The Bureau of Justice Statistics encourages comments for 60 days until August 10, 2015, on a proposed extension of the National Corrections Reporting Program and reinstatement of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Identity Theft Supplement (ITS) . Your comments to BJS’s requests to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), published in the Federal Register, should address points such as
- whether the proposed data collection is necessary, including whether the information will have practical utility
- the accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the burden of the proposed information collection, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
- whether and how the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected can be enhanced
- the burden of the information collection on respondents, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques.