{"id":204494,"date":"2015-06-18T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=204494"},"modified":"2015-06-18T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T18:00:07","slug":"dhs-official-checking-whether-cnmi-chemical-facilities-are-security-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/dhs-official-checking-whether-cnmi-chemical-facilities-are-security-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS official checking whether CNMI chemical facilities are security risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_204495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204495\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DHS-Lockett.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-204495 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DHS-Lockett-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DHS-Lockett\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-204495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lockett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An official from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Office of Infrastructure Protection dealing with Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards visited the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>Rodney Lockett, Region 9 director for the Infrastructure Security Compliance Division, was in Saipan to conduct a meeting with stakeholders in the Commonwealth who are dealing with chemical facilities. Prior to the meeting at Pacific Islands Club Saipan yesterday, Lockett also met with Gov. Eloy S. Inos.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time that a representative dealing with CFATS visited the islands since it was issued in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has taken a while. As you saw in the presentation we had a large number of facilities to address,\u201d Lockett said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I\u2019ve had the opportunity to get over here, I\u2019ve taken that opportunity,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Lockett said sharing the department\u2019s information is key.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe presentation of information to the CNMI is absolutely important because the CNMI is a key part of Region 9 and of the Department of Homeland Security. Sharing the information is key to the population and the community,\u201d Lockett said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lockett, chemical facilities in the CNMI need to look into Appendix A of 6 CFR Part 27 and identify if they have any chemical of interest that are above the screening threshold quantity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they do, then they need to submit a top-screen,\u201d Lockett said.<\/p>\n<p>The top-screen is part if the chemical security assessment tool of the department. It is a questionnaire that facility owners complete to provide DHS with a basic understanding of the facility\u2019s potential level of consequence.<\/p>\n<p>After reviewing a facility\u2019s top screen, DHS will preliminarily determine whether the facility presents a high level of security risk.<\/p>\n<p>Lockett said his main job in the island is to make sure that CNMI\u2019s stakeholders \u201cknow about the regulation, they comply with the regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they have any questions, they can come to me and I can assign other inspectors to follow up and assist them with complying with the regulation,\u201d Lockett said.<\/p>\n<p>Lockett also visited Guam and will be on Hawaii next to meet with other officials there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An official from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Office of Infrastructure Protection dealing with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":204495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5496,26,1085,1699],"class_list":["post-204494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cfats","tag-cnmi","tag-dhs","tag-homeland-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}