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1 If there is no associated foreign government 

eCERT transmission available upon entry of the 

merchandise, an importer may enter the 

merchandise for consumption subject to the overquota tariff rate or opt not to enter the merchandise 

for consumption at that time (e.g., transfer the 

merchandise to a Customs bonded warehouse or 

foreign trade zone or export or destroy the 

merchandise). 

2 If an importer enters the merchandise for 

consumption subject to the over-quota tariff rate 

and the associated foreign government eCERT 

transmission becomes available afterwards, an 

importer may claim the in-quota rate of duty by 

filing a post summary correction (before 

liquidation) or a protest under 19 CFR part 174 

(after liquidation). In either event, the in-quota rate 

of duty is allowable only if there are still quota 

amounts available within the original quota period. 

1See Ready Campaign, Floods (updated Apr. 9, 

2021) at http://www.ready.gov/floods (last accessed 

July 15, 2021). See also National Weather Service, 

Flood Related Hazards at http://www.weather.gov/ 

safety/flood-hazards (‘‘Approximately seventy-five 

percent of all Presidential disaster declarations are 

associated with flooding.’’) (last accessed July 15, 

2021). 

2See Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate 

Disasters: Summary Stats, at http://

www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/summary-stats (last 

accessed July 7, 2021). 

3See Historical Flood Risk and Costs at http://

www.fema.gov/data-visualization/historical-floodrisk-and-costs (last accessed, July 9, 2021) 

4See Why Buy Flood Insurance at http://

www.floodsmart.gov/flood-insurance/why (last 

accessed July 1, 2021). 

into the United States. CBP has 

coordinated with Uruguay to implement 

the eCERT process, and now Uruguay is 

ready to participate in this process by 

transmitting its export certificates to 

CBP via eCERT. 

Foreign countries participating in 

eCERT transmit information via a global 

network service provider, which allows 

connectivity to CBP’s automated 

electronic system for commercial trade 

processing, the Automated Commercial 

Environment (ACE). Specific data 

elements are transmitted to CBP by the 

importer of record (or an authorized 

customs broker) when filing an entry 

summary with CBP, and those data 

elements must match eCERT data from 

the foreign country before an importer 

may claim any applicable in-quota tariff 

rate of duty. An importer may claim an 

in-quota tariff rate when merchandise is 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption, only if the information 

transmitted by the importer matches the 

information transmitted by the foreign 

government. If there is no transmission 

by the foreign government upon entry, 

an importer must claim the higher overquota tariff rate.1 An importer may 

subsequently claim the in-quota tariff 

rate under certain limited conditions.2

This document announces that 

Uruguay will be implementing the 

eCERT process for transmitting export 

certificates for beef entries subject to the 

tariff-rate quota. Imported merchandise 

that is entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

August 30, 2021, must match the eCERT 

transmission of an export certificate 

from Uruguay in order for an importer 

to claim the in-tariff quota rate. The 

transition to eCERT will not change the 

tariff-rate quota filing process or 

requirements. Importers will continue to 

provide the export certificate numbers 

from Uruguay in the same manner as 

when currently filing entry summaries 

with CBP. The format of the export 

certificate numbers will not change as a 

result of the transition to eCERT. CBP 

will reject entry summaries that claim 

an in-quota tariff rate when filed 

without a valid export certificate in 

eCERT. 

Dated: August 16, 2021. 

AnnMarie R. Highsmith, 

Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of 

Trade. 

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BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[Docket ID: FEMA–2021–0021] 

Request for Information on the 

National Flood Insurance Program’s 

Community Rating System 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, Department of 

Homeland Security (DHS). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

information. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency 

Management Agency (FEMA) is issuing 

this Request for Information (RFI) to 

receive input from the public on 

transforming the Community Rating 

System (CRS) under the National Flood 

Insurance Program (NFIP) to better align 

with the current understanding of flood 

risk and flood risk approaches and to 

incentivize communities to not only 

manage but also lower their flood risk 

through floodplain management 

initiatives. The NFIP’s CRS program is 

a voluntary incentive program that 

recognizes and encourages community 

floodplain management practices that 

exceed the minimum requirements of 

the NFIP for floodplain management. As 

FEMA undertakes a series of initiatives 

that will transform the NFIP, the agency 

is evaluating the CRS program and its 

potential to support FEMA, State, local, 

Tribal, and Territorial community goals 

and needs. 

