Late on Friday, June 8, 2007, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published the guidelines that organizations will need to follow to submit the Top Screen information to the DHS Chemical Security Assessment Tool (CSAT). The information submitted through this secure web site will be used by DHS to determine if the chemical facility is a high-risk facility requiring further regulation under 6 CFR part 27, Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS).
The first people that will be required to submit information to the Top Screen module will be those facilities previously identified by DHS as probably being high-risk facilities. These organizations will be contacted by direct letters from DHS or by a notice being published in the Federal Register.
Two PDF documents show up on the DHS Top Screen instruction page, CSAT Top Screen Questions and CSAT Top Screen Users Manual. While both of these documents are rather long (80 pages and 66 pages respectively), it is obvious that DHS has worked hard to make this data collection effort as painless as possible. Facilities that will be required to submit information to the Top Screen Module will certainly want to print out the Top Screen Questions document and use it to record the information that they will be required to submit. This will help them to collect and organize the information in a way that will be easily accessible when they go online.
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