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7. What are the most important policy
and operational changes that would
attract the world’s most talented
researchers to U.S. universities, national
laboratories, and other research
institutions? (Do not submit responses
directly related to the actions
announced on November 20, including
the strengthening and extending of the
Optional Practical Training program for
foreign students. Separate processes
exist to engage regarding those actions
where necessary; see details above.)
8. What are the most important policy
and operational changes that would
attract the world’s most talented
entrepreneurs who want to start and
grow their business in the United
States? (Do not submit responses
directly related to the actions
announced on November 20, including
the ‘‘national interest waiver’’ and
‘‘significant public benefit’’ parole
pathways for entrepreneurs. Separate
processes exist to engage regarding
those actions where necessary; see
details above.)
9. What are the policy or operational
changes that could assist in creating
additional immigration opportunities
for high-demand professions, such as
physicians?
10. Focusing on the EB–5 immigrant
investor visa, what policy or operational
changes would (a) reduce existing
burdens and uncertainties on the part of
petitioners, Regional Centers, and other
participants in the program; (b) ensure
that this program is achieving the
greatest impact in terms of U.S. job
creation, economic growth, and
investment in national priority projects
that the capital markets would not
otherwise competitively finance; and (c)
enhance protections against fraud,
abuse, and criminal misuse of the
program by petitioners or Regional
Centers?
11. How can labor market related
requirements for temporary workers be
best tailored to meaningfully protect
both U.S. and temporary foreign
workers while achieving operational
efficiency for both employers and
relevant Federal agencies?
12. How should relevant occupational
categories, descriptors, and/or data,
such as the Department of Labor’s
O*NET system (http://
www.onetonline.org) be refined and
updated to better align the prevailing
wage determination process for visas
with the evolving job market?
13. Focusing on the diversity visa
program, what are the most important
policy and operational changes that
would streamline and improve the
diversity visa process, including
enhancing protections against fraud?

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14. What other policy and operational
changes would most effectively combat
waste, fraud, and abuse in the legal
immigration system?
II. Ensuring Use of All Immigrant Visa
Numbers
15. What are the most important
policy and operational changes, if any,
available within the existing statutory
framework to ensure that administrative
policies, practices, and systems fully
and fairly allocate all of the immigrant
visa numbers that Congress provides for
and intends to be issued each year going
forward?
16. What are the most important
policy and operational changes, if any,
available within the existing statutory
framework to ensure that administrative
policies, practices, and systems fully
and fairly allocate all of the immigrant
visa numbers that Congress provided for
and intended to be issued, but were not
issued in past years?
III. Modernizing IT Infrastructure
17. From the perspective of
petitioners and applicants, which
elements of the current legal
immigration system (both immigrant
and nonimmigrant systems) are most in
need of modernized information
technology (IT) solutions, and what
changes would result in the most
significant improvements to the user
experience?
18. Which existing governmentcollected data and metrics would be
most valuable to make available to the
public, consistent with privacy
protections and national security, in
order to improve oversight and
understanding of the legal immigration
system?
Karin M. King,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Visa
Services, Department of State.
Esther Olavarria,
Senior Counselor to the Secretary,
Department of Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
[Docket ID: FEMA–2014–0030; OMB No.
1660–0020]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request, Write Your
Own (WYO) Program.
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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. The submission
will describe 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
the actual data collection instruments
FEMA will use.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before January 29, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
on the proposed information collection
to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget. Comments
should be addressed to the Desk Officer
for the Department of Homeland
Security, Federal Emergency
Management Agency, and sent via
electronic mail to oira.submission@
omb.eop.gov or faxed to (202) 395–5806.
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.,
Room 7NE, Washington, DC 20472–
3100, facsimile number (202) 212–4701,
or email address [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Changes
Since Publication of the 60 Day
Federal Register Notice for the
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Write Your Own (WYO) Program. The
number of respondents and the
estimated burden hours have increased
since FEMA published the 60 day
Federal Register Notice on October 15,
2014. See 79 FR 61886. This is due to
a clerical error. The respondent burden
increased from 88 to 90. The estimated
responses increased from 1056 to 1080.
The estimated time per response
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changed from 59 to 0.59. The total
burden hours decreased from 62304 to
637.20.
Collection of Information
Title: Write Your Own (WYO)
Program.
Type of information collection:
Extension without change, of a currently
approved information collection.
Form Titles and Numbers: FEMA
Form 129–1, Write Your Own Program.
Abstract: FEMA enters into
arrangements with individual private
sector insurance companies that are
licensed to engage in the business of
property insurance. These companies
may offer flood insurance coverage to
eligible property owners utilizing their
customary business practices. WYO
Companies are expected to meet the
recording and reporting requirements of
the WYO Transaction Record Reporting
and Processing Plan.
Affected Public: Business or other for
profit.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
90.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1080.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 637.20.
Estimated Cost: There are no annual
start-up or capital costs.
Dated: December 17, 2014.
Charlene D. Myrthil,
Director, Records Management Division,
Mission Support, Federal Emergency
Management Agency, Department of
Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
[Docket ID FEMA–2014–0002; Internal
Agency Docket No. FEMA–B–1460]

