[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 165 (Monday, August 30, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48461-48462]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-18551]


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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION


Privacy Act of 1974 Matching Program

AGENCY: Office of Disaster Assistance, U.S. Small Business 
Administration.

ACTION: Notice of a new matching program.

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SUMMARY: Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management 
Agency (DHS/FEMA) and Small Business Administration (SBA) may not 
provide duplicative disaster assistance to individuals, businesses, 
including Private-Not-for Profits (PNPs), or other entities for the 
same disaster or emergency losses. To accomplish this, DHS/FEMA and SBA 
will participate in a Computer Matching program to share data and 
financial/benefits award decisions of individuals, businesses, and/or 
other entities to verify eligibility for benefits, prevent duplicative 
aid from being provided in response to the same disaster or emergency 
and recover aid when duplication of benefits is identified.

DATES: [Submit comments on or before September 29, 2021. This new 
matching agreement will be effective upon publication and expires 18 
months from the date of publication.

ADDRESSES: Inquiries and comments on this proposed matching program can 
be addressed to
    Alejandro Contreras, Director, Preparedness, Communication and 
Coordination,
    [email protected] and Matthew Redding, Deputy Director, 
Individual Assistance Division, Recovery Directorate, 
[email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general information, please 
contact:
    Tammi Hines (202-212-5100), Senior Director for Information 
Management, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland 
Security; and David Trzcinski, (202-205-6372), Acting Chief Information 
Security Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Small 
Business Administration.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Agreement between SBA and DHS/FEMA is 
expected to aid in the reduction of Duplications of Benefits (DOB) 
payments to survivors of major disaster declarations. This will be 
accomplished by matching specific FEMA disaster applicant data with SBA 
disaster loan application and decision data for a declared disaster, as 
set forth in the Agreement. Since FY 2015 the use of the Agreement has 
identified 521,873 instances where the same disaster survivor submitted 
applications to, both agencies, a yearly average of 86,978. Prior to 
the use of this computer match, SBA loan officers used stand-alone 
Personal Computers to access FEMA's computer system, National Emergency 
Management Information System-Individual Assistance (NEMIS-IA) and 
matched records manually. SBA and DHS/FEMA are dual source and 
recipient agencies in this matching program.

Participating Agencies U.S.

    Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency 
and U.S. Small Business Administration.

Authority for Conducting the Matching Program

    Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 
(Pub. L. 93-288), as amended at 42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq. The Debt 
Collection Improvement Act of 1996, 31 U.S.C. 3325(d) and 7701(c)(1).

Purpose(s)

    DHS/FEMA and SBA may not provide duplicative disaster assistance to 
individuals, businesses, including Private-Not-for Profits (PNPs), or 
other entities for the same disaster or emergency losses. To accomplish 
this, DHS/FEMA and SBA will participate in a Computer Matching program 
to share data and financial/benefits award decisions of individuals, 
businesses, and/or other entities to verify eligibility for benefits, 
prevent duplicative aid from being provided in response to the same 
disaster or emergency and recover aid when duplication of benefits is 
identified.

Categories of Individuals

    Disaster survivor applicants: individuals, homeowners, renters, 
businesses, including sole proprietors, Venue operators, and other 
entities to include Private-Not-for-Profits. All individuals who apply 
for or express interest in applying for FEMA disaster assistance 
following a Presidentially declared major disaster or emergency with 
specific criteria.

Categories of Records

    Information relating to pre-application registrants, disaster home 
and business loan applicants, loan advance and grant applicants and 
recipients of loan advances and grants, disaster home and business 
loans. Included are Loan, loan advance, and grant applications, 
supporting documents, personal history, financial statements, credit 
information, investigative reports, appraisers' reports, waivers, loan 
record transfers, correspondence, recommendations, authorizations, 
disbursement amount, term and rate, payment history, collateral, UCC 
filings and re-filings, collection and liquidation activities, 
financial statements, settlements and compromises, bank information, 
field visit reports, borrower's insurance information and loan 
accounting information.
    Specific data elements to match are: Name, tax identification 
number/social security number, product (home/business), damaged 
dwelling address,

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application data, loss to personal property data, loss mitigation data, 
SBA loan data, and SBA event date, FEMA Registration ID number, FEMA 
Disaster ID number, and date of birth, telephone number, damaged 
property data, insurance policy information, contact address if 
different from damaged dwelling address, flood zone, flood insurance 
data, and grant amounts.

System(s) of Records

    SBA-20 Disaster Loan Case File, 74 FR 14911 (April 1, 2009) system 
of records, as amended. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/Federal 
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)-008, 78 FR 83 (April 30, 2013) 
system of records as amended.

James Rivera,
Associate Administrator for Disaster Assistance, U.S. Small Business 
Administration.
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