[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 205 (Tuesday, October 23, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53478-53481]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-23056]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. FDA-2012-N-0386]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; Registration and Product Listing for Owners and 
Operators of Domestic Tobacco Product Establishments and Listing of 
Ingredients in Tobacco Products

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, Agency, or we) is 
announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection 
of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995 (PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publish notice in the 
Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, 
including each proposed extension of an existing collection of 
information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the 
notice. This notice solicits comments on ``Registration and Product 
Listing for Owners and Operators of Domestic Tobacco Product 
Establishments and Listing of Ingredients in Tobacco Products.''

DATES: Submit either electronic or written comments on the collection 
of information by December 24, 2018.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments as follows. Please note that late, 
untimely filed comments will not be considered. Electronic comments 
must be submitted on or before December 24, 2018. The https://www.regulations.gov electronic filing system will accept comments until 
11:59 p.m. Eastern Time at the end of December 24, 2018. Comments 
received by mail/hand delivery/courier (for written/paper submissions) 
will be considered timely if they are postmarked or the delivery 
service acceptance receipt is on or before that date.

Electronic Submissions

    Submit electronic comments in the following way:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Comments submitted 
electronically, including attachments, to https://www.regulations.gov 
will be posted to the docket unchanged. Because your comment will be 
made public, you are solely responsible for ensuring that your comment 
does not include any confidential information that you or a third party 
may not wish to be posted, such as medical information, your or anyone 
else's Social Security number, or confidential business information, 
such as a manufacturing process. Please note that if you include your 
name, contact information, or other information that identifies you in 
the body of your comments, that information will be posted on https://www.regulations.gov.
     If you want to submit a comment with confidential 
information that you do not wish to be made available to the public, 
submit the comment as a written/paper submission and in the manner 
detailed (see ``Written/Paper Submissions'' and ``Instructions'').

Written/Paper Submissions

    Submit written/paper submissions as follows:
     Mail/Hand delivery/Courier (for written/paper 
submissions): Dockets Management Staff (HFA-305), Food and Drug 
Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.
     For written/paper comments submitted to the Dockets 
Management Staff, FDA will post your comment, as well as any 
attachments, except for information submitted, marked and identified, 
as confidential, if submitted as detailed in ``Instructions.''
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the Docket No. 
FDA-2012-N-0386 for ``Registration and Product Listing for Owners and 
Operators of Domestic Tobacco Product Establishments and Listing of 
Ingredients in Tobacco Products.'' Received comments, those filed in a 
timely manner (see ADDRESSES), will be placed in the docket and, except 
for those submitted as ``Confidential Submissions,'' publicly viewable 
at https://www.regulations.gov or at the

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Dockets Management Staff between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through 
Friday.
     Confidential Submissions--To submit a comment with 
confidential information that you do not wish to be made publicly 
available, submit your comments only as a written/paper submission. You 
should submit two copies total. One copy will include the information 
you claim to be confidential with a heading or cover note that states 
``THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.'' The Agency will 
review this copy, including the claimed confidential information, in 
its consideration of comments. The second copy, which will have the 
claimed confidential information redacted/blacked out, will be 
available for public viewing and posted on https://www.regulations.gov. 
Submit both copies to the Dockets Management Staff. If you do not wish 
your name and contact information to be made publicly available, you 
can provide this information on the cover sheet and not in the body of 
your comments and you must identify this information as 
``confidential.'' Any information marked as ``confidential'' will not 
be disclosed except in accordance with 21 CFR 10.20 and other 
applicable disclosure law. For more information about FDA's posting of 
comments to public dockets, see 80 FR 56469, September 18, 2015, or 
access the information at: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-09-18/pdf/2015-23389.pdf.
    Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or 
the electronic and written/paper comments received, go to https://www.regulations.gov and insert the docket number, found in brackets in 
the heading of this document, into the ``Search'' box and follow the 
prompts and/or go to the Dockets Management Staff, 5630 Fishers Lane, 
Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.

