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collection of information; (c) enhance
the quality, usefulness, and clarity of
the information to be collected; and (d)
minimize the burden on the
respondents, including the use of
technology.
Agencies must also estimate the nonhour paperwork cost burdens to
respondents or recordkeepers resulting
from the collection of information.
Therefore, if you have other than hour
burden costs to generate, maintain, and
disclose this information, you should
comment and provide your total capital
and startup cost components or annual
operation, maintenance, and purchase
of service components. For further
information on this burden, refer to 5
CFR 1320.3(b)(1) and (2), or contact the
Bureau representative listed previously
in this notice.
We will summarize written responses
to this notice and address them in our
submission for OMB approval. As a
result of your comments, we will make
any necessary adjustments to the burden
in our submission to OMB.
Public Comment Procedures: 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: November 22, 2013.
Robert W. Middleton,
Deputy Chief, Office of Offshore Regulatory
Programs.
[FR Doc. 2013–28835 Filed 12–2–13; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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[Docket ID BSEE–2013–0005; OMB Control
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Information Collection Activities:
Application for Permit To Modify;
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request
ACTION:

60-day notice.

To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), Bureau of Safety and
Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is
inviting comments on a collection of
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Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. The
submission of this information
collection request (ICR) is necessary so
that both industry and BSEE have a
better understanding of the regulatory
requirements associated with all
supporting data and information that is
submitted with an Application for
Permit to Modify (APM) under the
multiple subparts. This ICR will
separate out the hours and non-hour
cost burdens associated with APMs
from its currently approved IC into its
own separate collection; it will also
reflect more accurate burden estimates.
DATES: You must submit comments by
February 3, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by either of the following methods listed
below.
• Electronically: go to http://
www.regulations.gov. In the Search box,
enter BSEE–2013–0005 then click
search. Follow the instructions to
submit public comments and view all
related materials. We will post all
comments.
• Email [email protected].
Mail or hand-carry comments to the
Department of the Interior; BSEE;
Regulations and Standards Branch;
Attention: Cheryl Blundon; 381 Elden
Street, HE3313; Herndon, Virginia
20170–4817. Please reference ICR 1014–
0017 in your comment and include your
name and return address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cheryl Blundon, Regulations and
Standards Branch at (703) 787–1607 to
request additional information about
this ICR.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: 30 CFR 250, Application for
Permit to Modify (APM), BSEE–0124.
Form: BSEE–0124.
OMB Control Number: 1014–NEW.
Abstract: The Outer Continental Shelf
(OCS) Lands Act, as amended (43 U.S.C.
1331 et seq. and 43 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.),
authorizes the Secretary of the Interior
to prescribe rules and regulations to
administer leasing of mineral resources
on the OCS. Such rules and regulations
will apply to all operations conducted
under a lease, right-of-way, or a right-ofuse and easement. Operations on the
OCS must preserve, protect, and
develop oil and natural gas resources in
a manner that is consistent with the
need to make such resources available
to meet the Nation’s energy needs as
rapidly as possible; to balance orderly
energy resource development with
protection of human, marine, and
coastal environments; to ensure the
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and maintain free enterprise
competition. Section 1332(6) states that
‘‘operations in the Outer Continental
Shelf should be conducted in a safe
manner by well trained personnel using
technology, precautions, and other
techniques sufficient to prevent or
minimize the likelihood of blowouts,
loss of well control, fires, spillages,
physical obstructions to other users of
the waters or subsoil and seabed, or
other occurrences which may cause
damage to the environment or to
property or endanger life or health.’’
In addition to the general authority of
OCSLA, section 301(a) of the Federal
Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act
(FOGRMA), 30 U.S.C. 1751(a), grants
authority to the Secretary to prescribe
such rules and regulations as are
reasonably necessary to carry out
FOGRMA’s provisions. While the
majority of FOGRMA is directed to
royalty collection and enforcement,
some provisions apply to offshore
operations. For example, section 108 of
FOGRMA, 30 U.S.C. 1718, grants the
Secretary broad authority to inspect
lease sites for the purpose of
determining whether there is
compliance with the mineral leasing
laws. Section 109(c)(2) and (d)(1), 30
U.S.C. 1719(c)(2) and (d)(1), impose
substantial civil penalties for failure to
permit lawful inspections and for
knowing or willful preparation or
submission of false, inaccurate, or
misleading reports, records, or other
information. The Secretary has
delegated some of the authority under
FOGRMA to BSEE.
The Independent Offices
Appropriations Act (31 U.S.C. 9701), the
Omnibus Appropriations Bill (Pub. L.
104–133, 110 Stat. 1321, April 26,
1996), and OMB Circular A–25,
authorize Federal agencies to recover
the full cost of services that confer
special benefits. Under the Department
of the Interior’s implementing policy,
the Bureau of Safety and Environmental
Enforcement (BSEE) is required to
charge fees for services that provide
special benefits or privileges to an
identifiable non-Federal recipient above
and beyond those which accrue to the
public at large. Applications for permits
to drill are subject to cost recovery, and
BSEE regulations specify a service fee
for this request.
Regulations implementing these
responsibilities are among those
delegated to BSEE. The regulations at 30
CFR part 250 stipulate the various
requirements that must be submitted
with an Application for Permit to
Modify (APM), Form BSEE–0124, which
are the subject of this collection.
Currently, an APM is covered under 30

