82_FR_13554 82 FR 13507 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Request for Comments; Revision of the BJS Confidentiality Pledge

82 FR 13507 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Request for Comments; Revision of the BJS Confidentiality Pledge

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 47 (March 13, 2017)

Page Range13507-13509
FR Document2017-04886

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a component of the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), is seeking comments on revisions to the confidentiality pledge it provides to its respondents. These revisions are required by the passage and implementation of provisions of the federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, which requires the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide Federal civilian agencies' information technology systems with cybersecurity protection for their Internet traffic. More details on this announcement are presented in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below.

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Agency Information Collection Activities; Request for Comments; 
Revision of the BJS Confidentiality Pledge

AGENCY: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a component of the 
Office of Justice Programs (OJP) in the U.S. Department of Justice 
(DOJ), is seeking comments on revisions to the confidentiality pledge 
it provides to its respondents. These revisions are required by the 
passage and implementation of provisions of the federal Cybersecurity 
Enhancement Act of 2015, which requires the Secretary of the Department 
of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide Federal civilian agencies' 
information technology systems with cybersecurity protection for their 
Internet traffic. More details on this announcement are presented in 
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below.

DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for 60 days until 
May 12, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Questions about this notice should be addressed to the 
Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. 
Department of Justice, ATTN: Devon Adams, 810 7th Street NW., 
Washington, DC 20531 (email: [email protected]; telephone: 202-307-
0765 (this is not a toll-free number).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Allina Lee by telephone at 202-305-
0765 (this is not a toll-free number); by email at 
[email protected]; or by mail or courier to the Bureau of Justice 
Statistics, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, 
ATTN: Allina Lee, 810 7th Street NW., Washington, DC 20531. Because of 
delays in the receipt of regular mail related to security screening, 
respondents are encouraged to use electronic communications.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract

    Federal statistics provide key information that the Nation uses to 
measure its performance and make informed choices about budgets, 
employment, health, investments, taxes, and a host of other significant 
topics. Most federal surveys are completed on a voluntary basis. 
Respondents, ranging from businesses to households to institutions, may 
choose whether or not to provide the requested information. Many of the 
most valuable federal statistics come from surveys that ask for highly 
sensitive information such as proprietary business data from companies 
or particularly personal information or practices from individuals. BJS 
protects all personally identifiable information collected under its 
authority under the confidentiality provisions of 42 U.S.C. 3789(g). 
Strong and trusted confidentiality and exclusively statistical use 
pledges under 42 U.S.C. 3789(g) and similar statutes are effective and 
necessary in honoring the trust that businesses, individuals, and 
institutions, by their responses, place in statistical agencies.
    Under statistical confidentiality protection statutes, federal 
statistical agencies make statutory pledges that the information 
respondents provide will be

