More EO 13650 Meetings – February 2014

I got another email today from the EO 13650 Working Group and did a check of their web site. Between the two sources I have identified three community outreach activities that will be taking place in the last half of this month; two public listening sessions and a webinar.

Listening Sessions

There will be two more listening sessions this month;

• Baton Rouge, LA (In Person, Webcast); and

• Newark, NJ (In Person, Webcast)

The registration links are via GovEvents.com. Provisions for calling in comments during the webcast of these meetings have been made. Written comments may be submitted via the Federal eRulemaking Portal (www.Regulations.gov; Docket # DHS-2013-0075) NOTE: For some reason neither the email nor the registration sites mention the docket number even though the recommend using the Regulations.gov web site for submitting comments; an odd oversight.

The Newark meeting is the third attempt at holding this meeting (2-5 and 2-13). Previous registrations do not roll over to this meeting. If you signed up for the earlier attempts at holding this meeting, you need to go through the process again.

Webinar

The OSHA EO 13650 web page has information about another TASC program webinar about the EO listening session process. The registration for this webinar (limited slots available, register soonest) is being handled via the EPA.ConnectSolutions.com web site. There is not nearly as much information available at this registration site as found on the GovEvents.com site.

NPPD Publishes Chem EO Listening Sessions Notice – 11-19-13

The DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) published a notice in today’s Federal Register (78 FR 69433-69434) announcing the next two public listening sessions being held jointly with OSHA and EPA concerning the President’s Chemical Safety and Security Executive Order (EO 13650). It also lists the dates for two webinars that will serve a similar purpose.

The notice provides addresses for the previously announced listening sessions in Springfield, IL (today, kinda late huh?) and Orlando, FL (December 11^th). The later sessions are not listed.

The notice lists a new (to me anyway) on-line service for registering for federal government events; www.GovEvents.com. The notice states that:

“If you wish to attend any public listening session and/or a Webinar and/or make an oral comment/presentation at both the in-person and Webinar listening sessions, you must register at www.GovEvents.com. “

As of this writing (06:05 CST) today’s meeting is listed (on page 2) but the December 11^th session is not. The November 25^th webinar is listed, but the December 16^th webinar is not listed. The registration process is relatively painless.

NOTE: This site requires registration, but it has some peculiar rules. Unless you belong to a listed government agency or contractor you have to select ‘government employee/military’ to get through the registration process. They really need a ‘private citizen’ listing if they are going to require the use of this site for meeting registrations. Once registered in their system you can sign in via LinkedIn or Facebook accounts.

DHS Publishes ANSP Meeting Update in FR

This is really just a formal repeat of previously reported news, but today the folks at the DHS Infrastructure Security Compliance Division (ISCD) published a notice in the Federal Register announcing the addition of the St. Petersburg, FL listening session to the series of public meetings about the Ammonium Nitrate Security Program. Since these ‘listening sessions’ are a part of the formal ‘publish and public comment’ process for this proposed regulation, DHS was required to publish this notice in the Federal Register.

As I noted in the earlier blog on this added meeting DHS did not provide all of the standard information about public participation in this new meeting in their web site notices. This posting in the FR certainly does include all of that information, but nothing has changed from the original formal notice.