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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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additional information can be found on
CISA’s website.4
As required by the Notice of Action
issued by OMB on May 23, 2019, CISA
‘‘phased in gradually’’ the CFATS
Personnel Surety Program.5 Since July
of 2019, when CISA published the
implementation notice for the CFATS
Personnel Surety Program announcing
full implementation, CISA has selected
between 50 to 100 facilities a month to
update their SSP or ASP to implement
security measures designed to ensure
that certain individuals with or seeking
access to the restricted areas or critical
assets at those chemical facilities are
screened for terrorist ties. CISA expects
to complete implementing the CFATS
Personnel Surety Program at every highrisk chemical facility by the second
quarter of FY2022
High-Risk Chemical Facilities Have
Flexibility When Implementing the
CFATS Personnel Surety Program
High-risk chemical facilities have
flexibility to tailor their implementation
of the CFATS Personnel Surety Program
to fit their individual circumstances
and, in this regard, to best balance who
qualifies as an affected individual,
unique security issues, costs, and
burden. For example, a high-risk
chemical facility may, in its Site
Security Plan:
• Restrict the number and types of
persons allowed to access its restricted
areas and critical assets, thus limiting
the number of persons who will need to
be checked for terrorist ties.
• Define its restricted areas and
critical assets, thus potentially limiting
the number of persons who will need to
be checked for terrorist ties.
• Choose to escort visitors accessing
restricted areas and critical assets in lieu
of performing terrorist ties background
checks under the CFATS Personnel
Surety Program. The high-risk chemical
facility may propose in its SSP or ASP
traditional escorting solutions and/or
innovative escorting alternatives such as
video monitoring (which may reduce
facility security costs), as appropriate, to
address the unique security risks
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Options Available to High-Risk
Chemical Facilities To Comply With
RBPS 12(iv)
As described in the July 2019
Implementation Notice, the CFATS
4 Additional information about the CFATS
Personnel Surety Program is available at https://
www.cisa.gov/cfats-resources.
5 The Notice of Action issued by OMB on May 23,
2019 about the CFATS Personnel Surety program
may be viewed at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/
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Personnel Surety Program provides
high-risk chemical facilities several
options to comply with RBPS 12(iv). In
addition to the alternatives expressly
described in the July 2019
Implementation notice, CISA permits
high-risk chemical facilities to propose
alternative measures for terrorist ties
identification in their SSPs or ASPs,
which CISA will consider on a case-bycase basis in evaluating high-risk
chemical facilities’ SSPs or ASPs. In
addition, a high-risk chemical facility
may choose one option or a combination
of options to comply with RBPS 12(iv).
Identifying affected individuals who
have terrorist ties is an inherently
governmental function and requires the
use of information held in governmentmaintained databases that are
unavailable to high-risk chemical
facilities. 72 FR 17688, 17709 (April 9,
2007). Thus, under RBPS 12(iv), CISA
and high-risk chemical facilities must
work together to satisfy the ‘‘terrorist
ties’’ aspect of the Personnel Surety
performance standard. To implement
the provisions of RBPS 12(iv), and in
accordance with Title XXI of the
Homeland Security Act of 2002, as
amended,6 the following options will be
available to enable high-risk chemical
facilities to facilitate terrorist-ties
vetting of affected individuals.
Option 1. High-risk chemical facilities
may submit certain information about
affected individuals that CISA will use
to vet those individuals for terrorist ties.
Specifically, the identifying information
about affected individuals will be
compared against identifying
information of known or suspected
terrorists contained in the federal
government’s consolidated and
integrated terrorist watchlist, the
Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB),
which is maintained by the Department
of Justice (DOJ) Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) in the Terrorist
Screening Center (TSC).7
Option 2. High-risk chemical facilities
may submit information about affected
individuals who already possess certain
credentials that rely on security threat
assessments conducted by the
Department. See 72 FR 17688, 17709
(April 9, 2007). This will enable CISA
to verify the continuing validity of these
credentials.
Option 3. High-risk chemical facilities
may comply with RBPS 12(iv) without
submitting to CISA information about
affected individuals who possess
Transportation Worker Identification
66

