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Authorities: 14 U.S.C. 504; 46 U.S.C.
15106 and 15109; and 18 U.S.C. 202(a),
and Department of Homeland Security
Delegation No. 00915.
Routine Uses: Authorized U.S. Coast
Guard personnel will use this
information to consider and obtain
qualified candidates to serve on the
Committee. Any external disclosures of
information within this record will be
made in accordance with DHS/ALL–
009, Department of Homeland Security
Advisory Committee (73 FR 57639,
October 3, 2008).
Consequences of Failure to Provide
Information: Furnishing this
information is voluntary. However,
failure to furnish the requested
information may result in your
application not being considered for the
Committee.
Dated: January 14, 2025.
Jeffrey G. Lantz,
Director of Commercial Regulations and
Standards.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
[Docket ID: FEMA–2024–0038; OMB No.
1660–0132]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Consolidated
FEMA-National Training and Education
Division (NTED) Level 3 Training
Evaluation Forms
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, Department of
Homeland Security.
ACTION: 60-Day notice of revision and
request for comments.
AGENCY:

The Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
invites the general public to take this
opportunity to comment on a revision of
a currently approved information
collection. In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice seeks comments concerning the
consolidation of all previous
instruments into two evaluation forms
to be shared by three FEMA offices to
evaluate training programs.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before March 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: To avoid duplicate
submissions to the docket, please

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submit comments at
www.regulations.gov under Docket ID
FEMA–2024–0038. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
All submissions received must
include the agency name and Docket ID.
Regardless of the method used for
submitting comments or material, all
submissions will be posted, without
change, to the Federal eRulemaking
Portal at http://www.regulations.gov,
and will include any personal
information you provide. Therefore,
submitting this information makes it
public. You may wish to read the
Privacy and Security Notice that is
available via a link on the homepage of
www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Samuel Phillips, Supervisory
Emergency Management Specialist,
NTED, (202) 786–9573, and
Samuel.Phillips@fema.dhs.gov. Dr.
Pamela Moore, Assistant Director,
Center for Domestic Preparedness
(CDP), (256) 847–2629, and
Pamela.Moore@fema.dhs.gov. Dalia
Abdelmeguid, Supervisory Instructional
Systems Specialist, National Disaster
and Emergency Management University
(NDEMU), (202) 212–8524, and
Dalia.Abdelmeguid@fema.dhs.gov. You
may contact the Information
Management Division for copies of the
proposed collection of information at
email address: FEMA-InformationCollections-Management@fema.dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
National Training and Education
Division (NTED), the Center for
Domestic Preparedness (CDP) and the
National Disaster and Emergency
Management University (NDEMU) are
geographically separated components of
FEMA’s National Preparedness
Directorate. As such, all three
organizations are part of the National
Preparedness Directorate Training
Enterprise with unique training
missions for specific target audiences
and are responsible for supporting and
enabling national preparedness Core
Capability, Community Lifelines, and
Recovery Sector Preparedness
performance outcomes described in
Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) 8
National Preparedness, the National
Preparedness Goal (NPG), the National
Preparedness System (NPS), and 2022–
2026 FEMA Strategic Plan objectives
1.3, 2.1, 2.2, and 3.1.
Like other Federal training
organizations, the NTED, CDP and
NDEMU utilize the Kirkpatrick Training
Evaluation Model Level 3 survey results
as one of several training evaluation
tools to inform component program
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that monitor and report organizational
performance and compliance with the
Government Performance, Results and
Modernization Act of 2010 (the ‘‘GPRA
Modernization Act of 2010’’). 31 U.S.C.
1115(b)(6) requires ‘‘. . .a balanced set
of performance indicators to be used in
measuring or assessing progress toward
each performance goal, including, as
appropriate, customer service,
efficiency, output, and outcome
indicators [emphasis added].’’ Due to
the qualitative nature of participants’
feedback obtained from this survey
measuring impact or changes in course
graduates work performance, their
occupations or organizational
performance behavior the results, with
other data, are used to monitor
performance of NTED, CDP and NDEMU
training programs. NTED and CDP are
members of the National Domestic
Preparedness Consortium (NDPC). Per 6
U.S.C. 1102(c),the NDPC ‘‘shall identify,
develop, test, and deliver training to
State, local, and tribal emergency
response providers, provide on-site and
mobile training at the performance and
management and planning levels, and
facilitate the delivery of training by the
training partners of the Department
[emphasis added].’’ FEMA interprets
this authority to ‘‘test training’’ as the
ability to assess its effectiveness, which
this survey directly facilitates.
6 U.S.C. 748(a)(1) directs the FEMA
Administrator to, ‘‘in coordination with
heads of appropriate Federal agencies,
the National Council on Disability, and
the National Advisory Council, [ ] carry
out a national training program to
implement the national preparedness
goal, National Incident Management
System, National Response Plan, and
other related plans and strategies.’’ In
addition, 6 U.S.C. 748(a)(2) directs the
FEMA Administrator, in developing and
implementing the national training
program, to ‘‘work with government
training facilities, academic institutions,
private organizations, and other entities
that provide specialized, state-of-the-art
training for emergency managers or
emergency response providers; and
utilize, as appropriate, training courses
provided by community colleges, State
and local public safety academies, State
and private universities, and other
facilities.’’
The Level 3 data collected from
course graduates three to six months
following training provides NTED, CDP
and NDEMU with information and data
on how training knowledge, skill and
attitudes (KSA’s) gained from training
transfer to the student’s job and
organization and if the training was
applied to the job, an exercise, or during
an operational mission. Note: The

