Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection, Comment Request, 64980-64981 [E6-18667]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
• Minerals Management Service

[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 214 (Monday, November 6, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64980-64981]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-18667]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection, 
Comment Request

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service (MMS), Interior.

ACTION: Notice of an extension of a currently approved information 
collection (OMB Control Number 1010-0110).

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SUMMARY: To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), we 
are inviting comments on a collection of information that we will 
submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and 
approval. The information collection request (ICR) is titled ``Training 
and Outreach Evaluation.'' The form associated with this collection is 
Form MMS-4420A-F, Training and Outreach Evaluation.

DATES: Submit written comments on or before January 5, 2007.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments to Sharron L. Gebhardt, Regulatory 
Specialist, Minerals Management Service, Minerals Revenue Management, 
P.O. Box 25165, MS 302B2, Denver, Colorado 80225. If you use an 
overnight courier service, our courier address is Building 85, Room A-
614, Denver Federal Center, 6th Ave. and Kipling Blvd., Denver, 
Colorado 80225. Please also send a copy of your comments to MMS via e-
mail at mrm.comments@mms.gov. Include the title of the information 
collection and the OMB control number in the ``Attention'' line of your 
comment. Also include your name and return address. If you do not 
receive a confirmation that we have received your e-mail, contact 
Sharron L. Gebhardt at (303) 231-3211.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sharron L. Gebhardt, telephone (303) 
231-3211, FAX (303) 231-3781, or e-mail sharron.gebhardt@mms.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Training and Outreach Evaluation.
    OMB Control Number: 1010-0110.
    Bureau Form Number: Form MMS-4420A-F.
    Abstract: The Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior is 
responsible for collecting royalties from lessees who produce minerals 
from leased Federal and Indian lands. The Secretary is required by 
various laws to manage mineral resources production on Federal and 
Indian lands, collect the royalties due, and distribute the funds in 
accordance with those laws. The Secretary also has an Indian trust 
responsibility to manage Indian lands and seek advice and information 
from Indian beneficiaries. The MMS performs the royalty management 
functions and assists the Secretary in carrying out the Department's 
Indian trust responsibility.
    The MMS frequently provides training and outreach to our 
constituents to facilitate their compliance with laws and regulations 
and to ensure that they are well informed. We present training sessions 
to oil and gas and solid minerals reporters on various aspects of 
royalty reporting, production reporting, and valuation. Additionally, 
we provide training sessions to our financial and systems contractors, 
state and tribal auditors, and MMS employees. We provide instructor-led 
or computer-based training. We use the training and outreach evaluation 
form to survey our customers and to improve our training and outreach 
efforts, as directed in Executive Order 12862, Setting Customer Service 
Standards (September 11, 1993).
    We ask participants to complete and return an evaluation form 
during the last few minutes of each training or outreach session or 
upon completion of computer-based training. Participant response is 
voluntary. Some questions are uniform across all of the evaluation 
forms; however, some questions are specific to the audience or to each 
type of training or outreach.
    The MMS collects this information using Form MMS-4420A-F, Training 
and Outreach Evaluation. No proprietary information is submitted to MMS 
under this collection, and no items of a sensitive nature are 
collected. The requirement to respond is voluntary.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Number and Description of Respondents: 2,500 industry 
representatives, state and tribal auditors, MMS contractors, and MMS 
employees.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Hour'' Burden: 400 
hours.
    Each part of the form requires 9 to 10 minutes to complete, based 
on the estimate used for the previous renewal of 9.6 minutes per 
evaluation or response. We calculated the burden hours, as follows: 
2,500 respondents x 9.6 minutes = 24,000 minutes / 60 minutes = 400 
hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-hour Cost'' 
Burden: We have identified no ``non-hour cost'' burdens.
    Comments: The PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides an agency may 
not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a 
collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB 
control number. Before submitting an ICR to OMB, PRA Section 
3506(c)(2)(A) 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 PRA also requires agencies to estimate the total annual 
reporting ``non-hour cost'' burden to respondents or recordkeepers 
resulting from the collection of information. We have not identified 
non-hour cost burdens for this information collection. If you have 
costs to generate, maintain, and disclose this information, you should 
comment and provide your total capital and startup cost components or 
annual operation, maintenance, and purchase of service components. You 
should describe the methods you use to estimate major cost factors, 
including system and technology acquisition, expected useful life of 
capital equipment, discount rate(s), and the period over which you 
incur costs. Capital and startup costs include, among other items, 
computers and software you purchase to prepare for collecting 
information; monitoring, sampling, and testing equipment; and record 
storage facilities. Generally, your estimates should not include 
equipment or services purchased: (i) Before October 1, 1995; (ii) to 
comply with requirements not associated with the information 
collection; (iii) for reasons other than to provide information or keep 
records for the Government; or (iv) as part of customary and usual 
business or private practices.
    We will summarize written responses to this notice and address them 
in our ICR submission for OMB approval, including appropriate 
adjustments to the estimated burden. We will provide a copy of the ICR 
to you without charge upon request, and the ICR will also be posted on 
our Web site at https://www.mrm.mms.gov/Laws_R_D/FRNotices/
FRInfColl.htm.
    Public Comment Policy: We will post all comments in response to 
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on our Web site at https://www.mrm.mms.gov/Laws_R_D/FRNotices/
FRInfColl.htm. We will also make copies of the comments available for 
public review, including names and addresses of respondents, during 
regular business hours at our offices in Lakewood, Colorado. Individual 
respondents may request we withhold their home address from the public 
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 request 
that we withhold your name and/or address, 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.
    MMS Information Collection Clearance Officer: Arlene Bajusz (202) 
208-7744.

    Dated: October 23, 2006.
Lucy Querques Denett,
Associate Director for Minerals Revenue Management.
[FR Doc. E6-18667 Filed 11-3-06; 8:45 am]
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