81 FR 17728 - Renewal of Approved Information Collection

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 61 (March 30, 2016)

Page Range		17728-17729
FR Document		2016-07091

In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) invites public comments on, and plans to request approval to continue, the collection of information from individuals, households, farms, and businesses interested in cooperating with the BLM in constructing or maintaining range improvement projects that enhance or improve livestock grazing management, improve watershed conditions, enhance wildlife habitat, or serve similar purposes. The BLM also invites public comments on this collection of information. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has assigned control number 1004- 0019 to this information collection.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

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Renewal of Approved Information Collection

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: 60-Day notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Bureau of 
Land Management (BLM) invites public comments on, and plans to request 
approval to continue, the collection of information from individuals, 
households, farms, and businesses interested in cooperating with the 
BLM in constructing or maintaining range improvement projects that 
enhance or improve livestock grazing management, improve watershed 
conditions, enhance wildlife habitat, or serve similar purposes. The 
BLM also invites public comments on this collection of information. The 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has assigned control number 1004-
0019 to this information collection.

DATES: Please submit comments on the proposed information collection by 
May 31, 2016.

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: 1004-0019'' regardless of the form of your 
comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kimberly Hackett, at 202-912-7216. 
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. Hackett.

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: Grazing Management: Range Improvements Agreements and 
Permits (43 CFR Subpart 4120).
    OMB Control Number: 1004-0019.
    Summary: This request pertains to range improvements on public 
lands managed by the BLM. Range improvements enhance or improve 
livestock grazing management, improve watershed conditions, enhance 
wildlife habitat, or serve similar purposes. At times, the BLM may 
require holders of grazing permits or gazing leases to install range 
improvements to meet the terms and conditions of their permits or 
leases. Operators may also come to the BLM with proposals for range 
improvements. Often the BLM, operators, and other interested parties 
work together and jointly contribute to construction of range 
improvements in order to facilitate improved grazing management or 
enhance other multiple uses. Cooperators may include lenders which 
provide the funds that operators contribute for improvements.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
    Forms:
     Form 4120-6 (Cooperative Range Improvement Agreement); and
     Form 4120-7 (Range Improvement Permit).
    Description of Respondents: Holders of BLM grazing permits or 
grazing leases; affected individuals and households; and affected 
tribal, state, and county agencies.
    Estimated Annual Responses: 1,110.
    Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 1,640.
    Estimated Annual Non-Hour Costs: None.
    The estimated burdens are itemized in the following table:

