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publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. A separate service list will be 

maintained by the Secretary for those 

parties authorized to receive BPI under 

the APO. 

Conference.—The Commission’s 

Director of Investigations has scheduled 

a conference in connection with these 

investigations for 9:30 a.m. on 

Wednesday, September 26, 2018, at the 

U.S. International Trade Commission 

Building, 500 E Street SW, Washington, 

DC. Requests to appear at the conference 

should be emailed to 

preliminaryconferences@usitc.gov (DO 

NOT FILE ON EDIS) on or before 

September 24, 2018. Parties in support 

of the imposition of antidumping duties 

in these investigations and parties in 

opposition to the imposition of such 

duties will each be collectively 

allocated one hour within which to 

make an oral presentation at the 

conference. A nonparty who has 

testimony that may aid the 

Commission’s deliberations may request 

permission to present a short statement 

at the conference. 

Written submissions.—As provided in 

sections 201.8 and 207.15 of the 

Commission’s rules, any person may 

submit to the Commission on or before 

October 1, 2018, a written brief 

containing information and arguments 

pertinent to the subject matter of the 

investigations. Parties may file written 

testimony in connection with their 

presentation at the conference. All 

written submissions must conform with 

the provisions of section 201.8 of the 

Commission’s rules; any submissions 

that contain BPI must also conform with 

the requirements of sections 201.6, 

207.3, and 207.7 of the Commission’s 

rules. The Commission’s Handbook on 

E-Filing, available on the Commission’s 

website at https://edis.usitc.gov, 

elaborates upon the Commission’s rules 

with respect to electronic filing. 

In accordance with sections 201.16(c) 

and 207.3 of the rules, each document 

filed by a party to the investigations 

must be served on all other parties to 

the investigations (as identified by 

either the public or BPI service list), and 

a certificate of service must be timely 

filed. The Secretary will not accept a 

document for filing without a certificate 

of service. 

Authority: These investigations are being 

conducted under authority of title VII of the 

Tariff Act of 1930; this notice is published 

pursuant to section 207.12 of the 

Commission’s rules. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: September 6, 2018. 

Lisa Barton, 

Secretary to the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19790 Filed 9–11–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

[OMB Number 1121–0249] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed eCollection 

eComments Requested; Extension of a 

Currently Approved Collection: 

Mortality in Correctional Institutions 

(State Prisons) 

AGENCY: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 

Department of Justice. 

ACTION: 60-day notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Justice 

(DOJ), Office of Justice Programs, 

Bureau of Justice Statistics, will be 

submitting an extension to an existing 

information collection 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 

November 13, 2018. 

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 

Mary Cowhig, Statistician, 810 Seventh 

Street NW, Washington, DC 20531 

(email: mary.cowhig@usdoj.gov; 

telephone: 202–353–4982). 

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: 

Extension of a currently approved 

collection. 

2. The Title of the Form/Collection: 

Mortality in Correctional Institutions 

(State Prisons) (MCI-State Prisons). 

3. The agency form number, if any, 

and the applicable component of the 

Department sponsoring the collection: 

The MCI-State Prisons collection 

currently includes the following forms: 

• NPS–4: Annual Summary of Inmate 

Deaths in State Prisons. This form is 

sent to the 50 state DOCs to collect the 

number of state prisoner deaths in a 

calendar year. 

• NPS–4A: State Prison Inmate Death 

Report Form. Annually, this form is sent 

to the 50 state DOCs to collect details 

about each state prisoner death. 

The applicable component within the 

Department of Justice is the Bureau of 

Justice Statistics (BJS), in the Office of 

Justice Programs. 

BJS proposes to transfer the MCI-Jails 

information collection from the 

currently approved OMB collection 

under control number 1121–0094, 

where it was bundled with the Annual 

Survey of Jails and the Survey of Jails 

in Indian Country collections in 2015, to 

this collection (OMB Control Number 

1121–0249, expiration 03/31/2019) to 

form one mortality collection program. 

The combined mortality collection 

would include the 50 state departments 

of corrections (DOCs) plus 

approximately 3,000 local jail 

jurisdictions and would collect data on 

the number and nature of inmate deaths 

in the custody of state correctional 

facilities. 

Prior to 2015, BJS collected mortality 

data from both state prisons and local 

jails under the OMB Control Number 

1121–0249. In 2015, the Mortality in 

Correctional Institutions (Jails) (MCIJails) portion of the collection was 

bundled with the Annual Survey of Jails 

(ASJ) and the Survey of Jails in Indian 

Country (SJIC) in an attempt to 

consolidate the response burden placed 

on jails. However, the overlap among 

these three collections is small, both in 

terms of jails covered in each and 

context collected: 

• MCI-Jails requests annual data from 

about 3,000 jail jurisdictions on deaths, 

the confined population as of December 


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31, average daily population (ADP), 

number of holds for other jurisdictions, 

and number of admissions. 

