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(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: BJS expects to cognitively test
the survey with about 10 agencies with
an estimated burden of 60 minutes and
to contact approximately 107 agencies
by telephone to ask whether they
provide services to tribal lands. We
estimate the telephoned pilot test
respondent burden to be about 10
minutes per respondent. After the pilot
test, BJS will determine the total
number of agencies that will be
contacted in the full survey effort. For
the full survey, BJS estimates a
maximum of 1,300 agencies with a
respondent burden of about 30 minutes
per agency, including follow-up time.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: The total respondent burden
for the cognitive test is 10 burden hours.
The total respondent burden for the
telephone pilot test is approximately 18
burden hours. The maximum expected
respondent burden for the full survey
effort is approximately 585 burden
hours. Total burden for this effort is
approximately 613 burden hours.
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: October 10, 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; Proposed eCollection
eComments Requested; New
Collection: State and Local Justice
Agencies Serving Tribal Lands
(SLJASTL): Survey of Prosecutor
Offices in PL–280 States Serving Tribal
Lands (SSLPOSTL)
Bureau of Justice Statistics,
Department of Justice.
ACTION: 60-Day notice.
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AGENCY:
The Department of Justice
(DOJ), Office of Justice Programs,
Bureau of Justice Statistics, will be
submitting the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
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review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted for 60 days until
December 12, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you have additional comments
especially on the estimated public
burden or associated response time,
suggestions, or need a copy of the
proposed information collection
instrument with instructions or
additional information, please contact
Suzanne Strong, Statistician,
Prosecution and Judicial Statistics,
Bureau of Justice Statistics, 810 Seventh
Street NW., Washington, DC 20531
(email: Suzanne.M.Strong@usdoj.gov;
telephone: 202–616–3666).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Written
comments and suggestions from the
public and affected agencies concerning
the proposed collection of information
are encouraged. Your comments should
address one or more of the following
four points:
—Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the Bureau of Justice
Statistics, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
—Evaluate the accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
—Evaluate whether and if so how the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected can be
enhanced; and
—Minimize the burden of the collection
of information on those who are to
respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms
of information technology, e.g.,
permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Overview of This Information
Collection
(1) Type of Information Collection:
New collection.
(2) The Title of the Form/Collection:
State and Local Justice Agencies Serving
Tribal Lands (SLJASTL): Survey of State
and Local Prosecutor Offices in PL–280
States Serving Tribal Lands
(SSLPOSTL).
(3) The agency form number, if any,
and the applicable component of the
Department sponsoring the collection:
No agency form number at this time.
The applicable component within the
Department of Justice is the Bureau of
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Justice Statistics, in the Office of Justice
Programs.
(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Respondents will be state and
local prosecutor offices located in the
sixteen Public Law 280 (PL–280) states.
The respondent universe will be
finalized after an initial telephone
contact to determine which offices are
most likely to provide services to tribal
lands. Abstract: Among other
responsibilities, the Bureau of Justice
Statistics is charged with collecting data
regarding crimes occurring on tribal
lands. The SLJASTL is the first effort by
BJS to collect data from state and local
justice agencies responsible for policing
and prosecuting crimes that occur on
tribal lands in PL–280 states. State and
local prosecutors have jurisdiction over
specific crimes and offenders when the
crime occurs on tribal lands. There are
no existing data collections that
describe state and local prosecutors’ role
in prosecuting crime occurring on tribal
lands.
This collection involves a two-stage
process. In the first phase, BJS will
conduct a pilot test to determine
whether prosecutor offices located
closer to tribal lands are responsible for
providing services, or if all prosecutor
offices within the state share equal
responsibility for prosecuting crime
occurring on tribal lands. There are 267
counties that include tribal lands within
their jurisdiction. BJS will not need to
sample these offices as there is one
prosecutor office per county and the
sample size would likely be a full
census of all 267 offices. There are 515
counties with no tribal lands in their
jurisdiction. BJS will sample 50
prosecutor offices from the 515 counties
located in the counties with no tribal
lands to determine whether these offices
provide any services to tribal lands. BJS
will also cognitively test the revised
survey with 10 offices with tribal lands
within their jurisdiction.
In the second phase, BJS will refine
the sampling frame and conduct the full
survey. The SSLPOSTL will collect
information that will help fill the gaps
in our understanding of the nature of
crime on tribal lands. There are two
survey instruments: One for Alaska and
one for the remaining fifteen PL–280
states. The data collection instruments
are designed to capture administrative,
operational and caseload data from
prosecutor offices that investigate and
prosecute crimes that occur on tribal
lands in PL–280 states. The information
collected includes the staffing of
prosecutor offices; types of agreements
prosecutor offices have with tribal
governments; whether prosecutors try
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cases occurring on tribal lands in tribal
or state courts; non-prosecutorial
services provided on tribal lands (such
as victim services and community
outreach services); information sharing
with tribal governments; training
received by prosecutors about tribal
lands; and the number and types of
referrals to and cases prosecuted by
state prosecutors. The survey is
designed to describe the role that state
and local prosecutor offices play in
charging and prosecuting crimes that
occur on tribal lands in PL–280 states.