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                                                                                                    Total hours
                        Type of response                             Number of       Hours per      (Column B x
                                                                     responses       response        Column C)
A                                                                              B               C               D
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Cooperative Range Improvement Agreement, 43 CFR 4120.3-2, Form               500               2           1,000
 4120-6 and related non-form information........................
Range Improvement Permit, 43 CFR 4120.3-3, Form 4120-7 and                    30               2              60
 related non-form information...................................
Affected Public/Individuals and Households, 43 CFR 4120.5-1.....              50               1              50
Affected Public/Tribal, State, and County Agencies, 43 CFR                   530               1             530
 4120.5-2.......................................................
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    Total.......................................................           1,110  ..............           1,640
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Jean Sonneman,
Bureau of Land Management, Information Collection Clearance Officer.
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After gathering public comments on improve livestock grazing management, as use of automated means of collection
issues and policy proposals that should improve watershed conditions, enhance of the information. A summary of the
be addressed in the Programmatic EIS, wildlife habitat, or serve similar public comments will accompany our
the BLM will identify the issues and purposes. The BLM also invites public submission of the information collection
policy proposals to be addressed in the comments on this collection of requests to OMB.
Programmatic EIS and the issues and information. The Office of Management Before including your address, phone
proposals determined to be beyond the and Budget (OMB) has assigned control number, email address, or other
scope of the Programmatic EIS. number 1004–0019 to this information personal identifying information in your
Following closure of the scoping period, collection. comment, you should be aware that
the BLM will prepare a scoping DATES: Please submit comments on the your entire comment—including your
summary report and will make the proposed information collection by May personal identifying information—may
report available to the public. The report 31, 2016. be made publicly available at any time.
will be posted on the project Web site While you can ask us in your comment
ADDRESSES: Comments may be
(http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/ to withhold your personal identifying
submitted by mail, fax, or electronic
energy/coal_and_non-energy/details_ information from public review, we
mail.
on_coal_peis.html), or may be requested cannot guarantee that we will be able to
Mail: U.S. Department of the Interior,
from Mitchell Leverette, as provided in do so.
Bureau of Land Management, 1849 C
the ADDRESSES section of this notice. The following information pertains to
Street NW., Room 2134LM, Attention:
Authority: The BLM will prepare the Jean Sonneman, Washington, DC 20240. this request:
Programmatic EIS in accordance with, but Fax: to Jean Sonneman at 202–245– Title: Grazing Management: Range
not limited to, the National Environmental Improvements Agreements and Permits
0050.
Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.; the (43 CFR Subpart 4120).
Council on Environmental Quality Electronic mail: Jean_Sonneman@
regulations (CEQ), 40 CFR parts 1500–1508; blm.gov. OMB Control Number: 1004–0019.
the U.S. Department of the Interior Please indicate ‘‘Attn: 1004–0019’’ Summary: This request pertains to
regulations implementing NEPA, 43 CFR part regardless of the form of your range improvements on public lands
46; and the Federal Land Policy and comments. managed by the BLM. Range
Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA), 43 U.S.C. improvements enhance or improve
1701 et seq. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kimberly Hackett, at 202–912–7216. livestock grazing management, improve
This notice is published in Persons who use a telecommunication watershed conditions, enhance wildlife
accordance with section 40 CFR 1501.7 device for the deaf may call the Federal habitat, or serve similar purposes. At
of the CEQ regulations and 43 CFR Information Relay Service at 1–800– times, the BLM may require holders of
46.235 of the DOI regulations 877–8339, to leave a message for Ms. grazing permits or gazing leases to
implementing the NEPA. Hackett. install range improvements to meet the
terms and conditions of their permits or
Neil Kornze, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB leases. Operators may also come to the
Director, Bureau of Land Management, regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, which BLM with proposals for range
Department of the Interior. implement provisions of the Paperwork improvements. Often the BLM,
[FR Doc. 2016–07138 Filed 3–29–16; 8:45 am] Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521, operators, and other interested parties
BILLING CODE 4310–84–P require that interested members of the work together and jointly contribute to
public and affected agencies be given an construction of range improvements in
opportunity to comment on information order to facilitate improved grazing
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR collection and recordkeeping activities management or enhance other multiple
(see 5 CFR 1320.8 (d) and 1320.12(a)). uses. Cooperators may include lenders
Bureau of Land Management This notice identifies an information which provide the funds that operators
[LLWO2200000.L10200000.PK0000. collection that the BLM plans to submit contribute for improvements.
00000000; Control No. 1004–0019] to OMB for approval. The Paperwork Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Reduction Act provides that an agency Forms:
Renewal of Approved Information may not conduct or sponsor a collection
Collection • Form 4120–6 (Cooperative Range
of information unless it displays a
Improvement Agreement); and
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, currently valid OMB control number.
Until OMB approves a collection of • Form 4120–7 (Range Improvement
Interior. Permit).
ACTION: 60-Day notice and request for information, you are not obligated to
respond. Description of Respondents: Holders
comments. of BLM grazing permits or grazing
The BLM will request a 3-year term of
SUMMARY: In compliance with the approval for this information collection leases; affected individuals and
Paperwork Reduction Act, the Bureau of activity. Comments are invited on: (1) households; and affected tribal, state,
Land Management (BLM) invites public The need for the collection of and county agencies.
comments on, and plans to request information for the performance of the Estimated Annual Responses: 1,110.
approval to continue, the collection of functions of the agency; (2) the accuracy Estimated Annual Burden Hours:
information from individuals, of the agency’s burden estimates; (3) 1,640.
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households, farms, and businesses ways to enhance the quality, utility and Estimated Annual Non-Hour Costs:
interested in cooperating with the BLM clarity of the information collection; and None.
in constructing or maintaining range (4) ways to minimize the information The estimated burdens are itemized in
improvement projects that enhance or collection burden on respondents, such the following table:

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Total hours
Number of Hours per
Type of response (Column B ×
responses response Column C)

A B C D

Cooperative Range Improvement Agreement, 43 CFR 4120.3–2, Form 4120–6 and related
non-form information ................................................................................................................ 500 2 1,000
Range Improvement Permit, 43 CFR 4120.3–3, Form 4120–7 and related non-form informa-
tion ............................................................................................................................................ 30 2 60
Affected Public/Individuals and Households, 43 CFR 4120.5–1 ................................................ 50 1 50
Affected Public/Tribal, State, and County Agencies, 43 CFR 4120.5–2 .................................... 530 1 530

Total ...................................................................................................................................... 1,110 ........................ 1,640

