MMS Information Collection Activity: 1010-NEW Study of Sharing To Assess Community Resilience; Notice of a New Collection; Comment Request, 1648-1650 [2010-354]
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paperwork requirements in 43 CFR parts
3620 and 5510, which pertain to free
use of, respectively, petrified wood,
timber, et al. The Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) previously approved
this information collection activity
under the control number 1004–0001.
DATES: You must submit your comments
to the BLM at the address below on or
before March 15, 2010. The BLM is not
obligated to consider any comments
postmarked or received after the above
date.
ADDRESSES: You may mail comments to:
U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau
of Land Management, Mail Stop 401–
LS, 1849 C St., NW., Washington, DC
20240, Attention: 1004–0001. You may
also comment by e-mail at:
Jean_Sonneman@blm.gov.
Comments will be available for public
review at the L Street address during
regular business hours (7:45 a.m. to 4:15
p.m.), Monday through Friday,
excluding Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You
may contact James Bowmer, Forester—
Stewardship Coordinator, Bureau of
Land Management, Division of Forests
and Woodlands, (202) 912–7247
(Commercial or FTS). Persons who use
a telecommunication device for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Information
Relay Service (FIRS) on 1–800–877–
8339, 24 hours a day, seven days a
week, to contact Mr. Bowmer. You may
also contact Mr. Bowmer to obtain a
copy, at no cost, of the regulations and
forms that require this collection of
information.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB
regulations at 5 CFR 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
provided an opportunity to comment on
information collection and
recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR
1320.8(d) and 1320.12(a)). This notice
identifies information collections that
are contained in 43 CFR parts 3830
through 3838 and part 5511. The BLM
will request that the OMB approve this
information collection activity for a 3year term.
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 the
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BLM’s submission of the information
collection requests to OMB.
The following information is provided
for the information collection:
Title: Form 5510–1, Free Use
Application and Permit (43 CFR Part
3620 and 5510).
Forms:
• Form 5510, Free Use Application
and Permit.
OMB Control Number: 1004–0001.
Abstract: This notice pertains to
information collections that are
necessary in order to manage the
collection of limited quantities of
petrified wood and timber for
noncommercial purposes. The
information collections covered by this
notice are found at 43 CFR parts 3620
and 5510, and in the form listed above.
Frequency: On occasion.
Estimated Number and Description of
Respondents: 476.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Hour’’ Burden: The
currently approved annual reporting
burden for this collection is 952 hours.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: There is no currently approved
non-hour cost burden for Control
Number 1004–0001.
The Paperwork Reduction Act (44
U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) 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 summarize all
responses to this notice and include
them in the request for OMB approval.
All comments will become a matter of
public record. Before including your
address, phone number, e-mail 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.
Jean Sonneman,
Acting Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Bureau of Land Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Minerals Management Service
[Docket no. MMS–2010–OMM–0001]
MMS Information Collection Activity:
1010–NEW Study of Sharing To Assess
Community Resilience; Notice of a
New Collection; Comment Request
AGENCY: Minerals Management Service
(MMS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of an information
collection (1010–NEW).
SUMMARY: To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), MMS is inviting comments on a
new collection of information that we
will submit to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and
approval. The information collection
request (ICR) pertains to conducting a
survey, Study of Sharing to Assess
Community Resilience.
DATES: Submit written comments by
March 15, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cheryl Blundon, Regulations and
Standards Branch at (703) 787–1607, to
obtain a copy, at no cost, of the survey
that requires the subject collection of
information. For more information on
the survey itself, contact Chris Campbell
in the MMS Alaska Regional Office at
(907) 334–5264.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by either of the following methods listed
below.
• Electronically: Go to https://
www.regulations.gov. In the entry titled
‘‘Enter Keyword or ID,’’ enter docket ID
MMS–2010–OMM–0001 then click
search. Under the tab ‘‘View By
Relevance’’ you can submit public
comments and view supporting and
related materials available for this
collection of information. The MMS will
post all comments.
• Mail or hand-carry comments to the
Department of the Interior; Minerals
Management Service; Attention: Cheryl
Blundon; 381 Elden Street, MS–4024;
Herndon, Virginia 20170–4817. Please
reference ‘‘Information Collection 1010–
NEW’’ in your subject line and include
your name and return address.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Study of Sharing to Assess
Community Resiliency.
