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BOEM determines the delay was caused
by events beyond the provisionally
winning bidder’s control.
If the provisionally winning bidder
does not meet these requirements or
otherwise fails to comply with
applicable regulations or the terms of
the FSN, BOEM reserves the right not to
issue the lease to that bidder. In such a
case, the provisionally winning bidder
will forfeit its bid deposit. In such an
event, BOEM reserves the right to
identify the next highest bid submitted
during the lease sale and offer the lease
pursuant to that bid.
Within 45 calendar days of the date
that the provisionally winning bidder
receives copies of the lease, it must pay
the first year’s rent using the pay.gov
Renewable Energy Initial Rental
Payment form available at: https://
www.pay.gov/public/form/start/
27797604/. Subsequent annual rent
payments must be made following the
detailed instructions contained in the
‘‘Instructions for Making Electronic
Payments,’’ available on BOEM’s Web
site at: https://www.boem.gov/NorthCarolina/.
Non-Procurement Debarment and
Suspension Regulations: Pursuant to
regulations at 43 CFR part 42, subpart C,
an OCS renewable energy lessee must
comply with the Department of the
Interior’s non-procurement debarment
and suspension regulations at 2 CFR 180
and 1400. The lessee must also
communicate this requirement to
persons with whom the lessee does
business relating to this lease, by
including this term as a condition in
their contracts and other transactions.
Force Majeure: The Program Manager
of BOEM’s Office of Renewable Energy
Programs has the discretion to change
any auction details specified in the FSN,
including the date and time, in case of
a force majeure event that the Program
Manager deems may interfere with a fair
and proper lease sale process. Such
events may include, but are not limited
to: natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes,
hurricanes, floods, blizzards), wars,
riots, acts of terrorism, fire, strikes, civil
disorder or other events of a similar
nature. In case of such events, BOEM
will notify all qualified bidders via
email or phone, or through the BOEM
Web site at: https://www.boem.gov/
Renewable-Energy-Program/index.aspx.
Bidders should call 703–787–1320 if
they have concerns.
Appeals: The appeals procedures are
provided in BOEM’s regulations at 30
CFR 585.225 and 585.118(c). Pursuant
to 30 CFR 585.225:
(a) If BOEM rejects your bid, BOEM
will provide a written statement of the
reasons and refund any money
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deposited with your bid, without
interest.
(b) You will then be able to ask the
BOEM Director for reconsideration, in
writing, within 15 business days of bid
rejection, under 30 CFR 585.118(c)(1).
We will send you a written response
either affirming or reversing the
rejection.
The procedures for appealing final
decisions with respect to lease sales are
described in 30 CFR 585.118(c).
Protection of Privileged or
Confidential Information: BOEM will
protect privileged or confidential
information that you submit, as required
by the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA). Exemption 4 of FOIA applies to
‘‘trade secrets and commercial or
financial information that you submit
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U.S.C. 552(b)(4). If you wish to protect
the confidentiality of such information,
clearly mark it ‘‘Contains Privileged or
Confidential Information’’ and consider
submitting such information as a
separate attachment. BOEM will not
disclose such information, except as
required by FOIA. Information that is
not labeled as privileged or confidential
will be regarded by BOEM as suitable
for public release. Further, BOEM will
not treat as confidential aggregate
summaries of otherwise confidential
information.
Dated: January 10, 2017.
Walter D. Cruickshank,
Acting Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
[RR85854000; XXXR4524KS;
RR.4888TR11.0040001]
Agency Information Collection
Activities Under OMB Review;
Proposed New Collection
Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of Reclamation
has forwarded the following Information
Collection Request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval: Collection and
Compilation of Water Pipeline Field
Performance Data (OMB Control
Number 1006–XXXX). The Information
Collection Request describes the nature
of the information collection and its
expected cost burden.
SUMMARY:
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OMB has up to 60 days to
approve or disapprove this information
collection request, but may respond
after 30 days; therefore, public comment
must be received on or before February
17, 2017.
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 Dr. Lee Sears,
Materials and Corrosion Laboratory, 86–
68540, Bureau of Reclamation, P.O. Box
25007, Denver, Colorado 80225; or via
email to lsears@usbr.gov. Please
reference OMB Control Number: 1006–
XXXX in your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Lee Sears at 303–445–2392. You may
also view the Information Collection
Request at www.reginfo.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DATES:
I. Abstract
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), this notice announces that the
Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation)
has obtained the services of an outside
entity to survey water utilities and
collect data on water pipeline
performance. The information being
collected is required to comply with a
request from Congress for Reclamation
to assemble data on pipeline reliability
for specific types of pipes.
