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1The Protecting and Securing Chemical Facilities 

from Terrorist Attacks Act of 2014 (also known as 

the CFATS Act of 2014, Pub. L. 113–254) codified 

the CFATS program into the Homeland Security 

Act of 2002. See 6 U.S.C. 621 et seq., as amended 

by Public Law 116–136, Sec. 16007 (2020). 

2The initial notice of implementation was 

published on December 18, 2015 at 80 FR 79058 

and may be viewed at https://

www.federalregister.gov/d/2019-14591. 

3The notice of implementation at all high-risk 

chemical facilities was published on July 9, 2019 

at 84 FR 32768 and may be viewed at https://

www.federalregister.gov/d/2019-14591. 

ECD uses electronic submission to 

reduce the burden on respondents 

including web-based surveys and 

assessment tools, such as Survey 

Monkey. Its target audience—mainly 

first responders—is frequently 

interrupted, have variable schedules, 

and frequently work long hours. 

Electronic submission provides a more 

user-friendly interface, provides 

anonymity to the users, ensures the 

maximum response rate, eliminates 

paper, printing, and postage costs along 

with the need for data entry. 

We will also utilize alternative 

submission methods for both the SNS 

and the supplemental surveys. An 

Adobe PDF-fillable form which can be 

returned via email to sns@cisa.dhs.gov, 

direct emails with questionnaires 

attached, an in-person surveys, focusgroups, and a paper copy that will be 

mailed directly to the respondent(s) 

requesting a hard copy. The paper copy 

can be returned either via a prepaid 

envelope, scanned and emailed to sns@

cisa.dhs.gov, and/or faxed to CISA ECD. 

We anticipate that .5% of respondents 

will utilize these alternative submission 

methods. 

Analysis 

Agency: Cybersecurity and 

Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), 

Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS). 

Title of Collection: SAFECOM 

Nationwide Surveys Generic Clearance. 

OMB Control Number: 1670–NEW. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Affected Public: State, Local, Tribal, 

and Territorial Governments. 

Number of Annualized Respondents: 

8,398. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.5 

hours. 

Total Annualized Burden Hours: 

4,199 hours. 

Total Annualized Respondent 

Opportunity Cost: $168,298.74. 

Total Annualized Respondent Out-ofPocket Cost: $0. 

Total Annualized Government Cost: 

$235,863. 

Samuel Vazquez, 

Acting Chief Information Officer, Department 

of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and 

Infrastructure Security Agency. 

[FR Doc. 2021–13111 Filed 6–22–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–9P–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

[Docket No. CISA–2021–0009] 

Revision of a Currently Approved 

Information Collection for the 

Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism 

Standards (CFATS) Personnel Surety 

Program 

AGENCY: Cybersecurity and 

Infrastructure Security Agency, DHS. 

ACTION: 60-Day notice and request for 

comments; revision of information 

collection request: 1670–0029. 

Authority: 6 U.S.C. 621–629. 

SUMMARY: The Infrastructure Security 

Division (ISD) within the Cybersecurity 

and Infrastructure Security Agency 

(CISA) is issuing a 60-day notice and 

request for comments to revise 

Information Collection Request (ICR) 

1670–0029. CISA will submit the ICR to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and clearance in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Comments are due August 23, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number CISA– 

2021–0009 through the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal available at http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Instructions: All comments received 

via https://www.regulations.gov will be 

posted to the public docket at https://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. 

Do not submit comments that include 

trade secrets, confidential commercial 

or financial information, Chemicalterrorism Vulnerability Information 

(CVI), Protected Critical Infrastructure 

Information (PCII), or Sensitive Security 

Information (SSI) directly to the public 

regulatory docket. Contact the 

individual listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section below 

with questions about comments 

containing such protected information. 

CISA will not place comments 

containing such protected information 

in the public docket and will handle 

them in accordance with applicable 

safeguards and restrictions on access. 

Additionally, CISA will hold them in a 

separate file to which the public does 

not have access and place a note in the 

public docket that CISA has received 

such protected materials from the 

commenter. If CISA receives a request to 

examine or copy this information, CISA 

will treat it as any other request under 

the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lona Saccomando, 202–579–0590, 

CISARegulations@cisa.dhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

CFATS Program identifies chemical 

facilities of interest and regulates the 

security of high-risk chemical facilities 

through a risk-based approach. The 

CFATS Program is authorized under the 

Protecting and Securing Chemical 

Facilities from Terrorist Attacks Act of 

2014 1 or ‘‘CFATS Act of 2014’’. CISA 

collects necessary information through 

1670–0029 to implement the CFATS 

Personnel Surety Program. 