• The ASJ samples approximately 900 

local jails, and provides data to estimate 

the number and characteristics of local 

jail inmates nationwide. The ASJ 

collects population information, 

including the number of confined 

inmates, number of individuals 

supervised in the community by local 

jails, average daily population, and the 

number of holds for other authorities as 

of June 30. The ASJ also obtains data on 

inmate movements, including the 

number of admissions and discharges; 

facility characteristics, including rated 

and peak capacities and staffing; and 

inmate characteristics, including race 

and ethnicity, sex, age group (adult or 

juvenile), primary offense, and 

conviction status. 

• The SJIC collects data from Indian 

country jails that are not part of either 

the ASJ or the MCI-Jails collections. The 

SJIC collects information from 

confinement facilities, detention 

centers, jails, and other facilities 

operated by tribal authorities or the 

Bureau of Indian Affairs. 

Although there is some duplication in 

data collected by the ASJ and MCI-Jails, 

the reference dates are different and the 

ASJ is a sample, whereas MCI-Jails is a 

full enumeration of jail jurisdictions. 

Due to seasonal fluctuations in jail 

populations, and fewer inmates held at 

year-end (December 31), the ASJ uses 

the last weekday in June as its reference 

date. MCI-Jails uses December 31 as its 

reference date, and more importantly, 

uses ADP from January 1 to December 

31 as the denominator in calculating 

mortality rates, which is consistent with 

the time period represented by the 

numerator, the number of deaths in a 

calendar year. 

The following forms are proposed to 

be transferred from OMB Control 

Number 1121–0094 to OMB Control 

Number 1121–0249: 

• CJ–9: Death Report on Inmates 

under Jail Jurisdiction. This form goes to 

all jail jurisdictions that are operated by 

a county or city. Jail administrators are 

requested to complete the form if their 

facilities had one or more deaths in a 

calendar year. 

• CJ–10: Death Report on Inmates in 

Private and Multi-Jurisdictional Jails. 

This form goes to all confinement 

facilities administered by two or more 

local governments (regional jails) and 

privately owned or operated 

confinement facilities. Jail 

administrators are requested to 

complete the form if their facilities had 

one or more deaths in a calendar year. 

• CJ–9A: Annual Summary on 

Inmates under Jail Jurisdiction. This 

form goes to county and city jail 

jurisdictions. The form collects the 

number of male and female deaths in 

custody in a calendar year, the number 

of males and females confined as of 

December 31, the number of male and 

female admissions during the year, the 

average daily population by sex, and the 

number of persons confined on behalf of 

other agencies. 

• CJ–10A: Annual Summary on 

Inmates in Private and MultiJurisdictional Jails. This form goes to 

confinement facilities administered by 

two or more local governments (regional 

jails) and to privately owned or operated 

facilities. The form collects the same 

information as Form CJ–9A. 

4. Affected public who will be asked 

or required to respond, as well as a brief 

abstract: The combined MCI for prisons 

and jails would collect annual data from 

the 50 state departments of corrections 

and roughly 3,000 jail jurisdictions on 

the number and nature of deaths in their 

custody. 

5. An estimate of the total number of 

respondents and the amount of time 

estimated for an average respondent to 

respond: 

Data supplier and form Reporting method Number of 

data suppliers 

Number of 

responses 

Average 

reporting 

time 

(in minutes) 

Total burden 

(in hours, 

rounded to 

whole number) 

Verification calls (local jails) ................................. Telephone ..................... 3,000 3,000 9 450 

CJ–9A, CJ–10A jail annual summary ................... Online, mail .................. 3,000 2,900 15 725 

CJ–9, CJ–10 jail death report ............................... Online, mail .................. 3,000 1,000 30 500 

Data quality follow-up (local jails) ......................... Telephone, email .......... 3,000 350 10 58 

Total, MCI-Jails .............................................. ....................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 1,733 

Verification calls (state prisons) ............................ Telephone ..................... 50 50 9 8 

NPS–4A, state prison death report ...................... Online, mail .................. 50 3,500 30 1,750 

NPS–4, state prison annual summary .................. Online, mail .................. 50 50 5 4 

Data quality follow-up (state prisons) ................... Telephone, email .......... 50 420 10 70 

Total, MCI-State Prisons ............................... ....................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 1,832 

Total Burden ........................................... ....................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 3,565 

The estimated total burden hours 

associated with this combined jail and 

state prison mortality collection for 

report year 2018 is 3,565. This is a 

transfer of 1,733 hours from the jail 

mortality collection to the state prison 

mortality collection. When the state 

prison mortality collection was last 

approved in 2016, the total burden 

estimate was 1,723 hours. The state 

prison portion is now estimated at 1,832 

burden hours due to an increase in the 

expected number of individual death 

reports. Based on the average number of 

death reports received over the most 

recent 10-year period, BJS expects to 

receive about 3,500 state prison and 

1,000 jail death reports per year. 

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: September 7, 2018. 

Melody Braswell, 

Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. 

Department of Justice. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19802 Filed 9–11–18; 8:45 am] 

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