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(518) 486–2020, email lisa.anderson@
nysed.gov, by January 11, 2016. After
that date, if no additional claimants
have come forward, transfer of control
of the sacred objects to the SenecaCayuga Tribe of Oklahoma may proceed.
The New York State Museum is
responsible for notifying the Cayuga
Nation; Oneida Nation of New York;
Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin;
Onondaga Nation; Saint Regis Mohawk
Tribe (previously listed as the St. Regis
Band of Mohawk Indians of New York);
Seneca Nation of Indians (previously
listed as the Seneca Nation of New
York); Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of
Oklahoma; Tonawanda Band of Seneca
(previously listed as the Tonawanda
Band of Seneca Indians of New York);
and Tuscarora Nation that this notice
has been published.
Dated: November 17, 2015.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2015–31304 Filed 12–10–15; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Natural Resources Revenue
[Docket No. ONRR–2011–0020; DS63610000
DR2PS0000.CH7000 156D0102R2]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Royalty and Production
Reporting––OMB Control Number
1012–0004; Comment Request
Office of Natural Resources
Revenue (ONRR), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of renewal of an existing
Information Collection.
AGENCY:

To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), ONRR is inviting comments on
an information collection request that
we have submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. This Information
Collection Request (ICR) covers the
paperwork requirements under title 30,
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), parts
1210 and 1212. There are three forms
associated with this information
collection. This notice also provides the
public a second opportunity to
comment on the paperwork burden of
the regulatory requirements.
DATES: Submit written comments on or
before January 11, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit your
written comments directly to the Desk
Officer for the Department of the
Interior, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, OMB, by email to
[email protected] or

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telefax at (202) 395–5806. Please also
mail a copy of your comments to Mr.
Luis Aguilar, Regulatory Specialist,
ONRR, P.O. Box 25165, MS 61030A,
Denver, Colorado 80225–0165, or email
[email protected]. Please reference
OMB Control Number 1012–0004 in
your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
questions on technical issues, contact
Ms. LeeAnn Martin, Reporting & Solid
Mineral Services, ONRR, telephone
(303) 231–3313, or email at
[email protected]. For other
questions, contact Mr. Luis Aguilar,
telephone (303) 231–3418, or email
[email protected]. You may also
contact Mr. Aguilar to obtain copies
(free of charge) of (1) the ICR, (2) any
associated forms, and (3) the regulations
that require the subject collection of
information. You may also review the
information collection request online at
http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The Secretary of the United States
Department of the Interior is responsible
for mineral resource development on
Federal and Indian lands and the Outer
Continental Shelf (OCS). The Secretary’s
responsibility, according to various
laws, is to manage mineral resource
production from Federal and Indian
lands and the OCS, collect the royalties
and other mineral revenues due, and
distribute the funds collected in
accordance with applicable laws. The
Secretary also has a trust responsibility
to manage Indian lands and seek advice
and information from Indian
beneficiaries. ONRR performs the
minerals revenue management functions
for the Secretary and assists the
Secretary in carrying out the
Department’s trust responsibility for
Indian lands. Public laws pertaining to
mineral leases on Federal Indian lands
are available on our Web site at http://
www.onrr.gov/Laws_R_D/PubLaws/
default.htm.
When a company or an individual
enters into a lease to explore, develop,
produce, and dispose of minerals from
Federal or Indian lands, that company
or individual agrees to pay the lessor a
share in an amount or value of
production from the leased lands. The
lessee, or the designee, must report
various kinds of information to the
lessor relative to the disposition of the
leased minerals. Such information is
generally available within the records of
the lessee or others involved in
developing, transporting, processing,
purchasing, or selling of such minerals.

