82 FR 9597 - Emergency Clearance; Public Information Collection Requirements Submitted to the Office of Management and Budget; Confidentiality Pledge Revision Notice
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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 7, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 9597-9599] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-02460] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Emergency Clearance; Public Information Collection Requirements Submitted to the Office of Management and Budget; Confidentiality Pledge Revision Notice AGENCY: National Science Foundation. ACTION: Emergency Clearance: Submission for OMB Review; Notice of Revision of Confidentiality Pledges under the Confidential Information [[Page 9598]] Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: Under 44 U.S.C. 3506(e), and 44 U.S.C. 3501, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing a revision to the confidentiality pledge it provides to its respondents under CIPSEA, the NSF Act of 1950, as amended, and the Privacy Act of 1974. These revisions are required by the passage and implementation of provisions of the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 (H.R. 2029, Division N, Title II, Subtitle B, Sec. 223), which permit and require the Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide Federal civilian agencies' information technology systems with cybersecurity protection for their Internet traffic. More details on this announcement are presented in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. DATES: This revision becomes effective upon publication of this notice in the Federal Register. In a separate Federal Register notice, NSF is seeking public comment on this confidentiality pledge revision. For Additional Information or Comments: Contact Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1265, Arlington, Virginia 22230; telephone (703) 292-7556; or send email to [email protected]. Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., Eastern Time, Monday through Friday. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Federal statistics provide key information that the Nation uses to measure its performance and make informed choices about budgets, employment, health, investments, taxes, and a host of other significant topics. The overwhelming majority of Federal surveys are conducted on a voluntary basis. Respondents, ranging from businesses to households to institutions, may choose whether to provide the requested information. Many of the most valuable Federal statistics come from surveys that ask for highly sensitive information such as proprietary business data from companies or particularly personal information or practices from individuals. Strong and trusted confidentiality and exclusively statistical use pledges under the CIPSEA and similar statistical confidentiality pledges are effective and necessary in honoring the trust that businesses, individuals, and institutions, by their responses, place in statistical agencies. Under the CIPSEA and similar statistical confidentiality protection statutes, many Federal statistical agencies make statutory pledges that the information respondents provide will be seen only by statistical agency personnel or their sworn agents, and will be used only for statistical purposes. The CIPSEA and similar statutes protect the confidentiality of information that agencies collect solely for statistical purposes and under a pledge of confidentiality. These Acts protect such statistical information from administrative, law enforcement, taxation, regulatory, or any other non-statistical use and immunize the information submitted to statistical agencies from many legal processes. Moreover, statutes like the CIPSEA carry criminal penalties of a Class E felony (fines up to $250,000, or up to five years in prison, or both) for conviction of a knowing and willful unauthorized disclosure of covered information. As part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2016 signed on December 17, 2015, the Congress enacted the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 (H.R. 2029, Division N, Title II, Subtitle B, Sec. 223). This Act, among other provisions, requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide Federal civilian agencies' information technology systems with cybersecurity protection for their Internet traffic. The DHS cybersecurity program's objective is to protect Federal civilian information systems from malicious malware attacks. The Federal statistical system's objective is to ensure that the DHS Secretary performs those essential duties in a manner that honors the Government's statutory promises to the public to protect their confidential data. Given that the DHS is not a Federal statistical agency, both DHS and the Federal statistical system have been successfully engaged in finding a way to balance both objectives and achieve these mutually reinforcing objectives. As required by passage of the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, the Federal statistical community will implement DHS' cybersecurity protection program, called Einstein. The technology currently used to provide this protection against cyber malware electronically searches Internet traffic in and out of Federal civilian agencies in real time for malware signatures. When such a signature is found, the Internet packets that contain the malware signature are shunted aside for further inspection by DHS personnel. Because it is possible that such packets entering or leaving a statistical agency's information technology system may contain confidential statistical data, statistical agencies can no longer promise their respondents that their responses will be seen only by statistical agency personnel or their sworn agents. However, they can promise, in accordance with provisions of the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, that such