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(d) Has not voluntarily and knowingly 

provided medical care on behalf of a 

designated terrorist organization, as 

described in INA section 

212(a)(3)(B)(vi)(I) or (II); 

(e) Has not voluntarily and knowingly 

provided medical care with the intent of 

furthering the terrorist or otherwise 

violent activities of an organization or 

individual; 

(f) Poses no danger to the safety and 

security of the United States; and 

(g) Warrants an exemption from the 

relevant inadmissibility provision in the 

totality of the circumstances. 

Implementation of this determination 

will be made by U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services (USCIS), in 

consultation with U.S. Immigration and 

Customs Enforcement (ICE), or by U.S. 

consular officers, as applicable, who 

shall ascertain, to their satisfaction, and 

in their discretion, that the particular 

applicant meets each of the criteria set 

forth above. 

When considering the totality of the 

circumstances, factors to be considered 

may include, among others: The 

purpose, extent, frequency, and nature 

of the medical care provided; the 

circumstances under which it was 

provided; the alien’s involvement with 

the terrorist organization, including past 

or present membership and role in the 

organization; the nature of the activities 

committed by the terrorist organization; 

the alien’s awareness of those activities; 

and the alien’s conduct since providing 

the medical care. 

This exercise of authority may be 

revoked as a matter of discretion and 

without notice at any time with respect 

to any and all persons subject to it. Any 

determination made under this exercise 

of authority as set out above can inform 

but shall not control a decision 

regarding any subsequent benefit or 

protection applications, unless such 

exercise of authority has been revoked. 

This exercise of authority shall not be 

construed to prejudice, in any way, the 

ability of the U.S. government to 

commence subsequent criminal or civil 

proceedings in accordance with U.S. 

law involving any beneficiary of this 

exercise of authority (or any other 

person). This exercise of authority 

creates no substantive or procedural 

right or benefit that is legally 

enforceable by any party against the 

United States or its agencies or officers 

or any other person. 

In accordance with section 

212(d)(3)(B)(ii) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 

1182(d)(3)(B)(ii), a report on the aliens 

to whom this exercise of authority is 

applied, on the basis of case-by-case 

decisions by the U.S. Department of 

Homeland Security or by the U.S. 

Department of State, shall be provided 

to the specified congressional 

committees not later than 90 days after 

the end of the fiscal year. 

This determination is based on an 

assessment related to the national 

security and foreign policy interests of 

the United States as they apply to the 

particular persons described herein and 

shall not have any application with 

respect to other persons or to other 

provisions of U.S. law. 

Dated: October 13, 2011. 

Janet Napolitano, 

Secretary of Homeland Security. 

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BILLING CODE 9110–09–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket No. DHS–2011–0105] 

DHS Data Privacy and Integrity 

Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Privacy Office, DHS. 

ACTION: Committee Management; Notice 

of Federal Advisory Committee Meeting. 

SUMMARY: The DHS Data Privacy and 

Integrity Advisory Committee will meet 

on December 6, 2011, in Washington, 

DC. The meeting will be open to the 

public. 

DATES: The DHS Data Privacy and 

Integrity Advisory Committee will meet 

on Tuesday, December 6, 2011, from 

1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Please note that the 

meeting may end early if the Committee 

has completed its business. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Services Tomich Center, 111 

Massachusetts Avenue NW. (corner of 

New Jersey Avenue) Washington, DC 

20529. 

For information on facilities or 

services for individuals with 

disabilities, or to request special 

assistance at the meeting, contact 

Martha K. Landesberg, Executive 

Director, DHS Data Privacy and Integrity 

Advisory Committee, as soon as 

possible. 

To facilitate public participation, we 

invite public comment on the issues to 

be considered by the Committee as 

listed in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section below. A public 

comment period will be held during the 

meeting from 4 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., and 

speakers are requested to limit their 

comments to 3 minutes. If you would 

like to address the Committee at the 

meeting, we request that you register in 

advance by contacting Martha K. 

