81 FR 23005 - Renewal of Agency Information Collection for Tribal Energy Resource Agreements
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 75 (April 19, 2016)
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 75 (April 19, 2016)
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| FR Document | 2016-09019 |
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 75 (Tuesday, April 19, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 23005-23006] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-09019] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Indian Affairs [167 A2100DD/AAKC001030/A0A501010.999900] Renewal of Agency Information Collection for Tribal Energy Resource Agreements AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior. ACTION: Notice of request for comments. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs (IA) is seeking comments on the renewal of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the collection of information titled ``Tribal Energy Resource Agreements'' (TERAs) under the Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development Office (IEED) authorized by OMB Control Number 1076-0167. This information collection expires July 31, 2016. IA is also seeking comments as to how a reduction of burden could be achieved. DATES: Submit comments on or before June 20, 2016. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on the information collection and on burden reduction to Ms. Elizabeth K. Appel, Director, Office of Regulatory Affairs & Collaborative Action, Office of the Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, telephone: (202) 273-4680; email: [email protected]. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Elizabeth K. Appel, (202) 273- 4680. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Abstract The Energy Policy Act of 2005, 25 U.S.C. 3503 authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to approve individual Tribal Energy Resource Agreements (TERAs). The intent of these agreements is to promote Tribal oversight and management of energy and mineral resource development on Tribal lands and further the goal of Indian self-determination. A TERA offers a Tribe an alternative for developing energy-related business agreements and awarding leases and granting rights-of-way for energy facilities without having to obtain further approval from the Secretary. This information collection conducted under TERA regulations at 25 CFR 224 will allow IEED to determine the capacity of Tribes to manage the development of energy resources on Tribal lands. Information collection:Enables IEED to engage in a consultation process with Tribes that is designed to foster optimal pre-planning of development proposals and speed up the review and approval process for TERA agreements; Provides wide public notice and opportunity for review of TERA agreements by the public, industry, and government agencies; Ensures that the public has an avenue for review of the performance of Tribes in implementing a TERA; Creates a process for preventing damage to sensitive resources as well as ensuring that the public has fully communicated with the Tribe in the petition process; Ensures that a Tribe is fully aware of any attempt by the Department of the Interior to resume management authority over energy resources on Tribal lands; and Ensures that the Tribal government fully endorses any relinquishment of a TERA. II. Request for Comments on Collection of Information The Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs requests your comments on this [[Page 23006]] collection concerning: (a) The necessity of this information collection for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility; (b) The accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden (hours and cost) of the collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) Ways we could enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) Ways we could minimize the burden of the collection of the information on the respondents. Please note that an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and an individual need not respond to, a collection of information unless it has a valid OMB Control Number. It is our policy to make all comments available to the public for review at the location listed in the ADDRESSES section. 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. III. Request for Comments on Burden Reduction The Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs also requests your comments on ways to revise and reduce the burden of the governing regulations for TERAs under 25 CFR 224. Currently, the total annual hour burden for this information collection is 10,752 hours with an estimated time per response from 32 to 1,080 hours. Please submit comments on the following topics to the contact listed in the ADDRESSES section of this notice: (1) The aspects of this information collection you identify as having the greatest burden, (2) Whether these burdensome aspects are the likely reason for an underutilization of TERAs; (3) Whether these burdensome aspects are required under statute or regulation, and (4) Any opportunities to reduce the burden of information collection, including but not limited to opportunities to reduce burdens associated with the application process by issuing guidance or instructions for prospective applicants. Please also specify any language within the regulations that you believe should be adjusted in order to reduce the burden associated with this information collection. Additionally, if you believe that an adjustment to statutory language would reduce the burden associated with this information collection, please specifically identify this language. III. Data OMB Control Number: 1076-0167. Title: Tribal Energy Resource Agreements. Brief Description of Collection: Submission of this information is required for Indian Tribes to apply for, implement, reassume, or rescind a TERA that has been entered into in accordance with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and 25 CFR 224. This collection also requires the Tribe to notify the public of certain actions. Type of Review: Extension without change of currently approved collection. Respondents: Federally recognized Indian Tribes. Number of Respondents: 14. Estimated Time per Response: Ranges from 32 hours to 1,080 hours. Frequency of Response: On occasion. Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 10,752 hours. Obligation to Respond: A response is required to obtain a benefit. Estimated Total Non-hour Cost Burden: $48,200. Elizabeth K. Appel, Director, Office of Regulatory Affairs and Collaborative Action--Indian Affairs. [FR Doc. 2016-09019 Filed 4-18-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4337-15-P
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Hopi Indian Relocation Amendments review, we cannot guarantee that we ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
Act of 1980, 94 Stat. 929, and the will be able to do so. on the information collection and on
Federal court decisions of Healing v. burden reduction to Ms. Elizabeth K.
