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National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Compliance Audit Reports

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and (4) ways to minimize the burden of
the Collection on respondents,
including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology. These
comments will help OIRA determine
whether to approve the ICR referred to
in this Notice.
We encourage you to respond to this
request by submitting comments and
related materials. Comments to Coast
Guard or OIRA must contain the OMB
Control Number of the ICR. They must
also contain the docket number of this
request, USCG–2024–0239, and must be
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Submitting Comments
We encourage you to submit
comments through the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at https://
www.regulations.gov. If your material
cannot be submitted using https://
www.regulations.gov, contact the person
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document for
alternate instructions. Documents
mentioned in this notice, and all public
comments, are in our online docket at
https://www.regulations.gov and can be
viewed by following that website’s
instructions. Additionally, if you go to
the online docket and sign up for email
alerts, you will be notified when
comments are posted.
We accept anonymous comments. All
comments to the Coast Guard will be
posted without change to https://
www.regulations.gov and will include
any personal information you have
provided. For more about privacy and
submissions to the Coast Guard in
response to this document, see DHS’s
eRulemaking System of Records notice
(85 FR 14226, March 11, 2020). For
more about privacy and submissions to
OIRA in response to this document, see
the https://www.reginfo.gov, commentsubmission web page. OIRA posts its
decisions on ICRs online at https://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain
after the comment period for each ICR.
An OMB Notice of Action on each ICR
will become available via a hyperlink in
the OMB Control Number: 1625–0106.
Previous Request for Comments
This request provides a 30-day
comment period required by OIRA. The
Coast Guard published the 60-day
notice (89 FR 23603, April 4, 2024)
required by 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2). That
notice elicited no comments.
Accordingly, no changes have been
made to the Collection.
Information Collection Request
Title: Unauthorized Entry into Cuban
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OMB Control Number: 1625–0106.
Summary: The Coast Guard, pursuant
to Presidential proclamation and order
of the Secretary of Homeland Security,
is requiring U.S. vessels, and vessels
without nationality, less than 100
meters, located within the internal
waters or the 12 nautical mile territorial
sea of the United States, that thereafter
enter Cuban territorial waters, to apply
for and receive a Coast Guard permit.
Need: The information is collected to
regulate departure from U.S. territorial
waters of U.S. vessels, and vessels
without nationality, and entry thereafter
into Cuban territorial waters. The need
to regulate this vessel traffic supports
ongoing efforts to enforce the Cuban
embargo, which is designed to bring
about an end to the current government
and a peaceful transition to democracy.
Accordingly, only applicants that
demonstrate prior U.S. government
approval for exports to and transactions
with Cuba will be issued a Coast Guard
permit.
The permit regulation requires that
applicants hold United States
Department of Commerce, Bureau of
Industry and Security (BIS) and U.S.
Department of Treasury the Office of
Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) licenses
that permit exports to and transactions
with Cuba. The USCG permit process
thus allows the agency to collect
information from applicants about their
status vis-a`-vis BIS and OFAC licenses
and monitor compliance with BIS and
OFAC regulations. These two agencies
administer statutes and regulations that
proscribe exports to (BIS) and
transactions with (OFAC) Cuba.
Accordingly, in order to assist BIS and
OFAC in the enforcement of these
license requirements, as directed by the
President and the Secretary of
Homeland Security, the Coast Guard is
requiring certain U.S. vessels, and
vessels without nationality, to
demonstrate that they hold these
licenses before they depart for Cuban
waters.
Forms: CG–3300, Application for
Permit to Enter Cuban Territorial Seas.
Respondents: Owners and operators
of vessels.
Frequency: On occasion.
Hour Burden Estimate: The estimated
burden remains around 5 hours per
year.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. et seq., chapter
35, as amended.

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Dated: June 10, 2024.
Kathleen Claffie,
Chief, Office of Privacy Management, U.S.
Coast Guard.
[FR Doc. 2024–15496 Filed 7–15–24; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
[Docket ID: FEMA–2024–0008; OMB No.
1660–0023]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review, Comment Request;
Community Assistance Contact (CAC)
Reports, Community Assistance Visit
(CAV) Reports, and National Flood
Insurance Program (NFIP) Compliance
Audit Reports
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, Department of
Homeland Security.
ACTION: 30-Day notice of revision and
request for comments.
AGENCY:

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. FEMA invites
the general public to take this
opportunity to comment on a revision of
a currently approved information
collection. In accordance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks
comments concerning the effectiveness
of a community’s implementation of the
National Flood Insurance Program’s
(NFIP’s) Community Assistance Contact
(CAC) and Community Assistance Visits
(CAV) Reports. FEMA is moving away
from CAV and CAC reports to the newly
designed process of NFIP Compliance
Audits in response to a report issued on
May 5, 2020, by the Government
Accounting Office (GAO) entitled
‘‘National Flood Insurance Program:
FEMA Can Improve Community
Oversight and Data Sharing.’’ This
report gave several recommendations
including the following: assess different
approaches for ensuring compliance
with NFIP requirements and ensure data
on community visits are up-to-date and
complete. While the new NFIP
Compliance Audit process aligns with
the old CAV and CAC processes, it is
more organized, more consistent, more
transparent, allows for better

SUMMARY:

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documentation, and more efficiently
focuses resources to where they are
needed most.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before August 15, 2024.
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
FEMA-Information-CollectionsManagement@fema.dhs.gov or Sarah
Owen, Program Specialist, Floodplain
Management Division, Mitigation
Directorate, Federal Insurance and
Mitigation Administration, FEMA at
Sarah.Owen@fema.dhs.gov or (510)
409–4818.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
National Flood Insurance Program
(NFIP) codified at 42 U.S.C. 4001, et seq.
is authorized by Public Law 90–448
(1968) and expanded by Public Law 93–
234 (1973). The Department of
Homeland Security, Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA)
administers the NFIP. The NFIP’s major
objective is to assure that participating
communities are achieving the flood
loss reduction objectives through
adoption and enforcement of adequate
land use and control measures. Sections
1315 and 1361 provide the basis for
FEMA’s process to evaluate how well
communities are implementing their
floodplain management programs. Title
44 CFR 59.22 directs the respondent to
submit evidence of the corrective and
preventive measures taken to meet the
flood loss reduction objectives.
The two key methods FEMA uses in
determining community assistance
needs are through the Community
Assistance Contact (CAC) and
Community Assistance Visit (CAV),
which serve to provide a systematic
means of monitoring community NFIP
compliance. Through the CAC and CAV,
FEMA can also determine to what
extent communities are achieving the
flood loss reduction objectives of the
NFIP. By providing assistance to
communities, the CAC and CAV also
serve to enhance FEMA’s goals of
reducing future flood losses, thereby
achieving the NFIP’s cost-containment
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associated with this collection were reevaluated which led to the main
revision in this extension request.
FEMA is moving away from CAV and
CAC reports to the newly designed
process of NFIP Compliance Audits in
response to a report issued on May 5,
2020, by the Government Accounting
Office (GAO) entitled ‘‘National Flood
Insurance Program: FEMA Can Improve
Community Oversight and Data
Sharing.’’ This report gave several
recommendations including the
following: assess different approaches
for ensuring compliance with NFIP
requirements and ensure data on
community visits are up-to-date and
complete. While the new NFIP
Compliance Audit process aligns with
the old CAV and CAC processes, it is
more organized, more consistent, more
transparent, and allows for better
documentation. The main efficiency
gained in the new process is that it is
a progressive audit which allows for
varying depths of investigation based on
the community’s needs. Another
efficiency is a compliance score. These
two improvements will allow FEMA to
better utilize limited resources to
increase community compliance.
FEMA is also adding the collection of
information from NFIP-participating
communities in order to comply with
the Endangered Species Act. The
information may include the impact of
the proposed development on the
natural floodplain functions, the
amount of fill, compensatory storage
information, the amount of impervious
surface, the area in which clearing/
grading may occur, the number of trees
removed, and other information related
to hydraulic connections.
This proposed information collection
previously published in the Federal
Register on March 28, 2024, at 89 FR
21534 with a 60-day public comment
period. FEMA received no public
comments. 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: Community Assistance Contact
(CAC) Reports, Community Assistance
Visit (CAV) Reports, and National Flood
Insurance Program (NFIP) Compliance
Audit Reports.
Type of Information Collection:
Revision of a currently approved
information collection.
OMB Number: 1660–0023.
FEMA Forms: FEMA Form FF–206–
FY–21–141 (formerly 086–0–28(E)),
Community Assistance Visit (CAV)

