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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Natural Resources Revenue
[Docket No. ONRR–2011–0025; DS63644200
DRT000000.CH7000 190D1113RT, OMB
Control Number 1012–0001]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Accounts Receivable
Confirmations Reporting
Office of the Secretary, Office
of Natural Resources Revenue, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
1995, the Office of Natural Resources
Revenue (ONRR), is proposing to renew
the Accounts Receivable Confirmations
Reporting information collection. Every
year, under the Chief Financial Officers
Act of 1990, mineral lessees are asked
to confirm the accuracy of randomlyselected ONRR accounts receivable.
Accounts receivable confirmations are a
common financial audit practice that
require approval under the PRA.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before
December 17, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Send 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 at
OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov; or via
facsimile to (202) 395–5806. Please
provide a copy of your comments to Mr.
Luis Aguilar, Regulatory Specialist,
ONRR, P.O. Box 25165, MS 61030A,
Denver, Colorado 80225–0165, or email
Luis.Aguilar@onrr.gov. Please reference
OMB Control Number 1012–0001 in
your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
questions on technical issues, contact
Mr. Hans Meingast, Financial Services,
ONRR, at (303) 231–3382, or email to
Hans.Meingast@onrr.gov. For other
questions, contact Mr. Luis Aguilar at
(303) 231–3418, or email to
Luis.Aguilar@onrr.gov. You may also
contact Mr. Aguilar to obtain copies
(free of charge) of (1) the ICR, (2) any
associated form(s), and (3) the
regulations that require the subject
collection of information. You may also
review the ICR online at https://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, we provide the
general public and other Federal
agencies with an opportunity to
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SUMMARY:
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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. A
Federal Register notice with a 60-day
public comment period soliciting
comments on this collection of
information was published on June 11,
2018 (83 FR 27019). No comments were
received.
We are again soliciting comments on
the proposed 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 the
ONRR; (2) will this information be
processed and used in a timely manner;
(3) is the estimate of burden accurate;
(4) how might the ONRR enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (5) how
might the 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
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.
Abstract: The Secretary of the United
States Department of the Interior is
responsible for collecting royalties from
lessees who produce minerals from
Federal and Indian lands and the OuterContinental Shelf (OCS). Under various
laws, the Secretary is responsible to
manage mineral resources from Federal
and Indian lands and the OCS. One of
the mineral responsibilities that ONRR
performs on behalf of the Secretary is to
collect the royalties and other mineral
revenues due. These obligations are
accounted for as accounts receivables
with ONRR’s Financial Management
group. We have posted the laws
pertaining to mineral leases on Federal
and Indian lands and the OCS at https://
www.onrr.gov/Laws_R_D/PubLaws/
default.htm.
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General Information
When a company or an individual
enters into a lease to explore, develop,
produce, sell, or otherwise dispose of
minerals, from Federal and Indian lands
and the OCS, that company or
individual agrees to pay the lessor a
share in an amount or value of
production from the leased lands. For
oil, gas, and solid minerals, the lessee is
required to report various types of
information to ONRR relative to the
disposition of the leased minerals.
Specifically, companies submit
financial information to ONRR on a
monthly basis by submitting form
ONRR–2014 [Report of Sales and
Royalty Remittance for oil and gas
reported in OMB Control Number 1012–
0004], and form ONRR–4430 [Solid
Minerals Production and Royalty Report
reported in OMB Control Number 1012–
0010]. These royalty reports result in
accounts receivables and capture the
vast majority of the mineral revenue
collected by ONRR.
The basis for the data that companies
submit on forms ONRR–2014 and
ONRR–4430 is generally available
within the records of the lessee or others
involved in developing, transporting,
processing, purchasing, or selling such
minerals. The information that we
collect under the ICR includes data
necessary to ensure that ONRR’s
accounts receivables are accurately
based on the value of the mineral
production, as reported to ONRR on
forms ONRR–2014 and ONRR–4430.
Information Collections
Every year, the Chief Financial Officer
(CFO) under Chief Financial Officers
Act of 1990, the Office of Inspector
General, or its agent (agent), audits the
accounts receivable portions of the
Department’s financial statements,
which are based on ONRR forms ONRR–
2014 and ONRR–4430. Accounts
receivable confirmations are a common
financial audit practice. A third-party
audit provides confirmation of the
validity of ONRR’s financial records.
As part of the CFO audit, the agent
selects a sample of accounts receivable
items based on forms ONRR–2014 and
ONRR–4430, and provides the sample
items to ONRR. ONRR then identifies
the company names and addresses for
the sample items selected and creates
accounts receivable confirmation letters.
