Intent To Request Revision From the Office of Management and Budget of One Current Public Collection of Information: Secure Flight Program, 64083-64084 [2022-22924]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
• Transportation Security Administration

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 203 (Friday, October 21, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64083-64084]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-22924]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Transportation Security Administration

[Docket No. TSA-2007-28572]


Intent To Request Revision From the Office of Management and 
Budget of One Current Public Collection of Information: Secure Flight 
Program

AGENCY: Transportation Security Administration, DHS.

ACTION: 60-Day notice.

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SUMMARY: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) invites 
public comment on one currently approved Information Collection Request 
(ICR), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number 1652-0046, 
abstracted below, that we will submit to OMB for a revision in 
compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The ICR describes 
the nature of the information collection and its expected burden. The 
information collection involves passenger information that certain U.S. 
aircraft operators and foreign air carriers (collectively referred to 
in this document as ``covered aircraft operators'') submit to Secure 
Flight for the purposes of identifying and protecting against potential 
threats to transportation and national security. The information 
collection also involves lists used by TSA to determine the 
prescreening status of individuals. TSA is revising the collection to 
reduce the number of non-governmental entities with access to the 
federal watch lists.

DATES: Send your comments by December 20, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be emailed to [email protected] or delivered 
to the TSA PRA Officer, Information Technology (IT), TSA-11, 
Transportation Security Administration, 6595 Springfield Center Drive, 
Springfield, VA 20598-6011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christina A. Walsh at the above 
address, or by telephone (571) 227-2062.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Comments Invited

    In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 
3501 et seq.), an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is 
not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it 
displays a valid OMB control number. The ICR documentation will be 
available at https://www.reginfo.gov upon its submission to OMB. 
Therefore, in preparation for OMB review and approval of the following 
information collection, TSA is soliciting comments to:
    (1) Evaluate whether the proposed information requirement 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;
    (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 the use of appropriate automated, 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology.

Information Collection Requirement

    OMB Control Number 1652-0046; Secure Flight Program, 49 CFR part 
1560. Under the Secure Flight Program, the TSA collects information 
from covered aircraft operators, which includes U.S. aircraft 
operators, foreign air carriers and U.S. airports in order to prescreen 
passengers and individuals seeking access to the sterile area of the 
airport. Specifically, the information collected is used to facilitate 
the process for assessing passengers' risk by matching against lists of 
persons who

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pose or are suspected of posing an elevated risk to transportation or 
national security, for matching against lists of Known Travelers to 
identify passengers who may be eligible for expedited screening, and to 
disambiguate individuals with identifying information similar to those 
on high- and low-risk lists to ensure that each passenger receives the 
appropriate screening and protect against misidentification. The 
collection covers the following:
    (1) Secure Flight Passenger Data (SFPD) for passengers of covered 
flights within, to, from, or over the continental U.S., as well as 
flights between two foreign locations when operated by a covered U.S. 
aircraft operator.
    (2) SFPD for passengers of charter operators and lessors of 
aircraft with a maximum takeoff weight of over 12,500 pounds.
    (3) Certain identifying information for non-traveling individuals 
that airport operators or airport operator points of contact seek to 
authorize to enter a sterile area at a U.S. airport (e.g., to patronize 
a restaurant, to escort a minor or a passenger with disabilities, or 
for another approved purpose).
    (4) Registration information critical to deployment of Secure 
Flight, such as contact information, data format, or the mechanism the 
covered aircraft operators use to transmit SFPD and other data.
    (5) Lists of low-risk individuals who are eligible for expedited 
screening provided by Federal and non-federal entities. In support of 
TSA Pre[check][supreg], TSA implemented expedited screening of known or 
low-risk travelers. Federal and non-federal entities may maintain lists 
of eligible individuals pursuant to agreements with DHS and TSA, and 
provide TSA with those lists of eligible low-risk individuals to be 
used as part of Secure Flight processes. Secure Flight identifies 
individuals who should receive expedited screening and transmits the 
appropriate boarding pass printing result to the aircraft operators.
    The collection is being revised due to a change in the population 
burden. Specifically, TSA has begun an initiative to decrease the 
number of non-governmental entities with access to the federal watch 
lists. Pursuant to previous and current TSA regulatory requirements, 
these entities have used the lists to support prescreening of aviation 
passengers and non-traveling individuals seeking access to the sterile 
area of an airport, and to vet certain employees. As a result of the 
initiative, the respondent populations of Twelve-Five and Private 
Charter operators authorized to participate in the Secure Flight 
program will be increased. TSA Secure Flight is working with this 
population to help them identify the best method for sending data to 
Secure Flight. Those methods include electronic Secure Flight and use 
of the DHS router. TSA Secure Flight expects the vast majority of this 
population to use electronic Secure Flight or the DHS Router.
    TSA estimates an average of 901 respondents (262 current and new 
covered aircraft operators + 554 Twelve-five and Private Charter 
aircraft operators + 75 airports + 10 non-federal entities) per year 
with an estimated average annual reporting burden of 44,840 hours.

    Dated: October 18, 2022.
Christina A. Walsh,
TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2022-22924 Filed 10-20-22; 8:45 am]
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