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 the quality, utility, and clarity of the information being collected can be enhanced, and if so, how; 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: ATF's Office of Science and Technology's Forensic Services offers a National Firearms Examiner Academy (NFEA) training program for entry-level firearms and toolmark examiners. This program is designed in part to address the critical law enforcement services provided by firearms and toolmark examiners, which all law enforcement organizations that perform ballistic and forensic firearms examinations require. This program curriculum is designed for qualified applicants from state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies, and newly appointed ATF firearms and toolmark examiners. To request enrollment in the NFEA, individuals in the law enforcement agencies, including ATF, must complete the Application for National Firearms Examiner Academy, ATF Form 6330.1. Form 6330.1 provides ATF with information necessary to determine an applicant's qualifications and whether they may be enrolled in the program: a candidate's identifying information, information on their qualifications, and whether they have completed prerequisites.

Type of information collection: revising a previously approved collection.

Title of the form/collection: Application for National Firearms Examiner Academy.

Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the Department sponsoring the collection: Form number: ATF Form 6330.1. Component: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as well as the obligation to respond: Affected public: state, local, and tribal governments, federal government. Obligation to respond: required to obtain 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 50 respondents associated with this collection per year, and it will take each respondent an average of approximately 10 minutes (0.167 hours) per response 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 8.53 hours, which is equal to 50 (total respondents) * 1 (# of responses per respondent) * 0.167 hours.

Estimate of the total annual other cost burden associated with the collection, if applicable: 0; there are no costs.

Revisions to This Information Collection

As part of this ICR renewal, ATF is making no revisions to this information collection, OMB 1140-0049. However, the annual hourly burden has decreased because the number of respondents went down from 75 to 50 over the past three years. This in turn resulted in a decreased total annual burden from 15 to 8.35 hours. ATF is making some minor edits to the form for plain writing compliance.

91 FR 65777