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Comments Received
Pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d), TSA
published a 60-day notice soliciting
comments from persons outside of the
agency regarding the data collection
procedures of EXIS. This notice was
published on January 6, 2011 (76 FR
792). TSA received two comments. The
first comment was from a contractor in
the Infrastructure Protection Disaster
Management Division of the Science
and Technology Directorate at DHS.
This comment sought more information
regarding the program manager of EXIS
and program manager role/capabilities
in exercise training. TSA responded by
referring the commentator to the
appropriate EXIS personnel for further
detail on the EXIS program manager
role. The second comment came from a
transportation security inspector in
South Carolina seeking more
information on the capabilities of EXIS.
TSA responded by electronically
sending the commentator an EXIS
information brochure and referring the
commentator to the EXIS email address
for any additional questions. To our
knowledge, no additional comments
have been received.
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Information Collection Requirement
Title: Exercise Information System
(EXIS).
Type of Request: New collection.
OMB Control Number: Not yet
assigned.
Form(s): N/A.
Affected Public: Interested
transportation owners and operators
with security interests and
responsibilities.
Abstract: The Exercise Information
System (EXIS) is an Internet-accessible
knowledge-management system
developed by TSA serving
stakeholders—industry, port authorities,
Federal agencies, and State and local
governments—and integrating other
security-related training and exercise
components. Because EXIS may contain
Sensitive Security Information (SSI),1
the system meets the requirements for
an SSI-level system. EXIS gives
stakeholders valuable exercise
information tailored to the
transportation industry, best practices,
and lessons learned based on experience
for use in future exercises.
Transportation industry stakeholders
can choose scenarios and objectives
based on their particular needs, such as
their transportation modes, or their
regulated areas of operation. EXIS is a
data management system that provides
end-to-end security exercise support,
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from the initial planning meeting,
through exercise design,
implementation, evaluation, and
reporting.
TSA will use this information to
assess and improve the capabilities of
all surface transportation modes to
prevent, prepare for, mitigate against,
respond to, and recover from
transportation security incidents. A
failure to collect this information will
limit TSA’s ability to effectively test
security countermeasures, security
plans, and the ability of a modal
operator to respond to and quickly
recover after a transportation security
incident. Insufficient awareness,
prevention, response, and recovery to a
transportation security incident will
result in increased vulnerability of the
U.S. transportation network and a
reduced ability of DHS to assess system
readiness.
Since the system has not been
released to the public yet, it is difficult
to determine the amount of volume that
will be generated from its release. Based
on industry population estimates and
industry growth rates transportation
modes prior to EXIS release to the
public, TSA estimates that there will be
approximately 336,000 users within the
first three years of the system’s use. TSA
estimates users will spend
approximately 7 hours per EXIS user
inputting the information described
above.
Number of Respondents: 112,109.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: An
estimated 392,385 hours annually.
Issued in Arlington, Virginia, on
December 13, 2011.
Joanna Johnson,
TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Office
of Information Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Form N–470, Revision of a
Currently Approved Information
Collection; Comment Request
30–Day Notice of Information
Collection Under Review: Form N–470,
Application To Preserve Residence for
Naturalization; OMB Control No. 1615–
0056.
ACTION:
The Department of Homeland
Security, U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS) will be
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submitting the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995. An information collection notice
was previously published in the Federal
Register on October 12, 2011, at 76 FR
63321, allowing for a 60-day public
comment period. USCIS received
comments from one commenter on the
60-day notice. A discussion of the
comments and USCIS’ responses are
addressed in item 8 of the supporting
statement that can be viewed at:
https://www.regulations.gov.
The purpose of this notice is to allow
an additional 30 days for public
comments. Comments are encouraged
and will be accepted until January 18,
2012. This process is conducted in
accordance with 5 CFR 1320.10.
Written comments and/or suggestions
regarding the item(s) contained in this
notice, especially regarding the
estimated public burden and associated
response time, should be directed to the
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), and to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB), USCIS Desk Officer.
Comments may be submitted to: USCIS,
Chief, Regulatory Products Division,
Clearance Office, 20 Massachusetts
Avenue, Washington, DC 20529–2020.
