PREDICT 30-day Notice - Federal Register

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)

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Request for Nominations of
Candidates To Serve on the Board of
Scientific Counselors (BSC), National
Center for Environmental Health/
Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR),
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS)
Correction: This notice was published
in the Federal Register on July 8, 2010,
Volume 75, Number 130, Page 39265–
39266. The notice for the
aforementioned meeting has been
changed to the following:
The NCEH/ATSDR is soliciting
nominations for consideration of
membership on the BSC. The BSC,
NCEH/ATSDR provides advice and
guidance to the Secretary, HHS; the
Director, CDC and the Director, NCEH/
ATSDR, regarding program goals,
objectives, strategies, and priorities in
fulfillment of the agencies’ mission to
protect and promote people’s health.
The Board provides advice and
guidance to help NCEH/ATSDR work
more efficiently and effectively with its
various constituents and to fulfill its
mission in protecting America’s health.
Nominations are being sought for
individuals who have expertise and
qualifications necessary to contribute to
the accomplishments of the Board’s
objectives. Nominees will be selected
from experts having experience in
preventing human diseases and
disabilities caused by environmental
conditions. Experts in the disciplines of
toxicology, epidemiology,
environmental or occupational
medicine, behavioral science, risk
assessment, exposure assessment, and
experts in public health and other
related disciplines will be considered.
Balanced membership will depend
upon several factors, including: (1) The
committee’s mission; (2) the geographic,
ethnic, social, economic, or scientific
impact of the advisory committee’s
recommendations; (3) the types of
specific perspectives required, for
example, such as those of consumers,
technical experts, the public at-large,
academia, business, or other sectors;
(4) the need to obtain divergent points
of view on the issues before the advisory
committee; and (5) the relevance of
State, local, or tribal governments to the
development of the advisory
committee’s recommendations.
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four-year terms. Nominees must be U.S.
citizens.
The following information must be
submitted for each candidate: name,
affiliation, address, telephone number,
and current curriculum vitae. E-mail
addresses are requested if available.
Nominations should be sent, in
writing, and postmarked by November
30, 2010 to: Sandra Malcom, Committee
Management Specialist, NCEH/ATSDR,
CDC, 4770 Buford Highway (MS–F61),
Chamblee, Georgia 30341. (E-mail
address: [email protected]). Telephone
and facsimile submissions cannot be
accepted.
Candidates invited to serve will be
asked to submit the ‘‘Confidential
Financial Disclosure Form for Special
Government Employees Serving on
Federal Advisory Committees at the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.’’ This form allows CDC to
determine whether there is a statutory
conflict between that person’s public
responsibilities as a Special Government
Employee and private interests and
activities, or the appearance of a lack of
impartiality, as defined by Federal
regulation. The form may be viewed and
downloaded at http://www.usoge.gov/
forms/oge450_pdf/
oge450_accessible.pdf. This form
should not be submitted as part of a
nomination.
The Director, Management Analysis
and Services Office, has been delegated
the authority to sign Federal Register
notices pertaining to announcements of
meetings and other committee
management activities for both CDC and
the National Center for Environmental
Health/Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry.
Dated: August 24, 2010.
Elaine L. Baker,
Director, Management Analysis and Services
Office, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
[Docket No. DHS–2010–0073]

Science and Technology (S&T)
Directorate; Agency Information
Collection Activities: Submission for
Review; Information Collection
Request for the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) Science and
Technology Protected Repository for
the Defense of Infrastructure Against
Cyber Threats (PREDICT) Program
Science and Technology
Directorate, DHS.
ACTION: 30-day notice and request for
comment.
AGENCY:

The Department of Homeland
Security invites the general public to
comment on data collection forms for
the Protected Repository for the Defense
of Infrastructure Against Cyber Threats
(PREDICT) initiative. PREDICT is an
initiative to facilitate the accessibility of
computer and network operational data
for use in cybersecurity defensive
research and development. Specifically,
PREDICT provides developers and
evaluators with regularly updated
network operations data sources
relevant to cybersecurity defense
technology development. The data sets
are intended to provide developers with
timely and detailed insight into
cyberattack phenomena occurring across
the Internet and in some cases will
reveal the effects of these attacks on
networks that are owned or managed by
the data producers. A key motivation of
PREDICT is to make these data sources
more widely available to technology
developers and evaluators, who today
often determine the efficacy of their
technical solutions on anecdotal
evidence or small-scale test
experiments, rather than on more
comprehensive real-world data. The
PREDICT Web site http://
www.predict.org/contains an overview
and general information as background,
along with the data repository. As
specified on the Web site, access to the
PREDICT data repository is available to
eligible research groups upon approval
of their applications. In addition to
helping to determine whether a group is
eligible to access the repository, the
forms will also manage the interactions
between the PREDICT portal
administrators and the research groups
accessing the PREDICT portal. The
Department is committed to improving
its PREDICT initiative and invites
interested persons to comment on the
following forms and instructions
(hereinafter ‘‘Forms Package’’) for the
PREDICT initiative: (1) Account Request