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The information that ONRR collects
includes data necessary to ensure that
the lessee accurately values and
appropriately pays all royalties and
other mineral revenues due.
Reporters submit information into the
ONRR financial accounting system that
includes royalty, rental, bonus, and
other payment information; sales
volumes and values; and other royalty
values. ONRR uses the accounting
system to compare production volumes
with royalty volumes to verify that
companies reported and paid proper
royalties for the minerals produced.
Additionally, we share the data
electronically with the Bureau of Safety
and Environmental Enforcement,
Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of
Indian Affairs, and Tribal and State
governments so they can perform their
lease management responsibilities.
We use the information collected in
this ICR to ensure that companies
properly pay royalties based on accurate
production accounting on oil, gas, and
geothermal resources that they produce
from Federal and Indian leases. The
requirement to report accurately and
timely is mandatory. Please refer to the
chart for all reporting requirements and
associated burden hours.
Royalty Reporting
Payors (Reporters) must report,
according to various regulations, and
remit royalties on oil, gas, and
geothermal resources that they
produced from leases on Federal and
Indian lands. ONRR uses the following
form for royalty reporting:
Form ONRR–2014, Report of Sales
and Royalty Remittance. Reporters
submit this form monthly to report
royalties on oil, gas, and geothermal
leases, certain rents, and other leaserelated transactions such as
transportation and processing
allowances, lease adjustments, and
quality and location differentials.
Production Reporting
Operators (Reporters) must submit,
according to various regulations,
production reports if they operate a
Federal or Indian onshore or offshore oil
and gas lease or federally approved unit
or communitization agreement. We use
the ONRR financial accounting system
to track minerals produced from Federal
and Indian lands, from the point of
production to the point of disposition or
royalty determination and/or point of
sale. The reporters use the following
forms for production accounting and
reporting:
Form ONRR–4054, Oil and Gas
Operations Report (OGOR). Reporters
submit this form monthly for all

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production reporting for Outer
Continental Shelf, Federal, and Indian
leases. ONRR compares the production
information with sales and royalty data
that reporters submit on Form ONRR–
2014 to ensure that the latter reported
and paid the proper royalties on the oil
and gas production to ONRR. ONRR
uses the information from OGOR parts
A, B, and C to track all oil and gas from
the point of production to the point of
first sale, or other disposition.
Form ONRR–4058, Production
Allocation Schedule Report (PASR).
Reporters submit this form monthly.
The facility operators manage the
facilities and measurement points where
they commingle the production from an
offshore Federal lease or metering point
with production from other sources

before they measure it for royalty
determination. ONRR uses the data to
determine if the payors reported
reasonable sales.

II. Data

OMB Approval
We are requesting OMB’s approval to
continue to collect this information. Not
collecting this information would limit
the Secretary’s ability to discharge the
duties of the office and may also result
in the loss of royalty payments.
Proprietary information submitted is
protected, and there are no questions of
a sensitive nature included in this
information collection. It is mandatory
that the reporters submit Forms ONRR–
2014, ONRR–4054, and ONRR–4058.

Title: 30 CFR parts 1210 and 1212,
Royalty and Production Reporting.
OMB Control Number: 1012–0004.
Bureau Form Number: Forms ONRR–
2014, ONRR–4054, and ONRR–4058.
Frequency: Monthly.
Estimated Number and Description of
Respondents: 3,870 oil, gas, and
geothermal reporters.
Estimated Annual Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Hour’’ Burden: 337,933
hours.
We have not included in our
estimates certain requirements that
companies perform in the normal course
of business, and that ONRR considers
usual and customary. We display the
estimated annual burden hours by CFR
and paragraph in the following chart.

RESPONDENTS’ ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS

30 CFR part 1210

Reporting and recordkeeping requirement

Average
number of
annual
responses
(lines of data)

Hour burden

Annual burden
hours

30 CFR 1210—FORMS AND REPORTS
Subpart B—Royalty Reports—Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources
1210.52(a) and (b) ....

1210.52

What royalty reports must I submit? ...........................

Form ONRR–2014

You must submit a completed Form ONRR–2014, Report of
Sales and Royalty Remittance, to ONRR with:
(a) All royalty payments; and .......................................................

Electronic* (approximately 99 percent)
3 min. per line ........

(b) Rents on nonproducing leases, where specified in the lease
1210.53(a), (b), and
(c).

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1210.54(a), (b), and
(c).

Subtotal for Royalty Reporting.

1210.53

When are my royalty reports and payments due? .....

4,688,216

234,411

Manual* (approximately 1 percent)
7 min. per line ........

47,356

5,526

................................

4,735,572

239,937

(a) Completed Forms ONRR–2014 for royalty payments and
the associated payments are due by the end of the month
following the production month (see also § 1218.50).
(b) Completed Forms ONRR–2014 for rental payments, where
applicable, and the associated payments are due as specified by the lease terms (see also § 1218.50).
(c) You may submit reports and payments early.
1210.54 Must I submit this royalty report electronically?
(a) You must submit Form ONRR–2014 electronically unless
you qualify for an exception under § 1210.55(a).
(b) You must use one of the following electronic media types,
unless ONRR instructs you differently * * *.
(c) Refer to our electronic reporting guidelines in the ONRR
Minerals Revenue Reporter Handbook, for the most current
reporting options, instructions, and security measures. The
handbook may be found on our Internet Web site or you may
call your ONRR customer service representative * * *.
*
*
*
*
*
......................................................................................................