OMB Control Number: 1010–NEW.
Abstract: The United States Congress,
through the 1953 Outer Continental
Shelf (OCS) Lands Act (OCSLA) [Pub. L.
95–372, Section 20] and its subsequent
amendments, requires the Secretary of
the Department of the Interior to
monitor and assess the impacts of
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resource development activities in
Federal waters on human, marine, and
coastal environments. The OCSLA
amendments authorize the Secretary of
the Interior to conduct studies in areas
or regions of sales to ascertain the
‘‘environmental impacts on the human,
marine, and coastal environments of the
outer Continental Shelf and the coastal
areas which may be affected by oil and
gas or other mineral development’’ (43
U.S.C. 1346).
The National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA) of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321–
4347) requires that all Federal Agencies
use a systematic, interdisciplinary
approach to ensure the integrated use of
the natural and social sciences in any
planning and decision making that may
have an effect on the human
environment. The Council on
Environmental Quality’s Regulations for
Implementing Procedural Provisions of
NEPA (40 CFR 1500–1508) state that the
‘‘human environment’’ is to be
‘‘interpreted comprehensively’’ to
include ‘‘the natural and physical
environment and the relationship of
people with that environment’’ (40 CFR
1508.14). An action’s ‘‘aesthetic,
historic, cultural, economic, social or
health’’ effects must be assessed,
‘‘whether direct, indirect, or cumulative’’
(40 CFR 1508.8).
The U.S. Department of the Interior/
Minerals Management Service (DOI/
MMS) is the Federal administrative
agency created both to conduct OCS
lease sales and to monitor and mitigate
adverse impacts that might be
associated with offshore resource
development. Within the MMS, the
Environmental Studies Program
functions to implement and manage the
responsibilities of research. This study
will facilitate the meeting of DOI/MMS
information needs on subsistence food
harvest and sharing activities in coastal
Alaska, with specific focus on the
Beaufort-Chukchi Planning Area.
The North Slope Planning Area
includes more than 94,763 square
miles—a large geographic area with
diverse, abundant, and environmentally
sensitive resources. Within that area, the
DOI/MMS’s Proposed OCS Oil and Gas
Leasing Program 2007–2012 considers
two oil and gas lease exploration plans
for 2010, one in the Chukchi Sea and
one in the Beaufort Sea. The areas slated
for exploration and adjacent areas
support major productive subsistence
fisheries, provide habitat to numerous
marine mammals, including bowhead
whales, and are a significant migration
and staging area for internationally
important waterfowl. More than eight
communities in the North Slope area
rely heavily on subsistence.
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This information collection (IC)
request involves a 36-month study that
will assess the vulnerabilities of two
North Slope coastal communities and
one control community to the potential
effects of offshore oil and gas
development on subsistence food
harvest and sharing activities. It will
investigate the resilience of local
sharing networks that structure
contemporary subsistence-cash
economies using survey research
methods that involves residents of two
communities most proximate to the
proposed exploration areas, Wainwright
and Kaktovik, and one control
community, Venetie. Future collections
will involve other area communities.
The MMS will use the information
collected to gain knowledge about local
social systems in a way that may shape
development strategies and serve as an
interim baseline for impact monitoring
to compare against future research in
these areas. Without this data, MMS
will not have sufficient information to
make informed leasing and
development decisions for these areas.
Survey Instrument: The research will
be collected from a survey, given to each
head of household, in the three
communities, that will collect
information about the subsistence
(harvest data) and sharing networks of
the communities. The information
under this proposed collection will be
obtained through personal interviews
that are voluntary.
Interview methods: The interviews for
each survey will be done face to face in
a setting that is most comfortable for the
respondents. This personal method is
more expensive and time consuming for
the researchers, but these drawbacks are
outweighed by improvements in the
quality of information obtained and the
rapport established between the
surveyor and the person interviewed.
Telephone interviews have not been
successful on the North Slope. Each
respondent will be paid an honorarium
for taking part in the survey.
Responses are voluntary.
Frequency: One-time event for each
survey.