monitoring can be used only to protect information and information systems from cybersecurity risks, thereby, in effect, providing stronger protection to the security and integrity of the respondents' submissions. Accordingly, DHS and Federal statistical agencies have developed a Memorandum of Agreement for the installation of Einstein cybersecurity protection technology to monitor their Internet traffic. NSF is providing this notice to alert the public in an efficient and coordinated fashion that it is revising its confidentiality pledge. Below is a listing of the current numbers and information collection titles for those NSF programs whose confidentiality pledges will change to reflect the statutory implementation of DHS' Einstein monitoring for cybersecurity protection purposes. Therefore, the National Science Foundation is providing this notice to alert the public to these confidentiality pledge revisions in an efficient and coordinated fashion. Table 1 below contains a listing of NSF's current PRA OMB numbers and information collection titles and their associated revised confidentiality pledges for the Information Collections whose confidentiality pledges will change to reflect the statutory implementations of DHS' Einstein 3A monitoring for cybersecurity protection purposes. For the Information Collections listed in the table below, NSF statistical confidentiality pledges will be modified to include the following sentence, ``Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, your data are protected from cybersecurity risks through screening of the systems that transmit your data.'' [[Page 9599]] Table 1--Current PRA OMB Numbers, Expiration Dates, and Information Collection Titles Included in This Notice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Information OMB Control No. Expiration date collection title ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3145-0101..................... 08/31/2018 Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities. 3145-0019 *................... 05/31/2018 Survey of Earned Doctorates. 3145-0020..................... 08/31/2018 Survey of Doctorate Recipients. 3145-0100 *................... 09/30/2019 Higher Education R&D Survey. 3145-0141 **.................. 05/31/2018 National Survey of College Graduates. 3145-0174 *................... 07/31/2019 Generic Clearance of Survey Improvement Projects . . . 3145-0235..................... 06/30/2017 Early Career Doctorates Survey. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Indicates information collections that are expected to be in the field during the period covered by the 6-month emergency clearance. ** This information collection was also named in a Federal Register Notice from the U.S. Census Bureau (81 FR 94321), since that agency collects data on NSF's behalf. Dated: February 2, 2017. Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation. [FR Doc. 2017-02460 Filed 2-6-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7555-01-P
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of 1930; this notice is published pursuant to Department of Labor-OASAM, Office of the address shown in the ADDRESSES
section 207.62 of the Commission’s rules. the Chief Information Officer, Attn: section within thirty (30) days of
By order of the Commission. Departmental Information Compliance publication of this notice in the Federal
Issued: February 1, 2017. Management Program, Room N1301, Register. In order to help ensure
Lisa R. Barton, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., appropriate consideration, comments
Secretary to the Commission.
Washington, DC 20210; or by email: should mention OMB Control Number
DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov. 1218–0197. The OMB is particularly
[FR Doc. 2017–02437 Filed 2–6–17; 8:45 am]
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: interested in comments that:
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Michel Smyth by telephone at 202–693– • Evaluate whether the proposed
4129, TTY 202–693–8064, (these are not collection of information is necessary
toll-free numbers) or by email at DOL_ for the proper performance of the
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR functions of the agency, including
PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This ICR whether the information will have
Office of the Secretary
seeks to extend PRA authority for the practical utility;
Agency Information Collection Construction Fall Protection Systems • Evaluate the accuracy of the
Activities; Submission for OMB Criteria, Practices, and Training agency’s estimate of the burden of the
Review; Comment Request; Requirements information collection proposed collection of information,
Construction Fall Protection Systems requirements codified in regulations 29 including the validity of the
Criteria, Practices, and Training CFR 1926.502 and -.503 that, methodology and assumptions used;
Requirements respectively, require a covered employer • Enhance the quality, utility, and
to certify safety nets and to develop fall clarity of the information to be
ACTION: Notice. protection plans and to prepare worker collected; and
training certification records. These • Minimize the burden of the
SUMMARY: The Department of Labor collection of information on those who
standards help to ensure that the
(DOL) is submitting the Occupational are to respond, including through the
employer provides the required fall
Safety and Health Administration use of appropriate automated,
protection and training. Occupational
(OSHA) sponsored information electronic, mechanical, or other
Safety and Health Act sections 2(b) and
collection request (ICR) titled, technological collection techniques or
8(c) authorize this information
‘‘Construction Fall Protection Systems other forms of information technology,
collection. See 29 U.S.C. 651(b) and
Criteria, Practices, and Training e.g., permitting electronic submission of
657(c).
