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(NIMS) Incident Command System (ICS)
and to provide hands-on exercises that
reinforce the lecture materials. CISA
and FEMA Emergency Management
Institute (EMI) offer this course jointly
as ‘‘L0969, NIMS ICS All-Hazards
Communications Unit Leader Course.’’
Under the NIMS ICS structure, a COML
is the focal point within the
Communications Unit. This course
provides DHS-approved and NIMScompliant instruction to ensure that
every state/territory has trained
personnel capable of coordinating onscene emergency communications
during a multi-jurisdictional response or
planned event.
The COMT course provides
introductory and refresher training for
the NIMS ICS COMT position. It
introduces public safety professionals
and support staff to various
communications concepts and
technologies including interoperable
communications solutions, LMR
communications, satellite, telephone,
data, and computer technologies used in
incident response and planned events. It
is designed for state/territory, tribal,
urban, and local emergency response
professionals and support personnel in
all disciplines who have a technical
communications background.
Participants develop the essential core
competencies required for performing
the duties of the COMT in an allhazards incident, including
responsibilities while operating in a
local, regional, or state-level AllHazards Incident Management Team.
In 2018 and 2019, ICTAP introduced
the ITSL course, and SAFECOM/
National Counsel of Statewide
Interoperability Coordinators (NCSWIC)
have coordinated with FEMA National
Integration Center (NIC) and other
organizations focused on public safety
communications to establish the best
way to integrate the ITSL into the ICS.
The ITSL is needed to provide
information management, cybersecurity,
and application management for the
many critical incident/event related
functions to include: Incident/Unified
Command Post, Incident
Communications Centers, and various
tactical operations centers, joint
information center (JIC), staging areas,
and field locations. The ITSL course
targets Federal, state/territory, tribal,
urban, local, and emergency response
professionals, and support personnel in
all disciplines with a communications
background and an aptitude for and
extensive experience in information
technology. Specifically, the training
course provides an overview of the ITSL
components including
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Unified Help Desk, IT Infrastructure
Manager, Network Manager. It covers
their roles and responsibilities and
provides an in-depth overview with
exercises for the ITSL’s major functions,
to include ensuring reliable and timely
delivery of IT services to participating
agencies and officials.
The ICTAP Training Survey will not
collect any personal identifiable
information (PII) from respondents
(emergency communications
stakeholders) of the survey. In collecting
feedback regarding the ITSL, COML,
and COMT courses, the survey will
collect what state the respondent lives,
where they took the course, did the
course provide the information needed,
should the course curriculum be
updated, and any comments to improve
the course material. The survey will
encompass 10 questions regarding the
former student’s experience, anything
that they liked, disliked, or something
new that they would like to see
incorporated into the refreshed class. It
is estimated that it will take each
participant 10 minutes to complete the
training survey. For 300 respondents
annually, the burden is 50 hours. To
estimate the cost of this collection, CISA
uses the mean hourly wage of ‘‘All
Occupations’’ of $25.72. CISA then
applies a load factor of 1.4597 to this
average wage to obtain a fully loaded
average hourly wage of $37.54. The total
respondent cost burden for this
collection is $1,877 (50 hours × $37.54).
Analysis
Agency: Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS).
Title of Collection: Interoperable
Communications and Technical
Assistance Program (ICTAP) Training
Survey.
OMB Control Number: 1670–NEW.
Frequency: Annually.
Affected Public: State, Local, Tribal,
and Territorial Governments.
Number of Annualized Respondents:
300.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 10
Minutes.
Total Annualized Burden Hours: 50
hours.
Total Annualized Respondent
Opportunity Cost: $1,877.16.
Total Annualized Respondent Out-ofPocket: $0.

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Total Annualized Government Cost:
$4,082.67.
Samuel Vazquez,
Acting Chief Information Officer, Department
of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
[Docket No. CISA–2020–0005]

1670–NEW: SAFECOM Nationwide
Surveys Generic Clearance
Emergency Communications
Division (ECD), Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS).
ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for
comments; new Information Collection
Request, 1670–NEW.
AGENCY:

The Emergency
Communications Division (ECD) within
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
Security Agency (CISA) 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. CISA previously published a
notice about this ICR, in the Federal
Register on February 19, 2021 for a 60day public comment period. In
response, there were no comment
received. The purpose of this notice is
to allow additional 30-days for public
comments.

SUMMARY:

The comment period for the
information collection request
published on February 17, 2021 at 86 FR
9948. Comments are due by July 23,
2021.

