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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Natural Resources Revenue
[Docket No. ONRR–2011–0009; DS63644000
DR2000000.CH7000 189D0102R2; OMB
Control Number 1012–0008]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Collection of Monies
Due the Federal Government
Office of the Secretary, Office
of Natural Resources Revenue, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of extension.
AGENCY:
To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), the Office of Natural Resources
Revenue (ONRR), is proposing to renew
an information collection with revisions
under 30 CFR part 1218.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before March 8,
2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit your
written comments on this information
collection request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget’s Desk Officer
for the Department of the Interior by
email to OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov; or via facsimile to (202)
395–5806. Please also mail a copy of
your comments to Mr. Armand Southall,
Regulatory Specialist, ONRR, P.O. Box
25165, MS 64400, Denver, Colorado
80225–0165, or by email to
Armand.Southall@onrr.gov. Please
reference OMB Control Number ‘‘1012–
0008’’ in the subject line of your
comments.
SUMMARY:
For
questions on technical issues, contact
Mr. Hans Meingast, Financial Services/
Financial Management, ONRR,
telephone (303) 231–3382, or email to
Hans.Meingast@onrr.gov. For other
questions, contact Mr. Armand Southall,
telephone (303) 231–3221, or email to
Armand.Southall@onrr.gov. You may
also contact Mr. Southall to obtain
copies, at no cost, of (1) the ICR, (2) any
associated form(s), and (3) the
regulations that require us to collect the
information. You may review the ICR at
https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain and select ‘‘Information
Collection Review,’’ then select
‘‘Department of the Interior’’ in the
drop-down box under ‘‘Currently Under
Review.’’
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, we provide the
general public and other Federal
agencies with an opportunity to
comment on new, proposed, revised,
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and continuing collections of
information. This helps us assess the
impact of our information collection
requirements and minimize the public’s
reporting burden. It also helps the
public understand our information
collection requirements and provide the
requested data in the desired format.
We published a notice, with a 60-day
public comment period soliciting
comments on this collection of
information, in the Federal Register on
July 24, 2017 (82 FR 34333). We
received the following comments from
companies regarding the published 60day Federal Register notice.
Public Commenter #1 stated the
following:
In the San Juan basin where we pay
royalties, our recoupment process takes
around 2 hours per month, or around 20
hours per year. A colleague who reports
royalties in the Williston Basin, however,
spends much more time and can have over
a day’s worth of work associated with
tracking and reporting recoupments during
the month. The colleague would estimate
closer to 70 hours per year.
Public Commenter #2 also stated the
following:
I’m sorry. I know I agreed to do this survey,
but I find the request takes more time to read
than I would like to spend on the entire
survey. We have had some unexpected
projects come up and I cannot spare the time.
Public Commenter #3 stated the
following:
I forwarded your request to CLR legal, for
their review; I read the FRN then passed it
to our company’s lawyers. I have no
comments.
Public Commenter #4 also stated the
following:
I talked to my Supervisor this morning.
Cimarex as a company doesn’t comment on
items like this. Cimarex in the past, through
COPAS/PASO has taken part in discussions
on items like this. Cimarex will follow
COPAS/PASO’s jointly discussed approach.
We are not aware of any discussions taking
place within COPAS/PASO regarding ICR
1012–0008. Hope this resolves your question.
Once again, we are soliciting
comments on this ICR that is described
below. We are especially interested in
public comment addressing the
following issues: (1) Is the collection
necessary to the proper functions of
ONRR; (2) will this information be
processed and used in a timely manner;
(3) is the estimate of the burden
accurate; (4) how might ONRR enhance
the quality, usefulness, and clarity of
the information collected; and (5) how
might ONRR minimize the burden of
this collection on the respondents,
including through the use of
information technology.
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Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. Before including your
Personally Identifiable Information (PII),
such as your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information, in your
comment(s), you should be aware that
your entire comment—including PII—
may be made available to the public at
any time. While you may ask us, in your
comment, to withhold your PII from
public view, we cannot guarantee that
we will be able to do so.
