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(5) An estimate of the total number of 

respondents and the amount of time 

estimated for an average respondent to 

respond: BJS expects to cognitively test 

the survey with about 10 agencies with 

an estimated burden of 60 minutes and 

to contact approximately 107 agencies 

by telephone to ask whether they 

provide services to tribal lands. We 

estimate the telephoned pilot test 

respondent burden to be about 10 

minutes per respondent. After the pilot 

test, BJS will determine the total 

number of agencies that will be 

contacted in the full survey effort. For 

the full survey, BJS estimates a 

maximum of 1,300 agencies with a 

respondent burden of about 30 minutes 

per agency, including follow-up time. 

(6) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

collection: The total respondent burden 

for the cognitive test is 10 burden hours. 

The total respondent burden for the 

telephone pilot test is approximately 18 

burden hours. The maximum expected 

respondent burden for the full survey 

effort is approximately 585 burden 

hours. Total burden for this effort is 

approximately 613 burden hours. 

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: October 10, 2017. 

Melody Braswell, 

Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. 

Department of Justice. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22166 Filed 10–12–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

[OMB Number 1121–NEW] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed eCollection 

eComments Requested; New 

Collection: State and Local Justice 

Agencies Serving Tribal Lands 

(SLJASTL): Survey of Prosecutor 

Offices in PL–280 States Serving Tribal 

Lands (SSLPOSTL) 

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 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 

December 12, 2017. 

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 

Suzanne Strong, Statistician, 

Prosecution and Judicial Statistics, 

Bureau of Justice Statistics, 810 Seventh 

Street NW., Washington, DC 20531 

(email: Suzanne.M.Strong@usdoj.gov; 

telephone: 202–616–3666). 

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: 

New collection. 

(2) The Title of the Form/Collection: 

State and Local Justice Agencies Serving 

Tribal Lands (SLJASTL): Survey of State 

and Local Prosecutor Offices in PL–280 

States Serving Tribal Lands 

(SSLPOSTL). 

(3) The agency form number, if any, 

and the applicable component of the 

Department sponsoring the collection: 

No agency form number at this time. 

The applicable component within the 

Department of Justice is the Bureau of 

Justice Statistics, in the Office of Justice 

Programs. 

(4) Affected public who will be asked 

or required to respond, as well as a brief 

abstract: Respondents will be state and 

local prosecutor offices located in the 

sixteen Public Law 280 (PL–280) states. 

The respondent universe will be 

finalized after an initial telephone 

contact to determine which offices are 

most likely to provide services to tribal 

lands. Abstract: Among other 

responsibilities, the Bureau of Justice 

Statistics is charged with collecting data 

regarding crimes occurring on tribal 

lands. The SLJASTL is the first effort by 

BJS to collect data from state and local 

justice agencies responsible for policing 

and prosecuting crimes that occur on 

tribal lands in PL–280 states. State and 

local prosecutors have jurisdiction over 

specific crimes and offenders when the 

crime occurs on tribal lands. There are 

no existing data collections that 

describe state and local prosecutors’ role 

in prosecuting crime occurring on tribal 

lands. 

This collection involves a two-stage 

process. In the first phase, BJS will 

conduct a pilot test to determine 

whether prosecutor offices located 

closer to tribal lands are responsible for 

providing services, or if all prosecutor 

offices within the state share equal 

responsibility for prosecuting crime 

occurring on tribal lands. There are 267 

counties that include tribal lands within 

their jurisdiction. BJS will not need to 

sample these offices as there is one 

prosecutor office per county and the 

sample size would likely be a full 

census of all 267 offices. There are 515 

counties with no tribal lands in their 

jurisdiction. BJS will sample 50 

prosecutor offices from the 515 counties 

located in the counties with no tribal 

lands to determine whether these offices 

provide any services to tribal lands. BJS 

will also cognitively test the revised 

survey with 10 offices with tribal lands 

within their jurisdiction. 

In the second phase, BJS will refine 

the sampling frame and conduct the full 

survey. The SSLPOSTL will collect 

information that will help fill the gaps 

in our understanding of the nature of 

crime on tribal lands. There are two 

survey instruments: One for Alaska and 

one for the remaining fifteen PL–280 

states. The data collection instruments 

are designed to capture administrative, 

operational and caseload data from 

prosecutor offices that investigate and 

prosecute crimes that occur on tribal 

lands in PL–280 states. The information 

collected includes the staffing of 

prosecutor offices; types of agreements 

prosecutor offices have with tribal 

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cases occurring on tribal lands in tribal 

or state courts; non-prosecutorial 

services provided on tribal lands (such 

as victim services and community 

outreach services); information sharing 

with tribal governments; training 

received by prosecutors about tribal 

lands; and the number and types of 

referrals to and cases prosecuted by 

state prosecutors. The survey is 

designed to describe the role that state 

and local prosecutor offices play in 

charging and prosecuting crimes that 

occur on tribal lands in PL–280 states. 