(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: BJS expects to cognitively test
the revised survey with about 10 offices
with an estimated burden of 60 minutes
per respondent. BJS plans to contact
about 50 prosecutor offices by telephone
to ask whether they provide services to
tribal lands with an expected
respondent burden of 10 minutes per
respondent. After the pilot test, BJS will
determine the total number of offices
that will be contacted in the full survey
effort. For the full survey, BJS estimates
a maximum of 315 offices and a
respondent burden of about 30 minutes
per office, including follow-up time.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: The total respondent burden
for the cognitive test is approximately
10 hours. The total respondent burden
for the telephone pilot test is
approximately 8 burden hours. The
maximum expected respondent burden
for the full survey effort is
approximately 158 burden hours. The
total burden for this effort is
approximately 176 burden hours.
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: October 10, 2017.
Melody Braswell,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S.
Department of Justice.
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electronically to the following Internet
email address: ebsa.opr@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employee Benefits Security
Administration
I. Background
Proposed Extension of Information
Collection Request Submitted for
Public Comment; Coverage of Certain
Preventive Services Under the
Affordable Care Act—Private Sector
Employee Benefits Security
Administration, Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Department of Labor (the
Department), in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA
95), provides the general public and
Federal agencies with an opportunity to
comment on proposed and continuing
collections of information. This helps
the Department assess the impact of its
information collection requirements and
minimize the reporting burden on the
public and helps the public understand
the Department’s information collection
requirements and provide the requested
data in the desired format. Currently,
the Employee Benefits Security
Administration is soliciting comments
on a revision of the Coverage of Certain
Preventive Services under the
Affordable Care Act—Private Sector
information collection request (ICR) to
reflect the Executive Order signed on
May 4, 2017, ‘‘Executive Order
Promoting Free Speech and Religious
Liberty.’’ The order declares, regarding
‘‘Conscience Protections with Respect to
Preventive-Care Mandate,’’ that ‘‘[t]he
Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary
of Labor, and the Secretary of Health
and Human Services shall consider
issuing amended regulations, consistent
with applicable law, to address
conscience-based objections to the
preventive-care mandate promulgated
under section 300gg–13(a)(4) of title 42,
United States Code.’’
A copy of the information collection
request (ICR) may be obtained by
contacting the office listed in the
ADDRESSES section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office shown in the
ADDRESSES section on or before
December 12, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
regarding the information collection
request and burden estimates to the
Office of Policy and Research, Employee
Benefits Security Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution
Avenue NW., Room N–5718,
Washington, DC 20210. Telephone:
(202) 693–8410; Fax: (202) 219–4745.
These are not toll-free numbers.
Comments may also be submitted
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The Departments of Labor, the
Treasury, and Health and Human
Services are issuing interim final
regulations regarding coverage of certain
preventive services under section 2713
of the Public Health Service Act (PHS
Act), added by the Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Act, as amended,
and incorporated into the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
and the Internal Revenue Code. Section
2713 of the PHS Act requires coverage
without cost sharing of certain
preventive health services by nongrandfathered group health plans and
health insurance coverage. Among these
services are women’s preventive health
services, as specified in guidelines
supported by the Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA).
As authorized by final regulations
issued on July 2, 2013 (78 FR 39870),
and consistent with the HRSA
guidelines, group health plans
established or maintained by certain
religious employers (and group health
insurance coverage provided in
connection with such plans) are exempt
from the otherwise applicable
requirement to cover certain
contraceptive services. Additionally,
under the final regulations, group health
plans established or maintained by
certain nonprofit organizations that hold
themselves out as religious
organizations and that have religious
objections to contraceptive coverage
(eligible organizations) are eligible for
an accommodation.
The final regulations require each
organization seeking accommodation to
self-certify that it meets the definition of
an eligible organization. The
organization must send a copy of the
self-certification to an issuer or thirdparty administrator. The organizations
seeking the accommodation must
maintain the self-certification/
notification in a manner consistent with
the record retention requirements under
section 107 of the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, which
generally requires records to be
maintained for six years. The form that
is used by eligible organizations for
their self-certification is EBSA Form
700, which is an information collection
request (ICR) subject to the Paperwork
Reduction Act.
The August 2014 interim final and
July 2015 final regulations augmented
the 2013 final regulations and revised
the EBSA Form 700 ICR in light of the
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[OMB Number 1121-NEW]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection
eComments Requested; New Collection: State and Local Justice Agencies
Serving Tribal Lands (SLJASTL): Survey of Prosecutor Offices in PL-280
States Serving Tribal Lands (SSLPOSTL)
AGENCY: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Department of Justice.
