Mr. Chairman, at this point today, I can tell you that we have 691 investigations in abeyance. We've opened 1,609 investigations, and we were able to close, last year, 1,287 investigations.
The backlog we recognize as a definite problem. We are revisiting the way we do our investigations. We are looking at different processes to see how we can reduce the time delays as far as administrative as well as operational processes are concerned. We have hired, so far, five new investigators, and I'm expecting to be able to hire seven more within the next few months. And I'm hoping that within the next 24 to 30 months our backlog should be reduced considerably.