This is part of a continuing series of blog posts on the
public comments submitted about the DHS 60-day ICR notice for the CFATS
Personnel Surety Program (PSP). The other post in the series is:
This week there are comments from two industry organizations
representing, hardly a well spring of comments as the fourteen day comment
extension comes to a close. Effectively, there are just two days left in the
comment period.
ISCD PSP Authority
The commentor
representing terminal interests again objects to the ‘prescriptive’ nature
of the PSP program proposed by ISCD and notes that this violates the §550
prohibition against the Secretary specifying any particular security measure as
a prerequisite to site security plan approval. They even went so far as to
include a 2012 letter they sent to the OMB after the previous attempted PSP ICR
was forwarded to OMB for approval.
Alternative to PSP
The commentor
representing the gas industry proposed an alternative proposal for a PSP
program where individuals wishing to enter CFATS facilities submit information
to a secure website for the purpose of being vetted against the Terrorist
Screening Database. Once cleared, they would be given a personal identification
number that they would provide to CFATS facilities to verify that they had been
properly vetted against the TSDB. This is the same procedure that was proposed
the week before by the chemical manufacturer.
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