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 and the Outer
Continental Shelf (OCS). Under various
laws, the Secretary’s responsibility is to
manage mineral resources production
on Federal and Indian lands and the
OCS, collect the royalties and other
mineral revenues due, and distribute the
funds collected. ONRR performs the
royalty management functions and
assists the Secretary in carrying out the
Department’s responsibility. We have
posted those laws pertaining to mineral
leases on Federal and Indian lands and
the OCS at https://www.onrr.gov/Laws_
R_D/PubLaws/default.htm.
I. General Information
Minerals produced from Federal and
Indian leases vary greatly in the nature
of occurrence, production, and
processing methods. When a company
or an individual enters into a lease to
explore, develop, produce, and dispose
of minerals from Federal or Indian
lands, that company or individual
agrees to pay the lessor a share in an
amount or value of production from the
leased lands. The lessee is required to
report various kinds of information to
the lessor relative to the disposition of
the minerals. Such information is
generally available within the records of
the lessee or others involved in
developing, transporting, processing,
purchasing, or selling such minerals.
The information collected includes data
necessary to ensure that production is
accurately valued and that royalties are
appropriately paid.
II. Information Collections
This ICR covers unique reporting
circumstances, including (1) cross-lease
netting in calculation of late-payment
interest; (2) designation of a designee;
and (3) Tribal permission for
recoupment on Indian oil and gas
leases.
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A. Cross-Lease Netting in Calculation of
Late-Payment Interest
Regulations at § 1218.54 require
ONRR to assess interest on unpaid or
underpaid amounts. ONRR distributes
these interest revenues to States, Indian
Tribes, and the U.S. Treasury, based on
financial lease distribution information.
Current regulations at § 1218.42 provide
that an overpayment on a lease or leases
may be offset against an underpayment
on a different lease or leases to
determine the net payment subject to
interest when certain conditions are
met. This process is called cross-lease
netting. Lessees must demonstrate that
cross-lease netting applies by submitting
production reports, pipeline allocation
reports, or other similar documentary
evidence. This information is necessary
in order for ONRR to determine the
correct amount of interest that the lessee
owes and to ensure that lessees are
neither undercharged nor overcharged
interest.
B. Designation of Designee
Owners of operating rights are
primarily liable for Federal oil and gas
royalties and other revenue payments,
while owners of record title are
secondarily liable (though both are
referred to as ‘‘lessees’’) (see 30 U.S.C.
1712(a) and 30 CFR 1218.52). It is
common, however, for a payor—rather
than a lessee—to make these payments.
When a payor makes payments on
behalf of a lessee, RSFA section 6(g)
requires that the lessee designate the
payor as its designee and notify ONRR
of this arrangement in writing. We
designed form ONRR–4425, Designation
Form for Royalty Payment
Responsibility, to request all the
information necessary for lessees to
comply with these RSFA requirements
when choosing to designate an agent to
pay for them. We require this
information to ensure ONRR orders and
demands are addressed to and served on
the proper parties.
C. Tribal Permission for Recoupment on
Indian Oil and Gas Leases
In order to recoup overpayments
made on Tribal Indian oil and gas
leases, lessees must comply with
regulations at 30 CFR 1218.53(a), which
limits recoupments to the amount of
royalties or other revenues owed on the
same lease that month. However,
regulations at 30 CFR 1218.53(b) allow
lessees, with written permission from
the Tribe, to recoup overpayments on
one lease against a different lease for
which the Tribe is the lessor. The lessee
must provide ONRR with a copy of the
Tribe’s written permission.
III. OMB Approval
We are requesting OMB’s approval to
continue to collect this information. Not
collecting this information may result in
the loss of royalty payments due Federal
and Indian lessors. Also, it may deprive
lessees of the ability to minimize or
avoid interest due when they have
offsetting under-reporting and over-
reporting of production. And it would
deprive lessees of a right of recoupment
of overpayments authorized by Tribes.
