[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 243 (Wednesday, December 19, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65183-65184]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-27396]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Justice Programs

[OJP (NIJ) Docket No. 1754]


Request for Public Comment on Proposed NIJ Standard Entitled 
Patrol Rifles for Police Officers

AGENCY: National Institute of Justice, Justice.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks feedback from 
the public on a proposed NIJ Standard entitled Patrol Rifles for Law 
Enforcement that specifies minimum performance requirements and test 
methods for patrol rifles used by U.S. law enforcement.

DATES: Comments must be received by 5 p.m. Eastern Time on March 19, 
2019.
    How to Respond and What to Include: The draft document can be found 
here: https://nij.gov/topics/technology/standards-testing/pages/comment.aspx. The draft document is available in both Word and pdf 
formats. To submit comments, NIJ encourages commenters to fill out the 
comment template and send it in an email to the contact listed below 
with ``Draft NIJ Standard Patrol Rifles for Law Enforcement'' in the 
subject line. Please provide contact information with the submission of 
comments. All materials submitted are subject to public release under 
the Freedom of Information Act, and will be shared with U.S. Government 
staff or U.S. Government contractors for evaluation purposes to revise 
the draft document. Comments should not include any sensitive personal 
information or commercially confidential information. If you wish to 
voluntarily submit confidential commercial information, but do not want 
it to be publicly released, you must mark that information prominently 
as ``CONFIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL INFORMATION'' and NIJ will, to the extent 
permitted by law, withhold such information from public release.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Greene, Policy and Standards 
Division Director, Office of Science and Technology, National Institute 
of Justice, 810 7th Street NW, Washington, DC 20531; telephone number: 
(202) 307-3384; email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c7aaa6b5ace9a0b5a2a2a9a2f587b2b4a3a8ade9a0a8b1"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2845495a43064f5a4d4d464d1a685d5b4c4742064f475e">[email protected]</span></a>.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This draft document specifies minimum 
performance requirements and test methods for patrol rifles used by 
U.S. law enforcement. The final version of this document is anticipated 
to be published in late 2019 as a new NIJ Standard entitled Patrol 
Rifles for Law Enforcement. Its primary purpose will be for use by the 
NIJ Compliance Testing Program (CTP) for testing and evaluation of 
patrol rifles submitted to the program for certification by NIJ. It 
will be used by both ballistics laboratories that test firearms and 
firearms manufacturers participating in the NIJ CTP. This standard will 
be included in the scope of accreditation used by the National 
Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) to accredit 
ballistics laboratories. For more information on

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NIJ's voluntary standards, please visit https://www.nij.gov/standards.

David B. Muhlhausen,
Director, National Institute of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2018-27396 Filed 12-18-18; 8:45 am]
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