Landesberg at the address provided 

below or sign up at the registration desk 

on the day of the meeting. The names 

and affiliations, if any, of individuals 

who address the Committee are 

included in the public record of the 

meeting. Please note that the public 

comment period may end before the 

time indicated, following the last call 

for comments. Written comments 

should be sent to Martha K. Landesberg, 

Executive Director, DHS Data Privacy 

and Integrity Advisory Committee, by 

December 1, 2011. Persons who wish to 

submit comments and who are not able 

to attend or speak at the meeting may 

submit comments at any time. All 

submissions must include the Docket 

Number (DHS–2011–0105) and may be 

submitted by any one of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• E-mail: PrivacyCommittee@dhs.gov. 

Include the Docket Number (DHS– 

2011–0105) in the subject line of the 

message. 

• Fax: (703) 483–2999. 

• Mail: Martha K. Landesberg, 

Executive Director, Data Privacy and 

Integrity Advisory Committee, 

Department of Homeland Security, 

Washington, DC 20528. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the words ‘‘Department of 

Homeland Security Data Privacy and 

Integrity Advisory Committee’’ and the 

Docket Number (DHS–2011–0105). 

Comments received will be posted 

without alteration at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. 

If you wish to attend the meeting, 

please plan to arrive at the Tomich 

Center by 12:45 p.m., to allow extra time 

to be processed through security, and 

bring a photo I.D. 

The DHS Privacy Office encourages 

you to register for the meeting in 

advance by contacting Martha K. 

Landesberg, Executive Director, DHS 

Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory 

Committee, at 

PrivacyCommittee@dhs.gov. Advance 

registration is voluntary. The Privacy 

Act Statement below explains how DHS 

uses the registration information you 

may provide and how you may access 

or correct information retained by DHS, 

if any. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received by the DHS Data 

Privacy and Integrity Advisory 

Committee, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Martha K. Landesberg, Executive 

Director, DHS Data Privacy and Integrity 

Advisory Committee, Department of 

Homeland Security, Washington, DC 

20528, by telephone (703) 235–0780, by 

fax (703) 235–0442, or by email to 

PrivacyCommittee@dhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of 

this meeting is given under the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 

U.S.C. App. 2. The DHS Data Privacy 

and Integrity Advisory Committee 

provides advice at the request of the 

Secretary of Homeland Security and the 

DHS Chief Privacy Officer on 

programmatic, policy, operational, 

administrative, and technological issues 

within the DHS that relate to personally 

identifiable information, as well as data 

integrity and other privacy-related 

matters. The committee was established 

by the Secretary of Homeland Security 

under the authority of 6 U.S.C. 451. 

Agenda 

During the meeting, the Chief Privacy 

Officer will provide the Committee an 

update on the activities of the DHS 

Privacy Office. In support of the 

Committee’s ongoing advice to the 

Department on implementing privacy 

protections in DHS operations, the 

Committee will also hear and discuss a 

presentation on the Office of 

Intelligence & Analysis’ implementation 

of Department privacy policy as well as 

the Office of Operations’ use of media 

monitoring. During the meeting the 

Committee will discuss and vote on two 

draft reports to the Department 

providing guidance on privacy 

protections for information sharing 

within DHS. The draft reports will be 

posted on the Committee’s Web site 

(www.dhs.gov/privacy) in advance of 

the meeting. If you wish to submit 

comments on the draft reports, you may 

do so in advance of the meeting by 

forwarding them to the Committee at the 

locations listed under ADDRESSES. The 

agenda will be posted in advance of the 

meeting on the Committee’s Web site at 

www.dhs.gov/privacy. Please note that 

the meeting may end early if all 

business is completed. 

Privacy Act Statement: DHS’s Use of 

Your Information 

Authority: DHS requests that you 

voluntarily submit this information 

under its following authorities: The 

Federal Records Act, 44 U.S.C. 3101; the 

FACA, 5 U.S.C. App. 2; and the Privacy 

Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a. 