DATES: Written comments are requested 

on or before September 22, 2021. Latefiled comments will be considered to 

the extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Docket ID: FEMA–2021– 

0021, through the Federal eRulemaking 

Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 

Follow the instructions for submitting 

comments. Please note that this RFI 

period is not rulemaking and the 

Federal Rulemaking Portal is being 

utilized only as a mechanism for 

receiving comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rachel Sears, Supervisory Emergency 

Management Specialist, Federal 

Insurance and Mitigation 

Administration, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, FEMA-CRS-Next@

fema.dhs.gov, 202–212–3800. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Public Participation 

Interested persons are invited to 

comment on this notice by submitting 

written data, views, or arguments using 

the method identified in the ADDRESSES

section. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the agency name and Docket ID 

for this notice. All comments received 

will be posted without change to http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Commenters are 

encouraged to identify the number of 

the specific question or questions to 

which they are responding. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to http://

www.regulations.gov and search for the 

Docket ID. 

II. Background 

Floods are the most common and 

most destructive natural disaster in the 

United States.1 Every year, flooding 

causes hundreds of millions of dollars 

in damage to homes and businesses 

around the United States.2 Anywhere it 

can rain, it can flood. With 99% of 

counties in the United States having 

experienced a flood 3 and when just one 

inch of water can cause $25,000 in 

damage in a home,4 communities across 

the country must make difficult 

decisions about protecting lives and 

property from flooding. 

Standard homeowners and 

commercial property insurance policies 

do not cover flood losses. To meet the 

need for this vital coverage, FEMA 

administers the National Flood 

Insurance Program (NFIP), which offers 

reasonably priced flood insurance to all 

properties in communities that comply 

with minimum standards for floodplain 


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5 44 CFR 59.2(b). 

6See The Watermark—National Flood Insurance 

Program Financial Statements found at: http://

www.fema.gov/flood-insurance/work-with-nfip/ 

watermark-financial-statements (last accessed July 

27, 2021). 

7Public Law 103–325, 108 Stat. 2255 (1994). 

8 ‘‘Community’’ means any State or area or 

political subdivision thereof, or any Indian tribe or 

authorized tribal organization, or Alaska Native 

village or authorized native organization, which has 

authority to adopt and enforce flood plain 

management regulations for the areas within its 

jurisdiction. 44 CFR 59.1. 

9FEMA, Community Rating System Fact Sheet, 

June 2021, at http://www.fema.gov/fact-sheet/ 

community-rating-system (last accessed July 12, 

2021). 

10 Includes both the FEMA, NFIP Community 

Rating System Coordinator’s Manual, at http://

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

community-rating-system_coordinators-manual_

2017.pdf, and the 2021 Addendum to the NFIP 

Community Rating System Coordinator’s Manual, at 

http://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ 

fema_community-rating-system_coordinatormanual_addendum-2021.pdf. (last accessed July 1, 

2021). 

11See 2017 CRS Coordinator’s Manual, Appendix 

D found at http://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/ 

documents/fema_community-rating-system_

coordinators-manual_2017.pdf. 

management. To be covered by an NFIP 

flood insurance policy, a property must 

be in a community that participates in 

the NFIP. To qualify for the NFIP, a 

community adopts and enforces a 

floodplain management ordinance to 

regulate development in flood hazard 

areas.5 The objective of the ordinance is 

to minimize the potential for flood 

damage to future development. Today, 

over 22,500 communities in the United 

States participate in the NFIP.6

In 1990, FEMA implemented the 

Community Rating System (CRS) as a 

voluntary program for recognizing and 

encouraging community floodplain 

management activities exceeding the 

minimum NFIP standards and the CRS 

program was fully authorized by the 

National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 

1994.7 Any community 8 in full 

compliance with the minimum NFIP 

floodplain management requirements 

may apply to join the CRS program. 

Through the CRS program, communities 

undertaking floodplain management 

activities that exceed the minimum 

floodplain management requirements of 

the NFIP earn CRS credits (often 

referred to as ‘‘points’’) that result in 

flood insurance premiums discounts for 

NFIP policyholders who reside in that 

community. As of April 2021, over 

1,500 communities participate in the 

CRS program nationwide. This 

represents about seven percent of 

eligible NFIP communities that could 

participate in the CRS program. 