Subpart C—Production Reports—Oil and Gas
1210.102(a)(1)(i) and
(ii).

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30 CFR part 1210

1210.102(a)(2)(i) and
(ii).

1210.102(b)(1) ..........

Reporting and recordkeeping requirement

Hour burden

Annual burden
hours

(a) Form ONRR–4054, Oil and Gas Operations Report. If you
operate a Federal or Indian onshore or OCS oil and gas
lease or federally approved unit or communitization agreement that contains one or more wells that are not permanently plugged or abandoned, you must submit Form
ONRR–4054 to ONRR:
(1) You must submit Form ONRR–4054 for each well for each
calendar month, beginning with the month in which you complete drilling, unless:
(i) You have only test production from a drilling well; or
(ii) The ONRR tells you in writing to report differently
(2) You must continue reporting until:
(i) The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and [Bureau of
Safety and Environmental Enforcement] approves all wells as
permanently plugged or abandoned or the lease or unit or
communitization agreement is terminated; and.
(ii) You dispose of all inventory ...................................................
(b) Form ONRR–4058, Production Allocation Schedule Report.
If you operate an offshore facility measurement point (FMP)
handling production from a Federal oil and gas lease or federally approved unit agreement that is commingled (with approval) with production from any other source prior to measurement for royalty determination, you must file Form
ONRR–4058.
(1) You must submit Form ONRR–4058 for each calendar
month beginning with the month in which you first handle
production covered by this section.
(2) Form ONRR–4058 is not required whenever all of the following conditions are met:
(i) All leases involved are Federal leases;
(ii) All leases have the same fixed royalty rate;
(iii) All leases are operated by the same operator;
(iv) The facility measurement device is operated by the same
person as the leases/agreements;
(v) Production has not been previously measured for royalty
determination; and
(vi) The production is not subsequently commingled and measured for royalty determination at an FMP for which Form
ONRR–4058 is required under this part.

Burden hours covered under 1210.104(a) and (b).

1210.103(a) and (b) ..

1210.103 When are my production reports due? .....................
(a) The ONRR must receive your completed Forms ONRR–
4054 and ONRR–4058 by the 15th day of the second month
following the month for which you are reporting..
(b) A report is considered received when it is delivered to
ONRR by 4 p.m. mountain time at the addresses specified in
§ 1210.105. Reports received after 4 p.m. mountain time are
considered received the following business day..

Burden hours covered under 1210.104(a) and (b).

1210.104(a), (b), and
(c).

1210.104
cally?

1210.102(b)(2)(i)–(vi)

Must I submit these production reports electroni-

(a) You must submit Forms ONRR–4054 and ONRR–4058
electronically unless you qualify for an exception under
§ 1210.105.

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Average
number of
annual
responses
(lines of data)

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Form ONRR–4054 (OGOR)
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RESPONDENTS’ ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS—Continued

30 CFR part 1210

Reporting and recordkeeping requirement

Hour burden

(b) You must use one of the following electronic media types,
unless ONRR instructs you differently * * *.

1 min. per line ........

(c) Refer to our electronic reporting guidelines in the ONRR
Minerals Production Reporter Handbook, for the most current
reporting options, instructions, and security measures. The
handbook may be found on our Internet Web site or you may
call your ONRR customer service representative * * *.
*

*

*

*

*

Average
number of
annual
responses
(lines of data)

Annual burden
hours

5,688,962

94,816

Manual * (approximately 1 percent)

3 min. per line ........

57,464

2,873

Total OGOR ...........

5,746,426

97,689

Form ONRR–4058 (PASR)
Electronic * (approximately 99 percent)
1 min. per line ........

17,820

298

Manual * (approximately 1 percent)
3 min. per line ........

180

9

Total PASR ............

18,000

307

Subpart D—Special-Purpose Forms and Reports—Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources
1210.155 ...................

Subtotal for Production Reporting.

1210.155 What reports must I submit for Federal onshore
stripper oil properties?.
(a) General. Operators who have been granted a reduced royalty rate by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under 43
CFR 3103.4–2 must submit Form ONRR–4377, Stripper
Royalty Rate Reduction Notification, under 43 CFR 3103.4–
2(b)(3).
*
*
*
*
*
......................................................................................................

Burden covered under OMB Control Number 1012–
0005.

................................

5,764,426

97,996

PART 1212—RECORDS AND FILES MAINTENANCE
Subpart B—Oil, Gas and OCS Sulphur—General
1212.50 .....................

1212.50

Required recordkeeping and reports. .........................

Burden hours covered under 1210.54(a), (b), and (c);
and 1210.104(a) and (b).

