SAFECOM Surveys Poll Responders for More Same-Old
Published Date: 11/28/2025
Notice
Summary
The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is renewing its approval to collect info through SAFECOM Nationwide Surveys. This helps improve emergency communication systems by gathering feedback from responders and the public. Comments on this info collection are open until December 29, 2025, with no new costs or big changes expected.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Survey Burden on Government Respondents
State, local, tribal, and territorial governments are the respondents for the SAFECOM Nationwide Survey. The survey is conducted annually with 7,215 respondents, about 0.5 hours per respondent, totaling 3,643 burden hours and a Total Annual Burden Cost of $179,570.66; the government’s annual cost is listed as $168,515.35. Public comments on the collection are accepted through December 29, 2025.
Survey Data Supports Emergency Planning
CISA will use findings from the SAFECOM Nationwide Survey to inform emergency communications activities and planning. The notice says survey findings assist with Statewide Communications Interoperability Plan (SCIP) development, Threat and Hazard Identification Risk Analysis (THIRA) development, state-level grant programs and guidance, and funding and resource-sharing strategy development, and will support statutory products such as the National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP), Nationwide Baseline Communications Assessment (NCBA), and Biennial Progress Report (BPR).
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