[Federal Register: January 7, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 4)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


 
Submission for OMB Review, Comment Request


AGENCY: Department of Energy.


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ACTION: Agency information collection extensions.


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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) is submitting an information 
collection package to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
renewal under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The package requests 
a 3-year extension of its Security information collection (formerly 
known as Safeguards and Security), OMB Control Number 1910-1800. The 
package covers collections of information concerning the management and 
administration of DOE's Government-owned/contractor-operated facilities 
(GOCO's), offsite contractors, businesses and citizens. The information 
is used by Departmental management to exercise management oversight as 
to the implementation of applicable statutory and contractual 
requirements and obligations. The collection of this information is 
critical to ensure that the Government has sufficient information to 
judge the degree to which contractors meet contractual requirements; 
that public funds are being spent in the manner intended; and that 
fraud, waste, and abuse are immediately detected and eliminated. These 
collections provide information concerning the Department's security 
program. Typical information collected in this package pertains to 
material control and accountability, security incident investigations, 
and protection of unclassified and classified documents.


DATES: Comments regarding this information collection package should be 
submitted to the OMB Desk no later than February 6, 2003. If you 
anticipate that you will be submitting comments, but find it difficult 
to do so within the period of time allowed by this notice, you should 
advise the OMB Desk Officer of your intention to do so as soon as 
possible. The Desk Officer may be telephoned at (202) 395-3087. (Also, 
please notify the DOE contact listed in this notice.)


ADDRESSES: Submit comments to DOE Desk Officer, Office Information and 
Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Office of Management and Budget, Docket 
Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan L. Frey, Director, Records 
Management Division, Office of Records and Business Management, Office 
of the Chief Information Officer, IM-11/GTN Bldg, U.S. Department of 
Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585-1290, (301) 
903-3666, or E-mail susan.frey@hq.doe.gov. (Also notify Brenda Scheel, 
Office of Security, SO-1.12/GTN Bldg, Department of Energy, 1000 
Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20585-1290 (301) 903-4098.


SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The package contains: (1) Title: Security; 
(2) Current OMB control Number: 1910-1800; (3) Type of Respondents: DOE 
management and operating contractors, offsite contractors, businesses, 
and citizens; (4) Estimated number of Responses: 5,886; (5) Estimated 
Total Burden Hours: 179,452; (6) Purpose: This information is required 
by the Department to ensure that programmatic and administrative 
management requirements and resources concerning security are managed 
efficiently and effectively and to exercise management oversight of DOE 
contractors; (7) Number of Collections: This package contains 12 
information and/or record-keeping requirements.


    Statutory Authority: Department of Energy Organization Act, 
Public Law 95-91, of August 4, 1977.




    Issued in Washington, DC, on December 30, 2002.
Susan L. Frey,
Director, Records Management Division, Office of Records and Business 
Management, Officer of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 03-261 Filed 1-6-03; 8:45 am]

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