[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 229 (Wednesday, November 28, 2012)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-28783]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary, Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Administration
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of
Authority
Part A, Office of the Secretary, Statement of Organization,
Functions, and Delegations of Authority for the Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS) is being amended at Chapter AJ, Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Administration, which was last amended at 75 FR
369-370, dated January 5, 2010, and most recently at 77 FR 2729, dated
January 19, 2012. Part P, Program Support Center (PSC), Statement of
Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority for the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which was last amended
at 75 FR 369-370, dated January 5, 2010, is not being amended, because
the functions transferred to PSC in this notice are already covered by
the general description of PSC's functions at 75 FR 369-370. This
notice transfers the functions of the Office for Facilities Management
and Policy (OFMP) in Part A, Chapter AJ to the PSC in Part P and
establishes a new major component, within PSC, that combines OFMP's
functions with building operations and logistics/warehouse activities
currently being performed by components within the PSC. The mission of
this new component will be to set building management policy
efficiently and effectively. It will also offer building and logistics
operations on a fee-for-service basis to the Department and other
federal customers. On an incumbent-only basis, the Deputy Assistant
Secretary (DAS) for OFMP will continue to directly report to the
Assistant Secretary for Administration (ASA). This notice also
transfers the budget and financial resources and Department-wide multi-
sector workforce management activities previously performed by the
Office of Business Management and Transformation to the Program Support
Center. Finally, this notice also updates information regarding the
Office for Security and Strategic Information's (OSSI's) organizational
structure, as well as the new roles and responsibilities for the Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Security/Secretary's Senior Intelligence
Official and for OSSI. The technical changes are as follows:
A. Under Chapter AJ, Section AJ.10, Organization, delete ``Office
for Facilities Management and Policy (AJE).''
B. Under Chapter AJ, Section AJ.20, Functions, delete the second
paragraph, which begins with, ``Office for Facilities Management and
Policy (AJE),'' in its entirety.
C. Under Chapter AJ, Section AJ.20, Functions, second to last
paragraph, which begins with, ``Office of Business Management and
Transformation (AJJ),'' delete the second and third sentences, which
start with, ``OBMT manages the budget * * *'' and ``OBMT oversees
Department-wide multi-sector * * *, '' respectively.
D. Under Chapter AJ, Section AJ.20, Functions, delete the last
paragraph, which begins with, ``Office of Security and Strategic
Information (AJS),'' in its entirety and replace with the following:
Office of Security and Strategic Information (AJS)
The Office of the Secretary (OS) established the Deputy Assistant
Secretary (DAS) for Security in the Division of Administration. DAS
Security directly reports to the Assistant Secretary for Administration
on security issues and also serves as the Secretary's Senior
Intelligence Official as a direct report to the Deputy Secretary on
intelligence and counterintelligence issues. DAS Security has been
delegated original classification authority by the Secretary. DAS
Security manages the Office of Security and Strategic Information
(OSSI). OSSI's vision is for HHS personnel to successfully accomplish
missions worldwide in a security-informed manner and with the
actionable intelligence needed, at the right time, for operational and
policy decisions. OSSI's responsibilities include: Integrating
intelligence and security information into HHS policy and operational
decisions; assessing, anticipating, and warning of potential security
threats to the Department and our national security; and, providing
policy guidance on and managing the OS implementation of the
Department's security, intelligence and counterintelligence programs.
OSSI's programs include physical security, critical infrastructure
protection for HHS facilities, personnel suitability and security,
security access management and the continued implementation of Homeland
Security Policy Directive 12, classified national security information
management, secure compartmented information facilities management,
communications security, safeguarding and sharing of classified
information, cyber threat intelligence, and counterintelligence. In
coordination with the Director of National Intelligence, OSSI has been
designated as a Federal Intelligence Coordinating Office and the DAS
Security serves as the HHS Federal Senior Intelligence Coordinator.
OSSI has responsibilities to establish implementing guidance, provide
oversight, and manage the Department's policy for the sharing,
safeguarding, and coordinated exchange of information related to
national or homeland security with other federal departments and
agencies, including law enforcement organizations and the Intelligence
Community, in compliance with HHS policies and applicable laws,
regulations, and Executive Orders.
E. Delegation of Authority. Pending further redelegation,
directives or orders made by the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, or ASA,
all delegations and redelegations of authority made to officials and
employees of affected organizational components will continue in them
or their successors pending further redelegations, provided they are
consistent with this reorganization.
Dated: November 16, 2012.
E.J. Holland, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary for Administration.
[FR Doc. 2012-28783 Filed 11-27-12; 8:45 am]
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