80 FR 79066 - Extension of Agency Information Collection Activity Under OMB Review: Airport Security
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Transportation Security Administration Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 243 (December 18, 2015)
Transportation Security Administration
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 243 (December 18, 2015)
| Page Range | 79066-79067 | |
| FR Document | 2015-31913 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 243 (Friday, December 18, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 79066-79067] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-31913] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Transportation Security Administration Extension of Agency Information Collection Activity Under OMB Review: Airport Security AGENCY: Transportation Security Administration, DHS. ACTION: 30-day notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: This notice announces that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has forwarded the Information Collection Request (ICR), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number 1652-0002, abstracted below to OMB for review and approval of a revision of the currently approved collection under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). TSA is combining two previously-approved ICRs (1652-0002 and 1652-0006, Employment Standards) into this single request to simplify TSA collections, increase transparency, and reduce duplication.\1\ The ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its expected burden. TSA published a Federal Register notice, with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments, of the following collection of information on September 1, 2015, 80 FR 52778. The collection involves implementing certain provisions of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act and 49 U.S.C. chapter 449 that relate to providing for the safety and security of persons and property on an aircraft operating in air transportation or intrastate air transportation against an act of criminal violence, aircraft piracy, and the introduction of an unauthorized weapon, explosive, or incendiary onto an aircraft. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ After the publication of the 60 day notice, TSA decided to include in OMB control number 1652-0002, Airport Security, 49 CFR part 1542, the recordkeeping requirements under OMB Control Number 1652-0006 Employment Standards, which apply to 49 CFR part 1542. This would reduce duplication and combine information collected under the same statute, 49 CFR part 1542. Upon OMB approval of this revision, TSA intends to discontinue OMB Control Number 1652-0006 Employment Standards. DATES: Send your comments by January 19, 2016. A comment to OMB is most --------------------------------------------------------------------------- effective if OMB receives it within 30 days of publication. ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments on the proposed information collection to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB. Comments should be addressed to Desk Officer, Department of Homeland Security/TSA, and sent via [[Page 79067]] electronic mail to [email protected] or faxed to (202) 395- 6974. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christina A. Walsh, TSA PRA Officer, Office of Information Technology (OIT), TSA-11, Transportation Security Administration, 601 South 12th Street, Arlington, VA 20598-6011; telephone (571) 227-2062; email [email protected]. 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 Title: Airport Security, 49 CFR part 1542. Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection. OMB Control Number: 1652-0002. Forms(s): NA. Affected Public: Airport operators regulated under 49 CFR part 1542. Abstract: TSA is seeking to revise its OMB control number 1652- 0002, Airport Security, 49 CFR part 1542 to include the recordkeeping requirements under OMB control number 1652-0006, Employment Standards. The information collection is used to determine compliance with 49 CFR part 1542 and to ensure passenger safety and security by verifying airport operator compliance with security procedures. The following information collections and other recordkeeping requirements with which respondent airport operators must comply also fall under this OMB control number: (1) Development of an Airport Security Program (ASP), submission to TSA, and ASP implementation; (2) as applicable, development of ASP amendments, submission to TSA, and implementation; (3) collection of data necessary to complete a criminal history records check (CHRC) for those individuals with unescorted access to a Security Identification Display Area (SIDA); (4) submission to TSA of identifying information about individuals to whom the airport operator has issued identification media, such as name, address, and country of birth, in order for TSA to conduct a Security Threat Assessment (STA); (5) recordkeeping requirements associated with records required for compliance with the regulation, and for compliance with Security Directives (SDs); and (6) watch list matching of individuals subject to TSA's regulatory requirements against government watch lists. This information collection is mandatory for airport operators. As part of their security programs, affected airport operators are required to maintain and update, as necessary, records of compliance with the security program provisions set forth in 49 CFR part 1542. This regulation also requires affected airport operators to make their security programs and associated records available for inspection and copying by TSA to verify compliance with transportation security regulations. Number of Respondents: 438. Estimated Annual Burden Hours: An estimated 1,657,102 hours annually. Dated: December 9, 2015. Christina A. Walsh, TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Office of Information Technology. [FR Doc. 2015-31913 Filed 12-17-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 9110-05-P
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critical assets without visitor escorts or 5. With Regard to Option 4 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
without the background checks listed in SECURITY
RBPS 12 under exceptional • Upon which Federal screening
circumstances (e.g., foreseeable but program(s) does the facility or designee Transportation Security Administration
unpredictable circumstances)? If so, intend to rely?
who? If so, which exceptional • What document(s) or credential(s) Extension of Agency Information
circumstances would warrant access Collection Activity Under OMB Review:
issued by the Federal screening
without visitor escorts or without the Airport Security
program(s) will the facility visually
background checks listed in RBPS 12? verify? AGENCY: Transportation Security
2. With Regard to Option 1 • What procedures will the facility Administration, DHS.
• How will notice be provided to use to allow affected individuals to ACTION: 30-day notice.
affected individuals that information is present document(s) or credential(s)?
being provided to the Department? • How will the facility verify that the SUMMARY: This notice announces that
the Transportation Security
3. With Regard to Option 2 credential or document presented by
Administration (TSA) has forwarded the
affected individuals is not fraudulent?
