TSA seeks security info from highway and pipeline owners

TSA is seeking permission from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to continue making on-site visits under its Corporate Security Review program, in which two or three TSA employees spend a full day in face-to-face discussions with the owners of highway and pipeline assets to learn about any security programs they may have in place.

TSA estimates it conducts 184 such on-site visits per year, each running between three and eight hours.

?At the conclusion of these site visits, TSA completes the Corporate Review form, which asks questions concerning eleven topics: Threat assessments, vulnerability assessments, security planning, credentialing, secure areas, infrastructure protection, physical security countermeasures, cyber security, training, communications, and exercises,? said a TSA notice published in the Federal Register on March 5.

TSA is seeking comments from the public by May 4 on its request to continue this information-gathering effort. Comments can be mailed to ? and further information is available from ? Ginger LeMay, a Paperwork Reduction Act Officer at TSA, at 571-227-3616.