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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,
Office of the Under Secretary for
National Protection and Programs
Directorate, Office of Infrastructure
Protection, Infrastructure Security
Compliance Division.
Title: Chemical Security Assessment
Tool.
OMB Number: 1670–0007.
CFATS Helpdesk
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Private Sector.
Number of Respondents: 25,000.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.25
hours.
Total Burden Hours: 6,250 hours.
Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup):
$0.00.
Total Burden Cost (Operating/
Maintaining): $500,000.
Chemical-Terrorism Vulnerability
Information Authorization
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Private Sector.
Number of Respondents: 8,073.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 1
hour.
Total Burden Hours: 8,073 hours.
Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup):
$0.00.
Total Burden Cost (Operating/
Maintaining): $645,840.
CSAT User Registration
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Private Sector.
Number of Respondents: 4,167.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 1
hour.
Total Burden Hours: 4,167 hours.
Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup):
$0.00.
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Total Burden Cost (Operating/
Maintaining): $333,360.
CSAT Top Screen
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Private Sector.
Number of Respondents: 4,167.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 30.3
hours.
Total Burden Hours: 189,390 hours.
Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup):
$0.00.
Total Burden Cost (Operating/
Maintaining): $15,151,212.
Security Vulnerability Assessment &
Alternative Security Program Submitted
in Lieu of the Security Vulnerability
Assessment
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Private Sector.
Number of Respondents: 825.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 250
hours.
Total Burden Hours: 309,375 hours.
Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup):
$0.00.
Total Burden Cost (Operating/
Maintaining): $24,750,000.
Site Security Plan (SSP) & Alternative
Security Program Submitted in Lieu of
the Site Security Plan
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Private Sector.
Number of Respondents: 825.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 200
hours.
Total Burden Hours: 247,500 hours.
Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup):
$0.00.
Total Burden Cost (Operating/
Maintaining): $19,800,000.
Signed: June 24, 2009.
Philip Reitinger,
Deputy Under Secretary, National Protection
and Programs Directorate, Department of
Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
[Docket No. DHS–2009–0034]
National Protection and Programs
Directorate, Office of Infrastructure
Protection; Submission for Chemical
Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards
Chemical-terrorism Vulnerability
Information (CVI) Information
Collection 1670–NEW
AGENCY: National Protection and
Programs Directorate, Office of
Infrastructure Protection, Infrastructure
Security Compliance Division, DHS.
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ACTION: 60-Day Notice and request for
comments: New information collection
request 1670–NEW.
SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland
Security, National Protection and
Programs Directorate, Office of
Infrastructure Protection, Infrastructure
Security Compliance Division (ISCD)
will be submitting 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 information
collection is a new information
collection. The purpose of this notice is
to solicit comments during a 60-day
public comment period prior to the
submission of this collection to OMB.
The submission describes the nature of
the information collection, the
categories of respondents, the estimated
burden and cost.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted until August 31, 2009.
This process is conducted in accordance
with 5 CFR 1320.8.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments on the
proposed information collection
through Federal Rulemaking Portal at
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Comments must be identified by docket
number DHS–2009–0034.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A
copy of this ICR, with applicable
supporting documentation, may be
obtained through Federal Rulemaking
Portal at https://www.regulations.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Program Description
The Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism
Standards (CFATS), 6 CFR Part 27, are
the Department’s regulations under
Section 550 governing security at highrisk chemical facilities. CFATS
represents a national-level effort to
minimize terrorism risk to such
facilities. Its design and implementation
balance maintaining economic vitality
with securing facilities and their
surrounding communities. The
regulations were designed, in
collaboration with the private sector and
other stakeholders, to take advantage of
protective measures already in place
and to allow facilities to employ a wide
range of tailored measures to satisfy the
regulations’ Risk-Based Performance
Standards (RBPS).
CFATS also establishes, in 6 CFR
27.400, the requirements that covered
persons must follow to safeguard certain
documents and other information
developed under the regulations. This
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information is identified as ‘‘Chemicalterrorism Vulnerability Information’’
(CVI) and by law receives protection
from public disclosure and misuse.
