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Description of Data Collection
In carrying out the voluntary BASE
program, TSA’s Transportation Security
Inspectors—Surface (TSIs–S) conduct
BASE reviews during site visits with
security and operating officials of transit
(including transit bus) and passenger
rail systems, trucking, school bus
contractors, school districts, and motor
coach companies throughout the United
States, capturing and documenting
relevant information on a standardized
checklist. All BASE reviews are done on
a voluntary basis and are not regulatory
inspections. Advance coordination and
planning ensures the efficiency of the
assessment process. The TSIs–S review
and analyze the public transportation
and highway entities’ security plan, if
adopted, and determine if the mitigation
measures included in the plan are being
effectively implemented, while
providing additional resources for
further security enhancement. In
addition to examining the security plan
document, TSA reviews one or more
assets of the public transportation and
highway entities’ system.
During BASE site visits of PT and
HWY entities, TSIs–S collect
information and complete a BASE
checklist from the review PT and HWY
entities’ documents, plans, and
procedures. They also interview
appropriate PT and HWY entities
personnel and conduct system
observations prompted by questions
raised during the document review and
interview stages. TSA conducts the
interviews to ascertain and clarify
information on security measures and to
identify security gaps. The interviews
also provide TSA with a method to
encourage the surface transportation
entities participating in the BASE
reviews to be diligent in effecting and
maintaining security-related
improvements.
This program provides TSA with realtime information on current security
practices within the transit (including
transit bus), passenger rail, trucking,
school bus contractor, school district,
and motor coach modes of the surface
transportation sector. This information
also allows TSA to adapt programs to
the changing threat dynamically, while
incorporating an understanding of the
improvements surface transportation
entities make in their security posture.
Without this information, the ability of
TSA to perform its security mission
would be severely hindered.
Additionally, the relationships these
face-to-face contacts foster are critical to
TSA’s ability to reach out to the surface
transportation entities participating in
the BASE program.

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If TSA determines information in a
completed assessment constitutes
Sensitive Security Information in
accordance with 49 U.S.C. 114(r) and 49
CFR parts 15 and 1520, TSA will protect
it in accordance with the requirements
set forth in part 1520.
Use of Results
The information collected by TSA
through BASE reviews helps to
strengthen the security of PT and HWY
entities’ security programs by
supporting security program
development (including grant
programs),6 and the analysis/evaluation
provides a consistent road map for PT
and HWY entities to address security
and emergency program vulnerabilities.
In addition, a PT or HWY entity that
undergoes a BASE review is provided
with a report of results that can be used
by the system to identify and prioritize
vulnerabilities and funding to enhance
security. The BASE reviews also will
align PT and HWY entities’ security
efforts with other TSA risk reduction
efforts and provide industry partners
corrective action options to consider by
identifying security smart practices to
share with others.
Specifically, the information collected
will be used:
1. To develop a baseline
understanding of a PT and HWY
entities’ security and emergency
management processes, procedures,
policies, programs, and activities against
security requirements and
recommended security practices
published by TSA.
2. To enhance a PT and HWY entities’
overall security posture through
collaborative review and discussion of
existing security activities,
identification of areas of potential
weakness or vulnerability, and
development of remedial
recommendations and courses of action.
3. To identify programs and protocols
implemented by PT and HWY entities
that represent an ‘‘effective’’ or ‘‘smart’’
security practice warranting sharing
with the transportation community as a
whole to foster general enhancement of
security in the transportation mode.
6 See United States Government Accountability
Office (GAO) Report to Congressional Requesters,
GAO–15–159, PUBLIC TRANSIT Federal and
Transit Agencies Taking Steps to Build Transit
Systems’ Resilience but Face Challenges, December
2014, page 10. http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/
667391.pdf. GAO reviewed transit systems’
resilience to catastrophic events. The report
examined (1) how DHS and the Department of
Transportation help transit agencies make their
systems resilient; (2) actions selected by transit
agencies take to make their systems resilient; and
(3) challenges transit agencies face with making
their systems resilient.

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4. To inform TSA’s development of
security strategies, priorities, and
programs for the most effective
application of available resources,
including funds distributed under the
respective Federal grant programs, to
enhance security within the Nation’s
surface transportation system.
While TSA has not set a limit on the
number of BASE program reviews to
conduct, TSA estimates it will conduct
approximately 30 PT BASE reviews and
approximately 60 HWY BASE reviews
on an annual basis. TSA does not intend
to conduct more than one BASE review
per transit or passenger rail system in a
single year. TSA estimates that the hour
burden per PT entity to engage its
security and/or operating officials with
inspectors in the interactive BASE
program review process is
approximately 12 hours. Also, TSA
estimates that the hour burden per HWY
entity to engage its security and/or
operating officials with inspectors in the
interactive BASE program review
process is approximately 5 hours. Thus,
the total annual hour burden for the PT
BASE program review is 360 hours
annually (30 × 12 hours = 360 hours)
and for HWY BASE 300 hours annually
(60 × 5 hours = 300 hours).
Dated: February 5, 2015.
Christina A. Walsh,
TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Office
of Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2015–02829 Filed 2–10–15; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Transportation Security Administration
Intent To Request Renewal From OMB
of One Current Public Collection of
Information: Law Enforcement Officer
Flying Armed Training
Transportation Security
Administration, DHS.
ACTION: 60-day notice.
AGENCY:

The Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) invites public
comment on one currently approved
Information Collection Request (ICR),
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) control number 1652–0034,
abstracted below that we will submit to
OMB for renewal in compliance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA).
The ICR describes the nature of the
information collection and its expected
burden. The collection involves the
Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS)
maintenance of a database of all Federal,
State and local law enforcement

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agencies that have received the Law
Enforcement Officer (LEO) Flying
Armed Training course.
DATES: Send your comments by April
13, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be emailed
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:
Christina A.Walsh at the above address,
or by telephone (571) 227–2062.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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 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
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Information Collection Requirement
OMB Control Number 1652–0034;
Law Enforcement Officer Flying Armed
Training. TSA is requesting approval for
the renewal of the collection of this
information to comply with 49 CFR
1544.219, which requires Federal LEOs,
full-time territorial, tribal, municipal,
county or state LEOs who are direct
employees of government agencies, and
authorized railroad police officers to
complete the LEOs Flying Armed
training course in order to fly armed.
The course is a non-tactical overview of
the conditions under which an officer
may fly armed and the required conduct
and duties of the LEO while flying
armed. This collection permits TSA to
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enforcement agencies requesting the
LEO Flying Armed training course.
Information is gathered from law
enforcement agencies who have
requested the LEO Flying Armed
training course. The information is
gathered to confirm that the agencies are
eligible for this program (i.e., that they
are active law enforcement agencies
whose officers have an operational need
to fly armed). Law enforcement agencies
are required to contact the TSA/FAMS
via phone or email and provide the full
name of the agency’s designated point of
contact, agency name, agency address,
telephone number, and email address to
obtain the LEO Flying Armed training
course. The FAMS maintain a record of
law enforcement agencies and their
point of contact that have received the
training materials. If an issue arises
during the screening and verification
process regarding the authenticity of an
agency that requests training materials,
no training materials will be supplied
until that issue has either been
confirmed or resolved and a record of
such is maintained.
Upon completion of the training, the
LEO who has been authorized by his or
her agency to fly armed presents his or
her credentials and other required
documentation at the airport in order to
fly armed. A Transportation Security
Officer verifies all pertinent information
onsite. Based on current data, TSA
estimates there are approximately 2,000
respondents on an annual basis. At
most, each agency spends
approximately 5 minutes to provide the
information TSA needs to confirm the
law enforcement agencies are eligible to
receive the training. This amounts to
2000 agencies multiplied by 5 minutes
equals 166.6 hours (2000 agencies × 5
min = 10,000 min [166.6 hrs.]) for a total
annual hour burden of 167 hours.
Dated: February 5, 2015.
Christina A. Walsh,
TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Office
of Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2015–02830 Filed 2–10–15; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
[OMB Control Number 1615–0127]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: E-Verify Program Data
Collections: 2015 Survey of E-Verify
Employers; Reinstatement, With
Change, of a Previously Approved
Collection for Which Approval Has
Expired
U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
ACTION: 60-Day notice.
AGENCY:

The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS) invites
the general public and other Federal
agencies to comment upon this
proposed reinstatement, with change, of
a previously approved collection for
which approval has expired. In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the
information collection notice is
published in the Federal Register to
obtain comments regarding the nature of
the information collection, the
categories of respondents, the estimated
burden (i.e. the time, effort, and
resources used by the respondents to
respond), the estimated cost to the
respondent, and the actual information
collection instruments.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted for 60 days until April
13, 2015.
ADDRESSES: All submissions received
must include the OMB Control Number
1615–0127 in the subject box, the
agency name and Docket ID USCIS–
2012–0002. To avoid duplicate
submissions, please use only one of the
following methods to submit comments:
(1) Online. Submit comments via the
Federal eRulemaking Portal Web site at
www.regulations.gov under e-Docket ID
number USCIS–2012–0002;
(2) Email. Submit comments to
[email protected];
(3) Mail. Submit written comments to
DHS, USCIS, Office of Policy and
Strategy, Chief, Regulatory Coordination
Division, 20 Massachusetts Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20529–2140.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you need a copy of the information
collection instrument with instructions,
or additional information, please visit
the Federal eRulemaking Portal site at:
http://www.regulations.gov. We may
also be contacted at: USCIS, Office of
Policy and Strategy, Regulatory
Coordination Division, Laura Dawkins,
Chief, 20 Massachusetts Avenue NW.,
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