Requirements,’’ to the Office of responses.
This information collection is subject
Management and Budget (OMB) for Agency: DOL–OSHA.
to the PRA. A Federal agency generally
review and approval for continued use, Title of Collection: Construction Fall
cannot conduct or sponsor a collection
without change, in accordance with the Protection Systems Criteria, Practices,
of information, and the public is
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA. and Training Requirements.
generally not required to respond to an
Public comments on the ICR are invited. OMB Control Number: 1218–0197.
information collection, unless it is
DATES: The OMB will consider all approved by the OMB under the PRA Affected Public: Private Sector—
written comments that agency receives and displays a currently valid OMB businesses or other for-profits.
on or before March 9, 2017. Control Number. In addition, Total Estimated Number of
ADDRESSES: A copy of this ICR with notwithstanding any other provisions of Respondents: 354,172.
applicable supporting documentation; law, no person shall generally be subject Total Estimated Number of
including a description of the likely to penalty for failing to comply with a Responses: 5,314,317.
respondents, proposed frequency of collection of information that does not Total Estimated Annual Time Burden:
response, and estimated total burden display a valid Control Number. See 5 425,844 hours.
may be obtained free of charge from the CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6. The DOL Total Estimated Annual Other Costs
RegInfo.gov Web site at http:// obtains OMB approval for this Burden: $0.
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ information collection under Control Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D).
PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=201611–1218–007 Number 1218–0197. Dated: February 1, 2017.
(this link will only become active on the OMB authorization for an ICR cannot
Michel Smyth,
day following publication of this notice) be for more than three (3) years without
or by contacting Michel Smyth by Departmental Clearance Officer.
renewal, and the current approval for
telephone at 202–693–4129, TTY 202– this collection is scheduled to expire on [FR Doc. 2017–02440 Filed 2–6–17; 8:45 am]
693–8064, (these are not toll-free February 28, 2017. The DOL seeks to BILLING CODE 4510–26–P
numbers) or by email at DOL_PRA_ extend PRA authorization for this
PUBLIC@dol.gov. information collection for three (3) more
Submit comments about this request years, without any change to existing NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
by mail or courier to the Office of requirements. The DOL notes that
Information and Regulatory Affairs, existing information collection Emergency Clearance; Public
Attn: OMB Desk Officer for DOL–OSHA, requirements submitted to the OMB Information Collection Requirements
Office of Management and Budget, receive a month-to-month extension Submitted to the Office of Management
Room 10235, 725 17th Street NW., while they undergo review. For and Budget; Confidentiality Pledge
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Washington, DC 20503; by Fax: 202– additional substantive information Revision Notice
395–5806 (this is not a toll-free about this ICR, see the related notice
number); or by email: OIRA_ published in the Federal Register on AGENCY: National Science Foundation.
submission@omb.eop.gov. Commenters September 30, 2016 (81 FR 67397). ACTION: Emergency Clearance:
are encouraged, but not required, to Interested parties are encouraged to Submission for OMB Review; Notice of
send a courtesy copy of any comments send comments to the OMB, Office of Revision of Confidentiality Pledges
by mail or courier to the U.S. Information and Regulatory Affairs at under the Confidential Information
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TABLE 1—CURRENT PRA OMB NUMBERS, EXPIRATION DATES, AND INFORMATION COLLECTION TITLES INCLUDED IN THIS
NOTICE
OMB Control No. Expiration date Information collection title
3145–0101 ............................................... 08/31/2018 Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities.
3145–0019 * ............................................. 05/31/2018 Survey of Earned Doctorates.
3145–0020 ............................................... 08/31/2018 Survey of Doctorate Recipients.
3145–0100 * ............................................. 09/30/2019 Higher Education R&D Survey.
3145–0141 ** ........................................... 05/31/2018 National Survey of College Graduates.
3145–0174 * ............................................. 07/31/2019 Generic Clearance of Survey Improvement Projects . . .
3145–0235 ............................................... 06/30/2017 Early Career Doctorates Survey.
* Indicates information collections that are expected to be in the field during the period covered by the 6-month emergency clearance.
