NIAC Meeting Announced

Today DHS published a notice in the Federal Register (76 FR 81956-81957) announcing a meeting of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council on January 10^th, 2012. At this public meeting the Council will receive a working group report on a recently conducted Public/Private Sector Intelligence Information Sharing Study.

There will be a brief period for public comment after the working group makes its report and recommendations for further work in this area. After that comment period the Council will deliberate on the topic and make decisions on further actions to be taken by this working group.

Written comments on the topic may be submitted through the Federal eRulemaking Portal (www.Regulations.gov; Docket # DHS-2011-0117) and must be submitted by January 3^rd if they are to be considered by the Council in their deliberations.

Individuals wishing to make public comments at the meeting will need to register at the site no later than 15 minutes before the start of the meeting. Comments will be limited to 3 minutes per person and a total of 30 minutes has been allotted for comments. Commenters will be accepted on a first registered basis.