Program Description 

High-risk chemical facilities regulated 

by CISA under the CFATS Program 

must submit a Site Security Plan (SSP) 

or an Alternative Security Program 

(ASP) that describes how they will meet 

or exceed 18 risk-based performance 

standards (RBPS), including RBPS 12— 

Personnel Surety. Under RBPS 12, highrisk chemical facilities regulated under 

CFATS are required to account for the 

conduct of certain types of background 

checks in their Site Security Plans. 

Specifically, RBPS 12 requires high-risk 

chemical facilities to: 

Perform appropriate background checks on 

and ensure appropriate credentials for 

facility personnel, and as appropriate, for 

unescorted visitors with access to restricted 

areas or critical assets, including, (i) 

Measures designed to verify and validate 

identity; (ii) Measures designed to check 

criminal history; (iii) Measures designed to 

verify and validate legal authorization to 

work; and (iv) Measures designed to identify 

people with terrorist ties[.]6 CFR 

27.230(a)(12). 

The first three aspects of RBPS 12 

(checks for identity, criminal history, 

and legal authorization to work) are 

performed by the facility. The fourth 

aspect (i.e., the check for terrorist ties) 

was implemented in December 2016 at 

Tier 1 and Tier 2 facilities.2 In July of 

2019 the Department implemented the 

CFATS Personnel Surety Program for all 

tiers.3 A complete description of the 

CFATS Personnel Surety Program is 

provided in the July 2019 notice and 


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4Additional information about the CFATS 

Personnel Surety Program is available at https://

www.cisa.gov/cfats-resources. 

5The Notice of Action issued by OMB on May 23, 

2019 about the CFATS Personnel Surety program 

may be viewed at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/ 

do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=201806-1670-001#. 

6 6 U.S.C. 621 et seq. 

7For more information about the TSDB, see DOJ/ 

FBI–019 Terrorist Screening Records System, 72 FR 

47073 (August 22, 2007). 

additional information can be found on 

CISA’s website.4

As required by the Notice of Action 

issued by OMB on May 23, 2019, CISA 

‘‘phased in gradually’’ the CFATS 

Personnel Surety Program.5 Since July 

of 2019, when CISA published the 

implementation notice for the CFATS 

Personnel Surety Program announcing 

full implementation, CISA has selected 

between 50 to 100 facilities a month to 

update their SSP or ASP to implement 

security measures designed to ensure 

that certain individuals with or seeking 

access to the restricted areas or critical 

assets at those chemical facilities are 

screened for terrorist ties. CISA expects 

to complete implementing the CFATS 

Personnel Surety Program at every highrisk chemical facility by the second 

quarter of FY2022 

High-Risk Chemical Facilities Have 

Flexibility When Implementing the 

CFATS Personnel Surety Program 

High-risk chemical facilities have 

flexibility to tailor their implementation 

of the CFATS Personnel Surety Program 

to fit their individual circumstances 

and, in this regard, to best balance who 

qualifies as an affected individual, 

unique security issues, costs, and 

burden. For example, a high-risk 

chemical facility may, in its Site 

Security Plan: 

• Restrict the number and types of 

persons allowed to access its restricted 

areas and critical assets, thus limiting 

the number of persons who will need to 

be checked for terrorist ties. 

• Define its restricted areas and 

critical assets, thus potentially limiting 

the number of persons who will need to 

be checked for terrorist ties. 

• Choose to escort visitors accessing 

restricted areas and critical assets in lieu 

of performing terrorist ties background 

checks under the CFATS Personnel 

Surety Program. The high-risk chemical 

facility may propose in its SSP or ASP 

traditional escorting solutions and/or 

innovative escorting alternatives such as 

video monitoring (which may reduce 

facility security costs), as appropriate, to 

address the unique security risks 

present at the facility. 

