Notice2026-17853
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection eComments Requested; Revision of a Previously Approved Collection; Title-SAFER SKIES State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Counter-UAS Information Collection
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September 1, 2026
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Justice Department
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice (DOJ), will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 168 (Tuesday, September 1, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56212-56214]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-17853]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[OMB Number 1110-0090]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection
eComments Requested; Revision of a Previously Approved Collection;
Title--SAFER SKIES State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Counter-UAS
Information Collection
AGENCY: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.
ACTION: 60-Day notice.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice
(DOJ), will be submitting the following information collection request
to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for 60 days until
November 2, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have additional comments
especially on the estimated public burden or associated response time,
suggestions, or need a copy of the proposed information collection
instrument with instructions or additional information, please contact
the Counter-UAS Operations Unit, Unmanned Aviation Section, Critical
Incident Response Group, Federal Bureau of Investigation, email:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#9cffe9fdefdcfafef5b2fbf3ea"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a0c3d5c1d3e0c6c2c98ec7cfd6">[email protected]</span></a>.
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 Federal Bureau of
Investigation, 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;
--Evaluate whether and if so how the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected can be enhanced; and
--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.
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.
Since the emergency clearance, the FBI has revised five instruments
in response to experience during initial implementation. The advance
notification (C-UAS-AN), operations plan (C-UAS-OPLAN), testing,
training, and exercise plan (C-UAS-TTE), policy attestation (C-UAS-
ATT), and post-operation report (C-UAS-POR) each collect additional
data elements. The principal additions are structured airspace and
temporary flight restriction information on the notification,
operations plan, and exercise plan; a retroactive filing path for
emergency invocations under 6 CFR and 28 CFR 124.9(g) on the
notification; Federal Aviation Administration concurrence and frequency
restriction information on the operations plan; agency identifying and
policy reference information on the attestation; and expanded
detection, mitigation, and enforcement outcome fields on the post-
operation report.
This revision also re-estimates burden for every instrument.
Several per-response estimates are lower than those approved under the
emergency clearance even though the instruments collect more data. The
revised forms replace free-text entry with structured selections, allow
the operations plan to
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inherit previously entered data from the advance notification so that
operational information is entered once, and retrieve known venue
airspace data rather than requiring manual entry. The FBI invites
comment on these estimates.
Overview of This Information Collection
1. Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved
collection.
2. The Title of the Form/Collection: SAFER SKIES State, Local,
Tribal, and Territorial Counter-UAS Information Collection.
3. The agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of
the Department 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.
A C-UAS Operator Training and Certification Record (Form C-UAS-OTC) is
under development and will be added to this collection by a subsequent
submission to OMB before it is deployed. 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 the obligation to respond: Affected Public: State, Local, or
Tribal Government. Respondents are State, local, tribal, and
territorial law enforcement and correctional agencies; territorial
agencies are reported within the State, Local, or Tribal Government
category. The obligation to respond is 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, and a small number of instruments
are voluntary.
5. An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount of
time estimated for an average respondent to respond: The estimated
number of unduplicated respondents is approximately 1,850 SLTT agencies
(approximately 1,500 detection-tier agencies and 350 mitigation-tier
agencies).
The time per response 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, which includes
developing and adopting the underlying implementation policy. A
detection and warning operations plan is estimated at approximately 45
minutes; a mitigation operations plan at approximately 1 hour. These
estimates are derived from analysis of the deployed instruments rather
than from measured completion times, and the FBI specifically invites
comment on their accuracy.
6. An estimate of the total annual burden (in hours) associated
with the collection: The estimated total annual burden associated with
this collection is 25,314 hours, across approximately 24,355 annual
responses, as shown in the table below.
7. An estimate of the total annual cost burden associated with the
collection, if applicable: There are no capital, start-up, operation,
or maintenance costs associated with this collection. Respondents use
existing personnel and equipment and submit electronically through the
Federal C-UAS coordination portal at no charge. Counter-UAS systems and
related equipment are acquired for the underlying protective mission
and are not acquired for purposes of this collection. The estimated
total annual cost burden is $0.
Total Burden Hours
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Number of Total annual Time per Total annual
Activity respondents Frequency responses response burden (hours)
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C-UAS-ATT--initial (policy + 617 once 617 5 hrs.......... 3,085
attestation). (annualized).
C-UAS-ATT--annual renewal.... 1,233 annually........ 1,233 30 min......... 617
C-UAS-OPLAN--mitigation...... 350 on occasion..... 1,350 1 hr........... 1,350
C-UAS-OPLAN--detection and 1,500 on occasion..... 9,000 45 min......... 6,750
warning.
C-UAS-AN--mitigation 350 per operation... 2,250 1 hr........... 2,250
operations.
C-UAS-AN--RF-emitting 25 per operation... 100 1 hr........... 100
detection.
C-UAS-MAA.................... 150 on occasion..... 150 30 min......... 75
C-UAS-NOI.................... 200 on occasion..... 200 10 min......... 33
C-UAS-LAD.................... 50 on occasion..... 50 20 min......... 17
C-UAS-OAN--activation and 150 on occasion..... 650 10 min......... 108
termination.
C-UAS-OAN--unintended 50 on occasion..... 100 30 min......... 50
consequences.
C-UAS-POR.................... 350 per operation... 2,250 45 min......... 1,688
C-UAS-ERN.................... 150 on occasion..... 300 30 min......... 150
C-UAS-SUM.................... 1,850 semiannually.... 3,700 30 min......... 1,850
C-UAS-VSR.................... 100 on occasion..... 100 30 min......... 50
C-UAS-ASLN--system nomination 50 on occasion..... 50 60 min......... 50
C-UAS-ASLN--feedback on 100 on occasion..... 100 5 min.......... 8
listed system.
C-UAS-ARR.................... 5 on occasion..... 5 90 min......... 8
C-UAS-TTE.................... 150 annually........ 300 2 hrs.......... 600
Recordkeeping/retention/audit 1,850 ongoing......... 1,850 3.5 hrs........ 6,475
(Sec. 124.14).
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Unduplicated Totals...... 1,850 ................ 24,355 ............... 25,314
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Notes to the table: The initial policy attestation line is
annualized over the phase-in of the accreditation program, and the
annual renewal line covers only agencies that have already attested, so
the two lines do not overlap. Advance notification responses exceed
mitigation operations plan responses because a single operations plan
may support multiple notified operations under a standing operational
window or may be incorporated by reference for a subsequent operation
under 6 CFR and 28 CFR 124.8. The operational action notification line
reflects only notifications made outside the advance notification
process; emergency invocations under 6 CFR and 28 CFR 124.9(g) are
filed on the advance notification and are not counted twice.
If additional information is required contact: Darwin Arceo,
Department Clearance Officer, United States Department of Justice,
Justice Management Division, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Two
Constitution Square, 145 N Street NE, 4W-218, Washington, DC.
Dated: August 28, 2026.
Darwin Arceo,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2026-17853 Filed 8-31-26; 8:45 am]
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