23028 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 88 / Monday, May 7, 2001 / Notices

FEDERAL EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request

ACTION: Notice 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 and other

Federal agencies to take this

opportunity to comment on proposed

continuing information collections. In

accordance with the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.

3506(c)(2)(A)), this notice seeks

comments concerning FEMA’s Debt

Collection Financial Statement, which

requests personal financial data from its

individual debtors.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under

FEMA’s debt collection regulations, 44

CFR 11.36(b), FEMA is required to

maintain current credit data on FEMA’s

debtors including, the individual

debtor’s own financial statement,

executed under penalty for false claim,

concerning his/her assets and liabilities

and his/her income and expenses.

FEMA Form 22–13, Debt Collection

Financial Statement, collects such data

directly from the individual debtor.

FEMA uses this data to determine the

debtor’s ability to pay debts due FEMA

and to locate the debtor’s assets.

Collection of Information

Title: Debt Collection Financial

Statement.

Type of Information Collection:

Extension of a currently approved

collection.

OMB Number: 3067–0122.

Form Numbers: FEMA Form 22–13,

Debt Collection Financial Statement.

Abstract: FEMA may request a debtor

to provide personal financial

information on FEMA Form 22–13

concerning his or her current financial

position. This information includes the

debtor’s home and employment

addresses, name of spouse (if any),

name and age of children (if any),

amount and sources of the debtor’s and

spouse’s (if any) salaries, stocks, bonds

and other securities, real and personal

property owned, bank accounts and

names of creditors and amounts owed to

these creditors.

With this information, FEMA can

evaluate whether to allow a debtor to

pay the FEMA debts under installment

repayment agreements and, if so, under

what terms and amounts. FEMA also

uses this data to determine whether

FEMA should suspend or terminate

collection efforts or compromise the

respondent’s debts. This data is also

used to locate the debtor’s assets if the

debts are to be judicially enforced.

Providing information on FEMA Form

22–13 is voluntary on the part of the

debtor. However, if the debtor does not

provide the information requested,

FEMA may use more severe collection

methods.

Affected Public: Individuals or

Households.

Number of Respondents: 600.

Frequency of Responses: On

Occasion.

Hours Per Response: 75.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 450 hours.

Estimated Cost: The cost to

respondents is estimated to be $7,074.

The cost to the Federal Government is

estimated to be $7,128.

Comments

Written 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. Comments should be

received within 60 days of the date of

this notice.

ADDRESSES: Interest persons should

submit written comments to Muriel B.

Anderson, Chief, Records Management

Branch, Program Services Division,

Operations Support Directorate, Federal

Emergency Management Agency, 500 C

Street, SW., Room 316, Washington DC

20472.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Contact Robin D. Maresco, Accountant,

FEMA Office of Financial Management,

Financial Policy Division, Policy and

Standards Branch, 500 C Street, SW,

Washington, DC 20742, telephone

number (202) 646–4287 for additional

information. You may contact Ms.

Anderson for copies of the proposed

collection of information at telephone

number (202) 646–2625 or facsimile

number (202) 646–3347 or e:mail

muriel.anderson@fema.gov.

Dated: May 1, 2001.

Reginald Trujillo,

Director, Program Services Division,

Operations Support Directorate.

[FR Doc. 01–11361 Filed 5–4–01; 8:45 am]

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FEDERAL EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request

ACTION: Notice and request for

comments.

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 the proposed new

information collections. In accordance

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), this

notice seeks comments concerning The

National Flood Insurance Telephone

Response Center (TRC) and Leads

Application Program.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

National Flood Insurance Program

(NFIP) plays a critical role in FEMA’s

mission for reducing flood losses.

Through the NFIP, communities must

adopt and enforce floodplain

management ordinances to reduce

future flood losses. In exchange,

FEMA’s NFIP makes federally backed

flood insurance available to property

owners in these participating

communities. According to the Flood

Disaster Protection Act of 1973,

Congress Findings and Declaration of

Purpose, Section 2(a)(6), Congress finds

that it is the public interest for persons

already living in flood prone areas to

have an opportunity to purchase flood

insurance and access to more adequate

limits of coverage, so that they will be

indemnified for their losses in the event

of future flood disasters. In accordance

with this finding, FEMA attempts to

fulfill the requirement of The Flood

Disaster Protection Act of 1973 by

informing and educating potential

purchasers of the requirements to

purchase flood insurance, when they

call the National Flood Insurance

Telephone Response Center (TRC).

Collection of Information

Title: National Flood Insurance

Telephone Response Center (TRC) and

Leads Application Program.