ISCD Updates Monthly Update Page – 05-02-18

Yesterday as part of the update of their Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) web site, the DHS Infrastructure Security Compliance Division (ISCD) updated the CFATS Monthly Update page. This page provides the most recent statistics on the activities that ISCD and covered chemical facilities have undertaken to implement the CFATS program. Unlike most of the other pages on the CFATS web site, the only changes made to this page were the current statistics.

ISCD Activities

The table below shows the recent statistics for significant activities undertaken by ISCD in support of the implementation of the CFATS program. Long-time readers will note that I have added a new row reflecting the number of Top Screens that have been processed by ISCD since the inception of the program. I have been watching this number for a couple of months now and ISCD has been updating it regularly since January.

CFATS Activities	Feb-18	Mar-18	Apr-18
Top Screens Processed to Date	87,840	88,258	88,600
Authorization Inspections to Date	3,352	3,496	3,600
Authorization Inspections Month	133	149	110
Compliances Inspections to Date	3,249	3,349	3,413
Compliances Inspections Month	79	90	76
Compliance Assistance Visits to Date	4,007	4,096	4,238
Compliance Assistance Visits Month	172	86	143

ISCD has been consistently reporting about 400 new Top Screens each month. These new submissions would be from both currently covered facilities updating their information as changes were made in the chemicals of interest (COI) inventories, and ‘new’ facilities providing ISCD with the information required to determine if they will be come a new covered facility. The word new was included in single quotes because it could include previously covered facilities that had been dropped from the program because of changes to their risk status.

Facility Status

The table below shows the current status of the facilities covered under the CFATS program.

CFATS Facility Status	Feb-18	Mar-18	Apr-18
Tiered	474	387	363
Authorized	665	681	639
Approved	2,345	2,373	2,397
Total	3,485	3,441	3,399

As expected we see a decline in the number of Tiered and Authorized facilities as facilities newly included in the program make their way through the site security plan approval process. I do not expect these two fields will drop to zero anytime soon as new facilities are added to the program on an ongoing basis. This is due to both the continued ISCD outreach efforts and normal regulatory compliance activities by facilities in the chemical space.

I think that we now have enough data points in the new reporting format to start to graph the changes in facility status over time. The graph below shows change in status.