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B. Investigations Division 1 

This office is directed by an Assistant 

Inspector General for Investigations who 

supervises a headquarters staff and 

Special Agents in Charge. 

1. The headquarters staff assists the 

Deputy Inspector General for 

Investigations in establishing 

investigative priorities, evaluating the 

progress of investigations, and reporting 

to the Inspector General on the 

effectiveness of investigative efforts. It 

develops and implements investigative 

techniques, programs, guidelines, and 

policies. It provides programmatic 

expertise and issues information on new 

programs, regulations and statutes. It 

directs and coordinates the regional 

investigative offices. 

2. The headquarters staff identifies 

systemic and programmatic 

vulnerabilities in the Department’s 

operations and makes recommendations 

for change to the appropriate managers. 

3. This office manages the human and 

financial resources of OI, including 

developing staffing allocation plans and 

issuing policy for coordination and 

monitoring all budget, staffing and 

recruiting. 

4. This office coordinates the general 

management processes, and implements 

policies and procedures published in 

the OI Policies and Procedures Manual 

and OI Administrative Manual. It also 

coordinates a national inspection 

program to ensure compliance with the 

Federal Managers Financial Integrity 

Act, the President’s Council on Integrity 

and Efficiency, and Attorney General 

guidelines. 

5. This office coordinates with the 

other OIG components in developing 

the Work Plan and provides input to the 

Office of Inspector General Semiannual 

Report to the Congress. 

6. This office develops all derivative 

mandatory and permissive program 

exclusions, and ensures enforcement of 

exclusions imposed through liaison 

with CMS, DOJ and other governmental 

and private sector entities. It is 

responsible for developing, improving 

and maintaining a comprehensive and 

coordinated OIG database on all OIG 

exclusion actions, and promptly and 

accurately reports all exclusion actions 

within its authority to the database. It 

informs appropriate regulatory agencies, 

health care providers and the general 

public of all OIG exclusion actions, and 

is responsible for improving public 

access to information on these exclusion 

actions to ensure that excluded 

individuals and entities are effectively 

barred from program participation. 

7. This office provides advisory 

services and assistance to CMS officials, 

HHS officials, and OIG senior managers 

through liaison activity. It is responsible 

for providing program and policy 

direction necessary to accomplish all 

CMS work requirements, and to direct 

other activities in compliance with all 

legal requirements, OI policies and 

procedures. 

8. The regional offices within this 

Investigations Division conduct 

investigations of allegations of fraud, 

waste, abuse, mismanagement and 

violations of standards of conduct 

within the jurisdiction of OIG in their 

assigned geographic areas. They 

coordinate investigations and confer 

with HHS operating divisions, staff 

divisions, OIG counterparts and other 

investigative and law enforcement 

agencies. They prepare investigative and 

management improvement reports. 

C. Investigations Division 2 

This office is directed by an Assistant 

Inspector General for Investigations who 

supervises a headquarters staff and 

Special Agents in Charge. 

1. This office plans, develops, 

implements and evaluates all levels of 

employee training for investigators, 

managers, support staff and other 

personnel. It oversees a law enforcement 

techniques and equipment program. 

2. The staff provides for the personal 

protection of the Secretary, and all 

emergency operations preparedness and 

response. 

3. The office promotes and 

coordinates the adoption of advanced 

information technology forensics in the 

prevention and detection of fraud and 

provides general and specific 

coordination of programs to retrieve and 

analyze computer-based forensic 

evidence. 

4. The office operates a toll-free 

hotline for OIG to permit individuals to 

call in suspected fraud, waste, or abuse; 

refers the calls for appropriate action by 

HHS agencies or other OIG components; 

and analyzes the body of calls to 

identify trends and patterns of fraud and 

abuse needing attention. 

5. The office maintains an automated 

data and management information 

system used by all OI managers and 

investigators. It provides technical 

expertise on computer applications for 

investigations and coordinates and 

approves investigative computer 

matches with other agencies. 

6. The regional offices within this 

Investigations Division conduct 

investigations of allegations of fraud, 

waste, abuse, mismanagement and 

violations of standards of conduct 

within the jurisdiction of OIG in their 

assigned geographic areas. They 

coordinate investigations and confer 

with HHS operating divisions, staff 

divisions, OIG counterparts and other 

investigative and law enforcement 

agencies. They prepare investigative and 

management implication reports. 

Dated: February 1, 2008. 

Daniel R. Levinson, 

Inspector General. 

[FR Doc. E8–2390 Filed 2–7–08; 8:45 am] 

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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, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice; 30-day notice and 

request for comments; Collection Type 

Extension, without change, of a 

currently approved collection, OMB: 

1660–0010, Form Number(s): No form 

numbers associated with this collection. 

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 proposed continuing 

information collection. In accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, this notice seeks comments 

concerning the information collection 

outlined in 44 CFR part 71, as it pertains 

to application for National Flood 

Insurance Program (NFIP) insurance for 

buildings located in Coastal Barrier 

Resource System (CBRS) communities. 

Title: Implementation of Coastal 

Barrier Resources Act. 

OMB Number: 1660–0010. 

Abstract: When an application for 

flood insurance is submitted for 

buildings located in CBRS communities, 

one of the following types of 

documentation must be submitted as 

evidence of eligibility: (a) Certification 

from a community official stating the 

building is not located in a designated 

CBRS area, (b) A legally valid building 

permit or certification from a 

community official stating that the 

building’s start of construction date 

preceded the date that the community 

was identified in the system or c) 

Certification from the governmental 

body overseeing the area indicating that 

the building is used in a manner 

consistent with the purpose for which 

the area is protected. 


