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may also view the Information
Collection Request at www.reginfo.gov.
Bureau of Reclamation
[A10–1412–0001–009–01–0–4, 8453000;
OMB Control Number 1006–0005]
II. Changes to the RRA Forms and
Their instructions
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
The changes made to the currently
approved RRA forms and the
corresponding instructions are of a
formatting or editorial nature, and are
designed to assist the respondents by
increasing their understanding of the
forms, clarifying the instructions for
completing the forms, and clarifying the
information that is required to be on the
forms. The proposed revisions to the
RRA forms will be effective in the 2014
water year.
I. Abstract
Agency Information Collection
Activities Under OMB Review; Renewal
of a Currently Approved Information
Collection
Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of renewal and request
for comments.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation
has forwarded the following Information
Collection Request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval: Individual
Landholder’s and Farm Operator’s
Certification and Reporting Forms for
Acreage Limitation, 43 CFR part 426
and 43 CFR part 428 (OMB Control
Number 1006–0005).
DATES: OMB has up to 60 days to
approve or disapprove this information
collection request, but may respond
after 30 days; therefore, public
comments must be received on or before
June 3, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Send written 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_submission@omb.eop.gov. A copy
of your comments should also be
directed to the Bureau of Reclamation,
Attention: 84–53000, P.O. Box 25007,
Denver, CO 80225–0007. Please
reference OMB Control Number 1006–
0005 in your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Stephanie McPhee, Bureau of
Reclamation, at (303) 445–2897. You
This information collection is
required under the Reclamation Reform
Act of 1982 (RRA), Acreage Limitation
Rules and Regulations, 43 CFR part 426,
and Information Requirements for
Certain Farm Operations In Excess of
960 Acres and the Eligibility of Certain
Formerly Excess Land, 43 CFR part 428.
This information collection requires
certain landholders (direct or indirect
landowners or lessees) and farm
operators to complete forms
demonstrating their compliance with
the acreage limitation provisions of
Federal reclamation law. The forms in
this information collection are
submitted to districts that use the
information to establish each
landholder’s status with respect to
landownership limitations, full-cost
pricing thresholds, lease requirements,
and other provisions of Federal
reclamation law. In addition, forms are
submitted by certain farm operators to
provide information concerning the
services they provide and the nature of
their farm operating arrangements. All
landholders whose entire westwide
landholdings total 40 acres or less are
exempt from the requirement to submit
RRA forms. Landholders who are
‘‘qualified recipients’’ have RRA forms
submittal thresholds of 80 acres or 240
acres depending on the district’s RRA
forms submittal threshold category
where the land is held. Only farm
operators who provide multiple services
to more than 960 acres held in trusts or
by legal entities are required to submit
forms.
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estimate
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OMB Control Number: 1006–0005.
Title: Individual Landholder’s and
Farm Operator’s Certification and
Reporting Forms for Acreage Limitation,
43 CFR part 426 and 43 CFR part 428.
Form Number: Form 7–2180, Form 7–
2180EZ, Form 7–2181, Form 7–2184,
Form 7–2190, Form 7–2190EZ, Form 7–
2191, Form 7–2194, Form 7–21TRUST,
Form 7–21PE, Form 7–21PE–IND, Form
7–21FARMOP, Form 7–21VERIFY,
Form 7–21FC, Form 7–21XS, Form 7–
21XSINAQ, Form 7–21CONT–I, Form
7–21CONT–L, Form 7–21CONT–O, and
Form 7–21INFO.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondents: Landholders and farm
operators of certain lands in our
projects, whose landholdings exceed
specified RRA forms submittal
thresholds.
Estimated Annual Total Number of
Respondents: 14,002.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1.02.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: 14,282.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 10,472 hours.
Estimated Completion Time Per
Respondent: See table below:
Number of
respondents
Annual
number of
responses
Annual
burden on
respondents
(in hours)
7–2180 ...................................................................................................
7–2180EZ ...............................................................................................
7–2181 ...................................................................................................
7–2184 ...................................................................................................
7–2190 ...................................................................................................
7–2190EZ ...............................................................................................
7–2191 ...................................................................................................
7–2194 ...................................................................................................
7–21PE ...................................................................................................
7–21PE–IND ..........................................................................................
7–21TRUST ...........................................................................................
7–21VERIFY ..........................................................................................
7–21FC ...................................................................................................
7–21XS ...................................................................................................
7–21FARMOP ........................................................................................
60
45
78
45
60
45
78
45
75
12
60
12
30
30
78
3,596
374
1,051
32
1,618
96
777
4
139
4
700
5,081
214
144
172
3,668
381
1,072
33
1,650
98
793
4
142
4
714
5,183
218
147
175
3,668
286
1,394
25
1,650
74
1,031
3
178
1
714
1,037
109
74
228
Totals ........................................................................................................
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14,002
14,282
10,472
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IV. Request for Comments
We invite 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;
(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 RRA forms.
