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1See Public Law 107–71, 115 Stat. 597 (Nov. 19, 

2001), codified at 49 U.S.C. 114(d). The TSA 

Administrator’s current authorities under the 

Aviation and Transportation Security Act have been 

Continued 

delayed boarding; (2) denied or delayed 

entry into or departure from the United 

States at a port of entry; or (3) identified 

for additional (secondary) screening at 

our Nation’s transportation facilities, 

including airports, seaports, train 

stations and land borders. The TSA 

manages the DHS TRIP office on behalf 

of DHS. To request redress, individuals 

are asked to provide identifying 

information, as well as details of their 

travel experience in two surveys. 

The DHS TRIP office serves as a 

centralized intake office for traveler 

requests for redress and uses the online 

Traveler Inquiry Form (TIF) to collect 

requests for redress. DHS TRIP then 

passes the information to the relevant 

DHS TRIP practitioner office(s), 

including components of DHS, the U.S. 

Department of State, and the U.S. 

Department of Justice, to process the 

request, as appropriate. Participating 

DHS components include TSA, U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection, U.S. 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Services, the National Protection and 

Programs Directorate’s Office of 

Biometric Information Management, 

Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, 

and the Privacy Office, along with the 

U.S. Department of State, Bureau of 

Consular Affairs, and the U.S. 

Department of Justice, Terrorist 

Screening Center. This collection serves 

to distinguish misidentified individuals 

from an individual actually on any 

watch list that DHS uses, to initiate the 

correction of erroneous information 

about an individual contained in 

government-held records, which are 

leading to travel difficulties, and, where 

appropriate, to help streamline and 

expedite future check-in or border 

crossing experiences. It also serves to 

obtain information about the redress 

applicants’ level of satisfaction with the 

DHS TRIP application process with the 

aim of using this information to identify 

areas for improvement. 

Due to its importance in air 

transportation, the United States was 

elected to the Governing Council during 

the 2019 International Civil Aviation 

Organization (IACO) Assembly. ICAO 

creates regulations for aviation safety, 

security, efficiency and regularity and 

environmental protection. The 

organization also creates standards to 

provide uniformity in regulations, 

procedures and organization in relation 

to aircraft, personnel, airways, and 

auxiliary services in order to improve 

air navigation. TSA is revising the 

information collection by aligning the 

TIF question set to capture additional 

criteria to meet ICAO standards. As a 

result, the question set has been edited 

to meet the standards. 

DHS estimates completing the form, 

and gathering and submitting the 

information will take approximately one 

hour. The annual respondent 

population was derived from data 

contained within the DHS case 

management database and reflects the 

actual number of respondents for the 

most recent calendar year. The 

estimated annual number of burden 

hours for passengers seeking redress, 

based on 15,000 annual respondents, is 

15,000 hours (15,000 × 1 hour). DHS 

estimates 10 percent of the 15,000 

respondents completing the form will 

complete the two surveys to share 

details of their application experience. 

The completion of the surveys will take 

approximately 10 minutes, giving an 

estimated annual number of burden 

hours as 250 (1,500 × .0167). The total 

estimated annual number of burden 

hours for this collection is 15,250 

(15,000 + 250) hours. 

Christina A. Walsh, 

TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, 

Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. 2021–11770 Filed 6–3–21; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Transportation Security Administration 

Intent To Request Revision of Agency 

Information Collection Activity Under 

OMB Review: Baseline Assessment for 

Security Enhancement (BASE) 

Program 

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 1652–0062 

abstracted below that we will submit to 

OMB for a revision in compliance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). 

The ICR assesses the current security 

practices in the mass transit/passenger 

rail and highway and motor carrier 

industries by way of the Baseline 

Assessment for Security Enhancement 

(BASE) program, which encompasses 

site visits and interviews, and is part of 

the larger domain awareness, 

prevention, and protection program that 

supports the mission of TSA and the 

Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS). This voluntary collection allows 

TSA to conduct transportation securityrelated assessments during site visits 

with security and operating officials of 

certain surface transportation entities. 

DATES: Send your comments by August 

3, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be emailed 

to TSAPRA@tsa.dhs.gov or delivered to 

the TSA PRA Officer, Information 

Technology, TSA 11, Transportation 

Security Administration, 6595 

Springfield Center Drive, Springfield, 

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 will be 

available at http://www.reginfo.gov 

upon its submission to OMB. 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 1652–0062; 

Baseline Assessment for Security 

Enhancement (BASE) Program. Under 

the Aviation and Transportation 

Security Act and delegated authority 

from the Secretary of Homeland 

Security, TSA has broad responsibility 

and authority for ‘‘security in all modes 

of transportation including security 

responsibilities over modes of 

transportation that are exercised by the 

Department of Transportation.’’ 1 TSA is 

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delegated to him by the Secretary of Homeland 

Security. Section 403(2) of the Homeland Security 

Act (HSA) of 2002, Public Law 107–296, 116 Stat. 