** This information collection was also named in a Federal Register Notice from the U.S. Census Bureau (81 FR 94321), since that agency
collects data on NSF’s behalf.
Dated: February 2, 2017. Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm. statutes protect the confidentiality of
Suzanne H. Plimpton, 1265, Arlington, VA 22230, or by email information that agencies collect solely
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science to splimpto@nsf.gov. for statistical purposes and under a
Foundation. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: pledge of confidentiality. These Acts
[FR Doc. 2017–02460 Filed 2–6–17; 8:45 am] Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance protect such statistical information from
BILLING CODE 7555–01–P Officer, National Science Foundation, administrative, law enforcement,
4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1265, taxation, regulatory, or any other non-
Arlington, Virginia 22230; telephone statistical use and immunize the
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (703) 292–7556; or send email to information submitted to statistical
splimpto@nsf.gov. Individuals who use agencies from many legal processes.
Notice and Request for Comments a telecommunications device for the Moreover, statutes like the CIPSEA carry
National Science Foundation.
AGENCY: deaf (TDD) may call the Federal criminal penalties of a Class E felony
Notice and request for
ACTION: Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– (fines up to $250,000, or up to five years
comments. 800–877–8339, which is accessible 24 in prison, or both) for conviction of a
hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a knowing and willful unauthorized
SUMMARY: Under the Paperwork year (including Federal holidays). disclosure of covered information.
Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104– SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of the Consolidated
13 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the National Federal statistics provide key Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2016
Science Foundation (NSF) is inviting information that the Nation uses to signed on December 17, 2015, the
the general public or other Federal measure its performance and make Congress enacted the Federal
agencies to comment on a proposed informed choices about budgets, Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015
addition to its confidentiality pledge, employment, health, investments, taxes, (H.R. 2029, Division N, Title II, Subtitle
presented on surveys conducted by the and a host of other significant topics. B, Sec. 223). This Act, among other
National Center for Science and The overwhelming majority of Federal provisions, requires the Secretary of
Engineering Statistics (NCSES). These surveys are conducted on a voluntary Homeland Security to provide Federal
revisions are required by the passage basis. Respondents, ranging from civilian agencies’ information
and implementation of provisions of the businesses to households to institutions, technology systems with cybersecurity
Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act may choose whether to provide the protection for their Internet traffic. The
of 2015 (H.R. 2029, Division N, Title II, requested information. Many of the DHS cybersecurity program’s objective
Subtitle B, Sec. 223), which permit and most valuable Federal statistics come is to protect Federal civilian information
require the Secretary for the Department from surveys that ask for highly systems from malicious malware
of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide sensitive information such as attacks. The Federal statistical system’s
Federal civilian agencies’ information proprietary business data from objective is to ensure that the DHS
technology systems with cybersecurity companies or particularly personal Secretary performs those essential
protection for their Internet traffic. information or practices from duties in a manner that honors the
Comments: Comments are invited on: individuals. Strong and trusted Government’s statutory promises to the
(a) The proposed confidentiality confidentiality and exclusively public to protect their confidential data.
pledge’s fit for use by NCSES, and (b) statistical use pledges under the CIPSEA Given that the DHS is not a Federal
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and and similar statistical confidentiality statistical agency, both DHS and the
clarity of the pledge. pledges are effective and necessary in Federal statistical system have been
DATES: Written comments on this notice honoring the trust that businesses, successfully engaged in finding a way to
must be received by April 10, 2017 to individuals, and institutions, by their balance both objectives and achieve
be assured consideration. Comments responses, place in statistical agencies. these mutually reinforcing objectives.
received after that date will be Under the CIPSEA and similar As required by passage of the Federal
considered to the extent practicable. statistical confidentiality protection Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of
Send comments to address below. 2015, the Federal statistical community
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statutes, many Federal statistical
ADDRESSES: Written comments agencies make statutory pledges that the will implement DHS’ cybersecurity
regarding the information collection and information respondents provide will be protection program, called Einstein.
requests for copies of the proposed seen only by statistical agency The technology currently used to
information collection request should be personnel or their sworn agents, and provide this protection against cyber
addressed to Suzanne Plimpton, Reports will be used only for statistical malware electronically searches Internet
Clearance Officer, National Science purposes. The CIPSEA and similar traffic in and out of Federal civilian
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