U.S.C. 621 et seq.
more information about the TSDB, see DOJ/
FBI–019 Terrorist Screening Records System, 72 FR
47073 (August 22, 2007).
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Credentials (TWICs), if a high-risk
chemical facility electronically verifies
and validates the affected individual’s
TWICs through the use of TWIC readers
(or other technology that is periodically
updated using the Canceled Card List).
Option 4. High-risk chemical facilities
may visually verify certain credentials
or documents that are issued by a
Federal screening program that
periodically vets enrolled individuals
against the Terrorist Screening Database
(TSDB). CISA continues to believe that
visual verification has significant
security limitations and, accordingly,
encourages high-risk chemical facilities
choosing this option to identify in their
Site Security Plans the means by which
they plan to address these limitations.
Since the implementation of the
CFATS Personnel Surety Program and
by the end of 2020; the CISA reviewed
the activity of 1,666 unique facilities at
which the program had been
implemented. Of the 1,666 facilities,
1,547 selected a single option, 102
selected two options, and 17 facilities
selected three options. Four of the 1,666
facilities proposed alternative measures
for terrorist ties identification in their
SSPs or ASPs, which CISA considered
and subsequently approved. CISA’s
review also found that facilities
overwhelmingly selected Option 1 as a
means to comply with RBPS 12(iv).
Specifically, a total of 1,635 facilities
out of the 1,666 facilities reviewed
selected Option 1 as a method to
comply with the check for terrorist ties
in their SSP or ASP.
Information Collected About Affected
Individuals
Option 1: Collecting Information To
Conduct Direct Vetting
If high-risk chemical facilities select
Option 1 to satisfy RBPS 12(iv) for an
affected individual, the following
information about the affected
individual would be submitted to CISA:
• For U.S. Persons (U.S. citizens and
nationals, as well as U.S. lawful
permanent residents):
Æ Full Name;
Æ Date of Birth; and
Æ Citizenship or Gender.
• For Non-U.S. Persons:
Æ Full Name;
Æ Date of Birth;
Æ Citizenship; and
Æ Passport information and/or alien
registration number.
To reduce the likelihood of false
positives in matching against records in
the Federal Government’s consolidated
and integrated terrorist watch list, highrisk chemical facilities would also be
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information about an affected individual
to CISA:
• Aliases;
• Gender (for Non-U.S. Persons);
• Place of Birth; and/or

• Redress Number.8
High-risk chemical facilities have the
option to create user defined fields to
collect and store additional information
to assist with the management of an

affected individual’s records. Any
information collected in user defined
fields will not be used to support vetting
activities. Table 1 summarizes the
biographic data that would be submitted
to CISA under Option 1.

TABLE 1—REQUIRED AND OPTIONAL DATA FOR AN AFFECTED INDIVIDUAL UNDER OPTION 1
Data elements submitted to CISA

For a U.S. person

For a non-U.S. person

Full Name .............................................................................
Date of Birth ..........................................................................

Required.
Required.

Gender ..................................................................................
Citizenship ............................................................................
Passport Information and/or Alien Registration Number ......

Must provide Citizenship or Gender .......
.................................................................
N/A ..........................................................

Aliases ..................................................................................
Place of Birth ........................................................................
Redress number ...................................................................
User Defined Field(s) ............................................................

Optional.
Optional.
Optional.
Optional (Not used for vetting purposes).

Option 2: Collecting Information To Use
Vetting Conducted Under Other DHS
Programs
In lieu of submitting information to
CISA under Option 1 for vetting of
terrorist ties, high-risk chemical
facilities also have the option, where
appropriate, to submit information to
CISA to electronically verify that an
affected individual is currently enrolled
in another DHS program that vets for
terrorist ties.
To verify an affected individual’s
enrollment in one of these programs
under Option 2, CISA would collect the

following information about the affected
individual:
• Full Name;
• Date of Birth; and
• Program-specific information or
credential information, such as
expiration date, unique number, or
issuing entity (e.g., state for
Commercial Driver’s License [CDL]
associated with an Hazardous
Materials Endorsement [HME]).
To reduce the likelihood of false
positives, high-risk chemical facilities
may also submit the following optional
information about affected individuals
to CISA:

•
•
•
•

Optional.
Required.
Required.

Aliases;
Gender;
Place of Birth; and/or
Citizenship.

