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• Confederated Salish and Kootenai
Tribes
Yellowstone National Park has also
invited the following tribes with treaty
hunting rights to participate as
cooperating agencies (responses are
forthcoming): Blackfeet Tribe of the
Blackfeet Indian Reservation of
Montana, Confederated Tribes of the
Umatilla Indian Reservation, Crow Tribe
of Montana, Northern Arapaho Tribe of
the Wind River Reservation, ShoshoneBannock Tribes of the Fort Hall
Reservation, and the Yakama Nation.
Decision Maker
The Decision Maker is the NPS
Regional Director for Interior Regions 6,
7, and 8.
Termination of 2015 EIS Process
This notice also terminates the EIS for
a Management Plan for Yellowstonearea Bison initiated by the NPS on
March 16, 2015 (80 FR 13603–13604).
Authority: 42 U.S.C. et seq.
Michael Reynolds,
Regional Director, Interior Regions 6, 7, &
8.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
[OMB Control Number 1010–NEW; Docket
ID: BOEM–2017–0016]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Evaluating Connections:
BOEM’s Environmental Studies and
Assessments
Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
(BOEM) is proposing a new information
collection request (ICR).
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before February
28, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit your written
comments on this ICR to the Office of
Management and Budget’s desk officer
for the Department of the Interior at
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain
within 30 days of publication of this
notice. From the www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain landing page, find
this information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under Review—Open for
Public Comments’’ or by using the

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search function. Please provide a copy
of your comments to the BOEM
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Anna Atkinson, Bureau of
Ocean Energy Management, 45600
Woodland Road, Sterling, Virginia
20166; or by email to anna.atkinson@
boem.gov. Please reference Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) Control
Number 1010–NEW in the subject line
of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anna Atkinson by email at
[email protected] or by
telephone at 703–787–1025.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, BOEM provides
the public and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on new,
proposed, revised, and continuing
collections of information. This helps
BOEM assess the impact of the
information collection requirements and
minimize the public’s reporting burden.
It also helps the public understand
BOEM’s information collection
requirements.
Title of Collection: Evaluating
Connections: BOEM’s Environmental
Studies and Assessments.
Abstract: Section 20 of the Outer
Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA)
(43 U.S.C. 1346) requires the Secretary
of the Interior to study any area or
region included in an oil, gas, or other
lease sale to gather information needed
for assessment and management of
impacts on the human, marine, and
coastal environments of the Outer
Continental Shelf (OCS) and the affected
coastal areas. Additionally, subsequent
to the leasing and developing of any
OCS area, the Secretary may authorize
further environmental studies to gather
information that can be used for
identifying significant changes and
trends in the quality and productivity of
such environments and for designing
experiments to identify the causes of
such changes.
This statutory authority is carried out
through BOEM’s Environmental Studies
Program (ESP). In fulfilling its mission,
BOEM must comply with a range of
environmental laws and regulations. To
comply with relevant statutes and
policies, BOEM requires current and
relevant scientific information to
develop informed environmental
analyses required by the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and
to conduct appropriate and meaningful
consultations with other Federal
agencies. For example, the following
types of documents are considered in
the universe of BOEM environmental
analyses:

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• NEPA environmental impact
statements.
• NEPA environmental assessments.
• National Historic Preservation Act
documents (including section 106
evaluations of effects on historic
properties and programmatic
agreements).
• Essential fish habitat assessments
for Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
consultations.
• Endangered Species Act section 7
biological evaluations or biological
assessments.
• Analyses and assessments prepared
to comply with the Clean Air Act,
Coastal Zone Management Act, and
Marine Mammal Protection Act.
• Analyses and assessments such as
engineering analyses, regulatory impact
analyses, resource evaluations,
additional NEPA-related analyses, site
assessments, and cost-benefit analyses
prepared for OCSLA and other
regulatory requirements.
Environmental studies sponsored by
ESP provide scientific information to
inform BOEM’s environmental analyses,
which are overseen through BOEM’s
Environmental Assessment Program
(EAP). BOEM describes the process by
which environmental studies inform
environmental analyses and
environmental analyses inform
environmental studies as a ‘‘feedback
loop.’’ To determine how well this
feedback loop is functioning and to
identify potential improvements in the
science-to-policy process, BOEM is
pursuing an evaluation of the linkages
between the scientific research it is
funding and the information needs
within its environmental analyses. The
evaluation will include surveys and
interviews of BOEM’s ESP and EAP
partners (e.g., Federal and State
agencies, academic institutions and
scholars, consultants, tribal members,
industry representatives, and
environmental non-governmental
organizations).
The survey will focus on information
exchange between BOEM’s ESP and
EAP and their external program
partners. The survey results will be used
to understand how program partners use
information derived from BOEM’s
studies and analyses and to trace the
networks through which this
information is disseminated. The survey
results will inform a network analysis to
understand the network structure,
possible network influence on
outcomes, and people or organizations
that could be targeted or connected to
achieve better expected outcomes.
The survey will be administered
online. The survey will be sent to ESP