However, these communities have a 

large number of NFIP flood insurance 

policies—nearly 3.6 million—so more 

than 70 percent of all NFIP policies are 

written in communities participating in 

the CRS program.9

The CRS program credits community 

efforts that exceed the minimum 

standards by reducing flood insurance 

premiums for the community’s 

policyholders. The CRS program is 

similar to, but separate from, the private 

insurance industry’s programs that 

grade communities on the effectiveness 

of their fire suppression and building 

code enforcement efforts. CRS program 

discounts on flood insurance premiums 

range from 5 percent up to 45 percent 

based on the level of CRS program 

credits awarded to communities. The 

discounts provide an incentive for 

communities to implement new flood 

protection activities that help save lives 

and property when a flood occurs and 

correlate to FEMA’s expected savings 

for these local floodplain activities. 

To participate in the CRS program, 

local floodplain management actions 

must be described, measured, and 

evaluated by the CRS program. The CRS 

program assigns credits for defined 

activities. Most activities are optional; 

however, some activities are required to 

achieve higher Classes. A higher-Class 

community achieves higher levels of 

discount; a Class 1 community achieves 

the highest discount of 45 percent. The 

basic documents detailing the program 

are the NFIP Community Rating System 

Coordinator’s Manual (known as the 

‘‘CRS Coordinator’s Manual’’) and the 

2021 Addendum to the NFIP 

Community Rating System 

Coordinator’s Manual (known as the 

‘‘2021 Addendum’’).10 Taken together, 

these documents set forth the 

procedures, creditable activities, and the 

credit assigned to each activity, and give 

examples of activities and how their 

credit is calculated. 

The discounts on premium rates for 

NFIP flood insurance coverage are based 

on flood and erosion risk reduction 

measures implemented by a CRS 

community.11 The CRS program 

provides credit to participating 

communities under 19 public 

information and floodplain management 

activities as described in the CRS 

Coordinator’s Manual. To receive credit, 

community officials prepare 

documentation that verifies the efforts 

made under the 19 activities. The CRS 

program activities include but are not 

limited to: (1) Public information to 

advise people about flood hazards, flood 

insurance, and ways to reduce flood 

damage; (2) mapping and regulations to 

limit floodplain development or provide 

increased protection to new and existing 

development; (3) flood damage 

reduction; and (4) flood preparedness to 

provide flood warning, levee safety, and 

dam safety projects. 

Based on the total number of credits 

a community earns, the CRS program 

assigns the community to one of ten 

different Classes. The community will 

then receive flood insurance discounts 

based on the community’s Class. For 

example, a community earning 4,500 

credits or more qualifies for Class 1, and 

property owners in the Special Flood 

Hazard Area (SFHA) receive a 45 

percent discount on their NFIP flood 

insurance premiums. Similarly, a 

community with as few as 500 credits 

will be in Class 9 and property owners 

in the SFHA receive a 5 percent 

discount. Communities may receive 

additional credit for regulating 

development outside the SFHA to the 

same standards as inside the SFHA. 

Credits are also available for assessing 

future flood conditions, including the 

impacts of future development, 

urbanization, and climate change 

impacts including sea-level rise. 

Additionally, communities can qualify 

for ‘‘State-based credit’’ based on the 

activities or regulations a State or 

regional agency implements within 

communities. A community that does 

not participate in the CRS program, or 

does not obtain the minimum number of 

credit points, is a Class 10 community 

and receives no discount on NFIP flood 

insurance premiums. 

FEMA is seeking input on ways the 

agency can improve the CRS program: 

(1) To better align the CRS program with 

the improved understanding of flood 

risk and flood risk approaches that have 

developed since the program’s 

inception; (2) to better incentivize 

communities and policyholders to 

become more resilient and to not only 

manage, but to lower their vulnerability 

to flood risk; and (3) to support the 

sound financial framework of the NFIP. 

