[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 167 (Thursday, August 27, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53015-53017]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-18872]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

[1651-0088]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Passenger and Crew 
Manifest

AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Department of 
Homeland Security.

ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for comments; revision of an existing 
collection of information.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection will be submitting the following information collection 
request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and 
approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). 
The information collection is published in the Federal Register to 
obtain comments from the public and affected agencies. Comments are 
encouraged and must be submitted (no later than September 28, 2020) to 
be assured of consideration.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional PRA 
information should be directed to Seth Renkema, Chief, Economic Impact 
Analysis Branch, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Trade, 
Regulations and Rulings, 90 K Street NE, 10th Floor, Washington, DC 
20229-1177, Telephone number 202-325-0056 or via email 
[email protected]. Please note that the contact information provided 
here is solely for questions regarding this notice. Individuals seeking 
information about other CBP programs should contact the CBP National 
Customer Service Center at 877-227-5511, (TTY) 1-800-877-8339, or CBP 
website at https://www.cbp.gov/.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CBP invites the general public and other 
Federal agencies to comment on the proposed and/or continuing 
information collections pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). This proposed information collection was 
previously published in the Federal Register (85 FR 29469) on May 15, 
2020, allowing for a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an 
additional 30 days for public comments. This process is conducted in 
accordance with 5 CFR 1320.8. Written comments and suggestions from the 
public and affected agencies should address one or more of the 
following four points: (1) 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) 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) suggestions to enhance the 
quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and 
(4) suggestions to 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 submission of responses. The comments that are submitted 
will be summarized and included in the request for approval. All 
comments will become a matter of public record.

Overview of This Information Collection

    Title: Passenger and Crew Manifest (Advance Passenger Information 
System).
    OMB Number: 1651-0088.
    Form Number: None.
    Abstract: The Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) is an 
automated method in which U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 
receives information on passengers and crew onboard inbound and 
outbound international flights and commercial vessels before their 
arrival in, or departure from, the United States. APIS data includes 
biographical information for travelers arriving in or departing from 
the United States, allowing the data to be checked against CBP 
databases to target for high-risk travelers and facilitate legitimate 
travel for the general public.
    The information is submitted for both commercial and private 
aircraft flights, commercial vessels, and voluntarily for some rail 
carriers and bus carriers. Specific data elements required for each 
passenger and crew member include: Full name; date of birth; gender; 
citizenship; travel document type; passport number; country of issuance 
and expiration date; and alien registration number where applicable. 
The statutory authority for APIS

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includes the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, Public Law 107-
71, 115 Stat. 597 (49 U.S.C. 44909). The APIS regulatory requirements 
for air carriers are specified in 19 CFR 122.49a, 122.49b, 122.49c, 
122.75a, 122.75b, and 122.22. These provisions list the required APIS 
data.
    Respondents submit their electronic manifest either through a 
direct interface with CBP, or using eAPIS which is a web-based system 
that can be accessed at https://eapis.cbp.dhs.gov/.
    Current Actions: This submission is being made to revise this 
collection of information to include bus and rail carriers into this 
OMB control number.

Proposed Changes

    CBP is currently running a pilot with nine respondents in which bus 
carriers are submitting passenger manifest data voluntarily to assist 
CBP in the development of the Land Pre-Arrival System (LPAS) 
application. The LPAS application will improve the current method of 
transmission by allowing carriers to scan the Machine-Readable Zone 
(MRZ) of travelers' documents which will result in time-savings for the 
carriers and increased accuracy for CBP. CBP would like to revise this 
information collection to include bus and rail respondents which would 
allow CBP to expand the bus pilot beyond the current nine respondents, 
as well as make the LPAS application available to pilot for rail 
carriers in the future.
    For this pilot, bus carriers submit their APIS information to CBP 
via Land Pre-Arrival System Application (LPAS), embedded in the CBP 
ROAM application which is available free of charge for Android and 
Apple mobile devices.
    In the LPAS application, the collection of traveler information is 
primarily done through electronic submission. The bus carrier designee 
submits traveler information by scanning the MRZ of each traveler's 
document which is automatically loaded into the application. Should the 
MRZ not automatically transfer into the application, the bus carrier 
will manually input the traveler's document information. This is the 
only point at which information is collected from travelers for CBP.
    The user registers bus as the mode of travel and is prompted to 
complete information on the company. Information includes:

