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estimates based upon an information
collection assessment:
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that it will take respondents an average
of a half hour per response.
Respondents: Official establishments,
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Estimated Number of Respondents:
76,439.
Estimated Number of Annual
Responses per Respondent: 1.8.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 68,755 hours.
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Building, Washington, DC 20250;
(202)720–5627.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Economic Analysis
[Docket No. 170110047–7097–01]
XRIN 0691–XC053
Request for Comments; Notice of
Revision of Confidentiality Pledge
Bureau of Economic Analysis,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:
The Department of Commerce
(DOC) is announcing a revision to the
confidentiality pledge it provides to its
survey respondents under the
International Investment and Trade in
Services Survey Act. This revision is
required by the enactment and
implementation of provisions of the
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of
2015, which permit and require the
Secretary of Homeland Security to
provide Federal civilian agencies’
information technology systems with
cybersecurity protection for their
Internet traffic, with the result of
enhancing the protection of confidential
data. DOC also invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
comment on this revision to the
confidentiality pledge.
DATES: Effective Date: February 13,
2017.
Comment Date: Written comments
must be submitted on or before April 14,
2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
to:
• Email: PRAcomments@doc.gov.
• Mail: Jennifer Jessup, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer,
Department of Commerce, Room 6616,
14th and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Patricia Abaroa, Chief, Direct
Investment Division (BE–50), Bureau of
Economic Analysis, Department of
Commerce, 4600 Silver Hill Road.
Washington, DC 20233; phone: (301)
278–9591 or via email at
patricia.abaroa@bea.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Federal
statistics provide key information that
the Nation uses to measure its
performance and make informed
choices about budgets, employment,
health, investments, taxes, and a host of
other significant topics. Many of the
most valuable Federal statistics,
including those of the Bureau of
Economic Analysis (BEA), come from
surveys that ask for highly sensitive
information such as proprietary
business data. Strong and trusted
SUMMARY:
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confidentiality and exclusively
statistical use pledges are effective and
necessary in honoring the trust that
businesses, individuals, and
institutions, by their responses, place in
the BEA.
Under the International Investment
and Trade in Services Survey Act (22
U.S.C. 3101–3108, as amended), BEA
makes statutory pledges that the
information respondents provide will be
seen only by statistical agency
personnel or their sworn agents, and
will be used only for statistical
purposes. This statute protects the
confidentiality of information that BEA
collects solely for statistical purposes
and under a pledge of confidentiality;
this information is protected from
administrative, law enforcement,
taxation, regulatory, or any other nonstatistical use. Moreover, this statute
carries criminal penalties for conviction
of a knowing and willful unauthorized
disclosure of covered information.
As part of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2016,
signed on December 18, 2015, the
Congress included the Federal
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015
(Pub. L. 114–113, Division N, Title II,
Subtitle B, Sec. 223). This Act requires
the Secretary of Homeland Security to
provide Federal civilian agencies’
information technology systems with
cybersecurity protection for their
Internet traffic. The technology
currently used to provide this protection
is known as Einstein 3A; it
electronically searches Internet traffic in
and out of Federal civilian agencies in
real time for cyber threat indicators.
When such a signature is found, the
Internet packets that contain the
malware signature are segregated for
further inspection by Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) personnel.
Because it is possible that such packets
entering or leaving BEA’s information
system may contain a small portion of
confidential statistical data, it can no
longer promise its respondents that their
responses will be seen only by BEA
personnel or its sworn agents. However,
BEA can promise, in accordance with
provisions of the Federal Cybersecurity
Enhancement Act of 2015, that such
information can be used only to protect
information and information systems
from cybersecurity risks.
Consequently, with enactment and
implementation of the Federal
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015
has provided the Federal statistical
community with an opportunity to
obtain the further protection of its
confidential data that is offered by DHS’
Einstein 3A cybersecurity protection
program. The DHS cybersecurity
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program’s objective is to provide a
common baseline of security across the
federal civilian executive branch and to
help agencies manage their cyber risk.
The Federal statistical system’s
objective is to ensure that the DHS
Secretary performs those essential
duties in a manner that honors the
Government’s statutory promises to the
public to protect their confidential data.
Given that DHS is not a Federal
statistical agency, both DHS and the
Federal statistical system have been
successfully working to find a way to
balance both objectives.
Accordingly, DHS and DOC have
developed a Memorandum of
Agreement for the deployment of
Einstein 3A cybersecurity protection
technology to monitor DOC’s Internet
traffic and have incorporated an
associated Addendum on Highly
Sensitive Agency Information that
provides additional protection and
enhanced security handling of
confidential statistical data provided to
BEA.