Options Available to High-Risk 

Chemical Facilities To Comply With 

RBPS 12(iv) 

As described in the July 2019 

Implementation Notice, the CFATS 

Personnel Surety Program provides 

high-risk chemical facilities several 

options to comply with RBPS 12(iv). In 

addition to the alternatives expressly 

described in the July 2019 

Implementation notice, CISA permits 

high-risk chemical facilities to propose 

alternative measures for terrorist ties 

identification in their SSPs or ASPs, 

which CISA will consider on a case-bycase basis in evaluating high-risk 

chemical facilities’ SSPs or ASPs. In 

addition, a high-risk chemical facility 

may choose one option or a combination 

of options to comply with RBPS 12(iv). 

Identifying affected individuals who 

have terrorist ties is an inherently 

governmental function and requires the 

use of information held in governmentmaintained databases that are 

unavailable to high-risk chemical 

facilities. 72 FR 17688, 17709 (April 9, 

2007). Thus, under RBPS 12(iv), CISA 

and high-risk chemical facilities must 

work together to satisfy the ‘‘terrorist 

ties’’ aspect of the Personnel Surety 

performance standard. To implement 

the provisions of RBPS 12(iv), and in 

accordance with Title XXI of the 

Homeland Security Act of 2002, as 

amended,6 the following options will be 

available to enable high-risk chemical 

facilities to facilitate terrorist-ties 

vetting of affected individuals. 

Option 1. High-risk chemical facilities 

may submit certain information about 

affected individuals that CISA will use 

to vet those individuals for terrorist ties. 

Specifically, the identifying information 

about affected individuals will be 

compared against identifying 

information of known or suspected 

terrorists contained in the federal 

government’s consolidated and 

integrated terrorist watchlist, the 

Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB), 

which is maintained by the Department 

of Justice (DOJ) Federal Bureau of 

Investigation (FBI) in the Terrorist 

Screening Center (TSC).7

Option 2. High-risk chemical facilities 

may submit information about affected 

individuals who already possess certain 

credentials that rely on security threat 

assessments conducted by the 

Department. See 72 FR 17688, 17709 

(April 9, 2007). This will enable CISA 

to verify the continuing validity of these 

credentials. 

Option 3. High-risk chemical facilities 

may comply with RBPS 12(iv) without 

submitting to CISA information about 

affected individuals who possess 

Transportation Worker Identification 

Credentials (TWICs), if a high-risk 

chemical facility electronically verifies 

and validates the affected individual’s 

TWICs through the use of TWIC readers 

(or other technology that is periodically 

updated using the Canceled Card List). 

Option 4. High-risk chemical facilities 

may visually verify certain credentials 

or documents that are issued by a 

Federal screening program that 

periodically vets enrolled individuals 

against the Terrorist Screening Database 

(TSDB). CISA continues to believe that 

visual verification has significant 

security limitations and, accordingly, 

encourages high-risk chemical facilities 

choosing this option to identify in their 

Site Security Plans the means by which 

they plan to address these limitations. 

Since the implementation of the 

CFATS Personnel Surety Program and 

by the end of 2020; the CISA reviewed 

the activity of 1,666 unique facilities at 

which the program had been 

implemented. Of the 1,666 facilities, 

1,547 selected a single option, 102 

selected two options, and 17 facilities 

selected three options. Four of the 1,666 

facilities proposed alternative measures 

for terrorist ties identification in their 

SSPs or ASPs, which CISA considered 

and subsequently approved. CISA’s 

review also found that facilities 

overwhelmingly selected Option 1 as a 

means to comply with RBPS 12(iv). 

Specifically, a total of 1,635 facilities 

out of the 1,666 facilities reviewed 

selected Option 1 as a method to 

comply with the check for terrorist ties 

in their SSP or ASP. 

Information Collected About Affected 

Individuals 

Option 1: Collecting Information To 

Conduct Direct Vetting 

If high-risk chemical facilities select 

Option 1 to satisfy RBPS 12(iv) for an 

affected individual, the following 

information about the affected 

individual would be submitted to CISA: 

• For U.S. Persons (U.S. citizens and 

nationals, as well as U.S. lawful 

permanent residents): 

Æ Full Name; 

Æ Date of Birth; and 

Æ Citizenship or Gender. 

• For Non-U.S. Persons: 

Æ Full Name; 

Æ Date of Birth; 

Æ Citizenship; and 

Æ Passport information and/or alien 

registration number. 

