Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 12 / Thursday, January 18, 2024 / Notices 3429 

published in the Federal Register on 

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 

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 

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. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00926 Filed 1–17–24; 8:45 am] 

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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. 

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: 

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 

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

Activity Number of 

respondents Frequency Total annual responses 

Time per 

response 

(min) 

Total annual 

burden 

(hours) 

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 

Unduplicated Total 2023–2026 ............................. 1,009 ........................ ........................ ........................ 1,680 

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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