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alternative methods for toxicity
screening. NTP welcomes nominations
of scientific experts for upcoming
panels. Scientists interested in serving
on an NTP panel should provide their
name and best form of contact to Megan
Rooney by email: NTP-Meetings@
icf.com.
The authority for NTP panels is
provided by 42 U.S.C. 217a; section 222
of the Public Health Service Act, as
amended. The panel is governed by the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, as
amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), which
sets forth standards for the formation
and use of advisory committees.
This peer review is being conducted
by a panel via a virtual meeting. Peerreview of future draft reports will be
conducted in accordance with
Department of Health and Human
Services peer-review policies (https://
aspe.hhs.gov/hhs-information-qualitypeer-review) and Office of Management
and Budget’s Final Information Quality
Bulletin for Peer Review (70 FR 2664,
January 4, 2005).
Brian R. Berridge,
Associate Director, National Toxicology
Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
[Docket No. CISA–2020–0005]

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

DHS CISA ECD 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.
DATES: Comments are due by April 19,
2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by docket number CISA–
2020–0005, by one of the following
methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Please follow the
instructions for submitting comments.

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• Email: [email protected]. Please
include docket number CISA–2020–
0005 in the subject line of the message.
• Mail: Written comments and
questions about this Information
Collection Request should be forwarded
to DHS/CISA/ECD, ATTN: Eric Runnels
1670–NEW, 245 Murray Lane SW, Mail
Stop 0613, Washington, DC 20598–
0609.
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.
Docket: For access to the docket and
comments received, please go to
www.regulations.gov and enter docket
number CISA–2020–0005.
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: 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:

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(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
in cooperation with State, local, and
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

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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
data with all stakeholders that have a
role in emergency communications. In
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
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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
5-year Nationwide Survey.
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.
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
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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.
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–2020–0018]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Visitor Request Form
Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency, DHS
ACTION: 60-Day notice and request for
comments; extension of Information
Collection Request: 1670–0036.
AGENCY:

The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),
Office of Compliance and Security
(OCS) will submit 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. The submission
proposes to renew the information
collection for an additional three years
and update the burden estimates.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted until April 19, 2021.
SUMMARY:

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