Estimated Number and Description of
Respondents: Approximately 349
respondents from the communities
involved.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Hour’’ Burden: The
MMS estimates the total annual burden
hours to be 524 (rounded) (349 × 1.5 for
each study = 523.5 total burden hours).
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: We have identified no non-hour
cost burdens for this collection.
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Protections of Respondent
Confidentiality: The survey is voluntary.
The questionnaires will be administered
under the guidelines of 45 CFR 46. The
introduction that will be covered with
each participant stresses that
participation is voluntary and
confidentiality will be maintained. No
names will appear on the survey form,
no photographs will be taken of any
informant, and no videotaping will be
conducted. Minor children will not be
interviewed. Procedures designed to
protect the confidentiality of the
information provided will include the
use of coded selection and identification
number to protect the identities of
respondents.
This survey will ask five potentially
sensitive but routine questions on
annual household income,
unemployment, subsistence expenses,
and household finances. One question
asks the views of the respondent about
future potential oil and gas
development. Questions such as these
have been used in past studies in rural
Alaska with few, if any, complaints.
During the interviews, the respondents
will be warned that sensitive questions
are coming up and that they may refuse
to answer any query they object to.
Respondents will also be reminded that
they are assured anonymity through the
survey design and process.
Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA
(44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) 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.
Comments: 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.
Agencies must also estimate the ‘‘nonhour cost’’ burdens to respondents or
recordkeepers resulting from the
collection of information. Therefore, if
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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, and
record storage facilities. You should not
include estimates for 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
submission for OMB approval. As a
result of your comments, we will make
any necessary adjustments to the burden
in our submission to OMB.
Public Comment Procedures: Before
including your address, phone number,
e-mail 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.
MMS Information Collection
Clearance Officer: Arlene Bajusz (202)
208–7744.
Dated: January 5, 2010
William S. Hauser,
Acting Chief, Office of Offshore Regulatory
Programs.
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Bureau of Land Management
[LLES930000.L14300000.PN0000]
Notice of Application for Recordable
Disclaimer of Interest, Florida
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Farmland Reserve, Inc. filed
an application for a Recordable
Disclaimer of Interest pursuant to
Section 315 of the Federal Land Policy
and Management Act of 1976, as
amended (43 U.S.C. 1745), and the
regulations in 43 CFR subpart 1864. A
Recordable Disclaimer of Interest, if
issued, will confirm the United States
has no valid interest in the subject land.
This notice is intended to inform the
public of the pending application.
DATES: The Bureau of Land Management
(BLM), Eastern States, will accept
comments on this application at the
address below until April 12, 2010.
During this 90-day comment period,
interested parties may submit comments
on this Recordable Disclaimer of Interest
application. Please reference case file
FLES–55708 in your comment.
ADDRESSES: Mail comments to: Steven
R. Wells, Deputy State Director,
Division of Natural Resources, BLMEastern States, 7450 Boston Boulevard,
Springfield, Virginia 22153.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A.
Nate Felton, Supervisory Land Law
Examiner, Branch of Lands and Realty,
at the above address or by phone at
(703) 440–1511.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June
15, 2009, Farmland Reserve, Inc. filed
an application for a Recordable
Disclaimer of Interest for the land
described as follows:
Tallahassee Meridian
T. 25 S., R. 31 E.,
Fractional sec. 12, W1⁄2, NE1⁄4, and
unsurveyed part of the SE1⁄4;
Fractional sec. 13, unsurveyed;
Fractional sec. 24, W1⁄2, and unsurveyed
part of the E1⁄2;
Fractional sec. 25, W1⁄4, SE1⁄4, and
unsurveyed part of the NE1⁄4.
T. 25 S., R. 32 E.,
Fractional secs. 7, and 8, secs. 17 to 20,
inclusive, and sec. 30.
The areas described aggregate
approximately 4,747.73 acres in Osceola
County, Florida.
This land has been patented into
private ownership. It is the opinion of
this office that the Federal government
no longer has an interest in this
4,747.73-acre parcel.
Comments will be available for public
review at the BLM-Eastern States Office
(see address above) during regular
business hours, Monday through Friday,
except holidays.
Before including your address, phone
number, e-mail 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.
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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.
If no valid objection is received, a
Disclaimer of Interest may be approved
stating the United States does not have
a valid interest in this tract of land.
Juan Palma,
State Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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LVTFGX9G4200]
Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Proposed HB Potash, LLC—‘‘InSitu’’ Solution Mine Project, Eddy
County, NM
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Intent.
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended, (NEPA) and the
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) Carlsbad Field
Office, Carlsbad, New Mexico, intends
to prepare an Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) and by this notice is
announcing the beginning of the
scoping process to solicit public
comments and to identify issues.
DATES: This notice initiates the public
scoping process for the EIS. Comments
on issues may be submitted in writing
until February 11, 2010. The date(s) and
location(s) of any scoping meetings will
be announced at least 15 days in
advance through the local media,
including newspapers and the BLM
Web site at: https://www.blm.gov/nm/st/
en/fo/Carlsbad_Field_Office.html. In
order to be included in the Draft EIS, all
comments must be received prior to the
close of the scoping period or 15 days
after the last public meeting, whichever
is later. We will provide additional
opportunities for public participation
upon publication of the Draft EIS.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
related to the HB Potash, LLC—‘‘In-Situ’’
Solution Mine Project by any of the
following methods:
• E-mail: Rebecca_Hunt@blm.gov.
• Fax: (575) 885–9264.
• Mail: Bureau of Land Management,
Carlsbad Field Office, Attention:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Minerals Management Service
[Docket no. MMS-2010-OMM-0001]
MMS Information Collection Activity: 1010-NEW Study of Sharing To
Assess Community Resilience; Notice of a New Collection; Comment
Request
AGENCY: Minerals Management Service (MMS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of an information collection (1010-NEW).
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SUMMARY: To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), MMS
is inviting comments on a new collection of information that we will
submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and
approval. The information collection request (ICR) pertains to
conducting a survey, Study of Sharing to Assess Community Resilience.
DATES: Submit written comments by March 15, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cheryl Blundon, Regulations and
Standards Branch at (703) 787-1607, to obtain a copy, at no cost, of
the survey that requires the subject collection of information. For
more information on the survey itself, contact Chris Campbell in the
MMS Alaska Regional Office at (907) 334-5264.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either of the following methods
listed below.
Electronically: Go to https://www.regulations.gov. In the
entry titled ``Enter Keyword or ID,'' enter docket ID MMS-2010-OMM-0001
then click search. Under the tab ``View By Relevance'' you can submit
public comments and view supporting and related materials available for
this collection of information. The MMS will post all comments.
Mail or hand-carry comments to the Department of the
Interior; Minerals Management Service; Attention: Cheryl Blundon; 381
Elden Street, MS-4024; Herndon, Virginia 20170-4817. Please reference
``Information Collection 1010-NEW'' in your subject line and include
your name and return address.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Study of Sharing to Assess Community Resiliency.
OMB Control Number: 1010-NEW.
Abstract: The United States Congress, through the 1953 Outer
Continental Shelf (OCS) Lands Act (OCSLA) [Pub. L. 95-372, Section 20]
and its subsequent amendments, requires the Secretary of the Department
of the Interior to monitor and assess the impacts of
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resource development activities in Federal waters on human, marine, and
coastal environments. The OCSLA amendments authorize the Secretary of
the Interior to conduct studies in areas or regions of sales to
ascertain the ``environmental impacts on the human, marine, and coastal
environments of the outer Continental Shelf and the coastal areas which
may be affected by oil and gas or other mineral development'' (43
U.S.C. 1346).
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (42 U.S.C.
4321-4347) requires that all Federal Agencies use a systematic,
interdisciplinary approach to ensure the integrated use of the natural
and social sciences in any planning and decision making that may have
an effect on the human environment. The Council on Environmental
Quality's Regulations for Implementing Procedural Provisions of NEPA
(40 CFR 1500-1508) state that the ``human environment'' is to be
``interpreted comprehensively'' to include ``the natural and physical
environment and the relationship of people with that environment'' (40
CFR 1508.14). An action's ``aesthetic, historic, cultural, economic,
social or health'' effects must be assessed, ``whether direct,
indirect, or cumulative'' (40 CFR 1508.8).