Changes in Flood Hazard
Determinations
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

This notice lists communities
where the addition or modification of
Base Flood Elevations (BFEs), base flood
depths, Special Flood Hazard Area
(SFHA) boundaries or zone
designations, or the regulatory floodway
(hereinafter referred to as flood hazard

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determinations), as shown on the Flood
Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), and
where applicable, in the supporting
Flood Insurance Study (FIS) reports,
prepared by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) for each
community, is appropriate because of
new scientific or technical data. The
FIRM, and where applicable, portions of
the FIS report, have been revised to
reflect these flood hazard
determinations through issuance of a
Letter of Map Revision (LOMR), in
accordance with Title 44, Part 65 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (44 CFR
part 65). The LOMR will be used by
insurance agents and others to calculate
appropriate flood insurance premium
rates for new buildings and the contents
of those buildings. For rating purposes,
the currently effective community
number is shown in the table below and
must be used for all new policies and
renewals.
These flood hazard
determinations will become effective on
the dates listed in the table below and
revise the FIRM panels and FIS report
in effect prior to this determination for
the listed communities.
From the date of the second
publication of notification of these
changes in a newspaper of local
circulation, any person has 90 days in
which to request through the
community that the Deputy Associate
Administrator for Mitigation reconsider
the changes. The flood hazard
determination information may be
changed during the 90-day period.
ADDRESSES: The affected communities
are listed in the table below. Revised
flood hazard information for each
community is available for inspection at
both the online location and the
respective community map repository
address listed in the table below.
Additionally, the current effective FIRM
and FIS report for each community are
accessible online through the FEMA
Map Service Center at
www.msc.fema.gov for comparison.
Submit comments and/or appeals to
the Chief Executive Officer of the
community as listed in the table below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Luis
Rodriguez, Chief, Engineering
Management Branch, Federal Insurance
and Mitigation Administration, FEMA,
500 C Street SW., Washington, DC
20472, (202) 646–4064, or (email)
[email protected]; or visit
the FEMA Map Information eXchange
(FMIX) online at
DATES:

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The
specific flood hazard determinations are
not described for each community in
this notice. However, the online
location and local community map
repository address where the flood
hazard determination information is
available for inspection is provided.
Any request for reconsideration of
flood hazard determinations must be
submitted to the Chief Executive Officer
of the community as listed in the table
below.
The modifications are made pursuant
to section 201 of the Flood Disaster
Protection Act of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 4105,
and are in accordance with the National
Flood Insurance Act of 1968, 42 U.S.C.
4001 et seq., and with 44 CFR part 65.
The FIRM and FIS report are the basis
of the floodplain management measures
that the community is required either to
adopt or to show evidence of having in
effect in order to qualify or remain
qualified for participation in the
National Flood Insurance Program
(NFIP).
These flood hazard determinations,
together with the floodplain
management criteria required by 44 CFR
60.3, are the minimum that are required.
They should not be construed to mean
that the community must change any
existing ordinances that are more
stringent in their floodplain
management requirements. The
community may at any time enact
stricter requirements of its own or
pursuant to policies established by other
Federal, State, or regional entities. The
flood hazard determinations are in
accordance with 44 CFR 65.4.
The affected communities are listed in
the following table. Flood hazard
determination information for each
community is available for inspection at
both the online location and the
respective community map repository
address listed in the table below.
Additionally, the current effective FIRM
and FIS report for each community are
accessible online through the FEMA
Map Service Center at
www.msc.fema.gov for comparison.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No.
97.022, ‘‘Flood Insurance.’’)
Dated: December 11, 2014.
Roy E. Wright,
Deputy Associate Administrator for
Mitigation, Department of Homeland
Security, Federal Emergency Management
Agency.

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