Information is used in eligibility and feasibility determinations on borrowers' requests for disaster set-aside; primary loan servicing (reamortization, rescheduling, deferral, write down and conservation contractors), buyout at market value, and homestead protection, as well as liquidation of security.
The two forms, FSA-2198, Claimants With Closed Settlement Claims With No Appeal Hearing in Suspension and FSA-2199, Claimants With Closed Settlement Claims With Appeal Hearing in Suspension are new in this request. Additionally, some borrowers may respond to either of the new forms and indicate that they elect to restart the loan servicing process. This required an upward adjustment to the projected hours for several direct loan servicing forms in order to account for the burden associated with the completion of these forms.
Therefore, this is a program changes so the total burden hours for FLP were increased by 78 for 15,832 total burden hours in this request. The number of respondents was increased by 167 and the total annual responses were increased by 225. In this request, the number of respondents is 14,929 while the total annual responses are 27,905. The total annual burden hours were 15,754 in the previously approved request.
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.