Letterhead Applications and Notices Relating to Wine (TTB REC 5120/2)
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
10/02/2024
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
09/30/2025
2,640
2,000
1,320
1,000
5,280
4,000
Various provisions of chapter 51 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC; 26 U.S.C. chapter 51) govern aspects of the production, treatment, and labeling of natural and agricultural wine or authorize the Secretary of Treasury to issue regulations regarding such matters. Under those IRC authorities, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) regulations in 27 CFR part 24 require wine premise proprietors to submit letterhead applications or notices to TTB when they desire to use alternate regulatory compliance methods or procedures or when they desire to undertake certain specified operations, particularly those that affect the kind, tax rate, or volume of wine produced or removed. In general, operations posing a greater jeopardy to the revenue require submission of letterhead applications subject to TTB approval, while operations posing less jeopardy to the revenue require submission of letterhead notices that do not require TTB pre-approval. This information collection is necessary to ensure that proposed alternative methods or procedures and wine operations comply with relevant laws and regulations, and do not jeopardize the revenue or unduly burden TTBâs administration of 27 CFR part 24.
In a proposed rule titled âModernization of Permit Application Requirements for Wine Premises,â TTB is proposing deregulatory amendments to its regulations to modernize and streamline the application requirements to establish and operate a wine premises. The proposed amendments also relax reporting requirements associated with certain changes to the business or operations of a wine premises proprietor and will allow proprietors to simply notify TTB when they maintain required records at a location other than their premises in place of an alternate procedure application, which requires TTB approval. While TTB intends the proposed amendments to reduce respondent burden for OMB No. 1513â0009, Application to Establish and Operate Wine Premises, and Wine Bond, certain proposed amendments effect this information collection request, OMB No. 1513â0057, Letterhead Applications and Notices Relating to Wine (TTB REC 5120/2) and OMB No. 1513â0115, Usual and Customary Business Records Relating to Wine (TTB REC 5120/1). Specifically, TTB is proposing to move information collection requirements contained in 27 CFR 24.122 and 24.130 from OMB No. 1513â0009, Application to Establish and Operate Wine Premises, and Wine Bond, to this information collection request, OMB No. 1513â0057, Letterhead Applications and Notices Relating to Wine (TTB REC 5120/2), and is adding the letterhead request contained in amended 27 CFR 24.300(e) to OMB No. 1513â0057 as well. TTB notes that while the number of respondents to OMB No. 1513â0057 would increase due to the implementation of this proposed rule, the per-response burden associated with the wine-related letterhead information collection is 0.5 hour rather than the 1.0 hour currently estimated for the wine premises application information collection contained under OMB No. 1513â0009. Thus, the overall information collection burden associated with reporting changes to, or new trade names and volatile fruit-flavor concentrate operations to TTB by wine premises proprietors will decrease. TTB also notes that the proposal regarding alternate maintenance locations for wine premises records will not affect the burden of OMB No. 1513â0057 as the estimated burden for letterhead applications for alternate procedures and letterhead notices reporting an action are the same, 0.5 hour per response.
In a proposed rule related to wine permit applications, TTB is proposing to move information collection requirements contained in 27 CFR 24.122 and 24.130 from OMB No. 1513â0009, Application to Establish and Operate Wine Premises, and Wine Bond, to this information collection request, OMB No. 1513â0057, Letterhead Applications and Notices Relating to Wine (TTB REC 5120/2), and is adding the letterhead request contained in amended 27 CFR 24.300(e) to OMB No. 1513â0057 as well. TTB notes that while the number of respondents to OMB No. 1513â0057 would increase due to the implementation of this proposed rule, the per-response burden associated with the wine-related letterhead information collection is 0.5 hour rather than the 1.0 hour currently estimated for the wine premises application information collection contained under OMB No. 1513â0009. Thus, the overall information collection burden associated with reporting changes to or new trade names and volatile fruit-flavor concentrate operations to TTB by wine premises proprietors will decrease. TTB also notes that the proposal regarding alternate maintenance locations for wine premises records will not affect the burden of OMB No. 1513â0057 as the estimated burden for letterhead applications for alternate procedures and letterhead notices reporting an action are the same, 0.5 hour per response. As a result of those proposed amendments, TTB estimates that the number of respondents filing wine premises applications under OMB No. 1513â0009 will decrease annually by 640 respondents, and, at 1 hour per response, will result in a decrease of 640 hours of burden for that information collection. Instead, wine premises proprietors making changes to their trade name(s) or to a volatile fruit-flavor concentrate process will, instead, submit letterhead notices under this information collection request, OMB No. 1513â0057. Each respondent will file an estimated 1 response annually, as currently estimated. At 0.5 hour per response for letterhead notices, TTB estimates the total annual burden increase for this information collection at 320 hours. However, given the 0.5 hour decrease in per-response burden estimate for reporting such changes to TTB, the overall burden for doing so will decrease by a total of 320 hours (-640 hours under OMB No. 1513â0009 + 320 hours under OMB No. 1513â005 = -320 hours). The revision of the information collection requirement regarding alternate record maintenance locations for wine premises records, from a letterhead application for an alternate procedure to a letterhead notice, will not affect the burden of this information collection as the per-response burden for letterhead applications and notices is the same (0.5 hour). However, such notifications will no longer require TTB approval prior to the use of the alternate record maintenance location.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
1513-0057 Supporting Statement (Wine Permit Mod 09-2024).docx
Letterhead Applications and Notices Relating to Wine (TTB REC 5120/2)