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and operations and maintenance costs). 

The comments that are submitted will 

be summarized and included in the CBP 

request for Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approval. All comments 

will become a matter of public record. 

In this document CBP is soliciting 

comments concerning the following 

information collection: 

Title: Application for Overflight 

Program/Advance Notice for Aircraft 

Landings. 

OMB Number: 1651–0087. 

Form Number: CBP Forms 442 and 

442A. 

Abstract: CBP Forms 442 and 442A 

are used by private flyers to obtain a 

waiver for landing requirements and 

normal CBP processing at designated 

airports along the southern border. The 

CBP regulations also require owners and 

operators of some commercial aircraft to 

request CBP permission to land at least 

30 days before the first flight date. In 

addition, there is a requirement for 

pilots of private aircraft to submit notice 

of arrival and notice of departure 

information through Advance Passenger 

Information System (APIS) manifests no 

later than sixty (60) minutes prior to 

departure for flights arriving in to or 

departing from the United States. 

Current Actions: This submission is 

being made to extend the expiration 

date. 

Type of Review: Extension with 

change to the burden hours due to better 

estimates by CBP regarding time per 

response. 

Affected Public: Individuals. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

760, 655. 

Estimated Time per Response: 1.1 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 13,928. 

Dated: April 20, 2009. 

Tracey Denning, 

Agency Clearance Officer, Customs and 

Border Protection. 

[FR Doc. E9–9569 Filed 4–24–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9111–14–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Transportation Security Administration 

Intent To Request Approval From OMB 

of One New Public Collection of 

Information: Partnership Survey for 

Surface Transportation Security 

Grants Program 

AGENCY: Transportation Security 

Administration, DHS. 

ACTION: 60-day notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland 

Security (DHS), Transportation Security 

Administration (TSA), invites public 

comment on an Information Collection 

Request (ICR) regarding the Transit 

Security Grant Program (TSGP) that 

TSA will submit to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

approval in compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The 

information collection involves 

surveying approximately 400 

representatives of eligible transit 

agencies and other organizations that 

partner with TSA through Regional 

Transit Security Working Groups 

(RTSWGs) in order to implement the 

TSGP. The survey will focus on the 

goals and practices of this partnership 

in order to enhance the RTSWG’s 

effectiveness and contribute to its and 

the TSGP’s success. 

DATES: Send your comments by June 26, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed 

or delivered to Ginger LeMay, PRA 

Officer, Office of Information 

Technology, TSA–11, 601 South 12th 

Street, Arlington, VA 20598–6011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ginger LeMay, PRA Officer, Office of 

Information Technology; telephone: 

(571) 227–3616; e-mail: 

ginger.lemay@dhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Comments Invited 

In accordance with the PRA 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. OMB provides a 

valid control number for display on an 

information collection only when it has 

reviewed and approved it. Therefore, in 

preparation for OMB review of the 

following information collection, TSA is 

soliciting comments on the following: 

(1) 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) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden; 

(3) Enhancing the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

(4) Minimizing 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 

Background 

TSA has the primary Federal 

responsibility for security in all modes 

of transportation based primarily upon 

the authorities provided to it in the 

Aviation and Transportation Security 

Act (ATSA) (Pub. L. 107–71, November 

19, 2001), the authorities provided to 

the DHS Secretary in the Implementing 

Recommendations of the 9/11 

Commission Act of 2007 (9/11 Act) 

(Pub. L. 110–53, August 3, 2007), and 

delegations to TSA from the DHS 

Secretary. 

As part of this responsibility, TSA has 

the programmatic lead within DHS for 

several transportation security grant 

programs. Specifically, TSA provides 

transit system subject matter expertise 

within DHS and determines the primary 

security architecture for the TSGP 

program. TSA’s subject matter experts 

have the lead in crafting all selection 

criteria associated with the grant 

application review process. 

The Federal Emergency Management 

Agency (FEMA) has the lead for 

designing and operating the 

administrative mechanisms needed to 

manage DHS’s core grant programs, 

including the TSGP. Specifically, FEMA 

is responsible for ensuring compliance 

with all relevant Federal grant 

management requirements and 

delivering the appropriate grant 

management tools, financial controls, 

audits, and program management 

discipline needed to support the TSGP. 

TSA and FEMA serve as ex officio 

members of the RTSWGs and meet with 

each of the RTSWGs throughout the 

application process to collaboratively 

develop project concepts, determine 

how projects will be selected for 

funding, and develop detailed cost 

estimates and investment justifications. 

TSA, FEMA, and their TSGP security 

partners (e.g., transit agencies and local 

law enforcement) work closely at the 

RTSWGs to establish cooperative 

agreements in which projects to be 

funded with grant dollars are selected 

and refined based on regional risk and 

security priorities. 

TSA employs this collaborative 

partnership process to assist in ensuring 

that DHS grant dollars are spent 

effectively. This includes maximizing 

the risk reduction to the transit system, 

while also maintaining a collaborative 

process. An important part of the 

collaborative process is how closely a 

partnership comes to achieving its 

mission, vision, and goals. 


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Purpose 

The purpose of this information 

collection is for TSA to more fully 

understand the unique features that 

characterize TSGP security partnerships 

in order to begin to improve this and 

other grant programs. Specifically, one 

of TSA’s priorities for conducting this 

survey is to systematically understand 

the goals of all of its security partners 

and whether or not those goals are 

achieved through the partnership. 

Discovering any disconnects will better 

enable TSA to accomplish its mission 

and ultimately increase the effectiveness 

of the TSGP. 

