This information collection provides
disaster survivors the opportunity to request approval of late
applications, continued temporary housing assistance, request
advance disaster assistance, stop payments not received in order to
be reissued funds, and to appeal program decisions. This collection
also allows for the establishment of an annual agreement between
FEMA and states, territories, and tribal governments regarding how
the Other Needs provision of IHP will be administered: by FEMA, by
the state, territory, or tribal government, or jointly.
On August 16, 2021, FEMA
requested emergency approval to increase the types of documentation
FEMA may accept from applicants for disaster assistance to
demonstrate eligibility under the IHP during the Disaster
Assistance Registration period. FEMA had become aware that IHP
requirements for verification of eligibility during registration
were creating barriers to assistance. As a result, OMB approved our
expansion of documentation acceptance during disaster assistance
registration earlier this year. Emergency approval of the proposed
revisions to this collection is required to ensure FEMA is able to
more efficiently administer the IHP assistance and evolve in order
to more equitably support the ongoing pandemic response and meet
the historical demands of disaster response. The ongoing impacts of
the COVID-19 pandemic, in concert with the current flu season and
fluctuating restrictions have impacted the timely availability of
essential services. Medical and dental providers sometimes require
applications to pay for documentation or for providers to complete
required forms. This poses additional barriers to disaster
survivors by limiting their ability to obtain personal, public, and
commercial records to verify their eligibility and further
underscores the need for FEMA to rapidly implement alternatives to
traditional means of verifying disaster survivor IHP
eligibility.
PL:
Pub.L. 106 - 390 408 Name of Law: Robert T Stafford Disaster
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act
US Code: 44
USC 206 Name of Law: Federal Disaster Assistance for Disasters
Declared on or after November 23 1988
The decrease in annual cost
burden for the Appeal of Program Decision / No Form instrument is
due to a decrease in the number of years included in review period.
There was also a duplicate of the former 009-0-95S labeled as
009-0-95 that was removed due to that duplication. All instruments
had a slight increase in Average Burden per Response due to a
change in how they were rounded (to the tenth instead of to the
hundredth).
$1,078,561
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Millicent Brown 202 646-2814
millicent.brown@fema.dhs.gov
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On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.