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number of NTED CTG training providers
may fluctuate, increase, or decrease
based on fiscal year grant funding levels
approved by Congress.
This revision consolidates all
evaluation forms for all offices into two
shared instruments.
Collection of Information
Title: Consolidated FEMA-National
Training and Education Division
(NTED) Level 3 Training Evaluation
Forms.
Type of Information Collection:
Revision of a currently approved
information collection.
OMB Number: 1660–0132.
FEMA Forms: CDP, NDEMU, and
NTED Level 3 Student Evaluation Form,
FEMA Form FF–008–FY–25–100; CDP,
NDEMU, and NTED Level 3 Supervisor
Evaluation Form, FEMA Form FF–008–
FY–25–101.
Abstract: NTED, CDP, and NDEMU all
utilize the Kirkpatrick Four Level
Training Evaluation Model to assess
training effectiveness. Donald
Kirkpatrick developed the four-level
model of training evaluation: Level 1
evaluation captures the students’
perception or reaction to training. Level
2 completes a pre-post comparison of
learning via tests/examinations and
performance assessment checklists of
the student learning (change in
behavior). Level 3 evaluation
instruments capture how the training
transfers to the students’ work
environment and their particular job.
Lastly, Level 4 captures information
about the return on key stakeholder
expectations of the course or training
program. The data collected by these
training evaluation forms is shared with
representatives from each course/
program’s respective target audience
during three-year course/program
reviews. All three organizations analyze
the data to determine what revisions are
needed in curriculum, delivery, and to
elicit inputs to improve training while
providing documentation as to how
training was applied, and how it
impacts the individual and
organization.
Affected Public: State, Local, and
Tribal Government; Private Sector.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
20,224.
Estimated Number of Responses:
20,224.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 5,057.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Cost: $302,117.
Estimated Respondents’ Operation
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Estimated Total Annual Cost to the
Federal Government: $41,797.
Comments
Comments may be submitted as
indicated in the ADDRESSES caption
above. 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.
Maile Rasco-Arthur,
Acting Records Management Branch Chief,
Office of the Chief Administrative Officer,
Mission Support, Federal Emergency
Management Agency, Department of
Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
[Docket ID FEMA–2025–0003]

Assistance to Firefighters Grant
Program
Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA),
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

Pursuant to the Federal Fire
Prevention and Control Act of 1974, as
amended, the Administrator of FEMA is
publishing this notice describing the
fiscal year (FY) 2024 Assistance to
Firefighters Grant (AFG) Program
application process, deadlines, and
award selection criteria. This notice
explains the differences, if any, between
these guidelines and those
recommended by representatives of the
national fire service leadership during
the annual meeting of the Criteria
Development Panel (CDP), which was
held July 9, 2024. The application
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was Nov. 12, 2024–Dec. 20, 2024, and
was announced on the FEMA AFG
Program website at https://
www.fema.gov/grants/preparedness/
firefighters, as well as at https://
www.grants.gov.
DATES: Grant applications for the FY
2024 AFG Program are being accepted
electronically through the FEMA Grants
Outcomes (FEMA GO) system at https://
go.fema.gov/, through 5 p.m. ET on Dec.
20, 2024.
ADDRESSES: DHS/FEMA/Grant Programs
Directorate, Assistance to Firefighters
Grants Branch, 400 C St. SW, 3N, FEMA
Headquarters, Washington, DC 20472–
3635.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul
Parsons, Chief, Assistance to
Firefighters Grants Branch, 1–866–274–
0960 or FireGrants@fema.dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The AFG
program awards grants directly to fire
departments, nonaffiliated emergency
medical service (EMS) organizations,
and state fire training academies (SFTA)
for enhancing the health and safety of
first responders and improving their
abilities to protect the public from fire
and fire-related hazards. Applications
for the FY 2024 AFG Program are
submitted and processed online through
https://go.fema.gov/. Before the
application period started, the FY 2024
AFG Program Notice of Funding
Opportunity (NOFO) was published on
FEMA’s AFG Program website at
https://www.fema.gov/grants/
preparedness/firefighters/assistancegrants. The AFG Program website
provides additional information and
materials useful for FY 2024 AFG
Program applicants, including
Frequently Asked Questions,
Application Checklist, AFG Narrative
Development Toolkit, Self-Evaluation
Sheets for Vehicle Acquisition and
Operations Safety, and a Cost-Share
Calculator. Based on past AFG Program
application periods, FEMA anticipates
receiving 8,000 to 10,000 AFG
applications this year and $291,600,000
in available funding will support
approximately 2,000 grant awards.
Congressional Appropriations
For the FY 2024 AFG Program,
Congress appropriated $324 million
through the Department of Homeland
Security Appropriations Act, 2024,
Public Law 118–47, Title III, Protection,
Preparedness, Response, and Recovery,
Federal Emergency Management
Agency, Federal Assistance (2024 DHS
Appropriations Act). From this amount,
$291.6 million will be made available
for FY 2024 AFG Program awards. In
addition, section 33 of the Federal Fire

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