Jean Sonneman, Fax: to Jean Sonneman at 202–245– respond, including the use of
Bureau of Land Management, Information 0050. appropriate automated, electronic,
Collection Clearance Officer. Electronic mail: Jean_Sonneman@ mechanical, or other forms of
[FR Doc. 2016–07091 Filed 3–29–16; 8:45 am] blm.gov. information technology.
BILLING CODE 4310–84–P Please indicate ‘‘Attn: 1004–0121’’ Please send comments as directed
regardless of the form of your under ADDRESSES and DATES. Please
comments. refer to OMB control number 1004–0121
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: in your correspondence. Before
Vince Vogt, at 202–912–7125. Persons including your address, phone number,
Bureau of Land Management email address, or other personal
who use a telecommunication device for
[LLWO320000 L13300000.PP0000 12X] the deaf may call the Federal identifying information in your
Information Relay Service at 1–800– comment, you should be aware that
Renewal of Approved Information 877–8339, to leave a message for Mr. your entire comment—including your
Collection; OMB Control No. 1004– Vogt. You may also review the personal identifying information—may
0121 information collection request online at be made publicly available at any time.
http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ While you can ask us in your comment
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
PRAMain. to withhold your personal identifying
Interior. information from public review, we
ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The cannot guarantee that we will be able to
comments. Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. do so.
3501–3521) and OMB regulations at 5 The following information pertains to
SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land CFR part 1320 provide that an agency
Management (BLM) has submitted an this request:
may not conduct or sponsor a collection Title: Leasing of Solid Minerals Other
information collection request to the of information unless it displays a Than Coal and Oil Shale (43 CFR parts
Office of Management and Budget currently valid OMB control number. 3500, 3580, and 3590).
(OMB) to continue the collection of Until OMB approves a collection of OMB Control Number: 1004–0121.
information regarding authorizations information, you are not obligated to Abstract: This control number enables
pertaining to solid minerals other than respond. In order to obtain and renew the BLM to fulfill its responsibilities
coal and oil shale. The Office of an OMB control number, Federal regarding prospecting permits,
Management and Budget (OMB) agencies are required to seek public exploration licenses, leases, the
previously approved this information comment on information collection and exchange of leases, use permits, and the
collection activity, and assigned it recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR regulation of mining activities for solid
control number 1004–0121. 1320.8(d) and 1320.12(a)). minerals other than coal or oil shale.
DATES: The OMB is required to respond As required at 5 CFR 1320.8(d), the The information activities currently
to this information collection request BLM published a 60-day notice in the approved under control number 1004–
within 60 days but may respond after 30 Federal Register on September 16, 2015 0121 include requirements that an
days. For maximum consideration, (80 FR 55640), and the comment period applicant, a permittee or a lessee submit
written comments should be received ended November 16, 2015. The BLM information that enables the BLM to:
on or before April 29, 2016. received no comments. • Determine if applicants, permittees,
ADDRESSES: Please submit comments The BLM now requests comments on and lessees meet qualification criteria;
directly to the Desk Officer for the the following subjects: • Assure compliance with various
Department of the Interior (OMB #1004– 1. Whether the collection of other legal requirements relating to the
0121), Office of Management and information is necessary for the proper leasing of solid minerals other than coal
Budget, Office of Information and functioning of the BLM, including or oil shale;
Regulatory Affairs, fax 202–395–5806, whether the information will have • Gather data needed to determine
or by electronic mail at OIRA_ practical utility;
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the environmental impacts of
submission@omb.eop.gov. Please 2. The accuracy of the BLM’s estimate developing solid leasable minerals other
provide a copy of your comments to the of the burden of collecting the than coal or oil shale;
BLM. You may do so via mail, fax, or information, including the validity of • Maintain accurate leasing records;
electronic mail. the methodology and assumptions used; and
Mail: U.S. Department of the Interior, 3. The quality, utility and clarity of • Oversee and manage the leasing of
Bureau of Land Management, 1849 C the information to be collected; and solid minerals other than coal or oil
Street NW., Room 2134LM, Attention: 4. How to minimize the information shale.
Jean Sonneman, Washington, DC 20240. collection burden on those who are to Forms:

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Section		Notices
Action		60-Day notice and request for comments.
Dates		Please submit comments on the proposed information collection by May 31, 2016.
Contact		Kimberly Hackett, at 202-912-7216. 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. Hackett.
FR Citation		81 FR 17728

81 FR 17728 - Renewal of Approved Information Collection

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORBureau of Land Management

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 61 (March 30, 2016)

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management