80_FR_60903 80 FR 60709 - Renewal of Approved Information Collection; Control Number 1004-0025

80 FR 60709 - Renewal of Approved Information Collection; Control Number 1004-0025

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 194 (October 7, 2015)

Page Range60709-60710
FR Document2015-25545

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) invites public comments on its plans to seek renewal of its authorization under the Paperwork Reduction Act regarding applications for fee title to Federal lands embraced in hardrock mineral claims. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has assigned control number 1004-0025 to this information collection.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 194 (Wednesday, October 7, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 194 (Wednesday, October 7, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60709-60710]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-25545]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

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Renewal of Approved Information Collection; Control Number 1004-
0025

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: 60-day notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) invites public comments on 
its plans to seek renewal of its authorization under the Paperwork 
Reduction Act regarding applications for fee title to Federal lands 
embraced in hardrock mineral claims. The Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) has assigned control number 1004-0025 to this information 
collection.

DATES: Please submit comments on the proposed information collection by 
December 7, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted by 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.
    Electronic mail: [email protected].
    Please indicate ``Attn: 1004-0025'' 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 may call the 
Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339, to leave a message 
for Ms. Santillan.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, which 
implement provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501-
3521, require that interested members of the public and affected 
agencies be given an opportunity to comment on information collection 
and recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR 1320.8 (d) and 1320.12(a)). 
This notice identifies an information collection that the BLM plans to 
submit to OMB for approval. The Paperwork Reduction Act provides 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.
    The BLM will request a 3-year term of approval for this information 
collection activity. Comments are invited on: (1) The need for the 
collection of information for the performance of the functions of the 
agency; (2) the accuracy of the agency's burden estimates; (3) ways to 
enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information collection; 
and (4) ways to minimize the information collection burden on 
respondents, such as use of automated means of collection of the 
information. A summary of the public comments will accompany our 
submission of the information collection requests to OMB.
    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 pertains to this request:
    Title: Mineral Patent Applications (43 CFR part 3860) and Adverse 
Claims, Protests and Conflicts (43 CFR part 3870).
    OMB Control Number: 1004-0025.
    Summary: On its face, the Mining Law (30 U.S.C. 29, 30, and 39) 
authorizes a holder of an unpatented claim for hardrock minerals to 
apply for fee title (patent) to the Federal land (as well as minerals) 
embraced in the claim. Since 1994, a rider on the annual appropriation 
bill for the Department of the Interior has prevented the BLM from 
processing mineral patent applications unless the applications were 
grandfathered under the initial legislation. The most recent rider is 
at Public Law 113-235, 128 Stat. 2443, at Section 404. While 
grandfathered applications are rare at present, the approval to collect 
the information continues to be necessary because of the possibility 
that the moratorium will be lifted.
    Frequency of Collection: Once.
    Form: Certificate of Title on Mining Claims (Form 3860-2) and 
Application

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for Survey on Mining Claim (Form 3860-5).
    Description of Respondents: Owners of unpatented mining claims and 
mill sites upon the public lands, and of reserved mineral lands of the 
United States, National Forests, and National Parks.
    Estimated Annual Responses: 10 responses.
    Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 496 hours.