To reduce the likelihood of false 

positives in matching against records in 

the Federal Government’s consolidated 

and integrated terrorist watch list, highrisk chemical facilities would also be 

able to submit the following optional 


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8For more information about Redress Numbers, 

please go to http://www.dhs.gov/one-stop-travelersredress-process#1. 

9See 6 CFR 27.300–345. 

10More information about access, correction, and 

redress requests under the Freedom of Information 

Act and the Privacy Act can be found in Section 

7.0 of the Privacy Impact Assessment for the CFATS 

Personnel Surety Program, dated March 10, 2020, 

and available at DHS/CISA/PIA 018 Chemical 

Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Personnel Surety 

Program ⎢ Homeland Security. 

information about an affected individual 

to CISA: 

• Aliases; 

• Gender (for Non-U.S. Persons); 

• Place of Birth; and/or 

• Redress Number.8

High-risk chemical facilities have the 

option to create user defined fields to 

collect and store additional information 

to assist with the management of an 

affected individual’s records. Any 

information collected in user defined 

fields will not be used to support vetting 

activities. Table 1 summarizes the 

biographic data that would be submitted 

to CISA under Option 1. 

TABLE 1—REQUIRED AND OPTIONAL DATA FOR AN AFFECTED INDIVIDUAL UNDER OPTION 1 

Data elements submitted to CISA For a U.S. person For a non-U.S. person 

Full Name ............................................................................. Required. 

Date of Birth .......................................................................... Required. 

Gender .................................................................................. Must provide Citizenship or Gender ....... Optional. 

Citizenship ............................................................................ ................................................................. Required. 

Passport Information and/or Alien Registration Number ...... N/A .......................................................... Required. 

Aliases .................................................................................. Optional. 

Place of Birth ........................................................................ Optional. 

Redress number ................................................................... Optional. 

User Defined Field(s) ............................................................ Optional (Not used for vetting purposes). 

Option 2: Collecting Information To Use 

Vetting Conducted Under Other DHS 

Programs 

In lieu of submitting information to 

CISA under Option 1 for vetting of 

terrorist ties, high-risk chemical 

facilities also have the option, where 

appropriate, to submit information to 

CISA to electronically verify that an 

affected individual is currently enrolled 

in another DHS program that vets for 

terrorist ties. 

To verify an affected individual’s 

enrollment in one of these programs 

under Option 2, CISA would collect the 

following information about the affected 

individual: 

• Full Name; 

• Date of Birth; and 

• Program-specific information or 

credential information, such as 

expiration date, unique number, or 

issuing entity (e.g., state for 

Commercial Driver’s License [CDL] 

associated with an Hazardous 

Materials Endorsement [HME]). 

To reduce the likelihood of false 

positives, high-risk chemical facilities 

may also submit the following optional 

information about affected individuals 

to CISA: 

• Aliases; 

• Gender; 

• Place of Birth; and/or 

• Citizenship. 

High-risk chemical facilities have the 

option to create a user defined field to 

collect and store additional information 

to assist with the management of an 

affected individual’s records. Any 

information collected in user defined 

fields will not be used to support vetting 

activities. Table 2 summarizes the 

biographic data that would be submitted 

to CISA under Option 2. 

TABLE 2—REQUIRED AND OPTIONAL DATA FOR AN AFFECTED INDIVIDUAL UNDER OPTION 2 

Data Elements Submitted to CISA 

Full Name ............................................................................................................................................. Required. 

Date of Birth ......................................................................................................................................... Required. 

Program-specific information or credential information, such as expiration date, unique number, or 

issuing entity.

Required. 

Aliases .................................................................................................................................................. Optional. 

Gender .................................................................................................................................................. Optional. 

Place of Birth ........................................................................................................................................ Optional. 

Citizenship ............................................................................................................................................ Optional. 

User Defined Field(s) ........................................................................................................................... Optional (Not used for vetting purposes). 

Other Information Collected 

CISA may also contact a high-risk 

chemical facility or its designees to 

request additional information (e.g., visa 

information) pertaining to an affected 

individual in order to clarify suspected 

data errors or resolve potential matches 

(e.g., an affected individual has a 

common name). Such requests will not 

imply, and should not be construed to 

indicate, that an affected individual’s 

information has been confirmed as a 

match to a record of an individual with 

terrorist ties. 

