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1The unrelated public comment may be viewed 

at https://www.regulations.gov/comment/CISA2024-0023-0002. 

2For more information about CVI see 6 CFR 

27.400 and the CVI Procedural Manual at 

www.dhs.gov/publication/safeguarding-cvi-manual. 

3For more information about SSI see 49 CFR part 

1520 and the SSI Program web page at www.tsa.gov/ 

for-industry/sensitive-security-information. 

4For more information about PCII see 6 CFR part 

29 and the PCII Program web page atwww.dhs.gov/ 

pcii-program. 

5 6 U.S.C. 652(e)(1)(J): (J) To ensure that any 

material received pursuant to this chapter is 

protected from unauthorized disclosure and 

handled and used only for the performance of 

official duties. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondent 

Cost: $12,269,944. 

Estimated Respondents’ Operation 

and Maintenance Costs: None. 

Estimated Respondents’ Capital and 

Start-Up Costs: None. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to the 

Federal Government: $2,322,734. 

Comments 

Comments may be submitted as 

indicated in the ADDRESSES caption 

above. Comments are solicited to (a) 

evaluate whether the proposed data 

collection is necessary for the proper 

performance of the Agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) 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; 

(c) enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) 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 submission of 

responses. 

Millicent Brown Wilson, 

Records Management Branch Chief, Office 

of the Chief Administrative Officer, Mission 

Support, Federal Emergency Management 

Agency, Department of Homeland Security. 

[FR Doc. 2024–27321 Filed 11–20–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

[Docket No. CISA–2024–0023] 

Revision of a Currently Approved 

Information Collection for ChemicalTerrorism Vulnerability Information 

(CVI) 

AGENCY: Cybersecurity and 

Infrastructure Security Agency, DHS. 

ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for 

comments; renewal of Information 

Collection Request (ICR): 1670–0015. 

SUMMARY: The Infrastructure Security 

Division (ISD) within the Cybersecurity 

and Infrastructure Security Agency 

(CISA) 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 to update both the burden estimates 

and the statutory authority for the 

information collection. CISA previously 

published this ICR in the Federal 

Register on September 13, 2024, for a 

60-day public comment period. One 

unrelated public comment was 

submitted.1 The purpose of this notice 

is to allow additional 30 days for public 

comments. 

DATES: Comments will be accepted until 

December 23, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: 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. All submissions 

received must include the agency name 

‘‘CISA’’ and docket number CISA–2024– 

0023. 

Comments that include trade secrets, 

confidential commercial or financial 

information, Chemical-terrorism 

Vulnerability Information (CVI),2

Sensitive Security Information (SSI),3 or 

Protected Critical Infrastructure 

Information (PCII) 4 should be 

coordinated with the point of contact for 

this notice provided in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

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; 

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: 

Annie Hunziker Boyer, 703–603–5000, 

CISARegulations@mail.cisa.dhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism 

Standards (CFATS) Program identified 

and regulated the security of high-risk 

chemical facilities using a risk-based 

approach. Pursuant to section 5 of the 

Protecting and Securing Chemical 

Facilities from Terrorist Attacks Act of 

2014 (Pub. L. 113–254, as amended by 

Pub. L. 116–150; 6 U.S.C. 621 note), 

authorization had been granted for 

CFATS until July 27, 2023. Congress did 

not act to reauthorize the program in 

time and, as such, the authorization 

expired on July 28, 2023. Therefore, 

regulations written pursuant to CFATS 

authority are not currently active. While 

regulatory text for the CFATS 

regulation, including information 

protection requirements, is located in 

part 27 of title 6 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR), the text is inactive 

due to the lapse in authority. 

CISA continues to possess and 

safeguard the information provided to 

CISA under the CFATS program prior to 

the program’s lapse in authority on July 

28, 2023. CISA also continues to receive 

requests for these government records 

and has continued to treat any 

information previously designated as 

CVI prior to the July 28, 2023 lapse 

consistent with the previously 

established CVI information handling 

protection regime. As a result, prior to 

granting access to information 

safeguarded as CVI, CISA verifies that 

the requestor is a CVI Authorized User. 

If that requestor has a need to know but 

is not a CVI Authorized User, CISA will 

provide the requestor with CVI training. 

The requestor then submits an 

application to become a CVI Authorized 

User. 

CISA is authorized to safeguard 

information provided to CISA under 

CFATS prior to July 28, 2023 under 6 

U.S.C. 652(e)(1)(J), which grants CISA 

the authority to safeguard information 

from unauthorized disclosure and to 

ensure that the information is handled 

and used only for the performance of 

official duties.5

It is the Administration’s position that 

CFATS should be reauthorized. 

However, even without statutory 

reauthorization, there is both a reason to 


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6The wage used for an SSO equals that of 

Managers, All (11–9199), with a load factor of 

1.4481 to account for benefits in addition to wages 

https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes119199.htm. 

The load factor is estimated by dividing total 

compensation by total wages and salaries for the 

Management, Professional and Related series ($72/ 

$49.72), which can be found at https://www.bls.gov/ 

news.release/ecec.t04.htm. 

continue collecting this information 

(i.e., enabling individuals with a need to 

know but who are not CVI Authorized 

Users to access historical government 

records safeguarded as CVI) as well as 

existing statutory authority to do so 

under 6 U.S.C. 652(e)(1)(J). Once CFATS 

is reauthorized, the training and 

application to become a CVI Authorized 

User will be made accessible to the 

public. 

