[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 188 (Friday, September 26, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 55860]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-22609]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
[Docket No. DHS-2008-0102]
National Protection and Programs Directorate; Designation of the
Sector-Specific Agency for the Critical Manufacturing Sector and
Resulting Changes in the National Infrastructure Protection Plan
AGENCY: National Protection and Programs Directorate, Office of
Infrastructure Protection, DHS.
ACTION: Notice of Sector Specific Agency designation for Critical
Manufacturing.
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SUMMARY: This notice informs the public that the Secretary, Department
of Homeland Security (DHS), has designated the DHS Office of
Infrastructure Protection (IP) as the Sector-Specific Agency (SSA) for
the Critical Manufacturing Sector under the National Infrastructure
Protection Plan (NIPP). IP will now move forward with the organization
and coordination processes identified in the NIPP for establishing a
new critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) sector. These
initial steps will include establishing Government and Sector
Coordinating Councils, which will begin the process of full integration
into the CIKR Sector Partnership, implementation of the NIPP Risk
Management Framework and development of the Critical Manufacturing
Sector Specific Plan.
This designation also includes language changes to the NIPP
identifying the new sector, which will take affect immediately and
remain in effect until the NIPP is rewritten and published in 2009.
These changes will include adding the Critical Manufacturing sector and
its SSA to those sections of the NIPP where sectors and their SSAs are
listed, referenced, or described, and amending the last sentence of the
definition of ``Sector'' in the Glossary to read, ``The NIPP addresses
the 17 CIKR sectors enumerated in HSPD-7 and any additional sectors
created by the Secretary of Homeland Security pursuant to HSPD-7.''
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry L. May, Deputy Director, NIPP
Program Office, Partnership and Outreach Division, Office of
Infrastructure Protection, National Protection and Programs
Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528,
703-235-3648 or [email protected].
Dated: September 17, 2008.
R. James Caverly,
Director, Partnership and Outreach Division, Office of Infrastructure
Protection, Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. E8-22609 Filed 9-25-08; 8:45 am]
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