together for their annual 

conference and support initiatives, 

scheduled to be held June 10–12, 2015; 

• Fire and Emergency Services Higher 

Education (FESHE) Recognition 

Program Update; 

• Program Decision Option budget 

requests to Department of Homeland 

Security. 

There will be a 10-minute comment 

period after each agenda item; each 

speaker will be given no more than 2 

minutes to speak. Please note that the 

public comment period may end before 

the time indicated, following the last 

call for comments. Contact Ruth 

MacPhail to register as a speaker. 

Dated: April 15, 2015. 

Denis G. Onieal, 

Superintendent, National Fire Academy, 

United States Fire Administration, Federal 

Emergency Management Agency. 

[FR Doc. 2015–09259 Filed 4–20–15; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[Docket ID FEMA–2015–0011; OMB No. 

1660–NEW] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request, Integrated Public 

Alert and Warning Systems (IPAWS) 

Memorandum of Agreement 

Applications 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on a new information 

collection. In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice seeks comments concerning the 

Integrated Public Alert and Warning 

Systems (IPAWS) Memorandum of 

Agreement Applications. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before June 22, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: To avoid duplicate 

submissions to the docket, please use 

only one of the following means to 

submit comments: 

(1) Online. Submit comments at 

www.regulations.gov under Docket ID 

FEMA–2015–0011. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

(2) Mail. Submit written comments to 

Docket Manager, Office of Chief 

Counsel, DHS/FEMA, 500 C Street, SW., 

Room 8NE, Washington, DC 20472– 

3100. 

(3) Facsimile. Submit comments to 

(703) 483–2999. 

All submissions received must 

include the agency name and Docket ID. 

Regardless of the method used for 

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 Act notice that is available via 

the link in the footer of 

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Hans N. Yu, Project Manager, FEMA, 

National Continuity Programs, 

Protection & National Preparedness, 

(202) 646–3910 for additional 

information. You may contact the 

Records Management Division for 

copies of the proposed collection of 

information at facsimile number (202) 

212–4701 or email address: FEMAInformation-Collections-Management@

fema.dhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Presidential Executive Order 13407 

establishes the policy for an effective, 

reliable, integrated, flexible, and 

comprehensive system to alert and warn 

the American people in situations of 

war, terrorist attack, natural disaster, or 

other hazards to public safety and 

wellbeing. The Integrated Public Alert 

and Warning System (IPAWS) is the 

Department of Homeland Security’s 

(DHS) response to the Executive Order. 

The Stafford Act (U.S.C. Title 42, 

Chapter 68, Subchapter II) requires that 

FEMA make IPAWS available to 

Federal, State, and local agencies for the 

purpose of providing warning to 

governmental authorities and the 

civilian population in areas endangered 

by disasters. The information collected 

is used by FEMA to create a 

Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that 

regulates the management, operations, 

and security of the information 

technology system connection between 

a Federal, State, territorial, tribal or 

local alerting authority and IPAWS– 

OPEN (Open Platform for Emergency 

Notifications). 

Collection of Information 

Title: Integrated Public Alert and 

Warning Systems (IPAWS) 

Memorandum of Agreement 

Applications. 


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Type of Information Collection: New 

information collection. 

OMB Number: 1660–NEW. 

FEMA Forms: FEMA Form 007–0–25, 

IPAWS Memorandum of Agreement 

(MOA) Application; FEMA Form 007– 

0–26, Memorandum of Agreement 

Application for (Tribal Governments). 

Abstract: A Federal, State, territorial, 

tribal, or local alerting authority that 

applies for authorization to use IPAWS 

is designated as a Collaborative 

Operating Group or ‘‘COG’’ by the 

IPAWS Program Management Office 

(PMO). Access to IPAWS is free; 

however, to send a message using 

IPAWS, an organization must procure 

its own IPAWS compatible software. To 

become a COG, a Memorandum of 

Agreement (MOA) governing system 

security must be executed between the 

sponsoring organization and FEMA. 

Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal 

Government. 

Number of Respondents: 160. 

Number of Responses: 160. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 160 hours. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS AND COSTS

Type of respondent Form name/form 

number 

Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Total number 

of responses 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total annual 

burden 

(in hours) 

Average 

hourly wage 

rate 

Total annual 

respondent 

cost 

State, Local or Tribal 

Government.

IPAWS Memorandum of Agreement Application/.

FEMA Form 007–0– 

25.

150 1 150 1 150 $38.30 $5,745.00 

State, Local or Tribal 

Government.

IPAWS Memorandum of Agreement Application 

for Tribal Governments/.

FEMA Form 007–0– 

26.

10 1 10 1 10 38.30 383.00 

Total .................. ................................. 160 ........................ 160 ........................ 160 ........................ 6,128.00 

• Note: The ‘‘Avg. Hourly Wage Rate’’ for each respondent includes a 1.4 multiplier to reflect a fully-loaded wage rate. 

Estimated Cost: The estimated annual 

cost to respondents for the hour burden 

is $6,128.00. There are no annual costs 

to respondents’ operations and 

maintenance costs for technical 

services. There are no annual start-up or 

capital costs. The cost to the Federal 

Government is $74,343.00. 

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. 

Dated: April 13, 2015. 

Janice Waller, 

Acting Director, Records Management 

Division, U.S. Department of Homeland 

Security, Federal Emergency Management 

Agency, Mission Support. 

[FR Doc. 2015–09252 Filed 4–20–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9111–AB–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[Docket ID: FEMA–2015–0005; OMB No. 

1660–0038] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request; Write Your 

Own (WYO) Company Participation 

Criteria; New Applicant 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

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. The submission 

will describe the nature of the 

information collection, the categories of 

respondents, the estimated burden (i.e., 

the time, effort and resources used by 

respondents to respond) and cost, and 

the actual data collection instruments 

FEMA will use. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before May 21, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 

on the proposed information collection 

to the Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget. Comments 

should be addressed to the Desk Officer 

for the Department of Homeland 

Security, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, and sent via 

electronic mail to oira.submission@

omb.eop.gov or faxed to (202) 395–5806. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

should be made to Director, Records 

Management Division, 500 C Street, 

SW., Washington, DC 20472–3100, 

facsimile number (202) 646–3347, or 

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Changes Since Publication of the 60 

Day Federal Register Notice: The 

abstract has been updated to remove a 

reference public risk sharing 

organization because the authority for 

allowing such entities to enter the WYO 

program has sunsetted. The abstract has 

also been revised for clarity. The burden 

hours have been updated to reflect the 

one-time test of the insurance 

company’s ability to use the NFIP 


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