SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

We encourage written comments and suggestions from the public and affected agencies concerning the proposed information collection. Your comments should address one or more of the following four points:

—Evaluate whether the proposed information collection is necessary to properly perform ATF's functions, including whether the information will have practical utility;

—Evaluate the agency's estimate of the proposed information collection's burden for accuracy, including validity of the methodology and assumptions used;

—Evaluate whether, and if so, how, the quality, utility, and clarity of the collected information can be enhanced; and

—Minimize the information collection's burden on those who are to respond, including using appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting people to submit electronic responses.

Overview of This Information Collection

Abstract: A person engaged in the business of manufacturing explosives is required to have a license under the provisions of 18 U.S.C 843. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. 1341, requires manufacturers to certify that waste disposal practices are lawful with regard to impact on water sources. ATF Form 5400.30, Supplemental Information on Water Quality Considerations, serves this purpose and persons manufacturing explosives must submit it with their explosives license applications to ensure compliance with the water pollution control act.

Type of information collection: revising a previously approved collection.

Title of the form/collection: Supplemental Information on Water Quality Considerations.

Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the Department sponsoring the collection: Form number: ATF Form 5400.30. Component: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; U.S. Department of Justice.

Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as well as the obligation to respond: Affected public: private sector for-profit institutions. Obligation to respond: voluntary, required to obtain/retain a benefit.

Estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount of time estimated for an average respondent to respond: There are an estimated 670 respondents associated with this information collection and each respondent completes the form once annually. It will take each respondent an average of approximately 20 minutes to complete their responses.

Estimate of the total annual burden (in hours) associated with the collection: The estimated annual public burden associated with this collection is 201 total hours, which is equal to 670 (total respondents) * 1 (# of responses per respondent) * 0.3 (20 minutes).

Estimate of the total annual other cost burden associated with the collection, if applicable: 0.

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Revisions to This Information Collection

ATF is revising information collection OMB 1140-0097 to reflect a decrease in the overall annual public burden. The number of respondents to this ICR have decreased from the last renewal in 2023, from 680 respondents to 670, because fewer persons applied for explosives licenses during the intervening three years. This decrease also resulted in a corresponding decrease in the hourly burden, from 340 hours to 335. In addition, because the forms have become entirely electronic, the amount of time required to complete this information collection has decreased from 0.5 to 0.3 hours, further decreasing the hourly burden for this ICR to 201 hours. As part of this ICR renewal, ATF is also revising the form number from ATF Form 5000.30 to ATF Form 5400.30 to align with changes to ATF's numbering structure, and is revising the title of the form and the ICR for plain writing purposes, from “Supplemental Information on Water Quality Considerations—Under 33 U.S.C. 1341(a)” to “Supplemental Information on Water Quality Considerations.” In addition, ATF is making minor plain writing edits to text on the form, removing obsolete references to submitting multiple copies and to including a form or serial number, and is adding clarifying parentheticals to the applicant and signature boxes for entity applicants and responsible persons.

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