Notice2022-22924
Intent To Request Revision From the Office of Management and Budget of One Current Public Collection of Information: Secure Flight Program
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October 21, 2022
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Homeland Security DepartmentTransportation Security Administration
Abstract
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) invites public comment on one currently approved Information Collection Request (ICR), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number 1652-0046, abstracted below, that we will submit to OMB for a revision in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its expected burden. The information collection involves passenger information that certain U.S. aircraft operators and foreign air carriers (collectively referred to in this document as "covered aircraft operators") submit to Secure Flight for the purposes of identifying and protecting against potential threats to transportation and national security. The information collection also involves lists used by TSA to determine the prescreening status of individuals. TSA is revising the collection to reduce the number of non-governmental entities with access to the federal watch lists.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 203 (Friday, October 21, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64083-64084]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-22924]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Transportation Security Administration
[Docket No. TSA-2007-28572]
Intent To Request Revision From the Office of Management and
Budget of One Current Public Collection of Information: Secure Flight
Program
AGENCY: Transportation Security Administration, DHS.
ACTION: 60-Day notice.
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SUMMARY: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) invites
public comment on one currently approved Information Collection Request
(ICR), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number 1652-0046,
abstracted below, that we will submit to OMB for a revision in
compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The ICR describes
the nature of the information collection and its expected burden. The
information collection involves passenger information that certain U.S.
aircraft operators and foreign air carriers (collectively referred to
in this document as ``covered aircraft operators'') submit to Secure
Flight for the purposes of identifying and protecting against potential
threats to transportation and national security. The information
collection also involves lists used by TSA to determine the
prescreening status of individuals. TSA is revising the collection to
reduce the number of non-governmental entities with access to the
federal watch lists.
DATES: Send your comments by December 20, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be emailed to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#90c4c3d1c0c2d1d0e4e3f1bef4f8e3bef7ffe6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="772324362725363703041659131f0459101801">[email protected]</span></a> or delivered
to the TSA PRA Officer, Information Technology (IT), TSA-11,
Transportation Security Administration, 6595 Springfield Center Drive,
Springfield, VA 20598-6011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christina A. Walsh at the above
address, or by telephone (571) 227-2062.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Comments Invited
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.), an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is
not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it
displays a valid OMB control number. The ICR documentation will be
available at <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">http://www.reginfo.gov</a> upon its submission to OMB.
Therefore, in preparation for OMB review and approval of the following
information collection, TSA is soliciting comments to:
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed information requirement 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;
(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 the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Information Collection Requirement
OMB Control Number 1652-0046; Secure Flight Program, 49 CFR part
1560. Under the Secure Flight Program, the TSA collects information
from covered aircraft operators, which includes U.S. aircraft
operators, foreign air carriers and U.S. airports in order to prescreen
passengers and individuals seeking access to the sterile area of the
airport. Specifically, the information collected is used to facilitate
the process for assessing passengers' risk by matching against lists of
persons who
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pose or are suspected of posing an elevated risk to transportation or
national security, for matching against lists of Known Travelers to
identify passengers who may be eligible for expedited screening, and to
disambiguate individuals with identifying information similar to those
on high- and low-risk lists to ensure that each passenger receives the
appropriate screening and protect against misidentification. The
collection covers the following:
(1) Secure Flight Passenger Data (SFPD) for passengers of covered
flights within, to, from, or over the continental U.S., as well as
flights between two foreign locations when operated by a covered U.S.
aircraft operator.
(2) SFPD for passengers of charter operators and lessors of
aircraft with a maximum takeoff weight of over 12,500 pounds.
(3) Certain identifying information for non-traveling individuals
that airport operators or airport operator points of contact seek to
authorize to enter a sterile area at a U.S. airport (e.g., to patronize
a restaurant, to escort a minor or a passenger with disabilities, or
for another approved purpose).
(4) Registration information critical to deployment of Secure
Flight, such as contact information, data format, or the mechanism the
covered aircraft operators use to transmit SFPD and other data.
(5) Lists of low-risk individuals who are eligible for expedited
screening provided by Federal and non-federal entities. In support of
TSA Pre[check][supreg], TSA implemented expedited screening of known or
low-risk travelers. Federal and non-federal entities may maintain lists
of eligible individuals pursuant to agreements with DHS and TSA, and
provide TSA with those lists of eligible low-risk individuals to be
used as part of Secure Flight processes. Secure Flight identifies
individuals who should receive expedited screening and transmits the
appropriate boarding pass printing result to the aircraft operators.
The collection is being revised due to a change in the population
burden. Specifically, TSA has begun an initiative to decrease the
number of non-governmental entities with access to the federal watch
lists. Pursuant to previous and current TSA regulatory requirements,
these entities have used the lists to support prescreening of aviation
passengers and non-traveling individuals seeking access to the sterile
area of an airport, and to vet certain employees. As a result of the
initiative, the respondent populations of Twelve-Five and Private
Charter operators authorized to participate in the Secure Flight
program will be increased. TSA Secure Flight is working with this
population to help them identify the best method for sending data to
Secure Flight. Those methods include electronic Secure Flight and use
of the DHS router. TSA Secure Flight expects the vast majority of this
population to use electronic Secure Flight or the DHS Router.
TSA estimates an average of 901 respondents (262 current and new
covered aircraft operators + 554 Twelve-five and Private Charter
aircraft operators + 75 airports + 10 non-federal entities) per year
with an estimated average annual reporting burden of 44,840 hours.
Dated: October 18, 2022.
Christina A. Walsh,
TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2022-22924 Filed 10-20-22; 8:45 am]
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