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grants, cooperative agreements and
contracts. The COEs are authorized by
Congress and selected by DHS Science
and Technology Directorate (S&T)
through a competitive selection process.
Among the COEs is The National Center
for Risk & Economic Analysis of
Terrorism Events (CREATE) at The
University of Southern California. The
Strategic Sourcing Program Office for
DHS has approved the Basic Ordering
Agreements (BOAs) for DHS-wide use.
Any and all DHS Components requiring
the research, analysis, and/or services of
the COEs described in the COE BOAs
may issue Task Orders under the BOAs
through their assigned warranted
Contracting Officers.
NPPD IP is contracting a study
through the approved BOA with
CREATE to analyze a broad set of
security measures in terms of their costs
and spillover effects, with an emphasis
on identifying security measures that
had a positive effect. This includes
examining a broad range of measures
including increased police/security
guard presence and other non- or lessinvasive options. NPPD IP will work
with business leaders to identify
locations that have implemented
various security measures already, and
develop and administer surveys for
statistical analysis and modeling.
Additionally, NPPD IP will survey the
businesses’ customers to evaluate the
public’s perceptions of the security
measures, and evaluate the enhanced
security measures on business
operations and customers’ responses.
CREATE will work with NPPD
personnel to identify locations that have
implemented various security measures
already, and develop and administer
surveys for statistical analysis and
modeling. Management professionals
(Chief Operating Officers, Head of
Marketing, and Head of Security) from
five selected businesses will be asked
questions tailored to the five specific
businesses regarding current and
planned safety measures, management
understanding of customer perceptions
of security measures, management
beliefs about the impacts of security
measures, management beliefs about
how security measures change customer
behaviors and business volume, and
some select demographic information.
This will be conducted as a structured
interview, herein referred to as
‘‘Business Structured Interview’’, and is
needed to obtain necessary and relevant
data for subsequent economic analyses.
The purpose of these analyses is to
evaluate whether specific
counterterrorism efforts have a negative
or positive impact on the company in
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CREATE will administer a customer
survey, herein referred to as ‘‘Customer
Survey’’, regarding awareness of
countermeasures in the Commercial
Facilities sector, attitudes and
perceptions toward safety, impacts
(physical, psychological, and monetary)
countermeasures have on customers,
and select demographic and individual
difference questions. There will be five
variations of this survey targeted to each
of the five specific businesses with
slight variations in the language as a
result, however the same information is
being sought from the groups. These
surveys are intended to create an
understanding of the impacts of security
countermeasures on customers/visitors’
perceptions and behaviors at each of the
specific target businesses selected.
Information will be analyzed to
determine whether the spillover effects
are positive and negative and to what
extent. Statistical analysis of the results
will identify the direct impacts. These
will be fed into an economy-wide
modeling approach known as
computable general equilibrium (CGE)
analysis to determine the ‘‘ripple’’
effects on the entire local economy. The
analysis will be performed with an eye
toward uncertainty analysis, as well in
terms of the framing of survey questions
and, rigorously specifying the
confidence intervals for the statistical
results.
The DHS and CREATE research team
will use the information being collected
in order to inform the study described
above.
The Business Structured Interview
will be conducted as interviews, either
in-person or via video conferencing that
will have a list of questions to help
structure and guide discussions. The
Customer Survey will be created and
sent utilizing a professional-grade
software, ‘‘Research Core,’’ by Qualtrics.
The software allows the researchers to
send customized email invitations to
respondents, track their progress, and
prevent fraud and abuse of the survey.
This is a new information collection.
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
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4. Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
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: Soft Target
Countermeasure Surveys.
OMB Control Number: 1670—NEW.
Frequency: Annually.
Affected Public: Private and Public
Sector.
Number of Respondents: 2,020.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 25
minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 677 hours.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Recordkeeping Burden: $0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintaining): $0.
David Epperson,
Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Transportation Security Administration
Extension of Agency Information
Collection Activity Under OMB Review:
Law Enforcement (LEO)
Reimbursement Request
Transportation Security
Administration, DHS.
ACTION: 30-Day notice.
AGENCY:

This notice announces that
the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) has forwarded the
Information Collection Request (ICR),
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) control number 1652–0063,
abstracted below to OMB for review and
approval of an extension of the
currently approved collection under the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The
ICR describes the nature of the
information collection and its expected
burden. The collection involves the
reimbursement of expenses incurred by
airport operators for the provision of
law enforcement officers (LEOs) to
support airport security checkpoint
screening.

