BSEE uses the information to evaluate and approve or disapprove equipment and/or procedures to be used during operations on production platforms offshore. Respondents are Outer Continental Shelf Federal oil and gas and sulphur lessees.
(a) The current OMB inventory is 62,963 burden hours for this collection of information. This submission requests 92,341 burden hours. This represents: (1) a program increase of 160 hours for a regulatory requirement in Submittals/Requests (see table in item 12) that was overlooked and not included in our previous submission. (2) an adjustment increase of 29,218 hours. The program increase is due to re-estimating the average annual responses and the amount of time required to respond based on consultations.
(b) The current OMB non-hour cost burden inventory is $343,794. Between the last ICR submitted to OMB and this submittal, the cost recovery fees under 30 CFR 250.125 increased based on rulemaking, 78 FR 60213 (October 1, 2013). In this submission, we are requesting a total of $323,481, which is a net decrease program change of $20,313 based on not receiving as many production safety system applications, that have fees associated with them, as in the past submission.
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.