[Federal Register: September 20, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 181)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emergency Preparedness and
Response Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has submitted
the following information collection to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the
requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter
35). The submission describes the nature of the information collection,
the categories of respondents, the estimated burden (i.e., the time,
effort and resources used by respondents to respond) and cost, and
includes the actual data collection instruments FEMA will use.
Title: Standard Flood Hazard Determination Form.
OMB Number: 1660-0040.
Abstract: On September 23, 1994, the President signed the Riegle
Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994. Title V
of this Act is the National Flood Insurance Reform Act (NFIRA). Section
528 of the NFIRA requires that FEMA develop a standard hazard
determination form for recording the determination of whether a
structure is located within an identified Special Flood Hazard Area
available. Section 528 of the NFIRA also requires the use of this form
by regulated lending institutions, Federal agency lending institutions,
Federal agency lenders, the Federal National Mortgage Association, the
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, and the Government National
Mortgage Association for any loan made, increased, extended, renewed or
purchased by these entities. The form developed to comply with the
above requirements is the Standard Flood Hazard Determination form
(FEMA Form 83-93, dated October 2002). This form will be completed by
federally regulated lending institutions when making, increasing,
extending, renewing or purchasing each loan for the purpose of
documenting the factors considered as to whether flood insurance is
required and available. An estimated 33,000,000 such uses are made each
year. This number is entirely driven by the volume of mortgage
transactions, of which fluctuations in interest rates is a principal
factor.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit, Federal Government.
Number of Respondents: 33,000,000.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.33 hours (20 minutes).
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 10,890,000.
Frequency of Response: Once.
Comments: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments
on the proposed information collection to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs at OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for the Department
of Homeland Security/FEMA, Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street,
NW., Washington, DC 20503, or facsimile number (202) 395-7285. Comments
must be submitted on or before October 20, 2005.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection should be made to Section Chief,
Records Management, FEMA at 500 C Street, SW., Room 316, Washington, DC
20472, facsimile number (202) 646-3347, or e-mail address
FEMA-Information-Collections@dhs.gov.
Dated: September 13, 2005.
Darcy Bingham,
Branch Chief, Information Resources Management Branch, Information
Technology Services Division.
[FR Doc. 05-18731 Filed 9-19-05; 8:45 am]
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