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[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 235 (Monday, December 8, 2014)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 72654-72655]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-28657]

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

[Docket ID: DoD-2013-OS-0227]

Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Defense has submitted to OMB for clearance, 
the following proposal for collection of information under the 
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act.

DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by January 
7, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred Licari, 571-372-0493.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title, Associated Form and OMB Number: Personnel Security 
Investigation Projection for Industry Survey; OMB Control Number 0704-
0417.
    Type of Request: Reinstatement.
    Number of Respondents: 13,137.
    Responses per Respondent: 1.
    Annual Responses: 13,137.
    Average Burden per Response: 95 minutes total: 80 minutes (Industry 
Survey); 15 minutes (Contact Validation Test).
    Annual Burden Hours: 20,800 hours
    Needs and Uses: Executive order (E.O.) 12829, ``National Industrial 
Security Program (NISP),'' stipulates that the Secretary of Defense 
shall serve as the Executive Agent for inspecting and monitoring the 
contractors, licensees, and grantees who require or will require access 
to classified information; and for determining the eligibility for 
access to classified information of contractors, licensees, and 
grantees and their respective employees. The Under Secretary of Defense 
for Intelligence assigned Defense Security Service (DSS) the 
responsibility for central operational management of DoD personnel 
security investigation (PSI) workload projections, and for monitoring 
of PSI funding and investigation quality issues for DoD components. 
This responsibility includes managing workload projections, along with 
funding and quality oversight matters related to PSIs conducted for 
employees and consultants of contractors cleared under the NISP. Prior 
to 2001, DSS compared historical PSI data for budget formulation. Since 
2001, DSS conducted an annual survey of cleared contractors to more 
accurately assess personnel security and trustworthiness investigation 
requirements. In this annual collection of information, DSS

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asks the Facility Security Officers of cleared contractor entities to 
provide for each of three fiscal years (e.g., 2015, 2016, 2017): 
Projections of the numbers and types of personnel security 
investigations (PSIs) required; a description of methodology used for 
the projections; and estimates of the numbers and types of cleared 
contractor's PSI projections that are separately attributable to DoD 
contracts and the contracts of non-DoD agencies. The data will be 
incorporated into DSS's budget submissions and will be used to track 
against cleared contractors' actual PSI submissions. The Office of 
Personnel Management (OPM) has responsibility for conducting PSIs and 
the subsequent periodic reinvestigations (PRs) in accordance with the 
Code of Federal Regulations, Title 5, Part 736. Cleared contractors, 
representatives of various industry associations, the National 
Industrial Security Program Policy Advisory Committee (NISPPAC), 
various components of the department of Defense (including the Military 
Departments) and other Federal Government agencies are familiar with 
the annual survey.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit 
institutions under Department of Defense Security Cognizance.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: Ms. Jasmeet Seehra.
    Written comments and recommendations on the proposed information 
collection should be sent to Ms. Jasmeet Seehra at the Office of 
Management and Budget, Desk Officer for DoD, Room 10236, New Executive 
Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.
    You may also submit comments, identified by docket number and 
title, by the following method:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency 
name, docket number and title for this Federal Register document. The 
general policy for comments and other submissions from members of the 
public is to make these submissions available for public viewing on the 
Internet at http://www.regulations.gov as they are received without 
change, including any personal identifiers or contact information.
    DOD Clearance Officer: Mr. Frederick Licari.
    Written requests for copies of the information collection proposal 
should be sent to Mr. Licari at WHS/ESD Directives Division, 4800 Mark 
Center Drive, East Tower, Suite 02G09, Alexandria, VA 22350-3100.

    Dated: December 3, 2014.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2014-28657 Filed 12-5-14; 8:45 am]
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