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• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov.
• Email: info@us-cert.gov Include the
docket number ‘‘DHS–2017–0032’’ in
the subject line of the message.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the words ‘‘Department of
Homeland Security’’ and the docket
number for this action. Comments
received will be posted without
alteration at http://www.regulations.gov,
including any personal information
provided.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: US–CERT
is responsible for performing,
coordinating, and supporting response
to information security incidents, which
may originate outside the Federal
community and affect users within it, or
originate within the Federal community
and affect users outside of it. Often,
therefore, the effective handling of
security incidents relies on information
sharing among individual users,
industry, and the Federal Government,
which may be facilitated by and through
US–CERT.
US–CERT fulfills the role of the
Federal information security incident
center for the United States Federal
Government as defined in the Federal
Information Security Modernization Act
of 2014. Each Federal agency is required
to notify and consult with US–CERT
regarding information security incidents
involving the information and
information systems (managed by a
Federal agency, contractor, or other
source) that support the operations and
assets of the agency. Additional entities
report incident information to US–CERT
voluntarily.
Per the Federal Information Security
Modernization Act of 2014, as codified
in subchapter II of chapter 35 of title 44
of the United States Code, US–CERT
must inform operators of agency
information systems about current and
potential information security threats
and vulnerabilities. Per the Homeland
Security Act, as amended, the NCCIC, of
which US–CERT and ICS–CERT are a
part, is required to be the Federal
civilian interface for sharing
cybersecurity risks, incidents, analysis,
and warnings for federal and nonFederal entities.
OMB is particularly interested in
comments that:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the information
will have practical utility;
2. Evaluate the accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions
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3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; and
4. Minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to respond,
including through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or other
forms of information technology, e.g.,
permitting electronic submissions of
responses.

Analysis
Agency: Department of Homeland
Security, National Protection and
Programs Directorate, Office of
Cybersecurity and Communications,
National Cybersecurity and
Communications Integration Center,
United States Computer Emergency
Readiness Team.
Title: Clearance for the Collection of
Routine Feedback through USCERT.gov.
OMB Number: 1670—NEW.
Frequency: Ongoing.
Affected Public: Voluntary
respondents.
Number of Respondents: 126,325
respondents (estimate).
Estimated Time per Respondent: 3
minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 6,140 annual
burden hours.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Recordkeeping Burden: $0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintaining): $0.
David Epperson,
Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
[Docket No. DHS–2017–0034]

Information Collection Request: The
Department of Homeland Security,
Stakeholder Engagement and Cyber
Infrastructure Resilience Division
(SECIR)
National Protection and
Programs Directorate, DHS.
ACTION: 60-day notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), National Protection and
Programs Directorate (NPPD), Office of
Cybersecurity and Communications
(CS&C), Stakeholder Engagement &
Cyber Infrastructure Resilience Division
(SECIR), will submit the following
Information Collection Request to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and clearance in

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accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted until September 18,
2017. This process is conducted in
accordance with 5 CFR 1320.1.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
questions about this Information
Collection Request should be forwarded
to DHS/NPPD/CS&C/SECIR, 4200
Wilson Blvd., Mail Stop 0412,
Arlington,VA 22203–0412. Emailed
requests should go to nppd-prac@
HQ.DHS.GOV. Written comments
should reach the contact person listed
no later than September 18, 2017.
Comments must be identified by ‘‘DHS–
2017–0034’’and may be submitted by
one of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting written
comments.
• Email: nppd-prac@HQ.DHS.GOV.
Please include the docket number DHS–
2017–0034 in the subject line of the
message.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the words ‘‘Department of
Homeland Security’’ and the docket
number for this action. Comments
received will be posted without
alteration at http://www.regulations.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
227 of the Homeland Security Act
authorizes the National Cybersecurity
and Communications Integration Center
(NCCIC) within NPPD as a ‘‘Federal
civilian interface for the multidirectional and cross-sector sharing of
information related to . . .
cybersecurity risks.’’ 6 U.S.C. 148(c)(1).
This authority applies to Federal and
non-Federal entities, including the
private sector, small and medium
businesses, sectors of critical
infrastructure, and information sharing
organizations. This provision includes
the authority to receive, analyze and
disseminate information about
cybersecurity risks and incidents and to
provide guidance, assessments, incident
response support, and other technical
assistance upon request and codifies
NPPD’s coordinating role among federal
and non-federal entities. 6 U.S.C. 148.
As part of its information sharing
responsibilities with non-Federal
entities, the National Defense
Authorization Act For Fiscal Year 2017
amended the Homeland Security Act to
authorize the Department to specifically
focus on small businesses. See Public
Law 114–328 (2017). Specifically, the
Act authorizes NPPD to ‘‘leverage small
business development centers to
provide assistance to small business
concerns by disseminating information

