[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 36 (Thursday, February 22, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7776-7777]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-03674]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Justice Programs

[OJP (NIJ) Docket No. 1744]


Request for Public Comment on Proposed Revision of NIJ Standard 
0101.06, Ballistic Resistance of Body Armor

AGENCY: National Institute of Justice, Justice.

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ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks feedback from 
the public on a proposed revision of NIJ Standard 0101.06, Ballistic 
Resistance of Body Armor, that specifies minimum performance 
requirements and test methods for the ballistic resistance of body 
armor used by U.S. law enforcement that is intended to protect the 
torso against handgun and rifle ammunition.

DATES: Comments must be received by 5 p.m. Eastern Time on May 23, 
2018.

HOW TO RESPOND AND WHAT TO INCLUDE: The draft document can be found 
here: https://www.nij.gov/body-armor. The draft document is available 
in both Word and pdf formats. To submit comments, NIJ encourages 
commenters to fill out the comment template and send it in an email to 
the contact listed below with ``Draft NIJ Standard 0101.07, Ballistic 
Resistance of Body Armor'' in the subject line. Please provide contact 
information with the submission of comments. All materials submitted 
are subject to public release under the Freedom of Information Act, and 
will be shared with U.S. Government staff or U.S. Government 
contractors for evaluation purposes to revise the draft document. 
Comments should not include any sensitive personal information or 
commercially confidential information. If you wish to voluntarily 
submit confidential commercial information, but do not want it to be 
publicly released, you must mark that information prominently as 
``CONFIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL INFORMATION'' and NIJ will, to the extent 
permitted by law, withhold such information from public release.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Greene, Policy and Standards 
Division Director, Office of Science and Technology, National Institute 
of Justice, 810 7th Street NW, Washington, DC 20531; telephone number: 
(202) 307-3384; email address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This draft document is a proposed revision 
of NIJ Standard 0101.06, Ballistic Resistance of Body Armor, published 
in 2008 and found here: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/223054.pdf. 
The final version of this draft document is anticipated to be published 
in late 2018 as NIJ Standard 0101.07, Ballistic Resistance of Body 
Armor. Its primary purpose will be for use by the NIJ Compliance 
Testing Program (CTP) for testing and evaluation of ballistic-resistant 
body armor for certification by NIJ. It will be used by both ballistics 
laboratories that test body armor and body armor manufacturers 
participating in the NIJ CTP. This standard will be included in the 
Personal Body Armor scope of accreditation used by the National 
Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) to accredit 
ballistics laboratories.
    The draft NIJ specification Threat Levels and Associated Ammunition 
to Test Equipment Intended to Protect U.S. Law Enforcement Against 
Handguns and Rifles referenced in Section 3 of the draft document here 
can be found at https://www.nij.gov/body-armor.
    For more information on NIJ's voluntary standards, please visit 
https://www.nij.gov/standards. For more information on body armor, 
please visit https://www.nij.gov/body-armor and https://www.policearmor.org.

David B. Muhlhausen,
Director, National Institute of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2018-03674 Filed 2-21-18; 8:45 am]
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