Agency Information Collection Activities Under OMB Review; Renewal of a Currently Approved Collection, 26577-26578 [2012-10772]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
• Bureau of Reclamation

[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 87 (Friday, May 4, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26577-26578]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-10772]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation


Agency Information Collection Activities Under OMB Review; 
Renewal of a Currently Approved Collection

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of renewal and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation has forwarded the following 
Information Collection Request to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for review and approval: Lower Colorado River Well Inventory, OMB 
Control Number: 1006-0014. The Information Collection Request describes 
the nature of the information collection and its expected cost burden.

DATES: OMB has up to 60 days to approve or disapprove this information 
collection, but may respond after 30 days; therefore, public comment 
must be received on or before June 4, 2012.

ADDRESSES: Please send your comments to the Desk Officer for the 
Department of the Interior at the Office of Management and Budget, 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, via facsimile to (202) 
395-5806, or email to OIRA_DOCKET@omb.eop.gov. A copy of your comments 
should also be directed to the Bureau of Reclamation, Attention: LC-
4200, P.O. Box 61470, Boulder City, NV 89006-1470.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Matuska, Water Accounting and 
Verification Group Manager, Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Colorado 
Regional Office, 702-293-8164. You may also view the Information 
Collection Request at www.reginfo.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    Pursuant to the Boulder Canyon Project Act (Pub. L. 70-642, 45 
Stat. 1057), all diversions of mainstream Colorado River water must be 
in accordance with a Colorado River water entitlement. The Consolidated 
Decree of the United States Supreme Court in Arizona v. California, 547 
U.S. 150 (2006) requires the Secretary of the Interior to account for 
all diversions of mainstream Colorado River water along the lower 
Colorado River, including water drawn from the mainstream by 
underground pumping. To meet the water entitlement and accounting 
obligations, an inventory of wells and river pumps is required along 
the lower Colorado River, and the gathering of specific information 
concerning these wells.

II. Data

    OMB Control Number: 1006-0014.
    Title: Lower Colorado River Well Inventory.
    Form Number: Form LC-25.
    Frequency: These data are collected only once for each well or 
river-pump owner or operator as long as changes in water use, or other 
changes that would impact contractual or administrative requirements, 
are not made. A respondent may request that the data for their well or 
river pump be updated after the initial inventory.
    Respondents: Well and river-pump owners and operators along the 
lower Colorado River in Arizona, California, and Nevada. Each well and 
river pump owner or operator must be identified, as well as the 
location of their diversion and type of water use determined.
    Estimated completion time: An average of 20 minutes is required to 
interview individual well and river-pump owners or operators. 
Reclamation will use the information collected during these interviews 
to complete the information collection form.
    Estimated total number of annual responses: 1,500.
    Estimated total annual burden hours: 500 hours.

III. Request for Comments

    Reclamation invites your comments on:
    (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for 
the proper performance of our functions, including whether the 
information will have practical use;

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    (b) the accuracy of our burden estimate for the proposed collection 
of information;
    (c) ways to enhance the quality, usefulness, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
    (d) ways to minimize the burden of the information collection on 
respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology.
    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. Reclamation will display a valid 
OMB control number on the Lower Colorado River Well Inventory, OMB 
Control Number: 1006-0014.
    A Federal Register notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting 
comments on this collection of information was published in the Federal 
Register (77 FR 9264) on February 16, 2012. No public comments were 
received.

IV. Public Disclosure

    Before including your address, telephone 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.

    Dated: April 27, 2012.
Michael R. Gabaldon,
Acting Regional Director, Lower Colorado Region, Bureau of Reclamation.
[FR Doc. 2012-10772 Filed 5-3-12; 8:45 am]
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