[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 70 (Wednesday, April 11, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 21807]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-8510]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement


Notice of Proposed Information Collection

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is 
announcing its intention to request approval for the collection of 
information for OSM's call for nominations for its Excellence in 
Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Awards and Abandoned Mine Land 
Reclamation Awards.

DATES: OMB has up to 60 days to approve or disapprove the information 
collections but may respond after 30 days. Therefore, public comments 
should be submitted to OMB by May 11, 2012, in order to be assured of 
consideration.

ADDRESSES: Please send comments to the Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Attention: 
Department of the Interior Desk Officer, via email to [email protected], or by facsimile to (202) 395-5806. Also, please 
send a copy of your comments to John Trelease, Office of Surface Mining 
Reclamation and Enforcement, 1951 Constitution Ave. NW., Room 203--SIB, 
Washington, DC 20240, by telefax to (202) 219-3276, or by email to 
[email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To receive a copy of the information 
collection request, contact John Trelease at (202) 208-2783, or 
electronically at [email protected]. You may also review this 
collection on the Internet by going to http://www.reginfo.gov 
(Information Collection Review, Currently Under Review, Agency is 
Department of the Interior, DOI-OSMRE).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The OMB regulations at 5 CFR 1320, which 
implement provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 
104-13), require that interested members of the public and affected 
agencies have an opportunity to comment on information collection and 
recordkeeping activities [see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)]. OSM has submitted a 
request to OMB to approve the collection of information for nominations 
to OSM's Excellence in Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Awards and 
Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Awards. OSM will request a 3-year term 
of approval for the information collection activity.
    An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required 
to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a 
currently valid OMB control number. Since this is a new information 
collection request, OSM is seeking a new OMB control number. Responses 
are voluntary.
    As required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), a Federal Register notice 
soliciting comments on this collection of information was published on 
January 17, 2012 (77 FR 2318). OSM received one comment, but it was not 
relevant to this information collection activity. Therefore, we have 
not changed the collection in response to the comment. This notice 
provides the public with an additional 30 days in which to comment on 
the following information collection activity:
    Title: Reclamation Awards -- Call for Nominations.
    OMB Control Number: 1029-xxxx.
    Summary: This information collection clearance package is being 
submitted by the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement 
(OSM) for approval to collect information for our annual call for 
nominations for our Excellence in Surface Coal Mining Reclamation 
Awards and Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Awards. Since 1986, the 
Office of Surface Mining has presented awards to coal mine operators 
who completed exemplary active reclamation. A parallel award program 
for abandoned mine land reclamation began in 1992. The objective was to 
give public recognition to those responsible for the nation's most 
outstanding achievement in environmentally sound surface mining and 
land reclamation and to encourage the exchange and transfer of 
successful reclamation technology. The call for nominations has been in 
existence for years but is currently inactive. This collection request 
seeks a three-year term of approval.
    Bureau Form Number: None.
    Frequency of Collection: Once.
    Description of Respondents: Industry and state/tribal nominees for 
reclamation awards and state/tribal reviewers and judges.
    Total Annual Responses: 22 active mine respondents, 12 abandoned 
mine land respondents, and 48 state and tribal reviewers and judges.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,406.
    Total Annual Non-Wage Burden: $3,400.
    Send comments on the need for the collection of information for the 
performance of the functions of the agency; the accuracy of the 
agency's burden estimates; ways to enhance the quality, utility and 
clarity of the information collection; and ways to minimize the 
information collection burden on respondents, such as use of automated 
means of collection of the information, to the addresses listed in 
ADDRESSES.
    Before including your address, phone number, email 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 us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying 
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be 
able to do so.

    Dated: April 3, 2012.
Andrew F. DeVito,
Chief, Division of Regulatory Support.
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