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OMB Control No: 1660-0002	ICR Reference No: 201309-1660-005
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201111-1660-002
Agency/Subagency: DHS/FEMA	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Disaster Assistance Registration
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Emergency	Approval Requested By: 11/29/2013
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 11/27/2013
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 11/13/2013
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	05/31/2014	6 Months From Approved	07/31/2015
Responses	3,264,753	0	2,835,180
Time Burden (Hours)	626,604	0	555,009
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: Disaster Assistance Registration is a program used to provide financial assistance and, if necessary, direct assistance to eligible individuals and households who, as a direct result of a disaster, have uninsured or under-insured, necessary expenses and serious needs and are unable to meet such expenses or needs through other financial means.

Emergency Justfication: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) seeks emergency approval for changes to two interrelated existing approved collections of information. In light of recently enacted laws and the arrival of hurricane season, it is vital that these changes be implemented sooner than time limits employed under normal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) review and clearance procedures. In response to Super Storm Sandy (October 2012), Congress added “child care” expenses as a category of disaster assistance to FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program (IHP) through the Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013 (SRIA), Pub. L. No. 113-2. Section 1108 of the SRIA amends section 408(e)(1) of the Stafford Act (42 U.S.C. § 5174(e)(1)), giving FEMA the specific authority to pay for “child care” expenses as disaster assistance under the Other Needs Assistance (ONA) provision of IHP in addition to funeral, medical and dental expenses. Upon a Presidentially declared disaster that grants funding for IHP, FEMA begins collecting information from survivor/registrants in order to determine eligibility for IHP. FEMA’s current registration application script for IHP disaster assistance does not ask questions regarding a survivor/registrant’s need to cover “child care” expenses associated with a disaster and FEMA’s Administrative Selection form for States does not yet include a selection option for “child care” expenses. Thus, FEMA needs to change its application and State Administrative Selection forms to include a question about whether the survivor/registrant needs financial assistance for child care expenses as a result of a disaster and whether the State wants to administer this funding or not. FEMA also needs to collect necessary paperwork from the survivor/registrant to verify the expenses associated with child care through correspondence with the survivor/registrant. FEMA’s mission is “to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.” The lynchpin is the relationship among FEMA, the disaster survivor/registrants, and declared States. If FEMA does not have the ability to ask survivor/registrants whether they need disaster assistance for child care expenses, and whether the State wishes to administer this funding, then FEMA will not be able to properly identify those who would qualify for this new line of ONA assistance and fail to properly carry out the mandates of section 1108 of SRIA. If OMB were to employ the normal clearance procedures for these changes, they would likely not go into effect until after the current hurricane season has ended, a period where FEMA usually has a high volume of Presidentially declared disasters that necessitate IHP assistance. Thus, it is imperative and crucial for OMB to approve emergency changes to OMB ICRs 1660-0002 and 1660-0061 as prescribed under 44 U.S.C. § 3507(j)(1) and (2). Thank you for your consideration.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 42 USC 5174 Name of Law: Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000
   US Code: 8 USC 1601 Name of Law: Personnel Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
   PL: Pub.L. 93 - 288 0000 Name of Law: Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	78 FR 62643	10/22/2013
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion
Annual Number of Responses	3,264,753	2,835,180	429,573
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	626,604	555,009	71,595
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

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

Burden Increase Due to: Changing Regulations

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

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: The burden has since increased. In response to Super Storm Sandy (October 2012), Congress added "child care" expenses as a category of disaster assistance to FEMA's Individuals and Households Program (IHP) through the Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013 (SRIA), Pub. L. No. 113-2. Section 1108 of the SRIA amends section 408(e)(1) of the Stafford Act (42 U.S.C. § 5174(e)(1)), giving FEMA the specific authority to pay for "child care" expenses as disaster assistance under the Other Needs Assistance (ONA) provision of IHP in addition to funeral, medical and dental expenses. Thus, FEMA needs to change its series of 009-0 set of registration forms to include a question about whether the respondent needs financial assistance for child care expenses as a result of a disaster and whether the State wants to administer this funding or not. FEMA also needs to collect necessary paperwork from the survivor/registrant through a "Request for Information" letter (new) to verify the expenses associated with child care through correspondence with the respondent. This poses some additional time burden to respondents.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $15,618,762

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

Is the Supporting Statement intended to be a Privacy Impact Assessment required by the E-Government Act of 2002? No

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? Uncollected

Agency Contact: Sherina Greene 202 646-4343 sherina.greene@associates.dhs.gov

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