[Federal Register: January 18, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 13)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[OMB Number 1122-0006]
Office on Violence Against Women; Agency Information Collection
Activities: Revision of a Currently Approved Collection; Comments
Requested
ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Semi-
Annual Progress Report for the Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and
Enforcement of Protection Orders Program.
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The Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)
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. The proposed
information collection is published to obtain comments from the public
and affected agencies. This proposed information collection was
previously published in the Federal Register Volume 72, Number 218,
pages 63927-63928 on November 12, 2007, allowing for a 60-day comment
period.
The purpose of this notice is to allow for an additional 30 days
for public comment until February 19, 2008. This process is conducted
in accordance with 5 CFR 1320.10.
Written comments and/or suggestions regarding the items contained
in this notice, especially the estimated public burden and associated
response time, should be directed to The Office of Management and
Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attention
Department of Justice Desk Officer, Washington, DC 20503. Additionally,
comments may be submitted to OMB via facsimile to (202) 395-5806.
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:
(1) 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;
(2) 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;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
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(4) 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: Revision of a currently
approved collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection: Semi-Annual Progress Report for
Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection
Orders Program.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the
Department of Justice sponsoring the collection: Form Number: 1122-
0006, U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.
(4) Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as
well as a brief abstract: The affected public includes the
approximately 200 grantees of the Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies
and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program (Arrest Program) whose
eligibility is determined by statute. The Arrest Program was authorized
through the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and reauthorized and
amended by the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (VAWA 2000) and by
the Violence Against Women Act of 2005 (VAWA 2005). The Arrest Program
promotes mandatory or pro-arrest policies and encourages jurisdictions
to treat domestic violence and sexual assault as a serious crime,
establish coordinated community responses and facilitate the
enforcement of protection orders. By statute, eligible grantees for the
Arrest Program are States, Indian tribal governments, State and local
courts including juvenile courts, tribal courts, and units of local
government. For the purpose of this Program, a unit of local government
is any city, county, township, town, borough, parish, village, or other
general-purpose political subdivision of a State; an Indian tribe that
performs law enforcement functions as determined by the Secretary of
Interior; or, for the purpose of assistance eligibility, any agency of
the District of Columbia government or the United States Government
performing law enforcement functions in and for the District of
Columbia, and any Trust Territory of the U.S.
(5) An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount
of time estimated for an average respondent to respond: It is estimated
that it will take the 200 respondents (Arrest Program grantees)
approximately one hour to complete a semi-annual progress report. The
semi-annual progress report is divided into sections that pertain to
the different types of activities that grantees may engage in, i.e.,
training or developing a protection order registry, and the different
types of grantees that receive funds, i.e., law enforcement agencies,
prosecutors' offices, courts, victim services agencies, etc. An Arrest
Program grantee will only be required to complete those sections of the
form that pertain to their own specific activities.
(6) An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated
with the collection: The total annual hour burden to complete the data
collection forms is 400 hours, that is 200 grantees completing a form
twice a year with an estimate completion time for the form being one
hour.
If additional information is required contact: Lynn Bryant, Deputy
Clearance Officer, United States Department of Justice, Justice
Management Division, Policy and Planning Staff, Suite 1600, Patrick
Henry Building, 601 D Street NW., Washington, DC 20530.
Dated: January 14, 2008.
Lynn Bryant,
Department Clearance Officer, PRA, United States Department of Justice.
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