 Mode of Travel (Bus)
 License Country
 Registration Province
 License Number
 Sender ID
 Carrier Code (APIS code assigned by CBP)
 Bus Company

    Each carrier will be required to create a `Driver Profile' by 
entering in their documentation using the MRZ or manually. This profile 
is saved to be associated with each bus that the driver operates and 
will have to be selected prior to submitting the trip. The driver is 
prompted to enter his or her information, including:

 Name
 Date of Birth
 Sex
 Country of Citizenship
 Country of Residence
 Document Type
 Document Number
 Date of Issue
 Date of Expiration
 Country of Issue

    This process is duplicated for all additional travelers boarding 
the bus. Each traveler profile is saved for the trip, but is deleted 
from the application immediately after the information is submitted to 
CBP.
    Prior to submitting traveler information to CBP, the user must fill 
in required information about the trip. These fields include items such 
as:

 Arrival Location in the US
 Estimated Arrival Date
 Estimated Arrival Time
 Arrival Code (Port of Entry)
 Entry State
 Last Country Visited
 Contact Email

    Previously, the ROAM application also permitted self-reported 
submission of information to CBP officers through a face-time feature. 
This self-reporting feature has been disabled for LPAS and will not be 
used at any time in conjunction with the Bus APIS pilot or the 
resulting program that arises from the pilot. The bus carrier, either 
through the bus driver, another employee, or a designated 
representative or service provider, will be the only party submitting 
data to CBP via the LPAS feature within the ROAM application. The basis 
for this decision arose out of the necessity to collect traveler 
information prior to arrival in the land environment as it is done in 
the air environment. For pre-arrival or pre-departure vetting and 
targeting to be conducted, officers must be able to collect information 
on travelers prior to their arrival at the border to promote officer 
safety and increase security. In air Ports of Entry, officers have 
access to traveler information 72 hours prior to arrival. However, this 
standard does not exist in the land environment, as travelers can board 
a bus within minutes of arriving at the border. In the air environment, 
airline carriers or their designated representatives or service 
providers are the users submitting traveler information. Therefore, in 
order to closely mirror this successful process, bus carriers will 
submit traveler data in the land environment. In order to reduce the 
burden of manual data entry, the LPAS feature includes a technology 
that reads the MRZ on a passport. As a result, the bus driver can 
simply scan a passenger's passport in order to populate the required 
data fields and accurately submit that data to CBP. CBP is considering 
the development of LPAS for rail carriers in the future.
    Type of Review: Revision.
    Affected Public: Businesses, Individuals.

Commercial Airlines

    Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,130.
    Estimated Number of Total Annual Responses: 1,850,878.
    Estimated Time per Response: 10 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 307,246.

Commercial Airline Passengers (3rd party)

    Estimated Number of Respondents: 184,050,663.
    Estimated Number of Total Annual Responses: 184,050,663.
    Estimated Time per Response: 10 seconds.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 496,937.

Private Aircraft Pilots

    Estimated Number of Respondents: 460,000.
    Estimated Number of Total Annual Responses: 460,000.
    Estimated Time per Response: 15 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 115,000.

Commercial Passenger Rail Carrier

    Estimated Number of Respondents: 2.
    Estimated Number of Total Annual Responses: 9,540.
    Estimated Time per Response: 10 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,590.

Bus Passenger Carrier

    Estimated Number of Respondents: 9.
    Estimated Number of Total Annual Responses: 309,294.
    Estimated Time per Response: 15 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 77,324.


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    Dated: August 24, 2020.
Seth D. Renkema,
Branch Chief, Economic Impact Analysis Branch, U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection.
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