Past studies on partnerships have not 

yielded recommendations that will 

benefit the unique challenges TSA faces 

with the TSGP through the RTSWGs. 

Partnerships in the security grant 

program context, specifically security 

preparedness partnerships, have not 

been extensively studied by academia or 

the Federal government. Because of the 

vast amounts of uncertainty that cloud 

the ‘‘effectiveness’’ and ‘‘success’’ 

measurements of security partnerships, 

they often face unique hurdles and thus 

require alternative solutions to 

overcome them. 

Therefore, this information collection 

is essential in order to better educate 

TSA on strategies that enhance the 

effectiveness of its security partnerships 

with the transit community through the 

RTSWGs. Through this effort, TSA and 

its security partners will improve the 

collaborative partnership process and, 

therefore, the effectiveness of the TSGP. 

Description of Data Collection 

The respondents to this proposed 

information collection are the 

approximately 400 representatives of 

eligible transit agencies, local law 

enforcement, and State administrative 

agencies that partner with TSA through 

RTSWGs in order to implement the 

TSGP. This information collection will 

occur over approximately nine weeks to 

elicit maximum response rates. 

TSA will collect the information 

through a Web-based survey. All 

respondents will be e-mailed a Web site 

link and a unique password in order to 

take the survey. The same set of 

questions will be asked of all 

respondents. The Web-based survey will 

take approximately 45 minutes to 

complete. The anticipated one-time 

reporting burden for the survey is 300 

annual hours (e.g., 400 respondents 

multiplied by 45 minutes = 18000 

minutes divided by 60 (60 minutes per 

hour) equals 300 hours). 

The information collection will be 

designed such that statistically 

significant results will emerge; these 

results can then, in turn, inform the 

structure and operation of the TSGP, 

and, potentially, other security 

partnerships. 

The survey will consist of five main 

sections that collect opinions about: 

1. Part I: Regional and Entity Threat: 

How partners view the threat of 

terrorism to their system and region as 

compared to the rest of the nation. 

2. Part II: Membership and Process of 

the RTSWG: How much do partners 

prioritize security and how do they 

view the priorities of other partners? 

What does each of the partners bring to 

the table that benefits the partnership? 

How satisfied are partners with the 

process and structure of the RTSWG? 

3. Part III: Goals and Outcomes: What 

are the goals that each partner has in 

participating in the RTSWG? What are 

the perceived outputs of the 

partnership? What are the key 

incentives that influence the success of 

the partnership? 

4. Part IV: Other Feedback: What is 

working well, and/or what could be 

improved, in regard to the RTSWGs as 

they pertain to the TSGP? 

5. Part V: Demographics: Is your 

organization a member of a RTSWG? 

Which Tier I RTSWG do you participate 

in? At what level do you represent your 

organization (e.g., security staff, 

executive)? Which of the following best 

characterizes your organization: Federal, 

State, transit agency, and/or law 

enforcement? 

There are no other anticipated 

recordkeeping and reporting burdens 

associated with this information 

collection. 

Use of Results 

TSA will use these survey results to 

improve TSGP partnership strategies, 

which will, in turn, improve this and 

other grant programs. Demographic 

information will allow 

recommendations to be made for the 

entire program, looking nationally, and 

for each of the eight RTSWGs, looking 

regionally. Because each RTSWG 

operates with slight differences, the 

recommendations that result from the 

data collection will enable processes in 

each region to be refined so that the 

goals of each partner are more 

adequately addressed by the results of 

the partnership, as appropriate. To 

protect anonymity, demographic 

subgroup results will only be reported if 

there are at least 10 individuals 

responding from that subgroup. 

Demographic subgroups may be 

geographic (by region) or organizational 

(type of organization, e.g., Federal, 

State, and/or transit agency). 

The outcome of this information 

collection and analysis of the survey 

results will provide several findings 

where improvements may be made for 

each region. Areas that are actionable 

will then be presented generically to the 

regions through the RTSWGs and 

anticipated changes to address the 

issues discussed. 

Issued in Arlington, Virginia, on April 22, 

2009. 

Ginger LeMay, 

Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Office of 

Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. E9–9513 Filed 4–24–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

[USCG–2008–1240] 

Collection of Information Under 

Review by Office of Management and 

Budget: OMB Control Numbers: 1625– 

0101, 1625–0102, and 1625–0103 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Thirty-day notice requesting 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

request for comments announces that 

the U.S. Coast Guard is forwarding three 

Information Collection Requests (ICRs), 

abstracted below, to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs 

(OIRA), Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) requesting an extension 

of its approval for the following 

collections of information: (1) 1625– 

0101, Periodic Gauging and Engineering 

Analyses for Certain Tank Vessels Over 

30 Years Old; (2) 1625–0102, National 

Response Resource Inventory; and (3) 

1625–0103, Mandatory Ship Reporting 

System for the Northeast and Southeast 

Coasts of the United States. Review and 

comments by OIRA ensure we only 

impose paperwork burdens 

commensurate with our performance of 

duties. 

DATES: Please submit comments on or 

before May 27, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Coast Guard docket 

number [USCG–2008–1240] to the 

Docket Management Facility (DMF) at 

the U.S. Department of Transportation 

(DOT) or to OIRA. To avoid duplication, 

please submit your comments by only 

one of the following means: 

(1) Electronic submission. (a) To Coast 

Guard docket at http:// 

www.regulation.gov. (b) To OIRA by email via: oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. 


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