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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Request for Comments;
Revision of the BJS Confidentiality
Pledge
Bureau of Justice Statistics,
U.S. Department of Justice.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of Justice
Statistics (BJS), a component of the
Office of Justice Programs (OJP) in the
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), is
seeking comments on revisions to the
confidentiality pledge it provides to its
respondents. These revisions are
required by the passage and
implementation of provisions of the
federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
of 2015, which requires the Secretary of
the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) to provide Federal civilian
agencies’ information technology
systems with cybersecurity protection
for their Internet traffic. More details on
this announcement are presented in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section
below.
SUMMARY:
Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted for 60 days until May
19, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Questions about this notice
should be addressed to the Bureau of
Justice Statistics, Office of Justice
Programs, U.S. Department of Justice,
ATTN: Devon Adams, 810 7th Street
NW., Washington, DC 20531 (email:
Devon.Adams@usdoj.gov; telephone:
202–307–0765 (this is not a toll-free
number).
DATES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Allina Lee by telephone at 202–305–
0765 (this is not a toll-free number); by
email at Allina.Lee@usdoj.gov; or by
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mail or courier to the Bureau of Justice
Statistics, Office of Justice Programs,
U.S. Department of Justice, ATTN:
Allina Lee, 810 7th Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20531. Because of
delays in the receipt of regular mail
related to security screening,
respondents are encouraged to use
electronic communications.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Federal statistics provide key
information that the Nation uses to
measure its performance and make
informed choices about budgets,
employment, health, investments, taxes,
and a host of other significant topics.
Most federal surveys are completed on
a voluntary basis. Respondents, ranging
from businesses to households to
institutions, may choose whether or not
to provide the requested information.
Many of the most valuable federal
statistics come from surveys that ask for
highly sensitive information such as
proprietary business data from
companies or particularly personal
information or practices from
individuals. BJS protects all personally
identifiable information collected under
its authority under the confidentiality
provisions of 42 U.S.C. 3789g. Strong
and trusted confidentiality and
exclusively statistical use pledges under
Title 42 U.S.C. 3789g and similar
statutes are effective and necessary in
honoring the trust that businesses,
individuals, and institutions, by their
responses, place in statistical agencies.
Under statistical confidentiality
protection statutes, federal statistical
agencies make statutory pledges that the
information respondents provide will be
seen only by statistical agency
personnel or their agents and will be
used only for statistical purposes. These
statutes protect such statistical
information from administrative, law
enforcement, taxation, regulatory, or any
other non-statistical use and immunize
the information submitted to statistical
agencies from legal process. Moreover,
many of these statutes carry monetary
fines and/or criminal penalties for
conviction of a knowing and willful
unauthorized disclosure of covered
information. Any person violating the
confidentiality provisions of 42 U.S.C.
3789g may be punished by a fine of up
to $10,000, in addition to any other
penalties imposed by law.
As part of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2016
(Pub. L. 114–113) signed on December
17, 2015, the Congress included the
Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
of 2015 (codified in relevant part at 6
U.S.C. 151). This act, among other
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provisions, permits and requires the
Secretary of Homeland Security to
provide federal civilian agencies’
information technology systems with
cybersecurity protection for their
Internet traffic. The technology
currently used to provide this protection
against cyber malware is known as
Einstein 3A. Einstein 3A electronically
searches internet traffic in and out of
federal civilian agencies in real time for
malware signatures.
When such a signature is found, the
internet packets that contain the
malware signature are shunted aside for
further inspection by DHS personnel.
Because it is possible that such packets
entering or leaving a statistical agency’s
information technology system may
contain a small portion of confidential
statistical data, statistical agencies can
no longer promise their respondents
that their responses will be seen only by
statistical agency personnel or their
agents. However, federal statistical
agencies can promise, in accordance
with provisions of the Federal
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of
2015, that such monitoring can be used
only to protect information and
information systems from cybersecurity
risks, thereby, in effect, providing
stronger protection to the integrity of the
respondents’ submissions.
