30-day Published Notice

Federal Register/Vol. 83, No. 221/Thursday, November 15, 2018/Notices
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of Natural Resources Revenue

[Docket No. ONRR-2011-0025; DS63644200
ORT00000O.CH7000 190D1113RT, 0MB
Control Number 1012-0001]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of

Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Accounts Receivable
Confirmations Reporting

comment on new, proposed, revised,
and continuing collections of
information. This helps us assess the
impact of our information collection
requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. It also helps the
public understand our information
collection requirements and provide the
requested data in the desired format. A
Federal Register notice with a 60-day
public comment period soliciting

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General Information

When a company or an individual
enters into a lease to explore, develop,
produce, sell, or otherwise dispose of
minerals, from Federal and Indian lands

and the OCS, that company or
individual agrees to pay the lessor a
share in an amount or value of

production from the leased lands. For
oil, gas, and solid minerals, the lessee is
required to report various types of

comments on this collection of

information to ONRR relative to the

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Office

information was published on June 11,

of Natural Resources Revenue, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;

2018 (83 FR 27019). No comments were

disposition of the leased minerals.
Specifically, companies submit

received.

financial information to ONRR on a

We are again soliciting comments on
the proposed ICR that is described
below. We are especially interested in
public comment addressing the
following issues: (1) Is the collection
necessary to the proper functions of the

monthly basis by submitting form
ONRR-2014 [Report of Sales and
Royalty Remittance for oil and gas
reported in OMB Control Number 1012-

request for comment.
SUMMARY: In accordance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
1995, the Office of Natural Resources

Revenue (ONRR), is proposing to renew
the Accounts Receivable Confirmations

Reporting information collection. Every
year, under the Chief Financial Officers
Act of 1990, mineral lessees are asked

to confirm the accuracy of randomlyselected ONRR accounts receivable.
Accounts receivable confirmations are a

common financial audit practice that
require approval under the PRA.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before

December 17, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments on

this information collection request (ICR)
to the Office of Management and
Budget's Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior by email at
[email protected]: or via
facsimile to (202) 395-5806. Please

ONRR; (2) will this information be

processed and used in a timely manner;
(3) is the estimate of burden accurate;

(4) how might the ONRR enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (5) how

might the ONRR minimize the burden of
this collection on the respondents,
including through the use of
information technology.
Comments that you submit 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

OMB Control Number 1012-0001 in

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

your comments.

do so.

provide 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

ONRR, at (303) 231-3382, or email to

Abstract: The Secretary of the United
States Department of the Interior is
responsible for collecting royalties from
lessees who produce minerals from

[email protected]. For other
questions, contact Mr. Luis Aguilar at

Continental Shelf (DCS). Under various

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

questions on technical issues, contact

Mr. Hans Meingast, Financial Services,

(303) 231-3418, or email to

[email protected]. You may also
contact Mr. Aguilar to obtain copies
(free of charge) of (1) the ICR, (2) any
associated form(s), and (3) the

regulations that require the subject
collection of information. You may also
review the ICR online at http://
www.reginfo.gov/p ublic/do/PRAMain.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In

accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, we provide the
general public and other Federal
agencies with an opportunity to

Federal and Indian lands and the Outer-

laws, the Secretary is responsible to
manage mineral resources from Federal

0004], and form ONRR-4430 [Solid

Minerals Production and Royalty Report
reported in OMB Control Number 1012OOlOj. These royalty reports result in
accounts receivables and capture the
vast majority of the mineral revenue
collected by ONRR.
The basis for the data that companies
submit on forms ONRR-2014 and

ONRR-4430 is generally available
within the records of the lessee or others

involved in developing, transporting,
processing, purchasing, or selling such
minerals. The information that we
collect under the ICR includes data

necessary to ensure that ONRR's
accounts receivables are accurately
based on the value of the mineral

production, as reported to ONRR on
forms ONRR-2014 and ONRR—4430.
Information Collections

Every year, the Chief Financial Officer
(CFO) under Chief Financial Officers

Act of 1990, the Office of Inspector
General, or its agent (agent), audits the
accounts receivable portions of the
Department's financial statements,
which are based on ONRR forms ONRR2014 and ONRR-4430. Accounts
receivable confirmations are a common

financial audit practice. A third-party
audit provides confirmation of the
validity of ONRR's financial records.
As part of the CFO audit, the agent
selects a sample of accounts receivable
items based on forms ONRR-2014 and

and Indian lands and the OCS. One of

ONRR-4430, and provides the sample

the mineral responsibilities that ONRR
performs on behalf of the Secretary is to
collect the royalties and other mineral
revenues due. These obligations are

the company names and addresses for
the sample items selected and creates
accounts receivable confirmation letters.

accounted for as accounts receivables

In order to meet the CFO requirements,

with ONRR's Financial Management
group. We have posted the laws
pertaining to mineral leases on Federal
and Indian lands and the OCS at http://
www.onrr.gov/Laws_R_D/PubLaws/
default.htm.

and the Deputy Director for ONRR, or
his or her designee, must sign the
letters. The letter requests third-party
confirmation responses by a specified

items to ONRR. ONRR then identifies

the letters must be on ONRR letterhead

date on whether or not ONRR's accounts