SUMMARY:

Send your comments by July 19,
2018. A comment to OMB is most
effective if OMB receives it within 30
days of publication.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments on
DATES:

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the proposed information collection to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, OMB. Comments should be
addressed to Desk Officer, Department
of Homeland Security/TSA, and sent via
electronic mail to dhsdeskofficer@
omb.eop.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Christina A. Walsh, TSA PRA Officer,
Office of Information Technology (OIT),
TSA–11, Transportation Security
Administration, 601 South 12th Street,
Arlington, VA 20598–6011; telephone
(571) 227–2062; email TSAPRA@
tsa.dhs.gov.
TSA
published a Federal Register notice,
with a 60-day comment period soliciting
comments, of the following collection of
information on March 14, 2018, at 83 FR
11240.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Comments Invited
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), an agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a valid OMB control
number. The ICR documentation will be
available at http://www.reginfo.gov
upon its submission to OMB. Therefore,
in preparation for OMB review and
approval of the following information
collection, TSA is soliciting comments
to—
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed
information requirement 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;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including using
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Consistent with the requirements of
Executive Order (E.O.) 13771, Reducing
Regulation and Controlling Regulatory
Costs, and E.O. 13777, Enforcing the
Regulatory Reform Agenda, TSA is also
requesting comments on the extent to
which this request for information could
be modified to reduce the burden on
respondents.
Information Collection Requirement
Title: LEO Reimbursement Request.
Type of Request: Extension of
currently approved collection.
OMB Control Number: 1652–0063.

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Form(s): LEO Reimbursement
Request-Invoice.
Affected Public: Airport operators.
Abstract: TSA has authority to enter
into agreements with airport operators
to reimburse expenses they incur for the
provision of LEOs in support of
screening at airport security
checkpoints. See 49 U.S.C. 106(m) and
114(m). To implement this authority,
TSA created the LEO Reimbursement
Program. TSA requires that participants
in the LEO Reimbursement Program
record the details of all reimbursements
sought on the LEO Reimbursement
Request-Invoice form. TSA will use this
form to provide for the orderly tracking
of reimbursements.
Number of Respondents: 297.1
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: An
estimated 3,564 hours annually.
Dated: June 13, 2018.
Christina A. Walsh,
TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Office
of Information Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
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Transportation Security Administration
[Docket No. TSA–2005–20118]

Revision of Agency Information
Collection Activity Under OMB Review:
Maryland Three Airports: Enhanced
Security Procedures for Operations at
Certain Airports in the Washington,
DC, Metropolitan Area Flight Restricted
Zone
Transportation Security
Administration, DHS.
ACTION: 30-Day notice.
AGENCY:

This notice announces that
the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) has forwarded the
Information Collection Request (ICR),
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) control number 1652–0029,
abstracted below to OMB for review and
approval of revision of the currently
approved collection under the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The
ICR describes the nature of the
information collection and its expected
burden. The collection is necessary to
comply with a requirement for
individuals to successfully complete a
security threat assessment before
operating an aircraft to or from the three
Maryland airports (Maryland Three

SUMMARY:

1 The estimates have been updated since the
publication of the 60-day notice, which reported
294 respondents and 3,528 annual burden hours.

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Airports) that are located within the
Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area
Flight Restricted Zone (FRZ), or serving
as an airport security coordinator at one
of these three airports.
DATES: Send your comments by July 19,
2018. A comment to OMB is most
effective if OMB receives it within 30
days of publication.
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 Desk Officer, Department
of Homeland Security/TSA, and sent via
electronic mail to dhsdeskofficer@
omb.eop.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christina A. Walsh, TSA PRA Officer,
Office of Information Technology (OIT),
TSA–11, Transportation Security
Administration, 601 South 12th Street,
Arlington, VA 20598–6011; telephone
(571) 227–2062; email TSAPRA@
tsa.dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: TSA
published a Federal Register notice,
with a 60-day comment period soliciting
comments, of the following collection of
information on March 9 2018, 83 FR
10510.
Comments Invited
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), an agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a valid OMB control
number. The ICR documentation will be
available at http://www.reginfo.gov
upon its submission to OMB. Therefore,
in preparation for OMB review and
approval of the following information
collection, TSA is soliciting comments
to—
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed
information requirement 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;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including using
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Consistent with the requirements of
Executive Order (E.O.) 13771, Reducing
Regulation and Controlling Regulatory
Costs, and E.O. 13777, Enforcing the

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