Consequently, with the passage of the
Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
of 2015, the federal statistical
community has an opportunity to
welcome the further protection of its
confidential data offered by DHS’
Einstein 3A cybersecurity protection
program. The DHS cybersecurity
program’s objective is to protect federal
civilian information systems from
malicious malware attacks. The federal
statistical system’s objective is to
endeavor to ensure that the DHS
Secretary performs those essential
duties in a manner that honors the
statistical agencies’ statutory promises
to the public to protect their
confidential data. DHS and the federal
statistical system have been successfully
engaged in finding a way to balance
both objectives and achieve these
mutually reinforcing objectives.
However, pledges of confidentiality
made pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 3789g and
similar statutes assure respondents that
their data will be seen only by statistical
agency personnel or their agents.
Because it is possible that DHS
personnel could see some portion of
those confidential data in the course of
examining the suspicious Internet
packets identified by Einstein 3A
sensors, statistical agencies are revising
their confidentiality pledges to reflect
this process change. Therefore, BJS is
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providing this notice to alert the public
to these confidentiality pledge revisions
in an efficient and coordinated fashion.
II. Method of Collection
The following is the revised statistical
confidentiality pledge for applicable BJS
data collections, with the new line
added to address the new cybersecurity
monitoring activities bolded for
reference only:
‘‘The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
is authorized to conduct this data
collection under 42 U.S.C. 3732. BJS is
dedicated to maintaining the
confidentiality of your personally
identifiable information, and will
protect it to the fullest extent under
federal law. BJS, BJS employees, and
BJS data collection agents will use the
information you provide for statistical
or research purposes only, and will not
disclose your information in identifiable
form without your consent to anyone
outside of the BJS project team. All
personally identifiable data collected
under BJS’s authority are protected
under the confidentiality provisions of
42 U.S.C. 3789g, and any person who
violates these provisions may be
punished by a fine up to $10,000, in
addition to any other penalties imposed
by law. Further, per the
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of
2015 (codified in relevant part at 6
U.S.C. 151), federal information
systems are protected from
malicious activities through
cybersecurity screening of
transmitted data. For more
information on the federal statutes,
regulations, and other authorities that
govern how BJS, BJS employees, and BJS
data collection agents collect, handle,
store, disseminate, and protect your
information, see the BJS Data Protection
Guidelines—(https://www.bjs.gov/
content/pub/pdf/BJS_Data_Protection_
Guidelines.pdf).’’
The following listing shows the
current BJS Paperwork Reduction Act
(PRA) OMB numbers and information
collection titles whose confidentiality
pledges will change to reflect the
statutory implementation of DHS’
Einstein 3A monitoring for
cybersecurity protection purposes.
OMB
control No.
1121–0094 ...
1121–0065 ...
Information collection title
Deaths in Custody Reporting
Program.
National Corrections Reporting Program.
Affected Public: Survey respondents
to applicable BJS information
collections.
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Total Respondents: Unchanged from
current collection.
Frequency: Unchanged from current
collection.
Total Responses: Unchanged from
current collection.
Average Time per Response:
Unchanged from current collection.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
Unchanged from current collection.
Estimated Total Cost: Unchanged
from current collection.
BJS has also added information about
the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act and
Einstein 3A to the BJS Data Protection
Guidelines to provide more details to
interested respondents about the new
cybersecurity monitoring requirements.
The following text has been added to
Section V. Information System Security
and Privacy Requirements:
‘‘The Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
of 2015 (codified in relevant part at 6
U.S.C. 151) required the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) to provide
cybersecurity protection for federal
civilian agency information technology
systems and to conduct cybersecurity
screening of the Internet traffic going in
and out of these systems to look for
viruses, malware, and other
cybersecurity threats. DHS has
implemented this requirement by
instituting procedures such that, if a
potentially malicious malware signature
were found, the Internet packets that
contain the malware signature would be
further inspected, pursuant to any
required legal process, to identify and
mitigate the cybersecurity threat. In
accordance with the Act’s provisions,
DHS conducts these cybersecurity
screening activities solely to protect
federal information and information
systems from cybersecurity risks. To
comply with the Act’s requirements and
to increase the protection of information
from cybersecurity threats, OJP
facilitates, through the DOJ Trusted
Internet Connection and DHS’s
EINSTEIN 3A system, the inspection of
all information transmitted to and from
OJP systems including, but not limited
to, respondent data collected and
maintained by BJS.’’