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, 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal 
Agencies must obtain approval from the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for each collection of information they conduct or sponsor. 
``Collection of information'' is defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 
1320.3(c) and includes Agency requests or requirements that members of 
the public submit reports, keep records, or provide information to a 
third party. Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)) 
requires Federal Agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal 
Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including 
each proposed extension of an existing collection of information, 
before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To comply with 
this requirement, FDA is publishing notice of the proposed collection 
of information set forth in this document.
    With respect to the following collection of information, FDA 
invites comments on these topics: (1) Whether the proposed collection 
of information is necessary for the proper performance of FDA's 
functions, including whether the information will have practical 
utility; (2) the accuracy of FDA's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) ways 
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques, when 
appropriate, and other forms of information technology.

Registration and Product Listing for Owners and Operators of Domestic 
Tobacco Product Establishments and Listing of Ingredients in Tobacco 
Products

OMB Control Number 0910-0650--Extension

    On June 22, 2009, the President signed the Family Smoking 
Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act) (Pub. L. 111-
31) into law. The Tobacco Control Act amended the Federal Food, Drug, 
and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) by adding, among other things, a chapter 
granting FDA important authority to regulate the manufacture, 
marketing, and distribution of tobacco products to protect the public 
health generally and to reduce tobacco use by minors. The Tobacco 
Control Act created new requirements for the tobacco industry. Section 
101 of the Tobacco Control Act amended the FD&C Act by adding sections 
905 and 904 (21 U.S.C. 387e and 387d).
    Section 905 of the FD&C Act requires the annual registration of any 
``establishment in any State engaged in the manufacture, preparation, 
compounding, or processing of a tobacco product or tobacco products.'' 
Section 905 requires this registration be completed by December 31 of 
each year. The Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) has 
delegated to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs the responsibility for 
administering the FD&C Act, including section 905. Section 905 of the 
FD&C Act requires owners or operators of each establishment to 
register: (1) Their name; (2) places of business; (3) a list of all 
tobacco products which are manufactured by that person; (4) a copy of 
all labeling and a reference to the authority for the marketing of any 
tobacco product subject to a tobacco product standard under section 907 
of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 387g) or to premarket review under section 
910 of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 387j); (5) a copy of all consumer 
information and other labeling; (6) a representative sampling of 
advertisements; (7) upon request made by the Secretary for good cause, 
a copy of all advertisements for a particular tobacco product; and (8) 
upon request made by the Secretary, if the registrant has determined 
that a tobacco product contained in the product list is not subject to 
a tobacco product standard established under section 907 of the FD&C 
Act, a brief statement of the basis upon which the registrant made such 
determination.
    FDA collects the information submitted pursuant to section 905 of 
the FD&C Act through an electronic portal, and through paper forms 
(Forms FDA 3741 and FDA 3741a) for those individuals who choose not to 
use the electronic portal.
    FDA has also published a guidance for industry entitled 
``Registration and Product Listing for Owners and Operators of Domestic 
Tobacco Product Establishments'' (https://www.fda.gov/downloads/TobaccoProducts/Labeling/RulesRegulationsGuidance/UCM191940.pdf). This 
guidance is intended to assist persons making tobacco product 
establishment registration and product listing submissions to FDA.
    Section 904(a)(1) of the FD&C Act requires that each tobacco 
product manufacturer or importer submit ``a listing of all ingredients, 
including tobacco, substances, compounds, and additives that are, as of 
such date, added by the manufacturer to the tobacco, paper, filter, or 
other part of each tobacco product by brand and by quantity in each 
brand and subbrand'' by December 22, 2009. This section applies only to 
those tobacco products manufactured and distributed before June 22, 
2009, and which are still manufactured as of the date of the ingredient 
listing submission.
    Section 904(c) of the FD&C Act requires that a tobacco product

