Narrative of Changes

Narrative of Changes

The purpose of the Narrative of Changes is to clearly indicate changes to a collection since the previous approval.

Collection Title: Debt Collection Financial Statement

OMB Control No.: 1660-0011

Current Expiration Date: 6/30/2014

Collection Instruments: FEMA Form 127-0-1

The following are the changes to the collection:

Supporting Statement:

Question 1 – Updated Legal Authorities

Question 8a – Updated to reflect FRN publication information.

Question 10 – Updated to reflect current privacy information.

Question 12 – Number of burden hours and respondents has increased. See Question 15 for explanation.

Question 14 – Costs to the Federal Government updated.

Estimated Annualized Burden Hours and Costs
Type of Respondent	Form Name / Form Number	No. of Respon-dents	No. of Respon-ses per Respon-dent	Total No. of Responses	Avg. Burden per Response (in hours)	Total Annual Burden (in hours)	Avg. Hourly Wage Rate	Total Annual Respondent Cost
Individuals or Households	Debt Collection Financial Statement / FEMA Form 127-0-1	2,000	1	2,000	45 minutes	1,500	$33.74	$50,610.00
Total		2,000		2,000		1,500		$50,610.00

• Note: The “Avg. Hourly Wage Rate” for each respondent includes a 1.4 multiplier to reflect a fully-loaded wage rate.

Question 15 – Burden hour increase explained.

Insert full explanation and chart from question 15 below.

Itemized Changes in Annual Burden Hours
Data collection Activity/Instrument	Program Change (hours currently on OMB Inventory)	Program Change (New)	Difference	Adjustment (hours currently on OMB Inventory)	Adjustment (New)	Difference
Debt Collection Financial Statement / FEMA Form 127-0-1				1,200	1,500	+300
Total(s)				1,200	1,500	+300

Explain:

There has been an increase in the annual hour burden from 1,200 to 1,500; an increase of 300 hours. This increase is due to the expected number of recipients of disaster assistance and the more intensive efforts by FEMA to collect overpayments to those disaster assistance recipients that were provided assistance funds exceeding allowable levels. FEMA is making more effort to provide installment agreements to those with debts to the agency.