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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration
Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention; Notice of Meeting
Pursuant to Public Law 92–463,
notice is hereby given for the meeting of
the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration’s (SAMHSA)
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
National Advisory Council (CSAP NAC)
on February 24, 2021.
The Council was established to advise
the Secretary, Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS); the Assistant
Secretary for Mental Health and
Substance Use, SAMHSA; and Director,
CSAP concerning matters relating to the
activities carried out by and through the
Center and the policies respecting such
activities.
The meeting will be open to the
public and will include the discussion
of substance use prevention priorities.
The meeting will also include updates
on CSAP program developments.
The meeting will be held via webcast
and phone only. Attendance by the
public on-site will not be available.
Interested persons may present data,
information, or views, orally or in
writing, on issues pending before the
Council. Written submissions should be
forwarded to the contact person on or
before one week prior to the meeting.
Oral presentations from the public will
be scheduled at the conclusion of the
meeting. Individuals interested in
making oral presentations should notify
the contact on or before one week prior
to the meeting. Up to five minutes will
be allotted for each presentation.
To participate in the meeting, submit
written or brief oral comments, or
request special accommodations for
persons with disabilities, please register
at the SAMHSA Committees’ website,
https://snacregister.samhsa.gov/
MeetingList.aspx, or communicate with
the CSAP Council’s Designated Federal
Officer (see contact information below).
Substantive program information may
be obtained after the meeting by
accessing the SAMHSA Committee
website, https://www.samhsa.gov/
about-us/advisory-councils, or by
contacting the Designated Federal
Officer.
Committee Name: Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services
Administration, Center for Substance
Abuse Prevention National Advisory
Council.
Date/Time/Type: February 24, 2021,
from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00pm EST: (OPEN).

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Place: SAMHSA, 5600 Fishers Lane,
Rockville, MD 20852. Adobe Connect
webcast: please register at the SAMHSA
Committees’ website, listed above.
Contact: Matthew J. Aumen,
Designated Federal Officer, SAMHSA
CSAP NAC, 5600 Fishers Lane,
Rockville, MD 20852, Telephone: 240–
276–2440, Fax: 301–480–8480, Email:
[email protected].
Dated: February 4, 2021.
Carlos Castillo,
Committee Management Officer, SAMHSA.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
[Docket ID FEMA–2020–0033; OMB No.
1660–0026]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; State
Administrative Plan for the Hazard
Mitigation Program
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: 30-Day notice 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 a
reinstatement, without change, of a
previously approved information
collection for which approval has
expired. 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 March 12, 2021.
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
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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
[email protected] or Roselyn
Brown-Frei, Section Chief, Hazard
Mitigation Division, Federal Insurance
and Mitigation Administration, FEMA,
[email protected], 202–
924–7198.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
proposed information collection
previously published in the Federal
Register on November 9, 2020, at 85 FR
71351 with a 60 day public comment
period. FEMA received two comments
(see https://beta.regulations.gov/
comment/FEMA-2020-0033-0002). One
comment was unrelated to the
information collection or hazard
mitigation. The second comment related
to hazard mitigation generally but was
not specific to this information
collection. The commenter urged that
States should address potentially
disastrous and readily recognizable
conditions in a plan and have the
condition corrected before a disaster
occurs. The commenter also urged that
States do so before underwriting any
disaster relief plan. The commenter
concluded that any State applying for
relief should, at a minimum, submit a
plan, which should also be subject to
review of basic stewardship verification
principals outside the written plan
documents.
In response, FEMA reiterates that
FEMA regulations in 44 CFR 206.437
require development and updates to the
State Administrative Plan by State
Applicants/Recipients as a condition of
receiving HMGP funding under section
404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act,
42 U.S.C. 5170c. The State
Administrative Plan is a procedural
guide that details how the State
administers the HMGP. The State,
Territory, or Indian Tribal government
(who acts as a recipient) must have a
current administrative plan approved by
the appropriate FEMA Regional
Administrator before receiving HMGP
funds. The administrative plan may take
any form including a chapter within a
comprehensive State mitigation program
strategy. Additionally, States,
Territories, and Indian Tribal
governments are required to have an
approved hazard mitigation plan as
outlined in 44 CFR part 201. This
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identifies risks and vulnerabilities
associated with natural disasters and
establishes a long-term strategy for
protecting people and property in future
hazard events.
This information collection expired
on January 31, 2021. FEMA is
requesting a reinstatement, without
change, of a previously approved
information collection for which
approval has expired. 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.

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.