III. Data
Jones, 174 F. Supp.211 (D Ariz. 1959) Appel, Director, Office of Regulatory
(Healing I), Healing v. Jones, 210 F. OMB Control Number: 1076–0162. Affairs & Collaborative Action, Office of
Supp. 126 (D. Ariz. 1962), aff’d 363 U.S. Title: Navajo Partitioned Lands the Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs,
758 (1963) (Healing II), Hopi Tribe v. Grazing Permits, 25 CFR 161. U.S. Department of the Interior,
Watt, 530 F. Supp. 1217 (D. Ariz. 1982), Brief Description of Collection: telephone: (202) 273–4680; email:
and Hopi Tribe v. Watt, 719 F.2d Submission of information is required elizabeth.appel@bia.gov.
314(9th Cir. 1983). for Navajo Nation representatives, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
This information collection allows members, and authorized Tribal Elizabeth K. Appel, (202) 273–4680.
BIA to receive the information necessary organizations to obtain, modify, or
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
to determine whether an applicant to assign a grazing permit on Navajo
obtain, modify, or assign a grazing partitioned lands. I. Abstract
permit on Navajo Partitioned Lands is Type of Review: Extension without The Energy Policy Act of 2005, 25
eligible and complies with all change of currently approved collection. U.S.C. 3503 authorizes the Secretary of
applicable grazing permit requirements. Respondents: Tribes, Tribal the Interior to approve individual Tribal
BIA, in coordination with the Navajo organizations, and individual Indians. Energy Resource Agreements (TERAs).
Nation, will continue to collect grazing Number of Respondents: 750. The intent of these agreements is to
permit information up to and beyond Estimated Number of Responses: promote Tribal oversight and
the initial reissuing of the grazing 1,500. management of energy and mineral
permits, likely within a 1–3 year time Estimated Time per Response: On resource development on Tribal lands
period from the date of publication of average, 2 hours. and further the goal of Indian self-
this notice. The data is collected by Frequency of Response: Annually. determination. A TERA offers a Tribe an
electronic global positioning systems Obligation to Respond: A response is alternative for developing energy-related
and field office interviews by BIA & required to obtain a benefit. business agreements and awarding
Navajo Nation staff. The data is Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: leases and granting rights-of-way for
maintained by BIA’s Navajo Partitioned 3,000 hours. energy facilities without having to
Lands office. The burden hours for this Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour obtain further approval from the
continued collection of information are Dollar Cost: $0. Secretary.
