Yesterday the Biden Administration published the Spring 2021 Unified Agenda. The DHS portion of the Agenda reflects the regulatory aspirations of the new administration.
Current Agenda
The table below shows those items listed in the current agenda for DHS that I would expect to cover here in this blog.
OS |
Final
Rule Stage |
Homeland
Security Acquisition Regulation: Safeguarding of Controlled Unclassified
Sensitive Information (HSAR Case 2015-001) |
|
OS |
Final
Rule Stage |
Homeland
Security Acquisition Regulation: Information Technology Security Awareness
Training (HSAR Case 2015-002) |
|
USCG |
Final
Rule Stage |
Operational
Risk Assessments for Waterfront Facilities Handling Liquefied Natural Gas as
Fuel and Updates to Industry Standards |
|
OS |
Final
Rule Stage |
Department
of Homeland Security Cybersecurity Talent Management System |
|
TSA |
Proposed
Rule Stage |
Vetting
of Certain Surface Transportation Employees |
|
CISA |
Proposed
Rule Stage |
Ammonium
Nitrate Security Program |
There have been some changes from the Fall 2020 Unified Agenda. The two HSAR rulemakings and the Coast Guard rulemaking were moved from the Long Term Agenda to the Current Agenda. Nothing new here, they have been flipping back and forth since they were added in 2017. Two items were moved from the Current Agenda to the Long Term Agenda (see below). And I have added the Talent Management System to the list of items that I am following, so it is not really new to the Current Agenda.
Long Term Agenda
The table below shows the items that I would be paying attention to on the Long Term Agenda.
USCG |
Identifying
Barriers to Autonomous Vessels |
|
TSA |
Protection
of Sensitive Security Information |
|
TSA |
Surface
Transportation Vulnerability Assessments and Security Plans |
|
CISA |
Chemical
Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) |
|
CISA |
Removal
of Certain Explosive Chemicals From the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism
Standards |
The protection of SSI rulemakings and the CFATS explosives rulemakings were both moved to the Long-Term Agenda. The first has a long history of agenda flip-flops. The CFATS move probably reflects a lower administration interest in deregulatory changes.
Expectation Caveat
Any time that we are discussing the Unified Agenda, it
should be remembered that this reflects a completely aspirational outlook of
the agencies involved. It bears little or no relation to the real world outlook
for regulatory progress.
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