High-risk chemical facilities have the
option to create a user defined field to
collect and store additional information
to assist with the management of an
affected individual’s records. Any
information collected in user defined
fields will not be used to support vetting
activities. Table 2 summarizes the
biographic data that would be submitted
to CISA under Option 2.

TABLE 2—REQUIRED AND OPTIONAL DATA FOR AN AFFECTED INDIVIDUAL UNDER OPTION 2
Data Elements Submitted to CISA
Full Name .............................................................................................................................................
Date of Birth .........................................................................................................................................
Program-specific information or credential information, such as expiration date, unique number, or
issuing entity.
Aliases ..................................................................................................................................................
Gender ..................................................................................................................................................
Place of Birth ........................................................................................................................................
Citizenship ............................................................................................................................................
User Defined Field(s) ...........................................................................................................................

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Other Information Collected
CISA may also contact a high-risk
chemical facility or its designees to
request additional information (e.g., visa
information) pertaining to an affected
individual in order to clarify suspected
data errors or resolve potential matches
(e.g., an affected individual has a
common name). Such requests will not
8 For more information about Redress Numbers,
please go to http://www.dhs.gov/one-stop-travelersredress-process#1.
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Required.
Required.
Required.
Optional.
Optional.
Optional.
Optional.
Optional (Not used for vetting purposes).

imply, and should not be construed to
indicate, that an affected individual’s
information has been confirmed as a
match to a record of an individual with
terrorist ties.
CISA may also collect information
provided by individuals or high-risk
chemical facilities in support of any
adjudication requests under Subpart C

of the CFATS regulation,9 or in support
of any other redress requests.10
The information that is collected is
used by CISA (1) to compare affected
individuals information to known and
suspected terrorists, or (2) to
electronically verify and validate that
the affected individual is enrolled in
another DHS program that compares an

10 More information about access, correction, and
redress requests under the Freedom of Information
Act and the Privacy Act can be found in Section
7.0 of the Privacy Impact Assessment for the CFATS

Personnel Surety Program, dated March 10, 2020,
and available at DHS/CISA/PIA 018 Chemical
Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Personnel Surety
Program ⎢ Homeland Security.

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affected individual’s information to
known and suspected terrorists.
Proposed Revisions to the CFATS
Personnel Surety Program Information
Collection Request
The revisions proposed in this ICR are
minor revisions to the instrument that:
(1) Reflect the passage of the
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
Security Act of 2018, 6 U.S.C. 651–74,
such as updating the Agency name to
conform with the Agency’s new
designation as CISA; (2) increase the
number of annual respondents from
72,607 respondents to 149,271
respondents; (3) increase the annual
burden from 12,101 hours to 24,879
hours; (4) remove the costs associated
with capital/startup costs because they
are incorporated within the estimated
number of respondents; and (4) update
the average hourly wage rate of Site
Security Officers. CISA is not proposing
any revision to the scope of the
instrument.
CISA’s Methodology in Estimating the
Burden for the Personnel Surety
Program
Number of Respondents
The current information collection
estimates that 72,607 respondents (i.e.,
affected individuals) would be
submitted annually. The current
estimate was calculated by adding the
estimated the number of initial
respondents and the number of annual
respondents.
The ‘‘initial respondents’’ are those
affected individuals with existing access
at a high-risk chemical facility and will
be submitted by the facility after
receiving authorization or approval of
an SSP or ASP requiring the facility to
implement measures to comply with
RBPS 12(iv). ‘‘Annual respondents’’ are
the number of respondents CISA
estimates will be submitted each year by
high-risk chemical facilities that have
completed the initial respondent’s
submission and are now in the
maintenance phase (e.g., adding new
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1. Revision to Methodology on How
Respondents Are Estimated
CISA has generally assumed that new
facilities implementing the Personnel
Surety Program for the first time as a
high-risk chemical facility under CFATS
will have a one-time requirement to
submit information about initial
respondents with existing access to the
restricted areas or critical assets at the
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time cost was estimated as a startup
cost. However, based on CISA’s
experience implementing the Personnel
Surety Program, CISA has determined
that the per submission burden
associated with first time submissions
(i.e., ‘‘initial respondents’’) does not
differ from the burdens associated with
the per submission burdens associated
with subsequent submissions to
maintain the program (i.e., ‘‘annual
respondents’’). As such, starting with
this revision, CISA will no longer
consider initial respondents as start-up
costs.11 Instead, as discussed below,
new facilities submitting information
about affected individuals to CISA for
the first time will be consolidated into
the number of annual respondents,
based on the observed numbers of new
facilities per year. Therefore, although
this collection will include one
respondent type (i.e., ‘‘annual
respondents’’), the annual number of
respondents for this collection will
continue to include both historical
categories of ‘‘initial’’ and ‘‘annual’’
respondents.
2. Annual Respondents From New
Facilities
In this collection, CISA will include
the average number of facilities to be
determined high risk for the first time in
the number of annual respondents. As
shown in the table below, there is, on
average over the past four years, 134.5
facilities which are determined to be
high-risk for the first time each year.