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seen only by statistical agency personnel or their agents and will be 
used only for statistical purposes. These statutes protect such 
statistical information from administrative, law enforcement, taxation, 
regulatory, or any other non-statistical use and immunize the 
information submitted to statistical agencies from legal process. 
Moreover, many of these statutes carry monetary fines and/or criminal 
penalties for conviction of a knowing and willful unauthorized 
disclosure of covered information. Any person violating the 
confidentiality provisions of 42 U.S.C. 3789(g) may be punished by a 
fine of up to $10,000, in addition to any other penalties imposed by 
law.
    As part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2016 
(Pub. L. 114-113) signed on December 17, 2015, the Congress included 
the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 (codified in relevant 
part at 6 U.S.C. 151). This act, among other provisions, permits and 
requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide federal civilian 
agencies' information technology systems with cybersecurity protection 
for their Internet traffic. The technology currently used to provide 
this protection against cyber malware is known as Einstein 3A. Einstein 
3A electronically searches internet traffic in and out of federal 
civilian agencies in real time for malware signatures.
    When such a signature is found, the internet packets that contain 
the malware signature are shunted aside for further inspection by DHS 
personnel. Because it is possible that such packets entering or leaving 
a statistical agency's information technology system may contain a 
small portion of confidential statistical data, statistical agencies 
can no longer promise their respondents that their responses will be 
seen only by statistical agency personnel or their agents. However, 
federal statistical agencies can promise, in accordance with provisions 
of the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, that such 
monitoring can be used only to protect information and information 
systems from cybersecurity risks, thereby, in effect, providing 
stronger protection to the integrity of the respondents' submissions.
    Consequently, with the passage of the Federal Cybersecurity 
Enhancement Act of 2015, the federal statistical community has an 
opportunity to welcome the further protection of its confidential data 
offered by DHS' Einstein 3A cybersecurity protection program. The DHS 
cybersecurity program's objective is to protect federal civilian 
information systems from malicious malware attacks. The federal 
statistical system's objective is to endeavor to ensure that the DHS 
Secretary performs those essential duties in a manner that honors the 
statistical agencies' statutory promises to the public to protect their 
confidential data. DHS and the federal statistical system have been 
successfully engaged in finding a way to balance both objectives and 
achieve these mutually reinforcing objectives.
    However, pledges of confidentiality made pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 
3789(g) and similar statutes assure respondents that their data will be 
seen only by statistical agency personnel or their agents. Because it 
is possible that DHS personnel could see some portion of those 
confidential data in the course of examining the suspicious Internet 
packets identified by Einstein 3A sensors, statistical agencies are 
revising their confidentiality pledges to reflect this process change. 
Therefore, BJS is providing this notice to alert the public to these 
confidentiality pledge revisions in an efficient and coordinated 
fashion.

II. Method of Collection

    The following is the revised statistical confidentiality pledge for 
applicable BJS data collections, with the new line added to address the 
new cybersecurity monitoring activities bolded for reference only:
    ``The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is authorized to conduct 
this data collection under 42 U.S.C. 3732. BJS is dedicated to 
maintaining the confidentiality of your personally identifiable 
information, and will protect it to the fullest extent under federal 
law. BJS, BJS employees, and BJS data collection agents will use the 
information you provide for statistical or research purposes only, and 
will not disclose your information in identifiable form without your 
consent to anyone outside of the BJS project team. All personally 
identifiable data collected under BJS's authority are protected under 
the confidentiality provisions of 42 U.S.C. 3789g, and any person who 
violates these provisions may be punished by a fine up to $10,000, in 
addition to any other penalties imposed by law. Further, per the 
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 (codified in relevant part at 6 
U.S.C. 151), federal information systems are protected from malicious 
activities through cybersecurity screening of transmitted data. For 
more information on the federal statutes, regulations, and other 
authorities that govern how BJS, BJS employees, and BJS data collection 
agents collect, handle, store, disseminate, and protect your 
information, see the BJS Data Protection Guidelines--(https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/BJS_Data_Protection_Guidelines.pdf).''
    The following listing shows the current BJS Paperwork Reduction Act 
(PRA) OMB numbers and information collection titles whose 
confidentiality pledges will change to reflect the statutory 
implementation of DHS' Einstein 3A monitoring for cybersecurity 
protection purposes.

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             OMB control No.               Information collection title
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1121-0094...............................  Deaths in Custody Reporting
                                           Program.
1121-0065...............................  National Corrections Reporting
                                           Program.
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    Affected Public: Survey respondents to applicable BJS information 
collections.
    Total Respondents: Unchanged from current collection.
    Frequency: Unchanged from current collection.
    Total Responses: Unchanged from current collection.
    Average Time per Response: Unchanged from current collection.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: Unchanged from current collection.
    Estimated Total Cost: Unchanged from current collection.
    BJS has also added information about the Cybersecurity Enhancement 
Act and Einstein 3A to the BJS Data Protection Guidelines to provide 
more details to interested respondents about the new cybersecurity 
monitoring requirements. The following text has been added to Section 
V. Information System Security and Privacy Requirements:
    ``The Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 (codified in relevant 
part at 6 U.S.C. 151) required the Department of Homeland Security 
(DHS) to provide cybersecurity protection for federal civilian agency 
information technology systems and to conduct cybersecurity screening 
of the Internet traffic going in and out of these systems to look for 
viruses, malware, and other cybersecurity threats. DHS has implemented 
this requirement by instituting procedures such that, if a potentially 
malicious malware signature were found, the Internet packets that 
contain the malware signature would be further inspected, pursuant to 
any required legal process, to identify and mitigate the cybersecurity 
threat. In accordance with the Act's provisions, DHS conducts these 
cybersecurity screening activities solely to protect federal 
information and information systems from cybersecurity risks. To

