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and Households—Other Needs; 97.036,
Disaster Grants—Public Assistance
(Presidentially Declared Disasters); 97.039,
Hazard Mitigation Grant.
W. Craig Fugate,
Administrator, Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Transportation Security Administration
Intent To Request Approval From OMB
of One New Public Collection of
Information: Exercise Information
System
Transportation Security
Administration, DHS.
ACTION: 60-day Notice.
AGENCY:

The Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) invites public
comment on a new Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted
below that we will submit to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
approval in compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The
ICR describes the nature of the
information collection and its expected
burden for the TSA Exercise
Information System (EXIS). EXIS is a
Web portal designed to serve
stakeholders in the transportation
industry in regard to security training
exercises. It provides stakeholders with
exercise information tailored to the
transportation industry, best practices,
and previous work for use in future
exercises. It also allows stakeholders to
design their own security exercises
based on the unique needs of their
specific transportation mode or method
of operation. Utilizing and inputting
information into EXIS is completely
voluntary.
DATES: Send your comments by March
7, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be e-mailed
to [email protected] or delivered to the
TSA PRA Officer, Office of Information
Technology (OIT), TSA–11,
Transportation Security Administration,
601 South 12th Street, Arlington, VA
20598–6011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Joanna Johnson at the above address, or
by telephone (571) 227–3651.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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SUMMARY:

Comments Invited
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), an agency may not conduct or

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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 is
available at http://www.reginfo.gov.
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
Purpose of Data Collection
The Exercise Information System
(EXIS) is an Internet-accessible
knowledge-management system
developed by TSA serving
stakeholders—industry, port authorities,
Federal agencies, and State and local
governments—and integrating other
security-related training and exercise
components at the sensitive security
information level. It gives stakeholders
valuable exercise information tailored to
the transportation industry, best
practices, and previous work for use in
future exercises. With EXIS,
transportation industry stakeholders can
choose scenarios and objectives based
on their particular needs, such as their
transportation modes, or their regulated
areas of operation.
EXIS is a data management system
that provides end-to-end security
exercise support, from the initial
planning meeting, through exercise
design, implementation, evaluation, and
reporting. Working in a secure online
environment, EXIS users can easily:
• Customize exercise design—
develop objectives, scenarios, Master
Scenario Events List (MSEL) items,
contingency injects, evaluation metrics,
and other data sets.
• Conduct robust analyses—sort
evaluation data by exercise objectives,
transportation modes, scenario types, or
functional areas.
• Create analytical reports—identify
and sort lessons learned, corrective
actions, and best practices from past
exercises or from those of other
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• Collaborate and share information—
build relationships with partners.
EXIS was developed by TSA as part
of its broad responsibilities and
authorities under the Aviation and
Transportation Security Act (ATSA),1
and delegated authority from the
Secretary of Homeland Security, for
‘‘security in all modes of transportation
* * * including security
responsibilities * * * over modes of
transportation that are exercised by the
Department of Transportation.’’ 2 It is a
component of TSA’s Intermodal
Security Training Exercise Program
(I–STEP), which works with surface
transportation stakeholders in
developing and conducting security
exercises. The I–STEP also fulfills
requirements of the Implementing
Recommendations of the 9/11
Commission Act of 2007 (9/11 Act) 3
regarding the establishment of security
training exercises for surface modes of
transportation that can assess and
improve the capabilities of these modes
in preventing, preparing for, mitigating
against, responding to, and recovering
from acts of terrorism.4
EXIS helps users design an exercise
through the use of a ‘‘wizard.’’ The
wizard walks the user through a step-bystep process allowing them to build a
profile for their exercise. EXIS provides
users with suggested scenarios and
Master Scenario Events List (MSEL)
items based on the area of focus and
objectives selected by the user. Users
also have the ability to create custom
MSEL items or modify a Generic EXIS
Community Scenario. Exercise
Administrators may suggest modified
scenarios and custom MSEL items for
the MSEL and scenario libraries.
At the completion of the wizard, EXIS
generates a collaborative workspace for
exercise team members to work within.
All exercise elements can be customized
1 Public

Law 107–71 (November 19, 2001).
49 U.S.C. 114(d). The TSA Assistant
Secretary’s current authorities under ATSA have
been delegated to him by the Secretary of Homeland
Security. Section 403(2) of the Homeland Security
Act (HAS) of 2002, Public Law 107–296, 116 Stat.
2315 (2002), transferred all functions of TSA,
including those of the Secretary of Transportation
and the Under Secretary of Transportation of
Security related to TSA, to the Secretary of
Homeland Security. Pursuant to DHS Delegation
Number 7060.2, the Secretary delegated to the
Assistant Secretary (then referred to as the
Administrator of TSA), subject to the Secretary’s
guidance and control, the authority vested in the
Secretary with respect to TSA, including that in
section 403(2) of the HAS.
3 Public Law 110–53 (August 3, 2007).
4 9/11 Act secs. 1407 (codified at 6 U.S.C.
1136(a)), 1516 (codified at 6 U.S.C. 1166), and 1533
(codified at 6 U.S.C. 1183). See also the Security
and Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006
(SAFE Port Act), Public Law 109–347 (Oct. 13,
2006) (codified at 6 U.S.C. 911(a)).
2 See

