Document ID: FEMA-2022-0012-0024
Agency: fema
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Elevation Certificate/Floodproofing Certificate
Posted Date: 2022-09-27T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 186 (Tuesday, September 27, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58508-58509]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-20884]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

[Docket ID: FEMA-2022-0012; OMB No. 1660-0008]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; Elevation Certificate/Floodproofing 
Certificate

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland 
Security.

ACTION: Notice. 30 Day notice of revision and request for comments.

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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 (PRA). In accordance with the PRA, 
this notice seeks comments concerning the Elevation Certificate and the 
Floodproofing Certificate for Non-Residential Structures.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before October 27, 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-
3100, email address [email protected] or Joycelyn Collins, Program Analyst, Federal 
Insurance and Mitigation Administration, Flood Insurance Directorate, 
at 202-701-3383 or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Communities participating in the National 
Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) are required to adopt a floodplain 
management ordinance that meets or exceeds the minimum floodplain 
management requirements of the NFIP. In accordance with FEMA's minimum 
floodplain management criteria, communities must require that all new 
construction and substantial improvement of residential structures and 
non-residential structures have the lowest floor (including basement) 
elevated to above the base flood elevation subject to 44 CFR 60.3(c)(2) 
and (3), unless, for residential structures, the community is granted 
an exception by FEMA for the allowance of basements under 44 CFR 
60.6(b) or (c). New construction and substantial improvement of non-
residential structures can also be floodproofed. This means that, 
together with attendant utility and sanitation facilities, they are 
designed such that below the base flood level the structure is 
watertight, with walls substantially impermeable to the passage of 
water and with structural components having the capability to resist 
hydrostatic and hydrodynamic loads and effects of buoyancy. 44 CFR 
60.3(c)(3)(ii). Use of the Elevation Certificate and Floodproofing 
Certificate is one convenient way for a community to document building 
compliance. Title 44 CFR 61.7 and 61.8 require proper investigation to 
estimate the risk premium rates necessary to provide flood insurance.
    This proposed information collection previously published in the 
Federal Register on March 10, 2022, at 87 FR 13743, with a 60-day 
public comment period. FEMA received 17 public comments related to the 
Elevation Certificate and Floodproofing Certificate. Two of the 
comments were not relevant to this information collection. Two other 
comments only expressed approval of the changes made and provided no 
suggestions. Several comments provided suggestions that had already 
been addressed in the proposed revisions. Some comments will be 
considered for future iterations as improved technology capabilities 
allow. FEMA accepted many of the other suggestions that better 
clarified the information being requested and improved the instructions 
for use of the collection instruments. None of the comments received 
addressed cost and hour burden.
    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: Elevation Certificate/Floodproofing Certificate.
    Type of information collection: Revision of a currently approved 
collection.
    OMB Number: 1660-0008.
    Form Titles and Numbers: FEMA Form FF-206-FY-22-152 (formerly 086-
0-33), Elevation Certificate and

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FEMA Form FF-206-FY-22-153 (formerly 086-0-34), Floodproofing 
Certificate for Non-Residential Structures.
    Abstract: The Elevation Certificate and Floodproofing Certificate 
are used in conjunction with the Flood Insurance Application to 
determine a building's compliance with local floodplain management 
provisions and to document elevations in support of flood insurance 
premiums or discounts that align with the building's risk of damage 
from flooding. Respondents are primarily surveyors, architects, or 
engineers; individual property owners may opt to complete specified 
portions of the Elevation Certificate.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 3,517.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 3,517.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 12,734.
    Estimated Total Annual Respondent Cost: $610,424.
    Estimated Respondents' Operation and Maintenance Costs: $0.
    Estimated Respondents' Capital and Start-Up Costs: $0.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to the Federal Government: $32,248.

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.
[FR Doc. 2022-20884 Filed 9-26-22; 8:45 am]
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