CSAT FAQ Update 09-25-09

Last week the Department of Homeland Security updated the responses to three questions on their CSAT Frequently Asked Question Page. The questions addressed were: 1373: If a mixture has multiple COIs as flammable release, does the facility need to list the entire weight of the mixture for each COI or does it only need to be listed once. Listing it multiple times would give the appearance that the facility has a lot more COIs than they actually do have. 1532: How may I request an extension of my facility's SVA deadline? 1557: What should I do if I think my facility was incorrectly determined to be high-risk or received an incorrect preliminary risk-based tier determination? Acting Assistant Secretary Two of the questions (1532 and 1557) that were reviewed/updated had the same change made in their answers. It seems that Mr. James L. Snyder is no longer the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection. The two answers require that requests that would have been addressed to him are now to be addressed to Mr. William F. Flynn, Assistant Secretary (Acting) for Infrastructure Protection. The personnel change was apparently made since June 5th of this year when the two questions were last updated. Multiple COI in a Mixture I can’t find a previous entry for question 1373 in my records, so it looks that this is one of those questions that had a pre-formulated response for a question that was not asked until recently. It addresses the situation where a flammable mixture contains two or more flammable release COI. The answer notes that the COI with the highest percentage concentration in the mixture will be the COI that is reported on the Top Screen for the entire contents of the mixture. This will prevent double or triple counting the same flammable mixture on the Top Screen.