Document ID: FEMA-2020-0033-0001
Agency: fema
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; State Administrative Plan for the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
Posted Date: 2020-11-09T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 217 (Monday, November 9, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71351-71352]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-24845]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

[Docket ID: FEMA-2020-0033; OMB No. 1660-0026]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; State Administrative Plan for the Hazard Mitigation 
Grant Program

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: 60 day notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency Management Agency, 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, 
without change, of a currently approved information collection. In 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks 
comments concerning the State Administrative Plan for the procedural 
guide that details how the State will administer the Hazard Mitigation 
Grant Program (HMGP).

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before January 8, 2021.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments at www.regulations.gov under Docket ID FEMA-
2020-0033. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
    All submissions received must include the agency name and Docket 
ID, and 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: Roselyn Brown-Frei, Section Chief, 
Hazard Mitigation Division, Federal Insurance and Mitigation 
Administration, FEMA, roselyn.brown-frei@fema.dhs.gov, 202-924-7198. 
You may contact the Information Management Division for copies of the 
proposed collection of information at

[[Page 71352]]

email address: FEMA-Information-Collections-Management@fema.dhs.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FEMA regulations in 44 CFR 206.437 require 
development and updates to the State Administrative Plan by State 
Applicants/Recipients, as a condition of receiving HMGP funding under 
section 404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5170c. Applicant/Recipients can be any State 
of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin 
Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands, or an Indian Tribal government (federally-recognized) 
that chooses to act as an Applicant/Recipient. A State is defined in 
section 102(4) of the Stafford Act (42 U.S.C. 5122) as any State of the 
United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin 
Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands.

Collection of Information

    Title: State Administrative Plan for the Hazard Mitigation Grant 
Program.
    Type of Information Collection: Extension, without change, of a 
currently approved information collection.
    OMB Number: 1660-0026.
    FEMA Forms: None.
    Abstract: The State Administrative Plan is a procedural guide that 
details how the State will administer the HMGP. The State, Territory, 
or Indian Tribal government (who acts as a recipient) must have a 
current administrative plan approved by the appropriate FEMA Regional 
Administrator before receiving HMGP funds. The administrative plan may 
take any form including a chapter within a comprehensive State 
mitigation program strategy.
    Affected Public: State, Territories, and Tribal governments.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 35.
    Frequency of Response: Twice Annually.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 70.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 560.
    Estimated Total Annual Respondent Cost: $32,704.
    Estimated Respondents' Operation and Maintenance Costs: There are 
no Operation and Maintenance Costs associated with this information 
collection.
    Estimated Respondents' Capital and Start-Up Costs: There are no 
record keeping, capital, start-up or maintenance costs associated with 
this information collection.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to the Federal Government: $23,871.

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.

Maile Arthur,
Acting Records Management Branch Chief, Office of the Chief 
Administrative Officer, Mission Support, Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2020-24845 Filed 11-6-20; 8:45 am]
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