[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 248 (Friday, December 28, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 73876-73877]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-25217]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[WO-350-1430-PE-24 1A]


Extension of Approved Information Collection, OMB Control Number 
1004-0009

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has submitted an 
Information Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for review and approval. 
The ICR is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2007. The BLM may not 
conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a 
collection of information

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unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. However, under 
OMB regulations, the BLM may continue to conduct or sponsor this 
information collection while it is pending at OMB. On June 21, 2006, 
the BLM published a notice in the Federal Register (71 FR 35698) 
requesting comment on this information collection. The comment period 
ended on August 21, 2006. The BLM received no comments. You may obtain 
copies of the collection of information and related forms and 
explanatory material by contacting the BLM Information Collection 
Clearance Officer at the telephone number listed in the ADDRESSES 
section below.

DATES: The OMB is required to respond to this request within 60 days 
but may respond after 30 days. Submit your comments to OMB at the 
address below by January 28, 2008 to receive maximum consideration.

ADDRESSES: Send your comments and suggestions on this ICR to the Desk 
Officer for the Department of the Interior at OMB-OIRA at (202) 395-
6566 (fax) or [email protected] (e-mail). Please provide a copy 
of your comments to Alexandra Ritchie, Information Collection Clearance 
Officer, Bureau of Land Management, at U.S. Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Land Management, Mail Stop 401LS, 1849 C Street, NW., 
Washington, DC 20240. Additionally, you may contact Alexandra Ritchie 
regarding this ICR at (202) 452-0388 (phone); (202) 653-5287 (fax); or 
[email protected] (e-mail).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For program-related questions, contact 
Alzata L. Ransom, Realty Use Group, on (202) 452-7772 (Commercial or 
FTS). Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) 
may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-
8330, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to contact Ms. Ransom. For 
questions regarding this ICR or the information collection process, 
contact Alexandra Ritchie by phone, mail, fax, or e-mail (see 
ADDRESSES).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB Control Number: 1004-0009.
    Title: Land Use Application and Permit, 43 CFR 2920.
    Bureau Form Number: 2920-1.
    Type of Request: Extension of currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Private Citizens, Businesses, and State and Local 
Governments.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
    Estimated Annual Number of Responses: 519.
    Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour per response for land use 
authorizations that will cause little or no damage to the public lands 
and resources; 120 hours for authorizations that may cause considerable 
damage or disturbance to the public lands and resources.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,709.
    Abstract: The BLM uses the information to allow State and local 
governments, businesses, and private citizens to use, occupy, or 
develop the public lands under certain conditions. Land uses that may 
be authorized are: agricultural development, residential (under certain 
conditions), recreation concessions (under certain conditions), and 
business, industrial, and commercial. The types of land uses include 
commercial filming, advertising displays, commercial or noncommercial 
croplands, apiaries, livestock, holding or feeding areas not related to 
grazing permits and leases, harvesting of native or introduced species, 
temporary or permanent facilities for commercial purposes (does not 
include mining claims), ski resorts, construction equipment storage 
sites, assembly yards, oil rig stacking sites, mining claim occupancy 
if the residential structures are not incidental to the mining 
operation, and water pipelines and well pumps related to irrigation and 
non-irrigation facilities.
    We estimate that it will take a respondent 1 hour to complete an 
application for a land use authorization that will cause little or no 
damage or disturbance to the public lands and resources. Ninety-eight 
percent of land use authorization respondents are in this category. It 
will take a respondent 120 hours to complete an application for complex 
land use authorization proposals that will cause considerable damage or 
disturbance to the public lands and resources. Two percent of land use 
authorization respondents are in this category. The majority of the 
complex land use authorizations are from the major motion picture film 
industry. The BLM did not receive any responses in this last category 
during the current collection period. The average annual application 
processing fee for this entire collection (complex and less complex 
authorization proposals) is $148,933.28.
    We again specifically request your comments on the following:
    1. Whether the collection of information is necessary for the 
proper functioning of the BLM, including whether the information will 
have practical utility;
    2. The accuracy of BLM's estimate of the burden of collecting the 
information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions 
used;
    3. The quality, utility and clarity of the information we collect; 
and
    4. How to minimize the burden of collecting the information on 
those who are to respond, including the use of appropriate automated 
electronic, mechanical, or other forms of information technology.
    Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of 
public record. Before including your address, phone number, e-mail 
address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you 
should be aware that your entire comment, including your personal 
identifying information, may be made publicly available at any time. 
While you can ask OMB in your comment to withhold your personal 
identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that it 
will be done.

    Dated: December 21, 2007.
Alexandra Ritchie,
Bureau of Land Management, Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E7-25217 Filed 12-27-07; 8:45 am]
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