From 2013 through 2015, Reclamation
worked with Water Research
Foundation and Battelle Memorial
Institute (Battelle) on a draft information
collection request (ICR) to collect highquality field performance data on
pipeline reliability for water pipelines
of different material and vintage. A
Federal Register notice announcing the
availability of this draft collection of
this information was initiated on
February 26, 2014 (79 FR 10842),
offering the public a 60-day public
comment period. A summary of
comments received during the 60-day
comment period, disposition of
comments, and revised draft
information collection were published
in the Federal Register on October 1,
2014 (79 FR 59291) and the public
comment period was reopened for
another 30 days. In response to the
public’s request for additional time to
comment, a third notice was published
in the Federal Register on October 30,
2014 (79 FR 64622), extending the
comment period another 30 days. In
total, the public was provided 120 days
to comment on the draft ICR. Also at the
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public’s request, all draft supporting
documents were made available to the
public for consideration. The contract
between Reclamation and its partners
was terminated in July 2015 before the
ICR could be finalized.
Reclamation signed an agreement in
November 2015 with Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State
University (Virginia Tech) to develop a
new ICR to collect buried water pipe
performance data. The notice
announcing the new draft ICR was
published in the Federal Register on
July 14, 2016 (81 FR 45533) to start the
60-day public comment period. The
public comment period for this ICR
ended on September 12, 2016.
Information gathered from
Reclamation’s earlier attempt to develop
an ICR to collect pipeline reliability data
was incorporated into this current ICR.
II. Summary of Proposed Changes,
Comments and Responses
Comments on this ICR were received
from two entities. Responses to the
public comments are addressed in
Supporting Statement A of this ICR and
are available for public review at
www.reginfo.gov. Copies of the
comments have also been uploaded at
this same web address.
III. Data
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Title: Collection and Compilation of
Water Pipeline Field Performance Data.
OMB Control Number: 1006–XXXX.
Description of respondents: Water
utility and Federal facility pipe data
managers.
Frequency: One-time collection.
Estimated completion time: 10
minutes (making participation
decision), 30 minutes (introductory
webinar); and 110 minutes (uploading
data). The total estimated time is 150
minutes for each respondent.
Estimated Total Number of
Respondents: 500 (making participation
decision).
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total of Annual Responses:
250.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours on Respondents: 83 hours
(making participation decision); 126
hours (introductory webinar); and 459
hours (uploading data), for a combined
total of 668 hours.
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;
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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 collection of information 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 survey.
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: January 10, 2017.
Richard W. LaFond,
Chief, Civil Engineering Services Division,
Bureau of Reclamation.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D).
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Claim for
Reimbursement of Benefit Payments
and Claims Expense Under the War
Hazards Compensation Act
Notice.
The Department of Labor
(DOL) is submitting the Office of
Workers’ Compensation Programs
(OWCP) sponsored information
collection request (ICR) revision titled,
‘‘Claim for Reimbursement of Benefit
Payments and Claims Expense Under
the War Hazards Compensation Act,’’ to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval for use
in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.). Public comments on the
ICR are invited.
SUMMARY:
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The OMB will consider all
written comments that agency receives
on or before February 17, 2017.
ADDRESSES: A copy of this ICR with
applicable supporting documentation;
including a description of the likely
respondents, proposed frequency of
response, and estimated total burden
may be obtained free of charge from the
RegInfo.gov Web site at https://www.
reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_
nbr=201609-1240-003 or by contacting
Michel Smyth by telephone at 202–693–
4129, TTY 202–693–8064, (these are not
toll-free numbers) or sending an email
to DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
Submit comments about this request
by mail or courier to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Attn: OMB Desk Officer for DOL–
OWCP, Office of Management and
Budget, Room 10235, 725 17th Street
NW., Washington, DC 20503; by Fax:
202–395–5806 (this is not a toll-free
number); or by email: OIRA_
submission@omb.eop.gov. Commenters
are encouraged, but not required, to
send a courtesy copy of any comments
by mail or courier to the U.S.
Department of Labor-OASAM, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Attn:
Departmental Information Compliance
Management Program, Room N1301,
200 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20210; or by email:
DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Contact Michel Smyth by telephone at
202–693–4129, TTY 202–693–8064,
(these are not toll-free numbers) or
sending an email to DOL_PRA_
PUBLIC@dol.gov.
