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Entities Guidelines update and vapor
control System supplementary guidance
for the implementation of the final rule).
c. Task Statement 16–01: Hazardous
Cargo Transportation Security
Subcommittee.
8. USCG presentations on the
following items of interest:
a. Update on International Maritime
Organization activities as they relate to
the marine transportation of hazardous
materials.
b. Update on U.S. regulations and
policy initiatives as they relate to the
marine transportation of hazardous
materials.
c. Update on the Chemical Data
Guide.
9. Presentation on lessons learned
from a lightning strike on a methanol
operation.
10. New business and subcommittee
recommendation discussion.
11. Set next meeting date and
location.
12. Set subcommittee meeting
schedule.
13. Public comment period.
Public comments or questions will be
taken throughout the meeting as the
Committee discusses the issues and
prior to deliberations and voting. There
will also be a public comment period at
the end of the meeting. Speakers are
requested to limit their comments to 3
minutes. Please note that the public
comment period may end before the
period allotted, following the last call
for comments. Contact the individual
listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section above to register as a
speaker.
Dated: January 9, 2017.
J.G. Lantz,
Director of Commercial Regulations and
Standards.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency

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[Docket ID FEMA–2017–0003; OMB No.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; National Flood
Insurance Program Claims Forms
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Federal Emergency
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continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent burden, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on a revision of a currently
approved information collection. In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks
comments concerning the collection of
information related to the flood
insurance claims process.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before March 14, 2017.
ADDRESSES: To avoid duplicate
submissions to the docket, please use
only one of the following means to
submit comments.
(1) Online: Submit comments at
www.regulations.gov under Docket ID
FEMA–2017–0003. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
(2) Mail: Submit written comments to
Docket Manager, Office of Chief
Counsel, DHS/FEMA, 500 C Street SW.,
8NE, Washington, DC 20472–3100.
All submissions received must
include the agency name and Docket ID.
Regardless of the method used for
submitting comments or material, all
submissions will be posted, without
change, to the Federal eRulemaking
Portal at http://www.regulations.gov,
and will include any personal
information you provide. Therefore,
submitting this information makes it
public. You may wish to read the
Privacy Act notice that is available via
the link in the footer
www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Susan Bernstein, Mitigation, National
Flood Insurance Program, (202) 212–
2113. You may contact the Records
Management Division for copies of the
proposed collection of information at
email address: FEMA-InformationCollections-Management@fema.dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
National Flood Insurance Program
(NFIP) is codified as 42 U.S.C. 4001, et
sec. and is authorized by Public Law
90–448 (1968) and expanded by Public
Law 93–234 (1973). The National Flood
Insurance Act of 1968 requires that the
Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) provides flood insurance at full
actuarial rates with limited exceptions
for certain structures reflecting the
complete flood risk to structures built or
substantially improved on or after the
effective date for the initial Flood
Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for the
community, or after December 31, 1974,
whichever is later, so that the risk
associated with buildings in flood-prone
areas are borne by those located in such
areas and not by the taxpayers at large.
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the purchase of flood insurance is
mandatory when Federal or federally
related financial assistance is being
provided for acquisition or construction
of buildings located, or to be located,
within FEMA-identified special flood
hazard areas of communities that are
participating in the NFIP. When flood
damage occurs to insured property,
information is collected to report,
investigate, and negotiate in order to
settle the claim.
The NFIP Appeals Process
Section 205 of The Bunning-BereuterBlumenauer Flood Insurance Reform
Act (FIRA) of 2004, Public Law 108–
264, requires FEMA to establish by
regulation an additional process for the
appeal of decisions of flood insurance
claims issued through the NFIP.
Consequently, FEMA published an
interim final rule on May 26, 2006 (71
FR 30294) and a final rule on October
13, 2006 (71 FR 60435) codifying into
regulation what was previously an
existing informal process to handle
appeals regarding decisions related to
coverage, or claims under the NFIP.
Collection of Information
Title: National Flood Insurance
Program Claims Forms.
Type of Information Collection:
Revision of a currently approved
information collection.
OMB Number: 1660–0005.
FEMA Forms: FEMA Form 086–0–6;
Worksheet-Contents-Personal Property;
086–0–7; Worksheet—Building; 086–0–
8; Worksheet—Building (Continued);
086–0–9; Proof of Loss; 086–0–10;
Increased Cost of Compliance Proof of
Loss; 086–0–11; Notice of Loss; 086–0–
12; Statement as to Full Cost of Repair
or Replacement under the Replacement
Cost Coverage, Subject to the Terms and
Conditions of this Policy (proposed for
removal); 086–0–13; National Flood
Insurance Program Preliminary Report;
086–0–14; National Flood Insurance
Program Final Report; 086–0–15;
National Flood Insurance Program
Narrative Report; 086–0–16; Cause of
Loss and Subrogation Report; 086–0–17;
Manufactured (Mobile) Home/Travel
Trailer Worksheet; 086–0–18;
Manufactured (Mobile) Home/Travel
Trailer Worksheet (continued); 086–0–
19; Increased Cost of Compliance (ICC)
Adjusters Report; 086–0–20; Adjuster
Preliminary Damage Assessment; 086–
0–21; Adjuster Certification
Application. NFIP Claims Appeals
Process (Flood Claims Insurance
Handbook).
Abstract: The NFIP appeal process
establishes a formal mechanism to allow
NFIP policyholders to appeal the