Since it is possible that DHS
personnel could see some portion of
those confidential data in the course of
examining the suspicious Internet
packets identified by Einstein 3A
sensors, statistical agencies need to
revise their confidentiality pledges to
reflect this process change. Therefore,
DOC is providing this notice to alert the
public to the confidentiality pledge
revision for BEA surveys. Below is a
listing of the current information
collection numbers and titles for those
BEA surveys with confidentiality
pledges that will change to reflect the
implementation of DHS’ Einstein 3A
monitoring for cybersecurity protection
purposes in accordance with the
requirements of the Federal
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of
2015. The BEA statistical confidentiality
pledge for these surveys will be
modified to include the following
sentence: ‘‘Per the Cybersecurity
Enhancement Act of 2015, your data are
protected from cybersecurity risks
through security monitoring of the BEA
information systems.’’
• 0608–0004: BE–577 Quarterly Survey
of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad
• 0608–0009: BE–605 Quarterly Survey
of Foreign Direct Investment in the
United States
• 0608–0011: BE–30 Quarterly Survey
of Ocean Freight Revenues and
Foreign Expenses of U.S. Carriers
• 0608–0011: BE–37 Quarterly Survey
of U.S. Airline Operators’ Foreign
Revenues and Expenses
• 0608–0012: BE–29 Foreign Ocean
Carriers’ Expenses in the United
States
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• 0608–0034: BE–15 Annual Survey of
Foreign Direct Investment in the
United States
• 0608–0035: BE–13 Survey of New
Foreign Direct Investment in the
United States
• 0608–0042: BE–12 Benchmark Survey
of Foreign Direct Investment in the
United States
• 0608–0049: BE–10 Benchmark Survey
of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad
• 0608–0053: BE–11 Annual Survey of
U.S. Direct Investment Abroad
• 0608–0058: BE–120 Benchmark
Survey of Transactions in Selected
Services and Intellectual Property
with Foreign Persons
• 0608–0068: BE–9 Quarterly Survey of
Foreign Airline Operators’ Revenues
and Expenses in the United States
• 0608–0062: BE–180 Benchmark
Survey of Financial Services
Transactions Between U.S. Financial
Services Providers and Foreign
Persons
• 0608–0065: BE–185 Quarterly Survey
of Financial Services Transactions
Between U.S. Financial Services
Providers and Foreign Persons
• 0608–0066: BE–45 Quarterly Survey
of Insurance Transactions by U.S.
Insurance Companies with Foreign
Persons
• 0608–0067: BE–125 Quarterly Survey
of Transactions in Selected Services
and Intellectual Property with Foreign
Persons
• 0608–0072: BE–150 Quarterly Survey
of Payment Card and Bank Card
Transactions Related to International
Travel
• 0608–0073: BE–140 Benchmark
Survey of Insurance Transactions by
U.S. Insurance Companies with
Foreign Persons
DOC invites the general public and
other Federal agencies to provide
comments on the revision to the
confidentiality pledge as described
above. Comments submitted in response
to this notice will be summarized and/
or included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
Sheleen Dumas,
PRA Departmental Lead, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Economic Analysis
[Docket No. 170110047-7097-01]
XRIN 0691-XC053
Request for Comments; Notice of Revision of Confidentiality
Pledge
AGENCY: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (DOC) is announcing a revision to
the confidentiality pledge it provides to its survey respondents under
the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act. This
revision is required by the enactment and implementation of provisions
of the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, which permit and require
the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide Federal civilian
agencies' information technology systems with cybersecurity protection
for their Internet traffic, with the result of enhancing the protection
of confidential data. DOC also invites the general public and other
Federal agencies to comment on this revision to the confidentiality
pledge.
DATES: Effective Date: February 13, 2017.
Comment Date: Written comments must be submitted on or before April
14, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments to:
Email: PRAcomments@doc.gov.
Mail: Jennifer Jessup, Departmental Paperwork Clearance
Officer, Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Abaroa, Chief, Direct
Investment Division (BE-50), Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of
Commerce, 4600 Silver Hill Road. Washington, DC 20233; phone: (301)
278-9591 or via email at patricia.abaroa@bea.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Federal statistics provide key information
that the Nation uses to measure its performance and make informed
choices about budgets, employment, health, investments, taxes, and a
host of other significant topics. Many of the most valuable Federal
statistics, including those of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA),
come from surveys that ask for highly sensitive information such as
proprietary business data. Strong and trusted
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confidentiality and exclusively statistical use pledges are effective
and necessary in honoring the trust that businesses, individuals, and
institutions, by their responses, place in the BEA.
Under the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act
(22 U.S.C. 3101-3108, as amended), BEA makes statutory pledges that the
information respondents provide will be seen only by statistical agency
personnel or their sworn agents, and will be used only for statistical
purposes. This statute protects the confidentiality of information that
BEA collects solely for statistical purposes and under a pledge of
confidentiality; this information is protected from administrative, law
enforcement, taxation, regulatory, or any other non-statistical use.
Moreover, this statute carries criminal penalties for conviction of a
knowing and willful unauthorized disclosure of covered information.
