Surface Transportation Stakeholder Survey

OMB control number 1652-NEW

Exp. xx/xx/xxxx

Surface Transportation Stakeholder Survey

Responses to this survey are requested from the individual primarily charged with security responsibility for the company or agency or his/her designee. Please submit only one response per company or agency.

Please provide the following information:

1. Surface transportation mode of your company/agency:

• Freight Rail

• Highway / Motor Carrier–Cargo

• Highway / Motor Carrier–Passenger

• Highway Infrastructure Owner

• Mass Transit–Rail

• Mass Transit–Bus

• Passenger Rail

• Pipeline

2. Company/agency name: _______________________________________________________

3. City and state in which your company/agency primarily operates or is headquartered:

________________________________________________________________________

4. Current company/agency annual budget for all physical and cyber security requirements.

In providing this information, please include company/agency costs associated with the following security resource categories: personnel (staff and contractors), technology/equipment, structural modifications/enhancements, training, exercises, as well as any other additional security resource requirements.

____________________________________

5. Did your company/agency receive Federal funding either as a direct recipient or sub-recipient during the past 12 months to assist with security program resource requirements?

• Yes

• No

If the company/agency DID receive Federal funding during the past 12 months, the questions below will apply.

If Item 5 is Yes, answer the following questions:

6. Identify the program/source of the Federal funding provided to your company/agency during the past 12 months:

• Transit Security Grant Program

• Intercity Passenger Rail Security Grant Program

• Intercity Bus Security Grant Program

• Other (Please specify the Federal program/source): ________________________________________________________________

7. How much Federal funding was provided to your company/agency during the past 12 months? _______________________________________

8. In which of the following security resource categories did your company/agency utilize the Federal funding? (Select all that apply)

• Personnel (staff/contractors)

• Equipment technology

• Structural modifications / enhancements

• Training

• Exercises

• Other (Please specify): ____________________________________________________

9. Does your company/agency face current resource challenges despite the addition of Federal funding to your company’s/agency’s annual security budget?

• Yes

• No

If the company / agency receiving Federal funding indicates a resource challenge exists, the question below will apply.

10. Identify the categories in which a security resource challenge exists and provide the specific unmet need(s) to include the approximate funding shortfall. (Select all that apply)

• Personnel (staff/contractors): ________________________________________

• Equipment/technology: _____________________________________________

• Structural modifications/enhancements: ________________________________

• Training: ________________________________________________________

• Exercises: _______________________________________________________

• Other (Please specify): _____________________________________________

11. Do you have any additional comments regarding security resource challenges and your company’s/agency’s unmet needs?

________________________________________________________________________

If the company/agency DID NOT receive Federal funding during the past 12 months, the questions below will apply.

If Item 5 is No, answer the following questions:

6. Identify the reason(s) your company/agency did not receive Federal funding during the past 12 months. (Select all that apply)

• Company/agency not eligible for Federal security grant programs

• Company/agency applied but did not receive funding

• Application process for Federal security grant programs is too cumbersome

• Federal security grant program allowable expense categories are too restrictive

• Available funds through Federal security grant programs are insufficient

• Period of performance for Federal security grants is too short

• Other (Please specify): __________________________________________________

7. Does your company/agency face current resource challenges that exceed your company’s/agency’s annual security budget?

• Yes

• No

If the company/agency not receiving Federal funding indicates a resource challenge exists, the question below will apply.

8. Identify the categories in which a security resource challenge exists and provide the specific unmet need(s) to include the approximate funding shortfall. (Select all that apply)

• Personnel (staff/contractors): _____________________________________________

• Equipment/technology: __________________________________________________

• Structural modifications/enhancements: _____________________________________

• Training: _____________________________________________________________

• Exercises: ____________________________________________________________

• Other (Please specify): __________________________________________________

9. Do you have any additional comments regarding security resource challenges and your company’s/agency’s unmet needs?

___________________________________________________________________________

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT BURDEN STATEMENT: TSA is collecting this information from public and private stakeholders responsible for securing surface transportation assets to identify resource challenges, including the availability of Federal funding, associated with securing such assets. The public burden for collecting this information is estimated to be approximately 2 hours. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or collection to: TSA-11, Attention: PRA 1652-NEW, 601 South 12th Street, Arlington, VA 20598. This is a voluntary collection of information. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and persons are not required to respond to a collection of information, unless it displays a valid OMB control number. The OMB control number assigned to this collection is 1652-NEW, Surface Transportation Stakeholder Survey, which expires xx/xx/20xx.