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)