[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 147 (Tuesday, July 31, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 39527]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-19039]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[WO-310-1310-PB-24 1A]


Extension of Approved Information Collection, OMB Approval Number 
1004-0184

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is requesting the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) to extend an existing approval to collect information 
from lessees, operators, record title holders, operating rights owners, 
and the general public on oil and gas leasing and operations on Federal 
lands. The revised implementing regulations will be found at 43 CFR 
part 3100 to authorize BLM to collect the new required nonform 
information.

DATES: You must submit your comments to BLM at the address below on or 
before October 1, 2001. BLM will not necessarily consider any comments 
received after the above date.

ADDRESSES: You may mail comments to: Regulatory Affairs Group (630), 
Bureau of Land Management, Mailstop 401LS, 1840 C Street, NW., 
Washington, DC 20240.
    You may send comments via Internet to: [email protected]. Please 
include ``ATTN: 1004-0184'' and your name and return address in your 
Internet message.
    You may deliver comments to the Bureau of Land Management, 
Administrative Record, Room 401, 1620 L Street, NW., Washington, DC.
    Comments will be available for public review at the L Street 
address during regular business hours (7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.) Monday 
through Friday.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You may contact Barbara Gamble on 
(202) 452-0338 (Commercial or FTS). Persons who use a 
telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 
Information Relay Service (FIRS) on 1-800-877-8330, 24 hours a day, 
seven days a week, to contact Ms. Gamble.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 5 CFR 1320.12(a) requires that we provide a 
60-day notice in the Federal Register concerning a collection of 
information to solicit comments on:
    (a) Whether the collection of information is necessary for the 
proper functioning of the agency, including whether the information 
will have practical utility;
    (b) The accuracy of our estimates of the information collection 
burden, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions we 
use;
    (c) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information collected; and
    (d) Ways to minimize the information collection burden on those who 
are to respond, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, 
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms 
of information technology.
    The BLM is revising its Federal oil and gas leasing and operations 
regulations (43 CFR Part 3100). The implementing regulations will 
improve procedures and clarify requirements. The Mineral Leasing Act of 
1920, as amended (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.); the Mineral Leasing Act for 
Acquired Lands of 1947, as amended (30 U.S.C. 351-359); the various 
Indian leasing acts; the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as 
amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas 
Leasing Reform Act of 1987 (Pub. L. 100-203, 101 Stat. 1330-256); the 
Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act; and the various 
requirements in 43 CFR 3100, authorize BLM to maintain records and 
provide information pertaining to data submitted by the lessees, 
operators, record title holders, operating rights owners, and the 
general public.
    Based upon our experience managing oil and gas activities, we 
estimated the new public reporting information collection burden in a 
Federal Register notice (63 FR 66840). We estimated 22,945 responses 
per year and an estimated total annual burden of 4,102 hours.
    BLM will summarize all responses to this notice and include them in 
the request for OMB approval. All comments will become a matter of 
public record.

    Dated: July 16, 2001.
Michael H. Schwartz,
BLM Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 01-19039 Filed 7-30-01; 8:45 am]
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