Jean Sonneman,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Bureau of Land Management.
[FR Doc. 2015-25545 Filed 10-6-15; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 194 / Wednesday, October 7, 2015 / Notices 60709 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR comments may be limited. Individuals (see 5 CFR 1320.8 (d) and 1320.12(a)). who plan to attend and need special This notice identifies an information Bureau of Land Management assistance, such as sign language collection that the BLM plans to submit [LLCAC01000 L16600000.XZ0000 interpretation and other reasonable to OMB for approval. The Paperwork 15XL1109AF LXSIOVHD0000] accommodations, should contact the Reduction Act provides that an agency BLM as provided above. may not conduct or sponsor a collection Notice of Public Meeting of the Central Dated: September 23, 2015. of information unless it displays a California Resource Advisory Council currently valid OMB control number. Ruben Leal, Until OMB approves a collection of AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Associate District Manager. information, you are not obligated to Interior. [FR Doc. 2015–25523 Filed 10–6–15; 8:45 am] respond. ACTION: Notice of public meeting. BILLING CODE 4310–40–P The BLM will request a 3-year term of approval for this information collection SUMMARY: In accordance with the activity. Comments are invited on: (1) Federal Land Policy and Management DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR The need for the collection of Act and the Federal Advisory information for the performance of the Committee Act of 1972, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management functions of the agency; (2) the accuracy Department of the Interior, Bureau of [LLWO3200000–L19900000.PP0000] of the agency’s burden estimates; (3) Land Management (BLM) Central ways to enhance the quality, utility and California Resource Advisory Council Renewal of Approved Information clarity of the information collection; and (RAC) will meet as indicated below. Collection; Control Number 1004–0025 (4) ways to minimize the information DATES: A business meeting will be held AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, collection burden on respondents, such Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015, at the Interior. as use of automated means of collection Mendocino Hotel, 45080 Main St., of the information. A summary of the ACTION: 60-day notice and request for Mendocino, CA, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. public comments will accompany our Time for public comment is reserved comments. submission of the information collection from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Following the SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land requests to OMB. business meeting, the RAC will tour the Management (BLM) invites public Before including your address, phone Campbell-Hawthorne Timber Company comments on its plans to seek renewal number, email address, or other property to begin preliminary of its authorization under the Paperwork personal identifying information in your discussion of possible transfer of Reduction Act regarding applications comment, you should be aware that portions of the property to BLM for off- for fee title to Federal lands embraced your entire comment—including your highway vehicle use. in hardrock mineral claims. The Office personal identifying information—may On Friday, Oct. 30, the RAC is of Management and Budget (OMB) has be made publicly available at any time. scheduled to leave the Mendocino Hotel assigned control number 1004–0025 to While you can ask us in your comment at 8 a.m. to tour the Point Arena- this information collection. to withhold your personal identifying Stornetta Unit of the California Coastal information from public review, we DATES: Please submit comments on the National Monument. Members of the cannot guarantee that we will be able to proposed information collection by do so. public are welcome to attend the December 7, 2015. The following information pertains to meeting and tours. ADDRESSES: Comments may be this request: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: submitted by mail, fax, or electronic Title: Mineral Patent Applications (43 BLM Central California District Manager mail. CFR part 3860) and Adverse Claims, Este Stifel, (916) 978–4626; or BLM Mail: U.S. Department of the Interior, Protests and Conflicts (43 CFR part Public Affairs Officer David Christy, Bureau of Land Management, 1849 C 3870). (916) 941–3146. Street NW., Room 2134LM, Attention: OMB Control Number: 1004–0025. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 12- Jean Sonneman, Washington, DC 20240. Summary: On its face, the Mining member council advises the Secretary of Fax: To Jean Sonneman at 202–245– Law (30 U.S.C. 29, 30, and 39) the Interior, through the BLM, on a 0050. authorizes a holder of an unpatented variety of planning and management Electronic mail: Jesonnem@blm.gov. claim for hardrock minerals to apply for issues associated with public land Please indicate ‘‘Attn: 1004–0025’’ fee title (patent) to the Federal land (as management in the Central California regardless of the form of your well as minerals) embraced in the claim. District, which includes the Bishop, comments. Since 1994, a rider on the annual Bakersfield, Central Coast, Ukiah and appropriation bill for the Department of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mother Lode Field Offices. At this the Interior has prevented the BLM from meeting, agenda topics will include a Sonia Santillan, at 202–912–7123. Persons who use a telecommunication processing mineral patent applications field manager updates on resource unless the applications were management issues including the device for the deaf may call the Federal Information Relay Service at 1–800– grandfathered under the initial Berryessa-Snow Mountain National legislation. The most recent rider is at Monument and wildfires. Additional 877–8339, to leave a message for Ms. Santillan. Public Law 113–235, 128 Stat. 2443, at ongoing business will be discussed by asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Section 404. While grandfathered the council. All meetings are open to the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB applications are rare at present, the public. Members of the public may regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, which approval to collect the information present written comments to the implement provisions of the Paperwork continues to be necessary because of the council. Each formal council meeting Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521, possibility that the moratorium will be will have time allocated for public require that interested members of the lifted. comments. Depending on the number of public and affected agencies be given an Frequency of Collection: Once. persons wishing to speak, and the time opportunity to comment on information Form: Certificate of Title on Mining available, the time for individual collection and recordkeeping activities Claims (Form 3860–2) and Application VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:12 Oct 06, 2015 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00099 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\07OCN1.SGM 07OCN1