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comply with the Act's requirements and to increase the protection of 
information from cybersecurity threats, OJP facilitates, through the 
DOJ Trusted Internet Connection and DHS's EINSTEIN 3A system, the 
inspection of all information transmitted to and from OJP systems 
including, but not limited to, respondent data collected and maintained 
by BJS.''
    The Census Bureau collects data on behalf of BJS for BJS's National 
Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and its supplements. These 
collections are protected under Title 13 U.S.C. 9. The Census Bureau 
issued a Federal Register notice (FRN) to revise its confidentiality 
pledge language to address the new cybersecurity screening requirements 
(new line bolded for reference only):
    ``The U.S. Census Bureau is required by law to protect your 
information. The Census Bureau is not permitted to publicly release 
your responses in a way that could identify you. Per the Federal 
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, your data are protected from 
cybersecurity risks through screening of the systems that transmit your 
data.''
    The following listing includes the BJS information collections that 
are administered by the Census Bureau whose confidentiality pledge will 
be revised.

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             OMB control No.               Information collection title
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1121-0111...............................  NCVS.
1121-0184...............................  School Crime Supplement to the
                                           NCVS.
1121-0317...............................  Identity Theft Supplement to
                                           the NCVS.
1121-0260...............................  Police Public Contact
                                           Supplement to the NCVS.
1121-0302...............................  Supplemental Victimization
                                           Survey to the NCVS.
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    Affected Public: Survey respondents to applicable BJS information 
collections.
    Total Respondents: Unchanged from current collection.
    Frequency: Unchanged from current collection.
    Total Responses: Unchanged from current collection.
    Average Time per Response: Unchanged from current collection.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: Unchanged from current collection.
    Estimated Total Cost: Unchanged from current collection.
    The 60-day FRN submitted by the Census Bureau can be accessed at 
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/23/2016-30959/agency-information-collection-activities-request-for-comments-revision-of-the-confidentiality-pledge. The Census Bureau will publish a 30-day FRN to 
solicit additional public comment. Comments on the Census Bureau's 
revised confidentiality pledge should be submitted directly to the 
point-of-contact listed in the notice.

III. Data

    OMB Control Number: 1121-0358.
    Legal Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(e) and 42 U.S.C. 3789(g).
    Form Number(s): None.

