[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 208 (Friday, October 28, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65252-65253]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-23487]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Federal Bureau of Investigation

[OMB Number 1110-0001]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection; 
eComments Requested; Revision of a Currently Approved Collection; 
Return A--Monthly Return of Offenses Known to Police and Supplement to 
Return A--Monthly Return of Offenses Known to Police

AGENCY: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.

ACTION: 30-Day notice.

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SUMMARY: The Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division, 
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Justice (DOJ), 
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. This proposed 
information collection was previously published in the Federal Register 
on August 1, 2022, allowing for a 60-day comment period.

DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for an additional 
30 days until November 28, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Written comments and/or suggestions 
regarding the items contained in this notice, especially the estimated 
burden and associated response time, should be directed to Mr. Edward 
Abraham, Unit Chief, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice 
Information Services Division, Module D-1, 1000 Custer Hollow Road, 
Clarksburg, West Virginia 26306, telephone 304-625-4830. Written 
comments and/or suggestions can also be sent to the Office of 
Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 
Attention: Department of Justice Desk Officer, Washington, DC 20503 or 
send to [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 proposed 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;
     Evaluate 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. Title of the Form/Collection: Return A--Monthly Return of 
Offenses Known to Police and Supplement to Return A--Monthly Return of 
Offenses Known to Police and Supplement of Return A--Monthly Return of 
Offenses Known to Police.
    3. Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the 
Department sponsoring the collection: Form Number: 1-720 and 1-706. 
Sponsor: Criminal Justice Information Services Division, Federal Bureau 
of Investigation, Department of Justice.

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    4. Affected public will be asked or required to respond, and a 
brief abstract: Federal, state, county, city, and tribal law 
enforcement agencies. Abstract: This collection requests Part I offense 
and clearance data, and stolen and recovered monetary values of stolen 
property throughout the United States from federal, state, county, 
city, and tribal law enforcement agencies in order for the FBI's 
Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program to serve as the national 
clearinghouse for the collection and dissemination of crime data and to 
publish these statistics in Crime in the United States.
    5. An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount of 
time estimated for an average respondent to respond/reply: There are 
approximately 18,600 law enforcement agencies within the universe of 
potential respondents. Due to the recent National Incident-Based 
Reporting System (NIBRS) transition, the UCR Program is no longer 
accepting new monthly submissions from Return A and Supplement to 
Return A data using this clearance. This clearance is being maintained 
to allow the submission of updates to past Summary Reporting System 
(SRS) submissions that were provided by agencies prior to the 2021 
NIBRS transition. The submission of updates to past data is strictly 
voluntary and at the discretion of the contributing agency. Based on 
existing reporting patterns, the UCR Program has received 87,059 Return 
A and Supplement to Return A update submissions from 5,580 responding 
agencies in 2021 with an estimated response time of 10 minutes per 
response for Return A and 11 minutes for Supplement to Return A on this 
form. This number has changed from the 60-day notice due to a 
recalculation of the data available to the program. In order to provide 
a singular calculation of the estimated burden, the approximate minutes 
per response calculation is averaged between the Return A and 
Supplement to Return A forms. This results in a calculation of 10.5 
minutes per response for the entire 1110-0001 clearance. The total 
burden for this clearance is determined by taking the 87,059 total 
responses received multiplied by the average minutes per response of 
10.5 minutes per response. This provides a total minute of burden of 
914,119.5 minutes. Converted to hours, the total number of burden hours 
for this collection is 15,235 hours. As the UCR Program moves further 
from the NIBRS transition, it is expected the total number of updates 
will steadily decline, mainly due to the updates being done through 
NIBRS on a more frequent basis. However, due to the need for these 
updates, the burden hour estimate is based on the most recent 
submission volumes to achieve the highest possible burden estimate.
    6. An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated 
with the collection: There are approximately 15,235 hours, annual 
burden, associated with this information collection.
    If additional information is required contact: Robert Houser, 
Department Clearance Officer, Policy and Planning Staff, Office of the 
Chief Information Officer, Justice Management Division, United States 
Department of Justice, Two Constitution Square, 145 N Street NE, 3.E-
206, Washington, DC 20530.

    Dated: October 25, 2022.
Robert Houser,
Assistant Director, Policy and Planning Staff, Office of the Chief 
Information Officer, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2022-23487 Filed 10-27-22; 8:45 am]
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