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f. Existing test documents including 

but not limited to SDOCs and STRs 

posted on the dhs.gov/science-andtechnology/p25-cap website. 

g. Proposed P25 user input for 

improving functionality through the 

standards-making process. 

Nominations/Expressions of Interest 

Procedures and Deadline 

Nominations and expressions of 

interest shall be received by OIC no later 

than July 19, 2018 at the address 

P25CAP@hq.dhs.gov. Nominations and 

expressions of interest received after 

this date shall not be considered. All 

submissions received must include the 

words ‘‘Department of Homeland 

Security’’ and DHS–2018–0031. Each 

nomination and expression of interest 

must provide the following information 

as part of the submission: 

• A cover letter that highlights a 

history of proven leadership within the 

public safety community including, if 

applicable, a description of prior 

experience with law enforcement, fire 

response, emergency medical services, 

emergency communications, National 

Guard, or other first responder roles and 

how the use of communications in those 

roles qualifies the nominee to 

participate on the P25 CAP AP. 

• Name, title, and organization of the 

nominee. 

• A resume summarizing the 

nominee’s contact information 

(including the mailing address, phone 

number, facsimile number, and email 

address), qualifications, and expertise to 

explain why the nominee should be 

appointed to the P25 CAP AP. 

• The resume must demonstrate a 

minimum of ten years (10) years of 

experience directly using P25 systems 

in an operational environment in 

support of established public safety 

communications or from a system 

implementer/administrator perspective; 

a bachelor’s or associate degree with an 

emphasis in communications and 

engineering may be substituted for three 

(3) years, a master’s/professional 

certification for seven (7) years, and a 

Ph.D. for ten (10) years of the 

requirement. 

• The resume must discuss the 

nominee’s familiarity with the current 

P25 CAP, including documents that are 

integral to the process such as the 

SDOCs, STRs, and CABs referenced in 

this notice. 

• A letter from the nominee’s 

supervisor indicating the nominee’s 

agency’s support for the nominee to 

participate on the P25 CAP AP as a 

representative from their respective 

agency. 

• Disclosure of Federal boards, 

commissions, committees, task forces, 

or work groups on which the nominee 

currently serves or has served within 

the past 12 months. 

• A statement confirming that the 

nominee is not registered as a lobbyist 

pursuant to the Lobbying Disclosure Act 

of 1995. 

Additional information can be found 

as follows: Project 25 Compliance 

Assessment Program and Compliance 

Assessment Bulletins https://

www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/ 

bulletins. 

William N. Bryan, 

Senior Official Performing the Duties of Under 

Secretary for Science and Technology, 

Department of Homeland Security. 

[FR Doc. 2018–13095 Filed 6–18–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–9F–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

[Docket No. DHS–2018–0022] 

Soft Target Countermeasure Surveys 

AGENCY: Office of Infrastructure 

Protection (IP), National Protection and 

Programs Directorate (NPPD), 

Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS). 

ACTION: 60-Day notice and request for 

comments; new collection, 1670—NEW. 

SUMMARY: DHS NPPD IP 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. NPPD IP is 

contracting a study to analyze a broad 

set of business security measures in 

terms of their costs and spillover effects, 

with an emphasis on identifying 

security measures that had a positive 

effect. Additionally, NPPD IP will 

survey the businesses’ customers to 

evaluate the public’s perceptions of the 

security measures, and evaluate the 

enhanced security measures on business 

operations and customers’ responses. 

DATES: Comments are encouraged and 

will be accepted until August 20, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number DHS– 

2018–0022, by one of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Please follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Email: Bill.Schweigart@

HQ.DHS.GOV. Please include docket 

number DHS–2018–0022 in the subject 

line of the message. 

• Mail: Written comments and 

questions about this Information 

Collection Request should be forwarded 

to DHS/NPPD/IP, ATTN: 1670—NEW, 

245 Murray Lane SW, Mail Stop 0608, 

Bill Schweigart, Arlington, VA 20528. 

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. 

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: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Bill Schweigart 

at 703–603–5148 or at Bill.Schweigart@

HQ.DHS.GOV. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title II of 

the Homeland Security Act of 2002 

(Pub. L. 107–296), as amended (2006), 

directs the DHS to coordinate all 

Federal homeland security activities, 

including infrastructure protection. On 

behalf of DHS, NPPD IP manages the 

Department’s program to protect and 

enhance the resilience of the Nation’s 

physical and cyber infrastructure within 

the 16 critical infrastructure sectors 

designated by Presidential Policy 

Directive 21 Critical Infrastructure 

Security and Resilience (PPD–21) 

(February 2013) by implementing the 

National Infrastructure Protection Plan 

(NIPP) 2013: Partnering for Critical 

Infrastructure Security and Resilience. 

NPPD IP accomplishes their mission by 

building sustainable partnerships with 

its public and private sector 

stakeholders to enable more effective 

sector coordination, information 

sharing, and program development and 

implementation. 

The Homeland Security Act of 2002, 

as amended (2006), also grants DHS the 

authority to create university-based 

Centers of Excellence (COEs) using 


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grants, cooperative agreements and 

contracts. The COEs are authorized by 

Congress and selected by DHS Science 

and Technology Directorate (S&T) 

through a competitive selection process. 

