The DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD)
published a notice in today’s Federal Register (78 FR
69433-69434) announcing the next two public listening sessions being held
jointly with OSHA and EPA concerning the President’s Chemical Safety and
Security Executive Order (EO
13650). It also lists the dates for two webinars that will serve a similar
purpose.
The notice provides addresses for the previously
announced listening sessions in Springfield, IL (today, kinda late huh?) and
Orlando, FL (December 11th). The later sessions are not listed.
The notice lists a new (to me anyway) on-line service for
registering for federal government events; www.GovEvents.com.
The notice states
that:
“If you wish to attend any public
listening session and/or a Webinar and/or make an oral comment/presentation at
both the in-person and Webinar listening sessions, you must register at www.GovEvents.com. “
As of this writing (06:05 CST) today’s meeting is
listed (on page 2) but the December 11th session is not. The
November 25th webinar is
listed, but the December 16th webinar is not listed. The registration
process is relatively painless.
NOTE: This site requires registration, but it has some
peculiar rules. Unless you belong to a listed government agency or contractor
you have to select ‘government employee/military’ to get through the
registration process. They really need a ‘private citizen’ listing if they are
going to require the use of this site for meeting registrations. Once
registered in their system you can sign in via LinkedIn or Facebook accounts.
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1 comment:
Hi Patrick,
Thanks for letting us know about your registration experience. I wanted to share with you the make-up of our members. As the web portal for all government- and military-related events worldwide, the vast majority (about 99%) of our 30,000 member base are government and military personnel, government vendors/contractors, and organizers hosting events in the government and military industry. We rarely run into the situation of a new member not fitting in one of these categories. Having said that, we are always updating our site to ensure that it is as user-friendly as possible, and we will look into changing the wording of our member types to include those that do meet the current options.
In the meantime, your readers should select the "government employee/military" option as this will provide them full access to GovEvents’ directory of worldwide government and military events.
In addition, we have contacted the Dept of Homeland Security to let them know the DHS events you referenced are not currently posted on the GovEvents site.
Thank you again for the feedback and highlighting GovEvents.com as a registration process for DHS events!
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