[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 3, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 385-386]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-24]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation


Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed New 
Information Collection; Comment Request

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of proposed new information collection.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Bureau of Reclamation (we, our, or us) 
intends to submit the following proposed new information collection to 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB): Limited Recipient 
Identification Sheet, Trust Information Sheet for Acreage Limitation, 
43 CFR part 426. This information collection is required by provisions 
under the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 (RRA) and Acreage Limitation 
Rules and Regulations, 43 CFR part 426. We request your comments on the 
proposed RRA forms and specific aspects of the information collection.

DATES: Your written comments must be received on or before March 5, 
2001.

ADDRESSES: You may send written comments to the Bureau of Reclamation, 
Attention: D-5200, PO Box 25007, Denver, CO 80225-0007.
    Department of the Interior practice is to make comments, including 
names and home addresses of respondents, available for public review. 
Individual respondents may request that we withhold their home address 
from public disclosure, which we will honor to the extent allowable by 
law. There also may be circumstances in which we would withhold a 
respondent's identity from public disclosure, as allowable by law. If 
you wish us to withhold your name and/or address, you must state this 
prominently at the beginning of your comment. We will make all 
submissions from organizations or businesses, and from individuals 
identifying themselves as representatives or officials of organizations 
or businesses, available for public disclosure in their entirety.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You may request copies of the proposed 
forms by writing to the above address or by contacting Stephanie McPhee 
at: (303) 445-2897.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Limited Recipient Identification Sheet, Trust Information 
Sheet for Acreage Limitation, 43 CFR part 426.
    Abstract: Identification of limited recipients.
    Some entities that receive Reclamation irrigation water may believe 
themselves to be under the RRA threshold and consequently, may not 
submit the appropriate RRA form(s). However, some of these entities may 
in fact have a different RRA forms submittal threshold than what they 
believe it to be due to the number of natural persons benefitting from 
each entity and the location of the land held by each entity. In 
addition, some entities that are exempt from the requirement to submit 
RRA forms due to the size of their landholdings may in fact be 
receiving Reclamation irrigation water for which the full-cost rate 
must be paid because the start of Reclamation irrigation water 
deliveries occurred after October 1, 1981 [43 CFR 426.6(b)(2)]. The 
information obtained through completion of the Limited Recipient 
Identification Sheet allows us to establish entities' compliance with 
Federal reclamation law. The proposed Limited Recipient Identification 
Sheet will be disbursed at our discretion.

Trust Review

    We are required to review and approve all trusts [43 CFR 
426.7(b)(2)] in order to ensure trusts meet the regulatory criteria 
specified in 43 CFR 426.7. Land held in trust generally will be 
attributed to the beneficiaries of the trust rather than the trustee if 
the criteria are met. When we become aware of trusts with a relatively 
small landholding (40 acres or less), we may extend to those trusts the 
option to complete and submit for our review the proposed Trust 
Information Sheet instead of actual trust documents. If we find nothing 
on the completed, proposed Trust Information Sheet that would warrant 
the further investigation of a particular trust, that trustee will not 
be burdened with submitting trust documents to us for in-depth review.
    Frequency: Generally, these forms will be submitted once per 
identified entity or trust. Each year, we expect new responses in 
accordance with the following numbers.
    Respondents: Entity landholders and trusts identified by 
Reclamation that are subject to the acreage limitation provisions of 
Federal reclamation law.
    Estimated Total Number of Respondents: 1,105.
    Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1.0.
    Estimated Total Number of Annual Responses: 1,105.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 92 hours.
    Estimate of Burden for Each Form:

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                                        Estimated of Burden for Each Form
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                                                      Burden                                      Annual  burden
                                                   estimate per      Number of    Annual  number        on
                    Form No.                           form         respondents    of  responses    respondents
                                                     (minutes)                                       (hours) ]
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Limited recipient identification sheet..........               5             635             635              53
Trust information sheet.........................               5             470             470              39
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Comments

    Comments are invited on:
    (a) Whether the proposed new collection of information is necessary 
for the proper performance of our functions, including whether the 
information will have practical use;
    (b) The accuracy of our burden estimate for the proposed new 
collection of information;
    (c) Ways to enhance the quality, usefulness, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
    (d) Ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on 
respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology.
    We will summarize all comments received regarding this notice. We 
will publish that summary in the Federal Register when the information 
collection request is submitted to OMB for review and approval.

    Dated: December 18, 2000.
Wayne O. Deason,
Associate Director, Office of Policy.
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