CISA may also collect information 

provided by individuals or high-risk 

chemical facilities in support of any 

adjudication requests under Subpart C 

of the CFATS regulation,9 or in support 

of any other redress requests.10

The information that is collected is 

used by CISA (1) to compare affected 

individuals information to known and 

suspected terrorists, or (2) to 

electronically verify and validate that 

the affected individual is enrolled in 

another DHS program that compares an 


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11Startup costs typically refer to additional costs 

that a respondent will incur in order to comply 

with the collection, such as the purchase of new 

equipment required to collect the information. In 

this case, there is no additional burden or cost 

associated with an initial submission under the PSP 

as compared to subsequent submissions. As such, 

it is unnecessary to separate initial and subsequent 

submissions when estimating the burdens for this 

collection. 

12Bureau of Labor Statistics, Job Openings and 

Labor Turnover—January 2021, released March 11, 

2021 https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/ 

jolts_03112021.pdf. Table 14. 

13 228,337 respondents × 57.3% = 130,837. 

14New hires include replacements for employee 

turnover, as well as new hires. 

affected individual’s information to 

known and suspected terrorists. 

Proposed Revisions to the CFATS 

Personnel Surety Program Information 

Collection Request 

The revisions proposed in this ICR are 

minor revisions to the instrument that: 

(1) Reflect the passage of the 

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure 

Security Act of 2018, 6 U.S.C. 651–74, 

such as updating the Agency name to 

conform with the Agency’s new 

designation as CISA; (2) increase the 

number of annual respondents from 

72,607 respondents to 149,271 

respondents; (3) increase the annual 

burden from 12,101 hours to 24,879 

hours; (4) remove the costs associated 

with capital/startup costs because they 

are incorporated within the estimated 

number of respondents; and (4) update 

the average hourly wage rate of Site 

Security Officers. CISA is not proposing 

any revision to the scope of the 

instrument. 

CISA’s Methodology in Estimating the 

Burden for the Personnel Surety 

Program 

Number of Respondents 

The current information collection 

estimates that 72,607 respondents (i.e., 

affected individuals) would be 

submitted annually. The current 

estimate was calculated by adding the 

estimated the number of initial 

respondents and the number of annual 

respondents. 

The ‘‘initial respondents’’ are those 

affected individuals with existing access 

at a high-risk chemical facility and will 

be submitted by the facility after 

receiving authorization or approval of 

an SSP or ASP requiring the facility to 

implement measures to comply with 

RBPS 12(iv). ‘‘Annual respondents’’ are 

the number of respondents CISA 

estimates will be submitted each year by 

high-risk chemical facilities that have 

completed the initial respondent’s 

submission and are now in the 

maintenance phase (e.g., adding new 

affected individuals due to employee 

hires). 

1. Revision to Methodology on How 

Respondents Are Estimated 

CISA has generally assumed that new 

facilities implementing the Personnel 

Surety Program for the first time as a 

high-risk chemical facility under CFATS 

will have a one-time requirement to 

submit information about initial 

respondents with existing access to the 

restricted areas or critical assets at the 

high-risk chemical facility. In the 

current Information Collection, this onetime cost was estimated as a startup 

cost. However, based on CISA’s 

experience implementing the Personnel 

Surety Program, CISA has determined 

that the per submission burden 

associated with first time submissions 

(i.e., ‘‘initial respondents’’) does not 

differ from the burdens associated with 

the per submission burdens associated 

with subsequent submissions to 

maintain the program (i.e., ‘‘annual 

respondents’’). As such, starting with 

this revision, CISA will no longer 

consider initial respondents as start-up 

costs.11 Instead, as discussed below, 

new facilities submitting information 

about affected individuals to CISA for 

the first time will be consolidated into 

the number of annual respondents, 

based on the observed numbers of new 

facilities per year. Therefore, although 

this collection will include one 

respondent type (i.e., ‘‘annual 

respondents’’), the annual number of 

respondents for this collection will 

continue to include both historical 

categories of ‘‘initial’’ and ‘‘annual’’ 

respondents. 

2. Annual Respondents From New 

Facilities 

In this collection, CISA will include 

the average number of facilities to be 

determined high risk for the first time in 

the number of annual respondents. As 

shown in the table below, there is, on 

average over the past four years, 134.5 

facilities which are determined to be 

high-risk for the first time each year. 

