The BOEMRE will collect the information to obtain knowledge of equipment, procedures, and circumstances involved in OCS incidents. We will use the information to identify OCS incident causes and trends in order to improve safety on the OCS through regulation, performance standards, research, and cooperative initiatives with industry. The BOEMRE uses the information to determine that crane operations are safe and that crane operators and rigger personnel meet the physical qualifications and have completed appropriate training. Respondents are Outer Continental Shelf Federal and 1 State oil and gas or sulphur lessees.
The currently approved OMB paperwork burden is 36,739 burden hours for this collection of information. This submission requests 44,413 hours with both program increases as well as adjustment increases.(a)The program increase of 2,001 hours is due to: the requirement for submitting a confidentiality agreement when required under § 250.197(c) was inadvertently not included from final rulemaking (71 FR 16033, March 30, 2006)(+1 burden hour); we separated out the IC for § 250.186 to stand on its own, since we felt that the regulatory requirement did not only pertain to incident reporting requirements for a program increase (+2,000 burden hours).(b)The adjustment increase of 5,673 hours is due to re-estimating the average annual responses and the amount of time required to respond based on consultations. The currently approved OMB non-hour cost burden is $810,200 for this collection of information. This submission requests $1,311,289. The adjustment increase of $501,089 is a result of re-estimating the number of annual responses that have associated cost recovery fees.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.