Comments may also be submitted to
DHS via facsimile to (202) 272–0997 or
via email at uscisfrcomment@dhs.gov,
and to the OMB USCIS Desk Officer via
facsimile at (202) 395–5806 or via email
at oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.
When submitting comments by email
please make sure to add OMB Control
Number 1615–0056 in the subject box.
Written comments and suggestions from
the public and affected agencies should
address one or more of the following
four points:
(1) Evaluate whether the 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
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 submission of
responses.
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Overview of this information
collection:
(1) Type of Information Collection:
Revision of an existing information
collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection:
Application to Preserve Residence for
Naturalization.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the
Department of Homeland Security
sponsoring the collection: Form N–470.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services.
(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Primary: Individuals or
households. The information collected
on Form N–470 will be used to
determine whether an alien who intends
to be absent from the United States for
a period of one year or more is eligible
to preserve residence for naturalization
purposes.
(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: 525 responses at 36 minutes (.6
hours) per response.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: 315 annual burden hours.
If you need a copy of the information
collection instrument, please visit the
Web site at: https://www.regulations.gov/.
We may also be contacted at: USCIS,
Regulatory Products Division, 20
Massachusetts Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20529–2020, telephone
number (202) 272–8377.
Dated: December 13, 2011.
Sunday Aigbe,
Chief, Regulatory Products Division, Office
of the Executive Secretariat, U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5529–N–03]
Notice of Regulatory Waiver Requests
Granted for the Third Quarter of
Calendar Year 2011
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AGENCY:
Office of the General Counsel,
HUD.
ACTION:
Notice.
Section 106 of the Department
of Housing and Urban Development
Reform Act of 1989 (the HUD Reform
Act) requires HUD to publish quarterly
Federal Register notices of all
regulatory waivers that HUD has
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approved. Each notice covers the
quarterly period since the previous
Federal Register notice. The purpose of
this notice is to comply with the
requirements of section 106 of the HUD
Reform Act. This notice contains a list
of regulatory waivers granted by HUD
during the period beginning on July 1,
2011, and ending on September 30,
2011.
For
general information about this notice,
contact Camille E. Acevedo, Associate
General Counsel for Legislation and
Regulations, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW.,
Room 10282, Washington, DC 20410–
0500, telephone (202) 708–1793 (this is
not a toll-free number). Persons with
hearing- or speech-impairments may
access this number through TTY by
calling the toll-free Federal Relay
Service at (800) 877–8339.
For information concerning a
particular waiver that was granted and
for which public notice is provided in
this document, contact the person
whose name and address follow the
description of the waiver granted in the
accompanying list of waivers that have
been granted in the third quarter of
calendar year 2011.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
106 of the HUD Reform Act added a
new section 7(q) to the Department of
Housing and Urban Development Act
(42 U.S.C. 3535(q)), which provides
that:
1. Any waiver of a regulation must be
in writing and must specify the grounds
for approving the waiver;
2. Authority to approve a waiver of a
regulation may be delegated by the
Secretary only to an individual of
Assistant Secretary or equivalent rank,
and the person to whom authority to
waive is delegated must also have
authority to issue the particular
regulation to be waived;
3. Not less than quarterly, the
Secretary must notify the public of all
waivers of regulations that HUD has
approved, by publishing a notice in the
Federal Register. These notices (each
covering the period since the most
recent previous notification) shall:
a. Identify the project, activity, or
undertaking involved;
b. Describe the nature of the provision
waived and the designation of the
provision;
c. Indicate the name and title of the
person who granted the waiver request;
d. Describe briefly the grounds for
approval of the request; and
e. State how additional information
about a particular waiver may be
obtained.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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Section 106 of the HUD Reform Act
also contains requirements applicable to
waivers of HUD handbook provisions
that are not relevant to the purpose of
this notice.
This notice follows procedures
provided in HUD’s Statement of Policy
on Waiver of Regulations and Directives
issued on April 22, 1991 (56 FR 16337).
