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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 173 / Friday, September 10, 2021 / Rules and Regulations by the removal of the frequency restriction, which results in a negligible change in the number of approved applications and awards. FEMA found that the data does not show a substantial
change in the number of applications, and thus FEMA assumed that the removal of the 5-year restriction is countered by the lowered cap on funding, resulting in minimal
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distributional impacts as shown in Table 7. Because FEMA implemented these changes concurrently, FEMA was unable to isolate the effects of individual changes.

TABLE 7MITIGATION PLANNING GRANTS 20062019
2019$
Year 2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012

Approved grants
Applications
Average grant amount

167
561
523
491
364
417
173

92
481
374
346
288
363
155

$291,961
88,076
83,738
83,738
82,992
104,024
144,992

Average Pre-BW12

385

300

125,646

2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

260
293
351
329
422
287
149

228
264
315
287
377
248
116

117,107
89,362
94,685
173,348
100,049
151,711
105,929

Average Post-BW12

299

262

118,884

Since 2013, FEMA has applied the new caps on funding for FMA planning grants per recipient and subrecipient.
The caps align with and reflect FEMAs shift to focus the majority of FMA
program funds on mitigating the risk to the most vulnerable properties. FEMA is no longer constrained by any limit on how often a recipient or subrecipient can receive a planning grant or the total amount that can be granted to a recipient. Further, the lower caps per recipient and subrecipient allow FEMA

to assist more recipients and subrecipients.
Alternatives Most of the changes in this rule are based on statute. FEMA has limited discretion in determining which changes to make. The changes that carry an economic impact under a prestatutory pre-BW12 baseline are the changes to 44 CFR 79.4 now 44 CFR
77.4: FMA Grant Federal Cost Shares and 44 CFR 79.6 now 44 CFR 77.6:
Flood Portion of Multi-Hazard
Mitigation Plans. BW12 prescribed these changes. These changes are neither new nor discretionary and FEMA did not consider alternatives.
Below, the OMB A4 Accounting Statement presents the annualized costs, benefits, and transfer payments of the final rule in 2019 dollars using the noaction baseline. Accordingly, the below accounting statement shows the costs and benefits of this rule measured against what the world would be like if this rule were not adopted.

TABLE 8A4 ACCOUNTING STATEMENTNO ACTION BASELINE
2019$
Period of analysis: 2021 to 2030
7 Percent discount rate
3 Percent discount rate
BENEFITS:
Annualized Monetized
Annualized Quantified

$81,159
N/A

$81,159
N/A.

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COSTS:
Annualized Monetized
Annualized quantified
Qualitative

Allows FEMA to target most vulnerable properties and streamline mitigation grant process.
Modernize and standardize regulations to align current practice with other FEMA programs and increase readability.

Preamble RA.

$746
N/A

Preamble RA.

$638
N/A.

N/A

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