The U.S. Department of the Interior/Minerals Management Service
(DOI/MMS) is the Federal administrative agency created both to conduct
OCS lease sales and to monitor and mitigate adverse impacts that might
be associated with offshore resource development. Within the MMS, the
Environmental Studies Program functions to implement and manage the
responsibilities of research. This study will facilitate the meeting of
DOI/MMS information needs on subsistence food harvest and sharing
activities in coastal Alaska, with specific focus on the Beaufort-
Chukchi Planning Area.
The North Slope Planning Area includes more than 94,763 square
miles--a large geographic area with diverse, abundant, and
environmentally sensitive resources. Within that area, the DOI/MMS's
Proposed OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program 2007-2012 considers two oil
and gas lease exploration plans for 2010, one in the Chukchi Sea and
one in the Beaufort Sea. The areas slated for exploration and adjacent
areas support major productive subsistence fisheries, provide habitat
to numerous marine mammals, including bowhead whales, and are a
significant migration and staging area for internationally important
waterfowl. More than eight communities in the North Slope area rely
heavily on subsistence.
This information collection (IC) request involves a 36-month study
that will assess the vulnerabilities of two North Slope coastal
communities and one control community to the potential effects of
offshore oil and gas development on subsistence food harvest and
sharing activities. It will investigate the resilience of local sharing
networks that structure contemporary subsistence-cash economies using
survey research methods that involves residents of two communities most
proximate to the proposed exploration areas, Wainwright and Kaktovik,
and one control community, Venetie. Future collections will involve
other area communities.
The MMS will use the information collected to gain knowledge about
local social systems in a way that may shape development strategies and
serve as an interim baseline for impact monitoring to compare against
future research in these areas. Without this data, MMS will not have
sufficient information to make informed leasing and development
decisions for these areas.
Survey Instrument: The research will be collected from a survey,
given to each head of household, in the three communities, that will
collect information about the subsistence (harvest data) and sharing
networks of the communities. The information under this proposed
collection will be obtained through personal interviews that are
voluntary.
Interview methods: The interviews for each survey will be done face
to face in a setting that is most comfortable for the respondents. This
personal method is more expensive and time consuming for the
researchers, but these drawbacks are outweighed by improvements in the
quality of information obtained and the rapport established between the
surveyor and the person interviewed. Telephone interviews have not been
successful on the North Slope. Each respondent will be paid an
honorarium for taking part in the survey.
Responses are voluntary.
Frequency: One-time event for each survey.
Estimated Number and Description of Respondents: Approximately 349
respondents from the communities involved.
Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Hour'' Burden: The MMS
estimates the total annual burden hours to be 524 (rounded) (349 x 1.5
for each study = 523.5 total burden hours).
Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-Hour Cost'' Burden: We
have identified no non-hour cost burdens for this collection.
Protections of Respondent Confidentiality: The survey is voluntary.
The questionnaires will be administered under the guidelines of 45 CFR
46. The introduction that will be covered with each participant
stresses that participation is voluntary and confidentiality will be
maintained. No names will appear on the survey form, no photographs
will be taken of any informant, and no videotaping will be conducted.
Minor children will not be interviewed. Procedures designed to protect
the confidentiality of the information provided will include the use of
coded selection and identification number to protect the identities of
respondents.
This survey will ask five potentially sensitive but routine
questions on annual household income, unemployment, subsistence
expenses, and household finances. One question asks the views of the
respondent about future potential oil and gas development. Questions
such as these have been used in past studies in rural Alaska with few,
if any, complaints. During the interviews, the respondents will be
warned that sensitive questions are coming up and that they may refuse
to answer any query they object to. Respondents will also be reminded
that they are assured anonymity through the survey design and process.
Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.)
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.
Comments: 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.
Agencies must also estimate the ``non-hour cost'' burdens to
respondents or recordkeepers resulting from the collection of
information. Therefore, if
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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, and record storage facilities. You should not
include estimates for 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 submission for OMB approval. As a result of your comments, we
will make any necessary adjustments to the burden in our submission to
OMB.
Public Comment Procedures: Before including your address, phone
number, e-mail 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.
MMS Information Collection Clearance Officer: Arlene Bajusz (202)
208-7744.
Dated: January 5, 2010
William S. Hauser,
Acting Chief, Office of Offshore Regulatory Programs.
[FR Doc. 2010-354 Filed 1-11-10; 8:45 am]
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