Document ID: FEMA-2015-0024-0002
Agency: fema
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; General Admissions Applications (Long and Short) and Stipend Forms
Posted Date: 2016-04-27T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 81 (Wednesday, April 27, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 24850]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-09844]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

[Docket ID: FEMA-2015-0024; OMB No. 1660-0100]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; General Admissions Applications (Long and 
Short) and Stipend Forms

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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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 May 27, 2016.

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.

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-
3100, or email address FEMA-Information-Collections-Management@fema.dhs.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposed information collection 
previously published in the Federal Register on January 26, 2016 at 81 
FR 4330 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: General Admissions Applications (Long and Short) and Stipend 
Forms.
    Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved 
information collection.
    OMB Number: 1660-0100.
    Form Titles and Numbers: The form numbers have changed in 
accordance with the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) numbering 
system. FEMA Form 119-25-0-1, General Admissions Application; FEMA Form 
119-25-0-3, Student Stipend Agreement; FEMA Form 119-25-0-4, Student 
Stipend Agreement (Amendment); FEMA Form 119-25-0-5, National Fire 
Academy Executive Fire Officer Program Application for Admission; and 
FEMA Form 119-25-0-6, Training Registration Form.
    Abstract: FEMA provides training to advance the professional 
development of personnel engaged in fire prevention and control and 
emergency managemernt activities through its Center for Domestic 
Preparedness, Emergency Management Institute, National Fire Academy, 
National Training and Education Division, National Domestic 
Preparedness Consortium, and Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium. 
FEMA Form 119-25-0-1 has an increase in the number of respondents from 
25,000 to 52,000 (+27,000) because FEMA is replacing all existing 
General Admissions Application and Training Registration forms with a 
single FEMA-wide form which will be submitted as a paper version or 
using an on-line application process. There was also an adjustment 
increase for FEMA Form 119-25-0-1 from 3,750 hours to 7,800 (+4,050) 
hours. The FEMA Form 119-25-0-6 has been created for those courses 
where less information is required from the respondent. It is expected 
that 154,500 respondents will used this form requiring 15,450 burden 
hours. The FEMA Form 119-25-2 (reduction of 80,000 respondents and 
8,000 burden hours) is being eliminated and being replaced by the FEMA 
Form 119-25-0-1.
    Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal Government, Business or 
other for-profit, Not-for-profit institutions and Federal Government.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 214,300.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 24,400.
    Estimated Cost: 2,063,978.

    Dated: April 20, 2016.
Richard W. Mattison,
Records Management Program Chief, Mission Support, Federal Emergency 
Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2016-09844 Filed 4-26-16; 8:45 am]
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