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programs such as the National Forest
Revenue Act, the Mineral Lands Leasing
Act, and the Taylor Grazing Act. PILT
payments supplement the payments that
local governments receive under these
other programs. The President signed
the Transportation bill (H.R. 4348) on
July 6, 2012, which reauthorizes PILT
for 2013, so this necessitates renewing
the collection authority for another 3
years beyond 2012.
The PILT Act requires that the
Governor of each State furnish the
Department of the Interior with a listing
of payments disbursed to local
governments by the States on behalf of
the Federal Government under 12
statutes described in Section 6903 of 31
U.S.C. The Department of the Interior
uses the amounts reported by the States
to reduce PILT payments to units of
general local governments from that
which they might otherwise receive. If
such listings were not furnished by the
Governor of each affected State, the
Department would not be able to
compute the PILT payments to units of
general local government within the
States in question.
In fiscal year 2004, administrative
authority for the PILT program was
transferred from the Bureau of Land
Management to the Office of the
Secretary of the Department of the
Interior. Applicable DOI regulations
pertaining to the PILT program to be
administered by the Office of the
Secretary were published as a final rule
in the Federal Register on December 7,
2004 (69 FR 70557). The Office of
Budget, Office of the Secretary is now
planning to extend the information
collection approval authority in order to
enable the Department of the Interior to
continue to comply with the PILT Act.
II. Data
(1) Title: Payments in Lieu of Taxes
(PILT Act), Statement of Federal Land
Payments, 43 CFR 44.
OMB Control Number: 1093–0005.
Current Expiration Date of Collection
Authority: December 31, 2012.
Type of Review: Information
Collection Renewal.
Affected Entities: State, local, or tribal
government.
Estimated annual number of
respondents: 43.
Frequency of Response: Annual.
(2) Annual reporting and record
keeping burden: Average reporting
burden per application: 53 hours.
Total annual reporting: 2,279 hours.
(3) Description of the need and use of
the information: The statutorilyrequired information is needed to
compute payments due units of general
local government under the PILT Act

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(31 U.S.C. 6901–6907). The Act requires
that the Governor of each State furnish
a statement as to amounts paid to units
of general local government under 12
revenue-sharing statutes in the prior
fiscal year. The President signed the
Transportation bill (H.R. 4348) on July
6, 2012, which reauthorizes PILT for
2013, so continued authority is needed.
III. Request for Comments
As required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), a
Federal Register notice soliciting
comments on the collection of
information was published on June 19,
2012 (77 FR 36568). No comments were
received. This notice provides the
public with an additional 30 days in
which to comment on the proposed
renewal of this information collection
activity.
Comments are again invited on: (a)
Whether the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
information collection; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; and
(d) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Burden means the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons
to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
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
Office of Management and Budget
control number.
All written comments will be
available for public inspection in the
Main Interior Building, 1849 C Street
NW., Washington, DC during normal
business hours, excluding legal
holidays. For an appointment to inspect
comments, please contact Niall

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O’Connor by telephone on (202) 513–
7785, or by email at
Niall_O’[email protected] to make an
appointment. Valid picture
identification is required for entry into
the Department of the Interior.
Public Comment Policy: 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 view, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Pam Haze,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Budget, Finance,
Performance, and Acquisition.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey
[GX.13.GG00.99600.00]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Comment Request
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of an extension of an
information collection (1028–0051).
AGENCY:

To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), we are notifying the public that
we will submit to OMB an information
collection request (ICR) to renew
approval of the paperwork requirements
for respondents to submit proposals and
fulfill assistance reporting requirements
for research in earthquake hazard
assessments and earthquake occurrence
under the Earthquake Hazards
Reduction Act of 1977, as amended,
Public Law 95–124, 42 U.S.C. 7701 et.
seq. To submit a proposal, three
standard OMB forms and a project
narrative must be completed and
submitted via Grants.gov. This
collection is scheduled to expire on
February 28, 2013. This notice provides
the public an opportunity to comment
on the paperwork burden of these forms.
DATES: You must submit comments on
or before December 31, 2012.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on this information collection to the
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201
Sunrise Valley Drive MS 807, Reston,
VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648–7199 (fax);
SUMMARY:

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or [email protected] (email). Please
Reference Information 1028–0051 in the
subject line.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this IC, Elizabeth Lemersal, Earthquake
Hazards Program, (703) 648–6716.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Earthquake Hazards Program
Research and Monitoring.
OMB Control Number: 1028–0051.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Abstract: Research and monitoring
findings are essential to fulfilling
USGS’s responsibility under the
Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act to
develop earthquake hazard assessments
and recording and reporting earthquake
activity nationwide. Residents,
emergency responders, and engineers
rely on the USGS for this accurate and
scientifically sound information.
Respondents to Program
Announcements submit proposals to
support research and monitoring related
to earthquake hazard assessments,
earthquake causes and effects, and
earthquake monitoring. This
information is used as the basis for
selection and award of projects meeting
the USGS’s Earthquake Hazards
Program objectives. Final reports of
research and monitoring findings are
required for each funded proposal;
annual progress reports are required for
awards of a two- to five-year duration.
Final reports are made available to the
public at the Web site http://
earthquake.usgs.gov/research/external/.
Responses are voluntary. No
questions of a ‘‘sensitive’’ nature are
asked.
Affected Public: Research scientists,
engineers, and the general public.
Respondent Obligation: Voluntary;
necessary to receive benefits.
Frequency of Collection: Annually:
Grant proposals and reporting; Every
two to five years: Cooperative
Agreement proposals and reporting.
Estimated Annual Number of and
Description of Respondents: 250
Educational institutions, and profit and
non-profit organizations.
Estimated Annual Number of
Responses: 350 (250 applications and
narratives and 100 annual and final
reports).
Estimated Completion Time: 45 hours
per application response and 12 hours
per final report.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours:
12,450 (11,250 hours for applications
and 1,200 hours for final reports).
Estimated Annual Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Hour’’ Burden: We
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will average 45 hours per application
response. This includes time to develop
project goals, write the statement of
work, perform internal proposal
reviews, and submit the proposal
through grants.gov. We estimate the
public reporting burden will average 12
hours per final or annual report
response. This includes summarizing
accomplishments for the past year’s
funded efforts.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: We have not identified any
‘‘non-hour cost’’ burdens associated
with this collection of information.
Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA
(44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an
agency may not conduct or sponsor and
you are not required to respond to a
collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
Comments: We are soliciting
comments as to: (a) Whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the agency to perform its
duties, including whether the
information is useful; (b) the accuracy of
the agency’s estimate of the burden of
the proposed collection of information;
(c) how to enhance the quality,
usefulness, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d) how
to minimize the burden on the
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Please note that the comments
submitted 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 we will be able to do
so.
Dated: October 23, 2012.
William Leith,
Senior Science Advisor for Earthquake and
Geologic Hazards.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLNM940000. L1420000.BJ0000]

Notice of Filing of Plats of Survey, New
Mexico
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of filing of plats of
survey.
AGENCY:

The plats of survey described
below are scheduled to be officially
filed in the New Mexico State Office,
Bureau of Land Management, Santa Fe,
New Mexico, thirty (30) calendar days
from the date of this publication.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

Indian Meridian, Oklahoma (OK)
The plat, in six sheets, representing the
dependent resurvey and survey in Township
14 North, Range 19 East, of the Indian
Meridian, accepted September 11, 2012, for
Group 67 OK.
The plat, in three sheets, representing the
dependent resurvey and survey in Township
15 North, Range 20 East, of the Indian
Meridian, accepted September 28, 2012, for
Group 67 OK.
The plat, in two sheets, representing the
dependent resurvey and survey in Township
14 North, Range 20 East, of the Indian
Meridian, accepted September 28, 2012, for
Group 67 OK.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

These plats will be available for
inspection in the New Mexico State
Office, Bureau of Land Management,
301 Dinosaur Trail, Santa Fe, New
Mexico. Copies may be obtained from
this office upon payment. Contact
Marcella Montoya at 505–954–2097, or
by email at [email protected], for
assistance. Persons who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Information
Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339
to contact the above individual during
normal business hours. These plats are
to be scheduled for official filing 30
days from the notice of publication in
the Federal Register, as provided for in
the BLM Manual Section 2097—
Opening Orders. Notice from this office
will be provided as to the date of said
publication. If a protest against a survey,
in accordance with 43 CFR 4.450–2, of
the above plats is received prior to the
date of official filing, the filing will be
stayed pending consideration of the
protest.
A plat will not be officially filed until
the day after all protests have been
dismissed and become final or appeals
from the dismissal affirmed.
A person or party who wishes to
protest against any of these surveys

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