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on cyber threat indicators, defense
measures, cybersecurity risks, incidents,
analyses, and warnings to help small
business concerns in developing or
enhancing cybersecurity infrastructure,
awareness of cyber threat indicators,
and cyber training programs for
employees.’’ 6 U.S.C. 148(l); see also 15
U.S.C. 648(g) (similarly authorizing
DHS, ‘‘and any other Federal
department or agency in coordination
with the Department of Homeland
Security’’ to ‘‘leverage small business
concerns by disseminating information
relating to cybersecurity risks and other
homeland security matters to help small
business concerns in developing or
enhancing cybersecurity infrastructure,
awareness of cyber threat indicators,
and cyber training programs for
employees’’).
Consistent with these authorities, E.O.
13636 directs the Department to
increase its cybersecurity information
sharing efforts with the private sector
and consult on and promote the
National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity
Framework. To facilitate the
Department’s promotion of the NIST
Cybersecurity Framework, the E.O.
directs the Secretary to establish a
voluntary program to support the
adoption of the Framework in
coordination with Sector Specific
Agencies, which in turn ‘‘shall
coordinate with Sector Coordinating
Councils to review the Cybersecurity
Framework and, if necessary, develop
implementation guidance or
supplemental materials to address
sector-specific risks and operating
environments.’’ E.O. No. 13636, 78 FR
11739 (2013).
Accordingly, the Information
Technology (IT) Sector, represented by
industry via the IT Sector Coordinating
Council (SCC) and by Government via
the IT Government Coordinating
Council (GCC), established the IT Sector
Small and Midsized Business (SMB)
Cybersecurity Best Practices Working
Group (‘‘Working Group’’) to develop
best practices for implementing the
NIST Cybersecurity Framework in the
SMB community. The Working Group,
which consists of industry and
government representatives, developed
the SMB Cybersecurity Survey to
determine Return on Investment (ROI)
metrics for NIST Cybersecurity
Framework adoption among SMB
stakeholders. This process will assess
the effectiveness of the NIST
Cybersecurity Framework. This process
will also establish a baseline for ROI
metrics, which have not previously
existed in the SMB community. The IT
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headquartered in DHS CS&C, is
supporting the Working Group’s survey
development.
DHS is not administering, controlling
or soliciting the collection of the
information via the survey. The IT SCC
will administer the survey and
anonymize the data, which will then be
sent to DHS for analysis. DHS is not
administering or soliciting the
collection of information via the survey.
The analysis will determine ROI
information for NIST Cybersecurity
Framework adoption in the SMB
community. The results of this analysis
will be used to provide the SMB
community with best practices on how
to use the Cybersecurity Framework for
business protection and risk
management.
The questionnaire will be distributed
to SMBs and is a two-part survey.
Questions 1–11 of the survey are for an
organization’s leadership, as these
questions pertain to high level
information about the company (core
function, number of employees, etc.).
The remaining questions are intended
for the Chief Information Services
Officer (CISO) and/or appropriate IT
staff, as these questions are technical
and ask about the IT security of the
company.
The private sector will collect Point of
Contact (POC) information through the
survey instrument, but will not include
that information on the anonymized
dataset they submit to DHS. DHS will
use anonymized data to conduct their
analysis. The IT SCC will administer the
survey.
The intent is for DHS to only receive
derivative products—anonymized
micro-dataset to come up with the
summary statistics, or aggregated
summary results. The IT SCC will
conduct the actual data collection. DHS
will aid with the statistical analysis
where needed, but would not be
working with the individual responses
to the questionnaire. Even if the POC
question does get included in the
questionnaire, DHS would not be
collecting or retaining PII.
Once the survey is administered by
the private sector partners of the IT SCC
to the member organizations, the
collected raw inputs will be compiled
and the resulting dataset will be
processed by the private sector partners
to (a) assign unique random identifiers
to each of the responses, (b) scrub any
PII from the microdata, (c) QA against
the raw input. These processing steps
(a–c) will be implemented PRIOR to
handing the dataset to DHS for
statistical analysis. This survey
represents a new collection.

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OMB is particularly interested in
comments that:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the information
will have practical utility;
2. Evaluate the accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions
used;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; and
4. Minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to respond,
including through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or other
forms of information technology, e.g.,
permitting electronic submissions of
responses.

Analysis
Agency: Department of Homeland
Security, National Protection and
Programs Directorate, Office of
Cybersecurity and Communications,
Stakeholder Engagement & Cyber
Infrastructure Resilience Division.
Title: The Department of Homeland
Security, Stakeholder Engagement &
Cyber Infrastructure Resilience Division.
OMB Number: 1670—NEW.
Frequency: Once every five years.
Affected Public: Private sector, Small
& Midsize Business (SMB).
Number of Respondents: 1,000
annually.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 30
minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 500 annual
burden hours.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Recordkeeping Burden: $0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintaining): $0.
Dated: July 12, 2017.
David Epperson,
Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Transportation Security Administration
Intent To Request Approval From OMB
of One New Public Collection of
Information: Military Severely Injured
Joint Support Operations Center
(MSIJSOC) and Travel Protocol Office
(TPO) Programs
Transportation Security
Administration, DHS.
ACTION: 60-Day notice.
AGENCY:

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