As part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year
2016, signed on December 18, 2015, the Congress included the Federal
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 (Pub. L. 114-113, Division N,
Title II, Subtitle B, Sec. 223). This Act requires the Secretary of
Homeland Security to provide Federal civilian agencies' information
technology systems with cybersecurity protection for their Internet
traffic. The technology currently used to provide this protection is
known as Einstein 3A; it electronically searches Internet traffic in
and out of Federal civilian agencies in real time for cyber threat
indicators.
When such a signature is found, the Internet packets that contain
the malware signature are segregated for further inspection by
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel. Because it is possible
that such packets entering or leaving BEA's information system may
contain a small portion of confidential statistical data, it can no
longer promise its respondents that their responses will be seen only
by BEA personnel or its sworn agents. However, BEA can promise, in
accordance with provisions of the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
of 2015, that such information can be used only to protect information
and information systems from cybersecurity risks.
Consequently, with enactment and implementation of the Federal
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 has provided the Federal
statistical community with an opportunity to obtain the further
protection of its confidential data that is offered by DHS' Einstein 3A
cybersecurity protection program. The DHS cybersecurity program's
objective is to provide a common baseline of security across the
federal civilian executive branch and to help agencies manage their
cyber risk. The Federal statistical system's objective is to ensure
that the DHS Secretary performs those essential duties in a manner that
honors the Government's statutory promises to the public to protect
their confidential data. Given that DHS is not a Federal statistical
agency, both DHS and the Federal statistical system have been
successfully working to find a way to balance both objectives.
Accordingly, DHS and DOC have developed a Memorandum of Agreement
for the deployment of Einstein 3A cybersecurity protection technology
to monitor DOC's Internet traffic and have incorporated an associated
Addendum on Highly Sensitive Agency Information that provides
additional protection and enhanced security handling of confidential
statistical data provided to BEA.
Since it is possible that DHS personnel could see some portion of
those confidential data in the course of examining the suspicious
Internet packets identified by Einstein 3A sensors, statistical
agencies need to revise their confidentiality pledges to reflect this
process change. Therefore, DOC is providing this notice to alert the
public to the confidentiality pledge revision for BEA surveys. Below is
a listing of the current information collection numbers and titles for
those BEA surveys with confidentiality pledges that will change to
reflect the implementation of DHS' Einstein 3A monitoring for
cybersecurity protection purposes in accordance with the requirements
of the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015. The BEA
statistical confidentiality pledge for these surveys will be modified
to include the following sentence: ``Per the Cybersecurity Enhancement
Act of 2015, your data are protected from cybersecurity risks through
security monitoring of the BEA information systems.''
0608-0004: BE-577 Quarterly Survey of U.S. Direct Investment
Abroad
0608-0009: BE-605 Quarterly Survey of Foreign Direct
Investment in the United States
0608-0011: BE-30 Quarterly Survey of Ocean Freight Revenues
and Foreign Expenses of U.S. Carriers
0608-0011: BE-37 Quarterly Survey of U.S. Airline Operators'
Foreign Revenues and Expenses
0608-0012: BE-29 Foreign Ocean Carriers' Expenses in the
United States
0608-0034: BE-15 Annual Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in
the United States
0608-0035: BE-13 Survey of New Foreign Direct Investment in
the United States
0608-0042: BE-12 Benchmark Survey of Foreign Direct Investment
in the United States
0608-0049: BE-10 Benchmark Survey of U.S. Direct Investment
Abroad
0608-0053: BE-11 Annual Survey of U.S. Direct Investment
Abroad
0608-0058: BE-120 Benchmark Survey of Transactions in Selected
Services and Intellectual Property with Foreign Persons
0608-0068: BE-9 Quarterly Survey of Foreign Airline Operators'
Revenues and Expenses in the United States
0608-0062: BE-180 Benchmark Survey of Financial Services
Transactions Between U.S. Financial Services Providers and Foreign
Persons
0608-0065: BE-185 Quarterly Survey of Financial Services
Transactions Between U.S. Financial Services Providers and Foreign
Persons
0608-0066: BE-45 Quarterly Survey of Insurance Transactions by
U.S. Insurance Companies with Foreign Persons
0608-0067: BE-125 Quarterly Survey of Transactions in Selected
Services and Intellectual Property with Foreign Persons
0608-0072: BE-150 Quarterly Survey of Payment Card and Bank
Card Transactions Related to International Travel
0608-0073: BE-140 Benchmark Survey of Insurance Transactions
by U.S. Insurance Companies with Foreign Persons
DOC invites the general public and other Federal agencies to
provide comments on the revision to the confidentiality pledge as
described above. Comments submitted in response to this notice will be
summarized and/or included in the request for OMB approval of this
information collection; they also will become a matter of public
record.
Sheleen Dumas,
PRA Departmental Lead, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-02821 Filed 2-10-17; 8:45 am]
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