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Protection will be submitting the
following information collection request
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). The
information collection is published in
the Federal Register to obtain comments
from the public and affected agencies.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted (no later than
December 19, 2018) to be assured of
consideration.
Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments on
this proposed information collection to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget. Comments should be addressed
to the OMB Desk Officer for Customs
and Border Protection, Department of
Homeland Security, and sent via
electronic mail to dhsdeskofficer@
omb.eop.gov.

ADDRESSES:

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional PRA information
should be directed to Seth Renkema,
Chief, Economic Impact Analysis
Branch, U.S. Customs and Border
Protection, Office of Trade, Regulations
and Rulings, 90 K Street NE, 10th Floor,
Washington, DC 20229–1177,
Telephone number (202) 325–0056 or
via email [email protected]. Please
note that the contact information
provided here is solely for questions
regarding this notice. Individuals
seeking information about other CBP
programs should contact the CBP
National Customer Service Center at
877–227–5511, (TTY) 1–800–877–8339,
or CBP website at https://www.cbp.gov/
.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CBP
invites the general public and other
Federal agencies to comment on the
proposed and/or continuing information
collections pursuant to the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.). This proposed information
collection was previously published in
the Federal Register (Volume 83 FR
Page 34855) on July 23, 2018, allowing
for a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days
for public comments. This process is
conducted in accordance with 5 CFR
1320.8. Written comments and
suggestions from the public and affected
agencies should address one or more of
the following four points: (1) 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) the accuracy of the
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proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (3)
suggestions to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (4) suggestions to
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 submission of responses. The
comments that are submitted will be
summarized and included in the request
for approval. All comments will become
a matter of public record.
Overview of This Information
Collection
Title: Screening Requirements for
Carriers.
OMB Number: 1651–0122.
Current Actions: CBP proposes to
extend the expiration date of this
information collection with a decrease
to the burden hours due to updated
agency estimates. There is no change to
the information collected.
Type of Review: Extension (without
change).
Affected Public: Carriers.
Abstract: Section 273(e) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8
U.S.C. 1323(e) the Act) authorizes the
Department of Homeland Security to
establish procedures which carriers
must undertake for the proper screening
of their alien passengers prior to
embarkation at the port from which they
are to depart for the United States, in
order to become eligible for an
automatic reduction, refund, or waiver
of a fine imposed under section
273(a)(1) of the Act. The screening
procedures are set forth in 8 CFR 273.3.
As provided in 8 CFR 273.4, to be
eligible to obtain such an automatic
reduction, refund, or waiver of a fine,
the carrier must provide evidence to
CBP that it screened all passengers on
the conveyance in accordance with the
procedures listed in 8 CFR 273.3.
Some examples of the evidence the
carrier may provide to CBP include: A
description of the carrier’s document
screening training program; the number
of employees trained; information
regarding the date and number of
improperly documented aliens
intercepted by the carrier at the port(s)
of embarkation; and any other evidence
to demonstrate the carrier’s efforts to
properly screen passengers destined for
the United States.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
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Estimated Time per Respondent: 100
hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 4,100.
Dated: November 13, 2018.
Seth D. Renkema,
Branch Chief, Economic Impact Analysis
Branch, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Soft Target Countermeasure Surveys
Office of Infrastructure
Protection (IP), National Protection and
Programs Directorate (NPPD),
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS).
ACTION: 30-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 has contracted 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. To do so, the study team
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 customer responses.
DHS previously published this ICR in
the Federal Register on Tuesday, June
19, 2018 for a 60-day public comment
period. 0 comments were received by
DHS. The purpose of this notice is to
allow an additional 30 days for public
comments. To provide greater
transparency, NPPD is making an
adjustment from the 60-day notice to
show all related costs from the 60-day
notice Supporting Statement A within
the text of the 30-day notice.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted until December 19,
2018.
SUMMARY:

Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments on
the proposed information collection to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget. Comments should be addressed
to OMB Desk Officer, Department of
Homeland Security and sent via
electronic mail to dhsdeskofficer@
omb.eop.gov. All submissions must
include the words ‘‘Department of

ADDRESSES:

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Homeland Security’’ and the OMB
Control Number 1670–NEW—Soft
Target Countermeasure Surveys.
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
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
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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 has contracted a study
through the approved BOA with
CREATE to analyze a broad set of
security measures used in the
Commercial Facilities critical
infrastructure sector 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 nonor less-invasive options. The study team
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, the study team
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
question.
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)
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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
collected; and
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.

