[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 52 (Wednesday, March 19, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 12756]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04551]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Transportation Security Administration
Extension of Agency Information Collection Activity Under OMB
Review: Airport Security Part 1542
AGENCY: Transportation Security Administration, DHS.
ACTION: 30-Day notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces that the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) has forwarded the Information Collection Request
(ICR), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number 1652-0002,
abstracted below to OMB for review and approval of an extension of the
currently approved collection under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA).
The ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its
expected burden. The collection includes requirements for airport
operators to submit certain information to TSA, as well as to maintain
and update records to ensure compliance with security provisions.
DATES: Send your comments by April 18, 2025. A comment to OMB is most
effective if OMB receives it within 30 days of publication.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection, OMB control number 1652-0002, by
selecting ``Currently under Review--Open for Public Comments'' and by
using the find function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christina A. Walsh, TSA PRA Officer,
Information Technology, TSA-11, Transportation Security Administration,
6595 Springfield Center Drive, Springfield, VA 20598-6011; telephone
(571) 227-2062; email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: TSA published a Federal Register notice,
with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments, of the following
collection of information on October 4, 2024, 89 FR 80911. TSA did not
receive any comments on the notice.
Comments Invited
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.), an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is
not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it
displays a valid OMB control number. The ICR documentation will be
available at https://www.reginfo.gov upon its submission to OMB.
Therefore, in preparation for OMB review and approval of the following
information collection, TSA is soliciting comments to--
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed information requirement 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;
(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 using appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms
of information technology.
Information Collection Requirement
Title: Airport Security Part 1542.
Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
OMB Control Number: 1652-0002.
Forms(s): NA.
Affected Public: Airport operators.
Abstract: The information collection is used to determine
compliance with 49 CFR part 1542 and to ensure passenger safety and
security by ensuring compliance with airport operator required security
procedures. The following information collections and other
recordkeeping requirements with which respondent covered airport
operators must comply fall under this OMB control number: (1)
development of an Airport Security Program (ASP), submission to TSA for
review and approval, and implementation; (2) as applicable, development
of airport operator-requested or TSA-required ASP amendments and
temporary changed conditions, submission to TSA for review and
approval, and implementation; (3) collection of data necessary to
complete a criminal history records check for those individuals with
unescorted access authority to a Security Identification Display Area;
(4) submission to TSA of identifying information about individuals to
whom the airport operator has issued identification media, such as
name, address, and country of birth, in order for TSA to conduct a
Security Threat Assessment; and (5) information collection and
recordkeeping requirements associated with airport operator compliance
with regulations, employees who have access privileges to secured areas
of the airport, and compliance with Security Directives issued pursuant
to the regulation.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 435.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 2,142,174.\1\
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\1\ Since the publication of the 60-day notice, TSA has adjusted
the annual hour burden from 2,147,899 hours to 2,142,174 hours.
Dated: March 14, 2025.
Christina A. Walsh,
TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2025-04551 Filed 3-18-25; 8:45 am]
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