Document ID: FEMA-2022-0014-0001
Agency: fema
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; National Urban Search and Rescue Response System
Posted Date: 2022-04-22T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 78 (Friday, April 22, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24189-24190]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-08618]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

[Docket ID: FEMA--FEMA-2022-0014; OMB No. 1660-0073]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; National Urban Search and Rescue Response System

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

ACTION: 60-Day notice of revision and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as part of its 
continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites 
the general public to take this opportunity to comment on an extension, 
with change, of a currently approved information collection. In 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks 
comments concerning the National Urban Search and Rescue Response 
System to perform work on public or private lands essential to save 
lives and protect property, including search and rescue and emergency 
medical care, and other essential needs. FEMA will remove one 
instrument from this collection.

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DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before June 21, 2022.

ADDRESSES: To avoid duplicate submissions to the docket, please only 
submit comments at www.regulations.gov under Docket ID FEMA--FEMA-2022-
0014. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
    All submissions received must include the agency name and Docket 
ID. Regardless of the method used for submitting comments or material, 
all submissions will be posted, without change, to the Federal 
eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov, and will include any 
personal information you provide. Therefore, submitting this 
information makes it public. You may wish to read the Privacy and 
Security Notice that is available via a link on the homepage of 
www.regulations.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Buddy Ey, Chief, Finance and 
Administration Section, US&R Branch, FEMA, Response Directorate, 
Operations Division at [email protected] or (202) 212-3799. 
You may contact the Information Management Division for copies of the 
proposed collection of information at email address: FEMA/[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 303 of the Robert T. Stafford 
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act), 42 U.S.C. 
5144, authorizes the President of the United States to form emergency 
support teams of Federal personnel to be deployed to an area affected 
by major disaster or emergency. Section 403(a)(3)(B) of the Stafford 
Act provides that the President may authorize Federal Departments and 
Agencies to perform work on public or private lands essential to save 
lives and protect property, including search and rescue and emergency 
medical care, and other essential needs. Section 327 of the Stafford 
Act further authorizes the National Urban Search and Rescue Response 
System (``the System'') and outlines the Administrator's authorization 
to designate teams as well as outlines specific protections for System 
members. The information collection activity is authorized under the 
Office of Management and Budget circular, 2 CFR part 200, ``Uniform 
Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements 
for Federal Awards.'' The collection contains information from the 
programmatic and administrative activities of the Urban Search and 
Rescue Sponsoring Agencies relating to the readiness and response 
cooperative agreement awards.
    FEMA will remove one instrument from this collection: FEMA Form 
089-0-15, Task Force Deployment Data.

Collection of Information

    Title: National Urban Search and Rescue Response System.
    Type of Information Collection: Extension, with change, of a 
currently approved information collection.
    OMB Number: 1660-0073.
    FEMA Forms: FEMA Form FF-104-FY-21-174 (formerly 089-0-10), Urban 
Search Rescue Response System Narrative Statement Workbook; FEMA Form 
FF-104-FY-21-175 (formerly 089-0-11), Urban Search Rescue Response 
System Semi-Annual Performance Report; FEMA Form FF-104-FY-21-176 
(formerly 089-0-12), Urban Search Rescue Response System Amendment 
Form; FEMA Form FF-104-FY-21-177 (formerly 089-0-14), Urban Search 
Rescue Response System Task Force Self-Evaluation Scoresheet; FEMA Form 
FF-104-FY-21-179 (formerly 089-0-26), Vehicle Support Unit Purchase/
Replacement/Disposal Justification.
    Abstract: The information collection activity is the collection of 
program and administrative information from 28 established Urban Search 
and Rescue Sponsoring Agencies relating to the Readiness and Response 
Cooperative Agreement awards. This information includes a narrative 
statement used to evaluate a grantees' proposed use of funds, progress 
reports to monitor progress on Cooperative Agreements, amendment 
requests to change scope and period of performance and approval for 
vehicle purchase.
    Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal Government.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 126.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 182.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 364.
    Estimated Total Annual Respondent Cost: $23,277.
    Estimated Respondents' Operation and Maintenance Costs: $0.
    Estimated Respondents' Capital and Start-Up Costs: $0.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to the Federal Government: $135,866.

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. 2022-08618 Filed 4-21-22; 8:45 am]
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