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and EAP partners identified by BOEM
staff. Following a brief email
introduction, each survey respondent
will receive a unique weblink to
complete the online survey. The survey
questions will ask respondents: (1) From
whom they receive and with whom they
share BOEM environmental studies and
analyses information, and (2) how they
use that environmental information for
their organization’s work. The survey
will include fewer than 20 mostly
discrete-choice questions and will take
up to 20 minutes to complete.
Descriptive statistics will be calculated
at the organizational level, and results
will be presented in a tabular format
and network graphs.
All agencies, organizations, and
institutions that BOEM identifies as
important for understanding the
feedback loop will be contacted for an
interview. Interviews will be semistructured. Respondents will be asked
questions tailored to their type of
organization. Interviewers will ask
respondents to provide insight into how
and why linkages between BOEM and
respondents are (or are not) present, and
how and why respondents are (or are
not) using environmental studies and
analyses information from BOEM. As a
semi-structured interview, the
interviewer will have the opportunity to
ask follow-up questions based on initial
responses. The interviewers will ask
about the respondents’ roles or positions
within their organizations, how they use
BOEM’s environmental studies and
analyses information in their
organizations’ work, and how their
organizations contribute to BOEM’s
environmental studies and analyses.
Additionally, the interviewers will
request recommendations on ways to
strengthen linkages moving forward.
The responses will be analyzed using
qualitative coding analysis.
This information is not otherwise
available and will help inform BOEM’s
efforts to improve the feedback loop and
to ultimately better inform its decisions.
OMB Control Number: 1010–NEW.
Type of Review: New.
Respondents/Affected Public: BOEM
ESP and EAP partners.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 70 interviews; up to 300
online surveys.
Survey questions will be discretechoice/closed-ended; interview guide
will be semi-structured/open-ended.
Estimated Completion Time per
Response: 60 minutes per interview; up
to 20 minutes per survey.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 70 hours for interviews;
up to 100 hours for surveys.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.

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Frequency of Collection: One time.
Total Estimated Annual Non-Hour
Burden Cost: There is no non-hour cost
burden associated with this collection.
A Federal Register notice with a 60day public comment period on this
proposed ICR was published on April
28, 2021 (86 FR 22451). BOEM did not
receive any comments during the 60-day
comment period.
BOEM is again soliciting comments
on this proposed ICR. BOEM is
especially interested in public comment
addressing the following issues: (1) Is
the collection necessary to the proper
functions of BOEM; (2) what can BOEM
do to ensure this information will be
processed and used in a timely manner;
(3) is the estimate of burden accurate;
(4) how might BOEM enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (5) how
might BOEM minimize the burden of
this collection on the respondents,
including minimizing the burden
through the use of information
technology?
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. BOEM will include or
summarize each comment in its request
to OMB for approval of this ICR. You
should be aware that your entire
comment—including your address,
phone number, email address, or other
personally identifying information—
may be publicly disclosed. In order to
inform BOEM’s decision whether it can
withhold from disclosure your
personally identifiable information, you
must identify any information contained
in your comments that, if released,
would clearly constitute an
unwarranted invasion of your privacy.
Also, you must briefly describe possible
harmful consequences of disclosing that
information, such as embarrassment,
injury, or other harm. While you can ask
BOEM in your comment to withhold
your personally identifiable information
from public disclosure, BOEM cannot
guarantee that it will be able to do so.
BOEM protects proprietary
information in accordance with the
Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C.
552), and the Department of the
Interior’s implementing regulations (43
CFR part 2).
A Federal 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
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The authority for this action is the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
Peter Meffert,
Acting Chief, Office of Regulations.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement
[S1D1S SS08011000 SX064A000
221S180110; S2D2S SS08011000
SX064A000 22XS501520; OMB Control
Number 1029–0089]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Exemption for Coal
Extraction Incidental to the Extraction
of Other Minerals
Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we,
the Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE),
are proposing to renew an information
collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before February
28, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function. Please provide a copy
of your comments to Mark Gehlhar,
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement, 1849 C Street NW,
Room 4556–MIB, Washington, DC
20240, or by email to mgehlhar@
osmre.gov. Please reference OMB
Control Number 1029–0089 in the
subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Mark Gehlhar by email
at [email protected], or by telephone
at (202) 208–2716. You may also view
the ICR at http://www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA; 44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), we
provide the general public and other
Federal agencies with an opportunity to
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