TABLE 3—NUMBER OF FIRST TIME
HIGH-RISK CHEMICAL FACILITIES BY
CALENDAR YEAR
Number of
facilities
determined
high-risk for
the first time

Calendar year

2017
2018
2019
2020

......................................
......................................
......................................
......................................

133
117
116
172

Average .........................

134.5

Since implementing the Personnel
Surety Program, CISA has received
information about affected individuals
from 1,666 facilities, totaling 228,337
11 Startup costs typically refer to additional costs
that a respondent will incur in order to comply
with the collection, such as the purchase of new
equipment required to collect the information. In
this case, there is no additional burden or cost
associated with an initial submission under the PSP
as compared to subsequent submissions. As such,
it is unnecessary to separate initial and subsequent
submissions when estimating the burdens for this
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respondents, for an average of 137.1
respondents per facility.
Therefore, CISA estimates the number
of annual respondents for facilities
determined to be high risk for the first
time by multiplying the average number
of respondents per facility (137.1) by the
average number of new facilities per
year (134.5) for an average of 18,434
annual respondents per year.
3. Annual Respondents From Facilities
at Which the CFATS Personnel Surety
Program Has Been Implemented
In the current Information Collection,
the annual number of respondents at
high-risk chemical facilities at which
the Personnel Surety Program has been
implemented was estimated based on
the annual hires rates for total private
industry. The annual hire rate accounts
for the replacement of employee
separations as well as new hires. CISA
is retaining this methodology. CISA
applied the annual hires rate of 57.3%
for total private industry, as estimated
from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
(BLS) 12 to the total number of
respondents that have already been
checked for terrorist ties, resulting in
130,837 annual respondents.13
4. Revised Estimate of the Annual
Respondents
Using the methodology above, the
total number of annual respondents for
this collection is the sum of: (a) The
number of annual respondents from first
time high risk facilities (i.e., 18,434
annual respondents), and (b) the
number of annual respondents from
new hires 14 at high-risk chemical
facilities at which the CFATS Personnel
Surety program has been implemented
(i.e., 130,837 respondents), which totals
to an estimated 149,271 annual
respondents. Table 05 presents the
number of annual respondents.

TABLE 4—ANNUAL NUMBER OF
RESPONDENTS
Type of submission

Number of
respondents

New Hires .............................
First Time High Risk Facilities .....................................

130,837

Total ...............................

149,271

18,434

12 Bureau of Labor Statistics, Job Openings and
Labor Turnover—January 2021, released March 11,
2021 https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/
jolts_03112021.pdf. Table 14.
13 228,337 respondents × 57.3% = 130,837.
14 New hires include replacements for employee
turnover, as well as new hires.