A Federal Register notice with a 60day comment period soliciting
comments on this collection of
information was published in the
Federal Register (77 FR 57588,
September 18, 2012). One substantive
comment was received. This comment
stated the wording of one sentence in
the ‘‘General Information About the
RRA Forms’’ (Form 7–21INFO) should
be changed to indicate that Reclamation
reviews certain trusts, not all trusts. The
requirements associated with section
214 of the RRA and the Acreage
Limitation Rules and Regulations
necessitates Reclamation’s review of all
trusts in order to determine the
applicable entitlements and water rate
for each trust that receives Reclamation
irrigation water on the land directly or
indirectly owned or leased by the trust.
Therefore, the specific verbiage in Form
7–21INFO will remain unchanged and
reflect required review of all trusts.
OMB has up to 60 days to approve or
disapprove this information collection,
but may respond after 30 days;
therefore, public comment should be
submitted to OMB within 30 days in
order to assure maximum consideration.
V. Public Disclosure
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.
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Dated: April 26, 2013.
Roseann Gonzales,
Director, Policy and Administration, Denver
Office.
[FR Doc. 2013–10359 Filed 5–1–13; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4310–MN–P
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
[A10–1412–0001–009–01–0–4, 8453000;
OMB Control Number 1006–0023]
Agency Information Collection
Activities Under OMB Review; Renewal
of a Currently Approved Information
Collection
Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of renewal and request
for comments.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation
has forwarded the following Information
Collection Request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval: Forms to
Determine Compliance by Certain
Landholders, 43 CFR part 426 (OMB
Control Number 1006–0023).
DATES: OMB has up to 60 days to
approve or disapprove this information
collection request, but may respond
after 30 days; therefore, public
comments must be received on or before
June 3, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Send written 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_submission@omb.eop.gov. A copy
of your comments should also be
directed to the Bureau of Reclamation,
Attention: 84–53000, P.O. Box 25007,
Denver, CO 80225–0007. Please
reference OMB Control Number 1006–
0023 in your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Stephanie McPhee, Bureau of
Reclamation, at (303) 445–2897. You
may also view the Information
Collection Request at www.reginfo.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Identification of limited recipients—
Some entities that receive Reclamation
irrigation water may believe that they
are under the Reclamation Reform Act
of 1982 (RRA) forms submittal threshold
and, consequently, may not submit the
appropriate RRA form(s). However,
some of these entities may in fact have
a different RRA forms submittal
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threshold than what they believe it to be
due to the number of natural persons
benefiting from each entity and the
location of the land held by each entity.
In addition, some entities that are
exempt from the requirement to submit
RRA forms due to the size of their
landholdings (directly and indirectly
owned and leased land) may in fact be
receiving Reclamation irrigation water
for which the full-cost rate must be paid
because the start of Reclamation
irrigation water deliveries occurred after
October 1, 1981 [43 CFR 426.6(b)(2)].
The information obtained through
completion of the Limited Recipient
Identification Sheet (Form 7–2536)
allows us to establish entities’
compliance with Federal reclamation
law. The Limited Recipient
Identification Sheet is disbursed at our
discretion.
Trust review—In order to administer
section 214 of the RRA and 43 CFR
426.7, we are required to review all
trusts. Land held in trust generally will
be attributed to the beneficiaries of the
trust rather than the trustee if the
criteria specified in the RRA and 43 CFR
426.7 are met. We may extend the
option to complete and submit for our
review the Trust Information Sheet
(Form 7–2537) instead of actual trust
documents when we become aware of
trusts with a relatively small
landholding (40 acres or less in districts
subject to the prior law provisions of
Federal reclamation law, 240 acres or
less in districts subject to the
discretionary provisions of Federal
reclamation law). If we find nothing on
the completed Trust Information Sheet
that would warrant the further
investigation of a particular trust, that
trustee will not be burdened with
submitting trust documents to us for indepth review. The Trust Information
Sheet is disbursed at our discretion.
Acreage limitation provisions
applicable to public entities—Land
farmed by a public entity can be
considered exempt from the application
of the acreage limitation provisions
provided the public entity meets certain
criteria pertaining to the revenue
generated through the public entity’s
farming activities (43 CFR 426.10 and
the Act of July 7, 1970, Pub. L. 91–310).
We are required to ascertain whether or
not public entities that receive
Reclamation irrigation water meet such
revenue criteria regardless of how much
land the public entities hold (directly or
indirectly own or lease) [43 CFR
426.10(a)]. In order to minimize the
burden on public entities, standard RRA
forms are submitted by a public entity
only when the public entity holds more
than 40 acres subject to the acreage
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
[A10-1412-0001-009-01-0-4, 8453000; OMB Control Number 1006-0005]
Agency Information Collection Activities Under OMB Review;
Renewal of a Currently Approved Information 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: Individual Landholder's and Farm
Operator's Certification and Reporting Forms for Acreage Limitation, 43
CFR part 426 and 43 CFR part 428 (OMB Control Number 1006-0005).
