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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 20 (Friday, January 31, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8719-8721]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02055]

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

[OMB Number 1121-0269]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection 
eComments Requested; Reinstatement, With Change, of a Previously 
Approved Collection for Which Approval Has Expired: Census of Publicly 
Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories (CPFFCL)

AGENCY: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Department of Justice.

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ACTION: 30-Day notice.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), 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 30 days until 
March 3, 2025.

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: Matt Durose 
(email: [email protected]; telephone: 202-598-0295), Bureau of 
Justice Statistics, 810 Seventh Street NW, Washington, DC 20531.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The proposed information collection was 
previously published in the Federal Register on November 27, 2024, 
allowing a 60-day comment period. BJS received no comments under the 
60-day notice.
    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 entering either the title of the information collection or 
the OMB Control Number [1121-0296]. 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: Reinstatement, with change, of a 
previously approved collection for which approval has expired.
    2. Title of the Form/Collection: 2024 Census of Publicly Funded 
Forensic Crime Laboratories (CPFFCL)
    3. Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the 
Department of Justice sponsoring the collection: The form number is 
CPFFCL-24. 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 a brief abstract:
    Affected Public: Affected public are state and local government 
agencies. The 2024 CPFFCL is revised from the 2020 CPFFCL. BJS plans to 
field the 2024 CPFFCL from March through October 2025. Respondents will 
be the staff at the publicly funded forensic crime labs.
    Abstract: Since 2002, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has 
periodically conducted the Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime 
Laboratories (CPFFCL) through a survey that collects data on the 
staffing, budgets, workloads, resources, policies, and procedures among 
federal, state, and local crime labs. The 2024 CPFFCL will be the sixth 
administration. It will provide insight on emerging issues and 
challenges facing crime labs since the CPFFCL was last conducted in 
2020. BJS uses the information gathered in CPFFCL in published reports 
and statistics. The reports will be made available to the U.S. 
Congress, Executive Office of the President, practitioners, 
researchers, students, the media, others interested in criminal justice 
statistics, and the general public via the BJS website.
    5. Obligation to Respond: The obligation to respond is voluntary.
    6. Total Estimated Number of Respondents: A projected 350 
respondents from individual labs and multi-lab systems will complete 
form CPFFCL-24.
    7. Estimated Time per Respondent: CPFFCL-24 will take an average of 
90 minutes (1.5 hours) for each of the 350 respondents to complete. In 
addition, an estimated 225 respondents will be contacted for data 
quality follow-up at 15 minutes (.25 hours) per respondent.
    8. Frequency: Each respondent will complete the CPFFCL-24 once.
    9. Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: The total burden hours for 
this collection is 581.
    10. Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $907,183.

                                               Total Burden Hours
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                                   Number of                     Total annual       Time per       Total annual
           Activity               respondents      Frequency       responses        response      burden (hours)
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Survey........................             350               1             350  90 min (1.5                  525
                                                                                 hrs.).
Data Quality Follow-Up........             225               1             225  15 min (.25                   56
                                                                                 hrs.).
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    Unduplicated Totals.......             350  ..............             300  ................             581
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    If additional information is required, contact: Darwin Arceo, 
Department Clearance Officer, Policy and Planning Staff, Justice 
Management Division, United States Department of Justice,

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Two Constitution Square, 145 N Street NE, 4W-218, Washington, DC 20530.

    Dated: January 28, 2025.
Darwin Arceo,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2025-02055 Filed 1-30-25; 8:45 am]
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