Agency Information Collection Activities: Submitted for Office of Management and Budget Review, Comment Request

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 235 (Wednesday, December 8, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68700-68701]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-31728]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submitted for Office of 
Management and Budget Review, Comment Request

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service (MMS), Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Information Collection.

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SUMMARY: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are soliciting 
comments on an information collection titled Payor Information Form, 
Solid Minerals, Form MMS-4030, OMB Control Number 1010-0064, which 
expires on May 31, 2000.

DATES: Written comments should be received on or before February 7, 
2000.

ADDRESSES: The mailing address for written comments regarding this 
information collection is David S. Guzy, Chief, Rules and Publications 
Staff, Minerals Management Service, Royalty Management Program, P.O. 
Box 25165, MS 3021, Denver, Colorado 80225. Courier address is Building 
85, Room A-613, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225. Email 
address is RMP.comments@mms.gov.
    PUBLIC COMMENT PROCEDURE: If you wish to comment, you may submit 
your comments by any one of several methods. You may mail comments to 
David S. Guzy, Chief, Rules and Publications Staff, Minerals Management 
Service, Royalty Management Program, P.O. Box 25165, MS 3021, Denver, 
Colorado 80225-0165. Courier or overnight delivery address is Building 
85, Room A-613, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225. You may 
also comment via the Internet to RMP.comments@mms.gov. Please submit 
Internet comments as an ASCII file avoiding the use of special 
characters and any form of encryption. Please also include Attn: [ICR 
title], OMB Control Number 1010-[  ], and your name and return address 
in your Internet message. If you do not receive a confirmation from the 
system that we have received your Internet message, contact David S. 
Guzy directly at (303) 231-3432.
    We will post public comments after the comment period closes on the 
Internet at http://www.rmp.mms.gov. You may arrange to view paper 
copies of the comments by contacting David S. Guzy, Chief, Rules and 
Publications Staff, telephone (303) 231-3432, FAX (303) 231-3385. Our 
practice is to make comments, including names and addresses of 
respondents, available for public review on the Internet and during 
regular business hours at our offices in Lakewood, Colorado. Individual 
respondents may request that we withhold their home address from the 
rulemaking record, which we will honor to the extent allowable by law. 
There also may be circumstances in which we would withhold from the 
rulemaking record a respondent's identity, as allowable by law. If you 
wish us to withhold your name and/or address, you must state this 
prominently at the beginning of your comment. However, we will not 
consider anonymous comments. We will make all submissions from 
organizations or businesses, and from individuals identifying 
themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or 
businesses, available for public inspection in their entirety.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis C. Jones, Rules and 
Publications Staff, phone (303) 231-3046, FAX (303) 231-3385, email 
Dennis.C.Jones@mms.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act requires each agency ``to provide notice * * * and 
otherwise consult with members of the public and affected agencies 
concerning each proposed collection of information * * *.'' Agencies 
must specifically solicit comments to: (a) evaluate whether the 
proposed collection of information is necessary for the agency to 
perform its duties, including whether the information is useful; (b) 
evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information; (c) enhance the quality, 
usefulness, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) 
minimize the burden on the respondents, including the use of automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
    The Department of the Interior (DOI) is the department within the 
Federal Government responsible for matters relevant to mineral resource 
development on Federal and Indian Lands and the Outer Continental Shelf 
(OCS). The Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) is responsible for 
managing the production of minerals from Federal and Indian Lands and 
the OCS; for collecting royalties from lessees who produce minerals; 
and for distributing the funds collected in accordance with applicable 
laws.
    We perform the royalty management functions for the Secretary. We 
utilize the Auditing and Financial System and Common Reference Database 
(AFS/CRD) to store royalty information and reference data. Reference 
data is initially submitted and subsequently updated by lessees who 
produce minerals from leased Federal and Indian lands. The Payor 
Information Form (PIF), Solid Minerals, Form MMS-4030 (see http://
www.rmp.mms.gov/custserv/pubserv/forms.htm), is used by lessees for 
this information collection.

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    The information on Form MMS-4030 is used to establish a database of 
new payors/leases, lease-level (rent, advance and minimum royalty) 
obligations, other royalty/lease data, and to change existing royalty/
lease data on AFS/CRD. The functions that we perform, including fund 
allocation and distribution, exception processing, AFS/PAAS error 
correction, audit and billing activities and database inquiries, are 
dependent upon the integrity of the AFS/CRD information. We estimate 
that the completion of Form MMS-4030 requires 20 minutes to complete 
and 30 minutes for the associated recordkeeping.

    Dated: December 2, 1999.
Lucy Querques Denett,
Associate Director for Royalty Management.
[FR Doc. 99-31728 Filed 12-7-99; 8:45 am]
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