[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 150 (Monday, August 5, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50690-50691]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-19664]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[WO-880-9500-PF-24 1A]


Extension of Approved Information Collection, OMB Approval Number 
1004-0109

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) requests the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) to extend an existing approval to collection information 
from the Governors of States to allow the BLM to compute units of 
payments due to local governments under the Payments In Lieu of Taxes 
(PILT) Act of

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September 13, 1982, as amended. The nonform information we collect 
under 43 CFR part 1881 helps local governments recover some of the 
expenses incurred by providing services on public lands.

DATES: You must submit your comments to BLM at the address below on or 
before October 4, 2002. BLM will not necessarily consider any comments 
received after the above date.

ADDRESSES: You may mail comments to: Regulatory Affairs Group (WO-630), 
Eastern States Office, 7450 Boston Blvd., Springfield, Virginia 22153.
    You may send comments via Internet to: [email protected]. Please 
include ``ATTN: 1004-0109'' and your name and address with your 
comments.
    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 Bill Howell, Budget 
Group, on (202) 452-7721 (Commercial or FTS). Persons who use a 
telecommunication 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 Mr. Howell.

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.
    BLM makes payments in lieu of taxes to units of local governments 
for certain Federal lands within their boundaries through authority 
provided under the Payment in Lieu of Taxes Act of October 20, 1976 (90 
Stat. 2662, 31 U.S.C. 6901-6907). The implementing regulations (43 CFR 
part 1881) require the Governor of each State to furnish BLM with a 
listing of payments made to local governments by the State on behalf of 
the Federal Government under 11 receipt-sharing statutes. BLM provides 
the States with a printout matrix designed to facilitate recording the 
requested information. BLM uses the information provided by the States 
to compute the PILT payments to local governments within the State.
    Based on BLM's experience in administering the PILT program, we 
estimate the public reporting burden is 20 hours. The respondents 
already maintain this information for their own record keeping purposes 
and need only transfer the information to the printout matrix that BLM 
will provide. The respondents are offices designated by the Governor of 
each State, usually the Treasurer's Office. The frequency of response 
is once annually, reporting on the previous fiscal year revenues. The 
number of responses per year is 50. We estimate the total annual burden 
is 1,000 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 11, 2002.
Michael H. Schwartz,
Bureau of Land Management, Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 02-19664 Filed 8-2-02; 8:45 am]
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