[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 41 (Thursday, March 3, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10412-10413]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-4052]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Justice Programs


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comments Requested

ACTION: 60-day notice of information collection under review: national 
prisoner statistics, summary of sentenced population movement.

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    The Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs (OJP), has 
submitted 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. The proposed information 
collection is published to obtain comments from the public and affected 
agencies. Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for ``sixty 
days'' until May 2, 2005. This process is in accordance with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
    If you have comment especially on the estimated burden or 
associated response time, suggestions, or need a copy of the proposed 
information collection instrument with instructions or additional 
information, please contact Lawrence Greenfeld, Director, Bureau of 
Justice Statistics, 810 Seventh St., NW., Washington, DC 20531.
    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 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
--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: National Prisoner Statistics, 
Summary of Sentenced Population Movement.
    (3) The agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of 
the Department sponsoring the collection: Form: NPS-1. Corrections 
Statistics, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Justice Programs, 
United States Department of Justice.
    (4) Affected public who will be asked to respond, as well as a 
brief abstract: Primary: State Departments of Corrections. Others: The 
Federal Bureau of Prisons. For the NPS-1 form, 51 central reporters 
(one from each State and the Federal Bureau of Prisons) responsible for 
keeping records on inmates will be asked to provide prison admission 
information for the following categories: New court commitments, parole 
violators, other conditional release violators returned, transfers from 
other jurisdictions, AWOLs and escapees returned, and returns from 
appeal and bond. Respondents will also be asked to provide prison 
release information for the following categories: Expirations of 
sentence, commutations, other conditional releases, probations, 
supervised mandatory releases, paroles, other conditional releases, 
deaths by cause, AWOLs, escapes, transfers to other jurisdictions, and 
releases to appeal or bond. In addition, respondents will be asked for 
data on jurisdictional and custody populations at yearend by gender for 
inmates with over 1 year maximum sentence, and inmates with a year or 
less maximum sentence; for information on the number of state inmates 
house in facilities operated by a county or other local authority on 
December 31 to ease prison crowding; the number of state inmates housed 
in a privately operated correctional facility; inmates on December 31 
by race and Hispanic origin; testing of incoming inmates for HIV; and 
HIV infection and AIDS cases on December 31.
    The Bureau of Justice Statistics uses this information in published 
reports and for the U.S. Congress, Executive Office of the President, 
practitioners, researchers, students, the media, and others interested 
in criminal justice statistics.
    (5) An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount 
of time estimated for an average respondent to respond: BJS estimates 
51 respondents will respond to the collection. It will take the average 
respondent approximately 6.5 hours to respond to the information 
collection.
    (6) An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated 
with the collection: The estimated total annual

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burden hours associated with this information collection is 332.
    If additional information is required, contact: Brenda E. Dyer, 
Department Clearance Officer, United States Department of Justice, 
Justice Management Division, Policy and Planning Staff, Patrick Henry 
Building, Suite 1600, 601 Suite D Street, NW., Washington, DC 20530.

    Dated: February 25, 2005.
Brenda E. Dyer,
Department Clearance Officer, Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 05-4052 Filed 3-2-05; 8:45 am]
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