Yesterday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs announced that it had approved an information collection request from CISA on the “Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS)”. The 60-day ICR Notice was published on March 23rd, 2021, and the 30-day ICR Notice was published (corrected version) on June 29th, 2021.
This is one of four ICR’s covering various portions of the CFATS program. It addresses the following information collection documents:
• Request
for Redetermination,
• Compliance
Assistance, and
• Declaration of Reporting Status
The changes in burden estimate were not caused by any programmatic changes. Instead, they arose from:
• Minor revisions to all five
instruments that reflect the passage of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
Security Act of 2018, 6 U.S.C. §§ 651-74, such as updating the Agency name to
conform with the Agency’s new designation as CISA, as well as provide clearer
descriptions of the scope of each instrument. CISA is not proposing changes to
the scope of any instrument.
• Updated the number of respondents
for all instruments based on historical data collected related to these
instruments between CY2018 and CY2021.
• Updated the number of responses
per respondent for two instruments (i.e., Request for an Extension and
Compliance Assistance) based on historical data collected between CY2018 and
CY2020.
• An increase of the annual
reporting and recordkeeping hour and cost burden due to an increase in the
respondent wage rate from $79.75/hour to $85.82/hour, which is based on updated
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data.
• An increase of the overall total
annual operating cost to the Federal Government for this collection from
$957,562 to $1,001,189 based on the projected costs for Government Full-time
Equivalent (FTE) salaries that is reflected in the Office of Personnel
Management’s (OPM) 2020 General Schedule Locality Pay Table.
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