Under U.S. Code, Title 28, Section
534, Acquisition, Preservation, and Exchange of Identification
Records; Appointment of Officials, June 11, 1930; Public Law
109-177 (H.R. 3199), March 9, 2006, USA Patriot Improvement and
Reauthorization Act of 2005; PL 110-457, Title II, Section 237(a),
(b), December 23, 2008, the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims
Reauthorization Act of 2008, and Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes
Prevention Act, April 28, 2009, this collection requests Incident
data from city, county, state, tribal and federal law enforcement
agencies in order for the FBI UCR Program to serve as the national
clearinghouse for the collection and dissemination of incident data
and to publish these statistics in Crime in the United States, Hate
Crime Statistics, and Law Enforcement Officers Killed and
Assaulted.
There is no increase in burden
on the individual respondents; however, the overall annual burden
hours have increased. This is an adjustment, a increase from 72,456
to 77040 which is an increase of 4584. This increase in burden is
due to the number of respondent agencies increasing.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.