[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 194 (Monday, October 7, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53569-53570]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-21796]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
[Docket No. TTB-2019-0001]
Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request (No. 75)
AGENCY: Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB); Treasury.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: As part of our continuing effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, we invite comments on the continuing information collection
listed below in this notice.
DATES: We must receive your written comments on or before December 6,
2019.
ADDRESSES: As described below, you may send comments on the information
collection described below using the ``Regulations.gov'' online comment
form for this document, or you may send written comments via U.S. mail
or hand delivery. We no longer accept public comments via email or fax.
Internet: To submit comments online, use the comment form
for this document posted within Docket No. TTB-2019-0001 on the
Regulations.gov e-rulemaking website at https://www.regulations.gov.
U.S. Mail: Send comments to the Paperwork Reduction Act
Officer, Regulations and Rulings Division, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and
Trade Bureau, 1310 G Street NW, Box 12, Washington, DC 20005.
Hand Delivery/Courier: Delivery comments to the Paper
Reduction Act Officer, Regulations and Rulings Division, Alcohol and
Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, 1310 G Street NW, Suite 400, Washington,
DC 20005.
You must reference the information collection's title or
recordkeeping requirement number, and OMB control number in your
comment.
You may view copies of this document, the information collection
described in it, and all comments received in response to this document
within Docket No. TTB-2019-0001 at https://www.regulations.gov. A link
to that docket is posted on the TTB website at https://www.ttb.gov/forms/comment-on-form.shtml. You may also obtain paper copies of this
document and any comments received in response to it by contacting
Michael Hoover at the addresses or telephone number shown below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Hoover, Regulations and
Rulings Division, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, 1310 G
Street NW, Box 12, Washington, DC 20005; 202-453-1039, ext. 135; or
[email protected] (please do not submit comments to this
email address).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Request for Comments
The Department of the Treasury and its Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and
Trade Bureau (TTB), as part of their continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden, invite the general public and other
Federal agencies to comment on the continuing information collection
described below in this notice, as required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be included or
summarized in our request for Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
approval of the relevant information collection. All comments are part
of the public record and subject to disclosure. Please do not include
any confidential or inappropriate material in your comments.
We invite comments on: (a) Whether this information collection is
necessary for the proper performance of the agency's functions,
including whether the information has practical utility; (b) the
accuracy of the agency's estimate of the information collection's
burden; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected; (d) ways to minimize the information
collection's burden on respondents, including through the use of
automated collection techniques or other forms of information
technology; and (e) estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of
operation, maintenance, and purchase of services to provide the
requested information.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required
to respond to, a collection of information unless the collection of
information has a valid OMB control number.
Information Collections Open for Comment
Currently, we are seeking comments on the following recordkeeping
requirement:
OMB Control No. 1513-0110
Title: Recordkeeping for Tobacco Products Removed in Bond from a
Manufacturer's Premises for Experimental Purposes--27 CFR 40.232(e).
Abstract: The IRC at 26 U.S.C. 5704(a) provides that manufacturers
of tobacco products may remove tobacco products for experimental
purposes without payment of Federal excise tax, as prescribed by
regulation. Under that authority, the TTB regulations at 27 CFR
40.232(e) require the keeping of certain usual and customary business
records regarding the description, shipment, use, and disposition of
tobacco products removed for experimental purposes outside of the
factory. These records are subject to TTB inspection and are necessary
to protect the revenue, as they allow TTB to account for the lawful
experimental use and disposition of nontaxpaid tobacco products, and to
detect diversion of such products into the domestic market.
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Current Actions: There are no changes to this information
collection or its estimated burden, and TTB is submitting it for
extension purposes only.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
Estimated Annual Burden:
Number of Respondents: 235.
Average Responses per Respondent: One.
Number of Responses: 235.
Average per-response and Total Burden: None. (Per the OMB
regulation at 5 CFR 1320.3(b)(2), there is no burden associated with
the collection of usual of customary records kept during the normal
course of business.)
Dated: September 30, 2019.
Amy R. Greenberg,
Director, Regulations and Rulings Division.
[FR Doc. 2019-21796 Filed 10-4-19; 8:45 am]
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