reflected in the Estimated Total Annual Elizabeth K. Appel, This information collection
Hour Burden in this notice. Director, Office of Regulatory Affairs and conducted under TERA regulations at
II. Request for Comments Collaborative Action—Indian Affairs. 25 CFR 224 will allow IEED to
[FR Doc. 2016–09018 Filed 4–18–16; 8:45 am] determine the capacity of Tribes to
The BIA requests your comments on manage the development of energy
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this collection concerning: (a) The resources on Tribal lands. Information
necessity of this information collection collection:
for the proper performance of the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR • Enables IEED to engage in a
functions of the agency, including consultation process with Tribes that is
whether the information will have Bureau of Indian Affairs designed to foster optimal pre-planning
practical utility; (b) The accuracy of the of development proposals and speed up
agency’s estimate of the burden (hours [167 A2100DD/AAKC001030/
A0A501010.999900] the review and approval process for
and cost) of the collection of TERA agreements;
information, including the validity of Renewal of Agency Information • Provides wide public notice and
the methodology and assumptions used; Collection for Tribal Energy Resource opportunity for review of TERA
(c) Ways we could enhance the quality, Agreements agreements by the public, industry, and
utility, and clarity of the information to government agencies;
be collected; and (d) Ways we could AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, • Ensures that the public has an
minimize the burden of the collection of Interior. avenue for review of the performance of
the information on the respondents. ACTION: Notice of request for comments. Tribes in implementing a TERA;
Please note that an agency may not • Creates a process for preventing
conduct or sponsor, and an individual SUMMARY: In compliance with the damage to sensitive resources as well as
need not respond to, a collection of Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the ensuring that the public has fully
information unless it has a valid OMB Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs (IA) communicated with the Tribe in the
Control Number. is seeking comments on the renewal of petition process;
It is our policy to make all comments Office of Management and Budget • Ensures that a Tribe is fully aware
available to the public for review at the (OMB) approval for the collection of of any attempt by the Department of the
location listed in the ADDRESSES section. information titled ‘‘Tribal Energy Interior to resume management
Before including your address, phone Resource Agreements’’ (TERAs) under authority over energy resources on
number, email address or other the Office of Indian Energy and Tribal lands; and
Economic Development Office (IEED) • Ensures that the Tribal government
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personally identifiable information in
your comment, you should be aware authorized by OMB Control Number fully endorses any relinquishment of a
that your entire comment—including 1076–0167. This information collection TERA.
your personal identifying information— expires July 31, 2016. IA is also seeking
may be made publicly available at any comments as to how a reduction of II. Request for Comments on Collection
time. While you can ask us in your burden could be achieved. of Information
comment to withhold your personal DATES: Submit comments on or before The Assistant Secretary—Indian
identifying information from public June 20, 2016. Affairs requests your comments on this
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collection concerning: (a) The necessity statutory language would reduce the DATES: This notice initiates the public
of this information collection for the burden associated with this information scoping process for the EIS. Comments
proper performance of the functions of collection, please specifically identify on issues may be submitted in writing
the agency, including whether the this language. until May 19, 2016. The date(s) and
information will have practical utility; location(s) of any scoping meetings will
III. Data
(b) The accuracy of the agency’s be announced at least 15 days in
estimate of the burden (hours and cost) OMB Control Number: 1076–0167. advance through local media,
of the collection of information, Title: Tribal Energy Resource newspapers and the BLM Web site at:
including the validity of the Agreements. http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/
methodology and assumptions used; (c) Brief Description of Collection: kfo.html. In order to be included in the
Ways we could enhance the quality, Submission of this information is Draft EIS, all comments must be
utility, and clarity of the information to required for Indian Tribes to apply for, received prior to the close of the 30-day
be collected; and (d) Ways we could implement, reassume, or rescind a scoping period or 15 days after the last
minimize the burden of the collection of TERA that has been entered into in public meeting, whichever is later. We
the information on the respondents. accordance with the Energy Policy Act will provide additional opportunities
Please note that an agency may not of 2005 and 25 CFR 224. This collection for public participation upon
conduct or sponsor, and an individual also requires the Tribe to notify the publication of the Draft EIS.
need not respond to, a collection of public of certain actions. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
information unless it has a valid OMB Type of Review: Extension without
related to the Blue Valley Land
Control Number. change of currently approved collection.
Exchange by any of the following
It is our policy to make all comments Respondents: Federally recognized
methods:
available to the public for review at the Indian Tribes.