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Title of Collection: Soft Target
Countermeasure Surveys.
OMB Control Number: 1670–NEW.
Frequency: Annually.
Affected Public: Private and Public
Sector.
Number of Respondents: 2020.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 25
minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 677 hours.
Total Respondent Opportunity Costs:
$24,129.
Total Respondent Out-of-Pocket Cost:
$0.
Total Government Cost: $300,000.
Scott Libby,
Deputy Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement
[1653–0041]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Extension, Without Change,
of a Currently Approved Collection:
Designation of Attorney in Fact/
Revocation of Attorney in Fact
U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: 30-Day notice.
AGENCY:

The Department of Homeland
Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (USICE) 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. This proposed
information collection was previously
published in the Federal Register (83
FR 44642) on August 31, 2018, allowing
for a 30-day comment period. USICE
received no comments during this
period. Based on better estimates, ICE is
making an adjustment from the 60-day
notice to reflect a decrease in the
number of respondents. The purpose of
this notice is to allow an additional 30
days for public comments.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted until December 19,
2018.

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SUMMARY:

Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments
and/or suggestions regarding the item(s)
contained in this notice, especially
regarding the estimated public burden
and associated response time, to the
Office of Information and Regulatory

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Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget. Comments should be addressed
to the OMB Desk Officer for
Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
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 1653–
0041.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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
agencies 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
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 submission of
responses.
Overview of This Information
Collection
(1) Type of Information Collection:
Extension, Without Change, of a
Currently Approved Collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection:
Designation of Attorney in Fact/
Revocation of Attorney in Fact.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of DHS
sponsoring the collection: Forms I–312
and I–312A, USICE.
(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Primary: State, Local, or Tribal
Government. The data collected on
Form I–312 is used by ICE to ensure that
an Obligor presents an official request
for remittance of collateral security and/
or accrued interest to a duly appointed
Attorney In Fact for an Obligor when
the Obligor chooses to invoke this
option. The data collected on Form I–
312A is used by ICE to ensure that an
Obligor’s intent to expressly revoke a
previously valid Attorney In Fact
designation is properly documented.
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estimated for an average respondent to
respond: 700 responses at 1 hour (60
minutes).
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: 700 hours.
(7) An estimate of the total public
burden (in cost) associated with the
collection: $20,300.
Dated: November 13, 2018.
Scott Elmore,
PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief
Information Officer, U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, Department of
Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Transportation Security Administration
[Docket No. TSA–2004–19515]

Intent To Request Extension From
OMB of One Current Public Collection
of Information: Air Cargo Security
Requirements
Transportation Security
Administration, DHS.
ACTION: 60-Day notice.
AGENCY:

The Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) invites public
comment on one currently approved
Information Collection Request (ICR),
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) control number 1652–0040,
abstracted below that we will submit to
OMB for an extension in compliance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act
(PRA). The ICR describes the nature of
the information collection and its
expected burden. This ICR involves
three broad categories of affected
populations operating under a security
program: Aircraft operators, foreign air
carriers, and indirect air carriers. The
collections of information that make up
this ICR include security programs,
security threat assessments (STA) on
certain individuals, known shipper data
via the Known Shipper Management
System (KSMS), Indirect Air Carrier
Management System (IACMS), and
evidence of compliance recordkeeping.
DATES: Send your comments by January
18, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be emailed
to [email protected] or delivered to
the TSA PRA Officer, Information
Technology (IT), TSA–11,
Transportation Security Administration,
601 South 12th Street, Arlington, VA
20598–6011.
SUMMARY:

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