[Federal Register: December 28, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 248)]
[Notices]
[Page 73778-73779]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. DoD-2007-OS-0144]
Proposed Collection; Comment Request
AGENCY: Defense Security Service, DoD.
ACTION: Notice.
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In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, the Defense Security Service (DSS) announces the proposed
revision of a public information collection and seeks public comments
on the provision thereof. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the
proposed collection is necessary for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the
burden hours of the information to be collected; and (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the information
collection on respondents.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by February
26, 2008
ADDRESS: You may submit comments, identified by docket number and
title, by any of the following methods:
Federal Rule Making Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Federal Docket Management System Office, 1160
Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-1160
Instructions: All submissions received must include agency name,
docket number and title for this Federal Register document. The general
policy of comments and other submissions from members of the public is
to make these submissions available for public viewing on the internet
at http://www.regulations.gov as they are received without change,
including any personal identifiers or contract information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on this
proposed information collection or to obtain a copy of the proposal and
associated collection instruments, please write to Defense Security
Service, ATTN: Ms. Valerie Heil, Personnel Security Clearance Office,
1340 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314, or telephone Ms. Heil at
703-325-6050.
Title; Associated Form; and OMB Number: Personnel Security
Investigation Projection for Industry Survey; DSS Form 232; OMB Number
0704-0417.
Needs and Uses: The execution of the DSS Form 232 is an essential
factor in projecting the needs of cleared contractor entities for
personnel security investigations (PSIs). This collection of
information requests the assistance of the Facility Security Officer to
provide projections of the numbers and types of PSIs. The data will be
incorporated into DSS' budget submissions and used to track against
actual PSI submissions. The form will be distributed electronically via
a web-based commercial survey tool.
Affected Public: Business, or other profit and non-profit
organizations under Department of Defense Security Cognizance.
Annual Burden Hours: 15,188.
Number of Respondents: 12,150.
Responses Per Respondent: 1.
Average Burden Per Response: 75 minutes.
Frequency: Annually.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Summary of Information Collection
Executive Order (EO) 12829, ``National Industrial Security Program
(NISP),'' stipulates that the Secretary of Defense shall serve as the
Executive Agent for inspecting and monitoring the contractors,
licensees, and grantees who require or will require access to
classified information; and for determining the eligibility for access
to classified information of contractors, licensees, and grantees and
their
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respective employees. E.O. 12829 also authorizes the Executive Agent to
issue, after consultation with affected agencies, standard forms that
will promote the implementation of the NISP.
The Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence assigned DSS to
exercise authority and responsibility for central operational
management of DoD PSI workload projections, and monitoring of PSI
funding and investigation quality issues for DoD components to include
cleared contractors under the National Industrial Security Program. In
the past, DSS has relied on historical data for agency budget
projections regarding the numbers of PSIs required by cleared
contractor entities; however, historical data did not provide a
particularly accurate or credible estimate of such workload. In this
annual collection of information, DSS asks the Facility Security
Officers of cleared contractor entities to provide projections of the
numbers and types of personnel security investigations required as well
as providing a description of the methodology used for the projections,
and the percentage of the cleared contractor's projections representing
DoD and non-DoD (NISP) agencies PSI requirements for cleared
contractors. The data will be incorporated into DSS' budget submissions
and to track against actual cleared contractor's actual PSI
submissions.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has responsibility to
conduct PSIs and the subsequent periodic reinvestigations (PRs) in
accordance with the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 5, Part 736.
Representative of various industry associations, the National
Industrial Security Program Policy Advisory Committee (NISPPAC), the
Military Services, various elements of the Department of Defense and
other Federal Government Agencies are familiar with the annual survey.
Dated: December 7, 2007.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
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