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Program update, a certification program
acknowledging that a collegiate
emergency services degree meets the
minimum standards of excellence
established by FESHE development
committees and the Academy;
• The National Professional
Development Summit to be held on June
13–16, 2018, an annual event which
brings national training and education
audiences together for their conference
and support initiatives;
• The Managing Officer Program
progress report including application
selection results, a multiyear curriculum
that introduces emerging emergency
services leaders to personal and
professional skills in change
management, risk reduction, and
adaptive leadership;
• The Executive Fire Officer (EFO)
Program Symposium to be held April 6–
8, 2018, an annual event for alumni
which recognizes outstanding applied
research completed by present EFO
Program participants, recognizes recent
EFO Program graduates, provides highquality presentations offered by private
and public sector representatives,
facilitates networking between EFO
Program graduates, promotes further
dialog between EFO Program graduates
and U.S. Fire Administrator and
National Fire Academy faculty and staff;
• Curriculum development and
revision updates for Academy courses;
• Discussion on the approval process
for state-specific courses;
• Distance learning program update
(mediated and self-study);
• State training delivery update;
• NFA Technology Workgroup
Initiative, discuss initiating a forum to
address current issues and initiate a
plan for NFA’s future technology needs;
• Staffing update.
4. The Board will receive activity
reports on the National Fire Incident
Reporting System Subcommittee, the
Professional Development Initiative
Subcommittee, and four EFO Program
Review Subcommittees: Admissions,
Curriculum, Delivery and Design, and
Evaluations and Outcomes.
Meeting materials will be posted no
later than March 9, 2018 at https://
www.usfa.fema.gov/training/nfa/about/
bov.html.
Dated: February 15, 2018.
Tonya L. Hoover,
Superintendent, National Fire Academy,
United States Fire Administration, Federal
Emergency Management Agency.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
National Initiative for Cybersecurity
Careers and Studies Cybersecurity
Training and Education Catalog
Collection
National Protection and
Programs Directorate (NPPD),
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS).
ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for
comments; Revised Information
Collection Request: 1670–0030.
AGENCY:

The DHS NPPD Office of
Cybersecurity & Communications
(CS&C), Cybersecurity Education &
Awareness Office (CE&A), National
Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and
Studies (NICCS) will submit the
following Information Collection
Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995. NPPD previously published this
ICR in the Federal Register on Monday,
November 20, 2017 at 82 FR 55110 for
a 60-day public comment period. No
comments were received by NPPD. The
purpose of this notice is to allow an
additional 30 days for public comments.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted until March 29, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments on
the proposed information collection to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, OMB. Comments should be
addressed to OMB Desk Officer,
Department of Homeland Security and
sent via electronic mail to
[email protected]. All
submissions must include the words
‘‘Department of Homeland Security’’
and the OMB Control Number 1670–
0030.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice may be made available to the
public through relevant websites. For
this reason, please do not include in
your comments information of a
confidential nature, such as sensitive
personal information or proprietary
information. If you send an email
comment, your email address will be
automatically captured and included as
part of the comment that is placed in the
public docket and made available on the
internet. Please note that responses to
this public comment request containing
any routine notice about the
confidentiality of the communication
will be treated as public comments that
may be made available to the public
notwithstanding the inclusion of the
routine notice.
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For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Shannon
Nguyen at 703–705–6246 or at niccs@
hq.dhs.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

The cyberspecific authorities to receive
information support the Department’s
general authority to receive information
from any federal or non-federal entity in
support of the mission responsibilities
of the Department. Section 201 of the
Homeland Security Act of 2002
authorizes the Secretary ‘‘[t]o access,
receive, and analyze law enforcement
information, intelligence information,
and other information from agencies of
the Federal Government, State and local
government agencies (including law
enforcement agencies), and private
sector entities, and to integrate such
information, in support of the mission
responsibilities of the Department.’’ Sec.
201, Public Law 107–296; 6 U.S.C.
121(d)(1); see also 6 U.S.C. 121(d)(12).
The following authorities also permit
DHS to collect this information: Federal
Information Security Management Act
of 2002 (FISMA), 44 U.S.C. 3546;
Presidential Policy Directive (PPD)–21,
Critical Infrastructure Identification,
Prioritization, and Protection (2003);
and National Security Presidential
Directive (NSPD)–54/Homeland
Security Policy Directive (HSPD)–23,
Cybersecurity Policy (2009).
The NICCS Portal is a national online
resource for cybersecurity awareness,
education, talent management, and
professional development and training.
NICCS Portal is an implementation tool
for the National Initiative for
Cybersecurity Education (NICE). Its
mission is to provide comprehensive
cybersecurity resources to the public.
To promote cybersecurity education,
and to provide a comprehensive
resource for the Nation, NICE developed
the Cybersecurity Training and
Education Catalog. The Cybersecurity
Training and Education Catalog will be
hosted on the NICCS Portal. Training
course and certification information will
be included in the Training/Workforce
Development Catalog.
Any information received from the
public in support of the NICCS Portal
and Cybersecurity Training and
Education Catalog is completely
voluntary. Organizations and
individuals who do not provide
information can still utilize the NICCS
Portal and Cybersecurity Training and
Education Catalog without restriction or
penalty. An organization or individual
who wants their information removed
from the NICCS Portal and/or
Cybersecurity Training and Education

