; and (B) as communities seek to recover from disasters as quickly as possible. (4) Section 552a of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the “Privacy Act of 1974”), and subchapter I of chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code (commonly known as the Paperwork Reduction Act ), require multiple layers of review, notice, and publication in the Federal Register before Federal disaster assistance agencies can amend or adapt their information sharing practices. (5) Such extended review processes can have the effect of inhibiting efficiency, innovation, and interoperability among Federal, State, Tribal, territorial, local, private, and volunteer partners in delivering disaster assistance within a whole-of-community disaster assistance effort. (6) Legal, regulatory, and policy limitations on the interagency sharing of information submitted by applicants for disaster assistance may require those applicants to submit separate applications to multiple Federal, State, Tribal, territorial, and local disaster assistance agencies, which increases the burden on those applicants, reduces the efficiency of disaster assistance programs, and places additional costs on taxpayers. (b) Purposes The purposes of this Act are to— (1) streamline the sharing of information among Federal, State, Tribal, territorial, and local disaster assistance agencies; (2) modernize the legal safeguards against the unauthorized disclosure or misuse of information about applicants for disaster assistance