The IRC at 26 U.S.C. 5351 through 5357
provides for the establishment of bonded wine cellars, bonded
wineries, and taxpaid wine bottling houses and, to establish such
wine premises, these IRC sections require the filing of
applications and bonds. Under these authorities, TTB has issued TTB
F 5120.25, Application to Establish and Operate Wine Premises, to
collect information that TTB uses to determine the qualifications
of an applicant applying to establish and operate a new wine
premises. Proprietors of established wine premises also use TTB F
5120.25 to report changes to required information such as location
and ownership. Unless exempted by the IRC at 26 U.S.C. 5551(d),
wine premises respondents use TTB F 5120.36, Wine Bond, to file
bond coverage with TTB. The bond may be secured through a surety
company or it may be secured with collateral (cash, Treasury Bonds
or Treasury Notes). The bond protects the revenue by ensuring
adequate assets are available to pay Federal excise tax
liabilities.
There are no program changes
associated with this information collection approval request. As
for adjustments, while the estimated annual burden was correctly
reported in the last Supporting Statement submitted for this
information collection request, the burden data was not correctly
entered into the related ROCIS entry transmitted to OMB in December
2016. In particular, the burden for the Application to Establish
and Operate Wine Premises (TTB F 5120.25) portion of the total
burden estimate was incorrectly added into the burden estimate for
the Wine Bond (TTB F 5120.36) portion of the total burden estimate,
resulting in an over-reporting of the total burden by 4,295
responses. Therefore, TTB is correcting the burden data for this
collection request as entered into the ROCIS system. This
correction will appear as decrease of 4,295 responses and 1,055
burden hours due to an adjustment in agency estimate.
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.