Review - Fall 2022 Unified Agenda – DHS

Yesterday the Biden Administration published their Fall 2022 Unified Agenda (I know, it is no longer 2022 and it is no longer fall, but regulators have their own calendar). The Unified Agenda lays out the major regulatory measures that the Administration is considering taking action on over the next year. The listing of a rulemaking or the estimated action dates associated with a rulemaking are aspirational at best and no guarantee of agency action.

DHS Rulemakings

The DHS portion of the UA lists 87 rulemakings, eight of which will be covered here in this blog if/when any actions are taken on them. The table below shows those eight rulemakings.

OS	Proposed Rule	Homeland Security Acquisition Regulation: Information Technology Security Awareness Training (HSAR Case 2015-002)	1601-AA78
OS	Final Rule	Homeland Security Acquisition Regulation: Safeguarding of Controlled Unclassified Information (HSAR Case 2015-001)	1601-AA76
OS	Final Rule	Civil Monetary Penalty Adjustments For Inflation	1601-AB07
USCG	Proposed Rule	2022 Liquid Chemical Categorization Updates	1625-AC73
USCG	Proposed Rule	Cybersecurity in the Marine Transportation System	1625-AC77
USCG	Proposed Rule	TWIC--Reader Requirements; Second Delay of Effective Date	1625-AC80
TSA	Prerule	Enhancing Surface Cyber Risk Management	1652-AA74
TSA	Proposed Rule	Vetting of Certain Surface Transportation Employees	1652-AA69
CISA	Proposed Rule	Ammonium Nitrate Security Program	1670-AA00
CISA	Proposed Rule	Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS)	1670-AA01

Long Term Agenda

There is a separate section of the Unified Agenda for rulemaking actions that are on the minds of agencies, but for which there is no current intention by those agencies to take action, the Long-Term Actions list. Rulemakings move back and forth between the Long-Term Actions list and the main Unified Agenda listing, sometimes without rhyme or reason. There are currently two rulemakings on the DHS list that would be covered here if the agencies were to act on those rulemakings.

DHS/OS	Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity Talent Management System	1601-AA84
DHS/TSA	Surface Transportation Vulnerability Assessments and Security Plans	1652-AA56

 

For more details about these rulemakings, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/fall-2022-unified-agenda-dhs - subscription required.