Explosives Transactions Involving Limited Permittees

Specific requirements for licensees and permittees to distribute explosives materials in transactions involving limited permittees, and to report lost or stolen Intrastate Purchase of Explosives Coupons. This information collection is contained in 27 CFR 555.34, 555.105, and 555.125, and 555.126. Information Collection (IC) OMB 1140-0075 is being revised to streamline the collections involving explosives limited permittees. There previously were four collections (OMB control numbers 1140-0025, 1140-0075, 1140-0077, and 1140-0079), which have been combined, simplified, and updated to remove duplicative elements, and adjusted to reflect a regulatory change currently being finalized. These changes reduced the collective burden arising from these four ICRs. This ICR now includes three collection requirements: submitting an authorized persons list, completing the Form 5400.4, Limited Permittee Transaction Report (LPTR), and reporting lost or stolen ATF Form 5400.30s, Intrastate Purchase of Explosives Coupons (IPECs). Distributors and carriers no longer have to verify the identity of the person accepting explosives delivered by common carriers, and distributors can note the identification information they do collect directly on the LPTR, thereby reducing the burden. The LPTR has also been substantially revised to reflect the streamlined information collection requirements, decreasing the amount of time for record-keeping. In addition, the number of limited permittees has decreased significantly since the previous renewal periods for the original ICRs, from 100 respondents to 13, and the number of responses has also significantly decreased. The time burden for this combined ICR has therefore decreased, due both to streamlining the combined collections and to the decrease in respondents and responses, from 1 hour per respondent or 254 hours total per year, to 25 minutes per respondent or 9.75 hours total per year.