# 2026-22535: FBI Wants Local Governments to Report Their Anti-Drone Efforts

2026-22535, Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection eComments Requested; SAFER SKIES State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Counter-UAS Information Collection, is a Federal Register notice from Justice Department published 2026-11-04, effective Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for 30 days until December 4, 2026.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-05).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2026-22535
- Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection eComments Requested; SAFER SKIES State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Counter-UAS Information Collection
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Justice Department
- Citation: 91 FR 69576
- Published: 2026-11-04
- Effective: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for 30 days until December 4, 2026.
- Comments close: 2026-12-04
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-05

## In one line

FBI Wants Local Governments to Report Their Anti-Drone Efforts

## Summary

The FBI wants to collect info from state, local, tribal, and territorial groups about counter-drone efforts to keep skies safer. They’re asking for public feedback on this plan until December 4, 2026, to make sure it’s useful and not too much work. This helps improve how they track and stop unauthorized drones without costing extra money or time.

## Abstract

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice (DOJ), will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on September 1, 2026, 91 FR 56212, allowing a 60-day comment period.

## Effects PRIA read

- State/local agencies must submit C‑UAS filings: cost, low. State, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) law enforcement and correctional agencies must submit attestations, plans, notifications, reports, and records through the Federal C‑UAS coordination portal to coordinate and obtain or retain counter‑UAS authority under 6 U.S.C. 124n(a)(2) and 6 CFR/28 C…
- Estimated time burden and response counts: cost, low. The DOJ estimates 1,850 SLTT agencies will respond, creating about 26,205 annual responses and a total estimated annual time burden of 28,689 hours. Individual tasks range from about 5 minutes (feedback on a listed counter‑UAS system) to about 5 hours (initial policy adoption and attestation); a de…
- Move from email forms to secure web portal: benefit, low. The FBI will transition the C‑UAS instruments from the current offline, emailed workflow to a secure web portal expected to go live in the second or third quarter of fiscal year 2027. The portal will host the same data elements, authenticate users via existing federated identity providers, and capt…
- FBI made specific burden‑reducing and transparency changes: benefit, low. In response to public comment and initial implementation experience, the FBI added a one‑time form training line, split recordkeeping estimates by agency tier, raised the mitigation‑tier figure, provided task‑level bases for estimates, supplied instruments to the commenter, committed to add a State…

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## Sources
- [2026-22535 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/11/04/2026-22535/agency-information-collection-activities-proposed-ecollection-ecomments-requested-safer-skies-state)
- [2026-22535 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-11-04/pdf/2026-22535.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-22535 (as of 2026-11-05).