The Department of Commerce (DOC) foreign access management program is designed to enable the broadest cooperation and collaboration with international partners while ensuring compliance with all applicable United States (U.S.) laws and regulations through the consistent and effective management of access by Foreign Nationals to DOC facilities, resources, and activities that are not available to the public. The DOC must balance this openness with the necessity to protect classified information, data, or technology; Controlled Unclassified Information; or otherwise controlled, proprietary, or not-for-public release data, information, or technology consistent with U.S. laws and regulations. To facilitate compliance, the Foreign National Request Form A is developed for use by DOC bureaus, staff offices, and operating units to mitigate variance in foreign access management program implementation and information collection needed to achieve risk-based determinations of physical and logical access by Foreign National visitors and guests to DOC facilities and information resources. This form has been revised to ensure that it adequately collects all information mandated by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.