All records pertaining to offshore and onshore Federal and Indian oil and gas leases shall be maintained by a lessee, operator, revenue payor, or other person for 6 years after the
records are generated unless the recordholder is notified, in
writing, that records must be maintained for a longer period
* * *.
[In accordance with 30 U.S.C. 1724(f), Federal oil and gas
records must be maintained for 7 years from the date the obligation became due.].

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(a) Records. Each lessee, operator, revenue payor, or other
person shall make and retain accurate and complete records
necessary to demonstrate that payments of rentals, royalties,
net profit shares, and other payments related to offshore and
onshore Federal and Indian oil and gas leases are in compliance with lease terms, regulations, and orders * * *.

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RESPONDENTS’ ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS—Continued

30 CFR part 1210

Reporting and recordkeeping requirement

Hour burden

Average
number of
annual
responses
(lines of data)

Annual burden
hours

10,499,998

337,933

(b) Period for keeping records. Lessees, operators, revenue
payors, or other persons required to keep records under this
section shall maintain and preserve them for 6 years from
the day on which the relevant transaction recorded occurred
unless the Secretary notifies the record holder of an audit or
investigation involving the records and that they must be
maintained for a longer period * * *.
[In accordance with 30 U.S.C. 1724(f), Federal oil and gas
records must be maintained for 7 years from the date the obligation became due.].
Total for Royalty
and Production
Reporting.

......................................................................................................

................................

* Note: ONRR considers each line of data as one response/report.

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Estimated Annual Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-hour’’ Cost
Burden:
We have identified non-hour costs for
this collection of information for the
implementation of system changes and
new setups in the accounting system.
Based on information provided by
participants, we estimate that the
average total non-hour cost for each
participant is approximately $7,200.
Since there are an estimated 3,870
respondents, the total estimated nonhour costs are $27,864,000 ($7,200 ×
3,870 = $27,864,000). This equates to an
annual non-hour cost of $9,288,000 for
this ICR renewal. It is important to note
that these are one-time costs due to the
regulation changes implemented in May
of 2015 and are not expected to
continue past this ICR renewal period.
III. Request for Comments
Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA
requires each agency to ‘‘* * * publish
a 60-day notice in the Federal Register
* * * 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
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the agency to perform its
duties, including whether the
information is useful; (b) evaluate the
accuracy of the agency’s estimate 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
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
To comply with the public
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notice in the Federal Register on May
15, 2015 (80 FR 28003), announcing that
we would submit this ICR to OMB for
approval. The notice provided the
required 60-day comment period. We
received no comments in response to
the notice.
If you wish to comment in response
to this notice, you may send your
comments to the offices listed under the
ADDRESSES section of this notice. The
OMB has up to 60 days to approve or
disapprove the information collection
but may respond after 30 days.
Therefore, to ensure maximum
consideration, OMB should receive
public comments by January 11, 2016.
Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) provides that 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.
Public Comment Policy: ONRR will
post all comments, including names and
addresses of respondents at http://
www.regulations.gov. Before including
Personally Identifiable Information (PII),
such as your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
information in your comment(s), you
should be aware that your entire
comment (including PII) may be made
available to the public at any time.
While you may ask us in your comment
to withhold PII from public view, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Dated: November 24, 2015.
Gregory J. Gould,
Director, Office of Natural Resources
Revenue.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
[RR02015200, XXXR0680R1,
RR.17520306.0000006]

Notice of Availability of the Final
Environmental Impact Report/
Environmental Impact Statement/
Environmental Impact Statement,
Upper Truckee River and Marsh
Restoration Project, El Dorado County,
California
Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Bureau of Reclamation,
the California Tahoe Conservancy
(Conservancy), and the Tahoe Regional
Planning Agency have prepared the
final Environmental Impact Report/
Environmental Impact Statement/
Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/
EIS/EIS) for the Upper Truckee River
and Marsh Restoration Project (Project).
The purpose of the Project is to restore
natural geomorphic processes and
improve ecological functions and values
in this lowest reach of the Upper
Truckee River and the surrounding
marsh and help reduce the river’s
discharge of nutrients and sediment that
diminish Lake Tahoe’s clarity.
DATES: Reclamation will not make a
decision on the proposed action until at
least 30 days after the release of the final
EIR/EIS/EIS. After the 30-day waiting
period, Reclamation will complete a
Record of Decision (ROD). The ROD will
state the action that will be
implemented and will discuss all factors
leading to the decision.
ADDRESSES: Send written
correspondence or requests for the
document to Scott Carroll,
SUMMARY:

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