IV. Request for Comments

    Comments are invited on the efficacy of BJS's revised 
confidentiality pledge above. Comments submitted in response to this 
notice will become a matter of public record. 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: March 8, 2017.
Melody Braswell,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. Department of Justice.
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                                                  difference between NIBRS and the                           5. An estimate of the total number of              the Department of Homeland Security
                                                  traditional Summary Reporting System                    respondents and the amount of time                    (DHS) to provide Federal civilian
                                                  (SRS) is the degree of detail in reporting.             estimated for an average respondent to                agencies’ information technology
                                                  In reporting data via the traditional SRS,              respond: There are approximately 6,648                systems with cybersecurity protection
                                                  law enforcement agencies tally the                      law enforcement agencies. The amount                  for their Internet traffic. More details on
                                                  occurrences of eight Part I crimes.                     of time estimated for an average                      this announcement are presented in the
                                                  NIBRS is capable of producing more                      respondent to respond is two hours                    SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section
                                                  detailed, accurate, and meaningful data                 monthly which totals to an annual hour                below.
                                                  because data are collected about when                   burden of 24 hours. The two hours to                  DATES: Comments are encouraged and
                                                  and where crime takes place, what form                  respond is the time it takes for the                  will be accepted for 60 days until May
                                                  it takes, and the characteristics of its                agencies records management system                    12, 2017.
                                                  victims and perpetrators. Although most                 (RMS) to download the NIBRS and send                  ADDRESSES: Questions about this notice
                                                  of the general concepts for collecting,                 to the FBI. By design, law enforcement                should be addressed to the Bureau of
                                                  scoring, and reporting UCR data in the                  agencies generate NIBRS data as a by-                 Justice Statistics, Office of Justice
                                                  SRS apply in the NIBRS, such as                         product of their RMS. Therefore, a law                Programs, U.S. Department of Justice,
                                                  jurisdictional rules, there are some                    enforcement agency builds its system to               ATTN: Devon Adams, 810 7th Street
                                                  important differences in the two                        suit its own individual needs, including              NW., Washington, DC 20531 (email:
                                                  systems. The most notable differences                   all of the information required for                   Devon.Adams@usdoj.gov; telephone:
                                                  that give the NIBRS an advantage over                   administration and operation; then                    202–307–0765 (this is not a toll-free
                                                  the SRS are: No Hierarchy Rule, in a                    forwards only the data required by the                number).
                                                  multiple-offense incident NIBRS reports                 NIBRS to participate in the FBI UCR
                                                                                                          Program.                                              FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
                                                  every offense occurring during the                                                                            Allina Lee by telephone at 202–305–
                                                                                                             6. An estimate of the total public
                                                  incident where SRS would report just                    burden (in hours) associated with the                 0765 (this is not a toll-free number); by
                                                  the most serious offense and the lower-                 collection: There are approximately                   email at Allina.Lee@usdoj.gov; or by
                                                  listed offense would not be reported;                   159,552 hours, annual burden,                         mail or courier to the Bureau of Justice
                                                  NIBRS provides revised, expanded, and                   associated with this information                      Statistics, Office of Justice Programs,
                                                  new offense definitions; NIBRS provides                 collection. The total number of                       U.S. Department of Justice, ATTN:
                                                  more specificity in reporting offenses,                 respondents is 6,648 with a total annual              Allina Lee, 810 7th Street NW.,
                                                  using NIBRS offense and arrest data for                 hour burden of 24 hours (6,648 × 24 =                 Washington, DC 20531. Because of
                                                  24 Group A offense categories can be                    159,552 total annual hours).                          delays in the receipt of regular mail
                                                  reported while in the SRS eight Part I                     If additional information is required              related to security screening,
                                                  offenses can be reported; NIBRS can                     contact: Melody Braswell, Department                  respondents are encouraged to use
                                                  distinguish between attempted and                       Clearance Officer, United States                      electronic communications.
