SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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

—Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility;

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

—Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and/or

—Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses.

Written comments and recommendations for this information collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/​public/​do/​PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting “Currently under 30-day Review—Open for Public Comments” or by using the search function and entering either the title of the information collection or the OMB Control Number 1110-0090. This information collection request may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view Department of Justice, information collections currently under review by OMB. If you do submit a comment, please send a copy to cuas@fbi.gov.

DOJ seeks PRA authorization for this information collection for three (3) years. OMB authorization for an ICR cannot be for more than three (3) years without renewal. The DOJ notes that information collection requirements submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs receive a month-to-month extension while they undergo review.

Abstract: The SAFER SKIES Act, Title LXXXVI of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, as implemented by the interim final rule codified at 6 CFR part 124 and 28 CFR part 124, extends counter-UAS detection and mitigation authority to State, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) law enforcement and correctional agencies under 6 U.S.C. 124n(a)(2). This collection covers the coordination, authorization, reporting, and recordkeeping submissions the rule requires, made through the designated Federal C-UAS coordination portal. The current approval was granted on an emergency basis and expires November 30, 2026. This revision requests a standard three-year approval, reflects revisions to five instruments (C-UAS-AN, C-UAS-OPLAN, C-UAS-TTE, C-UAS-ATT, and C-UAS-POR) made during initial implementation, and re-estimates burden for every instrument. The FBI received one public comment in response to the 60-day notice, from an independent researcher. The commenter supported the collection and raised questions about the cost burden, the basis for the recordkeeping and plan estimates, the treatment of filed forms under the retention provisions of 6 CFR and 28 CFR 124.14, access to the instruments, and opportunities to reduce burden through data reuse and machine-readable filing. In response, the FBI has added a one-time form training line to the burden table, split the recordkeeping estimate by agency tier and raised the mitigation-tier figure, documented the task-level basis for each estimate in the supporting statement, explained the basis for the cost estimate, provided the instruments to the commenter, and committed to adding a State-law citation field to the Extended Retention Notification, publishing the data schema for each instrument, extending data reuse to the Post-Operation Report and Semiannual Summary, and offering a one-step no-activity summary for detection-tier agencies. The comment and the FBI's response are summarized in the supporting statement. The FBI is transitioning the instruments from the current offline, emailed workflow to a secure web portal that will host the same instruments with the same data elements, authenticate users through existing federated identity providers, and capture completion timing for future burden estimates; go-live is expected in the second or third quarter of fiscal year 2027. Following publication of the 60-day notice, the FBI also made minor clarifying edits to the instruments; those edits did not add or remove data elements.

Overview of This Information Collection

1. Type of Information Collection: Revision of a previously approved collection.

2. Title of the Form/Collection: SAFER SKIES State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Counter-UAS Information Collection.

3. Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the Department of Justice sponsoring the collection: Form numbers: C-UAS-ATT; C-UAS-OPLAN; C-UAS-AN; C-UAS-MAA; C-UAS-NOI; C-UAS-LAD; C-UAS-OAN; C-UAS-POR; C-UAS-ERN; C-UAS-SUM; C-UAS-VSR; C-UAS-ASLN; C-UAS-ARR; C-UAS-TTE. The sponsoring component is the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.

4. Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as well as a brief abstract: Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal Government (State, local, ( printed page 69577) tribal, and territorial law enforcement and correctional agencies).

Abstract: Respondents submit the attestations, plans, notifications, reports, and records required by 6 CFR and 28 CFR part 124 to coordinate, authorize, and oversee SLTT counter-UAS operations.].

5. Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain a benefit for most instruments (the accreditation and certification needed to exercise counter-UAS authority under 6 U.S.C. 124n(a)(2) and 6 CFR and 28 CFR part 124); certain reports and notifications are mandatory under the same authorities; a small number of instruments are voluntary.

6. Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,850 SLTT agencies.

7. Estimated Time per Respondent: Varies by instrument, from approximately 5 minutes for feedback on a listed counter-UAS system to approximately 5 hours for initial policy adoption and attestation; a detection and warning operations plan is estimated at approximately 45 minutes and a mitigation operations plan at approximately 1 hour.

8. Frequency: On occasion for most instruments; annually for policy attestation renewals and testing, training, and exercise plans; semiannually for the semiannual summary; once for form training; ongoing for recordkeeping.

9. Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 28,689 hours, across approximately 26,205 annual responses.

10. Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $0.

If additional information is required, contact: Darwin Arceo, Department Clearance Officer, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Justice Management Division, United States Department of Justice, Two Constitution Square, 145 N Street NE, 4W-218 Washington, DC 20530.

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