[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 169 (Friday, August 30, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53775-53777]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-21281]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[LLWO3200000-L19900000.PP0000]


Renewal of Approved Information Collection

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: 30-day notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has submitted an 
information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) to continue the collection of information for BLM's regulations. 
These regulations pertain to the location, recording, and maintenance 
of mining claims and sites. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
has assigned control number 1004-0114 to this information collection.

DATES: The OMB is required to respond to this information collection 
request within 60 days but may respond after 30 days. For maximum 
consideration, written comments should be received on or before 
September 30, 2013.

ADDRESSES: Please submit comments directly to the Desk Officer for the 
Department of the Interior (OMB 1004-0114), Office of 
Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 
fax 202-395-5806, or by electronic mail at [email protected]. Please provide a copy of your comments to the 
BLM. You may do so via mail, fax, or electronic mail.
    Mail: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, 
1849 C Street NW., Room 2134LM, Attention: Jean Sonneman, Washington, 
DC 20240.
    Fax: to Jean Sonneman at 202-245-0050.

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    Electronic mail: [email protected].
    Please indicate ``Attn: 1004-0114'' regardless of the form of your 
comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sonia Santillan at 202-912-7123. 
Persons who use a telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD) may call 
the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339, to 
leave a message for Ms. Santillan. You may also review the information 
collection request online at http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501-
3521) and OMB regulations at 5 CFR part 1320 provide that an agency may 
not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a 
currently valid OMB control number. Until OMB approves a collection of 
information, you are not obligated to respond. In order to obtain and 
renew an OMB control number, Federal agencies are required to seek 
public comment on information collection and recordkeeping activities 
(see 5 CFR 1320.8(d) and 1320.12(a)).
    As required at 5 CFR 1320.8(d), the BLM published a 60-day notice 
in the Federal Register on June 5, 2013 (78 FR 33853), and the comment 
period ended August 5, 2013. The BLM now requests comments on the 
following subjects:
    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 the 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 to be 
collected; and
    4. How to minimize the information collection burden on those who 
are to respond, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, 
mechanical, or other forms of information technology.
    Please send comments as directed under ADDRESSES and DATES. Please 
refer to OMB control number 1004-0114 in your correspondence. 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.
    The following information is provided for the information 
collection:
    Title: Recordation of Location Notices and Mining Claims; Payment 
of Fees (43 CFR parts 3832-3838).
    OMB Control Number: 1004-0114.
    Summary: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) seeks to renew the 
previously approved information collection for the regulations at 43 
CFR parts 3832 through 3838. These regulations pertain to the location, 
recording, and maintenance of mining claims and sites, in accordance 
with the General Mining Law (30 U.S.C. 22-54), Section 314 of the 
Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) (43 U.S.C. 1744), 
certain other statutes pertaining to specific Federal lands, and the 
Stock Raising Homestead Act (43 U.S.C. 299 and 301).
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion, except Form 3830-2 (which may 
be filed annually) and annual FLPMA documents (which are required to be 
filed annually).
    Forms:
     Form 3830-2, Maintenance Fee Waiver Certification; and
     Form 3830-3, Notice of Intent to Locate a Lode or Placer 
Mining Claim(s) and/or a Tunnel Site(s) on Lands Patented under the 
Stock Raising Homestead Act of 1916, As Amended by the Act of April 16, 
1993.
    Description of Respondents: Mining claimants.
    Estimated Annual Responses: 121,019.
    Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 59,902.
    Estimated Annual Non-Hour Costs: $1,677,670.
    The estimated annual burdens are itemized in the following table:

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                                                                                                  D. Total hours
              A. Type of response                B. Number of         C. Time per response          (Column B x
                                                   responses                                         column C)
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Notice of Intent to Locate Under the Stock                   2  1 hour..........................               2
 Raising Homestead Act (43 CFR part 3838) Form
 3830-3.
Locating Mining Claims or Sites (43 CFR part            50,330  30 minutes......................          25,165
 3832).
Recording a New Location Notice (43 CFR part            50,330  30 minutes......................          25,165
 3833, subpart A).
Amending a Location Notice (43 CFR part 3833,            3,678  30 minutes......................           1,839
 subpart B).
Transfer of Interest (43 CFR part 3833,                  1,572  30 minutes......................             786
 subpart C) or Acquisition of a Delinquent Co-
 Claimant's Interests in a Mining Claim or
 Site (43 CFR part 3837).
Waiver from Annual Maintenance Fee (43 CFR               3,681  20 minutes......................           1,227
 part 3835, subpart A) Form 3830-2 and/or
 nonform data.
Annual FLPMA Documents (43 CFR part 3835,               11,416  30 minutes......................           5,708
 subpart C) Form 3830-4.
Deferring Assessment Work (43 CFR part 3836,                10  1 hour..........................              10
 subpart B).
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    TOTALS....................................         121,019  ................................          59,902
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Jean Sonneman,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Bureau of Land Management.
[FR Doc. 2013-21281 Filed 8-29-13; 8:45 am]
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