The Census Bureau collects data on
behalf of BJS for BJS’s National Crime
Victimization Survey (NCVS) and its
supplements. These collections are
protected under Title 13 U.S.C. 9. The
Census Bureau issued a Federal
Register notice (FRN) to revise its
confidentiality pledge language to
address the new cybersecurity screening
requirements (new line bolded for
reference only):
‘‘The U.S. Census Bureau is required
by law to protect your information. The
Census Bureau is not permitted to
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publicly release your responses in a way
that could identify you. Per the
Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement
Act of 2015, your data are protected
from cybersecurity risks through
screening of the systems that
transmit your data.’’
The following listing includes the BJS
information collections that are
administered by the Census Bureau
whose confidentiality pledge will be
revised.
OMB
control No.
Information collection title
1121–0111 ...
1121–0184 ...
NCVS.
School Crime Supplement to
the NCVS.
Identity Theft Supplement to
the NCVS.
Police Public Contact Supplement to the NCVS.
Supplemental Victimization
Survey to the NCVS.
1121–0317 ...
1121–0260 ...
1121–0302 ...
Affected Public: Survey respondents
to applicable BJS information
collections.
Total Respondents: Unchanged from
current collection.
Frequency: Unchanged from current
collection.
Total Responses: Unchanged from
current collection.
Average Time per Response:
Unchanged from current collection.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
Unchanged from current collection.
Estimated Total Cost: Unchanged
from current collection.
The 60-day FRN submitted by the
Census Bureau can be accessed at
https://www.federalregister.gov/
documents/2016/12/23/2016-30959/
agency-information-collection-activitiesrequest-for-comments-revision-of-theconfidentiality-pledge. The Census
Bureau will publish a 30-day FRN to
solicit additional public comment.
Comments on the Census Bureau’s
revised confidentiality pledge should be
submitted directly to the point-ofcontact listed in the notice.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 1121–0358.
Legal Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(e) and
42 U.S.C. 3789g.
Form Number(s): None.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on the efficacy
of BJS’s revised confidentiality pledge
above. Comments submitted in response
to this notice will become a matter of
public record. If additional information
is required contact: Melody Braswell,
Department Clearance Officer, United
States Department of Justice, Justice
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Management Division, Policy and
Planning Staff, Two Constitution
Square, 145 N Street NE., 3E.405A,
Washington, DC 20530.
Dated: March 15, 2017.
Melody Braswell,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S.
Department of Justice.
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[OMB Number 1121-NEW]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Request for Comments;
Revision of the BJS Confidentiality Pledge
AGENCY: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a component of the
Office of Justice Programs (OJP) in the U.S. Department of Justice
(DOJ), is seeking comments on revisions to the confidentiality pledge
it provides to its respondents. These revisions are required by the
passage and implementation of provisions of the federal Cybersecurity
Enhancement Act of 2015, which requires the Secretary of the Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide Federal civilian agencies'
information technology systems with cybersecurity protection for their
Internet traffic. More details on this announcement are presented in
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for 60 days until
May 19, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Questions about this notice should be addressed to the
Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Justice Programs, U.S.
Department of Justice, ATTN: Devon Adams, 810 7th Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20531 (email: Devon.Adams@usdoj.gov; telephone: 202-307-
0765 (this is not a toll-free number).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Allina Lee by telephone at 202-305-
0765 (this is not a toll-free number); by email at
Allina.Lee@usdoj.gov; or by
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mail or courier to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Justice
Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, ATTN: Allina Lee, 810 7th Street
NW., Washington, DC 20531. Because of delays in the receipt of regular
mail related to security screening, respondents are encouraged to use
electronic communications.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Federal statistics provide key information that the Nation uses to
measure its performance and make informed choices about budgets,
employment, health, investments, taxes, and a host of other significant
topics. Most federal surveys are completed on a voluntary basis.
Respondents, ranging from businesses to households to institutions, may
choose whether or not to provide the requested information. Many of the
most valuable federal statistics come from surveys that ask for highly
sensitive information such as proprietary business data from companies
or particularly personal information or practices from individuals. BJS
protects all personally identifiable information collected under its
authority under the confidentiality provisions of 42 U.S.C. 3789g.
