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OMB Control No: 0579-0071	ICR Reference No: 202106-0579-007
Status: Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201809-0579-002
Agency/Subagency: USDA/APHIS	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Emergency Management Response System (EMRS)
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 09/20/2023
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 01/21/2022
Terms of Clearance: When the burden estimate changes due to natural fluctuations or changes in the market, and not a change in the information collection or type of respondents, it may submit a request for extension instead of a request for revision.

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	09/30/2026	36 Months From Approved	09/30/2023
Responses	24,703	0	1,632
Time Burden (Hours)	24,703	0	1,632
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	24,703	1,632	23,071
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	24,703	1,632	23,071
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: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: This request for renewal is for 24,703 estimated annual responses and 24,703 estimated annual burden hours, reflecting increases of 23,071 responses and 23,071 hours of burden from the previous renewal request. The estimated total number of respondents increasing from 136 to 158. Adjustments to the Agency estimates are due to the periodic fluctuations in disease occurrence and reporting. The large increase primarily owes to two significant APHIS’ disease responses, the 2018-2020 virulent Newcastle disease outbreak in California, and an outbreak of a vesicular disease in pigs that mimics foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in several States. The increase is also due in part to the increased participation of States in the EMRS program.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $2,049,292

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. No

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. 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? No

Agency Contact: Fred Bourgeois 318 288-4083