DATES:
This ICR
seeks approval under the PRA for
revisions to the Claim for
Reimbursement of Benefit Payments and
Claims Expense Under the War Hazards
Compensation Act (WHCA), Form CA–
278, information collection. The OWCP
is responsible for administering the
WHCA (42 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.). WHCA
section 104(a) (42 U.S.C. 1704(a))
provides that an insurance carrier or
self-insured who has paid workers’
compensation benefits to or on account
of any person for a war-risk hazard may
seek reimbursement for benefits paid
(plus expenses) out of the Federal
Employees’ Compensation Fund. See
also 5 U.S.C. 8147. Insurance carriers
and the self-insured file a Form CA–278
to request reimbursement. Regulations
implementing the WHCA permit the
OWCP to collect the information needed
to consider the reimbursement request
of an insurance carrier or self-insured.
See 20 CFR 61.101 and 61.104. This
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Office of the Secretary
ACTION:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
[RR85854000; XXXR4524KS; RR.4888TR11.0040001]
Agency Information Collection Activities Under OMB Review;
Proposed New Collection
AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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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: Collection and Compilation of Water
Pipeline Field Performance Data (OMB Control Number 1006-XXXX). 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 request, but may respond after 30 days; therefore, public
comment must be received on or before February 17, 2017.
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 Dr. Lee Sears, Materials and Corrosion Laboratory,
86-68540, Bureau of Reclamation, P.O. Box 25007, Denver, Colorado
80225; or via email to lsears@usbr.gov. Please reference OMB Control
Number: 1006-XXXX in your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Lee Sears at 303-445-2392. You may
also view the Information Collection Request at www.reginfo.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Bureau of Reclamation
(Reclamation) has obtained the services of an outside entity to survey
water utilities and collect data on water pipeline performance. The
information being collected is required to comply with a request from
Congress for Reclamation to assemble data on pipeline reliability for
specific types of pipes.
From 2013 through 2015, Reclamation worked with Water Research
Foundation and Battelle Memorial Institute (Battelle) on a draft
information collection request (ICR) to collect high-quality field
performance data on pipeline reliability for water pipelines of
different material and vintage. A Federal Register notice announcing
the availability of this draft collection of this information was
initiated on February 26, 2014 (79 FR 10842), offering the public a 60-
day public comment period. A summary of comments received during the
60-day comment period, disposition of comments, and revised draft
information collection were published in the Federal Register on
October 1, 2014 (79 FR 59291) and the public comment period was
reopened for another 30 days. In response to the public's request for
additional time to comment, a third notice was published in the Federal
Register on October 30, 2014 (79 FR 64622), extending the comment
period another 30 days. In total, the public was provided 120 days to
comment on the draft ICR. Also at the
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public's request, all draft supporting documents were made available to
the public for consideration. The contract between Reclamation and its
partners was terminated in July 2015 before the ICR could be finalized.
Reclamation signed an agreement in November 2015 with Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) to develop a
new ICR to collect buried water pipe performance data. The notice
announcing the new draft ICR was published in the Federal Register on
July 14, 2016 (81 FR 45533) to start the 60-day public comment period.
The public comment period for this ICR ended on September 12, 2016.
Information gathered from Reclamation's earlier attempt to develop an
ICR to collect pipeline reliability data was incorporated into this
current ICR.
II. Summary of Proposed Changes, Comments and Responses
Comments on this ICR were received from two entities. Responses to
the public comments are addressed in Supporting Statement A of this ICR
and are available for public review at www.reginfo.gov. Copies of the
comments have also been uploaded at this same web address.
III. Data
Title: Collection and Compilation of Water Pipeline Field
Performance Data.
OMB Control Number: 1006-XXXX.
Description of respondents: Water utility and Federal facility pipe
data managers.
Frequency: One-time collection.
Estimated completion time: 10 minutes (making participation
decision), 30 minutes (introductory webinar); and 110 minutes
(uploading data). The total estimated time is 150 minutes for each
respondent.
Estimated Total Number of Respondents: 500 (making participation
decision).
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total of Annual Responses: 250.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours on Respondents: 83 hours
(making participation decision); 126 hours (introductory webinar); and
459 hours (uploading data), for a combined total of 668 hours.
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 collection of information 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 survey.
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: January 10, 2017.
Richard W. LaFond,
Chief, Civil Engineering Services Division, Bureau of Reclamation.
[FR Doc. 2017-01002 Filed 1-17-17; 8:45 am]
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