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Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; businesses or other for 

profits; not-for-profit institutions; farms; 

Federal Government; and State, local or 

tribal governments. 

Number of Respondents: 60. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 1.5 

hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 90. 

Frequency of Response: One time. 

Comments: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments on 

the proposed information collection to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, Attention: Nathan Lesser, Desk 

Officer, Department of Homeland 

Security/FEMA, and sent via electronic 

mail to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov 

or faxed to (202) 395–6974. Comments 

must be submitted on or before March 

10, 2008. 

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, Mail Drop 

Room 301, 1800 S. Bell Street, 

Arlington, VA 22202, facsimile number 

(202) 646–3347, or e-mail address 

FEMA-Information-Collections@dhs.gov. 

Dated: January 28, 2008. 

John A. Sharetts-Sullivan, 

Director, Records Management Division, 

Office of Management, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

[FR Doc. E8–2377 Filed 2–7–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–12–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[FEMA–1740–DR] 

Indiana; Major Disaster and Related 

Determinations 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This is a notice of the 

Presidential declaration of a major 

disaster for the State of Indiana (FEMA–

1740–DR), dated January 30, 2008, and 

related determinations. 

DATES: Effective Date: January 30, 2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Peggy Miller, Disaster Assistance 

Directorate, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646–2705. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that, in a letter dated 

January 30, 2008, the President declared 

a major disaster under the authority of 

the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 

and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 

U.S.C. 5121–5206 (the Stafford Act), as 

follows: 

I have determined that the damage in 

certain areas of the State of Indiana resulting 

from severe storms and flooding beginning 

on January 7, 2008, and continuing, is of 

sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant 

a major disaster declaration under the Robert 

T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 

Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121–5206 (the 

Stafford Act). Therefore, I declare that such 

a major disaster exists in the State of Indiana. 

In order to provide Federal assistance, you 

are hereby authorized to allocate from funds 

available for these purposes such amounts as 

you find necessary for Federal disaster 

assistance and administrative expenses. 

You are authorized to provide Individual 

Assistance in the designated areas, Hazard 

Mitigation throughout the State, and any 

other forms of assistance under the Stafford 

Act that you deem appropriate. Consistent 

with the requirement that Federal assistance 

be supplemental, any Federal funds provided 

under the Stafford Act for Hazard Mitigation 

and Other Needs Assistance will be limited 

to 75 percent of the total eligible costs. If 

Public Assistance is later requested and 

warranted, Federal funds provided under 

that program also will be limited to 75 

percent of the total eligible costs, except for 

any particular projects that are eligible for a 

higher Federal cost-sharing percentage under 

the FEMA Public Assistance Pilot Program 

instituted pursuant to 6 U.S.C. 777. 

Further, you are authorized to make 

changes to this declaration to the extent 

allowable under the Stafford Act. 

The time period prescribed for the 

implementation of section 310(a), 

Priority to Certain Applications for 

Public Facility and Public Housing 

Assistance, 42 U.S.C. 5153, shall be for 

a period not to exceed six months after 

the date of this declaration. 

The Federal Emergency Management 

Agency (FEMA) hereby gives notice that 

pursuant to the authority vested in the 

Administrator, under Executive Order 

12148, as amended, Michael H. Smith, 

of FEMA is appointed to act as the 

Federal Coordinating Officer for this 

declared disaster. 

The following areas of the State of 

Indiana have been designated as 

adversely affected by this declared 

major disaster: 

Carroll, Cass, Elkhart, Fulton, Jasper, 

Marshall, Pulaski, Tippecanoe, and White 

Counties for Individual Assistance. 

All counties within the State of Indiana are 

eligible to apply for assistance under the 

Hazard Mitigation Grant Program. 

(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used 

for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030, 

Community Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora 

Brown Fund; 97.032, Crisis Counseling; 

97.033, Disaster Legal Services; 97.034, 

Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA); 

97.046, Fire Management Assistance Grant; 

97.048, Disaster Housing Assistance to 

Individuals and Households In Presidential 

Declared Disaster Areas; 97.049, Presidential 

Declared Disaster Assistance—Disaster 

Housing Operations for Individuals and 

Households; 97.050, Presidential Declared 

Disaster Assistance to Individuals and 

Households—Other Needs; 97.036, Disaster 

Grants—Public Assistance (Presidentially 

Declared Disasters); 97.039, Hazard 

Mitigation Grant.) 

R. David Paulison, 

Administrator, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency. 

[FR Doc. E8–2382 Filed 2–7–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–10–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[FEMA–1741–DR] 

Kansas; Major Disaster and Related 

Determinations 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This is a notice of the 

Presidential declaration of a major 

disaster for the State of Kansas (FEMA–

1741–DR), dated February 1, 2008, and 

related determinations. 

DATES: Effective Date: February 1, 2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Peggy Miller, Disaster Assistance 

Directorate, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646–2705. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that, in a letter dated 

February 1, 2008, the President declared 

a major disaster under the authority of 

the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 

and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 

U.S.C. 5121–5206 (the Stafford Act), as 

follows: 

I have determined that the damage in 

certain areas of the State of Kansas resulting 

from severe winter storms during the period 

of December 6–19, 2007, is of sufficient 

severity and magnitude to warrant a major 

disaster declaration under the Robert T. 

Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 

Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121–5206 (the 

Stafford Act). Therefore, I declare that such 

a major disaster exists in the State of Kansas. 

In order to provide Federal assistance, you 

are hereby authorized to allocate from funds 

available for these purposes such amounts as 

you find necessary for Federal disaster 

assistance and administrative expenses. 


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