[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 65 (Friday, April 4, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18922-18923]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-07482]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

[Docket No. DHS-2013-0083]


The Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council

AGENCY: National Protection and Programs Directorate, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of renewal of Critical Infrastructure Partnership 
Advisory Council charter and quarterly membership update.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the 
establishment of the Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory 
Council (CIPAC) in a Federal Register Notice (71 FR 14930-14933) dated 
March 24, 2006, which identified the purpose of CIPAC, as well as its 
membership. This notice provides: (i) Notice of the renewal of the 
CIPAC charter; (ii) quarterly CIPAC membership updates; (iii) 
instructions on how the public can obtain the CIPAC membership roster 
and other information on the council; and (iv) information on recently 
completed CIPAC meetings.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry May, Designated Federal Officer, 
Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council, Sector Outreach 
and Programs Division, Office of Infrastructure Protection, National 
Protection and Programs Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland 
Security, 245 Murray Lane, Mail Stop 0607, Arlington, VA 20598-0607; 
telephone: (703) 603-5070; email: [email protected].
    Responsible DHS Official: Larry May, Designated Federal Officer for 
the CIPAC.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Purpose and Activity: The CIPAC facilitates interaction between 
government officials and representatives of the community of owners 
and/or operators for each of the critical infrastructure sectors 
defined by Presidential Policy Directive 21 and identified in National 
Infrastructure Protection Plan 2013: Partnering for Critical 
Infrastructure Security and Resilience. The scope of activities covered 
by the CIPAC includes: Planning; coordinating among government and 
critical infrastructure owner and operator security partners; 
implementing security program initiatives; conducting operational 
activities related to critical infrastructure protection security 
measures, incident response, recovery, and infrastructure resilience; 
reconstituting critical infrastructure

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assets and systems for both manmade and naturally occurring events; and 
sharing threat, vulnerability, risk mitigation, and infrastructure 
continuity information.
    Organizational Structure: The National Infrastructure Protection 
Plan organizes the critical infrastructure community into 16 critical 
infrastructure sectors. Each of these sectors has a Government 
Coordinating Council (GCC) whose membership includes: (i) A lead 
Federal agency that is defined as the Sector-Specific Agency; (ii) 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 for that particular sector; 
and (iii) a Sector Coordinating Council (SCC) whose membership includes 
critical infrastructure owners and/or operators or their representative 
trade associations.
    CIPAC Membership: CIPAC Membership may include:
    (i) Critical Infrastructure (CI) owner and operator members of a 
DHS-recognized SCC, including their representative trade associations 
or equivalent organization members of an SCC as determined by the SCC.
    (ii) Federal, State, local, and tribal governmental entities 
comprising the members of the GCC for each sector, including their 
representative organizations, members of the State, Local, Tribal and 
Territorial Government Coordinating Council, and representatives of 
other federal agencies with responsibility for CI activities.
    CIPAC membership is organizational. Multiple individuals may 
participate in CIPAC activities on behalf of a member organization as 
long as member representatives are not federally registered lobbyists.
    Notice of CIPAC Renewal: The Secretary of Homeland Security 
extended the CIPAC charter on March 18, 2014, for a period of two 
years. The current CIPAC charter reflecting the Secretary's action is 
available on the CIPAC Web site (http://www.dhs.gov/cipac).
    CIPAC Membership Roster and Council Information: The current roster 
of CIPAC members 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 view 
current CIPAC membership, as well as the current and historic lists of 
CIPAC meetings and agendas.

Larry L. May,
Designated Federal Officer for the CIPAC.
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