In order to meet the CFO requirements,
the letters must be on ONRR letterhead
and the Deputy Director for ONRR, or
his or her designee, must sign the
letters. The letter requests third-party
confirmation responses by a specified
date on whether or not ONRR’s accounts
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receivable records agree with royalty
payor records for the following items:
(1) Customer identification; (2) royalty
invoice number; (3) payor assigned
document number; (4) date of ONRR
receipt; (5) original amount the payor
reported; and (6) remaining balance due
to ONRR. The agent mails the letters to
the payors, instructing them to respond
directly to the agent to confirm the
accuracy and validity of selected royalty
receivable items and amounts. In turn,
it is the responsibility of the payors to
verify, research, and analyze the
amounts and balances reported on their
respective forms ONRR–2014 and
ONRR–4430.
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We will request OMB approval to
continue to collect this information. Not
collecting this information would limit
the Secretary’s ability to discharge the
duties of the office, could result in a
violation of the Chief Financial Officers
Act of 1990, and may also result in the
inability to confirm the accuracy of
ONRR’s accounts receivables which are
based on the accurate reporting of forms
ONRR–2014 and ONRR–4430. ONRR
protects the proprietary information
received and does not collect items of a
sensitive nature.
Title of Collections: Accounts
Receivable Confirmations.
OMB Control Number: 1012–0001.
Form(s) Number: None.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondent/Affected Public:
Businesses.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Respondents: 24 randomly-selected
mineral payors from Federal and Indian
lands and the OCS.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 24.
Estimated Completion Time per
Response: We estimate that each
response will take 15 minutes for payors
to complete.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 6 hours.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: Annual.
Total Estimated Annual Nonhour
Burden Cost: We have identified no
‘‘non-hour cost’’ burden associated with
this collection of information.
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.
16:53 Nov 14, 2018
Gregory J. Gould,
Director for Office of Natural Resources
Revenue.
[FR Doc. 2018–24877 Filed 11–14–18; 8:45 am]
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE
COMMISSION
Notice of Receipt of Complaint;
Solicitation of Comments Relating to
the Public Interest
U.S. International Trade
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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The authority for this action is the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq).
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Notice is hereby given that
the U.S. International Trade
Commission has received a complaint
entitled Certain Multi-Stage Fuel Vapor
Canister Systems and Activated Carbon
Components Thereof, DN 3351; the
Commission is soliciting comments on
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
and a submission pursuant to § 210.8(b)
of the Commission’s Rules of Practice
and Procedure filed on behalf of
Ingevity Corp and Ingevity South
SUMMARY:
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Carolina, LLC, on November 8, 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 multi-stage
fuel vapor canister systems and
activated carbon components thereof.
The complaint names as respondents:
MAHLE Filter Systems North America,
Inc. of Murfreesboro, TN; MAHLE Filter
Systems Japan Corp. of Japan; MAHLE
Sistemas de Filtracio´n de Me´xico S.A.
de C.V. of Mexico; MAHLE Filter
Systems Canada, ULC of Canada;
Kuraray Co., Ltd. of Japan; Kuraray
America, Inc. of Houston, TX and
Nagamine Manufacturing Co., Ltd. of
Japan. The complainant requests that
the Commission issue a limited
exclusion order, cease and desist orders
and impose a bond during the 60-day
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
United States, or United States
consumers.
In particular, the Commission is
interested in comments that:
(i) Explain how the articles
potentially subject to the requested
remedial orders are used in the United
States;
(ii) identify any public health, safety,
or welfare concerns in the United States
relating to the requested remedial
orders;
(iii) identify like or directly
competitive articles that complainant,
its licensees, or third parties make in the
United States which could replace the
subject articles if they were to be
excluded;
(iv) indicate whether complainant,
complainant’s licensees, and/or third
party suppliers have the capacity to
replace the volume of articles
potentially subject to the requested
exclusion order and/or a cease and
desist order within a commercially
reasonable time; and
(v) explain how the requested
remedial orders would impact United
States consumers.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Natural Resources Revenue
[Docket No. ONRR-2011-0025; DS63644200 DRT000000.CH7000 190D1113RT, OMB
Control Number 1012-0001]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Accounts
Receivable Confirmations Reporting
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Office of Natural Resources Revenue,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995,
the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR), is proposing to renew
the Accounts Receivable Confirmations Reporting information collection.
Every year, under the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, mineral
lessees are asked to confirm the accuracy of randomly-selected ONRR
accounts receivable. Accounts receivable confirmations are a common
financial audit practice that require approval under the PRA.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
December 17, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Send 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 at [email protected]; or
via facsimile to (202) 395-5806. Please provide a copy of your comments
to Mr. Luis Aguilar, Regulatory Specialist, ONRR, P.O. Box 25165, MS
61030A, Denver, Colorado 80225-0165, or email [email protected].
Please reference OMB Control Number 1012-0001 in your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions on technical issues,
contact Mr. Hans Meingast, Financial Services, ONRR, at (303) 231-3382,
or email to [email protected]. For other questions, contact Mr.
