Grants 30-Day FR Notice

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D. Goeke, Chief, Regional Assessment
Section, Office of Environment (MS
5410), BOEM, GOM OCS Region, 1201
Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans,
Louisiana 70123–2394; or
2. Electronically to the BOEM email
address: [email protected].
Petitions, although accepted, do not
generally provide more weight or useful
information than a single comment to
assist in scoping. Please include your
name and address as part of your
submittal; BOEM does not consider
anonymous comments. BOEM makes all
comments, including the names and
addresses of respondents, available for
public review during regular business
hours. Individual respondents may
request that BOEM withhold their name
and/or address from the public record;
this request will be honored to the
extent allowable by law. If you wish
your name and/or address to be
withheld, you must state your
preference prominently at the beginning
of your comment. All submissions from
organizations or businesses and from
individuals identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses will be
made available for public inspection in
their entirety.
DATES: Comments should be submitted
no later than May 4, 2012 to the address
or email address specified above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information on the EIS, public scoping
meetings, the submission of comments,
or BOEM’s policies associated with this
notice, please contact Mr. Gary D.
Goeke, Chief, Regional Assessment
Section, Office of Environment (MS
5410), BOEM, GOM OCS Region, 1201
Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans,
LA 70123–2394, telephone (504) 736–
3233.
Dated: March 14, 2012.
Tommy P. Beaudreau,
Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

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Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement
Notice of Proposed Information
Collection for 1029–0059
Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the

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OMB has up to 60 days to
approve or disapprove the information
collections but may respond after 30
days. Therefore, public comments
should be submitted to OMB by April
19, 2012, in order to be assured of
consideration.

DATES:

Please send comments to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Attention: Department of the
Interior Desk Officer, via email to
[email protected], or by
facsimile to (202) 395–5806. Also,
please send a copy of your comments to
John Trelease, Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement, 1951
Constitution Ave. NW., Room 203—SIB,
Washington, DC 20240, by telefax to
(202) 219–3276, or by email to
[email protected].

ADDRESSES:

To
receive a copy of the information
collection request, contact John Trelease
at (202) 208–2783, or electronically at
[email protected]. You may also
review this collection on the Internet by
going to http://www.reginfo.gov
(Information Collection Review,
Currently Under Review, Agency is
Department of the Interior, DOI–
OSMRE).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

The OMB
regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, which
implement provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13),
require that interested members of the
public and affected agencies have an
opportunity to comment on information
collection and recordkeeping activities
[see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)]. OSM has
submitted a request to OMB to renew its
approval of the collections of
information contained in 30 CFR part
735—Grants for Program Development
and Administration and Enforcement,
30 CFR part 886—State and Tribal
Reclamation Grants, and 30 CFR part
885—Grants for Certified States and
Indian Tribes. OSM is requesting a 3-

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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SUMMARY:

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing
its intention to request approval for the
collections of information for 30 CFR
part 735—Grants for Program
Development and Administration and
Enforcement, 30 CFR part 885 — Grants
for Certified States and Indian Tribes,
and 30 CFR part 886—State and Tribal
Reclamation Grants. This collection
request has been forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. The information
collection request describes the nature
of the information collection and the
expected burden and cost.

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year term of approval for each
information collection activity.
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. Responses are required
to receive a benefit of grant funding. The
OMB control number for 30 CFR parts
735, 885, 886 and the corresponding
forms OSM–47, OSM–49, and OSM–51
that require grant submittals are
currently approved under OMB control
number 1029–0059.
As required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), a
Federal Register notice soliciting
comments on this collection of
information was published on
November 15, 2011 (76 FR 70753). No
comments were received. This notice
provides the public with an additional
30 days in which to comment on the
following information collection
activity:
Title: 30 CFR Parts 735, 885 and 886.
OMB Control Number: 1029–0059.
Summary: State and Tribal
reclamation and regulatory authorities
are requested to provide specific budget
and program information as part of the
grant application and reporting
processes authorized by the Surface
Mining Control and Reclamation Act.
Bureau Form Numbers: OSM–47,
OSM–49 and OSM–51.
Frequency of Collection: Once and
annually.
Description of Respondents: State and
Tribal reclamation and regulatory
authorities.
Total Annual Responses: 136.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 892
hours.
Send comments on the need for the
collection of information for the
performance of the functions of the
agency; the accuracy of the agency’s
burden estimates; ways to enhance the
quality, utility and clarity of the
information collection; and ways to
minimize the information collection
burden on respondents, such as use of
automated means of collection of the
information, to the addresses listed in
ADDRESSES. Please refer to OMB control
number 1029–0059 in your
correspondence.
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.