• Web site: http://www.blm.gov/co/st/
location listed in the ADDRESSES section. Number of Respondents: 14.
Estimated Time per Response: Ranges en/fo/kfo.html
Before including your address, phone • Email: kfo_webmail@blm.gov
number, email address or other personal from 32 hours to 1,080 hours.
• Fax: 970–724–3006
identifying information in your Frequency of Response: On occasion.
• Mail: 2103 E. Park Avenue, P.O.
comment, you should be aware that Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
Box 68, Kremmling, CO 80459
your entire comment—including your 10,752 hours.
Documents pertinent to this proposal
personal identifying information—may Obligation to Respond: A response is
may be examined at the Kremmling
be made publicly available at any time. required to obtain a benefit.
Estimated Total Non-hour Cost Field Office.
While you can ask us in your comment
Burden: $48,200. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
to withhold your personal identifying
Monte Senor, Assistant Field Manager;
information from public review, we Elizabeth K. Appel, telephone 970–724–3002; see address
cannot guarantee that we will be able to Director, Office of Regulatory Affairs and
do so. above; email kfo_webmail@blm.gov.
Collaborative Action—Indian Affairs. Contact Annie Sperandio at 970–724–
III. Request for Comments on Burden [FR Doc. 2016–09019 Filed 4–18–16; 8:45 am] 3062 to have your name added to our
Reduction BILLING CODE 4337–15–P mailing list. Persons who use a
The Assistant Secretary—Indian telecommunications device for the deaf
Affairs also requests your comments on (TDD) may call the Federal Information
ways to revise and reduce the burden of DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339
the governing regulations for TERAs to contact the above individual during
Bureau of Land Management normal business hours. The FIRS is
under 25 CFR 224. Currently, the total
annual hour burden for this information [LLCON02000 L51010000.ER0000 available 24 hours a day, seven days a
collection is 10,752 hours with an LVRWC16C8700 16X] week, to leave a message or question
estimated time per response from 32 to with the above individual. You will
Notice of Intent To Prepare an receive a reply during normal business
1,080 hours. Please submit comments
Environmental Impact Statement for hours.
on the following topics to the contact
the Proposed Blue Valley Land SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: After
listed in the ADDRESSES section of this
Exchange, Grand and Summit coordination with the BLM, Galloway,
notice: (1) The aspects of this
Counties, Colorado Inc., owner of Blue Valley Ranch,
information collection you identify as
having the greatest burden, (2) Whether AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, submitted a land exchange proposal to
these burdensome aspects are the likely Interior. the BLM whereby approximately 1,489
reason for an underutilization of TERAs; ACTION: Notice. acres of Federal lands managed by the
(3) Whether these burdensome aspects BLM in Grand County, Colorado would
are required under statute or regulation, SUMMARY: In compliance with the be conveyed to Blue Valley Ranch in
and (4) Any opportunities to reduce the National Environmental Policy Act of exchange for approximately 1,832 acres
burden of information collection, 1969, as amended (NEPA), and the of non-Federal lands in Summit and
including but not limited to Federal Land Policy and Management Grand counties, Colorado. Of the 1,832
opportunities to reduce burdens Act of 1976, as amended (FLPMA), the acres, approximately 300 acres would be
associated with the application process Bureau of Land Management (BLM) acquired within the White River
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by issuing guidance or instructions for Kremmling Field Office, Kremmling, National Forest administrative
prospective applicants. Colorado intends to prepare an boundary. The Forest Service will
Please also specify any language Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) participate as a cooperating agency on
within the regulations that you believe to evaluate a proposed land exchange the EIS.
should be adjusted in order to reduce under section 206 of FLPMA, and by Pursuant to section 206 of the Federal
the burden associated with this this notice is announcing the beginning Land Management and Policy Act of
information collection. Additionally, if of the scoping process to solicit public 1976, as amended, the proposed land
you believe that an adjustment to comments and identify issues. exchange must be determined to be in
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| FR Citation | 81 FR 23005 |
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