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Reduction Act of 1995. This notice 

seeks comments concerning the 

National Urban Search and Rescue 

Response System to perform work on 

public or private lands essential to save 

lives and protect property, including 

search and rescue and emergency 

medical care, and other essential needs. 

FEMA will remove one instrument from 

this collection. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before July 29, 2022. 

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 Buddy 

Ey, Chief, Finance and Administration 

Section, US&R Branch, FEMA, Response 

Directorate, Operations Division at 

elwood.ey-iii@fema.dhs.gov or (202) 

212–3799. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

303 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 

Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 

(Stafford Act), 42 U.S.C. 5144, 

authorizes the President of the United 

States to form emergency support teams 

of Federal personnel to be deployed to 

an area affected by major disaster or 

emergency. Section 403(a)(3)(B) of the 

Stafford Act provides that the President 

may authorize Federal Departments and 

Agencies to perform work on public or 

private lands essential to save lives and 

protect property, including search and 

rescue and emergency medical care, and 

other essential needs. Section 327 of the 

Stafford Act further authorizes the 

National Urban Search and Rescue 

Response System (‘‘the System’’) and 

outlines the Administrator’s 

authorization to designate teams as well 

as outlines specific protections for 

System members. The information 

collection activity is authorized under 

the Office of Management and Budget 

circular, 2 CFR part 200, ‘‘Uniform 

Administrative Requirements, Cost 

Principles, and Audit Requirements for 

Federal Awards.’’ The collection 

contains information from the 

programmatic and administrative 

activities of the Urban Search and 

Rescue Sponsoring Agencies relating to 

the readiness and response cooperative 

agreement awards. 

FEMA will remove one instrument 

from this collection: FEMA Form 089– 

0–15, Task Force Deployment Data. 

This proposed information collection 

previously published in the Federal 

Register on April 22, 2022, at 87 FR 

24189 with a 60-day public comment 

period. No comments were received. 

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: National Urban Search and 

Rescue Response System. 

Type of Information Collection: 

Extension, with change, of a currently 

approved information collection. 

OMB Number: 1660–0073. 

FEMA Forms: FEMA Form FF–104– 

FY–21–174 (formerly 089–0–10), Urban 

Search Rescue Response System 

Narrative Statement Workbook; FEMA 

Form FF–104–FY–21–175 (formerly 

089–0–11), Urban Search Rescue 

Response System Semi-Annual 

Performance Report; FEMA Form FF– 

104–FY–21–176 (formerly 089–0–12), 

Urban Search Rescue Response System 

Amendment Form; FEMA Form FF– 

104–FY–21–177 (formerly 089–0–14), 

Urban Search Rescue Response System 

Task Force Self-Evaluation Scoresheet; 

FEMA Form FF–104–FY–21–179 

(formerly 089–0–26), Vehicle Support 

Unit Purchase/Replacement/Disposal 

Justification. 

Abstract: The information collection 

activity is the collection of program and 

administrative information from 28 

established Urban Search and Rescue 

Sponsoring Agencies relating to the 

Readiness and Response Cooperative 

Agreement awards. This information 

includes a narrative statement used to 

evaluate a grantees’ proposed use of 

funds, progress reports to monitor 

progress on Cooperative Agreements, 

amendment requests to change scope 

and period of performance and approval 

for vehicle purchase. 

Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal 

Government. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

126. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 182. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 364. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondent 

Cost: $23,277. 

Estimated Respondents’ Operation 

and Maintenance Costs: $0. 

Estimated Respondents’ Capital and 

Start-Up Costs: $0. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to the 

Federal Government: $135,866. 

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. 

Maile Arthur, 

Deputy Director for Information Management, 

Office of the Chief Administrative Officer, 

Mission Support, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[Docket ID: FEMA- FEMA–2021–0029; OMB 

No. 1660–0072] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request; Mitigation 

Grant Programs (Including Mitigation 

(MT) Grants Management (Formerly 

Mitigation (MT) Electronic Grants 

(eGrants) and FEMA GO) for Flood 

Mitigation Assistance (FMA), Building 

Resilient Infrastructure and 

Communities (BRIC) and Pre-Disaster 

Mitigation (PDM) 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

ACTION: 30-Day notice of revision 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. This notice 


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seeks comments concerning FEMA’s 

Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) 

grant programs specifically, the PreDisaster Mitigation Program (PDM), the 

Building Resilient Infrastructure and 

Communities (BRIC) program, and the 

Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) 

program. Under FEMA’s HMA grant 

programs, State, local, Tribal, and 

Territorial governments (SLTTs) seek 

assistance to support disaster mitigation 

and provide opportunities to reduce or 

eliminate potential losses to SLTTs. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before July 29, 2022. 

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, at email address 

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

Orenstein, Branch Chief, Policy, Tools 

and Training Branch, Federal Insurance 

and Mitigation Administration, FEMA, 

at jennie.gallardy@fema.dhs.gov, and 

202–212–4071. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

collection of information is necessary to 

implement grants for the FMA, PDM, 

and BRIC programs. 

