[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 143 (Wednesday, July 27, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43450-43451]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-14804]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation


Notice of Request for Extension of a Currently Approved 
Information Collection

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; this 
notice announces the intentions of the Bureau of Reclamation to seek 
extension of the information collection for the Lower Colorado River 
Well Inventory. The current OMB approval expires on January 31, 2006.

DATES:  Comments on this notice must be received by September 26, 2005.

ADDRESSES:  To obtain copies of the information collection form and to 
submit comments on this information collection contact: Mr. Jeffrey 
Addiego, Boulder Canyon Operations Office, PO Box 61470, Boulder City, 
NV 89006-1470; or e-mail at [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Jeffrey Addiego, 702-293-8525.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the 
proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper 
performance of the functions of Reclamation, including whether the 
information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of 
Reclamation's estimated burden of the proposed collection of 
information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of 
the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of 
the collection of information on those who are to respond, including 
through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of 
information technology. Consideration will be given to comments and 
sugestions submitted within 60 days of this publication.
    Our 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

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organizations or businesses, available for public disclosure in their 
entirety.
    Title: Lower Colorado River Well Inventory.
    OMB No.: OMB No. 1006-0014.
    Abstract: The Secretary of the Interior is responsible for 
accounting for all diversions of mainstream Colorado River water along 
the lower Colorado River, and for assuring that all Colorado River 
water use is in accordance with a water use entitlement. This requires 
an inventory of wells and river pumps along the lower Colorado River, 
and the gathering of specific information concerning these wells.
    Description of respondents: All diversions of mainstream Colorado 
River water along the lower Colorado River must be accounted for in 
accordance with a water use contract with the Secretary of the Interior 
for non-Indian water uses, or accounted for in compliance with a 
Secretarial reserved right or decreed water right for federal 
reservations. This will affect every well and river-pump owner and 
operator along the lower Colorado River in Arizona, California, and 
Nevada. Each diverter (including well pumpers) must be identified and 
their diversion locations and water use determined.
    Frequency: These data will be collected only once for each well or 
river-pump owner or operator as long as changes in water use, or other 
changes that would impact contractual or administrative requirements, 
are not made.
    Estimated completion time: An average of 20 minutes is required for 
Reclamation to interview individual well and river-pump owners or 
operators. Reclamation will use the information collected during these 
interviews to complete the information collection form.
    Annual responses: 1,500.
    Annual burden hours: 500 hours.

    Dated: July 15, 2005.
Ruth M. Thayer,
Acting Area Manager.
[FR Doc. 05-14804 Filed 7-26-05; 8:45 am]
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