The instruments within this
collection will be used to manage the
CVI program in support of CFATS.
Solicitation of Comments
The Office of Management and Budget
is particularly interested in comments
which:
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.
Agency
Department of Homeland Security,
Office of the Under Secretary for
National Protection and Programs
Directorate, Office of Infrastructure
Protection, Infrastructure Security
Compliance Division.
Title: CFATS Chemical-terrorism
Vulnerability Information: OMB
Number: 1670–NEW.
Chemical-Terrorism Vulnerability
Information Authorization
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Private Sector.
Number of Respondents: 8,073.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 1
hour.
Total Burden Hours: 8,073 hours.
Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup):
$0.00.
Total Burden Cost (Operating/
Maintaining): $645,840.
Determination of CVI
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: CVI Authorized
Users.
Number of Respondents: 250.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.25
hours.
Total Burden Hours: 62.5 hours.
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Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup):
$0.00.
Total Burden Cost (Operating/
Maintaining): $5,000.
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SECURITY
Determination of a ‘‘Need To Know’’
[USCG–2009–0579]
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: CVI Authorized
Users.
Number of Respondents: 12,500.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.25
hours.
Total Burden Hours: 3,125 hours.
Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup):
$0.00.
Total Burden Cost (Operating/
Maintaining): $250,000.
Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory
Committee
Disclosure of CVI Information
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: CVI Authorized
Users.
Number of Respondents: 250.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.25
hours.
Total Burden Hours: 62.5 hours.
Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup):
$0.00.
Total Burden Cost (Operating/
Maintaining): $5,000.
Notification of Emergency or Exigent
Circumstances
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: CVI Authorized
Users.
Number of Respondents: 250.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.25
hours.
Total Burden Hours: 62.5 hours
Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup):
$0.00.
Total Burden Cost (Operating/
Maintaining): $5,000.
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Tracking Log for CVI Received
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: CVI Authorized
Users.
Number of Respondents: 25,000.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.08
hours.
Total Burden Hours: 24,000 hours.
Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup):
$0.00.
Total Burden Cost (Operating/
Maintaining): $1,920,000.
Signed: June 24, 2009.
Philip Reitinger,
Deputy Under Secretary, National Protection
and Programs Directorate, Department of
Homeland Security.
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Coast Guard
Coast Guard, DHS.
Notice of open teleconference
meeting.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: This notice announces a
teleconference of the Merchant Marine
Personnel Advisory Committee
(MERPAC). The purpose of the
teleconference is for MERPAC to discuss
and prepare recommendations for the
Coast Guard concerning paragraph
III.B.1 and III.B.2 of its Task Statement
64, Comprehensive Review of the STCW
Convention and the STCW Code.
MERPAC provides advice and makes
recommendations to the Coast Guard on
matters related to the training,
qualification, licensing, certification,
and fitness of seamen serving in the U.S.
merchant marine.
DATES: The teleconference call will take
place on Tuesday, July 21, 2009, from 1
p.m. until 3 p.m., EDT.
ADDRESSES: Members of the public may
participate by dialing 1–877–950–5410.
You will then be prompted to dial your
participant passcode, which is
‘‘9876776#’’. Please ensure that you
enter the ‘‘#’’ mark. Public participation
is welcome; however, the number of
teleconference lines is limited, and lines
are available first-come, first-served.
Members of the public may also
participate by coming to Room 3317,
U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100
Second Street, SW., Washington, DC
20593–0001. We request that members
of the public who plan to attend this
meeting notify Mr. Jerry Miante at 202–
372–1407 no later than July 17, 2009, so
that he may notify building security
officials.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Jerry Miante, telephone 202–372–1407,
fax 202–372–1926.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Federal Advisory Committee Act
requires that public notice of these
meetings be announced in the Federal
Register [5 U.S.C. App. 2]. MERPAC is
chartered under that Act. It provides
advice and makes recommendations to
the Assistant Commandant for Marine
Safety, Security, and Stewardship, on
issues concerning merchant marine
personnel such as implementation of
the International Convention on
Standards of Training, Certification and
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
[Docket No. DHS-2009-0034]
National Protection and Programs Directorate, Office of
Infrastructure Protection; Submission for Chemical Facility Anti-
Terrorism Standards Chemical-terrorism Vulnerability Information (CVI)
Information Collection 1670-NEW
AGENCY: National Protection and Programs Directorate, Office of
Infrastructure Protection, Infrastructure Security Compliance Division,
DHS.