2315 (Nov. 25, 2002), transferred all functions of 

TSA, including those of the Secretary of 

Transportation and the Under Secretary of 

Transportation of Security related to TSA, to the 

Secretary of Homeland Security. Pursuant to DHS 

Delegation Number 7060.2, the Secretary delegated 

to the Assistant Secretary (now referred to as the 

Administrator of TSA), subject to the Secretary’s 

guidance and control, the authority vested in the 

Secretary with respect to TSA, including that in sec. 

403(2) of the HSA. 

required to ‘‘assess the security of each 

surface transportation mode and 

evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency 

of current Federal Government surface 

transportation security initiatives.’’ E.O. 

13416, sec. 3(a) (Dec. 5, 2006). 

TSA developed the BASE program in 

2007, in an effort to engage with surface 

transportation entities to establish a 

‘‘baseline’’ of security and emergency 

response operations. This program was 

initially created for Mass Transit/ 

Passenger Rail (MT/PR) (including rail 

and bus operations) and passenger rail. 

Based on the success of the program, 

TSA developed the Highway (HWY) 

BASE program in 2012, which achieved 

full implementation in 2013. The HWY 

BASE applies to trucking, school bus 

contractors, school districts, and overthe-road motor coach. This voluntary 

program enables TSA to collect and 

evaluate physical and operational 

preparedness information and critical 

assets and key point-of-contact lists. 

TSA also reviews emergency procedures 

and domain awareness training and 

provides an opportunity to share 

industry best practices. The program 

provides TSA with current information 

on adopted security-practices within the 

MT/PR and HWY modes of the surface 

transportation sector. The information 

collected also allows TSA to 

dynamically adapt programs to the 

changing threat with an understanding 

of the improvements surface 

transportation entities make in their 

security posture. Without this 

information, the ability for 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. 

Absent this program, there would be 

no consistent data about these 

transportation security programs, nor a 

database that could be used to 

benchmark the programs. While many 

MT/PR and HWY entities have security 

and emergency response plans or 

protocols in place, the BASE provides a 

consistent approach to evaluate the 

extent to which security programs exists 

and the content of those programs. 

The Government Accountability 

Office, audit GA–20–404, recommended 

TSA update the BASE cybersecurity 

questions to ensure they reflect key 

practices. As a result, TSA is revising 

the collection to include all five core 

functions of the National Institute of 

Standards and Technology 

cybersecurity framework. All core 

functions and a majority of the 

subcategories are amalgamated with 

industry best practices in the newly 

developed cybersecurity questions and 

cyber annex, strengthening the 

cybersecurity health for the 

transportation sector. 

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 MT/ 

PR and HWY systems, throughout the 

Nation. The TSIs-S receive and 

document relevant information using a 

standardized electronic checklist. 

Advance coordination and planning 

ensures the efficiency of the assessment 

process. The TSIs-S review and analyze 

the stakeholders’ 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, TSIs-S reviews one or more 

assets of the private and/or public 

owner/operator. 

During BASE site visits of MT/PR and 

HWY entities, TSIs-S collect 

information and complete a BASE 

checklist from the review of each 

entity’s documents, plans, and 

procedures. They also interview 

appropriate entity 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. 

While TSA has not set a limit on the 

number of BASE program reviews to 

conduct, TSA estimates it will conduct 

approximately 75 MT/PR BASE reviews 

and approximately 107 HWY BASE 

reviews on an annual basis. TSA does 

not intend to conduct more than one 

BASE review per mass transit or 

passenger rail system in a single year. 

TSA estimates that the hour burden per 

MT/PR entity to engage its security and/ 

or operating officials with inspectors in 

the interactive BASE program review 

process is approximately 11.7 hours, 

while those who choose to also take the 

new cyber annex assessment will spend 

17.7 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 1.8 hours, while those 

who choose to also take the new cyber 

annex assessment will spend 7.8 hours. 

Thus, the total annual hour burden for 

the MT/PR BASE program review is 

1,196 hours annually and for HWY 

BASE 512 hours annually. 

Christina A. Walsh, 

TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, 

Information Technology. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLNM930000 L51010000.ER0000 

LVRWG19G0690 19XL5017AP] 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Resource Management Plan 

Amendments for the SunZia Southwest 

Transmission Project, New Mexico 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) New Mexico State 

Office (NMSO), Santa Fe, New Mexico 

(NM), intends to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

to analyze the environmental impacts 

associated with SunZia’s application 

seeking to amend its right-of-way grant 

for the SunZia Southwest Transmission 

Project. Proposed amendments to 

SunZia’s right-of-way grant may require 

plan amendments to the Socorro Field 

Office Resource Management Plan, the 

Las Cruces District Mimbres Resource 

Management Plan, the Sevilleta 

National Wildlife Refuge 

Comprehensive Conservation Plan, and 

the Cibola National Forest Land and 

Resource Management Plan, which the 

agencies will analyze in the EIS. BLM 

NMSO is the lead agency for purposes 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) analysis with the U.S. Fish 

& Wildlife Service (FWS), U.S. Forest 

Service (FS), National Park Service 

(NPS), and other agencies serving as