DEA Seeks Input on Streamlining Mail-Order Drug Transaction Reports
Published Date: 11/18/2025
Notice
Summary
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) wants to keep collecting info about mail order drug transactions and is asking for your thoughts on how to make it easier and clearer. If you’re involved in mail order drug sales, this could affect you, especially with a 30-day comment window ending December 18, 2025. The goal? To reduce paperwork hassle while keeping things safe and smooth—no extra costs announced yet!
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 3 costs, 0 mixed.
Monthly mail‑order drug reporting required
If you run a business regulated by the DEA, you must report mail‑order transactions (monthly) that involve ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine when the shipment uses the U.S. Postal Service or any private/commercial carrier. The reporting obligation is mandated by 21 U.S.C. 830(b)(3).
Estimated time burden: 1 hour monthly
The DEA estimates 18 respondents will each spend about 1 hour per month (12 times per year), for a total estimated annual time burden of 216 hours. The agency estimates the total annual other cost burden is zero.
Agency seeks to reduce paperwork electronically
The DEA asks for public comment on ways to minimize respondent burden, including use of automated, electronic, or other technological collection techniques and permitting electronic submission of responses.
Three‑year OMB authorization sought
The DOJ/DEA seeks Paperwork Reduction Act authorization for this information collection for three (3) years; OMB authorizations for information collections may not exceed three years without renewal.
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