The Department of Commerce (DOC)
foreign access management program is designed to enable the
broadest cooperation and collaboration with international partners
while ensuring compliance with all applicable United States (U.S.)
laws and regulations through consistent and effective management of
access by Foreign Nationals to DOC facilities, resources and
activities which are not available to the public. The DOC must
balance this openness with the necessity to protect classified,
Controlled Unclassified Information or otherwise controlled,
proprietary, or not-for-public release data, information or
technology consistent with U.S. laws and regulations. To facilitate
compliance, the Foreign National Request Form A, is developed for
use by DOC bureaus, staff offices and operating units to mitigate
variance in foreign access management program implementation and
information collection needed to achieve risk-based determinations
of physical and logical access by Foreign National visitors and
guests to DOC facilities and information resources.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.