Collection of Information

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Title: State Administrative Plan for
the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.
Type of information collection:
Reinstatement, without change, of a
previously approved information
collection for which approval has
expired.
OMB Number: 1660–0026.
Form Titles and Numbers: None.
Abstract: The State Administrative
Plan is a procedural guide that details
how the State administers the HMGP.
The State, Territory, or Indian Tribal
government (who acts as a recipient)
must have a current administrative plan
approved by the appropriate FEMA
Regional Administrator before receiving
HMGP funds. The administrative plan
may take any form including a chapter
within a comprehensive State mitigation
program strategy.
Affected Public: States, Territories,
and Tribal governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
35.
Estimated Number of Responses: 70.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 560.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Cost: $32,704.
Estimated Respondents’ Operation
and Maintenance Costs: None.
Estimated Respondents’ Capital and
Start-Up Costs: None.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the
Federal Government: $23,930.
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

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Millicent L. Brown,
Sr. Manager, Records Management Branch,
Office of the Chief Administrative Officer,
Mission Support, Federal Emergency
Management Agency, Department of
Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
[Docket No. DHS–2020–0043]

Request for Information: EvidenceBuilding Activities
Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: Request for Information;
reopening and extension of comment
period.
AGENCY:

The Foundations for
Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of
2018 requires federal agencies to
develop evidence-building plans to
identify and address questions relevant
to Agency strategy, programs, policies,
regulations, management, and
operations. On November 9, 2020, the
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) published a request for
information (RFI) soliciting input from
the public regarding potential priority
questions that can guide evidencebuilding activities by. DHS is reopening
and extending the comment period for
the RFI.
DATES: Please send comments on or
before March 31, 2021. Comments
received after that date will be
considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
via the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments
via Docket No. DHS–2020–0043. All
comments received, including any
personal information provided, may be
posted without change to https://
www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you have questions about this notice,
please contact Michael Stough, Director,
Program Analysis and Evaluation, (202)
447–0518, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Evidence Act and November 2020 RFI
The Foundations for Evidence-Based
Policymaking Act of 2018 (Evidence
Act, Pub. L. 115–435) requires each
federal agency to develop, as part of the
agency strategic plan issued every four
years,1 a systematic evidence-building
plan (or ‘‘learning agenda’’) to identify
and address policy questions relevant to
the strategies, programs, policies, and
regulations of the agency.2 The plan
must contain (1) a list of policy-relevant
questions for which the agency intends
to develop evidence to support
policymaking; (2) a list of data the
agency intends to collect, use, or acquire
to facilitate the use of evidence in
policymaking; (3) a list of methods and
analytical approaches that may be used
to develop evidence to support
policymaking; (4) a list of any
challenges to developing evidence to
support policymaking, including any
statutory or other restrictions to
accessing relevant data; (5) a description
of the steps the agency will take to
accomplish items (1) and (2) above; and
(6) any other information as required by
guidance issued by the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB).3 In developing the evidencebuilding plan, the agency must consult
with stakeholders, including the public,
agencies, State and local governments,
and representatives of nongovernmental researchers.4
On November 9, 2020, DHS published
an RFI soliciting input from the public
to inform the development of the
Department’s evidence-building plan.
85 FR 71353. On January 27, 2021,
President Biden issued a Memorandum
on Restoring Trust in Government
Through Scientific Integrity and
1 The latest such DHS strategic plan covers the
years 2020–2024, and preceded implementation of
the Evidence Act. See DHS, The DHS Strategic Plan:
Fiscal Years 2020–2024, available at https://
www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/19_
0702_plcy_dhs-strategic-plan-fy20-24.pdf (last
visited Jan. 28, 2020).
2 See 5 U.S.C. 306, 312.
3 See 5 U.S.C. 312(a).
4 See, e.g., OMB Memorandum M–19–23, Phase 1
Implementation of the Foundations for Evidence
Based Policymaking Act of 2018: Learning Agenda,
Personnel, and Planning Guidance at 16–17 (July
10, 2019), available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/
wp-content/uploads/2019/07/M-19-23.pdf (last
visited Jan. 28, 2021) (‘‘Agencies should gather
input in the manner that best meets their needs,
most effectively engages their specific stakeholders,
and leverages existing activities and/or
requirements whenever possible, in accordance
with applicable law and policy. Potential models
for doing so include: Requests for Information
published in the Federal Register, listening
sessions with groups of stakeholders, Technical
Working Groups, and one-on-one consultations.
OMB recognizes that agencies may use different
approaches at different points in the process, and
that it may not be feasible to engage all stakeholders
for all updates to the learning agenda . . . .’’).

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