TABLE 3—NUMBER OF FIRST TIME

HIGH-RISK CHEMICAL FACILITIES BY

CALENDAR YEAR

Calendar year 

Number of 

facilities 

determined 

high-risk for 

the first time 

2017 ...................................... 133 

2018 ...................................... 117 

2019 ...................................... 116 

2020 ...................................... 172 

Average ......................... 134.5 

Since implementing the Personnel 

Surety Program, CISA has received 

information about affected individuals 

from 1,666 facilities, totaling 228,337 

respondents, for an average of 137.1 

respondents per facility. 

Therefore, CISA estimates the number 

of annual respondents for facilities 

determined to be high risk for the first 

time by multiplying the average number 

of respondents per facility (137.1) by the 

average number of new facilities per 

year (134.5) for an average of 18,434 

annual respondents per year. 

3. Annual Respondents From Facilities 

at Which the CFATS Personnel Surety 

Program Has Been Implemented 

In the current Information Collection, 

the annual number of respondents at 

high-risk chemical facilities at which 

the Personnel Surety Program has been 

implemented was estimated based on 

the annual hires rates for total private 

industry. The annual hire rate accounts 

for the replacement of employee 

separations as well as new hires. CISA 

is retaining this methodology. CISA 

applied the annual hires rate of 57.3% 

for total private industry, as estimated 

from the Bureau of Labor Statistics 

(BLS) 12 to the total number of 

respondents that have already been 

checked for terrorist ties, resulting in 

130,837 annual respondents.13

4. Revised Estimate of the Annual 

Respondents 

Using the methodology above, the 

total number of annual respondents for 

this collection is the sum of: (a) The 

number of annual respondents from first 

time high risk facilities (i.e., 18,434 

annual respondents), and (b) the 

number of annual respondents from 

new hires 14 at high-risk chemical 

facilities at which the CFATS Personnel 

Surety program has been implemented 

(i.e., 130,837 respondents), which totals 

to an estimated 149,271 annual 

respondents. Table 05 presents the 

number of annual respondents. 

TABLE 4—ANNUAL NUMBER OF

RESPONDENTS

Type of submission Number of 

respondents 

New Hires ............................. 130,837 

First Time High Risk Facilities ..................................... 18,434 

Total ............................... 149,271 


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15The above Average Hourly Wage Rate is the 

May 2020 Bureau of Labor Statistics average wage 

for ‘‘Management Occupations (Major Group (11– 

0000))’’ of $60.81 times the wage rate benefit 

multiplier of 1.4596 (to account for fringe benefits) 

equaling $88.48. The benefits multiplier is 

estimated by dividing total compensation of $38.60 

by salaries and wages of $26.53, based on Employer 

Cost for Employee Compensation, December 2020, 

released March 18, 2021 (https://www.bls.gov/ 

news.release/pdf/ecec.pdf). 

Estimated Time per Respondent 

In the current information collection, 

the estimated time per respondent is 10 

minutes (0.1667 hours) per affected 

individual. This conservative estimate 

includes the time to edit or remove a 

record if a high-risk chemical facility 

opts to subsequently notify the CISA 

that an affected individual no longer has 

access. The current estimate also 

assumes that each record includes both 

optional and required data elements. 

Thus, a revision to modify which data 

fields are required versus optional does 

not increase the estimated time per 

response. Thus, CISA is choosing to 

retain an estimate of 10 minutes (0.1667 

hours) per affected individual. 

Annual Burden Hours 

In the current information collection, 

the estimated annual burden is 12,101 

hours. To estimate the annual burden 

hours for this collection, CISA 

multiplied the number of annual 

respondents by the estimated time 

burden of 0.1667 hours (10 minutes), for 

an estimated annual burden of 24,879 

hours (i.e., 0.1667 hours multiplied by 

149,271 annual respondents). 

Total Capital/Startup Burden Cost 

CISA provides access to the CFATS 

Personnel Surety Program application 

free of charge and assumes that each 

high-risk chemical facility already has 

access to the internet for basic business 

needs. As described earlier in this 

notice, CISA expects that all high-risk 

chemical facilities will have 

implemented the CFATS Personnel 

Surety Program prior to the end of CY 

2021. 