DATES: OMB has up to 60 days to approve or disapprove this information
collection request, but may respond after 30 days; therefore, public
comments must be received on or before June 3, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Send written 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_submission@omb.eop.gov. A copy of your comments should
also be directed to the Bureau of Reclamation, Attention: 84-53000,
P.O. Box 25007, Denver, CO 80225-0007. Please reference OMB Control
Number 1006-0005 in your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephanie McPhee, Bureau of
Reclamation, at (303) 445-2897. You may also view the Information
Collection Request at www.reginfo.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
This information collection is required under the Reclamation
Reform Act of 1982 (RRA), Acreage Limitation Rules and Regulations, 43
CFR part 426, and Information Requirements for Certain Farm Operations
In Excess of 960 Acres and the Eligibility of Certain Formerly Excess
Land, 43 CFR part 428. This information collection requires certain
landholders (direct or indirect landowners or lessees) and farm
operators to complete forms demonstrating their compliance with the
acreage limitation provisions of Federal reclamation law. The forms in
this information collection are submitted to districts that use the
information to establish each landholder's status with respect to
landownership limitations, full-cost pricing thresholds, lease
requirements, and other provisions of Federal reclamation law. In
addition, forms are submitted by certain farm operators to provide
information concerning the services they provide and the nature of
their farm operating arrangements. All landholders whose entire
westwide landholdings total 40 acres or less are exempt from the
requirement to submit RRA forms. Landholders who are ``qualified
recipients'' have RRA forms submittal thresholds of 80 acres or 240
acres depending on the district's RRA forms submittal threshold
category where the land is held. Only farm operators who provide
multiple services to more than 960 acres held in trusts or by legal
entities are required to submit forms.
II. Changes to the RRA Forms and Their instructions
The changes made to the currently approved RRA forms and the
corresponding instructions are of a formatting or editorial nature, and
are designed to assist the respondents by increasing their
understanding of the forms, clarifying the instructions for completing
the forms, and clarifying the information that is required to be on the
forms. The proposed revisions to the RRA forms will be effective in the
2014 water year.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 1006-0005.
Title: Individual Landholder's and Farm Operator's Certification
and Reporting Forms for Acreage Limitation, 43 CFR part 426 and 43 CFR
part 428.
Form Number: Form 7-2180, Form 7-2180EZ, Form 7-2181, Form 7-2184,
Form 7-2190, Form 7-2190EZ, Form 7-2191, Form 7-2194, Form 7-21TRUST,
Form 7-21PE, Form 7-21PE-IND, Form 7-21FARMOP, Form 7-21VERIFY, Form 7-
21FC, Form 7-21XS, Form 7-21XSINAQ, Form 7-21CONT-I, Form 7-21CONT-L,
Form 7-21CONT-O, and Form 7-21INFO.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondents: Landholders and farm operators of certain lands in our
projects, whose landholdings exceed specified RRA forms submittal
thresholds.
Estimated Annual Total Number of Respondents: 14,002.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1.02.
Estimated Total Number of Annual Responses: 14,282.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 10,472 hours.
Estimated Completion Time Per Respondent: See table below:
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Burden Annual burden
estimate per Number of Annual number on
Form No. form (in respondents of responses respondents
minutes) (in hours)
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Form 7-2180..................................... 60 3,596 3,668 3,668
Form 7-2180EZ................................... 45 374 381 286
Form 7-2181..................................... 78 1,051 1,072 1,394
Form 7-2184..................................... 45 32 33 25
Form 7-2190..................................... 60 1,618 1,650 1,650
Form 7-2190EZ................................... 45 96 98 74
Form 7-2191..................................... 78 777 793 1,031
Form 7-2194..................................... 45 4 4 3
Form 7-21PE..................................... 75 139 142 178
Form 7-21PE-IND................................. 12 4 4 1
Form 7-21TRUST.................................. 60 700 714 714
Form 7-21VERIFY................................. 12 5,081 5,183 1,037
Form 7-21FC..................................... 30 214 218 109
Form 7-21XS..................................... 30 144 147 74
Form 7-21FARMOP................................. 78 172 175 228
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Totals...................................... .............. 14,002 14,282 10,472
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IV. Request for Comments
We invite 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;
(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 RRA forms.
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 57588, September 18, 2012). One substantive comment was
received. This comment stated the wording of one sentence in the
``General Information About the RRA Forms'' (Form 7-21INFO) should be
changed to indicate that Reclamation reviews certain trusts, not all
trusts. The requirements associated with section 214 of the RRA and the
Acreage Limitation Rules and Regulations necessitates Reclamation's
review of all trusts in order to determine the applicable entitlements
and water rate for each trust that receives Reclamation irrigation
water on the land directly or indirectly owned or leased by the trust.
Therefore, the specific verbiage in Form 7-21INFO will remain unchanged
and reflect required review of all trusts.
OMB has up to 60 days to approve or disapprove this information
collection, but may respond after 30 days; therefore, public comment
should be submitted to OMB within 30 days in order to assure maximum
consideration.
V. Public Disclosure
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.
Dated: April 26, 2013.
Roseann Gonzales,
Director, Policy and Administration, Denver Office.
[FR Doc. 2013-10359 Filed 5-1-13; 8:45 am]
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