[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 58 (Wednesday, March 26, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16816-16817]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-06673]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[LLAK930000.L13100000.FF0000.241A; OMB Control Number 1004-0196]


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 from participants in 
the oil and gas leasing program within the National Petroleum Reserve--
Alaska (NPRA). The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has assigned 
control number 1004-0196 to this 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 April 
25, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the Desk Officer for the 
Department of the Interior (OMB 1004-0196), 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.
    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.
    Electronic mail: [email protected].
    Please indicate ``Attn: 1004-0196'' regardless of the form of your 
comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wayne Svejnoha, 907-271-4407. Persons 
who use a telecommunication device for the deaf may call the Federal 
Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339, to leave a message for Mr. 
Svejnoha. You may also review the information collection request online 
at http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.

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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 the 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 November 18, 2013 (78 FR 69125), and the 
comment period closed on January 17, 2014. The BLM received no 
comments.
    The BLM 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 to the addresses listed under ADDRESSES. 
Please refer to OMB Control Number 1004-0196 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: Oil and Gas Leasing: National Petroleum Reserve--Alaska.
    OMB Control Number: 1004-0196.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved information 
collection.

SUMMARY: This control number applies to the National Petroleum 
Reserve--Alaska (NPRA). In accordance with the Naval Petroleum Reserve 
Production Act (42 U.S.C. 6501-6508) and regulations at 43 CFR part 
3130, the BLM may authorize participation in an NPRA unit agreement. 
Participants in such an agreement are required to comply with routine 
data submissions that are used to document drilling and production and 
ensure compliance with the unit agreement, lease terms, regulations, 
Onshore Oil and Gas Orders, Notices to Lessees, lease stipulations, or 
conditions of approval. In addition, participants in such an agreement 
may apply for reduction of royalty, suspension of operations or 
production, or a subsurface storage agreement.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
    Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 220.
    Estimated Annual Responses: 21.
    Estimated Annual Non-hour Burden Cost: None.
    The estimated burdens are itemized in the following table:

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                                          B.  Number of                                D.  Total time  (column B
          A.  Type of response              responses       C.  Time per response             x column C)
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Royalty reduction (43 CFR 3133.4)......               1  16 hours...................  16 hours.
Suspension of operations (43 CFR                      1  4 hours....................  4 hours.
 3135.3).
Notification of operations (43 CFR                    2  15 minutes.................  30 minutes.
 3135.6).
Unit designation (43 CFR 3137.21 and                  1  80 hours...................  80 hours.
 3137.23).
Notification of unit approval (43 CFR                 1  1 hour.....................  1 hour.
 3137.25).
Certification for modification (43 CFR                1  4 hours....................  4 hours.
 3137.52).
Acceptable bonding (43 CFR 3137.60)....               1  30 minutes.................  30 minutes.
Change of unit operator (43 CFR                       1  45 minutes.................  45 minutes.
 3137.61).
Certification of unit obligation (43                  1  2 hours....................  2 hours.
 CFR 3137.70).
Certification of continuing development               1  2 hours....................  2 hours.
 (43 CFR 3137.71).
Productivity for a participating area                 1  12 hours...................  12 hours.
 (43 CFR 3137.84).
Unleased tracts (43 CFR 3137.87).......               1  3 hours....................  3 hours.
Notification of productivity (43 CFR                  1  30 minutes.................  30 minutes.
 3137.88).
Notification of productivity for non-                 1  30 minutes.................  30 minutes.
 unit well (43 CFR 3137.91).
Production information (43 CFR 3137.92)               1  1 hour.....................  1 hour.
Lease extension (43 CFR 3137.111)......               1  3 hours....................  3 hours.
Inability to conduct operations                       1  2 hours....................  2 hours.
 activities (43 CFR 3137.112).
Unit termination (43 CFR 3137.130).....               1  1 hour.....................  1 hour.
Impact mitigation (43 CFR 3137.135)....               1  4 hours....................  4 hours.
Storage agreement (43 CFR 3138.11).....               1  80 hours...................  80 hours.
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    Totals.............................              21  ...........................  220 hours.
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Jean Sonneman,
Bureau of Land Management, Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-06673 Filed 3-25-14; 8:45 am]
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