Document ID: FEMA-2015-0022-0002
Agency: fema
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program and Fire Prevention and Safety Grants- Grant Application Supplemental Information
Posted Date: 2016-01-14T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 9 (Thursday, January 14, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1961-1962]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-00543]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

[Docket ID: FEMA-2015-0022; OMB No. 1660-0054]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program and 
Fire Prevention and Safety Grants--Grant Application Supplemental 
Information

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 February 16, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments on the proposed information 
collection to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office 
of Management and Budget. Comments

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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 October 6, 2015 at 80 
FR 60398 with a 60 day public comment period. FEMA received one comment 
requesting a copy of the proposed information collection, and a draft 
of the proposed information collection was subsequently forwarded to 
the requester. The Agency responded to this comment and provided the 
most up-to-date copy of the proposed information collection to the 
requester. 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: Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program and Fire Prevention 
and Safety Grants--Grant Application Supplemental Information.
    Type of information collection: Revision of a currently approved 
information collection.
    OMB Number: 1660-0054.
    Form Titles and Numbers: FEMA Form 080-0-2, Assistance to 
Firefighters Grants (AFG) Application (General Questions and 
Narrative); FEMA Form 080-0-2a, Activity Specific Questions for AFG 
Vehicle Applicants; FEMA Form 080-0-2b, Activity Specific Questions for 
AFG Operations and Safety Applications; FEMA Form 080-0-3, Activity 
Specific Questions for Fire Prevention and Safety (FP&S) Applicants; 
FEMA Form 080-0-3a, Fire Prevention and Safety; FEMA Form 080-0-3b, 
Research and Development.
    Abstract: The FEMA forms for this collection are used to 
objectively evaluate each of the anticipated applicants to determine 
which applicants' submission in each of the AFG activities are close to 
the established program priorities. FEMA also uses the information to 
determine eligibility and whether the proposed use of funds meets the 
requirements and intent of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act 
of 1974, as amended.
    Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal Government; Not-for-profit 
Institutions.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 22,000.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 158,590 hours.
    Estimated Cost: The estimated annual cost to respondents for the 
hour burden is $7,849,130.00. There are no annual costs to respondents' 
operations and maintenance costs for technical services. There are no 
annual start-up or capital costs. The cost to the Federal Government is 
$3,319,699.04.

    Dated: December 23, 2015.
Richard W. Mattison,
Records Management Program Chief, Mission Support, Federal Emergency 
Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2016-00543 Filed 1-13-16; 8:45 am]
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