Published 30-day FRN

[Federal Register: April 21, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 77)]

[Notices]

[Page 21359-21360]

From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Notice; 30-day notice and request for comments; Telephone

Survey, OMB 1660-0057, Revision of a currently approved collection.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has submitted

the following information collection to the Office of Management and

Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the

requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The submission

describes 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

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includes the actual data collection instruments FEMA will use.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Current national conditions of increased

risk for man-made and/or accidental chemical disasters create great

demand for the constant monitoring of preparedness-related activities.

Since the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) is

a cooperative effort among local, State, and Federal governments

working closely with the public in communities surrounding fixed

hazards, documenting performance at each of these levels is vital for

program planning and management in each of the CSEPP sites.

Furthermore, since no preparedness program can be successful without

the public's understanding and cooperation, input from the residents

and businesses of immediate and/or surrounding areas is vital for

program managers to design custom-tailored strategies to educate and

communicate risks and action plans at the local level. Failure to

collect this information will hamper the program's ability to document

strengths and weaknesses at each site, forcing managers to rely on

intuitive rather than on factual decision-making, with no objective

basis to quantify program performance, a requirement of the Government

Performance and Results Act (GPRA).

Title: Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP)

Evaluation and Customer Satisfaction Survey.

Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved

collection.

OMB Number: OMB 1660-0057.

Abstract: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/FEMA's CSEPP

will collect data from State and local governments to measure program

effectiveness and establish a quantitative baseline of customer

satisfaction with program products and services. Data findings will be

used to set customer service standards while providing benchmarks for

program monitoring and evaluation. This information collection also

constitutes an assessment tool that measures public knowledge of

emergency preparedness and response actions in the event of a chemical

emergency affecting any of the seven CSEPP sites and surrounding

communities. Data from this collection will continue to provide a basis

for program planning and management through the development and/or

modification of performance standards, the ability to monitor program

changes and trends over time, and the capability to objectively

evaluate outreach performance against best practices (benchmarks) in

multi-hazard readiness programs.

Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal governments.

Number of Respondents: 2,224.

Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.25 hours.

Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 556 hours.

Annual Hour Burden

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Data collection activity/ Number of Frequency of Hour burden Annual Total annual

instrument respondents responses per response responses burden hours

(A) (B) (C) (D) = (A x B) (C x D)

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Open-ended Questionnaire\1\..... 170 1 0.25 170 42.50

Site Survey Questionnaires\2\

Anniston, AL................ 961 1 0.25 961 240.25

Pine Bluff, AR.............. 1,093 1 0.25 1,093 273.25

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* Total................. 2,224 .............. .............. 2,224 556.00

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Notes: \1\ State and local officials. \2\ Individual/residential respondents.

* Since publication of the 60 day Federal Register Notice, Volume 72, Number 224, page 65585, the number of

burden hours have decreased from 1910 to 556 due to a drop in the number of sites surveyed and therefore

number of respondents surveyed.

Frequency of Response: Annually.

Comments: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments

on the proposed information collection to the Office of Information and

Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management Budget, Attention: Nathan

Lesser, Desk Officer, Department of Homeland Security/FEMA, and sent

via electronic mail to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov or faxed to (202)

395-6974. Comments must be submitted on or before May 21, 2008.

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,

Mail Drop Room 301, 1800 S. Bell Street, Arlington, VA 22202, facsimile

number (202) 646-3347, or e-mail address FEMA-Information-

Collections@dhs.gov.

Dated: April 2, 2008.

John A. Sharetts-Sullivan,

Director, Records Management Division, Office of Management, Federal

Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.

[FR Doc. E8-8561 Filed 4-18-08; 8:45 am]

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