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7. What are the most important policy 

and operational changes that would 

attract the world’s most talented 

researchers to U.S. universities, national 

laboratories, and other research 

institutions? (Do not submit responses 

directly related to the actions 

announced on November 20, including 

the strengthening and extending of the 

Optional Practical Training program for 

foreign students. Separate processes 

exist to engage regarding those actions 

where necessary; see details above.) 

8. What are the most important policy 

and operational changes that would 

attract the world’s most talented 

entrepreneurs who want to start and 

grow their business in the United 

States? (Do not submit responses 

directly related to the actions 

announced on November 20, including 

the ‘‘national interest waiver’’ and 

‘‘significant public benefit’’ parole 

pathways for entrepreneurs. Separate 

processes exist to engage regarding 

those actions where necessary; see 

details above.) 

9. What are the policy or operational 

changes that could assist in creating 

additional immigration opportunities 

for high-demand professions, such as 

physicians? 

10. Focusing on the EB–5 immigrant 

investor visa, what policy or operational 

changes would (a) reduce existing 

burdens and uncertainties on the part of 

petitioners, Regional Centers, and other 

participants in the program; (b) ensure 

that this program is achieving the 

greatest impact in terms of U.S. job 

creation, economic growth, and 

investment in national priority projects 

that the capital markets would not 

otherwise competitively finance; and (c) 

enhance protections against fraud, 

abuse, and criminal misuse of the 

program by petitioners or Regional 

Centers? 

11. How can labor market related 

requirements for temporary workers be 

best tailored to meaningfully protect 

both U.S. and temporary foreign 

workers while achieving operational 

efficiency for both employers and 

relevant Federal agencies? 

12. How should relevant occupational 

categories, descriptors, and/or data, 

such as the Department of Labor’s 

O*NET system (http://

www.onetonline.org) be refined and 

updated to better align the prevailing 

wage determination process for visas 

with the evolving job market? 

13. Focusing on the diversity visa 

program, what are the most important 

policy and operational changes that 

would streamline and improve the 

diversity visa process, including 

enhancing protections against fraud? 

14. What other policy and operational 

changes would most effectively combat 

waste, fraud, and abuse in the legal 

immigration system? 

II. Ensuring Use of All Immigrant Visa 

Numbers 

15. What are the most important 

policy and operational changes, if any, 

available within the existing statutory 

framework to ensure that administrative 

policies, practices, and systems fully 

and fairly allocate all of the immigrant 

visa numbers that Congress provides for 

and intends to be issued each year going 

forward? 

16. What are the most important 

policy and operational changes, if any, 

available within the existing statutory 

framework to ensure that administrative 

policies, practices, and systems fully 

and fairly allocate all of the immigrant 

visa numbers that Congress provided for 

and intended to be issued, but were not 

issued in past years? 

III. Modernizing IT Infrastructure 

17. From the perspective of 

petitioners and applicants, which 

elements of the current legal 

immigration system (both immigrant 

and nonimmigrant systems) are most in 

need of modernized information 

technology (IT) solutions, and what 

changes would result in the most 

significant improvements to the user 

experience? 

18. Which existing governmentcollected data and metrics would be 

most valuable to make available to the 

public, consistent with privacy 

protections and national security, in 

order to improve oversight and 

understanding of the legal immigration 

system? 

Karin M. King, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Visa 

Services, Department of State. 

Esther Olavarria, 

Senior Counselor to the Secretary, 

Department of Homeland Security. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30641 Filed 12–29–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[Docket ID: FEMA–2014–0030; OMB No. 

1660–0020] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request, Write Your 

Own (WYO) Program. 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

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. The submission 

will describe 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 

the actual data collection instruments 

FEMA will use. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before January 29, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 

on the proposed information collection 

to the Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget. Comments 

should be addressed to the Desk Officer 

for the Department of Homeland 

Security, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, and sent via 

electronic mail to oira.submission@

omb.eop.gov or faxed to (202) 395–5806. 

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., 

Room 7NE, Washington, DC 20472– 

3100, facsimile number (202) 212–4701, 

or email address FEMA-InformationCollections-Management@dhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Changes 

Since Publication of the 60 Day 

Federal Register Notice for the 

Federal Emergency Management Agency 

Write Your Own (WYO) Program. The 

number of respondents and the 

estimated burden hours have increased 

since FEMA published the 60 day 

Federal Register Notice on October 15, 

2014. See 79 FR 61886. This is due to 

a clerical error. The respondent burden 

increased from 88 to 90. The estimated 

responses increased from 1056 to 1080. 

The estimated time per response 

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changed from 59 to 0.59. The total 

burden hours decreased from 62304 to 

637.20. 

Collection of Information 

Title: Write Your Own (WYO) 

Program. 

Type of information collection: 

Extension without change, of a currently 

approved information collection. 

Form Titles and Numbers: FEMA 

Form 129–1, Write Your Own Program. 

