Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection eComments Requested; SAFER SKIES State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Counter-UAS Information Collection

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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. The proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on September 1, 2026, 91 FR 56212, allowing a 60-day comment period.

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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 212 (Wednesday, November 4, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69576-69577]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-22535]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

[OMB Number 1110-0090]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection 
eComments Requested; SAFER SKIES State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial 
Counter-UAS Information Collection

AGENCY: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.

ACTION: 30-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. The proposed 
information collection was previously published in the Federal Register 
on September 1, 2026, 91 FR 56212, allowing a 60-day comment period.

DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for 30 days until 
December 4, 2026.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have 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: Counter-UAS 
Operations Unit, Unmanned Aviation Section, Critical Incident Response 
Group, Federal Bureau of Investigation, email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4d2e382c3e0d2b2f24632a223b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e98a9c889aa98f8b80c78e869f">[email&#160;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 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 <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. 
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 <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>. 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 <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6e0d1b0f1d2e080c0740090118"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="63001602102305010a4d040c15">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>.
    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,

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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.

    Dated: November 2, 2026.
Darwin Arceo,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2026-22535 Filed 11-3-26; 8:45 am]
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