Luis Aguilar at (303) 231-3418, or email to [email protected]. You
may also contact Mr. Aguilar to obtain copies (free of charge) of (1)
the ICR, (2) any associated form(s), and (3) the regulations that
require the subject collection of information. You may also review the
ICR online at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
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. A Federal Register notice with a 60-day public comment period
soliciting comments on this collection of information was published on
June 11, 2018 (83 FR 27019). No comments were received.
We are again soliciting comments on the proposed 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 the ONRR; (2) will this information be processed
and used in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate of burden accurate;
(4) how might the ONRR enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (5) how might the 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 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.
Abstract: The Secretary of the United States Department of the
Interior is responsible for collecting royalties from lessees who
produce minerals from Federal and Indian lands and the Outer-
Continental Shelf (OCS). Under various laws, the Secretary is
responsible to manage mineral resources from Federal and Indian lands
and the OCS. One of the mineral responsibilities that ONRR performs on
behalf of the Secretary is to collect the royalties and other mineral
revenues due. These obligations are accounted for as accounts
receivables with ONRR's Financial Management group. We have posted the
laws pertaining to mineral leases on Federal and Indian lands and the
OCS at https://www.onrr.gov/Laws_R_D/PubLaws/default.htm.
General Information
When a company or an individual enters into a lease to explore,
develop, produce, sell, or otherwise dispose of minerals, from Federal
and Indian lands and the OCS, that company or individual agrees to pay
the lessor a share in an amount or value of production from the leased
lands. For oil, gas, and solid minerals, the lessee is required to
report various types of information to ONRR relative to the disposition
of the leased minerals. Specifically, companies submit financial
information to ONRR on a monthly basis by submitting form ONRR-2014
[Report of Sales and Royalty Remittance for oil and gas reported in OMB
Control Number 1012-0004], and form ONRR-4430 [Solid Minerals
Production and Royalty Report reported in OMB Control Number 1012-
0010]. These royalty reports result in accounts receivables and capture
the vast majority of the mineral revenue collected by ONRR.
The basis for the data that companies submit on forms ONRR-2014 and
ONRR-4430 is generally available within the records of the lessee or
others involved in developing, transporting, processing, purchasing, or
selling such minerals. The information that we collect under the ICR
includes data necessary to ensure that ONRR's accounts receivables are
accurately based on the value of the mineral production, as reported to
ONRR on forms ONRR-2014 and ONRR-4430.
Information Collections
Every year, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) under Chief Financial
Officers Act of 1990, the Office of Inspector General, or its agent
(agent), audits the accounts receivable portions of the Department's
financial statements, which are based on ONRR forms ONRR-2014 and ONRR-
4430. Accounts receivable confirmations are a common financial audit
practice. A third-party audit provides confirmation of the validity of
ONRR's financial records.
As part of the CFO audit, the agent selects a sample of accounts
receivable items based on forms ONRR-2014 and ONRR-4430, and provides
the sample items to ONRR. ONRR then identifies the company names and
addresses for the sample items selected and creates accounts receivable
confirmation letters. In order to meet the CFO requirements, the
letters must be on ONRR letterhead and the Deputy Director for ONRR, or
his or her designee, must sign the letters. The letter requests third-
party confirmation responses by a specified date on whether or not
ONRR's accounts
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receivable records agree with royalty payor records for the following
items: (1) Customer identification; (2) royalty invoice number; (3)
payor assigned document number; (4) date of ONRR receipt; (5) original
amount the payor reported; and (6) remaining balance due to ONRR. The
agent mails the letters to the payors, instructing them to respond
directly to the agent to confirm the accuracy and validity of selected
royalty receivable items and amounts. In turn, it is the responsibility
of the payors to verify, research, and analyze the amounts and balances
reported on their respective forms ONRR-2014 and ONRR-4430.
OMB Approval
We will request OMB approval to continue to collect this
information. Not collecting this information would limit the
Secretary's ability to discharge the duties of the office, could result
in a violation of the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, and may
also result in the inability to confirm the accuracy of ONRR's accounts
receivables which are based on the accurate reporting of forms ONRR-
2014 and ONRR-4430. ONRR protects the proprietary information received
and does not collect items of a sensitive nature.
Title of Collections: Accounts Receivable Confirmations.
OMB Control Number: 1012-0001.
Form(s) Number: None.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondent/Affected Public: Businesses.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 24 randomly-selected
mineral payors from Federal and Indian lands and the OCS.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 24.
Estimated Completion Time per Response: We estimate that each
response will take 15 minutes for payors to complete.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 6 hours.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: Annual.
Total Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: We have identified no
``non-hour cost'' burden associated with this collection of
information.
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.
The authority for this action is 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. 2018-24877 Filed 11-14-18; 8:45 am]
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