[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 188 (Friday, September 26, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 55860]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-22609]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

[Docket No. DHS-2008-0102]


National Protection and Programs Directorate; Designation of the 
Sector-Specific Agency for the Critical Manufacturing Sector and 
Resulting Changes in the National Infrastructure Protection Plan

AGENCY: National Protection and Programs Directorate, Office of 
Infrastructure Protection, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of Sector Specific Agency designation for Critical 
Manufacturing.

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SUMMARY: This notice informs the public that the Secretary, Department 
of Homeland Security (DHS), has designated the DHS Office of 
Infrastructure Protection (IP) as the Sector-Specific Agency (SSA) for 
the Critical Manufacturing Sector under the National Infrastructure 
Protection Plan (NIPP). IP will now move forward with the organization 
and coordination processes identified in the NIPP for establishing a 
new critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) sector. These 
initial steps will include establishing Government and Sector 
Coordinating Councils, which will begin the process of full integration 
into the CIKR Sector Partnership, implementation of the NIPP Risk 
Management Framework and development of the Critical Manufacturing 
Sector Specific Plan.
    This designation also includes language changes to the NIPP 
identifying the new sector, which will take affect immediately and 
remain in effect until the NIPP is rewritten and published in 2009. 
These changes will include adding the Critical Manufacturing sector and 
its SSA to those sections of the NIPP where sectors and their SSAs are 
listed, referenced, or described, and amending the last sentence of the 
definition of ``Sector'' in the Glossary to read, ``The NIPP addresses 
the 17 CIKR sectors enumerated in HSPD-7 and any additional sectors 
created by the Secretary of Homeland Security pursuant to HSPD-7.''

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry L. May, Deputy Director, NIPP 
Program Office, Partnership and Outreach Division, Office of 
Infrastructure Protection, National Protection and Programs 
Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528, 
703-235-3648 or [email protected].

    Dated: September 17, 2008.
R. James Caverly,
Director, Partnership and Outreach Division, Office of Infrastructure 
Protection, Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. E8-22609 Filed 9-25-08; 8:45 am]
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