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Form (DHS Form 10029 (12/07)); (2)
Request a Dataset Form (DHS Form
10032 (12/07)); (3) My Datasets Form
(DHS Form 10033 (12/07)); (4)
Memorandum of Agreement—PREDICT
(PCC) Coordinating Center and
Researcher/User (DHS Form 10035 (12/
07)); (5) Memorandum of Agreement
PREDICT Coordinating Center (PCC)
and Data Provider (DP) (DHS Form
10036 (12/07)); (6) Memorandum of
Agreement—PCC and Data Host (DH)
(DHS Form 10037 (12/07)); (7)
Authorization Letter for Data Host (DHS
Form 10038 (12/07)); (8) Authorization
Letter for Data Provider (DHS Form
10039 (12/07)); (9) Sponsorship Letter
(DHS Form 10040 (12/07)); (10) Notice
of Dataset Access/Application
Expiration (DHS Form 10041 (12/07));
(11) Notice for Certificate of Data
Destruction (DHS Form 10042 (12/07)).
Two new forms are also included—(12)
Amendment to Research/User
Agreement (10060 (04/10)); (13) Notice
of Data Access Expiration (10061 (04/
10)).
This notice and request for comments
is required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C.
chapter 35).
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted until October 1, 2010.
Comments: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments on
the proposed information collection to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget. Comments should be addressed
to Desk Officer for the Department of
Homeland Security, Science and
Technology Directorate, and sent via
electronic mail to
[email protected] or faxed
to (202) 395–6974. Please include
docket number DHS–2010–0073 in the
subject line of the message.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jeffery Harris (202) 254–6015 (Not a toll
free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Interested
parties can obtain copies of the Forms
Package by calling or writing the point
of contact listed above. The content of
PREDICT is proprietary datasets that
will be used by the Research community
in its efforts to build products and
technologies that will better protect
America’s computing infrastructure.
Using a secure Web portal, accessible
through https://www.predict.org/, the
PREDICT Coordinating Center manages
a centralized repository that identifies
the datasets and their sources and
location, and acts as gatekeeper for
access and release of the data. All data
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users (Data Providers) or migrated (via
upload of XML files).
DHS 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) Suggest ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
(4) Suggest ways 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
submissions of responses.
The user will complete a portion of
the forms online and submit them
through the Web site, while some forms
will be printed from the Web site and
faxed to a PREDICT portal
administrator. The entire Forms Package
will be available on the PREDICT Web
site found at https://www.predict.org.
Overview of this Information
Collection:
(1) Type of Information Collection:
Information Collection Revision.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection: DHS
S&T PREDICT Initiative.
Agency Form Number, if any, and the
applicable component of the
Department of Homeland Security
sponsoring the collection: DHS Science
and Technology Directorate, (1) Account
Request Form (DHS Form 10029 (12/
07)); (2) Request a Dataset Form (DHS
Form 10032 (12/07)); (3) My Datasets
Form (DHS Form 10033 (12/07)); (4)
Memorandum of Agreement—PREDICT
(PCC) Coordinating Center and
Researcher/User (DHS Form 10035 (12/
07)); (5) Memorandum of Agreement
PREDICT Coordinating Center (PCC)
and Data Provider (DP) (DHS Form
10036 (12/07)); (6) Memorandum of
Agreement—PCC and Data Host (DH)
(DHS Form 10037 (12/07)); (7)
Authorization Letter for Data Host (DHS
Form 10038 (12/07)); (8) Authorization
Letter for Data Provider (DHS Form
10039 (12/07)); (9) Sponsorship Letter
(DHS Form 10040 (12/07)); (10) Notice
of Dataset Access/Application
Expiration (DHS Form 10041 (12/07));
(11) Notice for Certificate of Data
Destruction (DHS Form 10042 (12/07)).
Two new forms are also included—(12)

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Amendment to Research/User
Agreement (10060 (04/10)); (13) Notice
of Data Access Expiration (10061 (04/
10)).
(3) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Individuals or households,
Business or other for-profit, Not-forprofit institutions, Federal government,
and State, local, or tribal government;
the data gathered will allow the
PREDICT initiative to provide a central
repository, accessible through a Webbased portal (https://www.predict.org/)
that catalogs current computer network
operational data, provide secure access
to multiple sources of data collected as
a result of use and traffic on the
Internet, and facilitate data flow among
PREDICT participants for the purpose of
developing new models, technologies
and products that support effective
threat assessment and increase cyber
security capabilities.
(4) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond:
a. Estimate of the total number of
respondents: 206.
b. An estimate of the time for an
average respondent to respond: 8
burden hours.
c. An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: 118 burden hours.
Dated: August 24, 2010.
Tara O’Toole,
Under Secretary for Science and Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
[Docket No. DHS–2010–0072]

Science and Technology (S&T)
Directorate: Agency Information
Collection Activities: Submission for
Review; Information Collection
Request for the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) Science and
Technology TechSolutions Program
Science and Technology
Directorate, DHS.
ACTION: 30-day notice and request for
comment.
AGENCY:

The TechSolutions Program
was established by the Department of
Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and
Technology (S&T) Directorate to provide
information, resources and technology
solutions that address mission
capability gaps identified by the
emergency response community. The

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