In the current collection, CISA 

assumed that new facilities 

implementing the Personnel Surety 

program for the first time as a high-risk 

chemical facility under CFATS will 

have a one-time requirement to submit 

information about initial respondents 

with existing access to the restricted 

areas or critical assets at the high-risk 

chemical facility. While this was 

considered a start-up cost in previous 

collections, for this ICR, CISA no longer 

considers new facilities submitting as a 

start-up cost, as the cost for an initial 

respondent does not differ from the cost 

of an annual respondent. 

Consideration of Other Capital Costs 

This information collection request 

maintains the existing assumptions 

found in the current information 

collection request with regard to 

activities listed in 5 CFR 1320.3(b)(1). 

Specifically, that 5 CFR 1320.3(b)(1) and 

5 CFR 1320.8 require CISA to estimate 

the total time, effort, or financial 

resources expended by persons to 

generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or 

provide information to or for a Federal 

agency. Therefore, many costs (e.g., 

physical modification of the facility 

layout) a high-risk chemical facility may 

choose to incur to develop or implement 

its SSP or ASP should not be accounted 

for when estimating the capital costs 

associated with this information 

collection. 

Furthermore, CISA maintains the 

same assumptions found in the current 

information collection request with 

regards to estimating certain high-risk 

chemical facility capital costs, such as: 

(1) Capital costs for computer, 

telecommunications equipment, 

software, and storage to manage the data 

collection, submissions, and tracking; 

(2) capital and ongoing costs for 

designing, deploying, and operating 

information technology (IT) systems 

necessary to maintain the data 

collection, submissions, and tracking; 

(3) cost of training high-risk chemical 

facility personnel to maintain the data 

collection, submissions, and tracking; 

and (4) site security officer time to 

manage the data collection, 

submissions, and tracking. CISA 

continues to exclude these costs in 

accordance with 5 CFR 1320.3(b)(2), 

which directs Federal agencies to not 

count the costs associated with the time, 

effort, and financial resources incurred 

in the normal course of their activities 

(e.g., in compiling and maintaining 

business records) if the reporting, 

recordkeeping, or disclosure activities 

are usual and customary. 

CISA continues to exclude these usual 

and customary costs because the time, 

effort, and financial resources are costs 

that high-risk chemical facilities incur 

to conduct background checks for 

identity, criminal history, and legal 

authorization to work under 6 CFR 

27.230(a)(12)(i)–(iii), and also under 

various other Federal, State, or local 

laws or regulations. 

Total Recordkeeping Burden 

The current information collection 

does not have any recordkeeping costs 

because the recordkeeping costs, if any, 

to create, keep, or retain records 

pertaining to background checks as part 

of a high-risk chemical facility’s SSP or 

ASP, are properly estimated in the 

recordkeeping estimates associated with 

the SSP Instrument under Information 

Collection 1670–0007. CISA retains this 

assumption and estimate of no 

recordkeeping costs. 

Total Annual Burden Cost 

CISA assumes that Site Security 

Officers (SSOs) are responsible for 

submitting about affected individuals. 

For the purpose of this notice, CISA 

maintains this assumption. 

To estimate the total annual burden, 

CISA multiplied the annual burden of 

24,879 hours by the average hourly 

wage rate of Site Security Officers of 

$88.48 15 per hour. Therefore, the total 

annual burden cost for the CFATS 

Personnel Surety Program is $2,201,152 

(i.e., 24,879 hours multiplied by $88.48 

per hour). For the three-year period for 

which this collection will be approved, 

the total cost burden would be 

$6,603,456 (i.e., $2,201,152 annual cost 

multiplied by 3 years). 

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). 

Analysis 

Agency: Department of Homeland 

Security, Cybersecurity and 

Infrastructure Security Agency. 

Title: Chemical Facility AntiTerrorism Standards (CFATS) Personnel 

Surety Program. 

OMB Number: 1670–0029. 

Instrument: CFATS Personnel Surety 

Program. 

Frequency: ‘‘Other.’’ 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Number of Respondents: 149,271 

respondents. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 

0.1667 hours (10 minutes). 


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Total Burden Hours: 24,879 annual 

burden hours. 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 

$0. 

Total Recordkeeping Burden: $0. 

Total Burden Cost: $2,201,152. 