Strong and trusted confidentiality and exclusively statistical use
pledges under Title 42 U.S.C. 3789g and similar statutes are effective
and necessary in honoring the trust that businesses, individuals, and
institutions, by their responses, place in statistical agencies.
Under statistical confidentiality protection statutes, federal
statistical agencies make statutory pledges that the information
respondents provide will be seen only by statistical agency personnel
or their agents and will be used only for statistical purposes. These
statutes protect such statistical information from administrative, law
enforcement, taxation, regulatory, or any other non-statistical use and
immunize the information submitted to statistical agencies from legal
process. Moreover, many of these statutes carry monetary fines and/or
criminal penalties for conviction of a knowing and willful unauthorized
disclosure of covered information. Any person violating the
confidentiality provisions of 42 U.S.C. 3789g may be punished by a fine
of up to $10,000, in addition to any other penalties imposed by law.
As part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2016
(Pub. L. 114-113) signed on December 17, 2015, the Congress included
the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 (codified in relevant
part at 6 U.S.C. 151). This act, among other provisions, permits and
requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide federal civilian
agencies' information technology systems with cybersecurity protection
for their Internet traffic. The technology currently used to provide
this protection against cyber malware is known as Einstein 3A. Einstein
3A electronically searches internet traffic in and out of federal
civilian agencies in real time for malware signatures.
When such a signature is found, the internet packets that contain
the malware signature are shunted aside for further inspection by DHS
personnel. Because it is possible that such packets entering or leaving
a statistical agency's information technology system may contain a
small portion of confidential statistical data, statistical agencies
can no longer promise their respondents that their responses will be
seen only by statistical agency personnel or their agents. However,
federal statistical agencies can promise, in accordance with provisions
of the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, that such
monitoring can be used only to protect information and information
systems from cybersecurity risks, thereby, in effect, providing
stronger protection to the integrity of the respondents' submissions.
Consequently, with the passage of the Federal Cybersecurity
Enhancement Act of 2015, the federal statistical community has an
opportunity to welcome the further protection of its confidential data
offered by DHS' Einstein 3A cybersecurity protection program. The DHS
cybersecurity program's objective is to protect federal civilian
information systems from malicious malware attacks. The federal
statistical system's objective is to endeavor to ensure that the DHS
Secretary performs those essential duties in a manner that honors the
statistical agencies' statutory promises to the public to protect their
confidential data. DHS and the federal statistical system have been
successfully engaged in finding a way to balance both objectives and
achieve these mutually reinforcing objectives.
However, pledges of confidentiality made pursuant to 42 U.S.C.
3789g and similar statutes assure respondents that their data will be
seen only by statistical agency personnel or their agents. Because it
is possible that DHS personnel could see some portion of those
confidential data in the course of examining the suspicious Internet
packets identified by Einstein 3A sensors, statistical agencies are
revising their confidentiality pledges to reflect this process change.
Therefore, BJS is providing this notice to alert the public to these
confidentiality pledge revisions in an efficient and coordinated
fashion.
II. Method of Collection
The following is the revised statistical confidentiality pledge for
applicable BJS data collections, with the new line added to address the
new cybersecurity monitoring activities bolded for reference only:
``The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is authorized to conduct
this data collection under 42 U.S.C. 3732. BJS is dedicated to
maintaining the confidentiality of your personally identifiable
information, and will protect it to the fullest extent under federal
law. BJS, BJS employees, and BJS data collection agents will use the
information you provide for statistical or research purposes only, and
will not disclose your information in identifiable form without your
consent to anyone outside of the BJS project team. All personally
identifiable data collected under BJS's authority are protected under
the confidentiality provisions of 42 U.S.C. 3789g, and any person who
violates these provisions may be punished by a fine up to $10,000, in
addition to any other penalties imposed by law. Further, per the
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 (codified in relevant part at 6
U.S.C. 151), federal information systems are protected from malicious
activities through cybersecurity screening of transmitted data. For
more information on the federal statutes, regulations, and other
authorities that govern how BJS, BJS employees, and BJS data collection
agents collect, handle, store, disseminate, and protect your
information, see the BJS Data Protection Guidelines--(https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/BJS_Data_Protection_Guidelines.pdf).''
