Tenant agencies are to use security assessments from the Federal Protective Service. Image: as-artmedia/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffGSA has finalized rules to clarify the responsibilities of agencies for maintaining physical security standards in federally owned and leased facilities in view of changes in law and policies since the last major revision in 2005.
Rules in the August 24 Federal Register amending the Federal Management Regulation follow issuance of several reports raising concerns about lack of coordination between GSA, the Interagency Security Committee—which sets policies and makes recommendations on agency physical security—and local facility security committees, or FSCs, consisting of representatives of each tenant agency in buildings where there is more than one.
The rules state that:
* Agencies must cooperate and comply with ISC policies and recommendations, except where the Director of National Intelligence determines that compliance would jeopardize intelligence sources and methods, the secretary of Energy determines it would conflict with that department’s responsibilities over nuclear materials, or where there are other laws, regulations and executive orders intended to protect unique assets.
* Tenant agencies are to use security assessments from the Federal Protective Service “to inform deliberations regarding recommended countermeasures and other security related actions. GSA will facilitate the implementation of the countermeasures or other actions after occupant agency or FSC approval, and commitment of each occupant agency to pay its pro rata share of the cost.”
The policies apply to all GSA-controlled facilities, including those owned and leased under GSA authority and those delegated under GSA authority.
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