[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 31 (Wednesday, February 15, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8823-8824]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-3511]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

[Docket No. DoD-2007-OS-0144]


Proposed Collection; Comment Request

AGENCY: Defense Security Service, DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the Defense Security Service (DSS) announces a 
proposed public information collection and seeks public comments on the 
provision thereof. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed 
collection 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 the burden hours 
of the information to be collected; and (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.

DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by March 
26, 2012.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by docket number and 
title, by any of the following methods:
    Federal Rule Making Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 
instructions for submitting comments.
    Mail: Federal Docket Management System Office, 4800 Mark Center 
Drive, 2nd Floor, East Tower, Suite 02G09, Alexandria, VA 22350-3100.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include agency name, 
docket number and title for this Federal Register document. The general 
policy of comments and other submissions from members of the public is 
to make these submissions available for public viewing on the internet 
at http://www.regulations.gov as they are received without change, 
including any personal identifiers or contract information.

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 Defense Security 
Service, Personnel Security Clearance Office, 1340 Braddock Place, 
Alexandria, VA 22314, or telephone at 703-325-6050.
    Title; Associated Form; and OMB Number: Personnel Security 
Investigation Projection for Industry Survey; DSS Form 232; OMB Number 
0704-0417.
    Needs and Uses: The execution of the DSS Form 232 is an essential 
factor in projecting the needs of cleared contractor entities for 
personnel security investigations (PSIs). This collection of 
information requests the assistance of the Facility Security Officer to 
provide projections of the numbers and types of PSIs. The data will be 
incorporated into DSS' budget submissions and used to track against 
actual PSI submissions. The form will be distributed electronically via 
a web-based commercial survey tool.
    Affected Public: Business, or other profit and non-profit 
organizations under Department of Defense Security Cognizance.
    Annual Burden Hours: 15,188.
    Number of Respondents: 12,150.
    Responses per Respondent: 1.
    Average Burden Per Response: 75 minutes.
    Frequency: Annually.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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Summary of Information Collection

    Executive Order (EO) 12829, ``National Industrial Security Program 
(NISP),'' stipulates that the Secretary of Defense shall serve as the 
Executive Agent for inspecting and monitoring the contractors, 
licensees, and grantees who require or will require access to 
classified information; and for determining the eligibility for access 
to classified information of contractors, licensees, and grantees and 
their respective employees. E.O. 12829 also authorizes the Executive 
Agent to issue, after consultation with affected agencies, standard 
forms that will promote the implementation of the NISP.
    The Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence assigned DSS to 
exercise authority and responsibility for central operational 
management of DoD PSI workload projections, and monitoring of PSI 
funding and investigation quality issues for DoD components to include 
cleared contractors under the National Industrial Security Program. In 
the past, DSS has relied on historical data for agency budget 
projections regarding the numbers of PSIs required by cleared 
contractor entities; however, historical data did not provide a 
particularly accurate or credible estimate of such workload. In this 
annual collection of information, DSS asks the Facility Security 
Officers of cleared contractor entities to provide projections of the 
numbers and types of personnel security investigations required as well 
as providing a description of the methodology used for the projections, 
and the percentage of the cleared contractor's projections representing 
DoD and non-DoD (NISP) agencies PSI requirements for cleared 
contractors. The data will be incorporated into DSS' budget submissions 
and to track against actual cleared contractor's actual PSI 
submissions.
    The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has responsibility to 
conduct PSIs and the subsequent periodic reinvestigations (PRs) in 
accordance with the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 5, Part 736.
    Representative of various industry associations, the National 
Industrial Security Program Policy Advisory Committee (NISPPAC), the 
Military Services, various elements of the Department of Defense and 
other Federal Government Agencies are familiar with the annual survey.

    Dated: January 31, 2012.
Patricia L. Toppings,
OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
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