60710 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 194 / Wednesday, October 7, 2015 / Notices for Survey on Mining Claim (Form 1. The Water Pavilion located at the somebody, somewhere may know a 3860–5). InnoCentive Challenge Center: https:// better way to quantify the availability of Description of Respondents: Owners www.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/ food sources for threatened and of unpatented mining claims and mill browse. endangered fish. The prize competition sites upon the public lands, and of 2. U.S. Federal Government Challenge approach enables us to reach new reserved mineral lands of the United Platform: www.Challenge.gov. sources of potential solvers to discover States, National Forests, and National 3. The Nature Open Innovation other technologies that could be Parks. Pavilion at http://www.nature.com/ adopted for this purpose; or generate Estimated Annual Responses: 10 openinnovation/index.html. new solutions that would not likely be responses. 4. The Scientific American Citizen accomplished by standard contractual Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 496 Science Center at http:// methods. hours. www.scientificamerican.com/citizen- Challenge Summary: Accurate food Jean Sonneman, science/. counts, such as zooplankton and drift InnoCentive, Inc. is administering this invertebrates, are instrumental in fish Information Collection Clearance Officer, Bureau of Land Management. challenge under a challenge support habitat evaluation and restoration in our services contract with the Bureau of rivers and streams. Although technology [FR Doc. 2015–25545 Filed 10–6–15; 8:45 am] Reclamation. These Web sites will re- has been developed for automated BILLING CODE 4310–84–P direct the Solver community to the detection and identification of InnoCentive Challenge Center as the zooplankton and drift invertebrates in DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR administrator for this prize competition. oceanographic settings, they have not Additional details for this prize been developed for the unique Bureau of Reclamation competition, including the Challenge environmental conditions in rivers and Agreement specific for this prize estuaries. High flow rates and turbidity [RR0810000, 15XR0680A1, cause problems with automated visual competition, can be accessed through RY.1541CH20.1430001] any of these prize competition web systems used today. The main obstacle Announcement of Requirements and addresses. The Challenge Agreement in estuaries is turbidity while the main Registration for a Prize Competition contains more details of the prize obstacle in river systems is flow Seeking Methods or Devices That can competition rules and terms that Solvers velocity. In addition, the horizontal Quantify Drift Invertebrates in River must agree with to be eligible to nature of rivers invokes problems not and Estuary Systems compete. encountered in deep ocean waters (e.g., sunlight effects at the surface of water FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, and the mixing of food sources Interior. Challenge Manager: Dr. David Raff throughout the water column in rivers Science Advisor, Bureau of ACTION: Notice. due to turbulence as opposed to more Reclamation, (202) 513–0516, draff@ stratified food webs in ocean waters). SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation, usbr.gov; or Mr. Chuck Hennig, (303) We would like to identify devices/ in collaboration with other federal 445–2134, chennig@usbr.gov. methods that can detect, count, and agencies (National Oceanic and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The identify zooplankton and drift Atmospheric Administration-National Bureau of Reclamation is announcing invertebrates in an economical way in Marine Fisheries Service, U.S. this prize competition in compliance rivers and estuary systems. There is Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and with 15 U.S. Code 3719, Prize potential for future collaboration with Wildlife Service, and U.S. Army Corps Competitions. Habitat restoration, the Seeker in developing and testing of Engineers) is announcing a prize improvement, and creation in rivers, winning solutions. competition for seeking a way to streams, and estuaries are key elements This is a Theoretical Challenge that economically detect, count, and identify for the recovery of salmon, trout, and requires only a written proposal to be zooplankton and drift invertebrates in other critical fish species in the United submitted. The Challenge award will be river and estuary systems. Problems States. Millions of dollars are spent contingent upon theoretical evaluation identified that prevent the simple annually on activities such as of the proposal by the Bureau of transfer of oceanographic techniques to manipulating flow regimes, adding Reclamation (Seeker). The Seeker has a rivers and streams are higher water structural elements such as wood or total prize pool budget of $30,000 to pay velocities, turbidity, higher surface/ rock, reconnecting rivers with their the top three submission(s) that meet or depth ratio, and costs (time and money). floodplains, and restoring wetlands. A exceed the criteria below, an award of DATES: Listed below are the specific critical aspect in evaluating the $10,000 each. No awards are guaranteed dates pertaining to this prize effectiveness of these habitat unless they meet or exceed the criteria, competition: manipulations is understanding how and more than one award is not 1. Submission period begins on they influence the food resources guaranteed. If only a single submission October 7, 2015. available to critical fish species targeted meets or exceeds the criteria, the prize 2. Submission period ends on for recovery and protection. Yet despite award may be as high as $15,000. November 16, 2015. its importance, quantification of food To receive an award, the Solvers will 3. Judging period ends on January 15, resources has proven difficult. not have to transfer their exclusive 2016. A solution is being pursued through intellectual property rights to the asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES 4. Winners announced by January 29, a prize competition because the Bureau Seeker. Instead, they will grant to the 2016. of Reclamation and the collaborating Seeker a non-exclusive license to ADDRESSES: The Quantifying Drift Federal agencies want to seek practice their solutions. Invertebrates in River and Estuary innovative solutions from those beyond The Seeker believes there might be a Systems Prize Competition will be the usual sources of potential solvers potential for future collaboration with posted on the following crowd-sourcing and experts that commonly work in the awarded Solver(s), although such platforms where Solvers can register for fish recovery management domain. We collaboration is not guaranteed. The this prize competition: find ourselves often wondering if Seeker may also encourage Solver(s) to VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:12 Oct 06, 2015 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00100 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\07OCN1.SGM 07OCN1


Document Created: 2015-12-15 08:49:45
Document Modified: 2015-12-15 08:49:45
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
Action60-day notice and request for comments.
DatesPlease submit comments on the proposed information collection by December 7, 2015.
ContactSonia Santillan, at 202-912-7123. 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 Ms. Santillan.
FR Citation80 FR 60709 
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