Proprietary information submitted is
protected, and there are no questions of
a sensitive nature included in this
information collection.
IV. Data
Title: Collection of Monies Due the
Federal Government, 30 CFR part 1218.
OMB Control Number: 1012–0008.
Bureau Form Number: ONRR–4425.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents/Affected Public:
Businesses.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Respondents: 31 Federal and Indian
lessees.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 31
Estimated Completion Time per
Response: 4.87 hours.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 151 hours.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
Obtain or Retain a Benefit.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Total Estimated Annual Nonhour
Burden Cost: None.
We have not included in our
estimates certain requirements
performed in the normal course of
business that are considered usual and
customary. The following table shows
the estimated burden hours by CFR
section and paragraph:
RESPONDENTS’ ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS
Citation 30 CFR
part 1218
Reporting and recordkeeping requirement
Average
number of
annual
responses
Hour burden
Annual
burden hours
Subpart A—General Provisions—Cross-lease netting in calculation of late-payment interest.
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Cross-lease netting in calculation of late-payment interest.
(b) Royalties attributed to production from a lease or
leases which should have been attributed to production
from a different lease or leases may be offset . . . if
. . . the payor submits production reports, pipeline allocation reports, or other similar documentary evidence
pertaining to the specific production involved which
verifies the correct production information. . . . (c) If
ONRR assesses late-payment interest and the payor asserts that some or all of the interest is not owed . . . the
burden is on the payor to demonstrate that the exception
applies. . . .
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RESPONDENTS’ ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS—Continued
Citation 30 CFR
part 1218
Reporting and recordkeeping requirement
Average
number of
annual
responses
Hour burden
Annual
burden hours
Subpart B—Oil and Gas, General—How does a lessee designate a Designee?
1218.52(a), (c), and (d) ............
How does a lessee designate a Designee? (a) If you are a
lessee under 30 U.S.C. 1701(7), and you want to designate a person to make all or part of the payments due
under a lease on your behalf . . . you must notify ONRR
. . . in writing of such designation. . . . (c) If you want
to terminate a designation . . . you must provide [the
following] to ONRR in writing. . . . (d) ONRR may require you to provide notice when there is a change in the
percentage of your record title or operating rights ownership.
ONRR currently uses Form ONRR–4425, Designation
Form for Royalty Payment Responsibility, to collect this
information.
1
1
1
Subpart B—Oil and Gas, General—Recoupment of overpayments on Indian mineral leases.
1218.53(b) ................................
Recoupment of overpayments on Indian mineral leases. (b)
With written permission authorized by tribal statute or
resolution, a payor may recoup an overpayment against
royalties or other revenues owed . . . under other
leases. . . . A copy of the tribe’s written permission
must be furnished to ONRR. . . .
20
5
100
Total Burden .....................
...............................................................................................
........................
31
151
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.
ONRR Information Collection
Clearance Officer: Armand Southall
(303) 231–3221.
Authority: The authorities for this action
are the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et. seq.).
Gregory J. Gould,
Director for Office of Natural Resources
Revenue.
[FR Doc. 2018–02299 Filed 2–5–18; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4335–30–P
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
COMMISSION
Notice of Receipt of Complaint;
Solicitation of Comments Relating to
the Public Interest
U.S. International Trade
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
the U.S. International Trade
Commission has received a complaint
entitled Certain Fuel Pump Assemblies
Having Vapor Separators and
Components Thereof, DN 3292; the
Commission is soliciting comments on
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any public interest issues raised by the
complaint or complainant’s filing
pursuant to the Commission’s Rules of
Practice and Procedure.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa
R. Barton, Secretary to the Commission,
U.S. International Trade Commission,
500 E Street SW, Washington, DC
20436, telephone (202) 205–2000. The
public version of the complaint can be
accessed on the Commission’s
Electronic Document Information
System (EDIS) at https://edis.usitc.gov,
and will be available for inspection
during official business hours (8:45 a.m.
to 5:15 p.m.) in the Office of the
Secretary, U.S. International Trade
Commission, 500 E Street SW,
Washington, DC 20436, telephone (202)
205–2000.