The following listing shows the current BJS Paperwork Reduction Act
(PRA) OMB numbers and information collection titles whose
confidentiality pledges will change to reflect the statutory
implementation of DHS' Einstein 3A monitoring for cybersecurity
protection purposes.
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OMB control No. Information collection title
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1121-0094........................... Deaths in Custody Reporting
Program.
1121-0065........................... National Corrections Reporting
Program.
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Affected Public: Survey respondents to applicable BJS information
collections.
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Total Respondents: Unchanged from current collection.
Frequency: Unchanged from current collection.
Total Responses: Unchanged from current collection.
Average Time per Response: Unchanged from current collection.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: Unchanged from current collection.
Estimated Total Cost: Unchanged from current collection.
BJS has also added information about the Cybersecurity Enhancement
Act and Einstein 3A to the BJS Data Protection Guidelines to provide
more details to interested respondents about the new cybersecurity
monitoring requirements. The following text has been added to Section
V. Information System Security and Privacy Requirements:
``The Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 (codified in relevant
part at 6 U.S.C. 151) required the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) to provide cybersecurity protection for federal civilian agency
information technology systems and to conduct cybersecurity screening
of the Internet traffic going in and out of these systems to look for
viruses, malware, and other cybersecurity threats. DHS has implemented
this requirement by instituting procedures such that, if a potentially
malicious malware signature were found, the Internet packets that
contain the malware signature would be further inspected, pursuant to
any required legal process, to identify and mitigate the cybersecurity
threat. In accordance with the Act's provisions, DHS conducts these
cybersecurity screening activities solely to protect federal
information and information systems from cybersecurity risks. To comply
with the Act's requirements and to increase the protection of
information from cybersecurity threats, OJP facilitates, through the
DOJ Trusted Internet Connection and DHS's EINSTEIN 3A system, the
inspection of all information transmitted to and from OJP systems
including, but not limited to, respondent data collected and maintained
by BJS.''
The Census Bureau collects data on behalf of BJS for BJS's National
Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and its supplements. These
collections are protected under Title 13 U.S.C. 9. The Census Bureau
issued a Federal Register notice (FRN) to revise its confidentiality
pledge language to address the new cybersecurity screening requirements
(new line bolded for reference only):
``The U.S. Census Bureau is required by law to protect your
information. The Census Bureau is not permitted to publicly release
your responses in a way that could identify you. Per the Federal
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, your data are protected from
cybersecurity risks through screening of the systems that transmit your
data.''
The following listing includes the BJS information collections that
are administered by the Census Bureau whose confidentiality pledge will
be revised.
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OMB control No. Information collection title
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1121-0111........................... NCVS.
1121-0184........................... School Crime Supplement to the
NCVS.
1121-0317........................... Identity Theft Supplement to the
NCVS.
1121-0260........................... Police Public Contact Supplement
to the NCVS.
1121-0302........................... Supplemental Victimization Survey
to the NCVS.
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Affected Public: Survey respondents to applicable BJS information
collections.
Total Respondents: Unchanged from current collection.
Frequency: Unchanged from current collection.
Total Responses: Unchanged from current collection.
Average Time per Response: Unchanged from current collection.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: Unchanged from current collection.
Estimated Total Cost: Unchanged from current collection.
The 60-day FRN submitted by the Census Bureau can be accessed at
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/23/2016-30959/agency-information-collection-activities-request-for-comments-revision-of-the-confidentiality-pledge. The Census Bureau will publish a 30-day FRN to
solicit additional public comment. Comments on the Census Bureau's
revised confidentiality pledge should be submitted directly to the
point-of-contact listed in the notice.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 1121-0358.
Legal Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(e) and 42 U.S.C. 3789g.
Form Number(s): None.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on the efficacy of BJS's revised
confidentiality pledge above. Comments submitted in response to this
notice will become a matter of public record. If additional information
is required contact: Melody Braswell, Department Clearance Officer,
United States Department of Justice, Justice Management Division,
Policy and Planning Staff, Two Constitution Square, 145 N Street NE.,
3E.405A, Washington, DC 20530.
Dated: March 15, 2017.
Melody Braswell,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2017-05422 Filed 3-17-17; 8:45 am]
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