Last week the DHS Infrastructure Security Compliance Division
(ISCD) announced on their Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Knowledge Center the publication
of a new
fact sheet for law enforcement personnel and first responders. They also
announced that the registration
for the 2018 DHSChemSecurityTalks – MID was now open.
Fact Sheet
The new Resources for Law Enforcement and First Responders fact
sheet provides a broad overview of the information that facilities are required
to make available under federal programs administered by the EPA, OSHA and DHS.
As would be expected, the section on DHS information
includes a mention of the IP Gateway that I
mentioned earlier last week. A new piece of information is being made
available in this new fact sheet; the information available to State, local and
tribal government agencies (including law enforcement and first responders) on
the IP Gateway includes information
on all facilities that have submitted Top Screens.
Facility name and location are only protected by For
Official Use Only (FOUO) rules while more detailed facility information is
protected by Chemical-terrorism Vulnerability Information (CVI) rules.
According to DOD rules {32 CFR 291.9}
an FOUO marking is not automatically a protection against public disclosure.
Those rules note that {§291.9(a)}:
“If any [Freedom of Information Act] exemption or exemptions apply or applies,
it may nonetheless be released when it is determined that no governmental
interest will be jeopardized by its release.” CVI rules, however, provide
nearly the same level of disclosure protection as federal classified
information rules.
MID Registration
The event registration site provides information about the
meeting that will be held in Chicago on July 19th at the Federal
Building in downtown Chicago. Registration is required, but there is no fee to
attend. As with the WEST
meeting in Oakland next month, there will apparently not be a web cast of
the meeting.
The agenda
for the MID meeting is nearly identical to the WEST meeting agenda.
The one difference is the last presentation in Chicago will address “DHS Soft
Target Security” instead of the “Next Steps: Joint Regulatory & Voluntary
Program Outreach to Facilities” presentation being made in Oakland.
NOTE: The Chemical Sector Regional Events web site has not
yet been updated to reflect that the registration for the MID meeting has been
opened.
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