Today the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
published a 30-day ICR notice in the Federal Register (79 FR
2679-2680) for their program to vet personnel seeking access to Sensitive
Security Information Information (SSI; 49
CFR Part 1520) during court proceedings. Section 525 of the Department of
Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2007 (Public Law 109-295) required DHS to establish procedures
for the use of SSI during Federal civil court proceedings, including {§525(d)}
the conduct of a threat assessment of court personnel (including lawyers and
expert witnesses) who might need to have access to the SSI information.
Change in Burden
Estimate
TSA has made a rather substantial change to the burden information
in this notice from the
60-day ICR notice published last summer. The earlier notice projected 120
requests for vetting with a burden estimate of 120 hours. This notice projects
127 requests with a burden estimate of 343 hours. The summary of this notice
notes that:
“A correction has been made in this
notice to the number of burden hours per respondent from 1 to 2.7 hours. The
increase in burden hours is based on historical data collected over the past
three years.”
Actually the burden estimate is probably excessive. The currently
approved form (download link) would only take a couple of minutes to
complete unless an applicant had some adverse information that would have to be
explained ‘on a separate sheet of paper’.
Public Comment
TSA is soliciting public comments on this ICR. Comments
should be submitted directly to the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs (oira_submission@omb.eop.gov).
Comments should be submitted by February 14th, 2014.
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