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The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) is publishing a final rule following its proposal of deregulatory amendments to its regulations to modernize and streamline the permit and registration applications under the Internal Revenue Code for distilled spirits plants and for users and dealers of specially denatured alcohol and tax-free alcohol.  The proposed amendments also relax some requirements to report certain changes to the business of those holding such permits and registrations.  Some of these proposed liberalizing amendments would also apply to all Federal Alcohol Administration Act permit holders (including wineries, and importers and wholesalers of distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages) and to alcohol beverage dealers.  The proposed amendments are a result of TTB's evaluation of its permit and registration application requirements and consideration of relevant public comments submitted to the Treasury Department in response to its 2017 request for recommendations concerning regulations that can be eliminated, modified, or streamlined in order to reduce burdens.  The deregulatory amendments will reduce the amount of information collected in the application, and the time needed to complete an application or make amendments to approved permits or registrations.