Notice2025-14221

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Comment Request; Tobacco Products, User Fees, Requirements for the Submission of Data Needed To Calculate User Fees for Domestic Manufacturers and Importers of Tobacco Products

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July 29, 2025

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Health and Human Services DepartmentFood and Drug Administration

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 143 (Tuesday, July 29, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35701-35702]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14221]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. FDA-2025-N-2193]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for Office 
of Management and Budget Review; Comment Request; Tobacco Products, 
User Fees, Requirements for the Submission of Data Needed To Calculate 
User Fees for Domestic Manufacturers and Importers of Tobacco Products

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a 
proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

DATES: Submit written comments (including recommendations) on the 
collection of information by August 28, 2025.

ADDRESSES: To ensure that comments on the information collection are 
received, OMB recommends that written comments be submitted to <a href="https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular information 
collection by selecting ``Currently under Review--Open for Public 
Comments'' or by using the search function. The OMB control number for 
this information collection is 0910-0749. Also include the FDA docket 
number found in brackets in the heading of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amber Sanford, Office of Operations, 
Food and Drug Administration, Three White Flint North, 10A-12M, 11601 
Landsdown St., North Bethesda, MD 20852, 301-796-8867, 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#17474556446376717157717376397f7f6439707861"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="154547544661747373557371743b7d7d663b727a63">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In compliance with 44 U.S.C. 3507, FDA has 
submitted the following proposed collection of information to OMB for 
review and clearance.

Tobacco Products, User Fees, Requirements for the Submission of Data 
Needed To Calculate User Fees for Domestic Manufacturers and Importers 
of Tobacco Products

OMB Control Number 0910-0749--Extension

    This information collection supports Food and Drug Administration 
regulations. Tobacco products are generally governed by chapter IX of 
the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) (sections 900 
through 920) (21 U.S.C. 387-387t). Specifically, section 919 of the 
FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 387s) governs tobacco user fees.
    Section 919(a) requires FDA to ``assess user fees on, and collect 
such fees from, each manufacturer and importer of tobacco products'' 
subject to the tobacco product provisions of the FD&C Act. Accordingly, 
section 919(b)(2)(B)(i) of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 387s (b)(2)(B)(i)) 
identifies those tobacco products as: cigarettes, cigars, snuff, 
chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco, and roll-your-own tobacco.
    FDA utilizes Form FDA 3852, entitled ``Report of Tobacco Product 
Removals Subject to Tax for Tobacco Product User Fee Assessment'', to 
facilitate the collection of data necessary for calculating tobacco 
product user fee assessments. This form is used by domestic 
manufacturers and importers of tobacco products to report the quantity 
of products removed from manufacturing facilities or imported into the 
United States for sale.
    To implement the tobacco user fee program as prescribed in the FD&C 
Act (as summarized above), FDA must collect the information needed to 
accurately calculate tobacco user fee assessments. On May 10, 2016, FDA 
published a final rule that requires domestic manufacturers and 
importers of the applicable tobacco products (listed above) to submit 
this information to the FDA (81 FR 28707).
    In the Federal Register of May 1, 2025 (90 FR 18687), FDA published 
a 60-day

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notice requesting public comment on the proposed collection of 
information. No comments were received.
    FDA estimates the burden of this collection of information as 
follows:

                                 Table 1--Estimated Annual Reporting Burden \1\
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                                                                               Total       Average
                                                Number of      Number of     number of    burden per     Total
                21 CFR section                 respondents   responses per     annual    response in     hours
                                                              respondent     responses      hours
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1150.5(a), (b)(1) and (2), and Form FDA 3852;          820              12        9,840            3      29,520
 Identification and removal information
 (monthly)...................................
1150.5(b)(3); Certified copies (monthly).....          820              12        9,840            1       9,840
Voluntary premium cigar data submission                 50              12          600          1.5         900
 (monthly)...................................
1150.13; Payment of user fee assessment                319               4        1,276            1       1,276
 (quarterly).................................
1150.15(a); Submission of user fee dispute               2               1            2           10          20
 (at discretion of respondent)...............
1150.15(d); Submission of request for further            1               1            1            5           5
 review of dispute of user fee (at discretion
 of respondent)..............................
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    Total....................................  ...........  ..............       21,559  ...........      41,561
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\1\ There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of
  information.

    We have revised our burden estimates to this information collection 
request. 21 CFR 1150.5 is reflecting an increase in 120 respondents 
from 700 to 820. FDA requires the use of Form FDA 3852 to capture the 
monthly identification and removal information specified under Sec.  
1150.5(b)(1) and (b)(2). The form also directs manufacturers and 
importers to attach supporting documentation required by Sec.  
1150.5(b)(3). FDA considered the number of active Alcohol and Tobacco 
Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) permits (based on TTB data) in FY23 for 
domestic manufacturers and importers of tobacco products subject to 
tobacco user fees.
    Voluntary premium cigar data submission (monthly) is reflecting a 
reduction in 50 respondents from 100 to 50 and a reduction in average 
burden per response from 2.5 to 1.5 hours. FDA updated this data based 
on reasonable estimates of the burden of voluntary submissions in FY24. 
There may be some fluctuations in this number.
    Section 1150.13 (21 CFR 1150.13) is reflecting a reduction in 57 
respondents from 376 to 319. FDA considered the number of user fee 
assessments issued to domestic manufacturers and importers of tobacco 
products subject to tobacco user fees on average each quarter for FY23. 
Note, entities may have more than one TTB permit, however, tobacco user 
fee assessments are aggregated based on Employer Identification Number 
and not TTB permit number. Therefore, we expect the number of 
respondents to be lower for Sec.  1150.13.
    21 CFR 1150.15(a) is reflecting a reduction in 3 respondents from 5 
to 2, and 21 CFR 1150.15(d) is reflecting a reduction in 2 respondents 
from 3 to 1 and a reduction in average burden per response from 10 to 5 
hours. FDA considered the historical submission of tobacco user fee 
disputes and requests for additional Agency review.
    The cumulative changes to the estimated burden for this information 
collection reflects an overall increase of 3,377 burden hours and a 
corresponding increase of 2,047 responses.

    Dated: July 23, 2025.
Grace R. Graham,
Deputy Commissioner for Policy, Legislation, and International Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2025-14221 Filed 7-28-25; 8:45 am]
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