[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 29 (Friday, February 11, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8026-8027]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-02967]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
[Docket No. CISA-2021-0009]
Revision of a Currently Approved Information Collection for the
Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Personnel Surety
Program
AGENCY: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, DHS.
ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for comments; revision of information
collection request: 1670-0029.
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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. CISA previously published this
ICR, in the Federal Register on June 23, 2021, for a 60-day comment
period. In this notice, CISA solicits public comment concerning this
ICR for an additional 30-days.
DATES: Comments are due March 14, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
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PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting
``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using
the search function.
Comments submitted in response to this notice may be made publicly
available to through relevant public websites. For this reason, please
do not include confidential information in your comments, such as
sensitive personal information or proprietary information. Please note
that responses to this public comment request containing any routine
notice about the confidentiality of the communication will be treated
as public comments that may be made available to the public
notwithstanding the inclusion of the routine notice. Comments that
include protected information such as 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 protected
information should be appropriately marked and packaged in accordance
with all applicable requirements and submission must be coordinated
with the point of contact for this notice provided in FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section. CISA will forward all comments containing
protected information that are received before the submission deadline
to the OMB Desk Officer.
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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 atwww.dhs.gov/pcii-program.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ryan Donaghy, 703-603-5000,
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[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CFATS Program identifies chemical
facilities of interest and regulates the security of high-risk chemical
facilities through a risk-based approach. The CFATS Program is
authorized under the Protecting and Securing Chemical Facilities from
Terrorist Attacks Act of 2014 \4\ or ``CFATS Act of 2014''. CISA
collects necessary information through 1670-0029 to implement the CFATS
Personnel Surety Program.
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\4\ The Protecting and Securing Chemical Facilities from
Terrorist Attacks Act of 2014 (also known as the CFATS Act of 2014,
Pub. L. 113-254) codified the CFATS program into the Homeland
Security Act of 2002. See 6 U.S.C. 621 et seq., as amended by Public
Law 116-136, Sec. 16007 (2020).
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CISA received one nongermane comment in response to the 60-day
notice.\5\
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\5\ The nongermane comment may be viewed at https://www.regulations.gov/comment/CISA-2021-0009-0002.
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CISA continues to rely on the analysis and resulting burden
estimates provided in the 60-day notice.\6\
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\6\ 86 FR 32960 (June 23, 2021). The 60-day notice titled,
``Revision of a Currently Approved Information Collection for the
Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Personnel Surety
Program'' may be viewed at https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2021-13110.
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OMB is particularly interested in comments that:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
2. 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;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
4. 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
submissions of responses).
Analysis
Agency: Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency.
Title: Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Personnel
Surety Program.
OMB Number: 1670-0029.
Instrument: CFATS Personnel Surety Program.
Frequency: ``Other''.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 149,271 respondents.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.1667 hours (10 minutes).
Total Burden Hours: 24,879 annual burden hours.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): $0.
Total Recordkeeping Burden: $0.
Total Burden Cost: $2,201,152.
Dated: February 7, 2022.
Robert J. Costello,
Chief Information Officer, Department of Homeland Security,
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
[FR Doc. 2022-02967 Filed 2-10-22; 8:45 am]
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