Document ID: FEMA-2021-0004-0001
Agency: fema
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; FEMA Preparedness Grants: Transit Security Grant Program (TSGP)
Posted Date: 2021-03-12T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 47 (Friday, March 12, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14144-14145]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-05182]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

[Docket ID: FEMA-2021-0004; OMB No. 1660-0112]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; FEMA Preparedness Grants: Transit Security Grant 
Program (TSGP)

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

ACTION: 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 and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity 
to comment on an extension, with change, of a currently approved 
information collection. Three new forms are added to the collection--
FEMA TSGP Public Transit Risk Assessment Methodology (PT-RAM), TSGP PT-
RAM Gap Analysis, and TSGP PT-RAM Implementation Plan, as these are new 
forms to the FEMA 089-4 Collection. TSGP is adding these forms to the 
collection for project risk analysis connected to the purpose of the 
grant program. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 
this notice seeks comments concerning the Transit Security Grant 
Program (TSGP) which is a FEMA grant program that focuses on 
transportation infrastructure protection activities.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before May 11, 2021.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments at www.regulations.gov under Docket ID FEMA-
2021-0004. 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 Act 
notice that is available via the link in the footer of 
www.regulations.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Laila Ouhamou, Branch Chief, FEMA, 
202-786-9461, Laila.Ouhamou@fema.dhs.gov. You may contact the Records 
Management Division for copies of the proposed collection of 
information at email address: FEMA-Information-Collections-Management@fema.dhs.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The TSGP is a FEMA grant program that 
focuses on transportation infrastructure protection activities. The 
collection of information for TSGP is mandated by Section 1406, Title 
XIV of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 
2007 (6 U.S.C. 1135), which directs the Secretary to establish a 
program for making grants to eligible public transportation agencies 
for security improvements. Additionally, information is collected in 
accordance with Section 1406(c) of the Implementing Recommendations of 
the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (6 U.S.C. 1135(c)) which authorizes the 
Secretary to determine the requirements for grant recipients, including 
application requirements.

Collection of Information

    Title: FEMA Preparedness Grants: Transit Security Grant Program 
(TSGP).
    Type of Information Collection: Modification of a currently 
approved information collection.
    OMB Number: 1660-0112.
    FEMA Forms: FEMA Form 089-4, TSGP Investment Justification 
Background Document 089-4A, TSGP Five-Year Security Capital and 
Operational Sustainment Plan 089-4B, FEMA Form 089-4 Public Transit 
Risk Assessment Methodology PT-RAM, FEMA Form 089-4 TSGP PT-RAM 
Implementation Plan, and the FEMA TSGP PT-RAM Gap Analysis
    Abstract: The TSGP is an important component of the Department's 
effort to enhance the security of the Nation's critical infrastructure. 
The program provides funds to owners and operators of transit systems 
to protect critical surface transportation infrastructure and the 
traveling public from acts of terrorism, major disasters, and other 
emergencies.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit, State and local 
government.
    Number of Respondents: 123.
    Number of Responses: 738.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 15,375.
    Estimated Total Annual Respondent Cost: The estimated annual cost 
to respondent operations and maintenance costs for technical services 
is

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$1,373,353. There are no annual start-up or capital costs.)
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to the Federal Government: $963,792

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 L Brown,
Senior Manager, Records Management Branch Office of the Chief 
Administrative Officer, Mission Support, Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2021-05182 Filed 3-11-21; 8:45 am]
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