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and saved. Lessons learned, best
management practices, and corrective
actions are pre-populated into the
workspace based on the scenario and
objectives of the exercise determined
during its creation. EXIS is adaptable to
changing exercise, tracking, and
reporting needs as they mature and can
support the addition of future exercise
elements.
The program tags exercise objectives,
scenarios, and findings, in order to
automatically populate the database
with lessons learned from past exercises
conducted in similar environments.
Users cannot only call up their own past
experiences, but identify lessons
learned by other organizations in the
industry. Recognizing the extent to
which surface modes include thousands
of geographically dispersed owner/
operators, such a Web-based capability
is invaluable for connecting and sharing
information.
By linking ‘‘exercise communities,’’
users can also tackle cross-jurisdictional
issues, such as interoperability. Users
are able to focus on the underlying
issues of transportation security and
preparedness, and avoid repeating
costly mistakes. Finally, users can also
provide feedback on the usefulness of
EXIS itself so that TSA may improve
this system to better suit the
stakeholders’ future security needs.
TSA intends EXIS to be used
primarily by individuals with security
responsibilities, such as heads of
security, for public and private owner/
operators in the surface transportation
community, including mass transit
systems, freight/rail operators, highway/
trucking companies, school bus
operators, and pipeline systems. These
individuals, and other stakeholders, can
voluntarily contact TSA to request
access to EXIS; TSA does not require
participation in EXIS. Those seeking
access or desiring more information
about I–STEP products and services can
contact a TSA modal representative or
send their request by e-mail to
[email protected].
Description of Data Collection
TSA will collect five types of
information through EXIS. The
collection is voluntary. EXIS users are
not required to provide all information
requested—however, if users choose to
withhold information, they will not
receive the benefits of EXIS associated
with that information collection.
1. User registration information. TSA
will collect this information to ensure
only those members of the
transportation community with a
relevant interest in conducting security
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appropriate level of need to access
security training information can be
allowed onto EXIS. Such registration
information will include the user’s
name, professional contact information,
agency/company, job title, employer,
and employment verification contact
information.
2. Desired nature and scope of the
exercise. TSA will collect this
information to generate an EXIS training
exercise appropriate for the particular
user. Users are asked to submit their
desired transportation mode, exercise
properties, objectives, scenario events,
other participating agencies, and preexercise data (to assess the user’s state
of readiness for transportation security
incidents prior to the exercise).
3. Corrective actions/lessons learned/
best practices. TSA collects this
information to document and share the
users’ ideas and methods for improving
transportation security with other
transportation stakeholders.
4. Evaluation feedback. TSA collects
this information for the purpose of
evaluating the usefulness of EXIS in
facilitating security training exercises
for the users. TSA can then modify EXIS
to better suit its users’ needs.
5. After-Action Reports. TSA collects
reports that summarize information
from items (2) and (3) mentioned above
in order to create formal After-Action
Reports. This includes reports on the
exercise overview, goals and objectives,
scenario event synopsis, analysis of
critical issues, exercise design
characteristics, conclusions, and the
executive summary.
Use of Results
TSA will use this information to
assess and improve the capabilities of
all surface transportation modes to
prevent, prepare for, mitigate against,
respond to, and recover from
transportation security incidents. A
failure to collect this information will
limit TSA’s ability to effectively test
security countermeasures, security
plans, and the ability of a modal
operator to respond to and quickly
recover after a transportation security
incident. Insufficient awareness,
prevention, response, and recovery to a
transportation security incident will
result in increased vulnerability of the
U.S. transportation network and a
reduced ability of DHS to assess system
readiness.
Based on industry population
estimates and growth rates, and interest
generated amongst the surface
transportation modes prior to EXIS’
release to the public, TSA estimates that
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system’s use. TSA estimates users will
spend approximately 8 hours per EXIS
user inputting the information described
above. TSA estimates that an EXIS user
will conduct one security training
exercise per year. Given this
information, the total annual hour
burden for this information collection
for all respondents within the first three
years of EXIS’ release is estimated to be
approximately 3,000,000. There are no
fees to use EXIS. The total annual cost
burden to respondents is $0.00.
Issued in Arlington, Virginia on January 3,
2011.
Joanna Johnson,
TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Office
of Information Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R9–MB–2010–N242; 91400–5110–
0000–7B; 91400–9410–0000–7B]

Multistate Conservation Grant
Program; Priority List for Conservation
Projects
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of receipt of priority list
and approval of the projects.
AGENCY:

We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (FWS), announce the
FY 2011 priority list of wildlife and
sport fish conservation projects from the
Association of Fish and Wildlife
Agencies (AFWA). As required by the
Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration
Programs Improvement Act of 2000,
AFWA submits a list of projects to us
each year to consider for funding under
the Multistate Conservation Grant
program. We have reviewed the list and
will award the grants from the list.
ADDRESSES: John C. Stremple, Multistate
Conservation Grants Program
Coordinator, Division of Federal
Assistance, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, Mail
Stop MBSP–4020, Arlington, VA 22203.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John
C. Stremple, (703) 358–2156 (phone) or
[email protected] (e-mail).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration
Programs Improvement Act of 2000
(Improvement Act, Pub. L. 106–408)
amended the Pittman-Robertson
Wildlife Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 669
et seq.) and the Dingell-Johnson Sport
Fish Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 777 et
seq.) and established the Multistate
SUMMARY:

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