97-7491. Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 57 (Tuesday, March 25, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14141-14142]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-7491]


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FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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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 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 FEMA's request 
for personal financial data from its individual debtors.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under FEMA's debt collection regulations, 44 
CFR Sec. 11.36(b), FEMA Debt Collection Officers (DCO's) are required 
to maintain current credit data on FEMA's debtors including, but not 
limited to, the individual debtor's own financial statement, executed 
under penalty for false claim, concerning his/her assets and 
liabilities and his/her income and expenses. FEMA Form 22-13, Debt 
Collection Financial Statement, collects such data directly from the 
individual debtor. FEMA DCO's use these data for collecting debts due 
the United States and arising from operations of FEMA programs. DCO's 
also use these data to determine debtor's ability to pay debts due 
FEMA, to locate debtor's assets, and for skip-tracing purposes.

Collection of Information

    Title: Debt Collection Financial Statement.
    Type of Information Collection: Extension.
    OMB Number: 3067-0122.
    Form Number. FEMA Form 22-13, Debt Collection Financial Statement.
    Abstract: FEMA may request of individuals who are debtors to 
provide personal financial information on FEMA Form 22-13 concerning 
their current financial position. This information includes debtors' 
home and employment addresses, names of spouse (if any), any children, 
their ages, amounts and sources of the debtors' and spouses' (if any) 
salaries, stocks, bonds and other securities, real and personal 
property owned and bank accounts and names of creditors and amounts 
owed to these creditors.
    With this information, FEMA DCO's can evaluate whether to allow 
debtors to pay the FEMA debts under installment repayment agreements 
and, if so, under what terms and amounts. FEMA DCO's also use these 
data to determine whether FEMA should suspend or terminate collection 
efforts or compromise the respondent's debts. These data also are used 
for skip-tracing missing debtors and for location of debtors' assets if 
the debts are to be judicially enforced.
    Providing information on FEMA Form 22-13 is voluntary on the part 
of the debtor. However, if the debtor does not provide the information 
requested by FEMA, the FEMA DCO may use more severe collection methods.
    Affected Public: Persons who owe debts to the United States under 
programs administered by FEMA and who wish to either (1) enter into 
installment repayment agreements with FEMA, or (2) have their FEMA 
debts compromised, suspended or terminated under the provisions of 44 
CFR Secs. 11.50 and 11.51.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,000.
    Estimated Cost: None to the debtor since he/she is retrieving 
information from memory or from the debtor's own, readily available, 
personal records.

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 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 by [insert 60 days from the date of 
publication of this notice].

ADDRESSES: Interested persons should submit written comments to Muriel 
B. Anderson, FEMA Information Collections Officer, Federal Emergency 
Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW, Room 311, Washington, DC 20472. 
Telephone number [phone]. FAX number [phone].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Contact Richard S. Buck, IV, Financial 
Management Specialist, Financial Policy Division, Office of Financial 
Management, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FM-FP-PS), 500 C 
Street, SW, Washington, DC 20742. Telephone number [phone].

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FAX number [phone]. Contact Ms Anderson at [phone] for 
copies of the proposed information collection.

    Dated: March 17, 1997.
Reginald Trujillo,
Director,
Program Services Division, Operations Support Directorate.
[FR Doc. 97-7491 Filed 3-24-97; 8:45 am]
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