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decisions of any insurance agent,
adjuster, insurance company, or any
FEMA employee or contractor, in cases
of unsatisfactory decisions on claims,
proof of loss, and loss estimates.
Affected Public: Individuals,
households, farms, businesses, and
other for profit.
Number of Respondents: 49,373.
Number of Responses: 49,373.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 31,737.
Estimated Cost: The estimated annual
cost to respondents for the hour burden
is $1,432,419. There are no
recordkeeping, capital, start-up or
maintenance costs associated with this
information collection. The cost to the
Federal Government is $4,000,434.
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 through
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.
Dated: January 9, 2017.
Richard W. Mattison,
Records Management Program Chief, Mission
Support, Federal Emergency Management
Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT

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Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
Assessment Tool for Public Housing
Agencies: Announcement of Final
Approved Document
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal
Opportunity, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

This notice announces that
the Assessment Tool developed by HUD

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for use by Public Housing Agencies
receiving assistance under the United
States Housing Act of 1937 has
completed the notice and comment
process required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA), been reviewed by
the Office of Management and Budget
and approved. While this Assessment
Tool has been approved, this Notice
does not trigger the obligation of PHAs
to conduct and submit an AFH in
accordance with 24 CFR 5.160, as HUD
has not yet provided PHAs with the data
they will need. As HUD makes data
available for certain PHAs, HUD will
publish, in the Federal Register, a
Notice announcing the availability of
data for certain PHAs, triggering their
obligation to conduct and submit an
AFH, and will post such Notice on the
HUD Exchange. HUD also anticipates
that, at that time, the online User
Interface will be available for use by
PHAs. Until such time that PHAs are
required to conduct and submit an AFH,
HUD notes that PHAs must continue to
comply with existing fair housing and
civil rights requirements. This
Assessment Tool, referred to as the PHA
Assessment Tool, was modeled on the
Local Government Assessment Tool,
first approved by OMB on December 31,
2015 but with modifications to address
the different public housing and
Housing Choice Voucher operations that
PHAs have compared to local
governments, and how fair housing
planning may be undertaken by PHAs in
a meaningful manner. As with the Local
Government Assessment Tool, the PHA
Assessment Tool allows for
collaboration with other PHAs. To
reduce burden for PHAs, HUD has
increased the threshold for the insert
from QPHAs that have 550 units or less
to PHAs with 1,250 or fewer combined
public housing and HCV units. HUD has
also committed to developing an
additional Assessment Tool specifically
for use by Qualified PHAs (QPHAs) who
conduct and submit an individual AFH
or collaborate with other QPHAs to
conduct and submit a joint AFH to be
issued in 2017. Therefore, this PHA
Assessment Tool will be for use by
PHAs submitting AFHs individually or
jointly, and for collaborations among
PHAs with 1,250 or fewer units and
with PHAs with more than 1,250 units.
In addition, to reduce burden further,
this Assessment Tool includes an insert
with streamlined questions for PHAs
with 1,250 or fewer units to use if
jointly submitting with PHA with more
than 1,250 units. In addition, this
Assessment Tool includes revised
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that provide more guidance to PHAs in
conducting the AFH, including how the
regional analysis is to be prepared based
on the location of a PHA’s geographic
region and program type. Through the
notice and comment process required by
the PRA, HUD made changes to the PHA
Assessment Tool from the 30-day notice
published in the Federal Register on
August 23, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Krista Mills, Deputy Assistant Secretary,
Office of Fair Housing and Equal
Opportunity, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW., Room 5246, Washington, DC
20410; telephone number 866–234–2689
(toll-free) or 202–402–1432 (local).
Individuals who are deaf or hard of
hearing and individuals with speech
impediments may access this number
via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal
Relay Service during working hours at
1–800–877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
On July 16, 2015, at 80 FR 42357,
HUD published in the Federal Register
its Affirmatively Furthering Fair
Housing (AFFH) final rule. The AFFH
final rule provides HUD program
participants with a new approach for
planning and implementing locallydeveloped housing goals, actions and
strategies involving increasing choice,
mobility, preservation, community
revitalization and other collaborative or
outreach efforts that are designed to
reduce disparities in access to
opportunity and improve fair housing
outcomes that will assist them in
meeting their statutory obligation to
affirmatively further fair housing as
required by the Fair Housing Act. To
assist HUD program participants in
improving planning to achieve
meaningful fair housing outcomes, the
new approach involves an ‘‘assessment
tool’’ for use in completing the
regulatory requirement to conduct an
assessment of fair housing (AFH) as set
out in the AFFH rule. Because of the
variations in the different HUD program
participants subject to the AFFH rule,
HUD has developed three separate
assessment tools: One for public
housing agencies (PHAs) receiving
assistance under section 8 or 9 of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42
U.S.C. 1437f or 1437g), which is the
subject of this notice, the PHA
Assessment Tool; one for local
governments, the Local Government
Assessment Tool; and one for State and
Insular Areas, the State and Insular
Areas Assessment Tool. PHAs
submitting alone or with other PHAs

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