Abstract: FEMA enters into 

arrangements with individual private 

sector insurance companies that are 

licensed to engage in the business of 

property insurance. These companies 

may offer flood insurance coverage to 

eligible property owners utilizing their 

customary business practices. WYO 

Companies are expected to meet the 

recording and reporting requirements of 

the WYO Transaction Record Reporting 

and Processing Plan. 

Affected Public: Business or other for 

profit. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

90. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 1080. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 637.20. 

Estimated Cost: There are no annual 

start-up or capital costs. 

Dated: December 17, 2014. 

Charlene D. Myrthil, 

Director, Records Management Division, 

Mission Support, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30549 Filed 12–29–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9111–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[Docket ID FEMA–2014–0002; Internal 

Agency Docket No. FEMA–B–1460] 

Changes in Flood Hazard 

Determinations 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice lists communities 

where the addition or modification of 

Base Flood Elevations (BFEs), base flood 

depths, Special Flood Hazard Area 

(SFHA) boundaries or zone 

designations, or the regulatory floodway 

(hereinafter referred to as flood hazard 

determinations), as shown on the Flood 

Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), and 

where applicable, in the supporting 

Flood Insurance Study (FIS) reports, 

prepared by the Federal Emergency 

Management Agency (FEMA) for each 

community, is appropriate because of 

new scientific or technical data. The 

FIRM, and where applicable, portions of 

the FIS report, have been revised to 

reflect these flood hazard 

determinations through issuance of a 

Letter of Map Revision (LOMR), in 

accordance with Title 44, Part 65 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (44 CFR 

part 65). The LOMR will be used by 

insurance agents and others to calculate 

appropriate flood insurance premium 

rates for new buildings and the contents 

of those buildings. For rating purposes, 

the currently effective community 

number is shown in the table below and 

must be used for all new policies and 

renewals. 

DATES: These flood hazard 

determinations will become effective on 

the dates listed in the table below and 

revise the FIRM panels and FIS report 

in effect prior to this determination for 

the listed communities. 

From the date of the second 

publication of notification of these 

changes in a newspaper of local 

circulation, any person has 90 days in 

which to request through the 

community that the Deputy Associate 

Administrator for Mitigation reconsider 

the changes. The flood hazard 

determination information may be 

changed during the 90-day period. 

ADDRESSES: The affected communities 

are listed in the table below. Revised 

flood hazard information for each 

community is available for inspection at 

both the online location and the 

respective community map repository 

address listed in the table below. 

Additionally, the current effective FIRM 

and FIS report for each community are 

accessible online through the FEMA 

Map Service Center at 

www.msc.fema.gov for comparison. 

Submit comments and/or appeals to 

the Chief Executive Officer of the 

community as listed in the table below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Luis 

Rodriguez, Chief, Engineering 

Management Branch, Federal Insurance 

and Mitigation Administration, FEMA, 

500 C Street SW., Washington, DC 

20472, (202) 646–4064, or (email) 

Luis.Rodriguez3@fema.dhs.gov; or visit 

the FEMA Map Information eXchange 

(FMIX) online at 

www.floodmaps.fema.gov/fhm/fmx_

main.html. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

specific flood hazard determinations are 

not described for each community in 

this notice. However, the online 

location and local community map 

repository address where the flood 

hazard determination information is 

available for inspection is provided. 

Any request for reconsideration of 

flood hazard determinations must be 

submitted to the Chief Executive Officer 

of the community as listed in the table 

below. 

The modifications are made pursuant 

to section 201 of the Flood Disaster 

Protection Act of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 4105, 

and are in accordance with the National 

Flood Insurance Act of 1968, 42 U.S.C. 

4001 et seq., and with 44 CFR part 65. 

The FIRM and FIS report are the basis 

of the floodplain management measures 

that the community is required either to 

adopt or to show evidence of having in 

effect in order to qualify or remain 

qualified for participation in the 

National Flood Insurance Program 

(NFIP). 

These flood hazard determinations, 

together with the floodplain 

management criteria required by 44 CFR 

60.3, are the minimum that are required. 

They should not be construed to mean 

that the community must change any 

existing ordinances that are more 

stringent in their floodplain 

management requirements. The 

community may at any time enact 

stricter requirements of its own or 

pursuant to policies established by other 

Federal, State, or regional entities. The 

flood hazard determinations are in 

accordance with 44 CFR 65.4. 

The affected communities are listed in 

the following table. Flood hazard 

determination information for each 

community is available for inspection at 

both the online location and the 

respective community map repository 

address listed in the table below. 

Additionally, the current effective FIRM 

and FIS report for each community are 

accessible online through the FEMA 

Map Service Center at 

www.msc.fema.gov for comparison. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 

97.022, ‘‘Flood Insurance.’’) 

Dated: December 11, 2014. 

Roy E. Wright, 

Deputy Associate Administrator for 

Mitigation, Department of Homeland 

Security, Federal Emergency Management 

Agency. 

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