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OMB Control No: 1660-0017	ICR Reference No: 202208-1660-001
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 202109-1660-002
Agency/Subagency: DHS/FEMA	Agency Tracking No: Final Rule - Simplified Procedures
Title: Public Assistance Program
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Emergency	Approval Requested By: 09/13/2022
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 11/30/2022
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 09/13/2022
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	05/31/2023	6 Months From Approved	03/31/2025
Responses	431,720	0	449,084
Time Burden (Hours)	484,189	0	491,533
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion
Annual Number of Responses	431,720	449,084	-17,364
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	484,189	491,533	-7,344
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Reduction Due to: Changing Regulations

Short Statement: These changes are due to a decrease in the number of responses for FEMA Forms 009-0-123, 009-0-124, 009-0-125, 009-0-126, and 009-0-127 and for the number of respondents for FEMA Form 009-0-111. FEMA requires that recipients of large projects fill out these supplemental forms to account for the actual costs for reconciliation purposes. These forms are not required for small projects. The final rule revising this collection updates FEMA’s regulations governing the Public Assistance program at 44 CFR 206.203(c) to increase the monetary threshold for when FEMA will process an application using “simplified procedures” to $1,000,000. The decrease in the number of large projects as a result of the increase in the large project threshold means fewer applicants submitting these forms or submitting fewer of them. Changes in costs result from changes in the fully loaded average hourly wage from $56.65 to $55.95, and from the changes to response and respondent numbers for certain forms, noted above.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $1,957,204

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. Yes

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. Yes

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Yes

Agency Contact: Kevin Crosby 202 550-6482 kevin.crosby@fema.dhs.gov