Document ID: FEMA-2016-0028-0002
Agency: fema
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; FEMA’s Grants Reporting Tool (GRT)
Posted Date: 2017-01-06T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 4 (Friday, January 6, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1749-1750]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-00006]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

[Docket ID FEMA-2016-0028; OMB No. 1660-0117]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; FEMA's Grants Reporting Tool (GRT)

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 6, 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 
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 information collection previously 
published in the Federal Register on October 12, 2016, 81 FR 70432 with 
a 60 day public comment period. No comments were received. 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: FEMA's Grants Reporting Tool (GRT).
    Type of information collection: Extension, without change, of a 
currently approved information collection.
    OMB Number: 1660-0117.
    Form Titles and Numbers: None.
    Abstract: The GRT is a Web-based reporting system designed to help 
State Administrative Agencies (SAAs) meet all reporting requirements as 
identified in the grant guidance of FEMA's portfolio of preparedness 
grants sponsored by FEMA's Grant Programs Directorate (GPD). The 
information enables FEMA to evaluate applications

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and make award decisions, monitor ongoing performance and manage the 
flow of Federal funds, and to appropriately close out grants or 
cooperative agreements. GRT supports the information collection needs 
of each grant program processed in the system.
    Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal Government.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 56.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,156 hours.
    Estimated Cost: The estimated annual cost to respondents for the 
hour burden is $77,659.12. 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 
$1,166,604.30.

    Dated: December 27, 2016.
Richard W. Mattison,
Records Management Program Chief, Mission Support, Federal Emergency 
Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2017-00006 Filed 1-5-17; 8:45 am]
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