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Estimated Time per Respondent
In the current information collection,
the estimated time per respondent is 10
minutes (0.1667 hours) per affected
individual. This conservative estimate
includes the time to edit or remove a
record if a high-risk chemical facility
opts to subsequently notify the CISA
that an affected individual no longer has
access. The current estimate also
assumes that each record includes both
optional and required data elements.
Thus, a revision to modify which data
fields are required versus optional does
not increase the estimated time per
response. Thus, CISA is choosing to
retain an estimate of 10 minutes (0.1667
hours) per affected individual.
Annual Burden Hours
In the current information collection,
the estimated annual burden is 12,101
hours. To estimate the annual burden
hours for this collection, CISA
multiplied the number of annual
respondents by the estimated time
burden of 0.1667 hours (10 minutes), for
an estimated annual burden of 24,879
hours (i.e., 0.1667 hours multiplied by
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Total Capital/Startup Burden Cost
CISA provides access to the CFATS
Personnel Surety Program application
free of charge and assumes that each
high-risk chemical facility already has
access to the internet for basic business
needs. As described earlier in this
notice, CISA expects that all high-risk
chemical facilities will have
implemented the CFATS Personnel
Surety Program prior to the end of CY
2021.
In the current collection, CISA
assumed that new facilities
implementing the Personnel Surety
program for the first time as a high-risk
chemical facility under CFATS will
have a one-time requirement to submit
information about initial respondents
with existing access to the restricted
areas or critical assets at the high-risk
chemical facility. While this was
considered a start-up cost in previous
collections, for this ICR, CISA no longer
considers new facilities submitting as a
start-up cost, as the cost for an initial
respondent does not differ from the cost
of an annual respondent.
Consideration of Other Capital Costs
This information collection request
maintains the existing assumptions
found in the current information
collection request with regard to
activities listed in 5 CFR 1320.3(b)(1).
Specifically, that 5 CFR 1320.3(b)(1) and
5 CFR 1320.8 require CISA to estimate
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resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or
provide information to or for a Federal
agency. Therefore, many costs (e.g.,
physical modification of the facility
layout) a high-risk chemical facility may
choose to incur to develop or implement
its SSP or ASP should not be accounted
for when estimating the capital costs
associated with this information
collection.
Furthermore, CISA maintains the
same assumptions found in the current
information collection request with
regards to estimating certain high-risk
chemical facility capital costs, such as:
(1) Capital costs for computer,
telecommunications equipment,
software, and storage to manage the data
collection, submissions, and tracking;
(2) capital and ongoing costs for
designing, deploying, and operating
information technology (IT) systems
necessary to maintain the data
collection, submissions, and tracking;
(3) cost of training high-risk chemical
facility personnel to maintain the data
collection, submissions, and tracking;
and (4) site security officer time to
manage the data collection,
submissions, and tracking. CISA
continues to exclude these costs in
accordance with 5 CFR 1320.3(b)(2),
which directs Federal agencies to not
count the costs associated with the time,
effort, and financial resources incurred
in the normal course of their activities
(e.g., in compiling and maintaining
business records) if the reporting,
recordkeeping, or disclosure activities
are usual and customary.
CISA continues to exclude these usual
and customary costs because the time,
effort, and financial resources are costs
that high-risk chemical facilities incur
to conduct background checks for
identity, criminal history, and legal
authorization to work under 6 CFR
27.230(a)(12)(i)–(iii), and also under
various other Federal, State, or local
laws or regulations.
Total Recordkeeping Burden
The current information collection
does not have any recordkeeping costs
because the recordkeeping costs, if any,
to create, keep, or retain records
pertaining to background checks as part
of a high-risk chemical facility’s SSP or
ASP, are properly estimated in the
recordkeeping estimates associated with
the SSP Instrument under Information
Collection 1670–0007. CISA retains this
assumption and estimate of no
recordkeeping costs.
Total Annual Burden Cost
CISA assumes that Site Security
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submitting about affected individuals.
For the purpose of this notice, CISA
maintains this assumption.
To estimate the total annual burden,
CISA multiplied the annual burden of
24,879 hours by the average hourly
wage rate of Site Security Officers of
$88.48 15 per hour. Therefore, the total
annual burden cost for the CFATS
Personnel Surety Program is $2,201,152
(i.e., 24,879 hours multiplied by $88.48
per hour). For the three-year period for
which this collection will be approved,
the total cost burden would be
$6,603,456 (i.e., $2,201,152 annual cost
multiplied by 3 years).
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).
Analysis
Agency: Department of Homeland
Security, Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency.
Title: Chemical Facility AntiTerrorism Standards (CFATS) Personnel
Surety Program.
OMB Number: 1670–0029.
Instrument: CFATS Personnel Surety
Program.
Frequency: ‘‘Other.’’
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents: 149,271
respondents.
Estimated Time per Respondent:
0.1667 hours (10 minutes).
15 The above Average Hourly Wage Rate is the
May 2020 Bureau of Labor Statistics average wage
for ‘‘Management Occupations (Major Group (11–
0000))’’ of $60.81 times the wage rate benefit
multiplier of 1.4596 (to account for fringe benefits)
equaling $88.48. The benefits multiplier is
estimated by dividing total compensation of $38.60
by salaries and wages of $26.53, based on Employer
Cost for Employee Compensation, December 2020,
released March 18, 2021 (https://www.bls.gov/
news.release/pdf/ecec.pdf).

