[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 243 (Wednesday, December 19, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71936-71937]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-24632]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

[Docket No. DHS-2006-0079]


The Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (CIPAC)

AGENCY: Directorate for National Protection and Programs, DHS.

ACTION: Update of CIPAC council membership.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the 
establishment of the Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory 
Council (CIPAC) by notice published in the Federal Register on March 
24, 2006. That notice identified the purpose of CIPAC as well as its 
membership. This notice provides (i) the quarterly CIPAC membership 
update, (ii) instructions on how the public can obtain the CIPAC 
membership roster and other information on the Council, and (iii) 
information on the State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Government 
Coordinating Council (SLTTGCC) and their membership within CIPAC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brett Lambo, Partnership and Outreach 
Division, Office of Infrastructure Protection, National Protection and 
Programs Directorate, United States Department of Homeland Security, 
Washington, DC 20528, telephone (703) 235-3643 or via e-mail at 
[email protected].
    Responsible DHS Official: Nancy J. Wong, Director Partnership 
Programs and Information Sharing Office, Partnership and Outreach 
Division,

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Office of Infrastructure Protection, National Protection and Programs 
Directorate, United States Department of Homeland Security, Washington, 
DC 20528, telephone (703) 235-3667.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CIPAC facilitates interaction between 
government officials and representatives of the community of owners and 
operators for each of the critical infrastructure/key resource (CI/KR) 
sectors identified in the National Infrastructure Protection Plan. The 
scope of CIPAC's activities includes planning; coordinating among 
government and CI/KR owner/operator security partners; implementing 
security program initiatives; conducting operational activities related 
to critical infrastructure protection security measures, incident 
response, recovery, infrastructure resilience, reconstituting CI/KR 
assets and systems for both man-made as well as naturally occurring 
events; and sharing threat, vulnerability, risk mitigation, and 
infrastructure continuity information and best practices.
    CIPAC Sub-Councils: Each critical infrastructure sector maintains a 
Sector Coordinating Council (SCC). SCC infrastructure owner and/or 
operator membership includes critical infrastructure owners and/or 
operators as well as owner and/or operator's representative trade 
associations deemed by each SCC as necessary participants to 
accommodate the above scope of activities. Each critical infrastructure 
sector also maintains a Government Coordinating Council (GCC) whose 
membership is formed and recognized by the Department of Homeland 
Security in conjunction with the sector's Sector Specific Agency (SSA). 
A sector's GCC membership includes the SSA and all relevant Federal, 
State, local, Tribal, and/or Territorial government agencies (or their 
representative bodies) whose mission interests also involve the scope 
of the CIPAC activities identified above for that particular sector.
    The SLTTGCC: As defined above; relevant Federal, State, local, 
Tribal, and Territorial government entities within each Sector have 
always been included as CIPAC members. DHS has recently established the 
State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Government Coordinating Council 
(SLTTGCC) in order to enhance coordination between CI/KR experts from 
the private sector and all levels of government. The SLTTGCC functions 
as a forum for State, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) government 
leaders to engage the Federal government and CI/KR owners and/or 
operators within the National CI/KR sector partnership framework. 
SLTTGCC members assume a central role in promoting National 
communication and coordination on critical infrastructure protection 
policies, strategies, and programs. The SLTTGCC enhances National 
efforts to secure, protect, sustain, and support the resilience of the 
Nation's CI/KR. DHS policy requires and the SLTTGCC strives to achieve 
National geographic diversity as well as broad cross-disciplinary 
representation among the SLTTGCC membership. The SLTTGCC includes SLTT 
homeland security directors or equivalents who have programmatic 
policy, planning and operational responsibilities related to CI/KR 
protection. SLTTGCC members are recognized leaders who are accountable 
for the development, improvement, and maintenance of SLTT critical 
infrastructure protection policies or programs in their day-to-day 
governmental mission activities. DHS encourages any such officials who 
are committed to serve as national representatives to seek SLTTGCC 
membership by submitting a resume or CV accompanied by an email or 
letter detailing their interest to [email protected]. Additional 
information on the SLTTGCC is available at http://www.dhs.gov/slttgcc.
    CIPAC Membership: CIPAC Membership includes (i) CI/KR owner and/or 
operator entities; (ii) trade associations representing the interests 
of CI/KR owners and/or operators that own and invest in infrastructure 
assets or in the systems and processes to secure them, or representing 
CI/KR owners and/or operators whom are held responsible by the public 
for CI/KR operations and the response and recovery when their CI/KR 
assets and systems are disrupted; and (iii) each sector's GCC; and, 
based upon DHS' recent establishment of this council, (iv) State, 
local, Tribal, and Territorial governmental officials comprising the 
DHS SLTTGCC.
    CIPAC Membership Roster and Council Information: The current roster 
of CIPAC membership is published on the CIPAC Web site (http://www.dhs.gov/cipac) and is updated as the CIPAC membership changes. 
Members of the public may visit the CIPAC Web site at any time to 
obtain current CIPAC membership as well as the current and historic 
list of CIPAC meetings and agendas.

    Dated: December 20, 2007.
Nancy Wong,
Designated Federal Officer for the CIPAC.
[FR Doc. E7-24632 Filed 12-18-07; 8:45 am]
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