SUPPORTING STATEMENT
NEW COLLECTION
CARGO THEFT INCIDENT REPORT
A. Justification.
1. Necessity of Information Collection
Public Law 109-177 (H.R. 3199), March 9, 2006, USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005, mandates the Attorney General take the steps necessary to ensure that reports of cargo theft collected by city, county, state, federal, and tribal law enforcement agencies are reflected as a separate category in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) System by no later than December 31, 2006. In response to this congressional mandate, the FBI's UCR Program developed the Cargo Theft Incident Report to obtain cargo theft information from law enforcement agencies nationwide.
2. Needs and Uses
The FBI's UCR Program will serve as the national clearinghouse for the collection and dissemination of cargo theft crime data and will publish these statistics on an annual basis. The Cargo Theft Incident Report is a necessary mechanism to enable law enforcement agencies to report incidents of cargo theft to the FBI. These data will be utilized by the FBI to capture the essence of the national cargo theft crime problem and its negative affect on the economy of the United States. This information will serve as a valuable resource to law enforcement agencies, the academic community, government entities, the general public, and the media
3. Use of Information Technology
Even though this form was designed to be 100 percent electronic approximately 25 percent of participating law enforcement agencies will submit the Cargo Theft Incident Report hard copy. The Cargo Theft Incident Report is an interactive web-based form, which will be available online at www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm. This form is provided in a fillable PDF format to be completed and submitted electronically. Electronic submissions may be submitted via magnetic media and/or Law Enforcement Online (LEO) email attachment at ucrstat@leo.gov.
4. Efforts to Identify Duplication
Public Law 109-177 (H.R. 3199), March 9, 2006, USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005, mandates that the FBI establish a cargo theft data collection within the UCR system. The FBI's UCR Program is the only agency tasked with collecting cargo theft data.
5. Minimizing Burden on Small Businesses
This information will have no significant impact on small entities. No small business will be affected by this collection.
6. Consequences of Not Conducting or Less Frequent Collection
In order to serve as the national repository for crime reporting and to produce a reliable dataset, the FBI collects monthly data that are reported by participating UCR Program contributors. There is an ever-increasing need for timely and accurate data dissemination by the FBI to assist our partners in law enforcement.
7. Special Circumstances
All data are collected/received from UCR Program participants on a monthly basis. The FBI’s UCR Program has established various time frames and deadlines for acquiring the monthly data. Monthly reports/submissions should be received at the FBI by the seventh day after the close of each month. Annual deadlines are also designated in order to collect/assess receipt of monthly submissions. There are times when special circumstances may cause an agency to request an extension. The FBI’s UCR Program has the authority to grant these extensions. Participation in the national UCR Program is voluntary.
8. Public Comments and Consultations
The 30 and 60 day notices were published in the Federal Register (FR) and no comments were received.
9. Provision of Payments or Gifts to Respondents
The FBI’s UCR Program does not provide any payment or gift to respondents.
10. Assurance of Confidentiality
All FBI UCR Program information collections are held confidential in accordance with Title 42, United States Code, Section 3789(g). Even though this information collection does not contain personal identifier information that may reveal the identity of an individual it is obtained from public agencies and are, therefore, in the public domain.
11. Justification for Sensitive Questions
This information collection does not collect information of a sensitive nature.
12. Estimate of Respondent’s Burden
The estimated burden for the cargo theft data collection varies based upon the volume of cargo theft crimes. As a new data collection, there are no prior studies with which to estimate a respondent's burden. Therefore, according to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidelines, the UCR Program conducted an "hour burden"study with a sample of nine potential data contributors and concluded that the average time needed to complete the Cargo Theft Incident Report is five (5) minutes. The UCR Program has the potential of 17,799 participating law enforcement agencies submitting data on a monthly basis. This is 213,588 total responses at 5 minutes burden each for 17,799 full potential burden hours.
Number of respondents 17,799
Frequency of responses monthly
Total annual responses 213,588
Minutes per response 5 minutes
Annual hour burden 17,799 hours
As stated previously the number of respondents is based on the volume of cargo theft incidents. These numbers represent the maximum number of respondents and maximum burden hours possible.
13. Estimate of Cost Burden
There are no direct costs to law enforcement to participate in the UCR Program other than their time to respond. With the implantation of this new data collection within the FBI's UCR Program, law enforcement agencies will voluntarily update their computer systems. The FBI's UCR Program has made the Cargo Theft Incident Report available online free of charge.
14. Cost to Federal Government
It is difficult to estimate the annual cost to the federal government under the clearance request. The following are generalized projections based upon prior collection activity of a similar form that the FBI UCR Program uses .
Data Collection and Processing Costs
$635,291
This is a detailed cost projection provided by CJIS Financial Management Unit
Preliminary 6/12 month reports $16,192
Crime in the United States $116,745
Manuals $13,821
Special studies $168,062
Data requests $17,846
APB services $36,472
Press Releases $710
State program bulletins $5,363
Audit Reports $39,461
Summary/NIBRS data collection $74,234
Summary/NIBRS $60,140
Training materials $14,349
Training $56,016
UCR Program Development $15,880
Total cost to federal government $635,291
This projection is based on a form that is not a web-based form, so this cost burden can be over estimated.
15. Reason for Change in Burden
Not applicable. This is a new collection.
16. Anticipated Publication Plan and Schedule
Published data are derived from data submissions furnished to the FBI UCR Program from local, county, state, federal, and tribal law enforcement agencies throughout the country. Data will be published on an annual basis.
Request for missing Jan-Jun data August and September
Request for missing Jan-Dec data February and March, following year
Deadline to submit data March
Data processing/analysis July-May
Publication of data September of following year
17. Display of Expiration Date
All information collected under this clearance will display the OMB Clearance Number and expiration date.
18. Exception to the Certification Statement
No exceptions to the certification statement are requested.
B. Collection of Information Employing Statistical Methods.
This collection of information does not employ statistical methods.
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