[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 222 (Monday, November 18, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63716-63718]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-25037]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau

[Docket No. TTB-2019-0001]


Proposed Information Collections; Comment Request (No. 76)

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 proposed or continuing information 
collections listed below in this notice.

DATES: We must receive your written comments on or before January 17, 
2020.

ADDRESSES: As described below, you may send comments on the information 
collections described in this document 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.
    Please submit separate comments for each specific information 
collection described in this document. You must reference the 
information collection's title, form or recordkeeping requirement 
number, and OMB control number (if any) in your comment.
    You may view copies of this document, the information collections 
described in it and any associated instructions, 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, the information collections 
described in it and any associated instructions, and any comments 
received in response to this document 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 proposed or continuing information 
collections 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 an 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 forms, 
letterhead applications or notices, recordkeeping requirements, 
questionnaires, or surveys:

OMB Control No. 1513-0016

    Title: Drawback on Wines Exported.
    TTB Form Number: TTB F 5120.24.
    Abstract: The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, (IRC) at 
26 U.S.C. 5062(b), provides, in general, that exporters of taxpaid 
domestic wine may claim ``drawback'' (refund) of the Federal excise tax 
paid or determined on the exported wine. Under the TTB regulations, 
exporters use form TTB F 5120.24 to document the wine's exportation and 
to submit drawback claims for the exported wine. TTB uses the provided 
information to determine if the exported wine is eligible for drawback 
and to verify the amount of drawback claimed by the exporter. This 
information is necessary to protect the revenue.
    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: 40.
     Average Responses per Respondent: 4.
     Number of Responses: 160.
     Average per-response Burden: 67 minutes.
     Total Burden: 179 hours.

OMB Control No. 1513-0031

    Title: Specific and Continuing Transportation Bonds--Distilled 
Spirits or Wines Withdrawn for Transportation to Manufacturing Bonded 
Warehouse, Class Six.

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    TTB Form Number: TTB F 5100.12 and F 5110.67.
    Abstract: The IRC at 26 U.S.C. 5214(a)(6) and 5362(c)(4) authorizes 
the transfer without payment of tax of, respectively, distilled spirits 
and wine from a bonded premises to certain customs bonded warehouses. 
Under 19 U.S.C. 1311, bonds are required for such transfers to protect 
the revenue. In order to provide proprietors of manufacturing bonded 
warehouses with operational flexibility based on individual need, TTB 
allows the filing of either a specific bond to cover a single shipment, 
using form TTB F 5100.12, or a continuing bond to cover multiple 
shipments, using form TTB F 5110.67.
    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: 50.
     Average Responses per Respondent: One.
     Number of Responses: 50.
     Average per-response Burden: 1 hour.
     Total Burden: 50 hours.

OMB Control No. 1513-0056

    Title: Distilled Spirits Plants--Transaction and Supporting 
Records.
    TTB Recordkeeping Number: TTB REC 5110/05.
    Abstract: In general, the IRC at 26 U.S.C. 5001 imposes Federal 
alcohol excise tax on distilled spirits produced or imported into the 
United States. The IRC at 26 U.S.C. 5207 provides that the proprietor 
of a distilled spirits plant (DSP) must maintain records related to 
their production, storage, denaturing, and processing activities, and 
must render reports covering those activities. In addition, other IRC 
sections, including 26 U.S.C. 5008, 5062, 5201, 5204, 5211-5215, 5223, 
5362, 5370, 5373, 5555, and 5559, place various requirements on DSPs 
that authorize or require recordkeeping. Under those IRC authorities, 
the TTB regulations in 27 CFR part 19, require DSP proprietors to keep 
records regarding their production, storage, denaturing, and processing 
activities, which DSP proprietors use to generate monthly operations 
reports (approved under other OMB control numbers) regarding those 
activities. In addition, under the regulations in 27 CFR parts 19, 26, 
27, and 28, DSP proprietors also must keep certain other records, 
including records related to shipment and transfer of alcohol, plant 
security, wine tax credit, and alternation of premises. The collected 
information is necessary to protect the revenue.
    Current Actions: There are no program changes associated with this 
information collection. However, due to a change in agency estimates 
resulting from continued growth in the number of distilled spirits 
plants in the United States, TTB is increasing the number of annual 
respondents, responses, and burden hours reported for this collection.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Businesses and other for-profits.
Estimated Annual Burden
     Number of Respondents: 3,340.
     Average Responses per Respondent: Once per year.
     Number of Responses: 3,340.
     Average per-response Burden: 21.8 hours.
     Total Burden: 72,812.

