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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: 1625–0088.

Dated: November 23, 2021.
Kathleen Claffie,
Chief, Office of Privacy Management, U.S.
Coast Guard.

Previous Request for Comments

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Mitigation Grant
Programs (including Mitigation (MT)
Grants Management (formerly
Mitigation (MT) Electronic Grants
(eGrants) and FEMA GO) for Flood
Mitigation Assistance (FMA), Building
Resilient Infrastructure and
Communities (BRIC) and Pre-Disaster
Mitigation (PDM)

This request provides a 30-day
comment period required by OIRA. The
Coast Guard published the 60-day
notice (86 FR 48233, August 27, 2021)
required by 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2). That
notice elicited no comments.
Accordingly, no changes have been
made to the Collection.

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Information Collection Request
Title: Voyage Planning for Tank Barge
Transits in the Northeast United States.
OMB Control Number: 1625–0088.
Summary: The information collection
requirement for a voyage plan serves as
a preventive measure and assists in
ensuring the successful execution and
completion of a voyage in the First
Coast Guard District. This rule (33 CFR
165.100) applies to primary towing
vessels engaged in towing tank barges
carrying petroleum oil in bulk as cargo.
Need: Section 311 of the Coast Guard
Authorization Act of 1998, Public Law
105–383, 112 Stat. 3411 and 46 U.S.
Code 70034 (previously 33 U.S.C. 1231)
authorize the Coast Guard to promulgate
regulations for towing vessel and barge
safety for the waters of the Northeast
subject to the jurisdiction of the First
Coast Guard District. This regulation is
contained in 33 CFR 165.100. The
information for a voyage plan will
provide a mechanism for assisting
vessels towing tank barges to identify
those specific risks, potential equipment
failures, or human errors that may lead
to accidents.
Forms: None.
Respondents: Owners and operators
of towing vessels.
Frequency: On occasion.
Hour Burden Estimate: The estimated
burden of 937 hours a year remains
unchanged.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. et seq., chapter
35, as amended.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
[Docket ID: FEMA–2021–0029; OMB No.
1660–0072]

Federal Emergency
Management Agency, Department of
Homeland Security.
ACTION: 60-Day notice of revision 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 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
FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Assistance
(HMA) grant programs specifically, the
legacy Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program
(PDM), the Building Resilient
Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)
program, and the Flood Mitigation
Assistance (FMA) program. Under
FEMA’s HMA grant programs, States,
local, Tribal, and Territorial
governments (SLTTs) seek assistance to
support disaster mitigation and provide
opportunities to reduce or eliminate
potential losses to SLTTs.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before February 14, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments at
www.regulations.gov under Docket ID
FEMA–2021–0029. 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
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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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jennie Orenstein, Branch Chief, Policy,
Tools and Training Branch, Federal
Insurance and Mitigation
Administration, FEMA, at
[email protected], and 202–
212–4071. You may contact the Records
Management Division for copies of the
proposed collection of information at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
collection of information is necessary to
implement grants for the FMA, PDM,
and BRIC programs.
The FMA program is authorized
pursuant to sec. 1366, 42 U.S.C. 4104c
of the National Flood Insurance Act of
1968, as amended. FMA was created as
part of the National Flood Insurance
Reform Act (NFIRA) of 1994, Public
Law 103–325. The Biggert-Waters Flood
Insurance Reform Act of 2012 (BW–12),
Public Law 112–141, consolidated the
Repetitive Flood Claims (RFC) and
Severe Repetitive Loss grant (SRL)
programs into FMA. Under FMA, costshare requirements were changed to
allow more Federal funds for properties
with repetitive flood claims. The FMA
program, under 44 CFR part 77 (as of
October 1, 2021, previously under 44
CFR part 79), provides funding for
measures taken to reduce or eliminate
the long-term risk of flood damage to
buildings, manufactured homes, and
other structures insured under the
National Flood Insurance Program
(NFIP).
PDM was authorized under sec. 203,
42 U.S.C. 5133, of the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act (Stafford Act), Public
Law 93–288, as amended by sec. 102 of
the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000,
Public Law 106–390. As a result of
amendments by the Disaster Recovery
Reform Act of 2018 (DRRA), Public Law
115–254, the PDM program was
replaced with the BRIC program.
Therefore, the PDM is established as a
legacy program. The PDM program
provided grants for cost-effective
mitigation actions prior to a disaster
event to reduce overall risks to the
population and structures, while also
reducing reliance on funding from
actual disaster declarations. While the
last cycle of the PDM program awards

