[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 61 (Monday, March 30, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17593-17594]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-06499]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
[Docket No. CISA-2020-0002]
Notice of Request for Extension of a Currently Approved
Information Collection for Chemical-Terrorism Vulnerability Information
(CVI)
AGENCY: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, DHS.
ACTION: 60-Day notice and request for comments; extension of
Information Collection Request: 1670-0015.
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SUMMARY: The Infrastructure Security Division (ISD) within the
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) will submit the
following Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The submission proposes to renew
the information collection for an additional three years and update the
burden estimates.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted until May 29, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments, identified by docket number through
the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for sending comments.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name
``CISA'' and docket number CISA-2020-0002. All comments received will
be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided.
Comments that include trade secrets, confidential commercial or
financial information, Chemical-terrorism Vulnerability Information
(CVI),\1\ Sensitive Security Information (SSI),\2\ or Protected
Critical Infrastructure Information (PCII) \3\ should not be submitted
to the public docket. Comments containing trade secrets, confidential
commercial or financial information, CVI, SSI, or PCII should be
appropriately marked and packaged in accordance with applicable
requirements and submitted by mail to the DHS/CISA/Infrastructure
Security Division, CFATS Program Manager at CISA, 245 Murray Lane SW,
Mail Stop 0610, Arlington, VA 20528-0610. Comments must be identified
by docket number CISA-2020-0002.
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\1\ For more information about CVI see 6 CFR 27.400 and the CVI
Procedural Manual at www.dhs.gov/publication/safeguarding-cvi-manual.
\2\ For more information about SSI see 49 CFR part 1520 and the
SSI Program web page at www.tsa.gov/for-industry/sensitive-security-information.
\3\ For more information about PCII see 6 CFR part 29 and the
PCII Program web page at www.dhs.gov/pcii-program.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lona Saccomando, 703-235-5263,
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cfats@hq.dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CFATS Program identifies and regulates
the security of high-risk chemical facilities using a risk-based
approach. Congress initially authorized the CFATS Program under Section
550 of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2007,
Public Law 109-295 (2006) and reauthorized it under the Protecting and
Securing Chemical Facilities from Terrorist Attacks Act of 2014 \4\ or
``CFATS Act of 2014'' (Pub. L. 113-254, 6 U.S.C. 621 et seq.). The
Department implemented the CFATS Program through rulemaking and issued
an Interim Final Rule (IFR) on April 9, 2007 and a final rule on
November 20, 2007. See 72 FR 17688 and 72 FR 65396.
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\4\ The CFATS Act of 2014 codified the CFATS program into the
Homeland Security Act of 2002. See 6 U.S.C. 621 et seq., as amended
by Public Law 116-2.
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Pursuant to 6 U.S.C. 623, the CFATS regulations establish the
requirements under 6 CFR 27.400 that covered persons must follow to
safeguard certain documents and other information developed under the
regulations from unauthorized disclosure. This information is
identified as CVI and, by law, receives protection from public
disclosure and misuse. This collection will be used to manage the CVI
program in support of CFATS. The current information collection for the
CVI program (IC 1670-0015) will expire on January 31, 2021.\5\
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\5\ The current information collection for CVI (i.e., IC 1670-
0015) may be viewed at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=201704-1670-002.
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CISA proposes one revision from the previously approved collection.
Specifically, to increase the loaded
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average hourly wage rate of respondents from $78.93 to $79.75 based on
updated BLS wage and compensation data.
This process is conducted in accordance with 5 CFR 1320.8.
CISA's Methodology in Estimating the Burden for the Chemical-Terrorism
Vulnerability Information Authorization
Number of Respondents
The current information collection estimated that 20,000
respondents submit a request to become a CVI Authorized User Number
annually. The table below provides the number of respondents over the
past three years (i.e., Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 through FY 2019).
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FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2019
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Number of Respondents..................... 19,392 16,504 13,667
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Due to past fluctuations and uncertainty regarding the number of
future respondents, CISA believes that 20,000 continues to be a
reasonable estimate. Therefore, CISA proposes to retain the estimated
the annual number of respondents.
Estimated Time per Respondent
In the current information collection, the estimated time per
respondent to prepare and submit a CVI Authorization is 0.50 hours (30
minutes). CISA proposes to retain the estimated time per respondent.
Annual Burden Hours
The annual burden hours for the CVI Authorization is [0.50 hours x
20,000 respondents x 1 response per respondent], which equals 10,000
hours.
Total Capital/Startup Burden Cost
CISA provides access to CSAT free of charge and assumes that each
respondent already has computer hardware and access to the internet for
basic business needs. Therefore, there are no annualized capital or
start-up costs incurred by chemical facilities of interest or high-risk
chemical facilities for this information collection.
Total Recordkeeping Burden
There are no recordkeeping burden costs incurred by chemical
facilities of interest or high-risk chemical facilities for this
information collection.
Total Annual Burden Cost
CISA assumes that the majority of individuals who will complete
this instrument are Site Security Officers (SSOs), although a smaller
number of other individuals may also complete this instrument (e.g.,
Federal, State, and local government employees and contractors). For
the purpose of this notice, CISA maintains this assumption. Therefore,
to estimate the total annual burden, CISA multiplied the annual burden
of 10,000 hours by the loaded average hourly wage rate of SSOs of
$79.75 per hour.\6\ Therefore, the total annual burden cost for the CVI
Authorization instrument is $797,474 [10,000 total annual burden hours
x $79.75 per hour].
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\6\ The wage used for an SSO equals that of Managers, All (11-
9199), with a load factor of 1.43508 to account for benefits in
addition to wages https://www.bls.gov/oes/2018/may/oes119199.htm.
The load factor is estimated by dividing total compensation by total
wages and salaries for the Management, Professional and Related
series ($60.79/$42.36), which can be found at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.t04.htm.
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Analysis
Agency: Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Agency, Infrastructure Security Division, Infrastructure
Security Compliance Division.
Title: CFATS Chemical-terrorism Vulnerability Information.
OMB Number: 1670-0015.
Instrument: Chemical-terrorism Vulnerability Information
Authorization.
Frequency: ``On occasion'' and ``Other''.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 20,000 respondents (rounded estimate).
Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.50 hours.
Total Burden Hours: 10,000 annual burden hours.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): $0.
Total Recordkeeping Burden: $0.
Total Burden Cost: $797,474.
Richard S. Libby,
Deputy Chief Information Officer, Department of Homeland Security,
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
[FR Doc. 2020-06499 Filed 3-27-20; 8:45 am]
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