ACTION: 60-Day notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs,
Bureau of Justice Statistics, will be submitting the following
information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for 60 days until
December 12, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have additional comments
especially on the estimated public burden or associated response time,
suggestions, or need a copy of the proposed information collection
instrument with instructions or additional information, please contact
Suzanne Strong, Statistician, Prosecution and Judicial Statistics,
Bureau of Justice Statistics, 810 Seventh Street NW., Washington, DC
20531 (email: Suzanne.M.Strong@usdoj.gov; telephone: 202-616-3666).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Written comments and suggestions from the
public and affected agencies concerning the proposed collection of
information are encouraged. Your comments should address one or more of
the following four points:
--Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the functions of the Bureau of Justice
Statistics, including whether the information will have practical
utility;
--Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
--Evaluate whether and if so how the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected can be enhanced; and
--Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are
to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
Overview of This Information Collection
(1) Type of Information Collection: New collection.
(2) The Title of the Form/Collection: State and Local Justice
Agencies Serving Tribal Lands (SLJASTL): Survey of State and Local
Prosecutor Offices in PL-280 States Serving Tribal Lands (SSLPOSTL).
(3) The agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of
the Department sponsoring the collection: No agency form number at this
time. The applicable component within the Department of Justice is the
Bureau of Justice Statistics, in the Office of Justice Programs.
(4) Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as
well as a brief abstract: Respondents will be state and local
prosecutor offices located in the sixteen Public Law 280 (PL-280)
states. The respondent universe will be finalized after an initial
telephone contact to determine which offices are most likely to provide
services to tribal lands. Abstract: Among other responsibilities, the
Bureau of Justice Statistics is charged with collecting data regarding
crimes occurring on tribal lands. The SLJASTL is the first effort by
BJS to collect data from state and local justice agencies responsible
for policing and prosecuting crimes that occur on tribal lands in PL-
280 states. State and local prosecutors have jurisdiction over specific
crimes and offenders when the crime occurs on tribal lands. There are
no existing data collections that describe state and local prosecutors'
role in prosecuting crime occurring on tribal lands.
This collection involves a two-stage process. In the first phase,
BJS will conduct a pilot test to determine whether prosecutor offices
located closer to tribal lands are responsible for providing services,
or if all prosecutor offices within the state share equal
responsibility for prosecuting crime occurring on tribal lands. There
are 267 counties that include tribal lands within their jurisdiction.
BJS will not need to sample these offices as there is one prosecutor
office per county and the sample size would likely be a full census of
all 267 offices. There are 515 counties with no tribal lands in their
jurisdiction. BJS will sample 50 prosecutor offices from the 515
counties located in the counties with no tribal lands to determine
whether these offices provide any services to tribal lands. BJS will
also cognitively test the revised survey with 10 offices with tribal
lands within their jurisdiction.
In the second phase, BJS will refine the sampling frame and conduct
the full survey. The SSLPOSTL will collect information that will help
fill the gaps in our understanding of the nature of crime on tribal
lands. There are two survey instruments: One for Alaska and one for the
remaining fifteen PL-280 states. The data collection instruments are
designed to capture administrative, operational and caseload data from
prosecutor offices that investigate and prosecute crimes that occur on
tribal lands in PL-280 states. The information collected includes the
staffing of prosecutor offices; types of agreements prosecutor offices
have with tribal governments; whether prosecutors try
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cases occurring on tribal lands in tribal or state courts; non-
prosecutorial services provided on tribal lands (such as victim
services and community outreach services); information sharing with
tribal governments; training received by prosecutors about tribal
lands; and the number and types of referrals to and cases prosecuted by
state prosecutors. The survey is designed to describe the role that
state and local prosecutor offices play in charging and prosecuting
crimes that occur on tribal lands in PL-280 states.
(5) An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount
of time estimated for an average respondent to respond: BJS expects to
cognitively test the revised survey with about 10 offices with an
estimated burden of 60 minutes per respondent. BJS plans to contact
about 50 prosecutor offices by telephone to ask whether they provide
services to tribal lands with an expected respondent burden of 10
minutes per respondent. After the pilot test, BJS will determine the
total number of offices that will be contacted in the full survey
effort. For the full survey, BJS estimates a maximum of 315 offices and
a respondent burden of about 30 minutes per office, including follow-up
time.
(6) An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated
with the collection: The total respondent burden for the cognitive test
is approximately 10 hours. The total respondent burden for the
telephone pilot test is approximately 8 burden hours. The maximum
expected respondent burden for the full survey effort is approximately
158 burden hours. The total burden for this effort is approximately 176
burden hours.
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: October 10, 2017.
Melody Braswell,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2017-22167 Filed 10-12-17; 8:45 am]
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