Department of Justice July 2, 2020 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

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. The proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register allowing a 60-day comment period. BJS received one comment in response. The comment supported expanding the collection to a census of all agencies rather than a sample, changes to the questions from previous versions of the survey, and requested expansion of the data collection to include information on prosecutions of firearm dealers and timelier reporting. BJS retained the changes to the questions. In reviewing the methodology, BJS decided to continue using a sample rather than a census of checking agencies to keep a lower total burden. The FIST program is not able to capture the information required to report on prosecutions of firearm dealers.