Infrastructure Protection Data Call Survey, 17933-17934 [2011-7593]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 62 (Thursday, March 31, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17933-17934]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-7593]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

[Docket No. DHS-2011-0010]


Infrastructure Protection Data Call Survey

AGENCY: National Protection and Programs Directorate, 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 (DHS), National Protection 
and Programs Directorate (NPPD), Office of Infrastructure Protection 
(IP), 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 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 
U.S.C. Chapter 35).

DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted until May 31, 2011. 
This process is conducted in accordance with 5 CFR 1320.1

ADDRESSES: Written comments and questions about this Information 
Collection Request should be forwarded to DHS/NPPD/IP, 245 Murray Lane, 
SW., Mail Stop 0602, Arlington, VA 20598-0602. E-mailed requests should 
go to Cristiena Galeckas at cristiena.galeckas@dhs.gov. Written 
comments should reach the contact person listed no later than May 31, 
2011. Comments must be identified by DHS-2011-0010 and may be submitted 
by one of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
     E-mail: cristiena.galeckas@dhs.gov. Include the docket 
number in the subject line of the message.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the words 
``Department of Homeland Security'' and the docket number for this 
action. Comments received will be posted without alteration at https://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    The Homeland Security Act of 2002 assigns DHS the responsibility to 
lead the national effort to identify, prioritize, and assess the nature 
and scope of threats to the United States and develop a comprehensive 
national plan for securing the Nation's critical infrastructure and key 
resources (CIKR). At DHS, this responsibility is managed by IP within 
NPPD. In Fiscal Year 2006, IP engaged in the annual development of a 
list of CIKR assets and systems to improve IP's CIKR prioritization 
efforts; this list is called the Critical Infrastructure List. The 
Critical Infrastructure List includes assets and systems that, if 
destroyed, damaged or otherwise compromised, could result in 
significant consequences on a regional or national scale.
    The IP Data Call is administered out of the IP Infrastructure 
Information Collection Division (IICD). The IP Data Call provides 
opportunities for states and territories to collaborate with DHS and 
its Federal partners in CIKR protection. DHS, state, and territorial 
Homeland Security Advisors (HSA), Sector Specific Agencies (SSA), and 
territories build their CIKR data using

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the IP Data Call application. To ensure that HSAs, SSAs, and 
territories are able to achieve this mission, IP requests opinions and 
information in a survey from IP Data Call participants regarding the IP 
Data Call process and the web-based application used to collect the 
CIKR data. The survey data collected is for internal IP/IICD use only.
    IP/IICD will use the results of the IP Data Call Survey to 
determine levels of customer satisfaction with the IP Data Call process 
and the IP Data Call application and prioritize future improvements. 
The results will also allow IP to appropriate funds cost effectively 
based on user need, and improve the process and application.
    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, National Protection and 
Programs Directorate, Office of Infrastructure Protection.
    Title: Infrastructure Protection Data Call.
    OMB Number: 1670-NEW.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Affected Public: Federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial 
government.
    Number of Respondents: 558 respondents.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 15 minutes.
    Total Burden Hours: 140 annual burden hours.
    Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): $30,000.
    Total Burden Cost (operating/maintaining): $25,513.

    Dated: March 22, 2011.
David Epperson,
Chief Information Officer, National Protection and Programs 
Directorate, Department of Homeland Security.
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