Federal Register: December 24, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 248)
DOCID: fr24de08-98 FR Doc E8-30721
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency
NOTICE: NOTICES
DOCID: fr24de08-98
DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice; 60-day notice and request for comments; Revision of a currently approved collection, 16600045, No Forms.
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on a revised information collection. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks comments concerning the collection of information to assure appropriate flood insurance rates being placed on the affected public within Monroe County in Florida.
SUMMARY:
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals,
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
Title 44 CFR Parts 59 and 61, National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP); Inspection of Insured Structures by Communities implements the inspection procedures in Monroe County, the City of Marathon, and the Village of Islamorada, Florida and any other community that incorporates in Monroe County on or after January 1, 1999. The inspection procedure has two major purposes: (1) To help the communities of Monroe County, the City of Marathon, and the Village of Islamorada, Florida, and any other communities in Monroe County that incorporate after January 1, 1999, verify that structures in their communities (those built after the effective date of the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)), referred to as postFIRM, comply with the community's floodplain management ordinance; and (2) to ensure that property owners pay flood insurance premiums commensurate with their flood risk. The inspection procedure requires owners of insured buildings (policyholders) to obtain an inspection from community floodplain management officials and submit a community inspection report as a condition of renewing the Standard Flood Insurance Policy (SFIP) on buildings.
Collection of Information
Title: Inspection of Insured Structures by Communities.
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection.
OMB Number: 16600045.
Form Numbers: No Forms.
Abstract: The community inspection report is used for the implementation of the inspection procedures to help communities in Monroe County, the City of Marathon and the Village of Islamorada, Florida verify buildings are compliant with their floodplain management ordinance and to help FEMA ensure that policyholders are paying flood insurance premiums that are commensurate with their flood risk.
Affected Public: Individuals and Households, State, local and Tribal governments.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,041 hours.
Table A.12Estimated Annualized Burden Hours and Costs
No. of Avg. burden Total annual Total annual
Type of respondent Form name/form No. of responses per per response burden (in Avg. hourly respondent
number respondents respondent (in hours) hours) wage rate cost
Individuals/Households............ Inspection 833 1 .25 208 $19.29 $4,012 acquisition/No form.
State/Local/Tribal Governments.... Inspection results 833 1 1 833 23.15 19,284 submission/No Form.
Total......................... .................... .............. .............. .............. 1,041 .............. 23,296
Estimated Cost: The estimated annualized cost to respondents based on wage rate categories is $23.296. The estimated annualized cost burden to respondents or recordkeepers is $168,266. The estimated annual cost to the Federal Government is $10,173.
Comments: Written comments are solicited to (a) Evaluate whether the proposed data collection is necessary for the proper performance of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses. Comments must be submitted on or before February 23, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
Contact Jennifer Tylander, Program
Specialist, FEMA Mitigation Directorate, (202) 6462607 for additional
information. You may contact the Records Management Branch for copies
of the proposed collection of information at facsimile number (202) [[Page 79140]]
6463347 or email address: FEMAInformationCollections@dhs.gov.
Dated: December 18, 2008.
Samuel C. Smith,
Acting Director, Records Management Division, Office of Management,
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security. [FR Doc. E830721 Filed 122308; 8:45 am]
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