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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Program Analysis and
Evaluation (PA&E) Office, Stakeholder
Engagement Division (SED)
Convenings Evaluation
Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS).
ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for
comments; New collection (request for a
new OMB control number, 1670–NEW).
AGENCY:

The Office of the Chief
Financial Officer (OCFO)/Program
Analysis & Evaluation (PA&E) within
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
Security Agency (CISA) submits the
following information collection request
(ICR) to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and clearance.
CISA previously published this
information collection request (ICR) in
the Federal Register on September 5,
2024 for a 60-day public comment
period. No comments were received by
CISA. The purpose of this notice is to
allow additional 30-days for public
comments.

SUMMARY:

Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted until January 21, 2026.
Submissions received after the deadline
for receiving comments may not be
considered.

DATES:

Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
The Office of Management and Budget
is particularly interested in comments
which:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information 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 of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
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
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use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Yunsoo Park, 202–766–0098,
Yunsoo.Park@cisa.dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Foundations for Evidence-Based
Policymaking Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115–
435), or the Evidence Act, promotes the
use of evidence to inform decisionmaking and requires federal agencies to
undertake activities toward this end.
Specifically, the Evidence Act requires
agencies to develop Learning Agendas
and Annual Evaluation Plans.
CISA’s Learning Agenda questions are
documented in the Department of
Homeland Security FY 2022–2026
Learning Agenda. In addition, its
evaluations are included in the
Department’s Annual Evaluation Plans,
indicating that the Department has
recognized those evaluations as
‘‘significant.’’ The Stakeholder
Engagement Division (SED) Convenings
Evaluation is one such significant
evaluation and was included in the
Department of Homeland Security FY
2023 Annual Evaluation Plan. CISA’s
PA&E Division (and any contractors, as
applicable) is conducting this study.
SED Convenings Evaluation
CISA SED leads CISA’s national and
international voluntary partnerships
and engagements with critical
infrastructure stakeholders while
serving as the agency’s hub for the
shared stakeholder information that
unifies CISA’s approach to whole-ofnation operational collaboration and
information sharing. CISA’s voluntary
partnership model relies on constant
feedback and collaboration with critical
infrastructure partners. One mechanism
to seek this input is through the various
convening activities, including
Councils, Boards, and Committees, that
CISA manages through SED. These
convening mechanisms provide
structure and an iterative process for
bringing government, industry, and
academic partners together to drive
whole-of-nation operational
collaboration. Other products and
services offered to partners include
analysis, reports, guidance, trainings,
and scenario-based drills developed to
help the entire community do their part
to raise the security baseline of critical
infrastructure’s assets, systems, and
networks.
This SED Convenings Evaluation will
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convening activities, products, and
services (1) provide timely, accurate,
and useful information about security
and risk resilience, including
opportunities for meaningful
information exchange between CISA
and sector stakeholders; and (2) are
accessed and used by stakeholders to
enhance their abilities to respond to
critical threats and improve strategic
decision-making and risk reduction.
This study also aims to increase
understanding of the best practices for
getting stakeholders engaged and
building trusted relationships.
This is a new information collection.
Information will be collected by CISA
PA&E (and any contractors, as
applicable). The potential respondent
universe for this evaluation includes
individual representatives
(approximately 1,000 cyber and
physical security, emergency, and
business continuity managers) of
approximately 300 member
organizations from three critical
infrastructure sectors [Critical
Manufacturing, Commercial Facilities,
and Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and
Waste (herein referred to as ‘‘Nuclear’’)].
Those who have served as a
representative for less than 3 months
will be excluded.
The burden for respondents will be
minimized by restricting the survey and
interview length, by conducting
interviews at times convenient for
respondents, and by not requiring
record-keeping or written responses on
the part of the respondents. Some
member organizations may be small
businesses. The evaluation team will
only request information required for
the purposes of the evaluation.
Surveys. The survey will be created
and sent using Qualtrics, a professionalgrade survey software, in order to
minimize burden. Using the email
addresses of the representatives
provided by the SED sector chiefs, the
study team will send a link that
participants can use to access and
complete the survey using a tablet,
smartphone, or laptop. Electronic
submission will ensure the maximum
response rate while also permitting
respondents to complete the survey at a
time of their own choosing.
The survey will ask questions about
the representatives’ member
organization (size and type); their
satisfaction with CISA’s convening
activities, products, and services; the
types of organizational changes made as
a result of CISA’s convening activities,
products, and services; representatives’
suggestions for improvement of CISA’s
convening activities, products, and