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Catalog can email the NICCS
Supervisory Office.
CE&A uses the collected information
from the NICCS Cybersecurity Training
Course Form and the NICCS
Cybersecurity Certification Form and
displays it on a publicly accessible
website called the National Initiative for
Cybersecurity Careers and Studies
(NICCS) Portal (http://niccs.us-cert.gov/
). Collected information from these two
forms will be included in the
Cybersecurity Training and Education
Catalog that is hosted on the NICCS
Portal.
The DHS CE&A NICCS Supervisory
Office will use information collected
from the NICCS Vendor Vetting Form to
primarily manage communications with
the training/workforce development
providers; this collected information
will not be shared with the public and
is intended for internal use only.
Additionally, this information will be
used to validate training providers
before uploading their training and
certification information to the Training
Catalog.
The DHS CE&A NICCS Supervisory
Office will use information collected
from the NICCS Mapping Tool Form to
provide an end user with information of
how their position or job title aligns to
the new Cybersecurity Framework 1.1.
This collected information will not be
shared with the public and is intended
for internal use only.
The information will be collected via
fully electronic web forms or partially
electronic via email. Collection will be
coordinated between the public and
DHS CE&A via email (niccs@
hq.dhs.gov).
The revisions to the collection
include: The addition of the NICCS
Mapping Tool, the updates to the
Training Course Form, Changing a form
name from Vetting Criteria Form to
Vendor Vetting Form, Course
Certification Form has been updated to
be collected via email as a CSV file.
OMB is particularly interested in
comments that:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information 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 of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
4. Minimize the burden of the
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are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
Title of Collection: National Initiative
for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies
Cybersecurity Training and Education
Catalog Collection.
OMB Control Number: 1670–0030.
Frequency: Occassionally.
Affected Public: Educational Institutes
(Privately Owned, and State/Local
Government Owned).
Number of Respondents: 1,350
respondents.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 30
minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 1,688 annual
burden hours.
Total Burden Cost: $0.
Total Recordkeeping Burden: $0.

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and associated response time, must be
directed to the OMB USCIS Desk Officer
via email at dhsdeskofficer@
omb.eop.gov. All submissions received
must include the agency name and the
OMB Control Number [1615–0101] in
the subject line.
You may wish to consider limiting the
amount of personal information that you
provide in any voluntary submission
you make. For additional information
please read the Privacy Act notice that
is available via the link in the footer of
http://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
USCIS, Office of Policy and Strategy,
Regulatory Coordination Division,
Samantha Deshommes, Chief, 20
Massachusetts Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20529–2140,
Telephone number (202) 272–8377
(This is not a toll-free number;
comments are not accepted via
telephone message.). Please note contact
information provided here is solely for
questions regarding this notice. It is not
for individual case status inquiries.
Applicants seeking information about
the status of their individual cases can
check Case Status Online, available at
the USCIS website at http://
www.uscis.gov, or call the USCIS
National Customer Service Center at
(800) 375–5283; TTY (800) 767–1833.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

[OMB Control Number 1615–0101]

Comments

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Extension, Without Change,
of a Currently Approved Collection:
Verification Request and Supplement

The information collection notice was
previously published in the Federal
Register on November 24, 2017, at 82
FR 55852, allowing for a 60-day public
comment period. USCIS did receive one
comment in connection with the 60-day
notice.
You may access the information
collection instrument with instructions,
or additional information by visiting the
Federal eRulemaking Portal site at:
http://www.regulations.gov and enter
USCIS–2008–0008 in the search box.
Written comments and suggestions from
the public and affected agencies should
address one or more of the following
four points:
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information 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 of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and

David Epperson,
Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY

U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
ACTION: 30-Day notice.
AGENCY:

The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS) will be
submitting the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995. The purpose of this notice is to
allow an additional 30 days for public
comments.
DATES: The purpose of this notice is to
allow an additional 30 days for public
comments. Comments are encouraged
and will be accepted until March 29,
2018. This process is conducted in
accordance with 5 CFR 1320.10.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and/or
suggestions regarding the item(s)
contained in this notice, especially
regarding the estimated public burden
SUMMARY:

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