E9-28627. Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; 1660-0082

AGENCY:

Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION:

Notice; 30-day notice and request for comments; extension, without revision, of a currently approved collection; OMB No. 1660-0082; FEMA Form 90-5, Application for Loan Cancellation.

SUMMARY:

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has submitted the information collection abstracted below to the Office of Management and Budget 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 includes the actual data collection instruments FEMA will use.

DATES:

Comments must be submitted on or before December 31, 2009.

ADDRESSES:

Submit written comments on the proposed information collection to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget. Comments should be addressed to the Desk Officer for the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and sent via electronic mail to [e-mail] or faxed to [phone].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or copies of the information collection should be made to Director, Records Management Division, 1800 South Bell Street, Arlington, VA 20598-3005, facsimile number [phone], or e-mail address [e-mail].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Collection of Information

Title: Application for Community Disaster Loan Application.

Type of information collection: Extension, without revision, of a currently approved collection.

OMB Number: 1660-0082.

Form Titles and Numbers: FEMA Form 90-5, Application for Loan Cancellation.

Abstract: Local governments may submit an Application for Loan Cancellation through the Governor's Authorized Representative to the FEMA Regional Administrator prior to the expiration date of the loan. FEMA has the authority to cancel repayment of all or part of a Community Disaster Loan to the extent that a determination is made that revenues of the local government during the three fiscal years following the disaster are insufficient to meet the operating budget of that local government because of disaster-related revenue losses and additional unreimbursed disaster-related municipal operating expenses. Operating budget means actual revenues and expenditures of the local government as published in the official financial statements of the local government.

Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal Government.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 1.

Frequency of Response: Once Annually.

Estimated Average Hour Burden per Respondent: 1 Hour.

Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1.

Estimated Cost: There is no annual reporting and recordkeeping cost burden associated with this collection.

Alisa Turner,

Acting Director, Records Management Division, Office of Management, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.