DATES:

Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
The Office of Management and Budget
is particularly interested in comments
which:
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;

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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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric
Runnels, 703–705–6279, necp@
cisa.dhs.gov.
In 2006,
Congress passed Public Law 109–295,
which included SEC. 671. EMERGENCY
COMMUNICATIONS also known as the
‘‘21st Century Emergency
Communications Act of 2006’’. The
legislation established the Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of
Emergency Communications, which was
re-designated in 2018 as the Emergency
Communications Division (ECD) within
the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
Security Agency (CISA), to lead the
development and implementation of a
comprehensive approach to advancing
national interoperable communications
capabilities.
The following responsibilities were
established:
6 U.S.C. 571(c) requires the DHS
Secretary through the ECD Assistant
Director to:
(4) Conduct extensive, nationwide
outreach to support and promote the
ability of emergency response providers
and relevant government officials to
continue to communicate in the event of
natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and
other man-made disasters;
(13) develop and update periodically,
as appropriate, a National Emergency
Communications Plan under section 572
of this title;
(14) perform such other duties of the
Department necessary to support and
promote the ability of emergency
response providers and relevant
government officials to continue to
communicate in the event of natural
disasters, acts of terrorism, and other
man-made disasters; and
(15) perform other duties of the
Department necessary to achieve the
goal of and maintain and enhance
interoperable emergency
communications capabilities.
6 U.S.C. 572(a) requires the Secretary
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tribal governments, Federal departments
and agencies, emergency response
providers, and the private sector,
develop not later than 180 days after the
completion of the baseline assessment
under section 573 of this title, and
periodically update, a National
Emergency Communications Plan.
Lastly, 6 U.S.C. 573 requires the DHS
Secretary to conduct an assessment of
Federal, State, local, and tribal
governments that defines the range of
capabilities needed by emergency
response providers and relevant
government officials, assesses the
current available capabilities to meet
such communications needs; identify
the gaps between such current
capabilities and defined requirements;
at least every five years.
These authorities in addition to DHS
responsibilities through Executive Order
13618 in the area of national security/
emergency providers’ communications
require a continuous examination of
nationwide emergency communications
capabilities.
The frequency and complexity of
emergencies are on the rise during a
time when technology is advancing at a
faster pace than any other time in
history. In order to perform these
statutory regulations, it is important to
understand the continuously changing
requirements of emergency response
providers and government officials at all
levels of government, evolving risks,
and the public safety community’s
ability to integrate new technologies
while also preparing for emergent
technologies. As a result, CISA is
seeking a PRA Generic Clearance to
allow for flexibility in implementing
surveys that are relevant to the current
security environment.
To meet the statutory requirements of
6 U.S.C. 573, ECD conducts the
SAFECOM Nationwide Survey every 5
years to assess evolving capability needs
and gaps and track progress against
policy initiatives; status of strategic
plans; and major industry or market
shifts affecting the emergency
communications capability.
CISA ECD conducts a web-based
survey entitled the SAFECOM
Nationwide Survey, hereinafter referred
to as the SNS. The purpose of the survey
is to gather information to assess
available emergency communications
capabilities and identify gaps and needs
for emergency response providers to
effectively communicate during all
types of natural or man-made hazards.
CISA ECD uses the information
collected to complete a statutorily
mandated assessment and shares the
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order to ascertain this information, the
SNS deploys four similar surveys across
the nation to various emergency
response disciplines at each level of
government—federal, state, territorial,
tribal, and local. The survey solicits
responses regarding issues affecting the
public safety community to determine a
jurisdiction’s level of operability,
interoperability and continuity and thus
their overall emergency
communications capability level. CISA
ECD analyzes the data collected from
this general survey to identify major
gaps and themes affecting emergency
communications across levels of
government. Additionally, this analysis
informs the development of
supplemental surveys tailored to
specific needs across the public safety
community, as well as future iterations
of the Nationwide Baseline
Communications Assessment (NCBA)
and National Emergency
Communications Plan (NECP).
The results from the most recent
surveys led to major updates to the
update of the NECP released in
September 2019. The NECP sets
strategic priorities for the entire Nation.
Additionally, the current collection
allowed CISA ECD to share reliable data
with emergency communications
partners at all levels of government
which assists them with: (1) Statewide
Communications Interoperability Plan
(SCIP) development, (2) Threat and
Hazard Identification Risk Analysis
(THIRA) development, (3) state-level
grant programs and guidance, (4) federal
grant applications assistance, and (5)
funding and resource sharing strategy
development.
CISA ECD conducts SAFECOM
supplemental surveys. The surveys can
be conducted as focus groups, in-person
interviews, web- and paper-based. CISA
ECD uses the information collected to
complete statutorily mandated
requirements (6 U.S.C. 571(c), 572(a),
and 573) and shares the data with all
stakeholders with a role in emergency
communications. In order to ascertain
this information, the SAFECOM
supplemental surveys deploy topicspecific or targeted surveys across the
nation to various emergency response
disciplines at each level of government:
Federal, state, territorial, tribal, and
local. The surveys solicit responses
regarding targeted issues affecting all
public safety, emergency response
communities and/or specific subsets of
the SNS population. CISA ECD analyzes
the data collected from these
supplemental surveys to identify
changing requirements, mitigate risks,
and inform the data collected from the
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ECD uses electronic submission to
reduce the burden on respondents
including web-based surveys and
assessment tools, such as Survey
Monkey. Its target audience—mainly
first responders—is frequently
interrupted, have variable schedules,
and frequently work long hours.
Electronic submission provides a more
user-friendly interface, provides
anonymity to the users, ensures the
maximum response rate, eliminates
paper, printing, and postage costs along
with the need for data entry.
We will also utilize alternative
submission methods for both the SNS
and the supplemental surveys. An
Adobe PDF-fillable form which can be
returned via email to [email protected],
direct emails with questionnaires
attached, an in-person surveys, focusgroups, and a paper copy that will be
mailed directly to the respondent(s)
requesting a hard copy. The paper copy
can be returned either via a prepaid
envelope, scanned and emailed to sns@
cisa.dhs.gov, and/or faxed to CISA ECD.
We anticipate that .5% of respondents
will utilize these alternative submission
methods.
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Agency: Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS).
Title of Collection: SAFECOM
Nationwide Surveys Generic Clearance.
OMB Control Number: 1670–NEW.
Frequency: Annually.
Affected Public: State, Local, Tribal,
and Territorial Governments.
Number of Annualized Respondents:
8,398.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.5
hours.
Total Annualized Burden Hours:
4,199 hours.
Total Annualized Respondent
Opportunity Cost: $168,298.74.
Total Annualized Respondent Out-ofPocket Cost: $0.
Total Annualized Government Cost:
$235,863.
Samuel Vazquez,
Acting Chief Information Officer, Department
of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
[Docket No. CISA–2021–0009]

