[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 213 (Monday, November 4, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59399-59400]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-24049]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY


Sector Outreach and Programs Online Meeting Registration Tool

AGENCY: Infrastructure Security Division (ISD), Cybersecurity and 
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Department of Homeland Security 
(DHS).

ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for comments; revision, 1670-0019.

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SUMMARY: DHS CISA ISD will submit the following information collection 
request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review 
and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 
CISA previously published this ICR for a 60-day public comment period. 
No comments were received by CISA. The purpose of this notice is to 
allow an additional 30 days for public comments.

DATES: Comments are due by December 4, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments on 
the proposed information collection to the Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs, OMB. Comments should be addressed to the OMB Desk 
Officer,

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Department of Homeland Security and sent via electronic mail to 
[email protected]. All submissions must include the words 
``Department of Homeland Security'' and the OMB Control Number 1670-
0019.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice may be made available 
to the public through relevant websites. For this reason, please do not 
include in your comments information of a confidential nature, such as 
sensitive personal information or proprietary information. If you send 
an email comment, your email address will be automatically captured and 
included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket and 
made available on the internet. Please note that responses to this 
public comment request containing any routine notice about the 
confidentiality of the communication will be treated as public comments 
that may be made available to the public notwithstanding the inclusion 
of the routine notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Auco Ho, 703-603-5205, 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Critical Infrastructure Protection Act 
of 2001, 42 U.S.C. 5195c, states that any physical or virtual 
disruption of the operation of the critical infrastructures of the 
United States be rare, brief, geographically limited in effect, 
manageable, and minimally detrimental to the economy, human and 
government services, and national security of the United States; and 
that actions necessary to achieve the policy stated be carried out in a 
public-private partnership involving corporate and non-governmental 
organizations. On behalf of the DHS, CISA ISD manages the Department's 
program to protect the Nation's 16 critical infrastructure sectors by 
implementing the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) 2013, 
Partnering for Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience. 
Pursuant to Presidential Policy Directive 21 on Critical Infrastructure 
Security and Resilience (February 2013), each sector is assigned a 
Sector-Specific Agency (SSA) to oversee Federal interaction with the 
array of sector security partners, both public and private. An SSA is 
responsible for leading a unified public-private sector effort to 
develop, coordinate, and implement a comprehensive physical, human, and 
cyber security strategy for its assigned sector. CISA ISD Sector 
Outreach and Programs (SOP) executes the SSA responsibilities for the 
six critical infrastructure sectors assigned to ISD: Chemical, 
Commercial Facilities, Critical Manufacturing, Dams, Emergency 
Services, and Nuclear Reactors, Materials and Waste (Nuclear).
    The mission of SOP is to enhance the resiliency of the Nation by 
leading the unified public-private sector effort to ensure its assigned 
critical infrastructure are prepared, more secure, and safer from 
terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and other incidents. To achieve 
this mission, SOP leverages the resources and knowledge of its critical 
infrastructure sectors to develop and apply security initiatives that 
result in significant, measurable benefits to the Nation.
    Each SOP branch builds sustainable partnerships with its public and 
private sector stakeholders to enable more effective sector 
coordination, information sharing, and program development and 
implementation. These partnerships are sustained through the Sector 
Partnership Model, described in the 2013 NIPP pages 10-12.
    Information sharing is a key component of the NIPP Partnership 
Model, and DHS sponsored conferences are one mechanism for information 
sharing. To facilitate conference planning and organization, SOP has 
established an online event registration tool for use by all of its 
branches. The information collection is voluntary and is used by the 
SSAs within SOP. The six SSAs within SOP uses this information to 
register public and private sector stakeholders for meetings hosted by 
the SSA. The SOP uses the information collected to reserve space at a 
meeting for the registrant; contact the registrant with a reminder 
about the event; develop meeting materials for attendees; determine 
topics of most interest; and efficiently generate attendee and speaker 
nametags. Additionally, it allows SOP to have a better understanding of 
the organizations participating in the critical infrastructure 
protection partnership events. By understanding who is participating, 
the SSA can identify portions of a sector that are underrepresented, 
and the SSA could then target that underrepresented sector elements 
through outreach and awareness initiatives.
    The changes to the collection include: Changes to the burden costs, 
annual government costs, and adding data fields. The registration has 
been updated to add the following data fields: Attendee ADA Specific 
Aids or Services Requested (Yes/No), Attendee Organization Company 
Size, Attendee First Time Attending, Organization Category, Attendee 
Organization Private Sector Category, Public Sector Category. The 
annual burden cost for the collection has increased by $175, from 
$1,627 to $1,802, due to updated compensation rates. The annual 
government cost for the collection has decreased by $3,269, from 
$11,615 to $8,347, due to reduced online registration tool annual use 
fee and a decrease in the cost per registrant from $9.73 to $7.19 per 
registrant.
    This is a revision and renewal of an information collection.
    OMB is particularly interested in comments that:
    1. Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility;
    2. Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of 
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used;
    3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected; and
    4. Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those 
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic 
submissions of responses.
    Title of Collection: Sector Outreach and Programs Online Meeting 
Registration Tool.
    OMB Control Number: 1670-0019.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Affected Public: State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Governments 
and Private Sector Individuals.
    Number of Annualized Respondents: 400.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.05 hours.
    Total Annualized Burden Hours: 20 hours.
    Total Annualized Respondent Opportunity Cost: $1,802.
    Total Annualized Respondent Out-of-Pocket Cost: $0.
    Total Annualized Government Cost: $8,346.79.

Scott Libby,
Deputy Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-24049 Filed 11-1-19; 8:45 am]
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