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6See United States Government Accountability 

Office (GAO) Report to Congressional Requesters, 

GAO–15–159, PUBLIC TRANSIT Federal and 

Transit Agencies Taking Steps to Build Transit 

Systems’ Resilience but Face Challenges, December 

2014, page 10. http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/

667391.pdf. GAO reviewed transit systems’ 

resilience to catastrophic events. The report 

examined (1) how DHS and the Department of 

Transportation help transit agencies make their 

systems resilient; (2) actions selected by transit 

agencies take to make their systems resilient; and 

(3) challenges transit agencies face with making 

their systems resilient. 

Description of Data Collection 

In carrying out the voluntary BASE 

program, TSA’s Transportation Security 

Inspectors—Surface (TSIs–S) conduct 

BASE reviews during site visits with 

security and operating officials of transit 

(including transit bus) and passenger 

rail systems, trucking, school bus 

contractors, school districts, and motor 

coach companies throughout the United 

States, capturing and documenting 

relevant information on a standardized 

checklist. All BASE reviews are done on 

a voluntary basis and are not regulatory 

inspections. Advance coordination and 

planning ensures the efficiency of the 

assessment process. The TSIs–S review 

and analyze the public transportation 

and highway entities’ security plan, if 

adopted, and determine if the mitigation 

measures included in the plan are being 

effectively implemented, while 

providing additional resources for 

further security enhancement. In 

addition to examining the security plan 

document, TSA reviews one or more 

assets of the public transportation and 

highway entities’ system. 

During BASE site visits of PT and 

HWY entities, TSIs–S collect 

information and complete a BASE 

checklist from the review PT and HWY 

entities’ documents, plans, and 

procedures. They also interview 

appropriate PT and HWY entities 

personnel and conduct system 

observations prompted by questions 

raised during the document review and 

interview stages. TSA conducts the 

interviews to ascertain and clarify 

information on security measures and to 

identify security gaps. The interviews 

also provide TSA with a method to 

encourage the surface transportation 

entities participating in the BASE 

reviews to be diligent in effecting and 

maintaining security-related 

improvements. 

This program provides TSA with realtime information on current security 

practices within the transit (including 

transit bus), passenger rail, trucking, 

school bus contractor, school district, 

and motor coach modes of the surface 

transportation sector. This information 

also allows TSA to adapt programs to 

the changing threat dynamically, while 

incorporating an understanding of the 

improvements surface transportation 

entities make in their security posture. 

Without this information, the ability of 

TSA to perform its security mission 

would be severely hindered. 

Additionally, the relationships these 

face-to-face contacts foster are critical to 

TSA’s ability to reach out to the surface 

transportation entities participating in 

the BASE program. 

If TSA determines information in a 

completed assessment constitutes 

Sensitive Security Information in 

accordance with 49 U.S.C. 114(r) and 49 

CFR parts 15 and 1520, TSA will protect 

it in accordance with the requirements 

set forth in part 1520. 

Use of Results 

The information collected by TSA 

through BASE reviews helps to 

strengthen the security of PT and HWY 

entities’ security programs by 

supporting security program 

development (including grant 

programs),6 and the analysis/evaluation 

provides a consistent road map for PT 

and HWY entities to address security 

and emergency program vulnerabilities. 

In addition, a PT or HWY entity that 

undergoes a BASE review is provided 

with a report of results that can be used 

by the system to identify and prioritize 

vulnerabilities and funding to enhance 

security. The BASE reviews also will 

align PT and HWY entities’ security 

efforts with other TSA risk reduction 

efforts and provide industry partners 

corrective action options to consider by 

identifying security smart practices to 

share with others. 

Specifically, the information collected 

will be used: 

1. To develop a baseline 

understanding of a PT and HWY 

entities’ security and emergency 

management processes, procedures, 

policies, programs, and activities against 

security requirements and 

recommended security practices 

published by TSA. 

2. To enhance a PT and HWY entities’ 

overall security posture through 

collaborative review and discussion of 

existing security activities, 

identification of areas of potential 

weakness or vulnerability, and 

development of remedial 

recommendations and courses of action. 

3. To identify programs and protocols 

implemented by PT and HWY entities 

that represent an ‘‘effective’’ or ‘‘smart’’ 

security practice warranting sharing 

with the transportation community as a 

whole to foster general enhancement of 

security in the transportation mode. 

4. To inform TSA’s development of 

security strategies, priorities, and 

programs for the most effective 

application of available resources, 

including funds distributed under the 

respective Federal grant programs, to 

enhance security within the Nation’s 

surface transportation system. 

While TSA has not set a limit on the 

number of BASE program reviews to 

conduct, TSA estimates it will conduct 

approximately 30 PT BASE reviews and 

approximately 60 HWY BASE reviews 

on an annual basis. TSA does not intend 

to conduct more than one BASE review 

per transit or passenger rail system in a 

single year. TSA estimates that the hour 

burden per PT entity to engage its 

security and/or operating officials with 

inspectors in the interactive BASE 

program review process is 

approximately 12 hours. Also, TSA 

estimates that the hour burden per HWY 

entity to engage its security and/or 

operating officials with inspectors in the 

interactive BASE program review 

process is approximately 5 hours. Thus, 

the total annual hour burden for the PT 

BASE program review is 360 hours 

annually (30 × 12 hours = 360 hours) 

and for HWY BASE 300 hours annually 

(60 × 5 hours = 300 hours). 

Dated: February 5, 2015. 