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relationships and engagements with
CISA. The survey is designed so that
each sector has a customized link with
specific questions for that sector to
account for some minor differences in
the convenings, products, and services
that each sector provides. This will help
ensure that the members of each sector
are asked questions that are most
relevant to them.
Interviews. The study team will also
conduct a series of virtual interviews
with up to 75 participants who
complete the online survey and agree to
participate in the interview. The study
team plans to conduct the in-depth
interviews by telephone or via a webbased conference call platform, such as
Microsoft Teams. This format should be
less burdensome to study participants
than in-person interviews since they do
not have to host study team members.
The interviews will ask more in-depth
information about representatives’
reasons for satisfaction or dissatisfaction
with CISA’s convening activities,
products, and services; types of
organizational changes made as a result
of CISA’s convening activities, products,
and services; and the quality of
relationships with CISA.
Without collecting this information,
CISA will not meet the requirements of
the Evidence Act to conduct program
evaluations—particularly, this SED
Convenings Evaluation, which was
included in the Department of
Homeland Security FY 2023 Annual
Evaluation Plan as a ‘‘significant’’
evaluation. In addition, without
collecting this information, SED, other
CISA stakeholder engagement programs,
and CISA-at-large will not be able to
understand whether and how CISA’s
convening activities, products, and
services provide value and utility for
stakeholders to enhance their decisionmaking and risk reduction. Thus, CISA
will not have the information needed to
learn how to improve the planning,
execution, and delivery of the
convenings, products, and services so
that they are more meaningful, relevant,
timely, and actionable for stakeholders.
Without collecting this information,
CISA will also not be able to assess how
to best engage and build trusted
relationships with stakeholders, which
is needed to identify areas for
improvement in how CISA collaborates
and interacts with stakeholders to
support information exchange within
and across sectors.
Analysis
Agency: Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),
Department of Homeland Security
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Title: Program Analysis and
Evaluation (PA&E) Office, Stakeholder
Engagement Division (SED) Convenings
Evaluation.
OMB Number: 1670–NEW.
Frequency: Once.
Affected Public: General and
operations managers of public and
private sectors (e.g., cyber and physical
security, emergency, and business
continuity managers).
Number of Respondents: 1,000.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.17
hrs for 925 respondents (survey only);
1.17 hrs. for 75 respondents (survey and
interview).
Total Burden Hours: 242.
Total Annual Burden Cost:
$21,858.07.
Total Government Burden Cost:
$327,510.00.
Robert J. Costello,
Chief Information Officer, Department of
Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey
[Docket No. USGS–2025–0015; OMB Control
Number 1028–0085/Reinstatement;
GX21EB00A181100]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; National Land Remote
Sensing Education, Outreach and
Research Activity
U.S. Geological Survey,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Information
Collection; request for comment.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
1995, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS,
we) proposes to reinstate an information
collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before January
21, 2026.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by one of the following methods:
D Internet: https://
www.regulations.gov. Search for and
submit comments on Docket No. USGS–
2025–0015.
D U.S. Mail: USGS, Information
Collections Clearance Officer, 12201
Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 159, Reston,
VA 20192.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Curtis Watts by email at cwatts@
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usgs.gov, or by telephone at 703–648–
7819. Individuals in the United States
who are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing,
or have a speech disability may dial 711
(TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access
telecommunications relay services.
Individuals outside the United States
should use the relay services offered
within their country to make
international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. You may
also view the information collection
request (ICR) at http://www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the PRA of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR
1320.8(d)(1), we provide the general
public and other Federal agencies with
an opportunity to comment on new,
proposed, revised, and continuing
collections of information. This helps us
assess the impact of our information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. It also
helps the public understand our
information collection requirements and
provide the requested data in the
desired format.
A Federal Register notice with a 60day public comment period soliciting
comments on this collection of
information was published on August
12, 2025 (90 FR 38796). No comments
were received.
As part of our continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent
burdens, we are again soliciting
comments from the public and other
Federal agencies on the proposed ICR
that is described below. We are
especially interested in public comment
addressing the following:
(1) Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether or not the
information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) How the agency might minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to
respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of response.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. Before including your
address, phone number, email address,

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