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November 27, 2023 allowing a 60-day
comment period.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted for 30 days until
February 20, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you have 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: Kevin Harris/FBI CJIS, 1000
Custer Hollow Road, Clarksburg, WV
26306, (304) 625–2000, OSAT@fbi.gov.
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 agency, 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;
—Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and/or
—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.
Written comments and
recommendations for this information
collection should be submitted within
30 days of the publication of this notice
on the following website
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
30-day Review—Open for Public
Comments’’ or by using the search
function and enter the title of the
information collection.This information
collection request may be viewed at
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the
instructions to view Department of
Justice, information collections
currently under review by OMB.
DOJ seeks PRA authorization for this
information collection for three (3)
years. OMB authorization for an ICR
cannot be for more than three (3) years
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without renewal. The DOJ notes that
information collection requirements
submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs
receive a month-to-month extension
while they undergo review.
Overview of This Information
Collection
1. Type of Information Collection:
New Collection.
2. Title of the Form/Collection: Under
Attack: Assaults on Our Nation’s Law
Enforcement.
3. Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the
Department of Justice sponsoring the
collection: Officer Protocol
Questionnaire or Offender Protocol
Questionnaire/FBI CJIS Division.
4. Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Affected Public: State, Local
and Tribal governments, individual or
households.
Abstract: Serious assaults on law
enforcement in the United States are a
growing problem, with both assaults
with injury and felonious killings of law
enforcement officers trending upward
(FBI, 2022). While the Law Enforcement
Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA)
data collection answers many questions
related to these assaults and deaths,
such as the who, what, when, where,
and how, the data does not answer why
these assaults are happening. Without
knowing and understanding why these
assaults are happening, we cannot begin
to prevent them. Outside of the previous
studies conducted by the FBI, there is a
lack of research into this question of
why offenders assault police officers. In
particular, there is a lack of research
that looks at both the officer and the
offender in such incidents, and how the
relationship between the two impacts
the assault. The purposes of this
qualitative study are to examine the
possibility of predicting assaults on
officers and to use this information to
prevent future assaults. To date, very
few studies outside of the FBI’s Officer
Safety Awareness Training (OSAT)
research projects, have looked at these
assaults from the perspectives of both
the officer and the offender. By
interviewing officers and offenders, this
study seeks to gain a more thorough
understanding of why these incidents
take place, and the context surrounding
them. Based on the recent trends and
the modicum of previous research, it is
expected the current study would make
a large contribution to what is currently
known about these attacks, and would
play a substantial role in the
preparedness, prevention, and
mitigation of these incidents by
informing those who develop training
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and operational practices. This mixed
method research effort will use the
Perpetrator-Motive Research Design
(PMRD). PMRD is a 12-step
methodological design that focuses on
gaining a thorough understanding of the
motivations of offenders. Interviewing
incarcerated offenders allows for
increased accessibility, increased
sample size, interviewer security, and
avoidance of ethical or potential legal
entanglements which interviewers
might be exposed to while questioning
offenders still at large or whose cases
have not yet exhausted the criminal
legal process. Because PMRD is suited
to identify and understand offender
motives, the findings can be used in the
development of training interventions
for law enforcement officials which
could improve officer safety. As part of
the study, researchers will also seek to
examine the incident reports associated
with the assaults and the FBI criminal
history record information of offenders.
Researchers will also seek to obtain,
examine, and use any body-worn
camera or dashboard camera recordings
associated with the assaults for research
and training purposes.
5. Obligation to Respond: Voluntary.
6. Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 120.
7. Estimated Time per Respondent: 2
hours.
8. Frequency: This is a one-time
collection.
9. Total Estimated Annual Time
Burden: 240.
10. Total Estimated Annual Other
Costs Burden: $0.
If additional information is required,
contact: Darwin Arceo, Department
Clearance Officer, Policy and Planning
Staff, Justice Management Division,
United States Department of Justice,
Two Constitution Square, 145 N Street
NE, 4W–218 Washington, DC 20530.
Dated: January 12, 2024.
Darwin Arceo,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S.
Department of Justice.
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[OMB Number 1121–0314]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed eCollection
eComments Requested; Extension of a
Previously Approved Collection;
Firearm Inquiry Statistics (FIST)
Program
Bureau of Justice Statistics,
Department of Justice.
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
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60-Day notice.
The Bureau of Justice
Statistics, Department of Justice (DOJ)
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 March
18, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you have 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 Elizabeth J. Davis, Bureau of
Justice Statistics, 810 Seventh Street
NW, Washington, DC 20531 (email:
Elizabeth.Davis@usdoj.gov; telephone:
202–307–0765).
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
SUMMARY:
Congress, Federal, State, and local
government officials, researchers,
students, the media, and other members
of the general public interested in
criminal justice statistics.
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
Abstract: Through the Firearm Inquiry
Statistics (FIST) Program, BJS obtains
annual information from State and local
checking agencies responsible for
maintaining records on the number of
background checks for firearm transfers
or permits that were issued, processed,
tracked, or conducted during the
calendar year. Specifically, State and
local checking agencies are asked to
provide information on the number of
applications and denials for firearm
transfers received or tracked by the
agency and reasons why applications
were denied. BJS combines these data
with the Federal Bureau of
Investigation’s (FBI) National Instant
Criminal Background Check System
(NICS) transaction data to produce
comprehensive national statistics on
firearm applications and denials
resulting from the Brady Handgun
Violence Prevention Act of 1993 and
similar State laws governing background
checks and firearm transfers. BJS will
also collect information from the Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and
Explosives (ATF) on denials screened
and referred to ATF field offices for
investigation and possible prosecution.