                                                  completed Group A crimes; NIBRS also                    Department of Justice, Justice                        SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
                                                  provides crimes against society while                   Management Division, Policy and                       I. Abstract
                                                  the SRS does not; the victim-to-offender                Planning Staff, Two Constitution
                                                  data, circumstance reporting, drug                      Square, 145 N Street NE., 3E.405A,                       Federal statistics provide key
                                                  related offenses, offenders suspected use               Washington, DC 20530.                                 information that the Nation uses to
                                                  of drugs, and computer crime is                                                                               measure its performance and make
                                                                                                            Dated: March 8, 2017.                               informed choices about budgets,
                                                  expanded in NIBRS; the NIBRS update                     Melody Braswell,
                                                  reports are directly tied to the original                                                                     employment, health, investments, taxes,
                                                                                                          Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S.            and a host of other significant topics.
                                                  incident submitted. The Group A                         Department of Justice.                                Most federal surveys are completed on
                                                  offense categories include animal                       [FR Doc. 2017–04871 Filed 3–10–17; 8:45 am]           a voluntary basis. Respondents, ranging
                                                  cruelty, arson, assault offenses, bribery,
                                                                                                          BILLING CODE 4410–02–P                                from businesses to households to
                                                  burglary/breaking and entering,                                                                               institutions, may choose whether or not
                                                  counterfeiting/forgery, destruction/                                                                          to provide the requested information.
                                                  damage/vandalism of property, drug/                     DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE                                 Many of the most valuable federal
                                                  narcotic offenses, embezzlement,                                                                              statistics come from surveys that ask for
                                                  extortion/blackmail, fraud offenses,                    Agency Information Collection                         highly sensitive information such as
                                                  gambling offenses, homicide offenses,                   Activities; Request for Comments;                     proprietary business data from
                                                  human trafficking, kidnapping/                          Revision of the BJS Confidentiality                   companies or particularly personal
                                                  abduction, larceny/theft offenses, motor                Pledge                                                information or practices from
                                                  vehicle theft, pornography/obscene                      AGENCY: Bureau of Justice Statistics,                 individuals. BJS protects all personally
                                                  material, prostitution offenses, robbery,               U.S. Department of Justice.                           identifiable information collected under
                                                  sex offenses, sex offenses/nonforcible,                                                                       its authority under the confidentiality
                                                                                                          ACTION: Notice.
                                                  stolen property offenses, and weapon                                                                          provisions of 42 U.S.C. 3789(g). Strong
                                                  law violations. The Group B offense                     SUMMARY:    The Bureau of Justice                     and trusted confidentiality and
                                                  categories include bad checks, curfew/                  Statistics (BJS), a component of the                  exclusively statistical use pledges under
                                                  loitering/vagrancy violations, disorderly               Office of Justice Programs (OJP) in the               42 U.S.C. 3789(g) and similar statutes
                                                  conduct, DUI, drunkenness, family                       U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), is                  are effective and necessary in honoring
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                                                  offenses/nonviolent, liquor law                         seeking comments on revisions to the                  the trust that businesses, individuals,
                                                  violations, peeping tom, trespass of real               confidentiality pledge it provides to its             and institutions, by their responses,
                                                  property, and all other offenses.                       respondents. These revisions are                      place in statistical agencies.
                                                  Beginning in 2019, the NIBRS will also                  required by the passage and                              Under statistical confidentiality
                                                  collect additional data values to capture               implementation of provisions of the                   protection statutes, federal statistical
                                                  data on domestic violence, cargo theft,                 federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act                 agencies make statutory pledges that the
                                                  and negligent manslaughter.                             of 2015, which requires the Secretary of              information respondents provide will be