Among the COEs is The National Center 

for Risk & Economic Analysis of 

Terrorism Events (CREATE) at The 

University of Southern California. The 

Strategic Sourcing Program Office for 

DHS has approved the Basic Ordering 

Agreements (BOAs) for DHS-wide use. 

Any and all DHS Components requiring 

the research, analysis, and/or services of 

the COEs described in the COE BOAs 

may issue Task Orders under the BOAs 

through their assigned warranted 

Contracting Officers. 

NPPD IP is contracting a study 

through the approved BOA with 

CREATE to analyze a broad set of 

security measures in terms of their costs 

and spillover effects, with an emphasis 

on identifying security measures that 

had a positive effect. This includes 

examining a broad range of measures 

including increased police/security 

guard presence and other non- or lessinvasive options. NPPD IP will work 

with business leaders to identify 

locations that have implemented 

various security measures already, and 

develop and administer surveys for 

statistical analysis and modeling. 

Additionally, NPPD IP will survey the 

businesses’ customers to evaluate the 

public’s perceptions of the security 

measures, and evaluate the enhanced 

security measures on business 

operations and customers’ responses. 

CREATE will work with NPPD 

personnel to identify locations that have 

implemented various security measures 

already, and develop and administer 

surveys for statistical analysis and 

modeling. Management professionals 

(Chief Operating Officers, Head of 

Marketing, and Head of Security) from 

five selected businesses will be asked 

questions tailored to the five specific 

businesses regarding current and 

planned safety measures, management 

understanding of customer perceptions 

of security measures, management 

beliefs about the impacts of security 

measures, management beliefs about 

how security measures change customer 

behaviors and business volume, and 

some select demographic information. 

This will be conducted as a structured 

interview, herein referred to as 

‘‘Business Structured Interview’’, and is 

needed to obtain necessary and relevant 

data for subsequent economic analyses. 

The purpose of these analyses is to 

evaluate whether specific 

counterterrorism efforts have a negative 

or positive impact on the company in 

question. 

CREATE will administer a customer 

survey, herein referred to as ‘‘Customer 

Survey’’, regarding awareness of 

countermeasures in the Commercial 

Facilities sector, attitudes and 

perceptions toward safety, impacts 

(physical, psychological, and monetary) 

countermeasures have on customers, 

and select demographic and individual 

difference questions. There will be five 

variations of this survey targeted to each 

of the five specific businesses with 

slight variations in the language as a 

result, however the same information is 

being sought from the groups. These 

surveys are intended to create an 

understanding of the impacts of security 

countermeasures on customers/visitors’ 

perceptions and behaviors at each of the 

specific target businesses selected. 

Information will be analyzed to 

determine whether the spillover effects 

are positive and negative and to what 

extent. Statistical analysis of the results 

will identify the direct impacts. These 

will be fed into an economy-wide 

modeling approach known as 

computable general equilibrium (CGE) 

analysis to determine the ‘‘ripple’’ 

effects on the entire local economy. The 

analysis will be performed with an eye 

toward uncertainty analysis, as well in 

terms of the framing of survey questions 

and, rigorously specifying the 

confidence intervals for the statistical 

results. 

The DHS and CREATE research team 

will use the information being collected 

in order to inform the study described 

above. 

The Business Structured Interview 

will be conducted as interviews, either 

in-person or via video conferencing that 

will have a list of questions to help 

structure and guide discussions. The 

Customer Survey will be created and 

sent utilizing a professional-grade 

software, ‘‘Research Core,’’ by Qualtrics. 

The software allows the researchers to 

send customized email invitations to 

respondents, track their progress, and 

prevent fraud and abuse of the survey. 

This is a new information collection. 

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. 

Title of Collection: Soft Target 

Countermeasure Surveys. 

OMB Control Number: 1670—NEW. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Affected Public: Private and Public 

Sector. 

Number of Respondents: 2,020. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 25 

minutes. 

Total Burden Hours: 677 hours. 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 

$0. 

Total Recordkeeping Burden: $0. 

Total Burden Cost (operating/ 

maintaining): $0. 

David Epperson, 

Chief Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2018–13067 Filed 6–18–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–9P–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Transportation Security Administration 

Extension of Agency Information 

Collection Activity Under OMB Review: 

Law Enforcement (LEO) 

Reimbursement Request 

AGENCY: Transportation Security 

Administration, DHS. 

ACTION: 30-Day notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces that 

the Transportation Security 

Administration (TSA) has forwarded the 

Information Collection Request (ICR), 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) control number 1652–0063, 

abstracted below to OMB for review and 

approval of an extension of the 

currently approved collection under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The 

ICR describes the nature of the 

information collection and its expected 

burden. The collection involves the 

reimbursement of expenses incurred by 

airport operators for the provision of 

law enforcement officers (LEOs) to 

support airport security checkpoint 

screening. 

DATES: Send your comments by July 19, 

2018. A comment to OMB is most 

effective if OMB receives it within 30 

days of publication. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments on 


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