Document ID: FEMA-2017-0017-0006
Agency: fema
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Grants
Posted Date: 2017-07-25T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 141 (Tuesday, July 25, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34548-34549]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-15576]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

[Docket ID FEMA-2017-0017; OMB No. 1660-0135]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency 
Response (SAFER) Grants

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Notice 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. 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 August 24, 2017.

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

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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. Or, William Dunham, Fire Program Specialist, 
FEMA, Grant Program Directorate, 202-786-9813.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposed information collection 
previously published in the Federal Register on May 12, 2017 at 82 FR 
22150 with a 60-day public comment period. FEMA received two positive 
comments supporting FEMA's effort to continue SAFER grants for both 
fire departments and the communities they serve, but one provided a 
caveat to streamline the process. FEMA's response is that the Program 
Office is working towards this goal. FEMA received one comment that 
application material were difficult to locate at this time. FEMA's 
response is that the materials are only available during the 
application period, applicants are notified well ahead of time through 
the Notice of Funding Opportunity of these dates. 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: Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) 
Grants.
    Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved 
information collection.
    OMB Number: 1660-0135.
    Form Titles and Numbers: FEMA Form 080-0-4, Staffing for Adequate 
Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) (General Questions All Applicants); 
FEMA Form 080-0-4a, Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response 
Hiring of Firefighters Application (Questions and Narrative); FEMA Form 
080-0-4b, Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Recruitment 
and Retention of Volunteer Firefighters Application (Questions and 
Narrative); FEMA Form 087-0-0-2, Staffing for Adequate Fire and 
Emergency Response Quarterly Report and Payment Request Form.
    Abstract: FEMA uses this information to ensure that FEMA's 
responsibilities under the legislation can be fulfilled accurately and 
efficiently. The information will be used to objectively evaluate each 
of the anticipated applicants to determine which of the applicants' 
proposals in each of the activities are the closest to the established 
program priorities.
    Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal Government; Not-for-Profit 
Institutions.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 2,330.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 2,990.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 18,064 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Respondent Cost: $984,437.20.
    Estimated Respondents' Operation and Maintenance Costs: None.
    Estimated Respondents' Capital and Start-Up Costs: None.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to the Federal Government: 
$1,666,213.80.

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.

    Dated: July 19, 2017.
Tammi Hines,
Acting Records Management Program Chief, Mission Support, Federal 
Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
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