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manufacturer: (1) Provide all information required under section 904(a) 
of the FD&C Act to FDA ``at least 90 days prior to the delivery for 
introduction into interstate commerce of a tobacco product not on the 
market on the date of enactment'' of the Tobacco Control Act; (2) 
advise FDA in writing at least 90 days prior to adding any new tobacco 
additive or increasing in quantity an existing tobacco additive, except 
for those additives that have been designated by FDA through regulation 
as not a human or animal carcinogen, or otherwise harmful to health 
under intended conditions of use; and (3) advise FDA in writing at 
least 60 days prior to eliminating or decreasing an existing additive, 
or adding or increasing an additive that has been designated by FDA 
through regulation as not a human or animal carcinogen, or otherwise 
harmful to health under intended conditions of use.
    FDA collects the information submitted pursuant to sections 
904(a)(1) and 904(c) of the FD&C Act through an electronic portal, and 
through a paper form (Form FDA 3742) for those individuals who choose 
not to use the electronic portal.
    In addition to the development of the electronic portal and paper 
form, FDA published a guidance entitled ``Listing of Ingredients in 
Tobacco Products.'' This guidance is intended to assist persons making 
tobacco product ingredient listing submissions. FDA also provides a 
technical guide, embedded hints, and a web tutorial to the electronic 
portal.
    The Tobacco Control Act also gave FDA the authority to issue a 
regulation deeming all other products that meet the statutory 
definition of a tobacco product to be subject to Chapter 9 of the FD&C 
Act (section 901(b) (21 U.S.C. 387a(b)) of the FD&C Act). On May 10, 
2016, FDA issued that rule, extending FDA's tobacco product authority 
to all products that meet the definition of tobacco product in the law 
(except for accessories of newly regulated tobacco products), including 
electronic nicotine delivery systems, cigars, hookah, pipe tobacco, 
nicotine gels, dissolvables that were not already subject to the FD&C 
Act, and other tobacco products that may be developed in the future (81 
FR 28974 at 28976) (``the final deeming rule'')).
    FDA estimates the burden of this collection of information as 
follows:

                                                     Table 1--Estimated Annual Reporting Burden \1\
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                                                                 Number of
        FDA form/activity/TCA section            Number of     responses per   Total annual               Hours per response                Total hours
                                                respondents     respondent       responses
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Tobacco Product Establishment Initial                    100               1             100  1.6.......................................             160
 Registration and Listing; Form FDA 3741
 Registration and Product Listing for Owners
 and Operators of Domestic Establishments
 (Electronic and Paper submissions);
 Sections 905(b), 905(c), 905(d), 905(h), or
 905(i).
Tobacco Product Establishment Renewal                  3,578               1           3,578  .16 (10 minutes)..........................             572
 Registration and Listing; Form FDA 3741
 Registration and Product Listing for Owners
 and Operators of Domestic Establishments
 (Electronic and Paper submissions);
 Sections 905(b), 905(c), 905(d), 905(h), or
 905(i).
Tobacco Product Listing; Form FDA 3742                    10               1              10  2.........................................              20
 Listing of Ingredients (Electronic and
 Paper submissions); Section 904(a)(1).
Tobacco Product Listing; Form FDA 3742                    35               2              70  0.40 (24 minutes).........................              28
 Listing of Ingredients (Electronic and
 Paper submissions); Section 904(c).
Obtaining a Dun and Bradstreet D-U-N-S                   100               1             100  0.5 (30 minutes)..........................              50
 Number.
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    Total...................................  ..............  ..............  ..............  ..........................................             830
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\1\ There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of information.

    The PRA burden estimates have been updated to fully incorporate the 
use of an electronic system known as FURLS for submitting registration 
and product listing information to FDA. With the FURLS, manufacturers 
can enter information quickly and easily. For example, product label 
pictures can be uploaded directly. We anticipate that most, if not all 
companies, already have electronic versions of their labels for 
printing, sales, or marketing purposes.
    Product listing information is provided at the time of 
registration. Currently, registration and listing requirements only 
apply to domestic establishments engaged in the manufacture, 
preparation, compounding, or processing of a tobacco product. This 
includes importers to the extent that they engage in the manufacture, 
preparation, compounding, or processing of a tobacco product, including 
repackaging or otherwise changing the container, wrapper, or labeling 
of any tobacco product package. Foreign establishments are not required 
to register and list until FDA issues regulations establishing such 
requirements in accordance with section 905(h) of the FD&C Act. To 
account for the foregoing, we include both domestic manufacturing 
establishments and importers in our estimates.
    As the deadline for initial establishment registration and product 
listing for both statutorily regulated and deemed products has passed, 
FDA estimates that few (up to 100) new establishments will submit one 
initial establishment registration and product listing report each 
year. Such new establishments potentially include new vape shop 
locations that mix or assemble products on the market as of the final 
deeming rule effective date. The Agency estimates that up to 100 
tobacco establishments will each submit 1 initial establishment 
registration and product listing report each year, which is expected to 
take 1.6 hours, for a total 160 burden hours.