• How will notice be provided to Information Collection Request (ICR),
affected individuals that information is • What procedures will the facility Office of Management and Budget
being provided to the Department? follow to visually verify that a (OMB) control number 1652–0002,
• What will the facility do if NPPD is credential or document is current and abstracted below to OMB for review and
unable to verify an affected individual’s valid (i.e., not expired)? approval of a revision of the currently
enrollment in another Department TSDB • Will the visual verification include approved collection under the
vetting program? Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). TSA is
• What will be the timeframe for this the following?
combining two previously-approved
follow-on action? Æ Comparing any picture on a ICRs (1652–0002 and 1652–0006,
• What will the facility do if NPPD document or credential to the bearer of Employment Standards) into this single
does verify the credential, but later the credential or document; request to simplify TSA collections,
during a periodic re-verification, is Æ Comparing any physical increase transparency, and reduce
unable verify the credential? characteristics listed on the credential duplication.1 The ICR describes the
• What will be the timeframe for this nature of the information collection and
follow-on action? or document (e.g., height, hair color, eye
color) with the bearer’s physical its expected burden. TSA published a
• Does the facility describe how it
appearance; Federal Register notice, with a 60-day
will comply with RBPS 12(iv) for
comment period soliciting comments, of
affected individuals without credentials Æ Checking for tampering;
capable of being verified under Option the following collection of information
Æ Reviewing both sides of the on September 1, 2015, 80 FR 52778. The
2? credential or document and checking for collection involves implementing
4. With Regard to Option 3 the appropriate stock/credential certain provisions of the Aviation and
• How will the facility identify those material; Transportation Security Act and 49
affected individuals who possess Æ Checking for an expiration date; U.S.C. chapter 449 that relate to
TWICs? and providing for the safety and security of
• How will the facility comply with persons and property on an aircraft
Æ Checking for any insignia, operating in air transportation or
RBPS 12(iv) for affected individuals
without TWICs? watermark, hologram, signature or other intrastate air transportation against an
• How will the facility electronically unique feature. act of criminal violence, aircraft piracy,
verify and validate TWICs of affected • What will the facility do if it is and the introduction of an unauthorized
individuals? unable to visually verify an affected weapon, explosive, or incendiary onto
• Which reader(s) or Physical Access individual’s credential or document, if an aircraft.
Control System (PACS) will the facility the credential or document fails visual DATES: Send your comments by January
be using? Or, if it is not using readers, verification, or if the credential or 19, 2016. A comment to OMB is most
how it will use the CCL or CRL? document appears invalid, expired, or effective if OMB receives it within 30
• Where will the reader(s) or PAC(s)
fraudulent? days of publication.
be located?
• What mode or modes (i.e., which 6. With Regard to Other Options ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
setting on the TWIC Reader) will be invited to submit written comments on
used when verifying and validating the • A facility that chooses to propose the proposed information collection to
TWIC of an affected individual? 27 an option not listed above in its SSP the Office of Information and Regulatory
• Will the TWIC of an affected should provide as much detail as Affairs, OMB. Comments should be
individual be re-verified and re- possible to allow the Department to addressed to Desk Officer, Department
validated with TWIC readers, and, if so, consider the potential option and of Homeland Security/TSA, and sent via
how often? evaluate whether or not it meets the
• What will the facility (or RBPS 12(iv) standard. 1 After the publication of the 60 day notice, TSA
designee(s)) do if an affected decided to include in OMB control number 1652–
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individual’s TWIC cannot be verified or Caitlin Durkovich, 0002, Airport Security, 49 CFR part 1542, the
recordkeeping requirements under OMB Control
if the TWIC reader is not functioning Assistant Secretary, Office of Infrastructure Number 1652–0006 Employment Standards, which
properly? Protection, National Protection and Programs apply to 49 CFR part 1542. This would reduce
Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland duplication and combine information collected
27 See table 4.1 on page 18 of the TSA reader
Security. under the same statute, 49 CFR part 1542. Upon
specification at (http://www.tsa.gov/sites/default/ OMB approval of this revision, TSA intends to
[FR Doc. 2015–31625 Filed 12–17–15; 8:45 am]
files/publications/pdf/twic/twic_reader_card_app_ discontinue OMB Control Number 1652–0006
spec.pdf). BILLING CODE 9110–9P–P Employment Standards.