General information concerning the
Commission may also be obtained by
accessing its internet server at United
States International Trade Commission
(USITC) at https://www.usitc.gov. The
public record for this investigation may
be viewed on the Commission’s
Electronic Document Information
System (EDIS) at https://edis.usitc.gov.
Hearing-impaired persons are advised
that information on this matter can be
obtained by contacting the
Commission’s TDD terminal on (202)
205–1810.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Commission has received a complaint
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and a submission pursuant to § 210.8(b)
of the Commission’s Rules of Practice
and Procedure filed on behalf of Carter
Fuel Systems, LLC on January 31, 2018.
The complaint alleges violations of
section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19
U.S.C. 1337) in the importation into the
United States, the sale for importation,
and the sale within the United States
after importation of certain fuel pump
assemblies having vapor separators and
components thereof. The complaint
names as respondent: Wenzhou Jushang
(JS) Performance Parts Co. Ltd. of China.
The complainant requests that the
Commission issue a limited exclusion
order, a cease and desist order and
impose a bond upon respondents’
alleged infringing articles during the 60day Presidential review period pursuant
to 19 U.S.C. 1337(j).
Proposed respondents, other
interested parties, and members of the
public are invited to file comments, not
to exceed five (5) pages in length,
inclusive of attachments, on any public
interest issues raised by the complaint
or § 210.8(b) filing. Comments should
address whether issuance of the relief
specifically requested by the
complainant in this investigation would
affect the public health and welfare in
the United States, competitive
conditions in the United States
economy, the production of like or
directly competitive articles in the
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Natural Resources Revenue
[Docket No. ONRR-2011-0009; DS63644000 DR2000000.CH7000 189D0102R2; OMB
Control Number 1012-0008]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Collection of
Monies Due the Federal Government
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Office of Natural Resources Revenue,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of extension.
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SUMMARY: To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the
Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR), is proposing to renew an
information collection with revisions under 30 CFR part 1218.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
March 8, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit your written comments on this information
collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget's Desk
Officer for the Department of the Interior by email to
[email protected].gov; or via facsimile to (202) 395-5806. Please
also mail a copy of your comments to Mr. Armand Southall, Regulatory
Specialist, ONRR, P.O. Box 25165, MS 64400, Denver, Colorado 80225-
0165, or by email to [email protected]. Please reference OMB
Control Number ``1012-0008'' in the subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions on technical issues,
contact Mr. Hans Meingast, Financial Services/Financial Management,
ONRR, telephone (303) 231-3382, or email to [email protected]. For
other questions, contact Mr. Armand Southall, telephone (303) 231-3221,
or email to [email protected]. You may also contact Mr. Southall
to obtain copies, at no cost, of (1) the ICR, (2) any associated
form(s), and (3) the regulations that require us to collect the
information. You may review the ICR at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain and select ``Information Collection Review,'' then select
``Department of the Interior'' in the drop-down box under ``Currently
Under Review.''
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, we provide the general public and other Federal agencies
with an opportunity to comment on new, proposed, revised, and
continuing collections of information. This helps us assess the impact
of our information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. It also helps the public understand our information
collection requirements and provide the requested data in the desired
format.
We published a notice, with a 60-day public comment period
soliciting comments on this collection of information, in the Federal
Register on July 24, 2017 (82 FR 34333). We received the following
comments from companies regarding the published 60-day Federal Register
notice.
Public Commenter #1 stated the following:
In the San Juan basin where we pay royalties, our recoupment
process takes around 2 hours per month, or around 20 hours per year.
A colleague who reports royalties in the Williston Basin, however,
spends much more time and can have over a day's worth of work
associated with tracking and reporting recoupments during the month.
The colleague would estimate closer to 70 hours per year.
Public Commenter #2 also stated the following:
I'm sorry. I know I agreed to do this survey, but I find the
request takes more time to read than I would like to spend on the
entire survey. We have had some unexpected projects come up and I
cannot spare the time.
