
[Federal Register: April 21, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 77)]
[Notices]               
[Page 21359-21360]
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: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Notice; 30-day notice and request for comments; Telephone 
Survey, OMB 1660-0057, Revision of a currently approved collection.

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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. 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

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includes the actual data collection instruments FEMA will use.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Current national conditions of increased 
risk for man-made and/or accidental chemical disasters create great 
demand for the constant monitoring of preparedness-related activities. 
Since the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) is 
a cooperative effort among local, State, and Federal governments 
working closely with the public in communities surrounding fixed 
hazards, documenting performance at each of these levels is vital for 
program planning and management in each of the CSEPP sites. 
Furthermore, since no preparedness program can be successful without 
the public's understanding and cooperation, input from the residents 
and businesses of immediate and/or surrounding areas is vital for 
program managers to design custom-tailored strategies to educate and 
communicate risks and action plans at the local level. Failure to 
collect this information will hamper the program's ability to document 
strengths and weaknesses at each site, forcing managers to rely on 
intuitive rather than on factual decision-making, with no objective 
basis to quantify program performance, a requirement of the Government 
Performance and Results Act (GPRA).
    Title: Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) 
Evaluation and Customer Satisfaction Survey.
    Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved 
collection.
    OMB Number: OMB 1660-0057.
    Abstract: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/FEMA's CSEPP 
will collect data from State and local governments to measure program 
effectiveness and establish a quantitative baseline of customer 
satisfaction with program products and services. Data findings will be 
used to set customer service standards while providing benchmarks for 
program monitoring and evaluation. This information collection also 
constitutes an assessment tool that measures public knowledge of 
emergency preparedness and response actions in the event of a chemical 
emergency affecting any of the seven CSEPP sites and surrounding 
communities. Data from this collection will continue to provide a basis 
for program planning and management through the development and/or 
modification of performance standards, the ability to monitor program 
changes and trends over time, and the capability to objectively 
evaluate outreach performance against best practices (benchmarks) in 
multi-hazard readiness programs.
    Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal governments.
    Number of Respondents: 2,224.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.25 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 556 hours.

                                               Annual Hour Burden
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    Data collection activity/        Number of     Frequency of     Hour burden       Annual       Total annual
           instrument               respondents      responses     per response      responses     burden hours
                                             (A)             (B)             (C)   (D) = (A x B)         (C x D)
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Open-ended Questionnaire\1\.....             170               1            0.25             170           42.50
 Site Survey Questionnaires\2\
    Anniston, AL................             961               1            0.25             961          240.25
    Pine Bluff, AR..............           1,093               1            0.25           1,093          273.25
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        * Total.................           2,224  ..............  ..............           2,224          556.00
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Notes: \1\ State and local officials. \2\ Individual/residential respondents.
* Since publication of the 60 day Federal Register Notice, Volume 72, Number 224, page 65585, the number of
  burden hours have decreased from 1910 to 556 due to a drop in the number of sites surveyed and therefore
  number of respondents surveyed.

    Frequency of Response: Annually.
    Comments: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments 
on the proposed information collection to the Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management Budget, Attention: Nathan 
Lesser, Desk Officer, Department of Homeland Security/FEMA, and sent 
via electronic mail to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov or faxed to (202) 
395-6974. Comments must be submitted on or before May 21, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the information collection should be made to Director, 
Records Management Division, 500 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 20472, 
Mail Drop Room 301, 1800 S. Bell Street, Arlington, VA 22202, facsimile 
number (202) 646-3347, or e-mail address FEMA-Information-
Collections@dhs.gov.

    Dated: April 2, 2008.
John A. Sharetts-Sullivan,
Director, Records Management Division, Office of Management, Federal 
Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
 [FR Doc. E8-8561 Filed 4-18-08; 8:45 am]

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