BJS publishes FIST data on the BJS
website in statistical tables and uses the
information to respond to inquiries from
1. Type of Information Collection:
Extension of a previously approved
collection.
2. Title of the Form/Collection: 2023–
2026 Firearm Inquiry Statistics (FIST)
Program.
3. Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the
Department sponsoring the collection:
The form number is FIST–1. The
applicable component within the
Department of Justice is the Bureau of
Justice Statistics (BJS), in the Office of
Justice Programs.
4. Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as the
obligation to respond: Affected public
are State and local government. The
obligation to respond is voluntary.
5. An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: The annual estimated number
of respondents for the FIST data
collection is 1,009. The estimated time
per response is 25 minutes to complete
the FIST survey form.
6. An estimate of the total annual
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: The total annual burden for
this collection is 420 hours, for a total
of 1,680 hours for the 2023–2026 FIST
program.
7. An estimate of the total annual cost
burden associated with the collection, if
applicable: $0.
TOTAL ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
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Frequency
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Unduplicated Totals ......................................................
2024 Survey .........................................................................
Unduplicated Totals ......................................................
2025 Survey .........................................................................
Unduplicated Totals ......................................................
2026 Survey .........................................................................
Unduplicated Totals ......................................................
1,009
1,009
1,009
1,009
1,009
1,009
1,009
1,009
1
Unduplicated Total 2023–2026 .............................
1,009
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If additional information is required,
contact: Darwin Arceo, Department
Clearance Officer, United States
Department of Justice, Justice
Management Division, Policy and
Planning Staff, Two Constitution
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1,009
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1,009
1,009
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Department of Justice.
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[OMB Number 1121-0314]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection
eComments Requested; Extension of a Previously Approved Collection;
Firearm Inquiry Statistics (FIST) Program
AGENCY: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Department of Justice.
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ACTION: 60-Day notice.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Justice Statistics, Department of Justice (DOJ)
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
March 18, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have 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 Elizabeth J.
Davis, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 810 Seventh Street NW, Washington,
DC 20531 (email: [email protected]; telephone: 202-307-0765).
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.
Abstract: Through the Firearm Inquiry Statistics (FIST) Program,
BJS obtains annual information from State and local checking agencies
responsible for maintaining records on the number of background checks
for firearm transfers or permits that were issued, processed, tracked,
or conducted during the calendar year. Specifically, State and local
checking agencies are asked to provide information on the number of
applications and denials for firearm transfers received or tracked by
the agency and reasons why applications were denied. BJS combines these
data with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) National Instant
Criminal Background Check System (NICS) transaction data to produce
comprehensive national statistics on firearm applications and denials
resulting from the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993 and
similar State laws governing background checks and firearm transfers.
BJS will also collect information from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) on denials screened and referred to ATF
field offices for investigation and possible prosecution. BJS publishes
FIST data on the BJS website in statistical tables and uses the
information to respond to inquiries from Congress, Federal, State, and
local government officials, researchers, students, the media, and other
members of the general public interested in criminal justice
statistics.
Overview of This Information Collection
1. Type of Information Collection: Extension of a previously
approved collection.
2. Title of the Form/Collection: 2023-2026 Firearm Inquiry
Statistics (FIST) Program.
3. Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the
Department sponsoring the collection: The form number is FIST-1. The
applicable component within the Department of Justice is the Bureau of
Justice Statistics (BJS), in the Office of Justice Programs.
4. Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as
well as the obligation to respond: Affected public are State and local
government. The obligation to respond is voluntary.
5. An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount of
time estimated for an average respondent to respond: The annual
estimated number of respondents for the FIST data collection is 1,009.
The estimated time per response is 25 minutes to complete the FIST
survey form.
6. An estimate of the total annual burden (in hours) associated
with the collection: The total annual burden for this collection is 420
hours, for a total of 1,680 hours for the 2023-2026 FIST program.
7. An estimate of the total annual cost burden associated with the
collection, if applicable: $0.
Total Annual Burden Hours
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Time per Total annual
Activity Number of Frequency Total annual response burden
respondents responses (min) (hours)
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2023 Survey..................... 1,009 1 1,009 25 420
Unduplicated Totals......... 1,009 1,009 420
2024 Survey..................... 1,009 1 1,009 25 420
Unduplicated Totals......... 1,009 1,009 420
2025 Survey..................... 1,009 1 1,009 25 420
Unduplicated Totals......... 1,009 1,009 420
2026 Survey..................... 1,009 1 1,009 25 420
Unduplicated Totals......... 1,009 1,009 420
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Unduplicated Total 2023- 1,009 .............. .............. .............. 1,680
2026...................
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If additional information is required, contact: Darwin Arceo,
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: January 11, 2024.
Darwin Arceo,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2024-00822 Filed 1-17-24; 8:45 am]
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