Public Commenter #3 stated the following:
I forwarded your request to CLR legal, for their review; I read
the FRN then passed it to our company's lawyers. I have no comments.
Public Commenter #4 also stated the following:
I talked to my Supervisor this morning. Cimarex as a company
doesn't comment on items like this. Cimarex in the past, through
COPAS/PASO has taken part in discussions on items like this. Cimarex
will follow COPAS/PASO's jointly discussed approach. We are not
aware of any discussions taking place within COPAS/PASO regarding
ICR 1012-0008. Hope this resolves your question.
Once again, we are soliciting comments on this ICR that is
described below. We are especially interested in public comment
addressing the following issues: (1) Is the collection necessary to the
proper functions of ONRR; (2) will this information be processed and
used in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate of the burden accurate;
(4) how might ONRR enhance the quality, usefulness, and clarity of the
information collected; and (5) how might ONRR minimize the burden of
this collection on the respondents, including through the use of
information technology.
Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of
public record. Before including your Personally Identifiable
Information (PII), such as your address, phone number, email address,
or other personal identifying information, in your comment(s), you
should be aware that your entire comment--including PII--may be made
available to the public at any time. While you may ask us, in your
comment, to withhold your PII from public view, we cannot guarantee
that we will be able to do so.
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 and the Outer Continental Shelf
(OCS). Under various laws, the Secretary's responsibility is to manage
mineral resources production on Federal and Indian lands and the OCS,
collect the royalties and other mineral revenues due, and distribute
the funds collected. ONRR performs the royalty management functions and
assists the Secretary in carrying out the Department's responsibility.
We have posted those laws pertaining to mineral leases on Federal and
Indian lands and the OCS at https://www.onrr.gov/Laws_R_D/PubLaws/default.htm.
I. General Information
Minerals produced from Federal and Indian leases vary greatly in
the nature of occurrence, production, and processing methods. When a
company or an individual enters into a lease to explore, develop,
produce, and dispose of minerals from Federal or Indian lands, that
company or individual agrees to pay the lessor a share in an amount or
value of production from the leased lands. The lessee is required to
report various kinds of information to the lessor relative to the
disposition of the minerals. Such information is generally available
within the records of the lessee or others involved in developing,
transporting, processing, purchasing, or selling such minerals. The
information collected includes data necessary to ensure that production
is accurately valued and that royalties are appropriately paid.
II. Information Collections
This ICR covers unique reporting circumstances, including (1)
cross-lease netting in calculation of late-payment interest; (2)
designation of a designee; and (3) Tribal permission for recoupment on
Indian oil and gas leases.
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A. Cross-Lease Netting in Calculation of Late-Payment Interest
Regulations at Sec. 1218.54 require ONRR to assess interest on
unpaid or underpaid amounts. ONRR distributes these interest revenues
to States, Indian Tribes, and the U.S. Treasury, based on financial
lease distribution information. Current regulations at Sec. 1218.42
provide that an overpayment on a lease or leases may be offset against
an underpayment on a different lease or leases to determine the net
payment subject to interest when certain conditions are met. This
process is called cross-lease netting. Lessees must demonstrate that
cross-lease netting applies by submitting production reports, pipeline
allocation reports, or other similar documentary evidence. This
information is necessary in order for ONRR to determine the correct
amount of interest that the lessee owes and to ensure that lessees are
neither undercharged nor overcharged interest.
B. Designation of Designee
Owners of operating rights are primarily liable for Federal oil and
gas royalties and other revenue payments, while owners of record title
are secondarily liable (though both are referred to as ``lessees'')
(see 30 U.S.C. 1712(a) and 30 CFR 1218.52). It is common, however, for
a payor--rather than a lessee--to make these payments. When a payor
makes payments on behalf of a lessee, RSFA section 6(g) requires that
the lessee designate the payor as its designee and notify ONRR of this
arrangement in writing. We designed form ONRR-4425, Designation Form
for Royalty Payment Responsibility, to request all the information
necessary for lessees to comply with these RSFA requirements when
choosing to designate an agent to pay for them. We require this
information to ensure ONRR orders and demands are addressed to and
served on the proper parties.
