Pending DHS Security Rules





Updated 12-01-13 For 2013 Fall Unified Agenda

Proposed Rule Stage

1601-AA56 Petitions for Rulemaking, Amendment, or Repeal

ABSTRACT: The Administrative Procedure Act requires all agencies to allow members of the public to petition for the issuance of new rules or changes to or repeal of existing rules. Pursuant to that requirement, DHS is proposing a petition process for departmental rulemaking actions

PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: None

NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: NPRM 06/00/14

BLOGS: 11-29-13;

1625-AB38  Updates to Maritime Security 

ABSTRACT: The Coast Guard proposes certain additions, changes, and amendments to 33 CFR, subchapter H. Subchapter H is comprised of parts 101 thru 106. Subchapter H implements the major provisions of the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002. This rulemaking is the first major revision to subchapter H. The proposed changes would further enhance the security of our Nation's ports, vessels, facilities, and Outer Continental Shelf facilities and incorporate requirements from legislation implemented since the original publication of these regulations in 2003.

2013 REGULATORY AGENDA: 

PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: None

NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: NPRM 09/0014

BLOGS: 04-27-1012-27-1002-14-1212-22-1212-24-1201-08-1307-04-13; 11-29-13;


1652-AA53 General Aviation Security and Other Aircraft Operator Security  

ABSTRACT: TSA is preparing a supplemental NPRM (SNPRM), which will include a comment period for public comments. TSA is considering the following proposed provisions in the SNPRM: (1) The type of aircraft subject to TSA regulation; (2) compliance oversight; (3) watch list matching of passengers; (4) prohibited items; (5) scope of the background check requirements and the procedures used to implement the requirement; and (6) other issues.

2013 REGULATORY AGENDA: 

PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: NPRM - 73 FR 64790

NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: Supplemental NPRM 08/00/14

BLOGS: 01-28-0904-27-1009-12-1212-27-1002-14-1209-02-1212-22-12;12-24-1201-08-1303-26-1307-04-13; 11-29-13;

1652-AA55 Security Training for Surface Mode Employees 

ABSTRACT: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) intends to propose a new regulation to improve the security of freight railroads, public transportation, passenger railroads, and over-the-road buses in accordance with the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007.

PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: None

NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: NPRM – 08-00-14

BLOGS: 12-22-1212-24-1207-04-13; 11-29-13;


1652-AA56 Freight Railroads--Vulnerability Assessment and Security Plan

ABSTRACT: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will add new regulations to improve the security of freight rail transportation in accordance with the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007.

PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: None

NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: NPRM – 09-00-14

BLOGS: 02-05-0912-09-0904-27-1012-23-1002-14-1202-22-1212-24-12; 07-04-13; 11-29-13;


1652-AA61  Standardized Vetting, Adjudication, and Redress Services


ABSTRACT: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will propose new regulations to revise and standardize the procedures, adjudication criteria, and fees for most of the security threat assessments (STA) of individuals for which TSA is responsible.

PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: None

NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: NPRM – 8-00-14

BLOGS: 12-30-1002-14-1212-22-1212-24-1207-04-13; 11-29-13; 11-29-13;

Final Rule Stage

1601-AA52  Secure Handling of Ammonium Nitrate Program 

ABSTRACT: This rulemaking will implement the December 2007 amendment to the Homeland Security Act entitled "Secure Handling of Ammonium Nitrate." The amendment requires the Department of Homeland Security to "regulate the sale and transfer of ammonium nitrate by an ammonium nitrate facility…to prevent the misappropriation or use of ammonium nitrate in an act of terrorism."

2012 REGULATORY AGENDA: 78 FR 1586 

PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: NPRM Published 08-03-11

NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: Final Rule 03-00-14 

BLOGS: 10-29-0810-30-0812-08-0812-19-0812-23-0803-06-0910-26-09;12-09-0904-27-1012-22-1003-03-1107-08-1108-02-1108-03-1108-04-11;08-07-1108-14-1102-14-12; 11-29-13;


1625-AB21  Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC); Card Reader Requirements


ABSTRACT: The Coast Guard is establishing electronic card reader requirements for maritime facilities and vessels to be used in combination with TSA's Transportation Worker Identification Credential.

PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: NPRM -  78 FR 20558

NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: Final Rule 04-00-14

BLOGS: 3-27-093-30-094-1-094-6-094-9-094-9-094-14-094-15-094-15-0904-23-095-6-0905-29-096-1-09 04-27-1001-13-1102-24-1103-15-11;03-18-1106-20-1209-27-1212-24-1203-13-1303-14-1303-24-1303-27-13;03-31-1304-06-1304-13-1304-29-1305-08-201305-10-1305-12-1305-19-1305-23-1305-25-1306-01-1306-08-1306-17-1306-23-1307-04-13; 11-29-13;


Long Term Action

1625-AB64 Top Screen Information Collection from MTSA-Regulated Facilities Handling Chemicals REMOVED FROM UNIFIED AGENDA LISTING 11-29-13

ABSTRACT: The Coast Guard proposes to require facilities regulated under the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-295) (MTSA) that transport or handle certain chemicals of interest to submit a "Top-Screen" to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). DHS developed Top-Screen under the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2007 (Pub. L. 109-295), section 550) (CFATS). This rulemaking would not subject MTSA-regulated facilities to CFATS requirements.

PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: None

NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: NPRM TBD

BLOGS: 03-30-0901-21-1107-07-1102-14-1212-22-1201-10-1307-04-13; 11-29-13;


1652-AA08  Protection of Sensitive Security Information (SSI)


ABSTRACT: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will issue a rulemaking document responding to comments received on the May 18, 2004, interim final rule (IFR). In the IFR, published jointly with the Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST) in May 2004, TSA revised its sensitive security information (SSI) regulations to expand the 2002 regulatory framework governing information generally related to aviation security to cover information related to security in maritime transportation, consistent with the security framework required by the U.S. Coast Guard’s regulations implementing the Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA).

PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: IFR – 69 FR 28066

NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: Next Action - TBD

BLOGS: 12-30-1002-14-1212-22-1212-24-1207-04-13; 11-29-13;


1652-AA50  Drivers Licensed by Canada or Mexico Transporting Hazardous Materials To and Within the United States


ABSTRACT: This Interim Final Rule (IFR), published by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on August 7, 2006, announced that a commercial motor vehicle driver licensed in Canada or Mexico who holds a Free and Secure Trade (FAST) program card may use that card as an acceptable credential to transport placarded amounts of hazardous materials or any quantity of a material listed as a select agent or toxin in 42 CFR part 73 within the United States.

PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: IFR – 71 FR 44874

NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: Next Action – TBD

BLOGS: 12-30-1002-14-1212-22-1212-24-1207-04-13; 11-29-13;

 
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