OMB Control No. 1513-0061

    Title: Letterhead Applications and Notices Relating to Denatured 
Spirits.
    TTB Recordkeeping Number: TTB REC 5150/2.
    Abstract: Under the IRC at 26 U.S.C. 5214, denatured spirits 
(alcohol to which denaturants have been added to render it unfit for 
beverage purposes) may be withdrawn from distilled spirits plants free 
of tax for nonbeverage industrial purposes in the manufacture of 
certain personal and household products. Since it is possible to 
recover potable alcohol from denatured spirits and articles made with 
denatured spirits, the IRC at 26 U.S.C. 5271-5275 sets forth provisions 
relating to denatured spirits and articles made with denatured spirits. 
Under those IRC authorities, the TTB regulations in 27 CFR part 20 
require specially denatured spirits (SDS) dealers and manufacturers of 
nonbeverage products made with denatured alcohol to apply for and 
obtain a permit. In addition, the part 20 regulations that concern this 
information collection require such permit holders to submit letterhead 
applications and notices to TTB regarding certain changes to permit 
information, use of alternate methods and emergency variations from 
requirements, adoption or use of certain formulas, discontinuance of 
business, losses in transit, and requests to waive certain sample 
shipment and invoice requirements. The information collected implements 
the IRC's statutory provisions regarding denatured spirits.
    Current Actions: While there are no changes to the information 
collected, TTB is submitting this collection as a revision as a matter 
of agency discretion. TTB notes that this collection consists of 
letterhead applications and notices submitted to TTB and, as such, this 
collection should be characterized as a reporting requirement, rather 
than as a recordkeeping requirement as previously reported. In 
addition, due to changes in agency estimates resulting from growth in 
the number of SDS dealers and in the number of nonbeverage product 
manufacturers, TTB is increasing the number of respondents, responses, 
and burden hours associated with this collection.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits; and State, local, 
and tribal governments.
Estimated Annual Burden
     Number of Respondents: 5,000.
     Average Responses per Respondent: One.
     Number of Responses: 5,000.
     Average per-response Burden: 30 minutes.
     Total Burden: 2,500 hours.

OMB Control No. 1513-0086

    Title: Marks on Equipment and Structures (TTB REC 5130/3), and 
Marks and Labels on Containers of Beer (TTB REC 5130/4).
    Abstract: Under the authority of chapter 51 of the IRC (26 U.S.C. 
chapter 51), the TTB regulations require marks, signs, and suitable 
measuring devices at breweries to identify the use and capacity of 
brewery equipment and structures and the contents of tanks, as well as 
to identify taxpaid and nontaxpaid beer. To identify products for 
purposes of administering the IRC's excise tax provisions, the TTB 
regulations also require marks, labels, and brands on kegs, cases, 
cans, and bottles of beer. These marks, labels, and brands identify the 
name or trade name of the brewer, the place of production of the beer, 
the contents of the container, and the nature of the product (beer, 
ale, etc.). The placement of the required disclosures and information 
on brewery structures, equipment, and products is a usual and customary 
business practice.
    Current Actions: There are no program changes associated with this 
information collection. However, due to a change in agency estimates 
resulting from continued growth in the number of breweries in the 
United States, TTB is increasing the number of annual respondents and 
responses reported for

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this collection. However, as an information collection involving usual 
and customary business practices, the estimated total burden associated 
with this collection requirement, zero hours, remains unchanged.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Businesses and other for-profits.
Estimated Annual Burden
     Number of Respondents: 10,000.
     Average Responses per Respondent: One.
     Number of Responses: 10,000.
     Average per-response and Total Burden: None. (Per the OMB 
regulation at 5 CFR 1320.3(b)(2), there is no burden associated with 
usual and customary business practices such as the marking and labeling 
of structures, equipment, and product containers.

OMB Control No. 1513-0111

    Title: COLAs Online Access Request.
    TTB Form Number: TTB F 5013.2.
    Abstract: Respondents use this form to apply for access to TTB's 
COLAs Online system, which allows alcohol beverage industry members to 
electronically apply for a Certificate of Label Approval (COLA) or for 
an exemption from label approval. TTB uses the provided information to 
identify the company on whose behalf the applicant claims to act, to 
verify the scope of the applicant's authority to act, and to evaluate 
the applicant's qualifications for access to the COLAs Online system 
before TTB issues that person a password allowing access to this TTB 
web-based information system. Controlling access to TTB computer 
systems is necessary to protect the COLAs Online system from 
unauthorized users and other threats.
    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: Individuals or households.
Estimated Annual Burden
     Number of Respondents: 3,000.
     Average Responses per Respondent: One.
     Number of Responses: 3,000.
     Average per-response Burden: 18 minutes.
     Total Burden: 900 hours.

OMB Control No. 1513-0124

    Title: Customer Satisfaction Surveys for Permit Applications, 
Permits Online (PONL), Formulas Online (FONL), and COLAs Online.
    Abstract: As part of TTB's efforts to improve customer service, we 
survey customers who submit applications for original or amended 
permits, or for approval of formulas or certificates of label approval 
(COLAs). These surveys assist TTB in identifying potential customer 
needs and problems, along with opportunities for improvement in our 
applications processes, with particular focus on customer experiences 
with TTB's various electronic application systems, Permits Online 
(PONL), Formulas Online (FONL), and COLAs Online.
    Current Actions: There are no changes to this voluntary 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: 30,000.
     Average Responses per Respondent: One.
     Number of Responses: 30,000.
     Average per-response Burden: 12 minutes.
     Total Burden: 6,000 hours.

    Dated: November 14, 2019.
Amy R. Greenberg,
Director, Regulations and Rulings Division.
[FR Doc. 2019-25037 Filed 11-15-19; 8:45 am]
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