The Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement (“we” or OSMRE) is submitting this
request to revise its information collection authority for 30 CFR
part 780 as part of the Stream Protection Rule. This regulation
governs the minimum requirements for preparing Reclamation and
Operation Plans to be submitted as part of a surface mining permit
application package. OSMRE's authority to collect permit
application information comes from 30 U.S.C. 1201 et. seq.
US Code:
30 USC 1201 et. seq. Name of Law: Surface Mining Control and
Reclamation Act of 1977
The Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement (“we” or OSMRE) is submitting this
request to revise its information collection authority for 30 CFR
part 780. This regulation governs the minimum requirements for
preparing Reclamation and Operation Plans to be submitted as part
of a surface mining permit application package. OSMRE proposed a
Stream Protection Rule (SPR) on July 27, 2015, (80 FR 44436) which
proposed to modify the collection requirements in 30 CFR part 780.
This proposed rule sought comments from the public comments on the
burden estimates we identified, the availability of data, frequency
of collection, the clarity of instructions and recordkeeping,
disclosure, or reporting format, and on the data elements to be
recorded, disclosed, and reported for the entire part associated
with the information collections approved by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) under 1029-0036. OMB assigned control
number 1029-0133 to this collection, but reserved approval pending
review of the information collection package associated with the
final SPR. OSMRE received over 94,000 comments on the proposed
rule, many of which had information collection ramifications. These
comments were reviewed and the final SPR has incorporated changes,
where appropriate, to reflect the comments. Likewise, this
information collection request has been modified from the original
request to OMB to incorporate those final rule changes and the
public comments which affect this information collection request.
OSMRE is now submitting this information collection package based
on the SPR which modifies the collection requirements in 30 CFR
part 780. The final rule and information collection packages
associated with this rule incorporate comments received from the
public on the burden estimates for part 780, the availability of
data, frequency of collection, the clarity of instructions and
recordkeeping, disclosure, or reporting format, and on the data
elements to be recorded, disclosed, and reported. This information
collection request will increase the burden estimate for part 780
on respondents by 28,669 hours and $6,444,960 in non-wage costs due
to program changes resulting from publication of the Stream
Protection final rule. This information collection request also
re-estimates burden due to adjustments of 149 hours for a new total
of 84,323 hours and $7,474,551.
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.
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