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 have the ability to safeguard their
Chemical-terrorism Vulnerability Information (CVI) and by law
receives protection from public disclosure and misuse.
US Code:
6 USC
621 Name of Law: Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard
PL:
Pub.L. 113 - 254 n/a Name of Law: Protecting and Securing
Chemical Facilities from Terrorist Attacks Act of 2014
PL:
Pub.L. 109 - 295 550 Name of Law: Department of Homeland
Security Appropriations Act of 2007
PL:
Pub.L. 107 - 296 n/a Name of Law: Department of Homeland
Security Act of 2002
The Department is assuming that
a significant change in public burden estimates have occurred since
the last approved ICR (Sept 2014). For the CVI Authorization
instrument the Department assumes that the majority of individuals
who will complete this instrument are SSOs, although a smaller
number of other individuals may also complete this instrument
(e.g., state officials or Federal employees). For the purpose of
this notice, the Department maintains this assumption. The
Department is also incorporating reduction of the annual reporting
and recordkeeping hour and cost burden for SSOs to $67.72/hour.
This amount is consistent with the SSO total annual burden costs
established in programmatically related Departmental ICRs. For the
CVI Authorization instrument the Department has revised the
estimated number of respondents from 30,000 to 20,000 to reflect
the Department’s revised estimate on expected annual usage of this
instrument. In addition, a reduction of user response times for the
CVI Authorization instrument was observed to decrease from 1 hour
to 0.50 hour. The average user response time between CY 2014 – 2016
was observed to be 0.50 hour. In addition, the estimated total
burden is estimated to decrease by -385,100 responses, -53,775
burden hours, and $4,807,450 based on the proposed elimination of
five instruments previously approved for the collection CVI-related
information and the reduction of the response time for CVI
Authorization. Taking into consideration all of these changes, the
total annual estimate for reporting, recordkeeping, and cost burden
under this collection is expected to decrease from $5,484,650 to
$677,200; from 405,100 responses to 20,000 responses; and 63,775
hours to 10,000 hours.
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.