While the CRS program today has 

evolved, the overall approach and 

framework of the program has been the 

same since the start of the program. As 

FEMA undertakes many initiatives that 

will transform the NFIP, the agency is 

also evaluating the CRS program and its 

potential to support FEMA, State 

government, Tribal government, 

Territorial and community goals and 

needs. While the agency has made 

incremental changes since the CRS 

program’s implementation, the agency is 

seeking input to improve the program 

further through additional 

programmatic changes. With the 

continuous learning around flood, flood 

risk management, and flood risk 

reduction techniques, FEMA now has 

more information about and 


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12See ‘‘Advancing Racial Equity and Support for 

Underserved Communities Through the Federal 

Government,’’ 86 FR 7009 (Jan. 25, 2021); 

‘‘Protecting Public Health and the Environment and 

Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis,’’ 86 

FR 7037 (Jan. 25, 2021); and ‘‘Tackling the Climate 

Crisis at Home and Abroad,’’ 86 FR 7619 (Feb. 1, 

2021). 

13Request for Information on FEMA Programs, 

Regulations, and Policies, 86 FR 21325 (April 22, 

2021). 

understanding of multi-frequency 

analysis, pluvial flooding, climate 

change, and the extent of flood risk 

outside of the SFHA. FEMA seeks to 

make larger improvements within our 

programs based on these developments 

and is now taking a holistic look at the 

CRS program to determine how the 

program can best meet FEMA and 

stakeholder needs. 

As FEMA reviews the CRS program, 

several foundational assumptions 

underpin this programmatic review and 

improvement effort (called ‘‘CRS Next’’), 

including that the CRS program will 

continue to provide whole-community 

public benefits through a rewards-based 

program; the CRS program will continue 

to increase both the visibility of 

comprehensive flood risk and 

recognition of actions taken by a 

community; the CRS program will 

support and contribute to the financial 

soundness of the NFIP; the CRS program 

will be simpler for communities to join 

and participate in; the CRS program will 

be simpler for FEMA to explain to 

communities and also for communities 

to explain to their constituents; the CRS 

program will clarify that it does not 

address structure-based risk reduction 

activities; and FEMA will avoid 

duplication between the approaches of 

the CRS program and other NFIP 

Transformation efforts. 

FEMA is also further reviewing the 

CRS program in light of recent 

Executive orders focused on equity, 

climate change, and environmental 

justice. FEMA recently sought input 

through another Request for Information 

pursuant to the processes required by 

Executive Orders 13985, 13990, and 

14008 12 that require agencies to assess 

existing programs and policies to 

determine if: (1) Agency programs and 

policies perpetuate systemic barriers to 

opportunities and benefits for people of 

color and other underserved groups; (2) 

additional agency actions are required 

to bolster resilience to climate change; 

and (3) agency programs, policies, and 

activities address the disproportionately 

high and adverse climate-related 

impacts on disadvantaged 

communities.13 The input received from 

that Request for Information will also be 

used to assist FEMA’s initiative to 

improve and update the CRS program. 

Additional comments on equity related 

to CRS may also be provided through 

this RFI. 

FEMA continually evaluates its 

programs, regulations, and policies, to 

identify opportunities to modify, 

streamline, expand, or repeal. FEMA 

does so through legally mandated 

review requirements (e.g., Unified 

Agenda reviews and reviews under 

section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility 

Act) and through other informal and 

long-established mechanisms (e.g., use 

of Advisory Councils, feedback from 

FEMA field personnel, input from 

internal working groups, and outreach 

to regulated entities and the public). 

This Federal Register notice 

supplements these existing extensive 

FEMA regulatory and program review 

efforts. 

II. Request for Input 

A. Importance of Public Feedback 

FEMA is committed to obtaining 

public input to drive and focus FEMA’s 

review of the CRS program. Because 

Federal regulations and policies have 

broad impacts on society in general, 

members of the public are likely to have 

useful information, data, and 

perspectives on the benefits and 

burdens of FEMA’s existing programs, 

regulations, information collections, and 

policies. Accordingly, FEMA is seeking 

specific public feedback to facilitate the 

CRS program review and improvement 

efforts in the context of equity for all, 

including those in underserved 

communities. With the increasing risk 

of flooding and flood damage, in part 

because of climate change, it is essential 

that FEMA reevaluate programs to 

reduce unnecessary barriers to 

participation and effectiveness, to serve 

all communities, to increase equity, and 

to promote preparedness. 