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CFR part 250, subpart D, 1014–0018,
and when discussed in Subparts E, F, H,
P, Q, they are cross referenced. It is
difficult to correlate the APM burden
requirements in the other subparts with
their respective burden. By putting
APMs, along with all the required
documentation throughout the various
subparts into one ICR, we feel that this
situation will be alleviated and will
reflect more accurate burden estimates.
This request also covers the related
Notices to Lessees and Operators (NTLs)
that we issue to clarify, supplement, or
provide additional guidance on some
aspects of our regulations.
In this ICR, we have included a
certification statement on the form to
state that false submissions are subject
to criminal penalties. Also, we clarified
some sections of Form BSEE–0124. This
poses minor edits and they are as
follows:
Question #8 was split into 8a. and 8b.
Current question 8 is now 8a. Question
8b. asks for the well status (current), and
Question #18 updated the regulatory
citations.
The BSEE uses the information to
ensure safe well completion, workover
and decommissioning operations and to
protect the human, marine, and coastal
environment. Among other things, BSEE
specifically uses the information to
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intended purpose; equipment is
maintained in a state of readiness and
meets safety standards; each well
completion, workover and
decommissioning crew is properly
trained and able to promptly perform
well-control activities at any time
during well operations; compliance
with safety standards; and the current
regulations will provide for safe and
proper field or reservoir development,
resource evaluation, conservation,
protection of correlative rights, safety,
and environmental protection. We also
review well records to ascertain whether
the operations have encountered
hydrocarbons or H2S and to ensure that
H2S detection equipment, personnel
protective equipment, and training of
the crew are adequate for safe
operations in zones known to contain
H2S and zones where the presence of
H2S is unknown.
We also use the information to
determine the conditions of the site to
avoid hazards inherent in well
completion, workover and
decommissioning operations.
Specifically, we use the information to
evaluate and approve the adequacy of
the equipment, materials, and/or
procedures that the lessee or operator
plans to use during well completion,
workover and decommissioning plan
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proprietary data, BSEE is required by
the OCS Lands Act to make available to
the public certain information that is
submitted.
The BSEE will protect proprietary
information according to the Freedom of
Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) and its
implementing regulations (43 CFR part
2); 30 CFR 250.197, Data and
information to be made available to the
public or for limited inspection; and 30
CFR part 252, OCS Oil and Gas
Information Program. No items of a
sensitive nature are collected.
Responses are required to obtain or
retain a benefit or they are mandatory.
Frequency: On occasion and as
required in the regulations.
Description of Respondents: Potential
respondents comprise Federal oil, gas,
or sulphur lessees and/or operators.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Hour Burden: In this
submission, we are estimating 9,770
burden hours. The following chart
details the individual components and
respective hour burden estimates of this
ICR. In calculating the burdens, we
assumed that respondents perform
certain requirements in the normal
course of their activities. We consider
these to be usual and customary and
took that into account in estimating the
burden.
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We have identified one non-hour cost
burden for this collection. The 30 CFR
part 250 regulations require a cost
recovery fee of $125 cost recovery fee
(non-hour cost burden) for APM
submittals. The application fee is
required to recover the Federal
Government’s processing costs. We have
not identified any other non-hour cost
burdens associated with this collection
of information. We estimate a total
reporting non-hour cost burden of
$361,625 for this collection.
Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA
(44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an
agency may not conduct or sponsor a
collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number. Until OMB approves a
collection of information, you are not
obligated to respond.
Comments: Before submitting an ICR
to OMB, PRA section 3506(c)(2)(A)
requires each agency ‘‘. . . to provide
notice . . . and otherwise consult with
members of the public and affected
agencies concerning each proposed
collection of information . . .’’.
Agencies must specifically solicit
comments to: (a) Evaluate whether the
collection is necessary or useful; (b)
evaluate the accuracy of the burden of
the proposed collection of information;
(c) enhance the quality, usefulness, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) minimize the burden
on the respondents, including the use of
technology.
Agencies must also estimate the nonhour paperwork cost burdens to
respondents or recordkeepers resulting
from the collection of information.
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disclose this information, you should
comment and provide your total capital
and startup cost components or annual
operation, maintenance, and purchase
of service components. For further
information on this burden, refer to 5
CFR 1320.3(b)(1) and (2), or contact the
Bureau representative listed previously
in this notice.
We will summarize written responses
to this notice and address them in our
submission for OMB approval. As a
result of your comments, we will make
any necessary adjustments to the burden
in our submission to OMB.
Public Comment Procedures: 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: November 22, 2013.
Robert W. Middleton,
Deputy Chief, Office of Offshore Regulatory
Programs.
[FR Doc. 2013–28834 Filed 12–2–13; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLCON06000–L16100000–DQ0000]

Notice of Resource Advisory Council
Meeting for the Dominguez-Escalante
National Conservation Area Advisory
Council
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act of 1976 and the Federal Advisory
Committee Act of 1972, the U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) DominguezEscalante National Conservation Area
(NCA) Advisory Council (Council) will
meet as indicated below.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
January 22, 2014, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Any adjustments to this meeting will be
posted on the Dominguez-Escalante
NCA Resource Management Plan Web
site: www.blm.gov/co/st/en/nca/denca/
denca_rmp.html.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Mesa County Courthouse Annex,
544 Rood Avenue, Grand Junction, CO
81501.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Collin Ewing, Advisory Council
Designated Federal Official, 2815 H
Road, Grand Junction, CO 81506. Phone:
(970) 244–3049. Email: [email protected].
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. The FIRS is available 24
hours a day, seven days a week, to leave
a message or question with the above
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