Christina A. Walsh, 

TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Office 

of Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02829 Filed 2–10–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 91105–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Transportation Security Administration 

Intent To Request Renewal From OMB 

of One Current Public Collection of 

Information: Law Enforcement Officer 

Flying Armed Training 

AGENCY: Transportation Security 

Administration, DHS. 

ACTION: 60-day notice. 

SUMMARY: The Transportation Security 

Administration (TSA) invites public 

comment on one currently approved 

Information Collection Request (ICR), 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) control number 1652–0034, 

abstracted below that we will submit to 

OMB for renewal in compliance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). 

The ICR describes the nature of the 

information collection and its expected 

burden. The collection involves the 

Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) 

maintenance of a database of all Federal, 

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agencies that have received the Law 

Enforcement Officer (LEO) Flying 

Armed Training course. 

DATES: Send your comments by April 

13, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be emailed 

to TSAPRA@tsa.dhs.gov or delivered to 

the TSA PRA Officer, Office of 

Information Technology (OIT), TSA–11, 

Transportation Security Administration, 

601 South 12th Street, Arlington, VA 

20598–6011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christina A.Walsh at the above address, 

or by telephone (571) 227–2062. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Comments Invited 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 

et seq.), an agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless it displays a valid OMB control 

number. The ICR documentation is 

available at http://www.reginfo.gov. 

Therefore, in preparation for OMB 

review and approval of the following 

information collection, TSA is soliciting 

comments to— 

(1) Evaluate whether the proposed 

information requirement 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; 

(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 using 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Information Collection Requirement 

OMB Control Number 1652–0034; 

Law Enforcement Officer Flying Armed 

Training. TSA is requesting approval for 

the renewal of the collection of this 

information to comply with 49 CFR 

1544.219, which requires Federal LEOs, 

full-time territorial, tribal, municipal, 

county or state LEOs who are direct 

employees of government agencies, and 

authorized railroad police officers to 

complete the LEOs Flying Armed 

training course in order to fly armed. 

The course is a non-tactical overview of 

the conditions under which an officer 

may fly armed and the required conduct 

and duties of the LEO while flying 

armed. This collection permits TSA to 

collect identifying information from law 

enforcement agencies requesting the 

LEO Flying Armed training course. 

Information is gathered from law 

enforcement agencies who have 

requested the LEO Flying Armed 

training course. The information is 

gathered to confirm that the agencies are 

eligible for this program (i.e., that they 

are active law enforcement agencies 

whose officers have an operational need 

to fly armed). Law enforcement agencies 

are required to contact the TSA/FAMS 

via phone or email and provide the full 

name of the agency’s designated point of 

contact, agency name, agency address, 

telephone number, and email address to 

obtain the LEO Flying Armed training 

course. The FAMS maintain a record of 

law enforcement agencies and their 

point of contact that have received the 

training materials. If an issue arises 

during the screening and verification 

process regarding the authenticity of an 

agency that requests training materials, 

no training materials will be supplied 

until that issue has either been 

confirmed or resolved and a record of 

such is maintained. 

Upon completion of the training, the 

LEO who has been authorized by his or 

her agency to fly armed presents his or 

her credentials and other required 

documentation at the airport in order to 

fly armed. A Transportation Security 

Officer verifies all pertinent information 

onsite. Based on current data, TSA 

estimates there are approximately 2,000 

respondents on an annual basis. At 

most, each agency spends 

approximately 5 minutes to provide the 

information TSA needs to confirm the 

law enforcement agencies are eligible to 

receive the training. This amounts to 

2000 agencies multiplied by 5 minutes 

equals 166.6 hours (2000 agencies × 5 

min = 10,000 min [166.6 hrs.]) for a total 

annual hour burden of 167 hours. 

Dated: February 5, 2015. 

Christina A. Walsh, 

TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Office 

of Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02830 Filed 2–10–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

[OMB Control Number 1615–0127] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: E-Verify Program Data 

Collections: 2015 Survey of E-Verify 

Employers; Reinstatement, With 

Change, of a Previously Approved 

Collection for Which Approval Has 

Expired 

AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

ACTION: 60-Day notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland 

Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services (USCIS) invites 

the general public and other Federal 

agencies to comment upon this 

proposed reinstatement, with change, of 

a previously approved collection for 

which approval has expired. In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the 

information collection notice is 

published in the Federal Register to 

obtain comments regarding the nature of 

the information collection, the 

categories of respondents, the estimated 

burden (i.e. the time, effort, and 

resources used by the respondents to 

respond), the estimated cost to the 

respondent, and the actual information 

collection instruments. 

DATES: Comments are encouraged and 

will be accepted for 60 days until April 

13, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: All submissions received 

must include the OMB Control Number 

1615–0127 in the subject box, the 

agency name and Docket ID USCIS– 

2012–0002. To avoid duplicate 

submissions, please use only one of the 

following methods to submit comments: 

(1) Online. Submit comments via the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal Web site at 

www.regulations.gov under e-Docket ID 

number USCIS–2012–0002; 

(2) Email. Submit comments to 

USCISFRComment@uscis.dhs.gov; 

(3) Mail. Submit written comments to 

DHS, USCIS, Office of Policy and 

Strategy, Chief, Regulatory Coordination 

Division, 20 Massachusetts Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20529–2140. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you need a copy of the information 

collection instrument with instructions, 

or additional information, please visit 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal site at: 

http://www.regulations.gov. We may 

also be contacted at: USCIS, Office of 

Policy and Strategy, Regulatory 

Coordination Division, Laura Dawkins, 

Chief, 20 Massachusetts Avenue NW., 


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