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    FDA estimates that the confirmation or updating of establishment 
registration and product listing information as required by section 905 
of the FD&C Act will take 10 minutes annually per confirmation or 
update per establishment. Based on FDA's experience with current 
establishment registration and product listings submitted to the 
Agency, the Agency estimates that on average 3,578 establishments will 
each submit one confirmation or updated report each year, which is 
expected to take 0.16 hour (10 minutes) for a total 572 burden hours.
    FDA estimates that we have received most tobacco product ingredient 
submissions for large manufacturers of deemed products. Small 
manufacturers' deadline for ingredient submissions is November 2018. 
This is based on the counts we have to date (July 2018), including 
statutorily regulated products (based on information in our tracking 
system).
    FDA estimates that the submission of ingredient listings required 
by section 904(a)(1) of the FD&C Act for each establishment will take 2 
hours initially. Because this burden estimate covers a timeframe of 3 
years, we anticipate almost all section 904(a)(1) tobacco ingredient 
submissions to have been received before the expiration of the current 
approval (prior to 11/8/2018 for small manufacturers and large 
manufacturers, 5/8/18). We are estimating approximately 30 
manufacturers may miss their deadline. This is based on estimates of 
how many large manufacturers we are aware of that have missed their 
deadline. Because this burden estimate covers 3 years, we are dividing 
by 3, to yield 10 respondents as a yearly average for this estimate. 
Therefore, FDA estimates that 10 establishments will initially submit 
one report annually at 2 hours per report, for a total of 20 hours.
    Submissions under 904(c) of the FD&C Act are for any new product 
that is not yet on the market (e.g., if on the market due to deeming 
compliance period), newly deemed product manufacturers should have 
submitted under section 904(a)(1) of the FD&C Act. This includes any 
statutorily regulated product that would receive a marketing 
authorization and any new deemed product not subject to the deeming 
compliance period. For deemed product categories, while we anticipate 
receiving a large number of premarket applications, there is a portion 
of these applicants who will have reported their ingredients under 
section 904(a)(1) as most of these submissions are expected to be for 
products subject to the deeming compliance period.
    Based on FDA's experience and the actual number of product 
ingredient listings submitted over the past 3 years, FDA estimates that 
35 establishments will each submit two reports (one every 6 months). 
FDA also estimates that the confirmation or updating of product 
(ingredient) listing information required by section 904(c) of the FD&C 
Act is expected to take 0.40 hour (24 minutes) and will take 48 minutes 
annually for two confirmations or updates per establishment, for a 
total 28 burden hours. FDA estimates that obtaining a DUNS (data 
universal numbering system) number will take 30 minutes. FDA assumes 
that all new establishment facilities that will be required to 
initially register under section 905 of the FD&C Act would obtain a 
DUNS number. FDA estimates that up to 100 establishments that would 
need to obtain this number each year. The total industry burden to 
obtain a DUNS number is 50 hours.
    FDA estimates the total burden for this collection to be 830 hours. 
We have adjusted our burden estimate, which has resulted in a decrease 
of 93,086 hours to the currently approved burden. Based on data we 
reviewed from the past 3 years and projecting the number of remaining 
establishments that have not registered and submitted product 
ingredient listings, we revised the number of respondents and burden 
hours in this information collection.

    Dated: October 17, 2018.
Leslie Kux,
Associate Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2018-23056 Filed 10-22-18; 8:45 am]
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