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f. Existing test documents including
but not limited to SDOCs and STRs
posted on the dhs.gov/science-andtechnology/p25-cap website.
g. Proposed P25 user input for
improving functionality through the
standards-making process.

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Nominations/Expressions of Interest
Procedures and Deadline
Nominations and expressions of
interest shall be received by OIC no later
than July 19, 2018 at the address
[email protected]. Nominations and
expressions of interest received after
this date shall not be considered. All
submissions received must include the
words ‘‘Department of Homeland
Security’’ and DHS–2018–0031. Each
nomination and expression of interest
must provide the following information
as part of the submission:
• A cover letter that highlights a
history of proven leadership within the
public safety community including, if
applicable, a description of prior
experience with law enforcement, fire
response, emergency medical services,
emergency communications, National
Guard, or other first responder roles and
how the use of communications in those
roles qualifies the nominee to
participate on the P25 CAP AP.
• Name, title, and organization of the
nominee.
• A resume summarizing the
nominee’s contact information
(including the mailing address, phone
number, facsimile number, and email
address), qualifications, and expertise to
explain why the nominee should be
appointed to the P25 CAP AP.
• The resume must demonstrate a
minimum of ten years (10) years of
experience directly using P25 systems
in an operational environment in
support of established public safety
communications or from a system
implementer/administrator perspective;
a bachelor’s or associate degree with an
emphasis in communications and
engineering may be substituted for three
(3) years, a master’s/professional
certification for seven (7) years, and a
Ph.D. for ten (10) years of the
requirement.
• The resume must discuss the
nominee’s familiarity with the current
P25 CAP, including documents that are
integral to the process such as the
SDOCs, STRs, and CABs referenced in
this notice.
• A letter from the nominee’s
supervisor indicating the nominee’s
agency’s support for the nominee to
participate on the P25 CAP AP as a
representative from their respective
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• Disclosure of Federal boards,
commissions, committees, task forces,
or work groups on which the nominee
currently serves or has served within
the past 12 months.
• A statement confirming that the
nominee is not registered as a lobbyist
pursuant to the Lobbying Disclosure Act
of 1995.
Additional information can be found
as follows: Project 25 Compliance
Assessment Program and Compliance
Assessment Bulletins https://
www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/
bulletins.
William N. Bryan,
Senior Official Performing the Duties of Under
Secretary for Science and Technology,
Department of Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
[Docket No. DHS–2018–0022]

Soft Target Countermeasure Surveys
Office of Infrastructure
Protection (IP), National Protection and
Programs Directorate (NPPD),
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS).
ACTION: 60-Day notice and request for
comments; new collection, 1670—NEW.
AGENCY:

DHS NPPD IP 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 IP is
contracting a study to analyze a broad
set of business security measures in
terms of their costs and spillover effects,
with an emphasis on identifying
security measures that had a positive
effect. 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.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted until August 20, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by docket number DHS–
2018–0022, by one of the following
methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Please follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
• Email: Bill.Schweigart@
HQ.DHS.GOV. Please include docket
number DHS–2018–0022 in the subject
line of the message.
SUMMARY:

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• Mail: Written comments and
questions about this Information
Collection Request should be forwarded
to DHS/NPPD/IP, ATTN: 1670—NEW,
245 Murray Lane SW, Mail Stop 0608,
Bill Schweigart, Arlington, VA 20528.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the words ‘‘Department of
Homeland Security’’ and the docket
number for this action. Comments
received will be posted without
alteration at http://www.regulations.gov,
including any personal information
provided.
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Bill Schweigart
at 703–603–5148 or at Bill.Schweigart@
HQ.DHS.GOV.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title II of
the Homeland Security Act of 2002
(Pub. L. 107–296), as amended (2006),
directs the DHS to coordinate all
Federal homeland security activities,
including infrastructure protection. On
behalf of DHS, NPPD IP manages the
Department’s program to protect and
enhance the resilience of the Nation’s
physical and cyber infrastructure within
the 16 critical infrastructure sectors
designated by Presidential Policy
Directive 21 Critical Infrastructure
Security and Resilience (PPD–21)
(February 2013) by implementing the
National Infrastructure Protection Plan
(NIPP) 2013: Partnering for Critical
Infrastructure Security and Resilience.
NPPD IP accomplishes their mission by
building sustainable partnerships with
its public and private sector
stakeholders to enable more effective
sector coordination, information
sharing, and program development and
implementation.
The Homeland Security Act of 2002,
as amended (2006), also grants DHS the
authority to create university-based
Centers of Excellence (COEs) using

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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
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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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