Thursday, November 1, 2018

ISCD Published CFATS Update – 11-01-18


Today the DHS Infrastructure Security Compliance Division (ISCD) revised the CFATS Statistics web page to reflect data from October 2018. The numbers show a continued increase in the number of facilities with approved site security plans (80.2%) and a resumption of the slow decline in the number of covered facilities after slight increases in the two previous months.

The first table below outlines the activities completed by the ISCD chemical facility inspectors over the last three months. The total number of reported activities continues to show a general decline since February, but it is hard to do a reasonable statistical analysis of the trend because of a clear definition of the time frame for which the data is reported. Further, trying to assess the rate of CSI utilization from this data is complicated by the fact that the number of CSI involved in any activity varies with the complexity and size of the facility involved.

CFATS Activities
Aug-18
Sep- 18
Oct-18
Authorization Inspections to Date
3822
3854
3875
Authorization Inspections Month
68
35
25
Compliance Inspections to Date
3819
3891
3995
Compliance Inspections Month
78
71
106
Compliance Assistance Visits to Date
4749
4897
5008
Compliance Assistance Visits Month
158
126
121

The second table below shows the status of facilities currently covered by the CFATS program. The recent two-month uptick in the number of covered facilities (the ‘Total’ line in the table) has been an anomalous in the history of the program; generally speaking (with notable exceptions) facilities have a number of economic incentives to minimize their chemical security risk through reducing the number of DHS chemicals of interest (COI) on the facility or reducing the maximum inventory quantity of those COI remaining.

CFATS Facility Status
Aug-18
Sep-18
Oct-18
Tiered
218
211
205
Authorized
562
493
456
Approved
2586
2665
2701
Total
3366
3369
3362

Still missing from the monthly reporting (and at this point this is practically a pro forma comment) is any information on the compliance rate for facility inspections.

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