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were made in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019,
information collection will continue in
subsequent years for the purposes of
grant monitoring and closeout.
On August 4, 2020, FEMA established
the BRIC program, implementing
Section 1234 of the Disaster Recovery
Reform Act (DRRA) Public Law 115–
254. BRIC replaced the PDM grant
program that was previously authorized
under Sec. 203 of the Stafford Act, 42
U.S.C. 5133.
The BRIC program is designed to
promote a national culture of
preparedness and public safety through
encouraging investments to protect our
communities and infrastructure and
through strengthening national
mitigation capabilities to foster
resilience. The BRIC program seeks to
fund effective and innovative projects
that will reduce risk, increase resilience,
and serve as a catalyst to encourage the
whole community to invest in and
adopt policies related to mitigation.
The guiding principles of the BRIC
program include: (1) Support State and
local governments, Tribes, and
territories through capability- and
capacity-building, to enable them to
identify mitigation actions and
implement projects that reduce risks
posed by natural hazards; (2) encourage
and enable innovation while allowing
flexibility, consistency, and
effectiveness; (3) promote partnerships
and enable high-impact investments to
reduce risk from natural hazards with a
focus on critical services and facilities,
public infrastructure, public safety,
public health, and communities; (4)
provide a significant opportunity to
reduce future losses and minimize
impacts on the Disaster Relief Fund; (5)
promote equity, including by helping
members of disadvantaged groups and
prioritizing 40 percent of the benefits to
disadvantaged communities as
referenced in Executive Order (E.O.)
14008 in line with the Administration’s
Justice40 Initiative; and (6) support the
adoption and enforcement of building
codes, standards, and policies that will
protect the health, safety, and general
welfare of the public, taking into
account future conditions, prominently
including the effects of climate change,
and have long-lasting impacts on
community risk reduction, including for
critical services and facilities and for
future disaster costs. The BRIC program
distributes funds annually and applies a
Federal/Non-Federal cost share.
In accordance with 2 CFR 200.203,
FEMA requires that all parties interested
in receiving FEMA mitigation grants to
submit an application package for grant
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submitted via the appropriate system for
the respective programs, FEMAGo and
eGrants. Information necessary for the
ongoing monitoring and closeout of the
PDM program for FY 2019 and prior are
to be collected via the e-Grants system.
The FEMA GO and eGrants system have
been developed to meet the intent of the
e-Government initiative, authorized by
Public Law 106–107. This initiative
requires that all Government agencies
both streamline grant application
processes and provide for the means to
electronically create, review and submit
a grant application via the internet.
In order to ensure the timely closeout
of grants, 2 CFR 200.329 requires that
Non-Federal Entities ‘‘must monitor its
activities under Federal awards to
assure compliance with applicable
Federal requirements and performance
expectations are being achieved.’’
Therefore, under 2 CFR part 200 (for
BRIC and PDM) and 44 CFR 77.3 (FMA),
recipients must complete and submit
progress report(s) to the FEMA Regional
Administrator on a quarterly basis,
certifying how the funds are being used
and reporting on the progress of
activities funded under the subrecipient
awards made to the Recipient by FEMA.
The Regional Administrator and
Recipient negotiate the date for
submission of the first report. Quarterly
Progress Reports describe the status of
those projects on which a final payment
of the Federal share has not been made
to the Recipient, and outline any
problems or circumstances expected to
result in noncompliance with the
approved award conditions.
Collection of Information
Title: Mitigation Grant Programs
(including Mitigation (MT) Grants
Management (formerly Mitigation (MT)
Electronic Grants (eGrants) and FEMA
GO) for Flood Mitigation Assistance
(FMA), Building Resilient Infrastructure
and Communities (BRIC) and PreDisaster Mitigation (PDM)).
Type of Information Collection:
Revision of a currently approved
collection.
OMB Number: 1660–0072.
FEMA Forms: FEMA Form Quarterly
Progress Report (QPR) (and its
instructions) Benefit Cost
Determinations, Environmental
Reviews, Project Narrative-Sub-Grant
Applications, National Review Panel
Solicitation (as part of the BRIC
application process) and SF forms (as
listed in the Supporting Statement).
Abstract: FEMA’s FMA and BRIC
programs use an automated grant
application and management system
called FEMA GO. The PDM program
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management system called MT e-Grants.
These grant programs provide funding
for the purpose of reducing or
eliminating the risks to life and property
from hazards. The FEMA GO and
eGrants systems include all the
application information needed to apply
for funding under these grant programs.
FEMA and SLTTs use the BRIC Panel
Review Form to solicit volunteers from
SLTTs and Other Federal Agencies
(OFA), to review applications that are
routed to the qualitative panel reviews.
The volunteers will review, and score
applications based on a pre-determined
scoring criteria. The PDM, FMA, and
BRIC programs will use the same
Quarterly Progress Report (QPR) Form.
Affected Public: State, local, Tribal, or
Territorial Governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
660.
Estimated Number of Responses:
6,596.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 104,168.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Cost: $6,175,920.
Estimated Respondents’ Operation
and Maintenance Costs: $0.
Estimated Respondents’ Capital and
Start-Up Costs: $0.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the
Federal Government: $7,600,751.
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 L. Brown,
Acting Records Management Branch Chief,
Office of the Chief Administrative Officer,
Mission Support, Federal Emergency
Management Agency,Department of
Homeland Security.
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