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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 28, 2008.
John A. Sharetts-Sullivan,
Director, Records Management Division,
Office of Management, Federal Emergency
Management Agency, Department of
Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. E8–10578 Filed 5–12–08; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request

Dated: April 28, 2008.
John A. Sharetts-Sullivan,
Director, Records Management Division,
Office of Management, Federal Emergency
Management Agency, Department of
Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. E8–10579 Filed 5–12–08; 8:45 am]

Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Notice; 30-day notice and
request for comments; Revision of a
currently approved collection, OMB
1600–0062, No Forms.
AGENCY:

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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
includes the actual data collection
instruments FEMA will use.
Title: State/Local/Tribal Hazard
Mitigation Plans.
OMB Number: 1660–0062.
Abstract: The purpose of the State/
Local/Tribal Hazard Mitigation Plan
requirements is to outline the strategy
by which State, tribal and local
governments use to demonstrate the
goals, priorities, and commitment to
reduce risks from natural hazards and
serves as a guide for State and local
decision makers as they commit
resources to reducing the effects of
natural hazards.
Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Number of Respondents: 56.
Estimated Time per Respondent:
13,720.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 768,320.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Frequency of Response: On Occasion.
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 June 12, 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.

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Notice; 30-day notice and
request for comments; Extension of a
currently approved collection 1660–
0025, Standard Forms: SF–LLL, SF–424,
SF–270, FEMA Forms: 20–10, 20–15,
20–16A, 20–16B, 20–16C, 20–17, 20–18,
20–19, 20–20, and 76–10A.
AGENCY:

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
includes the actual data collection
instruments FEMA will use.
Title: FEMA Grant Administration
Forms.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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OMB Number: 1660–0025.
Abstract: This collection of
information focuses on the
standardization and consistent use of
standard and FEMA forms associated
with grantees requests for disaster and
non-disaster Federal assistance,
submission of financial and
administrative reporting and record
keeping. The use of the forms will
minimize burden on the respondent and
enable FEMA to continue to improve in
its grants administration practices. The
forms are used to administer the
following FEMA grant programs.
National Urban Search and Rescue
(US&R) Response System—To develop
an immediately deployable, national
response capability to locate and
extricate, and medically stabilize
victims of structural collapse during a
disaster, while simultaneously
enhancing the US&R response
capabilities of State and local
governments.
Community Assistance Program—
State Support Services Element (CAP–
SSSE)—To ensure that communities
participating in the National Flood
Insurance Program (NFIP) are achieving
flood loss reduction measures consistent
with program direction. The CAP–SSSE
is intended to identify, prevent and
resolve floodplain management issues
in participating communities before
they develop into problems requiring
enforcement action.
Chemical Stockpile Emergency
Preparedness Program (CSEPP)—To
enhance emergency preparedness
capabilities of the States and local
communities at each of the eight
chemical agent stockpile storage
facilities. The purpose of the program is
to assist States and local communities in
efforts to improve their capacity to plan
for and respond to accidents associated
with the storage and ultimate disposal
of chemical warfare materials.
National Dam Safety Program
(NDSP)—To encourage the
establishment and maintenance of
effective State programs intended to
ensure dam safety, to protect human life
and property, and to improve State dam
safety programs.
Interoperable Communications
Equipment (ICE)—To provide funding
to jurisdictions across the nation for
demonstration projects on uses of
equipment and technologies to increase
communications interoperability among
the fire service, law enforcement, and
emergency medical service
communities. These projects will
illustrate and encourage the acceptance
of new technologies and operating
methods to assist communities in
achieving interoperability.

