[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 77 (Thursday, April 22, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21011-21012]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-9321]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

[Docket No. DHS-2010-0032]


Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council

AGENCY: National Protection and Programs Directorate, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of the Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory 
Council (CIPAC) charter renewal.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the 
establishment of the 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 notice of the CIPAC 
charter renewal, (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 and its membership within CIPAC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy J. Wong, Director, Partnership 
Programs and Information Sharing Office, Partnership and Outreach 
Division, Office of Infrastructure Protection, National Protection and 
Programs Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, 245 Murray Lane, 
SW., Mail Stop 0607, Arlington, VA 20598-0607, telephone (703) 603-
5072, e-mail [email protected].

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    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, Department of Homeland Security, 245 Murray Lane, 
SW., Mail Stop 0607, Arlington, VA 20598-0607, telephone (703) 603-
5072.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Notice of CIPAC Renewal: On March 19, 2010, the Secretary of 
Homeland Security extended CIPAC for a period of two years. The current 
CIPAC charter reflecting the Secretary's action is available on the 
CIPAC Web site.
    Purpose and Activities: CIPAC facilitates interaction between 
government officials and representatives of the community of owners and 
operators for each of the critical infrastructure and key resources 
(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, and infrastructure 
resilience; reconstituting CIKR assets and systems for both man-made 
and naturally occurring events; and sharing threat, vulnerability, risk 
mitigation, and infrastructure continuity information.
    Organizational Structure: CIPAC members are organized into the 18 
HSPD-7 CIKR sectors. Within all of the sectors containing CIKR owner/
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.
    Membership: CIPAC Membership includes (i) CIKR owner and/or 
operator members of an SCC; (ii) trade associations representing the 
interests of CIKR owners and/or operators that own and invest in 
infrastructure assets or in the systems and processes to secure them, 
or representing CIKR owners and/or operators whom are held responsible 
by the public for CIKR operations and the response and recovery when 
their CIKR assets and systems are disrupted who are members of an SCC; 
(iii) each sector's GCC; and (iv), based upon DHS' recent establishment 
of this council, State, local, tribal, and territorial governmental 
officials comprising the DHS State, Local, Tribal, and 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: April 16, 2010.
Nancy Wong,
Designated Federal Official for the CIPAC.
[FR Doc. 2010-9321 Filed 4-21-10; 8:45 am]
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