

[Federal Register: October 4, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 191)]
[Notices]               
[Page 57886-57887]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

 
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emergency Preparedness and 
Response Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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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 proposed continuing information collections. In 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 
3506(c)(2)(A)), this notice seeks comments concerning Federal 
Assistance for Offsite Radiological Emergency Planning.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Executive Order 12657, dated November 18, 
1988, charged the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other 
Federal agencies with emergency planning response in cases where State 
and local governments have declined or failed to prepare emergency 
plans. To implement Executive Order 12657, FEMA worked with the Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission (NRC) and other Federal agencies on the Federal 
Radiological Preparedness Coordinating Committee to develop regulation 
44 CFR 352, Commercial Nuclear Power Plants: Emergency Preparedness 
Planning. This regulation establishes policies and procedures for a 
licensee submission of a certification of ``decline or fail,'' and for 
FEMA determination concerning Federal assistance to the licensee; and 
also establishes policies and procedures for providing Federal support 
for offsite planning and preparedness.

Collection of Information

    Title: Federal Assistance for Offsite Radiological Emergency 
Planning.
    Type of Information Collection: Extension of a currently approved 
collection.
    OMB Number: 1660-0024.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Abstract: In accordance with Executive Order 12657, FEMA will need 
certain information from the licensee in order to form a decision as to 
whether or not a condition of ``decline or fail'' exists on the part of 
State or local governments (44 CFR 352.3-4). This information will be 
collected by the appropriate FEMA Regional Office or Headquarters. Also 
in accordance with the Executive Order, when a licensee requests 
Federal facilities or resources, FEMA will need information from the 
NRC as to whether the licensee has made maximum use of its resources 
and the extent to which the licensee has complied with 10 CFR 50.47 
(c)(1) and 44 CFR 352.5. This information will be collected by the NRC 
and will be provided to FEMA through consultation between the two 
agencies.
    Affected Public: Business or Other For Profit (Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission licensees of commercial nuclear power plants).
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 160.

                                               Annual Burden Hours
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                                     Number of                     Burden hours       Annual       Total annual
    Project/activity (survey,       respondents    Frequency of   per respondent     responses     burden hours
   form(s), focus group, etc.)          (A)        responses (B)        (C)            (AxB)          (AxBxC)
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Submit to the host FEMA Regional               1               1              40               1              40
 Director Certification that a
 decline or fail situation
 exists from the Chief Executive
 officer or Licensee............
Document why assistance is                     1               1              20               1              20
 needed.........................
Document request to and                        1               1              40               1              40
 responses from the Governor(s)
 or Local Officials with
 respects to efforts taken by
 Licensee to secure their
 participation, cooperation,
 commitment of resources or
 document timely correction of
 planning and preparedness
 failure........................
Document Licensee's maximum                    1               1              30               1              30
 feasible use of its resources..
Document efforts to secure the                 1               1              30               1              30
 use of State and Local
 government and volunteer
 resources......................
    Total.......................               1  ..............  ..............  ..............             160
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    Estimated Cost: $4,171.
    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 should be received within 60 days of 
the date of this notice.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons should submit written comments to Chief, 
Records Management Section,

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Information Resources Management Branch, Information Technology 
Services Division, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emergency 
Preparedness and Response Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, 
500 C Street, SW., Room 316, Washington, DC 20472.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Contact Vanessa E. Quinn, Chief, 
Radiological Emergency Preparedness Section, Nuclear and Chemical 
Hazards Branch, (202) 646-3664 for additional information. You may 
contact the Records Management Section for copies of the proposed 
collection of information at facsimile number (202) 646-3347 or e-mail 
address: FEMA-Information-Collections@dhs.gov.

    Dated: September 27, 2005.
Darcy Bingham,
Branch Chief, Information Resources Management Branch, Information 
Technology Services Division.
[FR Doc. 05-19814 Filed 10-3-05; 8:45 am]

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