Notice2022-03390

Request for Public Comment: 60-Day Information Collection: Indian Health Service Information Security Ticketing and Incident Reporting

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Published
February 17, 2022

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Health and Human Services DepartmentIndian Health Service

Abstract

In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, which requires 60 days for public comment on proposed information collection projects, the Indian Health Service (IHS) invites the general public to take this opportunity to comment on the information collection Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Control Number 0917-0041, titled, Information Security Ticketing and Incident Reporting. The purpose of this notice is to allow 60 days for public comment. A copy of the draft supporting statement is available at www.regulations.gov (see Docket ID IHS_FRDOC_001).

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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 33 (Thursday, February 17, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9071-9072]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-03390]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Indian Health Service


Request for Public Comment: 60-Day Information Collection: Indian 
Health Service Information Security Ticketing and Incident Reporting

AGENCY: Indian Health Service, HHS.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments. Request for extension of 
approval.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, which 
requires 60 days for public comment on proposed information collection 
projects, the Indian Health Service (IHS) invites the general public to 
take this opportunity to comment on the information collection Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB) Control Number 0917-0041, titled, 
Information Security Ticketing and Incident Reporting. The purpose of 
this notice is to allow 60 days for public comment. A copy of the draft 
supporting statement is available at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> (see Docket ID 
IHS_FRDOC_001).

DATES: Comment Due Date: April 18, 2022. Your comments regarding this 
information collection are best assured of having full effect if 
received within 60 days of the date of this publication.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, requests for more information on the 
collection, or requests to obtain a copy of the data collection 
instrument and instruction to Mr. Benjamin Koshy, by one of the 
following methods:
    <bullet> Mail: Mr. Benjamin T. Koshy, Indian Health Service, 5600 
Fishers Lane, STOP 07E30, Rockville, MD 20857.
    <bullet> Phone: (301) 443-5389.
    <bullet> Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c280a7aca8a3afabacec89adb1aabb82abaab1eca5adb4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c280a7aca8a3afabacec89adb1aabb82abaab1eca5adb4">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information, 
please contact Evonne Bennett, Information Collection Clearance Officer 
at: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2e6b584140404b006c4b40404b5a5a6e47465d00494158"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e1a4978e8f8f84cfa3848f8f849595a1888992cf868e97">[email&#160;protected]</span></a> or 301-443-4750.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:  This previously approved information 
collection project was last published in the Federal Register on 
February 14, 2018 (83 FR 6600), and allowed 30 days for public comment. 
No public comment was received in response to the notice. This notice 
announces our intent to submit this collection, which expires April 30, 
2022, to OMB for approval of an extension, and to solicit comments on 
specific aspects for the proposed information collection.
    Title: 0917-0041, ``Information Security Ticketing and Incident 
Reporting.''
    Form(s) and Form number(s): Incident Reporting Form, Form F07-02b.
    OMB Control Number: 0917-0041.
    Need and Use of Information Collection: This information collection 
activity provides a means for federal employees, Tribal employees, 
contractors, and other non-federal employees to report IHS information 
technology (IT) security and privacy incidents. This information 
collection has three purposes: to notify the CSIRT of an incident, 
provide updates about an open incident, and indicate resolution of an 
existing incident. The information collection furthers the IHS's 
ability to use secure IT, to enhance response time to IT incidents, and 
to maintain the agency's healthcare information security posture. This 
information collection also allow IHS to process privacy incidents and 
breaches within the IHS, in keeping with internal and external 
requirements.
    Members of Affected Public: Federal employees, Tribal employees, 
contractors, and other non-federal employees accessing IHS IT systems.
    Status of the Proposed Information Collection: Extension request.
    Type of Respondents: Individuals.
    The table below provides: Types of data collection instruments, 
estimation to number of respondents, number of responses per 
respondent, annual number of responses, average burden hour per 
response, and total annual burden hours.

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                                     Estimated                                    Average burden
  Data collection instrument(s)      number of     Responses per   Annual number     hour per      Total annual
                                    respondents     respondent     of responses     response *     burden hours
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IHS Federal and Non-Federal                 1700               1            1700           15/60             425
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    Total.......................            1700               1            1700           15/60             425
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* For ease of understanding, the average burden per response is 15 minutes.

    There are no direct costs to respondents to report.
    Requests for Comments: Your written comments and/or suggestions are 
invited on one or more of the following points:
    (a) Whether the information collection activity is necessary to 
carry out an agency function;
    (b) whether the agency processes the information collected in a 
useful and timely fashion;
    (c) the accuracy of the public burden estimate (the estimated 
amount of time needed for individual respondents to provide the 
requested information);
    (d) whether the methodology and assumptions used to determine the 
estimates are logical;
    (e) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information being collected; and
    (f) ways to minimize the public burden through the use of 
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be made 
available to the public by publishing them in the 30-day Federal 
Register notice for this information collection. For this reason, 
please do not include information of a confidential nature, such as 
sensitive personal information or proprietary information. If comments 
are submitted via email, the email address will be automatically 
captured and included as part of the comment that is placed in the 
public docket and made available on the internet. Please note that 
responses to this public comment request containing any routine notice 
about the confidentiality of the communication will be treated as 
public comments that may be made available to the public

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notwithstanding the inclusion of the routine notice.

Elizabeth A. Fowler,
Acting Deputy Director, Indian Health Service.
[FR Doc. 2022-03390 Filed 2-16-22; 8:45 am]
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