ISCD Publishes CFATS Update – 07-06-16

The DHS Infrastructure Security Compliance Division (ISCD) published their latest update on the status of the implementation of the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program today. We continue to see an improvement (at a much reduced rate) in the number of authorized and approved site security plans; there are now just under 400 facilities without approved site security plans.

	May 2016	June 2016	July 2016
Covered Facilities	3,018	2,999	2,991
Authorized SSPs	3,356	3,370	3,390
Approved SSPs	2,525	2,562	2,595
Compliance Inspections	854	958	1,079

There have been some subtle changes in the wording of the ‘Program Statistics’ section of the Update, but the numbers continue to have the same problems that we have been seeing for some time now:

• No tally of why the number of covered facilities continues to fall;

• The number of authorized site security plans is still greater than the number of covered facilities, the number of currently authorized SSPs would be better;

• No information on the outcomes of the compliance inspections conducted;

• And no data about the number enforcement actions.