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Total Burden Hours: 24,879 annual
burden hours.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Recordkeeping Burden: $0.
Total Burden Cost: $2,201,152.
Samuel Vazquez,
Acting Chief Information Officer, Department
of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency.
[FR Doc. 2021–13110 Filed 6–22–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 9110–9P–P

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–7038–N–08]

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Single Family Premium
Collection Subsystem—Periodic
(SFPCS–P), OMB Control No.: 2502–
0536
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing
Commissioner, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

HUD is seeking approval from
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for the information collection
described below. In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is
requesting comment from all interested
parties on the proposed collection of
information. The purpose of this notice
is to allow for 60 days of public
comment.

SUMMARY:

DATES:

Comments Due Date: August 23,

2021.
Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments should refer to
the proposal by name and/or OMB
Control Number and should be sent to:
Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW, Room 4176, Washington, DC
20410–5000; telephone 202–402–3400
(this is not a toll-free number) or email
at [email protected] for a copy of
the proposed forms or other available
information. Persons with hearing or
speech impairments may access this
number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–
8339.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW, Washington, DC 20410; email
Colette Pollard at Colette.Pollard@
hud.gov or telephone 202–402–3400.
This is not a toll-free number. Persons

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with hearing or speech impairments
may access this number through TTY by
calling the toll-free Federal Relay
Service at (800) 877–8339.
Copies of available documents
submitted to OMB may be obtained
from Ms. Pollard.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice informs the public that HUD is
seeking approval from OMB for the
information collection described in
Section A.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection: Single
Family Premium Collection
Subsystem—Periodic (SFPCS–P).
OMB Approval Number: 2502–0536.
OMB Expiration Date: 2/28/2022.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Form Number: None.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: The
Single Family Premium Collection
Subsystem—Periodic (SFPCS–P) allows
the lenders to remit the single-family
periodic mortgagee insurance premium
(PMIP) using funds obtained from the
mortgagor during the collection of the
monthly mortgage payment. The
SFPCS–P strengthens HUD’s ability to
manage and process PMIP collections
and corrections to submitted data. It
also improves data integrity for the
Single Family Mortgage Insurance
Program and enables FHA to track
borrower’s insurance PMIP status.
Therefore, the FHA approved lenders
remit PMIP payments that are required
by the authority for this collection of
information in 24 CFR 203.264 and 24
CFR 203.269 and to comply with the
Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, 2
U.S.C. 661, et seq.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
730.
Estimated Number of Responses:
8,760.
Frequency of Response: 12 per year/
monthly.
Average Hours per Response: .15.
Total Estimated Burden: 1,314 hours.
B. Solicitation of Public Comment
This notice is soliciting comments
from members of the public and affected
parties concerning the collection of
information described in Section A on
the following:
(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 agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
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(3) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) Ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond; including through
the use of appropriate automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
HUD encourages interested parties to
submit comment in response to these
questions.
C. Authority
Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
chapter 35.
Janet M. Golrick,
Acting, Chief of Staff for the Office of Housing,
Federal Housing Administration.
[FR Doc. 2021–13095 Filed 6–22–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R4–ES–2020–N147;
FXES11130900000C2–201–FF09E32000]

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife
and Plants; Initiation of 5-Year Status
Reviews for 37 Southeastern Species
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of initiation of reviews;
request for information.
AGENCY:

We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, are initiating 5-year
status reviews for 37 species under the
Endangered Species Act, as amended. A
5-year review is an assessment of the
best scientific and commercial data
available at the time of the review. We
are requesting submission of any such
information that has become available
since the previous status review for each
species.
DATES: To allow us adequate time to
conduct these reviews, we must receive
your comments or information on or
before August 23, 2021. However, we
will continue to accept new information
about any listed species at any time.
ADDRESSES: For instructions on how and
where to request or submit information,
see Request for New Information under
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
General Information: Aaron Valenta,
(404) 679–4144, via email at aaron_
[email protected], and via U.S. mail at
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1875
Century Boulevard, Atlanta, GA 30345.
SUMMARY:

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