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electronic mail to oira_submission@ Airport Security Program (ASP), abstracted below to OMB for review and
omb.eop.gov or faxed to (202) 395–6974. submission to TSA, and ASP approval of a revision to the currently
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: implementation; (2) as applicable, approved collection under the
Christina A. Walsh, TSA PRA Officer, development of ASP amendments, Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The
Office of Information Technology (OIT), submission to TSA, and ICR describes the nature of the
TSA–11, Transportation Security implementation; (3) collection of data information collection and its expected
Administration, 601 South 12th Street, necessary to complete a criminal history burden. TSA published a Federal
Arlington, VA 20598–6011; telephone records check (CHRC) for those Register notice, with a 60-day comment
(571) 227–2062; email TSAPRA@ individuals with unescorted access to a period soliciting comments, of the
tsa.dhs.gov. Security Identification Display Area following collection of information on
(SIDA); (4) submission to TSA of February 4, 2015, 80 FR 6097. The
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: identifying information about collection involves information that
Comments Invited individuals to whom the airport certain U.S. aircraft operators and
operator has issued identification foreign air carriers (collectively
In accordance with the Paperwork media, such as name, address, and ‘‘covered aircraft operators’’) submit to
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 country of birth, in order for TSA to Secure Flight for the purposes of
et seq.), an agency may not conduct or conduct a Security Threat Assessment identifying and protecting against
sponsor, and a person is not required to (STA); (5) recordkeeping requirements potential and actual threats to
respond to, a collection of information associated with records required for transportation security and identifying
unless it displays a valid OMB control compliance with the regulation, and for individuals who are a lower risk to
number. The ICR documentation is compliance with Security Directives transportation security and therefore
available at http://www.reginfo.gov. (SDs); and (6) watch list matching of may be eligible for expedited screening.
Therefore, in preparation for OMB individuals subject to TSA’s regulatory TSA is revising this collection to
review and approval of the following requirements against government watch include the addition of risk-based
information collection, TSA is soliciting lists. assessments generated by aircraft
comments to— This information collection is operators using data in their Computer
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed mandatory for airport operators. As part Assisted Passenger Prescreening
information requirement is necessary for of their security programs, affected Systems (CAPPS), Frequent Flyer Code
the proper performance of the functions airport operators are required to Words (FFCWs) generated by aircraft
of the agency, including whether the maintain and update, as necessary, operators, and the collection of lists of
information will have practical utility; records of compliance with the security low-risk individuals provided by non-
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the program provisions set forth in 49 CFR federal entities who are eligible for
agency’s estimate of the burden; part 1542. This regulation also requires expedited screening. The CAPPS
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and affected airport operators to make their assessments and FFCWs are used in
clarity of the information to be security programs and associated risk-based analysis of Secure Flight and
collected; and records available for inspection and other prescreening data that produces a
(4) Minimize the burden of the copying by TSA to verify compliance boarding pass printing result (BPPR) for
collection of information on those who with transportation security regulations. each passenger.
are to respond, including using Number of Respondents: 438. DATES: Send your comments by January
appropriate automated, electronic, Estimated Annual Burden Hours: An 19, 2016. A comment to OMB is most
mechanical, or other technological estimated 1,657,102 hours annually. effective if OMB receives it within 30
collection techniques or other forms of
Dated: December 9, 2015. days of publication.
information technology.
Christina A. Walsh, ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
Information Collection TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Office invited to submit written comments on
Title: Airport Security, 49 CFR part of Information Technology. the proposed information collection to
1542. [FR Doc. 2015–31913 Filed 12–17–15; 8:45 am] the Office of Information and Regulatory
Type of Request: Revision of a BILLING CODE 9110–05–P Affairs, OMB. Comments should be
currently approved collection. addressed to Desk Officer, Department
OMB Control Number: 1652–0002. of Homeland Security/TSA, and sent via
Forms(s): NA. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND electronic mail to oira_submission@
Affected Public: Airport operators SECURITY omb.eop.gov or faxed to (202) 395–6974.
regulated under 49 CFR part 1542. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Transportation Security Administration Christina A. Walsh, TSA PRA Officer,
Abstract: TSA is seeking to revise its
OMB control number 1652–0002, [Docket No. TSA–2007–28572] Office of Information Technology (OIT),
Airport Security, 49 CFR part 1542 to TSA–11, Transportation Security
include the recordkeeping requirements Revision of Agency Information Administration, 601 South 12th Street,
under OMB control number 1652–0006, Collection Activity Under OMB Review: Arlington, VA 20598–6011; telephone
Employment Standards. The Secure Flight Program (571) 227–2062; email TSAPRA@
information collection is used to AGENCY: Transportation Security tsa.dhs.gov.
determine compliance with 49 CFR part Administration, DHS. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
1542 and to ensure passenger safety and ACTION: 30-day notice.
security by verifying airport operator Comments Invited
compliance with security procedures. SUMMARY: This notice announces that In accordance with the Paperwork
The following information collections the Transportation Security Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501
and other recordkeeping requirements Administration (TSA) has forwarded the et seq.), an agency may not conduct or
with which respondent airport operators Information Collection Request (ICR), sponsor, and a person is not required to
must comply also fall under this OMB Office of Management and Budget respond to, a collection of information
control number: (1) Development of an (OMB) control number 1652–0046, unless it displays a valid OMB control
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| Collection | Federal Register | |
| sudoc Class | AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106: | |
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| Section | Notices | |
| Action | 30-day notice. | |
| Dates | Send your comments by January 19, 2016. A comment to OMB is most | |
| Contact | Christina A. Walsh, TSA PRA Officer, Office of Information Technology (OIT), TSA-11, Transportation Security Administration, 601 South 12th Street, Arlington, VA 20598-6011; telephone (571) 227-2062; email [email protected] | |
| FR Citation | 80 FR 79066 |
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