The current information collection for 

the CVI program (IC 1670–0015) will 

expire on November 30, 2024. 

CISA proposes three revisions from 

the previously approved collection. 

Specifically, to renew the information 

collection for an additional three years, 

increase the loaded average hourly wage 

rate of respondents from $79.75 to 

$101.87 based on updated BLS wage 

and compensation data, and to cite 6 

U.S.C. 652(e)(1)(J) as its statutory 

authority rather than 6 U.S.C. 623. 

This process is conducted in 

accordance with 5 CFR 1320.8. 

CISA’s Methodology in Estimating the 

Burden for the Chemical-Terrorism 

Vulnerability Information 

Authorization 

Number of Respondents 

The current information collection 

estimated that 20,000 respondents 

submit a request to become a CVI 

Authorized User Number annually. The 

table below provides the number of 

respondents over the past three years 

(i.e., Calendar Year (CY) 2020 through 

CY 2022). 

CY 2020 CY 2021 CY 2022 

Number of Respondents .............................................................................................................. 11,444 12,931 14,252 

Due to past fluctuations and 

uncertainty regarding the number of 

future respondents, CISA believes that 

20,000 continues to be a reasonable 

estimate when CFATS is reauthorized. 

Therefore, CISA proposes to retain the 

estimated annual number of 

respondents. 

Estimated Time per Respondent 

In the current information collection, 

the estimated time per respondent to 

prepare and submit a CVI Authorization 

is 0.50 hours (30 minutes). CISA 

proposes to retain the estimated time 

per respondent. 

Annual Burden Hours 

The annual burden hours for the CVI 

Authorization is [0.50 hours × 20,000 

respondents × 1 response per 

respondent], which equals 10,000 hours. 

Total Capital/Startup Burden Cost 

Prior to the expiration of CFATS’ 

statutory authorization, the instrument 

through which the information was 

collected electronically was a web 

interface incorporated into CISA’s 

Chemical Security Assessment Tool 

(CSAT). Since the lapse, and until 

reauthorization, the instrument is a PDF 

form sent via email to respondents. The 

PDF form is filled out by respondents 

and returned to CISA via email. When 

the CFATS program is reauthorized, a 

web-enabled interface will be made 

accessible to the public. Thus, for the 

purposes of this notice, CISA continues 

to assume there is no annualized capital 

or start-up costs incurred by 

respondents for this information 

collection. 

Total Recordkeeping Burden 

There are no recordkeeping burden 

costs incurred by respondents for this 

information collection. 

Total Annual Burden Cost 

CISA assumes that respondents are 

generally Site Security Officers (SSOs), 

although other types of respondents 

may also complete this instrument (e.g., 

State, and local government employees 

and contractors). For the purpose of this 

notice, CISA maintains this assumption. 

To estimate the total annual burden, 

CISA multiplied the annual burden of 

10,000 hours by the loaded average 

hourly wage rate of SSOs of $101.87 per 

hour.6 Therefore, the total annual 

burden cost for the CVI Authorization 

instrument is $1,018,700 [10,000 total 

annual burden hours × $101.87 per 

hour]. 

Analysis 

Agency: Department of Homeland 

Security, Cybersecurity and 

Infrastructure Agency, Infrastructure 

Security Division. 

Title: CFATS Chemical-terrorism 

Vulnerability Information. 

OMB Number: 1670–0015. 

Instrument: Chemical-terrorism 

Vulnerability Information Training and 

Authorized User Application. 

Frequency: ‘‘On occasion’’ and 

‘‘Other’’. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Number of Respondents: 20,000 

respondents (rounded estimate). 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.50 

hours. 

Total Burden Hours: 10,000 annual 

burden hours. 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 

$0. 

Total Recordkeeping Burden: $0. 

Total Burden Cost: $1,001,275. 

Robert J. Costello, 

Chief Information Officer, Department of 

Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and 

Infrastructure Security Agency. 

[FR Doc. 2024–27287 Filed 11–20–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

[Docket No. CISA–2024–0005] 

Notice of President’s National 

Infrastructure Advisory Council 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Cybersecurity and 

Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), 

Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS). 

ACTION: Notice of partial closure Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA) 

meeting; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: CISA is publishing this notice 

to announce the following President’s 

National Infrastructure Advisory 

Council (NIAC) meeting. 

DATES: 

Meeting Registration: Registration is 

required to attend the meeting and must 

be received no later than 5 p.m. eastern 

standard time (EST) on December 6, 

2024. For more information on how to 

participate, please contact NIAC@

mail.cisa.dhs.gov. 

Speaker Registration: Registration to 

speak during the meeting’s public 

comment period must be received no 

later than 5 p.m. EST on December 6, 

2024. 

Written Comments: Written comments 

must be received no later than 5 p.m. 

EST on December 6, 2024. 

Meeting Date: The NIAC will meet on 

December 11, 2024, from 1 p.m. to 5:15 


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