1220-0190 Supporting Statement

OMB Number 1220-0190

Revised CIPSEA Pledge

March 2017

Supporting Statement for Requests for OMB Approval

For Revised CIPSEA Pledge

Summary

This information collection request seeks to extend an update to the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA) pledge that the Office of Management and Budget initially approved this information collection on December 1, 2016. The approved collection added 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.

The updated pledge applies to the following collections.

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 package is being submitted for all above listed packages and will not affect the current expiration dates of any of these packages.

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:

No comments were received as a result of the Federal Register Notice published in 81 FR 88270 December 7, 2016.

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 its pledge language to notify respondents of this monitoring

11. Sensitive Questions:

No change from currently approved underlying packages.

12. Burden of Collection:

No change from currently approved underlying packages.

13. Capital/Start-up Cost

There are no capital/start-up costs.

14. Cost to the Federal Government:

No change from currently approved underlying packages.

15. Changes in Burden:

There is no change in respondent burden 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 date.

18. Exception to Certification Statement:

There are no exceptions to the certification.

B. Statistical Methods.

No change from currently approved underlying packages.

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