Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 181 / Tuesday, September 20, 2005 / Notices 55147 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency 

Management Agency (FEMA) has 

submitted the following information 

collection to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for review and 

clearance in accordance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

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

Chapter 35). The submission describes 

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 includes the 

actual data collection instruments 

FEMA will use. 

Title: Standard Flood Hazard 

Determination Form. 

OMB Number: 1660–0040. 

Abstract: On September 23, 1994, the 

President signed the Riegle Community 

Development and Regulatory 

Improvement Act of 1994. Title V of this 

Act is the National Flood Insurance 

Reform Act (NFIRA). Section 528 of the 

NFIRA requires that FEMA develop a 

standard hazard determination form for 

recording the determination of whether 

a structure is located within an 

identified Special Flood Hazard Area 

available. Section 528 of the NFIRA also 

requires the use of this form by 

regulated lending institutions, Federal 

agency lending institutions, Federal 

agency lenders, the Federal National 

Mortgage Association, the Federal Home 

Loan Mortgage Corporation, and the 

Government National Mortgage 

Association for any loan made, 

increased, extended, renewed or 

purchased by these entities. The form 

developed to comply with the above 

requirements is the Standard Flood 

Hazard Determination form (FEMA 

Form 83–93, dated October 2002). This 

form will be completed by federally 

regulated lending institutions when 

making, increasing, extending, renewing 

or purchasing each loan for the purpose 

of documenting the factors considered 

as to whether flood insurance is 

required and available. An estimated 

33,000,000 such uses are made each 

year. This number is entirely driven by 

the volume of mortgage transactions, of 

which fluctuations in interest rates is a 

principal factor. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit, Federal Government. 

Number of Respondents: 33,000,000. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.33 

hours (20 minutes). 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 10,890,000. 

Frequency of Response: Once. 

Comments: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments on 

the proposed information collection to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs at OMB, Attention: Desk Officer 

for the Department of Homeland 

Security/FEMA, Docket Library, Room 

10102, 725 17th Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20503, or facsimile 

number (202) 395–7285. Comments 

must be submitted on or before October 

20, 2005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

should be made to Section Chief, 

Records Management, FEMA at 500 C 

Street, SW., Room 316, Washington, DC 

20472, facsimile number (202) 646–

3347, or e-mail address FEMAInformation-Collections@dhs.gov. 

Dated: September 13, 2005. 

Darcy Bingham, 

Branch Chief, Information Resources 

Management Branch, Information 

Technology Services Division. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, Emergency 

Preparedness and Response Directorate, 

U.S. Department of Homeland Security. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency 

Management Agency (FEMA) has 

submitted the following information 

collection to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for review and 

clearance in accordance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

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

Chapter 35). The submission describes 

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 includes the 

actual data collection instruments 

FEMA will use. 

Title: Public Assistance Progress 

Report and Program Forms. 

OMB Number: 1660–0017. 

Abstract: This collection serves as the 

mechanism to administer the Public 

Assistance (PA) Program. The 

application process contains 

recordkeeping and reporting 

requirements via mandatory and 

optional completion of several forms 

and timeframes. The Progress Report 

and related forms ensure that FEMA and 

the State have up-to-date information on 

PA program grants. The report describes 

the status of project completion dates, 

and circumstances that could delay a 

project. States are responsible for 

determining reporting requirements for 

applicants and must submit reports 

quarterly to FEMA Regional Directors. 

The date of the report is determined 

jointly by the State and the Disaster 

Recovery Manager. 

Affected Public: State, local or tribal 

government, and Not-for-Profit 

Organizations. 

Number of Respondents: 5,070 

respondents from State, local or tribal 

governments and Not-for Profit 

Organizations. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 134 

hours per respondent allocated as 

follows: Progress Report = 100 hours, 

Mandatory Audit = 30 hours; Mandatory 

forms = 3 hours; and Optional forms = 

1 hour. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 134,562 hours. 

Frequency of Response: Quarterly or 

Yearly. 

Comments: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments on 

the proposed information collection to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs at OMB, Attention: Desk Officer 

for the Department of Homeland 

Security/FEMA, Docket Library, Room 

10102, 725 17th Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20503, or facsimile 

number (202) 395–7285. Comments 

must be submitted on or before October 

20, 2005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

should be made to Chief, Records 

Management, FEMA at 500 C Street, 

SW., Room 316, Washington, DC 20472, 

facsimile number (202) 646–3347, or email address FEMA-InformationCollections@dhs.gov. 

Dated: September 13, 2005. 

Darcy Bingham, 

Branch Chief, Information Resources 

Management Branch, Information 

Technology Services Division. 

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