[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 174 (Tuesday, September 9, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53147-53148]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-22900]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Proposed Collection; Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and 
Readiness), DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

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    In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel 
and Readiness) announces the following proposed reinstatement of a 
public information collection and seeks public comment on the 
provisions thereof. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed 
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of 
the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall 
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of 
burden of the proposed information collection; (c) ways to enhance the 
quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and 
(d) ways to minimize the burden of the information collection on 
respondents, including through the use of automated collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology.

DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by November 
10, 2003.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations on the proposed 
information collection should be sent to the Office of the Under 
Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness), ODUSD (PI)/Defense 
Human Resources Activity, ATTN: Ms. Heidi Boyd, 4040 Fairfax Boulevard, 
Suite 200, Arlington VA 22203.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on this 
proposed information collection or to obtain a copy of the proposal and 
associated collection instruments, please write to the above address or 
call (703) 696-0404.
    Title, Associated Form and OMB Control Number: Application for 
Department of Defense Common Access Card--DEERS Enrollment, DD Form 
1172-2 OMB Number 0704-0415.
    Needs and Uses: This information collection requirement is needed 
to obtain the necessary data to establish eligibility for the DoD 
Common Access Card for those individuals not pre-enrolled in the DEERS, 
and to maintain a centralized database of eligible individuals. This 
information is used to establish eligibility for the DoD Common Access 
Card for individuals either employed by or associated with the 
Department of Defense; is used to control access to DoD facilities and 
systems; and it provides a source of data for demographic reports and 
mobilization dependent support.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Annual Burden Hours: 100,000.
    Number of Respondents: 300,000.
    Responses Per Respondent: 1.
    Average Burden Per Response: 20 minutes.
    Frequency: On occassion.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Summary of Information Collected

    The Department of Defense, over the past three years, has been 
taking requisite measures to enhance physical and information security 
and applying prudent countermeasures for all potential vulnerabilities 
focusing on security actions to address the changes in today's threat 
environment. The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, 
Communications and Intelligence (C3I) August 12, 2000 memorandum, 
Subject: Department of Defense (DoD) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), 
directed use of a common, integrated, interoperable DoD PKI to enable 
security services at multiple levels of assurance. PKI is a key and 
certificate management infrastructure designed to support 
confidentiality, integrity, availability, authorization, and access 
control in computer networks. It is imperative to the security of the 
nation's defense that the systems of the Department of Defense be PKI-
enabled as soon as possible. This data collection is essential to the 
effort to prohibit access to the Departments' systems to those not 
authorized. Public Law 106-65, Section 373 directed the Department to 
develop and implement a Smart Card

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program for the DoD. The Deputy Secretary of Defense November 10, 1999 
memorandum, Subject: Smart Card Adoption and Implementation, directed 
the Department to implement smart card technology as a Department-wide 
Common Access Card (CAC) that shall be the standard ID card for active 
duty Uniformed Services personnel (to include the Selected Reserve), 
DoD civilian employees, and eligible contractor personnel. The CAC will 
be the principal card used to (1) enable physical access to buildings 
and controlled spaces and (2) gain access to the Department's computer 
networks and systems. Further guidance was provided in the USD 
(Personnel and Readiness) and DoD CIO April 18, 2002 joint memorandum 
to allow non-DoD federal employees requiring logical access to become 
eligible for the CAC. The Deputy Secretary directed the CAC be issued 
and maintained using the infrastructure provided by the Defense 
Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) and the Realtime 
Automated Personnel Identification System (RAPIDS). Initial 
implementation of the CAC began December 2000 and mass issuance is 
scheduled to be complete by April 2004.
    This information collection is required to obtain the necessary 
data to establish eligibility for the CAC for those individuals not 
pre-enrolled in the DEERS, and to maintain a centralized database of 
eligible individuals.

    Dated: September 2, 2003.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 03-22900 Filed 9-8-03; 8:45 am]
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