[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 111 (Monday, June 9, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32591-32592]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-12824]


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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, DHS.

ACTION: Notice; 60-day notice and request for comments; New Collection, 
FEMA Form 142-1-1.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 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 new information collection. In accordance with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks comments concerning 
the proposed collection concerning public alert and warning systems at 
the Federal, State, territorial, tribal, and local levels of government 
which is necessary for the inventory and evaluation and assessment of 
existing public alert and warning resources and their integration with 
the Integrated

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Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Presidential Executive Order 13407 
establishes the policy for an effective, reliable, integrated, 
flexible, and comprehensive system to alert and warn the American 
people in situations of war, terrorist attack, natural disaster, or 
other hazards to public safety and well being. The Integrated Public 
Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) is the Department of Homeland 
Security's (DHS) response to the Executive Order. This Executive Order 
requires that DHS establish an inventory of public alert and warning 
resources, capabilities, and the degree of integration at the Federal, 
State, territorial, tribal, and local levels of government. The 
information collected will consist of the communication systems being 
used for collaboration, situational awareness, and emergency 
notification at the local Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and higher. 
This information will help FEMA identify the technologies currently in 
use or desired for inclusion into IPAWS.

Collection of Information

    Title: Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) Inventory 
and Evaluation Survey.
    Type of Information Collection: New Collection.
    OMB Number: 1660-NEW40.
    Form Numbers: FEMA Form 142-1-1, IPAWS Inventory and Evaluation 
Survey.
    Abstract: FEMA will be conducting an inventory, evaluation and 
assessment of the capabilities of Federal, State, local, and tribal 
government alert and warning systems. The IPAWS Inventory and 
Evaluation Survey will collect data that will facilitate the 
integration of public alert and warning systems. It will also reduce 
Federal planning costs by leveraging existing State systems.
    Affected Public: State, local or tribal government.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 9660.

                                               Annual Hour Burden
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                                                                   Hour burden                     Total annual
    Data collection activity        Number of     Frequency of    per response        Annual       burden hours
                                   respondents      responses        (hours)        responses         (hours)
                                            (A)             (B)             (C)    (D) = (A x B)         (C x D)
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FEMA Form 142-1-1, IPAWS                   1932               1               5             1932            9660
 Inventory & Evaluation Survey.
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    Total......................            1932  ..............  ..............             1932            9660
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    Estimated Cost: The estimated total annual cost burden to 
respondents, using wage rate categories, is estimated to be 
$234,351.60. The estimated total annual cost to the Federal Government 
is $2,566,186.02.
    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 August 
8, 2008.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons should submit written comments to Office 
of Management, Records Management Division, Federal Emergency 
Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 20472, Mail Drop 
Room 301, 1800 S. Bell Street, Arlington, VA 22202.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Contact Walter Florence, Business 
Operations Specialist, National Continuity Program IPAWS Division, 
FEMA, (202) 646-3169 for additional information. You may contact the 
Records Management Branch for copies of the proposed collection of 
information at facsimile number (202) 646-3347 or e-mail address: [email protected].

    Dated: June 2, 2008.
John A. Sharetts-Sullivan,
Director, Records Management Division, Office of Management, Federal 
Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
 [FR Doc. E8-12824 Filed 6-6-08; 8:45 am]
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