B. Maximizing the Value of Public 

Feedback 

This notice contains a list of 

questions, the answers to which will 

assist FEMA in identifying those aspects 

of the CRS program that may benefit 

from modification, streamlining, or 

expansion. FEMA encourages public 

comment on these questions and seeks 

any other data commenters believe are 

relevant to FEMA’s efforts. The type of 

feedback that is most useful to the 

agency will identify specific CRS 

program components that could benefit 

from reform; refer to specific barriers to 

participation; align the CRS program 

with the improved understanding of 

flood risk and flood risk reduction 

approaches gained since the initiation of 

the program; better incentivize 

communities and policyholders to 

become more resilient and lower their 

vulnerability to flood risk; offer 

actionable data; and specify viable 

alternatives to existing approaches that 

meet statutory obligations. 

For example, feedback that contains 

specific information explaining a 

proposed change to the CRS program, 

how such a change could be 

implemented, and why said change 

would be beneficial (i.e., the outcomes 

a proposed change would aim to effect) 

is more useful to FEMA than generic 

feedback that omits these components. 

FEMA is looking for new information 

and new data to support any proposed 

changes. 

Commenters should consider these 

principles as they answer and respond 

to the questions in this notice. 

• Commenters should identify, with 

specificity, the CRS program policy or 

process at issue. 

• Commenters should explain, with 

as much detail as possible, why an 

aspect of the CRS program should be 

modified, streamlined, expanded, or 

repealed, and provide specific 

suggestions of ways the agency can 

better achieve its objectives. 

• Commenters should provide 

specific data that document the costs, 

burdens, and benefits of existing 

requirements to the extent they are 

available. Commenters might also 

address how FEMA can best obtain and 

consider accurate, objective information 

and data about the costs, burdens, and 

benefits of the CRS program and 

whether there are existing sources of 

data that FEMA can use to evaluate the 

effects of the CRS program over time. 

• Commenters should identify with 

specificity administrative burdens, CRS 

program requirements, information 

collection burdens, waiting time, or 

unnecessary complexity that may 

impose unjustified barriers in general, 

or that may have adverse effects on 

equity for all, including those in 

underserved communities. This Request 

for Information and change effort aligns 

with broader FEMA efforts to solicit 

public comments on FEMA Programs, 

Regulations, and Policies. FEMA is 

seeking additional information specific 

to the CRS program and the CRS Next 

change effort on the topics of equity for 

all, including those in underserved 

communities. Commenters seeking to 

provide input on these areas should 

respond to the questions below in this 

Request for Information. 

• Commenters should identify with 

specificity small or large reforms that 

might be justified in light of the risks 

posed by climate change, including but 

not limited to sea-level rise, intense 


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14 ‘‘Repetitive loss properties’’ are those 

properties for which two or more claims of more 

than $1,000 have been paid by the NFIP within any 

10-year period since 1978. ‘‘Severe repetitive loss 

properties’’ are those as defined in the Flood 

Insurance Reform Act of 2004 that are one-four 

family properties that have had four or more claims 

of more than $5,000 or two to three claims that 

cumulatively exceed the building’s value. CRS 

considers non-residential buildings that also meet 

these criteria to be severe repetitive loss properties. 

See National Flood Insurance Program Community 

Rating System Coordinator’s Manual 2017 and 

National Flood Insurance Program Community 

Rating System Addendum to the 2017 CRS 

Coordinator’s Manual at https://www.fema.gov/ 

floodplain-management/community-rating-system 

(last accessed May 20, 2021). 

rainfall, changing weather patterns, 

riverine and coastal erosion, and shifts 

in future development. 

• Particularly where comments relate 

to the CRS program’s costs or benefits, 

comments will be most useful if there 

are data and experience under the 

program available to ascertain the 

program’s actual impact. 

C. List of Questions for Commenters 

The below non-exhaustive list of 

questions is meant to assist members of 

the public in the formulation of 

comments and is not intended to restrict 

the issues that commenters may 

address: 

(1) What are the strengths of the 

current CRS program? What 

components of the program are 

currently working well and why? 

(2) What are the challenges with the 

current CRS program that need to be 

addressed and why? How can the CRS 

program be modified, expanded, or 

streamlined to better address or resolve 

these challenges? 

