Yesterday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that it had approved a revision of an information collection request (ICR) revision from the DOJ’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) on “Notification to Fire Safety Authority of Storage of Explosive Materials”. The 60-day ICR notice was published on November 19th, 2024. The 30-day ICR notice was published on February 26th, 2025.
The table below shows the revised burden estimate approved by OIRA.
Commentary
I do not think that the unexplained astronomical-increase in
respondents is really an increase in the number of explosive storage sites
discovered by the ATF. It is almost certainly a typographical error (10,000
instead of 1,000) but it is still an increase that should have been explained
to OIRA. The fact that it was not, and OIRA approved the revision anyway shows
just how badly this program is being run by the OMB. To be fair, OIRA has
received 1,810 ICRs since the first of the year and still had a backlog from 2024.
This is a tremendous amount of work from an agency that is historically
understaffed (and I have seen no reporting to date about the number of Trumpian
resignations have been filed by OIRA employees), but keeping a lid on the
burden from government information requests is important work. Unfortunately, OIRA
does not seem up to the task.
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