Marks on Equipment and
Structures (TTB REC 5130/3), and Marks and Labels on Containers of
Beer (TTB REC 5130/4)
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
02/18/2025
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
12/31/2026
14,000
14,000
14,000
0
0
0
Under the authority of chapter 51 of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (IRC, 26 U.S.C.
chapter 51), the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB)
regulations in 27 CFR Part 25, Beer, currently require brewers to
place certain marks, signs, and measuring devices on their
equipment and structures, and to place certain brands, labels, and
marks on bulk and consumer containers of beer and other brewery
products. The collected information allows TTB to identify the use,
capacity, and contents of brewery equipment and structures, and to
identify brewery products and the responsible taxpayer. Other
collected information allows consumers to identify brewery
products, their content, and their producers. In a proposed rule
titled “Alcohol Facts Statements in the Labeling of Wines,
Distilled Spirits, and Malt Beverages,” issued under its IRC
authorities, TTB is proposing to require an alcohol content
statement to appear on the labels of consumer containers of
domestic and imported beers that are not currently subject to such
labeling requirements under the Federal Alcohol Administration Act
(FAA Act). The collected information will allow TTB to identify the
alcohol content of taxable brewery products currently not subject
to such a labeling requirement subject. As such, the required
information is necessary to protect the revenue and ensure
effective administration of the IRC’s provisions regarding brewery
operations and products. The collected information also allows (or
will allow) other industry members and the general public to
identify the contents of bulk containers of beer and other brewery
products and identify the contents and alcohol content of consumer
containers of beer. In general, for other than the proposed alcohol
content statement, TTB believes that the collection of the required
information is a usual and customary practice undertaken during the
normal course of business, regardless of any TTB regulatory
requirements to do so, for the purposes of inventory control, cost
accounting, equipment utilization, and product quality control and
identification.
In a proposed rule titled
“Alcohol Facts Statements in the Labeling of Wines, Distilled
Spirits, and Malt Beverages,” TTB is proposing to expand existing
requirements for alcohol content statements as a percentage of
alcohol by volume to beers that are not currently subject to
mandatory alcohol content labeling under the Federal Alcohol
Administration Act (FAA Act). In the proposed rule, that
requirement will be added to 27 CFR 25.141 for domestic barrels and
kegs, and to 27 CFR 25.142 for domestic bottles, cans, and similar
containers. Those sections are already accounted for under this
collection approval, OMB No. 1513–0086. In addition, the proposed
alcohol content labeling requirement will be added to 27 CFR 27.60
for imported beers, and that section will be added to this
collection approval (the FAA Act related requirements in § 27.60
will remain under OMB No. 1513–0087). Under the proposed
requirement, the container’s label must show the product’s alcohol
content expressed as a percentage of alcohol-by-volume (within
certain tolerances), rounded to the nearest tenth of a percentage
point. While TTB has determined that the marks and labels
previously required under this collection request are placed by
brewers as a usual and customary business practice, resulting in no
additional burden to respondents, TTB believes that responses to
the proposal to require display alcohol content on labels of beer
that were not previously subject to such a requirement will not
require more than 1 hour annually per respondent. Thus, due to the
described proposed program changes, while the number of annual
respondents and responses to this information collection request,
14,000 each, will not change, the estimated annual total burden for
this collection request will increase from 0 to 14,000 hours.
However, TTB believes that a large majority of respondents already
label their products with an alcohol content statement or have
ready access to such information for quality control purposes even
if they do not display that information on their product labels.
Also, given the proposed compliance period of 5 years, TTB also
believes that all respondents will be able to coordinate any
required labeling changes with their usual and customary scheduled
labeling changes, resulting in no additional costs to those
respondents.
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Curtis Eilers 202 453-1039 ext.
041
No
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.
OMB No. 1513-0086 Supporting Statement (Notice 237-Alcohol Facts NPRM).docx
Marks on Equipment and Structures (TTB REC 5130/3), and Marks and Labels on Containers of Beer (TTB REC 5130/4)