The FMA program is authorized 

pursuant to Sec. 1366, 42 U.S.C. 4104c 

of the National Flood Insurance Act of 

1968, as amended. FMA was created as 

part of the National Flood Insurance 

Reform Act (NFIRA) of 1994, Public 

Law 103–325. The Biggert-Waters Flood 

Insurance Reform Act of 2012 (BW–12), 

Public Law 112–141, consolidated the 

Repetitive Flood Claims (RFC) and 

Severe Repetitive Loss grant (SRL) 

programs into FMA. Under FMA, costshare requirements were changed to 

allow more Federal funds for properties 

with repetitive flood claims. The FMA 

program, under 44 CFR part 77 (as of 

October 1, 2021, previously under 44 

CFR part 79), provides funding for 

measures taken to reduce or eliminate 

the long-term risk of flood damage to 

buildings, manufactured homes, and 

other structures insured under the 

National Flood Insurance Program 

(NFIP). 

PDM is authorized under Sec. 203, 42 

U.S.C. 5133, of the Robert T. Stafford 

Disaster Relief and Emergency 

Assistance Act (Stafford Act), Public 

Law 93–288, as amended by Sec. 102 of 

the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, 

Public Law 106–390. This 30-day FRN 

differs from the 60-day FRN because 

FEMA recently decided to resume 

providing grants under the PDM 

Program to administer congressionally 

directed spending for pre-disaster 

hazard mitigation. The PDM Program 

makes federal funds available to state, 

local, tribal, and territorial governments 

to plan for and implement sustainable 

cost-effective measures designed to 

reduce the risk to individuals and 

property from future natural hazards, 

while also reducing reliance on federal 

funding from future disasters. The 

purpose of the PDM Program is to 

administer Congressionally directed 

spending for pre-disaster hazard 

mitigation. 

On August 4, 2020, FEMA established 

the BRIC program, implementing 

Section 1234 of the Disaster Recovery 

Reform Act (DRRA), Public Law 115– 

254. BRIC replaced the PDM grant 

program that was previously authorized 

under Sec. 203 of the Stafford Act, 42 

U.S.C. 5133. 

The BRIC program is designed to 

promote a national culture of 

preparedness and public safety through 

encouraging investments to protect our 

communities and infrastructure and 

through strengthening national 

mitigation capabilities to foster 

resilience. The BRIC program seeks to 

fund effective and innovative projects 

that will reduce risk, increase resilience, 

and serve as a catalyst to encourage the 

whole community to invest in and 

adopt policies related to mitigation. 

The guiding principles of the BRIC 

program include: (1) support State and 

local governments, Tribes, and 

territories through capability- and 

capacity-building, to enable them to 

identify mitigation actions and 

implement projects that reduce risks 

posed by natural hazards; (2) encourage 

and enable innovation while allowing 

flexibility, consistency, and 

effectiveness; (3) promote partnerships 

and enable high-impact investments to 

reduce risk from natural hazards with a 

focus on critical services and facilities, 

public infrastructure, public safety, 

public health, and communities; (4) 

provide a significant opportunity to 

reduce future losses and minimize 

impacts on the Disaster Relief Fund; (5) 

promote equity, including by helping 

members of disadvantaged groups and 

prioritizing 40 percent of the benefits to 

disadvantaged communities as 

referenced in Executive Order (E.O.) 

14008 in line with the Administration’s 

Justice40 Initiative; and (6) support the 

adoption and enforcement of building 

codes, standards, and policies that will 

protect the health, safety, and general 

welfare of the public, taking into 

account future conditions, prominently 

including the effects of climate change, 

and have long-lasting impacts on 

community risk reduction, including for 

critical services and facilities and for 

future disaster costs. The BRIC program 

distributes funds annually and applies a 

Federal/Non-Federal cost share. 

In accordance with 2 CFR 200.203, 

FEMA requires that all parties interested 

in receiving FEMA mitigation grants 

submit an application package for grant 

assistance. Applications and 

subapplications for BRIC, PDM and 

FMA are submitted via the appropriate 

system for the respective programs, 

FEMAGo and eGrants. The FEMA GO 

and eGrants system have been 

developed to meet the intent of the eGovernment initiative, authorized by 

Public Law 106–107. This initiative 

requires that all Government agencies 

both streamline grant application 

processes and provide for the means to 

electronically create, review and submit 

a grant application via the internet. 

In order to ensure the timely closeout 

of grants, 2 CFR 200.329 requires that 

Non-Federal Entities ‘‘must monitor its 

activities under Federal awards to 

assure compliance with applicable 

Federal requirements and performance 

expectations are being achieved.’’ 

Therefore, under 2 CFR part 200 (for 

BRIC and PDM) and 44 CFR 77.3 (FMA), 

recipients must complete and submit 

progress report(s) to the FEMA Regional 

Administrator on a quarterly basis, 

certifying how the funds are being used 

and reporting on the progress of 

activities funded under the subrecipient 

awards made to the Recipient by FEMA. 

The Regional Administrator and 

Recipient negotiate the date for 

submission of the first report. Quarterly 

Progress Reports describe the status of 

those projects on which a final payment 

of the Federal share has not been made 

to the Recipient, and outline any 

problems or circumstances expected to 

result in noncompliance with the 

approved award conditions. 