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Lona Saccomando, 202–579–0590,
[email protected].
The
CFATS Program identifies chemical
facilities of interest and regulates the
security of high-risk chemical facilities
through a risk-based approach. The
CFATS Program is authorized under the
Protecting and Securing Chemical
Facilities from Terrorist Attacks Act of
2014 1 or ‘‘CFATS Act of 2014’’. CISA
collects necessary information through
1670–0029 to implement the CFATS
Personnel Surety Program.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Revision of a Currently Approved
Information Collection for the
Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism
Standards (CFATS) Personnel Surety
Program
Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency, DHS.
ACTION: 60-Day notice and request for
comments; revision of information
collection request: 1670–0029.
AGENCY:

Program Description

Authority: 6 U.S.C. 621–629.

The Infrastructure Security
Division (ISD) within the Cybersecurity
and Infrastructure Security Agency
(CISA) is issuing a 60-day notice and
request for comments to revise
Information Collection Request (ICR)
1670–0029. CISA will submit the ICR to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and clearance in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Comments are due August 23,
2021.
SUMMARY:

You may submit comments,
identified by docket number CISA–
2021–0009 through the Federal
eRulemaking Portal available at http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Instructions: All comments received
via https://www.regulations.gov will be
posted to the public docket at https://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided.
Do not submit comments that include
trade secrets, confidential commercial
or financial information, Chemicalterrorism Vulnerability Information
(CVI), Protected Critical Infrastructure
Information (PCII), or Sensitive Security
Information (SSI) directly to the public
regulatory docket. Contact the
individual listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section below
with questions about comments
containing such protected information.
CISA will not place comments
containing such protected information
in the public docket and will handle
them in accordance with applicable
safeguards and restrictions on access.
Additionally, CISA will hold them in a
separate file to which the public does
not have access and place a note in the
public docket that CISA has received
such protected materials from the
commenter. If CISA receives a request to
examine or copy this information, CISA
will treat it as any other request under
the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
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High-risk chemical facilities regulated
by CISA under the CFATS Program
must submit a Site Security Plan (SSP)
or an Alternative Security Program
(ASP) that describes how they will meet
or exceed 18 risk-based performance
standards (RBPS), including RBPS 12—
Personnel Surety. Under RBPS 12, highrisk chemical facilities regulated under
CFATS are required to account for the
conduct of certain types of background
checks in their Site Security Plans.
Specifically, RBPS 12 requires high-risk
chemical facilities to:
Perform appropriate background checks on
and ensure appropriate credentials for
facility personnel, and as appropriate, for
unescorted visitors with access to restricted
areas or critical assets, including, (i)
Measures designed to verify and validate
identity; (ii) Measures designed to check
criminal history; (iii) Measures designed to
verify and validate legal authorization to
work; and (iv) Measures designed to identify
people with terrorist ties[.]6 CFR
27.230(a)(12).

The first three aspects of RBPS 12
(checks for identity, criminal history,
and legal authorization to work) are
performed by the facility. The fourth
aspect (i.e., the check for terrorist ties)
was implemented in December 2016 at
Tier 1 and Tier 2 facilities.2 In July of
2019 the Department implemented the
CFATS Personnel Surety Program for all
tiers.3 A complete description of the
CFATS Personnel Surety Program is
provided in the July 2019 notice and
1 The Protecting and Securing Chemical Facilities
from Terrorist Attacks Act of 2014 (also known as
the CFATS Act of 2014, Pub. L. 113–254) codified
the CFATS program into the Homeland Security
Act of 2002. See 6 U.S.C. 621 et seq., as amended
by Public Law 116–136, Sec. 16007 (2020).
2 The initial notice of implementation was
published on December 18, 2015 at 80 FR 79058
and may be viewed at https://
www.federalregister.gov/d/2019-14591.
3 The notice of implementation at all high-risk
chemical facilities was published on July 9, 2019
at 84 FR 32768 and may be viewed at https://
www.federalregister.gov/d/2019-14591.

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