ACTION: 60-Day Notice and request for comments: New information
collection request 1670-NEW.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security, National Protection and
Programs Directorate, Office of Infrastructure Protection,
Infrastructure Security Compliance Division (ISCD) will be submitting
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 information collection is a
new information collection. The purpose of this notice is to solicit
comments during a 60-day public comment period prior to the submission
of this collection to OMB. The submission describes the nature of the
information collection, the categories of respondents, the estimated
burden and cost.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted until August 31,
2009. This process is conducted in accordance with 5 CFR 1320.8.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on the
proposed information collection through Federal Rulemaking Portal at
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting
comments. Comments must be identified by docket number DHS-2009-0034.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A copy of this ICR, with applicable
supporting documentation, may be obtained through Federal Rulemaking
Portal at https://www.regulations.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Program Description
The Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS), 6 CFR Part
27, are the Department's regulations under Section 550 governing
security at high-risk chemical facilities. CFATS represents a national-
level effort to minimize terrorism risk to such facilities. Its design
and implementation balance maintaining economic vitality with securing
facilities and their surrounding communities. The regulations were
designed, in collaboration with the private sector and other
stakeholders, to take advantage of protective measures already in place
and to allow facilities to employ a wide range of tailored measures to
satisfy the regulations' Risk-Based Performance Standards (RBPS).
CFATS also establishes, in 6 CFR 27.400, the requirements that
covered persons must follow to safeguard certain documents and other
information developed under the regulations. This
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information is identified as ``Chemical-terrorism Vulnerability
Information'' (CVI) and by law receives protection from public
disclosure and misuse.
The instruments within this collection will be used to manage the
CVI program in support of CFATS.
Solicitation of Comments
The Office of Management and Budget is particularly interested in
comments which:
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, Office of the Under Secretary for
National Protection and Programs Directorate, Office of Infrastructure
Protection, Infrastructure Security Compliance Division.
Title: CFATS Chemical-terrorism Vulnerability Information: OMB
Number: 1670-NEW.
Chemical-Terrorism Vulnerability Information Authorization
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Private Sector.
Number of Respondents: 8,073.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 1 hour.
Total Burden Hours: 8,073 hours.
Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup): $0.00.
Total Burden Cost (Operating/Maintaining): $645,840.
Determination of CVI
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: CVI Authorized Users.
Number of Respondents: 250.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.25 hours.
Total Burden Hours: 62.5 hours.
Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup): $0.00.
Total Burden Cost (Operating/Maintaining): $5,000.
Determination of a ``Need To Know''
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: CVI Authorized Users.
Number of Respondents: 12,500.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.25 hours.
Total Burden Hours: 3,125 hours.
Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup): $0.00.
Total Burden Cost (Operating/Maintaining): $250,000.
Disclosure of CVI Information
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: CVI Authorized Users.
Number of Respondents: 250.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.25 hours.
Total Burden Hours: 62.5 hours.
Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup): $0.00.
Total Burden Cost (Operating/Maintaining): $5,000.
Notification of Emergency or Exigent Circumstances
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: CVI Authorized Users.
Number of Respondents: 250.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.25 hours.
Total Burden Hours: 62.5 hours
Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup): $0.00.
Total Burden Cost (Operating/Maintaining): $5,000.
Tracking Log for CVI Received
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: CVI Authorized Users.
Number of Respondents: 25,000.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.08 hours.
Total Burden Hours: 24,000 hours.
Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup): $0.00.
Total Burden Cost (Operating/Maintaining): $1,920,000.
Signed: June 24, 2009.
Philip Reitinger,
Deputy Under Secretary, National Protection and Programs Directorate,
Department of Homeland Security.
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