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                                                  seen only by statistical agency                         malicious malware attacks. The federal                store, disseminate, and protect your
                                                  personnel or their agents and will be                   statistical system’s objective is to                  information, see the BJS Data Protection
                                                  used only for statistical purposes. These               endeavor to ensure that the DHS                       Guidelines—(https://www.bjs.gov/
                                                  statutes protect such statistical                       Secretary performs those essential                    content/pub/pdf/BJS_Data_Protection_
                                                  information from administrative, law                    duties in a manner that honors the                    Guidelines.pdf).’’
                                                  enforcement, taxation, regulatory, or any               statistical agencies’ statutory promises                The following listing shows the
                                                  other non-statistical use and immunize                  to the public to protect their                        current BJS Paperwork Reduction Act
                                                  the information submitted to statistical                confidential data. DHS and the federal                (PRA) OMB numbers and information
                                                  agencies from legal process. Moreover,                  statistical system have been successfully             collection titles whose confidentiality
                                                  many of these statutes carry monetary                   engaged in finding a way to balance                   pledges will change to reflect the
                                                  fines and/or criminal penalties for                     both objectives and achieve these                     statutory implementation of DHS’
                                                  conviction of a knowing and willful                     mutually reinforcing objectives.                      Einstein 3A monitoring for
                                                  unauthorized disclosure of covered                        However, pledges of confidentiality                 cybersecurity protection purposes.
                                                  information. Any person violating the                   made pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 3789(g) and
                                                  confidentiality provisions of 42 U.S.C.                 similar statutes assure respondents that                OMB control No.          Information collection
                                                  3789(g) may be punished by a fine of up                 their data will be seen only by statistical                                               title
                                                  to $10,000, in addition to any other                    agency personnel or their agents.
                                                                                                                                                                1121–0094 .............   Deaths in Custody Re-
                                                  penalties imposed by law.                               Because it is possible that DHS                                                   porting Program.
                                                     As part of the Consolidated                          personnel could see some portion of                   1121–0065 .............   National Corrections
                                                  Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2016                 those confidential data in the course of                                          Reporting Program.
                                                  (Pub. L. 114–113) signed on December                    examining the suspicious Internet
                                                  17, 2015, the Congress included the                     packets identified by Einstein 3A                        Affected Public: Survey respondents
                                                  Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act                   sensors, statistical agencies are revising            to applicable BJS information
                                                  of 2015 (codified in relevant part at 6                 their confidentiality pledges to reflect              collections.
                                                  U.S.C. 151). This act, among other                      this process change. Therefore, BJS is                   Total Respondents: Unchanged from
                                                  provisions, permits and requires the                    providing this notice to alert the public             current collection.
                                                  Secretary of Homeland Security to                       to these confidentiality pledge revisions                Frequency: Unchanged from current
                                                  provide federal civilian agencies’                      in an efficient and coordinated fashion.              collection.
                                                  information technology systems with                                                                              Total Responses: Unchanged from
                                                                                                          II. Method of Collection                              current collection.
                                                  cybersecurity protection for their
                                                  Internet traffic. The technology                           The following is the revised statistical              Average Time per Response:
                                                  currently used to provide this protection               confidentiality pledge for applicable BJS             Unchanged from current collection.
                                                  against cyber malware is known as                       data collections, with the new line                      Estimated Total Burden Hours:
                                                  Einstein 3A. Einstein 3A electronically                 added to address the new cybersecurity                Unchanged from current collection.
                                                  searches internet traffic in and out of                 monitoring activities bolded for                         Estimated Total Cost: Unchanged
                                                  federal civilian agencies in real time for              reference only:                                       from current collection.
                                                  malware signatures.                                        ‘‘The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)              BJS has also added information about
                                                     When such a signature is found, the                  is authorized to conduct this data                    the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act and
                                                  internet packets that contain the                       collection under 42 U.S.C. 3732. BJS is               Einstein 3A to the BJS Data Protection
                                                  malware signature are shunted aside for                 dedicated to maintaining the                          Guidelines to provide more details to
                                                  further inspection by DHS personnel.                    confidentiality of your personally                    interested respondents about the new
                                                  Because it is possible that such packets                identifiable information, and will                    cybersecurity monitoring requirements.
                                                  entering or leaving a statistical agency’s              protect it to the fullest extent under                The following text has been added to
                                                  information technology system may                       federal law. BJS, BJS employees, and                  Section V. Information System Security
                                                  contain a small portion of confidential                 BJS data collection agents will use the               and Privacy Requirements:
                                                  statistical data, statistical agencies can              information you provide for statistical                  ‘‘The Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
                                                  no longer promise their respondents                     or research purposes only, and will not               of 2015 (codified in relevant part at 6
                                                  that their responses will be seen only by               disclose your information in identifiable             U.S.C. 151) required the Department of
                                                  statistical agency personnel or their                   form without your consent to anyone                   Homeland Security (DHS) to provide
                                                  agents. However, federal statistical                    outside of the BJS project team. All                  cybersecurity protection for federal
                                                  agencies can promise, in accordance                     personally identifiable data collected                civilian agency information technology
                                                  with provisions of the Federal                          under BJS’s authority are protected                   systems and to conduct cybersecurity
                                                  Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of                        under the confidentiality provisions of               screening of the Internet traffic going in
                                                  2015, that such monitoring can be used                  42 U.S.C. 3789g, and any person who                   and out of these systems to look for
                                                  only to protect information and                         violates these provisions may be                      viruses, malware, and other
                                                  information systems from cybersecurity                  punished by a fine up to $10,000, in                  cybersecurity threats. DHS has
                                                  risks, thereby, in effect, providing                    addition to any other penalties imposed               implemented this requirement by
                                                  stronger protection to the integrity of the             by law. Further, per the                              instituting procedures such that, if a
                                                  respondents’ submissions.                               Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of                      potentially malicious malware signature
                                                     Consequently, with the passage of the                2015 (codified in relevant part at 6                  were found, the Internet packets that
                                                  Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act                   U.S.C. 151), federal information                      contain the malware signature would be
                                                  of 2015, the federal statistical                        systems are protected from                            further inspected, pursuant to any
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                                                  community has an opportunity to                         malicious activities through                          required legal process, to identify and
                                                  welcome the further protection of its                   cybersecurity screening of                            mitigate the cybersecurity threat. In
                                                  confidential data offered by DHS’                       transmitted data. For more                            accordance with the Act’s provisions,
                                                  Einstein 3A cybersecurity protection                    information on the federal statutes,                  DHS conducts these cybersecurity
                                                  program. The DHS cybersecurity                          regulations, and other authorities that               screening activities solely to protect
                                                  program’s objective is to protect federal               govern how BJS, BJS employees, and BJS                federal information and information
                                                  civilian information systems from                       data collection agents collect, handle,               systems from cybersecurity risks. To