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Report; FEMA Form FF–206–FY–21–
142 (formerly 086–0–29(E)), Community
Assistance Contact (CAC) Report; and
FEMA Form FF–206–FY–24–100, NFIP
Compliance Audit Report.
Abstract: FEMA previously used the
Community Assistance Contact (CAC)
and the Community Assistance Visit
(CAV) to make a comprehensive
assessment of a community’s floodplain
management program. Through this
assessment, FEMA assisted the
community to understand the NFIP’s
requirements and implement effective
flood loss reductions measures.
Communities can achieve cost savings
through flood mitigation actions by way
of insurance premium discounts and
reduced property damage. The CAV and
CAC processes have been updated
recently to the NFIP Compliance Audit
process which aims to do a more
efficient, consistent and transparent job
of assessing the community’s floodplain
management program, providing them
with the needed technical assistance to
improve it, and documenting the results
for data analysis.
Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal
Governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
102.
Estimated Number of Responses:
4,002.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 48,002.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Cost: $2,361,698.
Estimated Respondents’ Operation
and Maintenance Costs: $0.
Estimated Respondents’ Capital and
Start-Up Costs: $0.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the
Federal Government: $2,216,556.
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,

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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. 2024–15592 Filed 7–15–24; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
[Docket ID: FEMA–2024–0021; OMB No.
1660–0144]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Individual &
Community Preparedness Division
(ICPD) Youth Preparedness Council
(YPC) Application Form
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, Department of
Homeland Security.
ACTION: 60-Day notice of extension and
request for comments.
AGENCY:

The Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
invites the general public to take this
opportunity to comment on an
extension, without change, of a
currently approved information
collection. In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice seeks comments concerning this
collection allowing potential candidates
to apply for FEMA’s Youth
Preparedness Council.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before September 16, 2024.
ADDRESSES: To avoid duplicate
submissions to the docket, please
submit comments at
www.regulations.gov under Docket ID
FEMA–2024–0021. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
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 and Security Notice that is
available via a link on the homepage of
www.regulations.gov.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Shanna Scherbinske, Emergency
Management Specialist, Individual and
Community Preparedness Division at
202–286–3052 or Shanna.Scherbinske@
fema.dhs.gov. You may contact the
Information Management Division for
copies of the proposed collection of
information at email address: FEMAInformation-Collections-Management@
fema.dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
FEMA Youth Preparedness Council
(YPC) was formed to bring together
youth leaders from across the country
who are highly interested and engaged
in advocating youth preparedness and
making a difference in their
communities. This collection meets the
requirements of 6 U.S.C. 742, National
Preparedness, and Presidential Policy
Directive—8 (PPD–8) which emphasize
the need for involvement from all
sectors of society in preparing for and
responding to threats and hazards.
This application form is used to select
interested council members based on
dedication to public service, efforts in
making a difference in their community,
and potential for expanding their impact
as a national advocate for youth
preparedness.
Council member activities and their
involvement in the Council are in
alignment with goals 5.2. and 5.3 from
the Quadrennial Homeland Security
Review (QHSR). Members are expected
to represent the youth perspective on
emergency preparedness and take
information back to their communities
to share. Council members are expected
to develop and complete preparednessrelated projects.
Youth apply using personal
identifiable demographic and contact
information, which FEMA retains
confidentially for the purposes of
providing acceptance/denial responses
to applicants and determining a
representative sample of applicants.
Letters of recommendation and
academic records are required, while
supplemental materials highlighting
past achievements are encouraged.
Collection of Information
Title: Individual & Community
Preparedness Division (ICPD) Annual
Youth Preparedness Council (YPC)
Application Form.
Type of Information Collection:
Extension, without change, of a
currently approved information
collection.
OMB Number: 1660–0144.
FEMA Forms: FEMA Form FF–008–
FY–21–111 (formerly 008–0–0–24),
FEMA Youth Preparedness Council
Application.

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Abstract: The FEMA Youth
Preparedness Council (YPC) was formed
to bring together youth leaders from
across the country who are highly
interested and engaged in advocating
youth preparedness and making a
difference in their communities. This
collection meets the requirements of 6
U.S.C. 742, National Preparedness, and
Presidential Policy Directive—8 (PPD–8)
which emphasize the need for
involvement from all sectors of society
in preparing for and responding to
threats and hazards. This application
form is used to select interested council
members based on dedication to public
service, efforts in making a difference in
their community, and potential for
expanding their impact as a national
advocate for youth preparedness.
Affected Public: Individuals and
Households; State, Local, or Tribal
Governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
200.
Estimated Number of Responses: 200.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 283.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Cost: $2,974.
Estimated Respondents’ Operation
and Maintenance Costs: $0.
Estimated Respondents’ Capital and
Start-Up Costs: $0.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the
Federal Government: $77,538.
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.
Millicent Brown Wilson,
Records Management Branch Chief, Office
of the Chief Administrative Officer, Mission
Support, Federal Emergency Management
Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
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