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Earthquake Consortium (EqC)—To
operate a program of grants and
assistance to enable States to develop
mitigation, preparedness and response
plans prepare inventories and conduct
seismic safety inspection of critical
structures and lifelines, update building
and zoning codes and ordinances to
enhance seismic safety, increase
earthquake awareness and education,
and encourage the development of
multi-State groups for such purposes.
Disaster Donations Management
Program (AIDMATRIX)—To distribute
technology solutions to State and local
government and voluntary agencies
throughout the country prior, to a major
event, through the Aidmatrix
Foundation/FEMA partnership. This
will allow end-users to incorporate
technology solutions into their
planning, increasing their capacity to
respond quickly and effectively once a
disaster occurs.
Alternative Housing Pilot Program
(AHPP)—Evaluate the efficacy of nontraditional short and intermediate-term
housing alternatives for potential future
use in a catastrophic disaster
environment. Identify, develop and
evaluate alternatives to and alternative
forms of FEMA Disaster Housing to
assist victims of the 2005 hurricanes in
the Gulf Coast.
Cooperating Technical Partners
(CTP)—To increase local involvement
in, and ownership of, the development
and maintenance of flood hazard maps
produced for the National Flood
Insurance Program (NFIP).
Map Modernization Management
Support (MMMS)—To increase local
involvement in, and ownership of,
management of the development and
maintenance of flood hazard maps
produced for the National Flood
Insurance.
New Repetitive Flood Claims (RFC)—
The Repetitive Flood Claims (RFC)
Program was authorized in 2004 under
Public Law 108–264, funds were not
appropriated until FY 2006. The RFC
program is authorized under the NFIA
to award grants for actions that reduce
flood damages to individual properties
for which one or more claim payments
for losses have been made. FEMA is not
required to publish regulations;
however, FEMA will provide notice to
eligible applicants, post notice on
OMB’s Grants.gov Web site, and post
the RFC program guidance on its Web
site at http://www.fema.gov.
Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)—
To assist States and communities in
implementing measures to reduce or
eliminate the long-term risk of flood
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under the National Flood Insurance
Program (NFIP).
Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM)—To
provide States and communities with a
much needed source of pre-disaster
mitigation funding for cost-effective
hazard mitigation activities that are part
of a comprehensive mitigation program,
and that reduce injuries, loss of life, and
damage and destruction of property.
Competitive grants are part of this
program including grants to
universities.
Assistance to Firefighters Grant
(AFG)—To provide direct assistance, on
a competitive basis, to fire departments
of a State or tribal nation for the purpose
of protecting the health and safety of the
public and firefighting personnel against
fire and fire-related hazards.
Staffing for Adequate Fire and
Emergency Response (SAFER)—To
increase the number of firefighters in
local communities and to help them
meet industry minimum standards and
attain 24/7 staffing for adequate
protection against fire and fire-related
hazards, and fulfill related roles
associated with fire departments.
Disaster Programs
Public Assistance Grants (PA)—To
provide supplemental assistance to
States, local governments, and political
subdivisions to the State, Indian Tribes,
Alaskan Native Villages, and certain
nonprofit organizations in alleviating
suffering and hardship resulting from
major disasters or emergencies declared
by the President.
Crisis Counseling (SCC)—To provide
immediate crisis counseling services,
when required, to victims of a major
Federally-declared disaster for the
purpose of relieving mental health
problems caused or aggravated by a
major disaster or its aftermath.
Presidential Declared Disaster
Assistance to Individuals and
Households—Other Needs (ONA)—To
provide assistance to individuals and
households affected by a disaster or
emergency declared by the President,
and enable them to address necessary
expenses and serious needs, which
cannot be met through other forms of
disaster assistance or through other
means such as insurance.
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
(HMGP)—To provide States and local
governments’ financial assistance to
implement measures that will
permanently reduce or eliminate future
damages and losses from natural
hazards through safer building practices
and improving existing structures and
supporting infrastructure.
Fire Management Assistance Grant
(FMAGP)—To provide grants to States,

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Indian tribal government and local
governments for the mitigation,
management and control of any fire
burning on publicly (nonfederal) or
privately owned forest or grassland that
threatens such destruction as would
constitute a major disaster.
Affected Public: State, local, and tribal
government.
Number of Respondents: 56.
Estimated Time per Respondent:
38,408.66.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 2,150,885.
Frequency of Response: On Occasion.
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 and
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 June 12,
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–InformationCollections@dhs.gov.
Dated: April 28, 2008.
John A. Sharetts-Sullivan,
Director, Records Management Division,
Office of Management, Federal Emergency
Management Agency, Department of
Homeland Security,
[FR Doc. E8–10580 Filed 5–12–08; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Notice; 60-day notice and
request for comments; Extension,
without change, of a currently approved
collection, OMB Number 1660–0020; No
Forms.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency
Management Agency, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork

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