[Federal Register: December 19, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 243)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
[Docket No. DHS-2006-0079]
The Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (CIPAC)
AGENCY: Directorate for National Protection and Programs, DHS.
ACTION: Update of CIPAC council membership.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the
establishment of the Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory
Council (CIPAC) by notice published in the Federal Register on March
24, 2006. That notice identified the purpose of CIPAC as well as its
membership. This notice provides (i) the quarterly CIPAC membership
update, (ii) instructions on how the public can obtain the CIPAC
membership roster and other information on the Council, and (iii)
information on the State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Government
Coordinating Council (SLTTGCC) and their membership within CIPAC.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brett Lambo, Partnership and Outreach
Division, Office of Infrastructure Protection, National Protection and
Programs Directorate, United States Department of Homeland Security,
Washington, DC 20528, telephone (703) 235-3643 or via e-mail at
brett.lambo@dhs.gov.
Responsible DHS Official: Nancy J. Wong, Director Partnership
Programs and Information Sharing Office, Partnership and Outreach
Division,
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Office of Infrastructure Protection, National Protection and Programs
Directorate, United States Department of Homeland Security, Washington,
DC 20528, telephone (703) 235-3667.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CIPAC facilitates interaction between
government officials and representatives of the community of owners and
operators for each of the critical infrastructure/key resource (CI/KR)
sectors identified in the National Infrastructure Protection Plan. The
scope of CIPAC's activities includes planning; coordinating among
government and CI/KR owner/operator security partners; implementing
security program initiatives; conducting operational activities related
to critical infrastructure protection security measures, incident
response, recovery, infrastructure resilience, reconstituting CI/KR
assets and systems for both man-made as well as naturally occurring
events; and sharing threat, vulnerability, risk mitigation, and
infrastructure continuity information and best practices.
CIPAC Sub-Councils: Each critical infrastructure sector maintains a
Sector Coordinating Council (SCC). SCC infrastructure owner and/or
operator membership includes critical infrastructure owners and/or
operators as well as owner and/or operator's representative trade
associations deemed by each SCC as necessary participants to
accommodate the above scope of activities. Each critical infrastructure
sector also maintains a Government Coordinating Council (GCC) whose
membership is formed and recognized by the Department of Homeland
Security in conjunction with the sector's Sector Specific Agency (SSA).
A sector's GCC membership includes the SSA and all relevant Federal,
State, local, Tribal, and/or Territorial government agencies (or their
representative bodies) whose mission interests also involve the scope
of the CIPAC activities identified above for that particular sector.
The SLTTGCC: As defined above; relevant Federal, State, local,
Tribal, and Territorial government entities within each Sector have
always been included as CIPAC members. DHS has recently established the
State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Government Coordinating Council
(SLTTGCC) in order to enhance coordination between CI/KR experts from
the private sector and all levels of government. The SLTTGCC functions
as a forum for State, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) government
leaders to engage the Federal government and CI/KR owners and/or
operators within the National CI/KR sector partnership framework.
SLTTGCC members assume a central role in promoting National
communication and coordination on critical infrastructure protection
policies, strategies, and programs. The SLTTGCC enhances National
efforts to secure, protect, sustain, and support the resilience of the
Nation's CI/KR. DHS policy requires and the SLTTGCC strives to achieve
National geographic diversity as well as broad cross-disciplinary
representation among the SLTTGCC membership. The SLTTGCC includes SLTT
homeland security directors or equivalents who have programmatic
policy, planning and operational responsibilities related to CI/KR
protection. SLTTGCC members are recognized leaders who are accountable
for the development, improvement, and maintenance of SLTT critical
infrastructure protection policies or programs in their day-to-day
governmental mission activities. DHS encourages any such officials who
are committed to serve as national representatives to seek SLTTGCC
membership by submitting a resume or CV accompanied by an email or
letter detailing their interest to SLTTGCC@dhs.gov. Additional
information on the SLTTGCC is available at http://www.dhs.gov/slttgcc.
CIPAC Membership: CIPAC Membership includes (i) CI/KR owner and/or
operator entities; (ii) trade associations representing the interests
of CI/KR owners and/or operators that own and invest in infrastructure
assets or in the systems and processes to secure them, or representing
CI/KR owners and/or operators whom are held responsible by the public
for CI/KR operations and the response and recovery when their CI/KR
assets and systems are disrupted; and (iii) each sector's GCC; and,
based upon DHS' recent establishment of this council, (iv) State,
local, Tribal, and Territorial governmental officials comprising the
DHS SLTTGCC.
CIPAC Membership Roster and Council Information: The current roster
of CIPAC membership is published on the CIPAC Web site (http://www.dhs.gov/cipac
) and is updated as the CIPAC membership changes.
Members of the public may visit the CIPAC Web site at any time to
obtain current CIPAC membership as well as the current and historic
list of CIPAC meetings and agendas.
Dated: December 20, 2007.
Nancy Wong,
Designated Federal Officer for the CIPAC.
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