C. Tribal Permission for Recoupment on Indian Oil and Gas Leases
In order to recoup overpayments made on Tribal Indian oil and gas
leases, lessees must comply with regulations at 30 CFR 1218.53(a),
which limits recoupments to the amount of royalties or other revenues
owed on the same lease that month. However, regulations at 30 CFR
1218.53(b) allow lessees, with written permission from the Tribe, to
recoup overpayments on one lease against a different lease for which
the Tribe is the lessor. The lessee must provide ONRR with a copy of
the Tribe's written permission.
III. OMB Approval
We are requesting OMB's approval to continue to collect this
information. Not collecting this information may result in the loss of
royalty payments due Federal and Indian lessors. Also, it may deprive
lessees of the ability to minimize or avoid interest due when they have
offsetting under-reporting and over-reporting of production. And it
would deprive lessees of a right of recoupment of overpayments
authorized by Tribes. Proprietary information submitted is protected,
and there are no questions of a sensitive nature included in this
information collection.
IV. Data
Title: Collection of Monies Due the Federal Government, 30 CFR part
1218.
OMB Control Number: 1012-0008.
Bureau Form Number: ONRR-4425.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: Businesses.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 31 Federal and Indian
lessees.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 31
Estimated Completion Time per Response: 4.87 hours.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 151 hours.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to Obtain or Retain a Benefit.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Total Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: None.
We have not included in our estimates certain requirements
performed in the normal course of business that are considered usual
and customary. The following table shows the estimated burden hours by
CFR section and paragraph:
Respondents' Estimated Annual Burden Hours
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Average
number of Annual burden
Citation 30 CFR part 1218 Reporting and recordkeeping requirement Hour burden annual hours
responses
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Subpart A--General Provisions--Cross-lease netting in calculation of late-payment interest.
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1218.42(b) and (c).................................... Cross-lease netting in calculation of late- 2 25 50
payment interest. (b) Royalties attributed to
production from a lease or leases which should
have been attributed to production from a
different lease or leases may be offset . . .
if . . . the payor submits production reports,
pipeline allocation reports, or other similar
documentary evidence pertaining to the specific
production involved which verifies the correct
production information. . . . (c) If ONRR
assesses late-payment interest and the payor
asserts that some or all of the interest is not
owed . . . the burden is on the payor to
demonstrate that the exception applies. . . .
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Subpart B--Oil and Gas, General--How does a lessee designate a Designee?
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1218.52(a), (c), and (d).............................. How does a lessee designate a Designee? (a) If
you are a lessee under 30 U.S.C. 1701(7), and
you want to designate a person to make all or
part of the payments due under a lease on your
behalf . . . you must notify ONRR . . . in
writing of such designation. . . . (c) If you
want to terminate a designation . . . you must
provide [the following] to ONRR in writing. . .
. (d) ONRR may require you to provide notice
when there is a change in the percentage of
your record title or operating rights ownership.
ONRR currently uses Form ONRR-4425, Designation 1 1 1
Form for Royalty Payment Responsibility, to
collect this information.
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Subpart B--Oil and Gas, General--Recoupment of overpayments on Indian mineral leases.
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1218.53(b)............................................ Recoupment of overpayments on Indian mineral 20 5 100
leases. (b) With written permission authorized
by tribal statute or resolution, a payor may
recoup an overpayment against royalties or
other revenues owed . . . under other leases. .
. . A copy of the tribe's written permission
must be furnished to ONRR. . . .
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Total Burden...................................... ................................................ .............. 31 151
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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.
ONRR Information Collection Clearance Officer: Armand Southall
(303) 231-3221.
Authority: The authorities for this action are the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et. seq.).
Gregory J. Gould,
Director for Office of Natural Resources Revenue.
[FR Doc. 2018-02299 Filed 2-5-18; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4335-30-P