(5) An estimate of the total number of 

respondents and the amount of time 

estimated for an average respondent to 

respond: BJS expects to cognitively test 

the revised survey with about 10 offices 

with an estimated burden of 60 minutes 

per respondent. BJS plans to contact 

about 50 prosecutor offices by telephone 

to ask whether they provide services to 

tribal lands with an expected 

respondent burden of 10 minutes per 

respondent. After the pilot test, BJS will 

determine the total number of offices 

that will be contacted in the full survey 

effort. For the full survey, BJS estimates 

a maximum of 315 offices and a 

respondent burden of about 30 minutes 

per office, including follow-up time. 

(6) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

collection: The total respondent burden 

for the cognitive test is approximately 

10 hours. The total respondent burden 

for the telephone pilot test is 

approximately 8 burden hours. The 

maximum expected respondent burden 

for the full survey effort is 

approximately 158 burden hours. The 

total burden for this effort is 

approximately 176 burden hours. 

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: October 10, 2017. 

Melody Braswell, 

Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. 

Department of Justice. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22167 Filed 10–12–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration 

Proposed Extension of Information 

Collection Request Submitted for 

Public Comment; Coverage of Certain 

Preventive Services Under the 

Affordable Care Act—Private Sector 

AGENCY: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (the 

Department), in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA 

95), provides the general public and 

Federal agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on proposed and continuing 

collections of information. This helps 

the Department assess the impact of its 

information collection requirements and 

minimize the reporting burden on the 

public and helps the public understand 

the Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. Currently, 

the Employee Benefits Security 

Administration is soliciting comments 

on a revision of the Coverage of Certain 

Preventive Services under the 

Affordable Care Act—Private Sector 

information collection request (ICR) to 

reflect the Executive Order signed on 

May 4, 2017, ‘‘Executive Order 

Promoting Free Speech and Religious 

Liberty.’’ The order declares, regarding 

‘‘Conscience Protections with Respect to 

Preventive-Care Mandate,’’ that ‘‘[t]he 

Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary 

of Labor, and the Secretary of Health 

and Human Services shall consider 

issuing amended regulations, consistent 

with applicable law, to address 

conscience-based objections to the 

preventive-care mandate promulgated 

under section 300gg–13(a)(4) of title 42, 

United States Code.’’ 

A copy of the information collection 

request (ICR) may be obtained by 

contacting the office listed in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office shown in the 

ADDRESSES section on or before 

December 12, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

regarding the information collection 

request and burden estimates to the 

Office of Policy and Research, Employee 

Benefits Security Administration, U.S. 

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Room N–5718, 

Washington, DC 20210. Telephone: 

(202) 693–8410; Fax: (202) 219–4745. 

These are not toll-free numbers. 

Comments may also be submitted 

electronically to the following Internet 

email address: ebsa.opr@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Departments of Labor, the 

Treasury, and Health and Human 

Services are issuing interim final 

regulations regarding coverage of certain 

preventive services under section 2713 

of the Public Health Service Act (PHS 

Act), added by the Patient Protection 

and Affordable Care Act, as amended, 

and incorporated into the Employee 

Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 

and the Internal Revenue Code. Section 

2713 of the PHS Act requires coverage 

without cost sharing of certain 

preventive health services by nongrandfathered group health plans and 

health insurance coverage. Among these 

services are women’s preventive health 

services, as specified in guidelines 

supported by the Health Resources and 

Services Administration (HRSA). 

As authorized by final regulations 

issued on July 2, 2013 (78 FR 39870), 

and consistent with the HRSA 

guidelines, group health plans 

established or maintained by certain 

religious employers (and group health 

insurance coverage provided in 

connection with such plans) are exempt 

from the otherwise applicable 

requirement to cover certain 

contraceptive services. Additionally, 

under the final regulations, group health 

plans established or maintained by 

certain nonprofit organizations that hold 

themselves out as religious 

organizations and that have religious 

objections to contraceptive coverage 

(eligible organizations) are eligible for 

an accommodation. 

The final regulations require each 

organization seeking accommodation to 

self-certify that it meets the definition of 

an eligible organization. The 

organization must send a copy of the 

self-certification to an issuer or thirdparty administrator. The organizations 

seeking the accommodation must 

maintain the self-certification/ 

notification in a manner consistent with 

the record retention requirements under 

section 107 of the Employee Retirement 

Income Security Act of 1974, which 

generally requires records to be 

maintained for six years. The form that 

is used by eligible organizations for 

their self-certification is EBSA Form 

700, which is an information collection 

request (ICR) subject to the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. 

The August 2014 interim final and 

July 2015 final regulations augmented 

the 2013 final regulations and revised 

the EBSA Form 700 ICR in light of the 


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