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                                                  comply with the Act’s requirements and                  documents/2016/12/23/2016-30959/                      scheduled from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
                                                  to increase the protection of information               agency-information-collection-activities-             and will be open to the public on a
                                                  from cybersecurity threats, OJP                         request-for-comments-revision-of-the-                 space available basis. The tentative
                                                  facilitates, through the DOJ Trusted                    confidentiality-pledge. The Census                    agenda is as follows: The meeting will
                                                  Internet Connection and DHS’s                           Bureau will publish a 30-day FRN to                   begin at 9:00 a.m. with opening remarks
                                                  EINSTEIN 3A system, the inspection of                   solicit additional public comment.                    and voting on recommendations for
                                                  all information transmitted to and from                 Comments on the Census Bureau’s                       funding and rejection and guidelines,
                                                  OJP systems including, but not limited                  revised confidentiality pledge should be              followed by updates from the Chairman.
                                                  to, respondent data collected and                       submitted directly to the point-of-                   There also will be presentations related
                                                  maintained by BJS.’’                                    contact listed in the notice.                         to several Arts Education projects
                                                     The Census Bureau collects data on                                                                         supported by the National Endowment
                                                                                                          III. Data
                                                  behalf of BJS for BJS’s National Crime
                                                                                                            OMB Control Number: 1121–0358.                      for the Arts, including: The Regional
                                                  Victimization Survey (NCVS) and its
                                                                                                            Legal Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(e) and              Arts and Culture Council (Oregon)
                                                  supplements. These collections are
                                                                                                          42 U.S.C. 3789(g).                                    presenting on their Right Brain
                                                  protected under Title 13 U.S.C. 9. The
                                                  Census Bureau issued a Federal                            Form Number(s): None.                               Initiative; Paper Mill Playhouse (New
                                                  Register notice (FRN) to revise its                                                                           Jersey) presenting on their autism-
                                                                                                          IV. Request for Comments                              friendly theater performances;
                                                  confidentiality pledge language to
                                                  address the new cybersecurity screening                    Comments are invited on the efficacy               Architecture Resource Center
                                                  requirements (new line bolded for                       of BJS’s revised confidentiality pledge               (Connecticut) presenting on their design
                                                  reference only):                                        above. Comments submitted in response                 education program; ProjectSTEP
                                                     ‘‘The U.S. Census Bureau is required                 to this notice will become a matter of                (Massachusetts) presenting on their
                                                  by law to protect your information. The                 public record. If additional information              music education program, including a
                                                  Census Bureau is not permitted to                       is required contact: Melody Braswell,                 student presentation/performance; and
                                                  publicly release your responses in a way                Department Clearance Officer, United                  Adventure Theatre (Maryland)
                                                  that could identify you. Per the                        States Department of Justice, Justice                 presenting on its programs, including a
                                                  Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement                       Management Division, Policy and                       vocal performance by students. After the
                                                  Act of 2015, your data are protected                    Planning Staff, Two Constitution                      presentations there will be concluding
                                                  from cybersecurity risks through                        Square, 145 N Street NE., 3E.405A,                    remarks from the Chairman and
                                                  screening of the systems that                           Washington, DC 20530.                                 announcement of voting results. The
                                                  transmit your data.’’                                     Dated: March 8, 2017.                               meeting will adjourn at 12:00 p.m.
                                                     The following listing includes the BJS               Melody Braswell,
                                                  information collections that are                                                                                 The session also will be webcast. To
                                                                                                          Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S.            register to watch the webcasting of this
                                                  administered by the Census Bureau                       Department of Justice
                                                  whose confidentiality pledge will be                                                                          open session of the meeting, go to
                                                                                                          [FR Doc. 2017–04886 Filed 3–10–17; 8:45 am]           https://www.arts.gov/event/2017/
