In order to comply with the
regulations set forth in 6 CFR § 27.400, information must be
collected from chemical facility owners and operators. In the
Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards all owners and operators
will enable to communicate or notify specific information the
department. The data collection activity will be limited to
representatives of affected facilities through the Chemical
Security Assessment Tool.
The Department is assuming that
a significant change in public burden estimates have occurred since
the last approved ICR (Sept 2014) due to the decrease in expected
burden hours. The burden per response was lowered for these
instruments based on historical CSAT data. The Department assumes
that Site Security Officers (SSOs) are responsible for submitting
the instruments associated with this collection. For the purpose of
this notice, the Department maintains this assumption. A reduction
of the annual reporting and recordkeeping hour and cost burden for
SSOs to $78.93/hour, based on the fully loaded wage rate for
Managers, All Other as provided by BLS and described in Q12. For
two of the instruments, the Department has revised the estimated
number of respondents. For three of the instruments, the Department
has reduced the estimated average burden per response. Finally,
this ICR includes burden estimates for a new instrument titled
“Declaration of Reporting Status.” Taking into consideration all of
these changes, the total annual estimate for reporting,
recordkeeping, and cost burden under this collection has decreased
from $63,692 to $42,565; increased responses from 2,963 to 4,393;
decreased burden hours from 741 to 539.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.