Information is used in eligibility and
feasibility determinations on borrowers' requests for disaster
set-aside; primary loan servicing (reamortization, rescheduling,
deferral, write down and conservation contractors), buyout at
market value, and homestead protection, as well as liquidation of
security.
The two forms, FSA-2198,
Claimants With Closed Settlement Claims With No Appeal Hearing in
Suspension and FSA-2199, Claimants With Closed Settlement Claims
With Appeal Hearing in Suspension are new in this request.
Additionally, some borrowers may respond to either of the new forms
and indicate that they elect to restart the loan servicing process.
This required an upward adjustment to the projected hours for
several direct loan servicing forms in order to account for the
burden associated with the completion of these forms. Therefore,
this is a program changes so the total burden hours for FLP were
increased by 78 for 15,832 total burden hours in this request. The
number of respondents was increased by 167 and the total annual
responses were increased by 225. In this request, the number of
respondents is 14,929 while the total annual responses are 27,905.
The total annual burden hours were 15,754 in the previously
approved request.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.