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Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 54 / Tuesday, March 20, 2012 / Notices

Dated: March 12, 2012.
Andrew F. DeVito,
Chief,Division of Regulatory Support.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement
Notice of Proposed Information
Collection for 1029–0035
Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing
that the information collection request
for surface and underground mining
permit applications—minimum
requirements for information on
environmental resources, has been
forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and
comment. The information collection
request describes the nature of the
information collection and the expected
burden and cost. This information
collection activity was previously
approved by OMB and assigned control
number 1029–0035.
DATES: OMB has up to 60 days to
approve or disapprove the information
collections but may respond after 30
days. Therefore, public comments
should be submitted to OMB by April
19, 2012, in order to be assured of
consideration.
SUMMARY:

Submit comments to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Attention: Department of the
Interior Desk Officer, by telefax to (202)
395–5806 or by email to
[email protected]. Also,
please send a copy of your comments to
John Trelease, Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement, 1951
Constitution Ave., NW., Room 203—
SIB, Washington, DC 20240, by telefax
to (202) 219–3276, or by email to
[email protected].

ADDRESSES:

To
receive a copy of the information
collection request contact John Trelease
at (202) 208–2783, or electronically at
[email protected]. You may also
review this information collection
request on the Internet by going to
http://www.reginfo.gov (Information
Collection Review, Currently Under

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Review, Agency is Department of the
Interior, DOI–OSMRE).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB
regulations at 5 CFR 1320, which
implement provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13),
require that interested members of the
public and affected agencies have an
opportunity to comment on information
collection and recordkeeping activities
[see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)]. OSM has
submitted a request to OMB to renew its
approval of the collection of information
contained in 30 CFR Parts 779 and
783—Surface and Underground Mining
Permit Applications—Minimum
Requirements for Information on
Environmental Resources. OSM is
requesting a 3-year term of approval for
the information collection activity.
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 OMB control
number for this collection of
information is 1029–0035. Responses
are required to obtain a benefit for this
collection.
As required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), a
Federal Register notice soliciting
comments on this collection of
information was published on
November 28, 2011 (76 FR 72972). One
comment was received. The commenter
suggested that there is a connection
between coal mine drilling and
earthquakes, and that coal companies
should be required to report recent
earthquakes in the area where drilling is
proposed to occur.
Earthquakes range from extremely
small and virtually unnoticeable events
to catastrophic events that cause
considerable damage. Unlike oil and gas
drilling operations, coal mining is
typically undertaken at a much
shallower depth, and without injection
of great volumes of water to fracture
(frack) the rock strata. Therefore, OSM’s
engineers consider it virtually
impossible for coal mine drilling to
cause a reportable earthquake. To be
certain, we checked with the United
States Geological Survey to determine if
there is any evidence of coal mine
drilling causing earthquakes. We found
no mention of coal mine drilling
causing earthquakes of any size. In
conclusion, we have determined that
the comment is not supported by
available scientific information and
therefore does not warrant conducting
national rulemaking to request
earthquake data in the permit area.
This notice provides the public with
an additional 30 days in which to
comment on the following information
collection activity:

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Title: 30 CFR Parts 779 and 783—
Surface and Underground Mining
Permit Applications—Minimum
Requirements for Environmental
Resources.
OMB Control Number: 1029–0035.
SUMMARY: Applicants for surface and
underground coal mining permits are
required to provide adequate
descriptions of the environmental
resources that may be affected by
proposed mining activities. The
information will be used by the
regulatory authority to determine if the
applicant can comply with
environmental protection performance
standards.
Bureau Form Number: None.
Frequency of Collection: Once.
Description of Respondents: 219 coal
mining operators and 24 state regulatory
authorities.
Total Annual Responses: 2,175.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 188,820.
Total Annual Non-Wage Burden Cost:
$0.
Send comments on the need for the
collection of information for the
performance of the functions of the
agency; the accuracy of the agency’s
burden estimates; ways to enhance the
quality, utility and clarity of the
information collection; and ways to
minimize the information collection
burdens on respondents, such as use of
automated means of collections of the
information, to the addresses listed in
ADDRESSES. Please refer to the
appropriate OMB control number in all
correspondence.
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.
Dated: March 12, 2012.
Andrew F. DeVito,
Chief, Division of Regulatory Support.
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