(3) While the CRS program is 

technically available to all compliant 

NFIP communities, is access to the CRS 

program equitable for all communities? 

If not, what changes to the CRS program 

could make it more equitable for all 

communities? How could the CRS 

program provide better outreach to 

disadvantaged communities to 

encourage participation? How could the 

CRS program provide better outreach to 

households in disadvantaged 

communities to encourage participation 

in the NFIP? 

(4) How could the CRS program better 

promote and/or incentivize improved 

reduction of future conditions and risks 

such as climate change, sea-level rise, 

urban flooding, and future 

development? 

(5) How could the CRS program better 

address the mitigation of repetitive loss/ 

severe repetitive loss 14 properties and 

how could FEMA further leverage the 

CRS program to achieve mitigation of 

repetitive loss/severe repetitive loss 

properties? 

(6) How can the CRS program be 

modified, expanded, or streamlined to 

best incentivize participation by 

communities and flood insurance 

policyholders to become more resilient 

and lower their vulnerability to flood 

risk? 

(7) How can the CRS program better 

incentivize floodplain management, risk 

management, and/or risk reduction 

efforts for communities through CRS 

discounts, grants, trainings, technical 

assistance or other means? Which efforts 

are most critical for the CRS program to 

support? 

(8) What existing sources of data can 

FEMA leverage to better assist 

communities to assess, communicate, 

and drive the reduction of current and 

future flood risk? Can FEMA leverage 

new technologies to modify or 

streamline the CRS program? If so, what 

are they and how can FEMA use new 

technologies to achieve the statutory 

objectives of the program? 

(9) The CRS program provides credits 

for flood risk reduction activities. Are 

there flood risk reduction activities that 

are not currently given credit within the 

CRS program that should be? If so, what 

are they and why? Are there flood risk 

reduction activities that are currently 

given excessive credit within the CRS 

program than they should be given? If 

so, what are they and why? Should the 

CRS program provide a list of optional 

risk reduction activities for 

communities to choose from or a list of 

required risk reduction activities, and 

why? 

(10) What successful approaches have 

been taken by State, local, Tribal, and 

Territorial governments that the CRS 

program could leverage to better support 

community participation in the CRS 

program? In what ways could the CRS 

program better support States, Tribes, 

Territories and Regions, and flood 

control and water management districts 

to improve community participation in 

the program? What innovative changes 

could the CRS program make to be 

simpler for communities to join and 

maintain participation? 

(11) How could the CRS program 

provide better outreach to 

disadvantaged communities to 

encourage participation? How could the 

CRS program provide better outreach to 

households in disadvantaged 

communities to encourage participation 

in the NFIP? 

(11) In what ways could the CRS 

program facilitate collaboration across 

jurisdictional boundaries to support a 

community’s ability to reduce flood 

risk? How could the CRS program be 

modified, expanded, or streamlined to 

allow for multi-jurisdictional 

collaboration efforts to receive credit 

under the CRS program? 

(12) What opportunities exist for the 

CRS program to better integrate with 

other entities and/or programs? For 

example, in what specific ways could 

the CRS program better work and 

integrate with State, local, Tribal, and 

Territorial programs, including but not 

limited to, floodplain management, 

emergency services, land use planning 

and building code administration 

capital improvement, transportation, 

redevelopment, pre- and post-disaster 

recovery, climate adaptation, hazard 

mitigation planning, watershed 

management, and/or wetlands, riparian, 

or environmental management 

programs? In what specific ways could 

the CRS program better work and 

integrate with Federal disaster 

assistance programs or Federal 

mitigation programs? 

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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BILLING CODE 9111–47–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

[Docket Number DHS–2021–0009] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Vulnerability Discovery 

Program, 1601–0028 

AGENCY: Department of Homeland 

Security, (DHS). 

ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for 

comments; extension without change of 

a currently approved collection, 1601– 

0028. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland 

Security, will submit the following 

Information Collection Request (ICR) to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and clearance in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. DHS previously 

published this information collection 

request (ICR) in the Federal Register on 

Friday, March 19, 2021 for a 60-day 

public comment period. There were 

three public comments received by 

DHS. The purpose of this notice is to 

allow additional 30-days for public 

comments. 


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