Narrative of Revisions

Narrative of Revisions

Collection Title: Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Personnel Surety Program

OMB Control No.: 1670-0029

Current Expiration Date: 08/31/2018

Collection Instrument(s): (1) CFATS Personnel Surety Program

The collection revisions are as follows:

• Obtain approval to collect information about affected individuals from all high-risk chemical facilities rather than only Tier 1 and Tier 2 high-risk chemical facilities.

• Update the estimated number of annual respondents from 195,000 to 72,607 based on historical information collected since the Department implemented the CFATS Personnel Surety Program.

• Update the estimated time per respondent from 0.58 hours to 0.1667 hours based upon historical data collected by the Department since the implantation of the CFATS Personnel Surety Program.

• The net changes in burden are as follows:

• Estimated increase number of responses due to Tier 3 and Tier 4 expansion: 130,698

• Estimated increase in total burden hours due to Tier 3 and Tier 4 expansion: 21,783 (130,698 x 0.1667 = 21,783)

• Decrease in number of responses due to historical data for Tier 1 and Tier 2:

-122,393 (72,607 – 195,000 = -122,393)

• Decrease in burden hours due historical data on time per response: -101,499 (decrease from 0.58 hrs to 0.1667 hrs. (72,607 x 0.1667) - (195,000 x 0.58) = -101,499)