Document ID: FEMA-2022-0025-0002
Agency: fema
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Integrated Public Alert and Warning Systems (IPAWS) Memorandum of Agreement Applications
Posted Date: 2022-11-28T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 227 (Monday, November 28, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 73013-73014]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-25900]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

[Docket ID FEMA-2022-0025; OMB No. 1660-0140]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; Integrated Public Alert and Warning Systems 
(IPAWS) Memorandum of Agreement Applications

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

ACTION: 30-Day notice of revision 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. This notice seeks comments 
concerning the Integrated Public Alert and Warning Systems (IPAWS) 
Memorandum of Agreement Applications.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before December 28, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the information collection should be made to Director, 
Information Management Division, 500 C Street SW, Washington, DC 20472, 
email address [email protected] or 
Wade Witmer, Deputy for the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System 
(IPAWS) Program, FEMA, National Continuity Programs, (202) 646-2523, 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public Law 114-143, the Integrated Public 
Alert and Warning System Modernization Act of 2015, and Presidential 
Executive Order 13407, Public Alert and Warning System, establishes the 
policy for an effective, reliable, integrated, flexible, and 
comprehensive system to alert and warn the American people in 
situations of war, terrorist attack, natural disaster, or other hazards 
to public safety and wellbeing. The Integrated Public Alert and Warning 
System (IPAWS) is the Department of Homeland Security's response to the 
Executive Order. The Stafford Act (42 U.S.C. 5121, et. seq., Public Law 
93-288, as amended) requires that FEMA make IPAWS available to Federal, 
State, and local agencies for the purpose of providing warning to 
governmental authorities and the civilian population in areas 
endangered by disasters. The information collected is used by FEMA to 
create a Memorandum of Agreement that regulates the management, 
operations, and security of the information technology system 
connection between a Federal, State, Tribal, territorial, or local 
alerting authority and IPAWS-OPEN (Open Platform for Emergency 
Notifications).
    The IPAWS Public Alerting Authorization application captures 
information detailing which types of events the local jurisdiction 
wants to be configured to use IPAWS for and which primary dissemination 
channels should be available. For example, if a community wants to send 
a Civil Emergency Message (CEM) to broadcast across radio, television, 
and cable, they will request ``CEM'' for ``EAS''--the Emergency Alert 
System. These requested permissions are reviewed by either the State or 
by Tribal authorities for compliance with established overall alerting 
policies and plans. IPAWS uses the approved information to configure 
permissions in IPAWS-OPEN.
    This proposed information collection previously published in the 
Federal Register on August 26, 2022, at 87 FR 52589 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: Integrated Public Alert and Warning Systems (IPAWS) 
Memorandum of Agreement Applications.
    Type of Information Collection: Extension, with change, of a 
currently approved information collection.
    OMB Number: 1660-0140.
    FEMA Forms: FEMA Form FF-302-FY-22-102 (formerly 007-0-25), IPAWS 
Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) Application; FEMA Form FF-302-FY-22-103 
(formerly 007-0-26a/b), IPAWS Public Alerting Authority (PAA) 
Application.
    Abstract: A Federal, State, Tribal, territorial, or local alerting 
authority that applies for authorization to use IPAWS is designated as 
a Collaborative Operating Group (COG) by the IPAWS Program Management 
Office (PMO). Access to IPAWS is free; however, to send a message using 
IPAWS, an organization must procure its own IPAWS compatible software. 
To become a COG, a Memorandum of Agreement governing system security 
must be executed between the sponsoring organization and FEMA.
    Affected Public: State, Tribal, or local Government.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 841.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 841.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 526.
    Estimated Total Annual Respondent Cost: $30,487.
    Estimated Respondents' Operation and Maintenance Costs: $0.
    Estimated Respondents' Capital and Start-Up Costs: $0.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to the Federal Government: $123,164.

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 
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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 Brown Wilson,
Records Management Branch Chief, Office of the Chief Administrative 
Officer, Mission Support, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 
Department of Homeland Security
[FR Doc. 2022-25900 Filed 11-25-22; 8:45 am]
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