[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 17, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7457-7458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-3337]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

[Docket No. DHS-2009-0005]


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 recently completed CIPAC meetings.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy Wong, Director Partnership 
Programs and Information Sharing Office, Partnership and Outreach 
Division, Office of Infrastructure Protection, National Protection and 
Programs Directorate, United States Department of Homeland Security, 
Washington, DC 20528, telephone (703) 235-3999 or via e-mail at 
[email protected].
    Responsible DHS Official: Nancy J. Wong, Director Partnership 
Programs and Information Sharing Office, Partnership and Outreach 
Division, Office of Infrastructure Protection, National Protection and 
Programs Directorate, United States Department of Homeland Security, 
Washington, DC 20528, telephone (703) 235-3999 or via e-mail at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Purpose and Activity: CIPAC facilitates 
interaction between government officials and representatives of the 
community of owners and/or operators for each of the critical 
infrastructure or key resource (CIKR) sectors defined by Homeland 
Security Presidential Directive 7 (HSPD-7) and identified in the 
National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP). The scope of activities 
covered by CIPAC includes planning; coordinating among government and 
CIKR owner/operator security partners; implementing security program 
initiatives; conducting operational activities related to critical 
infrastructure protection security measures, incident response, 
recovery, infrastructure resilience, reconstituting CIKR 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.
    Organizational Structure: CIPAC members are organized into eighteen 
HSPD-7 critical infrastructure and/or key resource sectors. Within all 
of the sectors containing private sector CIKR owners/operators there 
generally exists a Sector Coordinating Council (SCC) that includes CIKR 
owners and/or operators or their representative trade associations. 
Each of the sectors also has a Government Coordinating Council (GCC) 
whose membership includes a lead Federal agency that is defined as the 
Sector Specific Agency (SSA), and all of the 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 for that particular sector.

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    CIPAC Membership: CIPAC Membership includes (i) CIKR owner and/or 
operator members of an SCC; (ii) trade association members who are 
members of a SCC representing the interests of CIKR owners and/or 
operators. CIKR owners and operators own and invest in infrastructure 
assets or in the systems and processes to secure them. CIKR owners and/
or operators are held responsible by the public for CIKR operations and 
the response and recovery when their CIKR assets and systems are 
disrupted; (iii) each sector's Government Coordinating Council (GCC); 
and, based upon DHS' recent establishment of this council; (iv) State, 
local, Tribal, and Territorial governmental officials comprising the 
DHS State, Local, Tribal, Territorial GCC.
    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: February 2, 2009.
Nancy Wong,
Designated Federal Officer for the CIPAC.
[FR Doc. E9-3337 Filed 2-13-09; 8:45 am]
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