                                                  revised.                                                BILLING CODE 4410–18–P                                national-council-arts-march-2017-
                                                                             Information collection                                                             webcast.
                                                    OMB control No.                   title                                                                        If, in the course of the open session
                                                                                                          NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE
                                                  1121–0111 .............   NCVS.                         ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES                               discussion, it becomes necessary for the
                                                  1121–0184 .............   School Crime Supple-                                                                Council to discuss non-public
                                                                              ment to the NCVS.           National Endowment for the Arts                       commercial or financial information of
                                                  1121–0317 .............   Identity Theft Supple-                                                              intrinsic value, the Council will go into
                                                                              ment to the NCVS.           National Council on the Arts 190th                    closed session pursuant to subsection
                                                  1121–0260 .............   Police Public Contact         Meeting                                               (c)(4) of the Government in the
                                                                              Supplement to the
                                                                              NCVS.                       AGENCY:  National Endowment for the                   Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552b, and in
                                                  1121–0302 .............   Supplemental Victimiza-       Arts, National Foundation on the Arts                 accordance with the July 5, 2016
                                                                              tion Survey to the          and Humanities.                                       determination of the Chairman.
                                                                              NCVS.                                                                             Additionally, discussion concerning
                                                                                                          ACTION: Notice of meeting.
                                                                                                                                                                purely personal information about
                                                     Affected Public: Survey respondents                  SUMMARY:   Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of            individuals, such as personal
                                                  to applicable BJS information                           the Federal Advisory Committee Act                    biographical and salary data or medical
                                                  collections.                                            (Pub. L. 92–463), as amended, notice is               information, may be conducted by the
                                                     Total Respondents: Unchanged from                    hereby given that a meeting of the                    Council in closed session in accordance
                                                  current collection.                                     National Council on the Arts will be                  with subsection (c)(6) of 5 U.S.C. 552b.
                                                     Frequency: Unchanged from current                    held in Conference Rooms A & B at
                                                  collection.                                                                                                      Any interested persons may attend, as
                                                                                                          Constitution Center, 400 7th St. SW.,                 observers, Council discussions and
                                                     Total Responses: Unchanged from                      Washington, DC 20506. Agenda times
                                                  current collection.                                                                                           reviews that are open to the public. If
                                                                                                          are approximate.
                                                     Average Time per Response:                                                                                 you need special accommodations due
                                                                                                          DATES: Friday, March 31, 2017 from 9:00               to a disability, please contact the Office
                                                  Unchanged from current collection.
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                                                     Estimated Total Burden Hours:                        a.m. to 12:00 p.m.                                    of Accessibility, National Endowment
                                                  Unchanged from current collection.                      FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:                      for the Arts, Constitution Center, 400
                                                     Estimated Total Cost: Unchanged                      Office of Public Affairs, National                    7th St. SW., Washington, DC 20506,
                                                  from current collection.                                Endowment for the Arts, Washington,                   202/682–5567, Voice/T.T.Y. 202/682–
                                                     The 60-day FRN submitted by the                      DC 20506, at 202/682–5570.                            5496, at least seven (7) days prior to the
                                                  Census Bureau can be accessed at                        SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The                        meeting.
                                                  https://www.federalregister.gov/                        meeting, in Conference Rooms A & B, is


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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesComments are encouraged and will be accepted for 60 days until May 12, 2017.
ContactAllina Lee by telephone at 202-305- 0765 (this is not a toll-free number); by email at [email protected]; or by mail or courier to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, ATTN: Allina Lee, 810 7th Street NW., Washington, DC 20531. Because of delays in the receipt of regular mail related to security screening, respondents are encouraged to use electronic communications.
FR Citation82 FR 13507 

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