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Extension of Agency Information Collection Activity Under OMB Review: Airport Security Part 1542
This notice announces that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has forwarded the Information Collection Request (ICR), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control...
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
TSA published a
Federal Register
notice, with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments, of the following collection of information on October 4, 2024, 89 FR 80911. TSA did not receive any comments on the notice.
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
https://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
Title:
Airport Security Part 1542.
Type of Request:
Extension of a currently approved collection.
OMB Control Number:
1652-0002.
Forms(s):
NA.
Affected Public:
Airport operators.
Abstract:
The information collection is used to determine compliance with 49 CFR part 1542 and to ensure passenger safety and security by ensuring compliance with airport operator required security procedures. The following information collections and other recordkeeping requirements with which respondent covered airport operators must comply fall under this OMB control number: (1) development of an Airport Security Program (ASP), submission to TSA for review and approval, and implementation; (2) as applicable, development of airport operator-requested or TSA-required ASP amendments and temporary changed conditions, submission to TSA for review and approval, and implementation; (3) collection of data necessary to complete a criminal history records check for those individuals with unescorted access authority to a Security Identification Display Area; (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; and (5) information collection and recordkeeping requirements associated with airport operator compliance with regulations, employees who have access privileges to secured areas of the airport, and compliance with Security Directives issued pursuant to the regulation.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
435.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours:
2,142,174.[]
Dated: March 14, 2025.
Christina A. Walsh,
TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Information Technology.