CFATS 60-day or 30-day ICR Notice – 6-23-21

Today CISA’s Office for Chemical Security published notices on both the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) landing page and the CFATS Knowledge Center about the two information collection request (ICR) revision notices that were published in today’s Federal Register. I wrote about (subscription required) these two ICR notices earlier today. Looking at the web site notices, I realized that in my reporting, I had compounded the mistake made by the folks that publish the Federal Register (or maybe the CISA folks who submitted the ICR notice, do not know for sure); the notice for ICR 1670-0014, was not a 60-day ICR notice, it was actually a 30-day ICR notice.

Actually, the notice has it listed both ways. Under the ‘Action’ heading near the top of the notice, it clearly calls it a ’30-Day notice’. And down in the ‘Summary’ it provides the date of, and a link to, the actual 60-day notice published back in March. But it does provide a comment due date of August 23, 2021; 60-days from today. To further confuse matters it calls for sending comments to the docket on the Federal eRulemaking Portal; 30-day ICR notice comments are normally sent directly to OMB’s dhsdeskofficer@omb.eop.gov.

Now I should have known better, because I did a blog post on the actual 60-day ICR revision notice back in March.

In the end, this probably is not a big deal. There were no comments submitted on the 60-day ICR revision notice, and I do not expect there to be any on this notice. There will probably be a correction published in the Federal register changing the comment due date to a date 30-days from that notice.