Samuel Vazquez, 

Acting Chief Information Officer, Department 

of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and 

Infrastructure Security Agency. 

[FR Doc. 2021–13110 Filed 6–22–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–9P–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–7038–N–08] 

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: Single Family Premium 

Collection Subsystem—Periodic 

(SFPCS–P), OMB Control No.: 2502– 

0536 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing 

Commissioner, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: HUD is seeking approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for the information collection 

described below. In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is 

requesting comment from all interested 

parties on the proposed collection of 

information. The purpose of this notice 

is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment. 

DATES: Comments Due Date: August 23, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this proposal. Comments should refer to 

the proposal by name and/or OMB 

Control Number and should be sent to: 

Colette Pollard, Reports Management 

Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 451 7th Street 

SW, Room 4176, Washington, DC 

20410–5000; telephone 202–402–3400 

(this is not a toll-free number) or email 

at Colette.Pollard@hud.gov for a copy of 

the proposed forms or other available 

information. Persons with hearing or 

speech impairments may access this 

number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at (800) 877– 

8339. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Colette Pollard, Reports Management 

Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 451 7th Street 

SW, Washington, DC 20410; email 

Colette Pollard at Colette.Pollard@

hud.gov or telephone 202–402–3400. 

This is not a toll-free number. Persons 

with hearing or speech impairments 

may access this number through TTY by 

calling the toll-free Federal Relay 

Service at (800) 877–8339. 

Copies of available documents 

submitted to OMB may be obtained 

from Ms. Pollard. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice informs the public that HUD is 

seeking approval from OMB for the 

information collection described in 

Section A. 

A. Overview of Information Collection 

Title of Information Collection: Single 

Family Premium Collection 

Subsystem—Periodic (SFPCS–P). 

OMB Approval Number: 2502–0536. 

OMB Expiration Date: 2/28/2022. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Form Number: None. 

Description of the need for the 

information and proposed use: The 

Single Family Premium Collection 

Subsystem—Periodic (SFPCS–P) allows 

the lenders to remit the single-family 

periodic mortgagee insurance premium 

(PMIP) using funds obtained from the 

mortgagor during the collection of the 

monthly mortgage payment. The 

SFPCS–P strengthens HUD’s ability to 

manage and process PMIP collections 

and corrections to submitted data. It 

also improves data integrity for the 

Single Family Mortgage Insurance 

Program and enables FHA to track 

borrower’s insurance PMIP status. 

Therefore, the FHA approved lenders 

remit PMIP payments that are required 

by the authority for this collection of 

information in 24 CFR 203.264 and 24 

CFR 203.269 and to comply with the 

Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, 2 

U.S.C. 661, et seq. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

730. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 

8,760. 

Frequency of Response: 12 per year/ 

monthly. 

Average Hours per Response: .15. 

Total Estimated Burden: 1,314 hours. 

B. Solicitation of Public Comment 

This notice is soliciting comments 

from members of the public and affected 

parties concerning the collection of 

information described in Section A on 

the following: 

(1) 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) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information; 

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(4) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond; including through 

the use of appropriate automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

HUD encourages interested parties to 

submit comment in response to these 

questions. 

C. Authority 

Section 3507 of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35. 

Janet M. Golrick, 

Acting, Chief of Staff for the Office of Housing, 

Federal Housing Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2021–13095 Filed 6–22–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R4–ES–2020–N147; 

FXES11130900000C2–201–FF09E32000] 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants; Initiation of 5-Year Status 

Reviews for 37 Southeastern Species 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of initiation of reviews; 

request for information. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, are initiating 5-year 

status reviews for 37 species under the 

Endangered Species Act, as amended. A 

5-year review is an assessment of the 

best scientific and commercial data 

available at the time of the review. We 

are requesting submission of any such 

information that has become available 

since the previous status review for each 

species. 

DATES: To allow us adequate time to 

conduct these reviews, we must receive 

your comments or information on or 

before August 23, 2021. However, we 

will continue to accept new information 

about any listed species at any time. 

ADDRESSES: For instructions on how and 

where to request or submit information, 

see Request for New Information under 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

General Information: Aaron Valenta, 

(404) 679–4144, via email at aaron_

valenta@fws.gov, and via U.S. mail at 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1875 

Century Boulevard, Atlanta, GA 30345. 


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