This proposed information collection 

previously published in the Federal 

Register on December 14, 2021, at 86 FR 

71073 with a 60-day public comment 

period. FEMA received two comments 

during this public comment period. The 

comments include feedback and 

substantive recommendations on 

program policy and implementation. 

However, the information collection is 

not designed to directly address changes 

to policy and implementation 


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effectiveness. The comments will be 

reviewed and, as appropriate, 

considered for general program 

development. Thank you for the 

substantive 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: Mitigation Grant Programs 

(including Mitigation (MT) Grants 

Management (formerly Mitigation (MT) 

Electronic Grants (eGrants) and FEMA 

GO) for Flood Mitigation Assistance 

(FMA), Building Resilient Infrastructure 

and Communities (BRIC) and PreDisaster Mitigation (PDM)). 

Type of Information Collection: 

Revision of a currently approved 

collection. 

OMB Number: 1660–0072. 

FEMA Forms: FEMA Form FF–206– 

FY–22–151, Quarterly Progress Report 

(QFR). 

Abstract: FEMA’s FMA and BRIC 

programs use an automated grant 

application and management system 

called FEMA GO. The PDM program 

uses an automated grant application and 

management system called MT e-Grants. 

These grant programs provide funding 

for the purpose of reducing or 

eliminating the risks to life and property 

from hazards. The FEMA GO and 

eGrants systems include all the 

application information needed to apply 

for funding under these grant programs. 

FEMA and SLTTs use the BRIC Panel 

Review Form to solicit volunteers from 

SLTTs and Other Federal Agencies 

(OFA) to review sub-applicant project 

applications. The volunteers will 

review, and score applications based on 

a pre-determined scoring criteria. The 

PDM, FMA, and BRIC programs will use 

the same QPR Form. 

Affected Public: State, Local, Tribal, 

or Territorial Governments. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

660. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 

6,596. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 104,168. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondent 

Cost: $6,228,883. 

Estimated Respondents’ Operation 

and Maintenance Costs: $0. 

Estimated Respondents’ Capital and 

Start-Up Costs: $0. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to the 

Federal Government: $7,739,695. 

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–BW–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–7050–N–29; OMB Control 

No.: 2528–NEW] 

30-Day Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: Stepped and Tiered Rent 

Demonstration Evaluation 

AGENCY: Office of Policy Development 

and Research, Chief Data Officer, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The proposed information 

collection requirement described below 

will be submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. The Department is 

soliciting public comments on the 

subject proposal. 

DATES: Comments Due Date: July 29, 

2022. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this proposal. Comments should refer to 

the proposal by name and/or OMB 

Control Number and should be sent to: 

HUD Desk Officer, Office of 

Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503; fax: 202–395–5806. Email: 

OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov. 

Persons with hearing or speech 

impairments may access this number 

through TTY by calling the toll-free 

Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–8339. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Anna P. Guido, Reports Management 

Officer, REE, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 451 7th Street 

SW, Washington, DC 20410; mail to: 

Colette.Pollard@hud.gov; email her at 

Anna.P.Guido@hud.gov or telephone 

202–402–5535. This is not a toll-free 

number. Copies of available documents 

submitted to OMB may be obtained 

from Ms. Guido. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice informs the public that HUD has 

submitted to OMB a request for 

approval of the information collection 

described in Section A. The Federal 

Register notice that solicited public 

comment on the information collection 

for a period of 60 days was published 

on November 24, 2021, at 86 FR 67076. 

A. Overview of Information Collection 

Title of Information Collection: 

Stepped and Tiered Rent Demonstration 

Evaluation. 

OMB Approval Number: 2528–New. 

Type of Request: New collection. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Description of the need for the 

information and proposed use: HUD has 

selected 10 Public Housing Agencies 

(PHAs) to participate in the second 

cohort of the Moving to Work (MTW) 

Expansion, Stepped and Tiered Rent 

Demonstration (STRD). These PHAs will 

implement an alternative rent policy (a 

stepped rent or tiered rent) that is 

intended to reduce PHA administrative 

burden and increase self-sufficiency of 

assisted households. Five PHAs will 

implement a stepped rent and five PHAs 

will implement a tiered rent. HUD’s 

Office of Policy Development and 

Research (PD&R) will evaluate the 

impacts of those alternative rent 

policies, using a randomized controlled 

trial. The evaluation will rely on data 

from a variety of sources, including new 

information collection efforts proposed 

in this Notice. HUD has contracted with 

MDRC to conduct the first phase of the 

evaluation, including random 

assignment, baseline data collection, 

and monitoring PHA implementation. 

Within the 10 participating PHAs, 

eligible households will be randomly 

assigned to have their rent calculated 

under the new rules (stepped/tiered 

rent) or old rules (the Brooke rent, 

typically 30% of household income). 

Eligible households will be non-elderly, 

non-disabled participants in the public 

housing and housing choice voucher 

program. Prior to random assignment, 

each household will be asked to 

complete a baseline information form 

(BIF) and provide informed consent to 

authorize HUD’s evaluator to use their 

data for the evaluation. The BIF will 


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