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OMB Control No: 1660-0072	ICR Reference No: 202212-1660-006
Status: Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 202208-1660-003
Agency/Subagency: DHS/FEMA	Agency Tracking No:
Title: FEMA Mitigation Grant Programs
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: 04/24/2023
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 02/23/2023
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	04/30/2026	36 Months From Approved	04/30/2023
Responses	17,249	0	12,657
Time Burden (Hours)	97,858	0	151,385
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) and Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) programs use an automated grant application and management system called FEMA GO. The Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) program and the FMA program also uses an automated grant application and management system called Mitigation (MT) eGrants. The FEMA GO and MT eGrants systems include application information needed to apply for funding under these grant programs. FEMA uses the BRIC Panel Review Form to solicit volunteers from state, local, tribal governments 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 FEMA Form FF-206-FY-22-151 Quarterly Progress Report (QPR) Form.

Authorizing Statute(s): PL: Pub.L. 108 - 264 106 Name of Law: Bunning-Blumenauer Flood Insurance Reform Act
PL: Pub.L. 106 - 390 102 Name of Law: Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000

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
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	87 FR 71657	11/23/2022
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	88 FR 10925	02/22/2023
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	17,249	12,657	4,592
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	97,858	151,385	-53,527
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: Yes

Burden Reduction Due to: Cutting Redundancy

Short Statement: The HMA programs attribute increases in burden hours to the large increases in funding to HMA programs from the IIJA and implementation of revised standardized forms, project data required to assess program effectiveness, and increases in data requirements needed to verify project conditions and compliance. The FMA, BRIC, and PDM HMA programs established new quarterly reporting data forms and that reduce QPR burden hours as reflected in the above table. Before this submission, the FMA, BRIC, and PDM programs, had not established a standardized format for quarterly reporting. The FMA, BRIC and PDM programs had relied on multiple data formats and forms generated by the recipient’s data for quarterly reporting information. Multiple forms and multiple data collection and reporting processes contributed to increased burden to report quarterly project status information. The updated quarterly reporting instrument will allow the FMA, BRIC, and PDM programs will also allow the HMA programs to collect standardized information and apply consistent project performance analysis to the quarterly reporting data. HMA programs have designed instruments such as the FEMA Form FF-206-FY-22-158, the Acknowledgement of Conditions For Properties Using FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grant Funds; FEMA Form FF-206-FY-22-157, Model FEMA Deed Restriction; FEMA Form FF-206-FY-22-156, Model Statement of Assurances for Property Acquisition Projects; and FEMA Form FF-206-FY-22-155, BRIC DTA Request Form, to reduce applicant burden hours and reduce the complexity of the grant application process. Usability tests confirm that overall burden hours have decreased by 54,320 hours in recent data due to revisions in forms and elimination of the collection of duplicate information on multiple forms. However, the IIJA has increased HMA program funding by a factor of 3-5 times in FY 2022 and beyond compared to FY 2021 funding levels to account for an upward trend in HMA information collection activities. Combination Total of New and Revised Instruments -52,902 hours (1,418 hours new – 54,320 hours revised). The new costs in quarterly reporting reflect the increases in the burden hours attributed to the large increases in funding to HMA programs from the IIJA and implementation of a standardized form, data, and data collection process. The increase in the benefit-cost determination costs reflect data updates that show decreases in the number of responses per respondent. The change in the environmental review costs reflect data updates that account for an increased number of respondents (SOC 19-3051). Usability tests on recent data have also decreased burden hour estimations on some application instruments. Combination Total of New and Revised Instruments -$3,137,749 ($87,526 new - $3,225,275 revised).

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $7,739,695

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: Krista Robinson 202 394-6377 krista.robinson@fema.dhs.gov

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