The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) disposes of mineral materials such as sand, gravel, and petrified wood under the provisions of the Materials Act of 1947, as amended. The BLM needs the required information to determine if an applicant qualifies for a free use permit or must purchase the mineral materials. BLM uses sales contract Form 3600-9 to authorize the sale, and to identify the legal contractual obligations of the purchaser, the amount and type of material purchased, the location of the sale removal area, the duration and terms of the sale.
Information collected in support of the contract is used to
(1) Determine whether the sale of mineral materials is in the public interest;
(2) Mitigate the environmental impacts of mineral materials development;
(3) Get fair market value for materials sold; and
(4) Prevent trespass removal of the materials.
The BLM will contact the purchaser and conduct inspections to verify production and compliance with the terms of the sale, including the condition of the land maintained during operations and upon reclamation. In most cases, we do not require a specific form to collect the required information, because the resources differ with each location, each applicant's operation has unique aspects, and the amount of supporting information is kept to the minimum needed for the specific proposal in each application.
The BLM needs the required information to determine if an applicant qualifies for a free use permit or must purchase the mineral materials. BLM uses sales contract Form 3600-9 to authorize the sale, and to identify the legal contractual obligations of the purchaser, the amount and type of material purchased, the location of the sale removal area, the duration and terms of the sale.
Information collected in support of the contract is used to
(1) Determine whether the sale of mineral materials is in the public interest;
(2) Mitigate the environmental impacts of mineral materials development;
(3) Get fair market value for materials sold; and
(4) Prevent trespass removal of the materials.
The BLM will contact the purchaser and conduct inspections to verify production and compliance with the terms of the sale, including the condition of the land maintained during operations and upon reclamation. In most cases, we do not require a specific form to collect the required information, because the resources differ with each location, each applicant's operation has unique aspects, and the amount of supporting information is kept to the minimum needed for the specific proposal in each application.
The total annual number of responses and total annual time burden have not changed, but we have made program changes that affect how the burdens of some of the individual collections are disclosed. These program changes improve the precision of our estimate of the estimated non-hour cost burden:
(1) We have added an information collection named "Request for Sale Not Within a Community Pit or Common Use Area (43 CFR 3602.11)" because of the processing fee that applies solely to that collection. In this information collection request, we estimate that 94 of the annual responses previously attributed to "Requests for Sale" are not within a community pit or common use area. We also estimate a per-response processing fee of $1,110, for a total estimated cost burden of $104,340 annually. As explained under Item 13 of the Supporting Statement, the amount of the per-response processing fee can vary widely.
(2) We have made a conforming change to the collection of information formerly known as "Request for Sale" by re-naming it "Request for Sale Within a Community Pit or Common Use Area (43 CFR 3602.11)," and by subtracting from that collection the estimated number of requests (94) not within a community pit or common use area. This re-naming more precisely differentiates the two categories of requests from sale, only one of which is subject to a processing fee.
(3) We have removed the non-hour cost burden from "Contract for the Sale of Mineral Materials (43 CFR subpart 3602)" because the sole non-hour cost burden in this information collection request is in fact not associated with Contracts for the Sale of Mineral Materials.
We have also adjusted our estimated total annual non-hour cost burden. The estimated non-hour cost burden of $104,340 is $38,220 more than the previous estimated non-hour cost burden of $66,120. That adjustment is due to the BLM's recent experience with the highly variable processing fees associated with Requests for Sale Not Within a Community Pit or Common Use Area.
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.
Form 3600-9 Contract for the Sale of Mineral Materials (43 CFR subpart 3602)
30-day-notice-1004-0103.pdf
Supporting statement.doc
Request for Sale Not Within a Community Pit or Common Use Area (43 CFR 3602.11)