1220-0NEWSSA_CIPSEA(20161130_Final)

Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 Pledge Update

1220-0NEW

November 2016

Supporting Statement for Requests for OMB Approval

For Revised CIPSEA Pledge

Summary

This request covers an update to the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA) pledge to add the following sentence to the existing CIPSEA pledge for the Information Collections listed in the table below.

Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, Federal information systems are protected from malicious activities through cybersecurity screening of transmitted data.

OMB NUMBER	TITLE OF SURVEY
1220-0039	Consumer Price Index Commodities and Services Survey
1220-0008	Producer Price Index Survey
1220-0011	Report on Employment, Payroll, and Hours
1220-0164	National Compensation Survey
1220-0170	Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS)
1220-0189	Occupational Requirements Survey (Production)
1220-0025	International Price Program – U.S. Export Product Information
1220-0163	Consumer Price Index Housing Survey
1220-0042	Report on Occupational Employment
1220-0045	Survey of Occupational Injuries
1220-0133	Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries
1220-0012	Employment, Wages and Contributions Report (ES-202 Program)
1220-0032	Annual Refiling Survey
1220-0141	Cognitive and Psychological Research
1220-0134	Multiple Worksite Report and the Report of Federal Employment and Wages

As per OMB instruction, this single ICR is being submitted to update the CIPSEA confidentiality pledges for all above listed packages and will not otherwise affect the content, scope, burden, or the current expiration dates of any of these packages.

Emergency clearance procedures are being used to obtain PRA clearance from OMB for the referenced ICRs, in order to implement revised CIPSEA pledge language that is resulting from the mandatory implementation of Einstein monitoring by the Department of Homeland Security. More specifically, the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 mandates that Federal information systems be protected from malicious activities through cybersecurity screening of transmitted data. Approval of this ICR using emergency clearance procedures is necessary to implement a change to the CIPSEA pledge to notify respondents of the Einstein monitoring. The BLS is required to implement Einstein by December 18, 2016, in accordance with the law. See 44 U.S.C. § 3507(j) and 5 C.F.R. § 1320.13.

A. Justification

1. Necessity of Collection:

No change from currently approved underlying packages.

2. Description of the Information Collected:

No change from currently approved underlying packages.

3. Use of Technology to Reduce Burden:

No change from currently approved underlying packages.

4. Identification of Duplication and Availability or Similar Information:

No change from currently approved underlying packages.

5. Small Businesses:

No change from currently approved underlying packages.

6. Less Frequent Conduct of Study:

No change from currently approved underlying packages.

7. Special Circumstances:

No change from currently approved underlying packages.

8. Consultation with Persons Outside BLS:

This ICR is being submitted under PRA emergency clearance procedures. The BLS has submitted a 60-day FRN for publication and will consider public comments received in response to that document.

9. Gifts or Payments to Respondents:

No change from currently approved underlying packages.

10. Confidential Responses:

The Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA) safeguards the confidentiality of individually identifiable information acquired under a pledge of confidentiality by controlling access to, and uses made of, such information. CIPSEA includes fines and penalties for any knowing and willful disclosure of individually identifiable information by an officer, employee, or agent of the BLS.

As required by the passage of the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, the Federal Statistical community has implemented the DHS’ Einstein Cybersecurity Protection Program and is thus modifying the CIPSEA pledge language to notify respondents of this monitoring. The sentence in bold below is the new addition to the current pledge.

Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, Federal information systems are protected from malicious activities through cybersecurity screening of transmitted data.

11. Sensitive Questions:

No change from currently approved underlying packages.

12. Burden of Collection:

No change from currently approved underlying packages. (Due to system limitations, a burden of 1 response requiring 5 minutes has been entered into the database.)

13. Capital/Start-up Cost

There are no capital/start-up costs in any of the currently approved underlying packages.

14. Cost to the Federal Government:

No change from currently approved underlying packages.

15. Changes in Burden:

There is no change in respondent burden for the currently approved underlying packages by the addition of the new sentence notifying of Einstein monitoring.

16. Publication Plans/Schedule:

No change to plans from the currently approved underlying packages.

17. OMB Approval Expiration Date:

No change to current requests not to display the expiration dates for the currently approved underlying packages.

18. Exception to Certification Statement:

There are no exceptions to the certification statement.

Part B—Statistical Methods

The Department has determined no Part B is needed for this ICR, as there is no change to the statistical methods from those in the currently approved underlying packages.

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