Principal Purposes: When you register 

to attend a DHS Data Privacy and 

Integrity Advisory Committee meeting, 

DHS collects your name, contact 

information, and the organization you 

represent, if any. We use this 

information to contact you for purposes 

related to the meeting, such as to 

confirm your registration, to advise you 

of any changes in the meeting, or to 

assure that we have sufficient materials 

to distribute to all attendees. 

We may also use the information you 

provide for public record purposes such 

as posting publicly available transcripts 

and meeting minutes. 

Routine Uses and Sharing: In general, 

DHS will not use the information you 

provide for any purpose other than the 

Principal Purposes, and will not share 

this information within or outside the 

agency. In certain circumstances, DHS 

may share this information on a case-bycase basis as required by law or as 

necessary for a specific purpose, as 

described in the DHS/ALL–002 Mailing 

and Other Lists System of Records 

Notice (November 25, 2008, 73 FR 

71659). 

Effects of Not Providing Information: 

You may choose not to provide the 

requested information or to provide 

only some of the information DHS 

requests. If you choose not to provide 

some or all of the requested information, 

DHS may not be able to contact you for 

purposes related to the meeting. 

Accessing and Correcting 

Information: If you are unable to access 

or correct this information by using the 

method that you originally used to 

submit it, you may direct your request 

in writing to the DHS Deputy Chief 

FOIA Officer at foia@dhs.gov. 

Additional instructions are available at 

http://www.dhs.gov/foia and in the 

DHS/ALL–002 Mailing and Other Lists 

System of Records referenced above. 

Mary Ellen Callahan, 

Chief Privacy Officer, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

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BILLING CODE 9110–9L–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[Internal Agency Docket No. FEMA–3342– 

EM; Docket ID FEMA–2011–0001] 

Connecticut; Emergency and Related 

Determinations 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This is a notice of the 

Presidential declaration of an 

emergency for the State of Connecticut 

(FEMA–3342–EM), dated October 31, 

2011, and related determinations. 

DATES: Effective Date: October 31, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Peggy Miller, Office of Response and 

Recovery, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, 500 C Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646–3886. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that, in a letter dated 

October 31, 2011, the President issued 

an emergency declaration under the 

authority of the Robert T. Stafford 

Disaster Relief and Emergency 

Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121–5207 

(the Stafford Act), as follows: 

I have determined that the emergency 

conditions in the State of Connecticut 

resulting from a severe storm during the 

period of October 29–30, 2011, are of 

sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant 

an emergency declaration under the Robert T. 

Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 

Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq. (‘‘the 

Stafford Act’’). Therefore, I declare that such 

an emergency exists in the State of 

Connecticut. 

You are authorized to provide appropriate 

assistance for required emergency measures, 

authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, 

to save lives and to protect property and 

public health and safety, and to lessen or 

avert the threat of a catastrophe in the 

designated areas. Specifically, you are 

authorized to provide assistance for 

emergency protective measures (Category B), 

limited to direct Federal assistance, under 

the Public Assistance program. This 

assistance excludes regular time costs for 

subgrantees’ regular employees. 

Consistent with the requirement that 

Federal assistance is supplemental, any 

Federal funds provided under the Stafford 

Act for Public Assistance will be limited to 

75 percent of the total eligible costs. In order 

to provide Federal assistance, you are hereby 

authorized to allocate from funds available 

for these purposes such amounts as you find 

necessary for Federal emergency assistance 

and administrative expenses. 

Further, you are authorized to make 

changes to this declaration for the approved 

assistance to the extent allowable under the 

Stafford Act. 

The Federal Emergency Management 

Agency (FEMA) hereby gives notice that 

pursuant to the authority vested in the 

Administrator, Department of Homeland 

Security, under Executive Order 12148, 

as amended, Stephen M. De Blasio Sr., 

of FEMA is appointed to act as the 

Federal Coordinating Officer for this 

declared emergency. 

The following areas of the State of 

Connecticut have been designated as 

adversely affected by this declared 

emergency: 

All eight counties in the State of 

Connecticut for emergency protective 

measures (Category B), limited to direct 

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