In accordance with those procedures
and with the requirements of section
106 of the HUD Reform Act, waivers of
regulations are granted by the Assistant
Secretary with jurisdiction over the
regulations for which a waiver was
requested. In those cases in which a
General Deputy Assistant Secretary
granted the waiver, the General Deputy
Assistant Secretary was serving in the
absence of the Assistant Secretary in
accordance with the office’s Order of
Succession.
This notice covers waivers of
regulations granted by HUD from July 1,
2011 through September 30, 2011. For
ease of reference, the waivers granted by
HUD are listed by HUD program office
(for example, the Office of Community
Planning and Development, the Office
of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity,
the Office of Housing, and the Office of
Public and Indian Housing, etc.). Within
each program office grouping, the
waivers are listed sequentially by the
regulatory section of title 24 of the Code
of Federal Regulations (CFR) that is
being waived. For example, a waiver of
a provision in 24 CFR part 58 would be
listed before a waiver of a provision in
24 CFR part 570.
Where more than one regulatory
provision is involved in the grant of a
particular waiver request, the action is
listed under the section number of the
first regulatory requirement that appears
in 24 CFR and that is being waived. For
example, a waiver of both § 58.73 and
§ 58.74 would appear sequentially in the
listing under § 58.73.
Waiver of regulations that involve the
same initial regulatory citation are set
out in time sequence beginning with the
earliest-dated regulatory waiver.
Should HUD receive additional
information about waivers granted
during the period covered by this report
(the third quarter of calendar year 2011)
before the next report is published (the
fourth quarter of calendar year 2011),
HUD will include any additional
waivers granted for the third quarter in
the next report.
Accordingly, information about
approved waiver requests pertaining to
HUD regulations is provided in the
Appendix that follows this notice.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Agency Information Collection Activities: Form N-470, Revision of
a Currently Approved Information Collection; Comment Request
ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form N-
470, Application To Preserve Residence for Naturalization; OMB Control
No. 1615-0056.
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The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS) will be submitting the following
information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. An information collection notice was previously
published in the Federal Register on October 12, 2011, at 76 FR 63321,
allowing for a 60-day public comment period. USCIS received comments
from one commenter on the 60-day notice. A discussion of the comments
and USCIS' responses are addressed in item 8 of the supporting
statement that can be viewed at: https://www.regulations.gov.
The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for
public comments. Comments are encouraged and will be accepted until
January 18, 2012. This process is conducted in accordance with 5 CFR
1320.10.
Written comments and/or suggestions regarding the item(s) contained
in this notice, especially regarding the estimated public burden and
associated response time, should be directed to the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS), and to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), USCIS Desk Officer. Comments may be submitted to: USCIS, Chief,
Regulatory Products Division, Clearance Office, 20 Massachusetts
Avenue, Washington, DC 20529-2020. Comments may also be submitted to
DHS via facsimile to (202) 272-0997 or via email at
uscisfrcomment@dhs.gov, and to the OMB USCIS Desk Officer via facsimile
at (202) 395-5806 or via email at oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.
When submitting comments by email please make sure to add OMB
Control Number 1615-0056 in the subject box. Written comments and
suggestions from the public and affected agencies should address one or
more of the following four points:
(1) Evaluate whether the 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 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
submission of responses.
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Overview of this information collection:
(1) Type of Information Collection: Revision of an existing
information collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection: Application to Preserve Residence
for Naturalization.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the
Department of Homeland Security sponsoring the collection: Form N-470.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
(4) Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as
well as a brief abstract: Primary: Individuals or households. The
information collected on Form N-470 will be used to determine whether
an alien who intends to be absent from the United States for a period
of one year or more is eligible to preserve residence for
naturalization purposes.
(5) An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount
of time estimated for an average respondent to respond: 525 responses
at 36 minutes (.6 hours) per response.
(6) An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated
with the collection: 315 annual burden hours.
If you need a copy of the information collection instrument, please
visit the Web site at: https://www.regulations.gov/.
We may also be contacted at: USCIS, Regulatory Products Division,
20 Massachusetts Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20529-2020, telephone
number (202) 272-8377.
Dated: December 13, 2011.
Sunday Aigbe,
Chief, Regulatory Products Division, Office of the Executive
Secretariat, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
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