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to enter activity data, calculate
emissions data in real-time, and
leverage built-in validation features to
quality check calculations prior to
submission.
OMB Control Number: 1010–0057.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
Respondents/Affected Public:
Potential respondents comprise Federal
OCS oil, gas, and sulfur permittees or
notice filers.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 807 responses.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 51,080 hours.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
retain or obtain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: Every 3
years.
Total Estimated Annual Non-hour
Burden Cost: None.
A Federal Register notice with a 60day public comment period on the
proposed ICR was published on
September 15, 2023 (88 FR 63613).
BOEM did not receive any comments.
BOEM is again soliciting comments
on the proposed ICR. BOEM is
especially interested in public
comments addressing the following
issues: (1) is the collection necessary to
the proper functions of BOEM; (2) what
can BOEM do to ensure that this
information is processed and used in a
timely manner; (3) is the burden
estimate 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 submitted in response to
this notice are a matter of public record
and will be available for public review
on www.reginfo.gov. BOEM will include
or summarize each comment in its ICR
to OMB for approval of this information
collection. You should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
address, phone number, email address,
or other personally identifiable
information included in your
comment—may be made publicly
available at any time.
For BOEM to consider withholding
from disclosure your personally
identifiable information, you must
identify, in a cover letter, any
information contained in your comment
that, if released, would constitute a
clearly unwarranted invasion of your
personal privacy. You must also briefly
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information, such as embarrassment,
injury, or other harm.
Even if BOEM withholds your
personally identifiable information in
the context of this ICR, your comment
is subject to the Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA). Your information will only
be withheld if a determination is made
that one of the FOIA exemptions to
disclosure applies. Such a
determination will be made in
accordance with the Department’s FOIA
regulations (43 CFR part 2) and
applicable law.
BOEM will make available for public
inspection all comments in their
entirety (except privileged or
confidential information) submitted by
organizations and businesses, or by
individuals identifying themselves as
representatives of organizations or
businesses). BOEM protects privileged
and confidential information in
accordance with FOIA and DOI’s
implementing regulations.
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.
The authority for this action is the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
Karen Thundiyil,
Chief, Office of Regulations, Bureau of Ocean
Energy Management.
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BILLING CODE 4340–98–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
[OMB Control Number 1010–0082; Docket
ID: BOEM–2024–0007]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Leasing of Minerals Other
Than Oil, Gas, and Sulphur in the
Outer Continental Shelf
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) proposes this information
collection request (ICR) to renew Office
of Management and Budget (OMB)
control number 1010–0082.
DATES: Comments must be received by
BOEM no later than May 6, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments on
this ICR by mail to the BOEM
Information Collection Clearance
SUMMARY:

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Officer, Anna Atkinson, Bureau of
Ocean Energy Management, 45600
Woodland Road, Sterling, Virginia
20166; or by email to anna.atkinson@
boem.gov. Please reference OMB control
number 1010–0082 in the subject line of
your comments. You may comment on
the ICR and view related documents by
searching the docket number ‘‘BOEM–
2024–0007’’ at http://
www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anna Atkinson by email at
[email protected], or by
telephone at 703–787–1025. Individuals
in the United States who are deaf,
deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a
speech disability may dial 711 (TTY,
TDD, or TeleBraille) to access
telecommunications relay services.
Individuals outside of the United States
should use the relay services offered
within their country to make
international calls to the point of
contact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, BOEM provides
the general public and other Federal
agencies with an opportunity to
comment on new, proposed, revised,
and continuing collections of
information. This helps BOEM assess
the impact of its information collection
requirements and minimize the public’s
reporting burden. It also helps the
public understand BOEM’s information
collection requirements and provide the
requested data in the desired format.
BOEM is soliciting comments on the
proposed ICR described below. BOEM is
especially interested in public
comments addressing the following
issues: (1) is the collection necessary to
the proper functions of BOEM; (2) what
can BOEM do to ensure that this
information is processed and used in a
timely manner; (3) is the burden
estimate 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 submitted in response to
this notice are a matter of public record.
BOEM will include or summarize each
comment on its ICR to OMB for
approval of this information collection.
You should be aware that your entire
comment—including your address,
phone number, email address, or other
personally identifiable information
included in your comment—may be
made publicly available at any time.
Even if BOEM withholds your

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personally identifiable information in
the context of this ICR, your comment
is subject to the Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552). Your
information will only be withheld if a
determination is made that one of the
FOIA exemptions to disclosure applies.
Such a determination will be made in
accordance with the DOI’s FOIA
implementing regulations (43 CFR part
2) and applicable law.
In order for BOEM to consider
withholding from disclosure your
personal identifying information, you
must identify, in a cover letter, any
information contained in the submittal
of your comments that, if released,
would constitute a clearly unwarranted
invasion of your personal privacy. You
must also briefly describe any possible
harmful consequences of the disclosure
of information, such as embarrassment,
injury, or other harm. Note that BOEM
will make available for public
inspection, in their entirety, all
comments submitted by organizations
and businesses, or by individuals
identifying themselves as
representatives of organizations or
businesses.
BOEM protects proprietary
information in accordance with the
Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C.
552), Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)
Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1352(c)), and the
Department of the Interior’s (DOI)
implementing regulations (43 CFR part
2 and 30 CFR part 581).
Title of Collection: 30 CFR part 581,
‘‘Leasing of Minerals Other Than Oil,
Gas, and Sulphur in the Outer
Continental Shelf.’’

Abstract: The OCS Lands Act (Act), as
amended (43 U.S.C. 1334 and 43 U.S.C.
1337(k)), authorizes the Secretary of the
Interior (Secretary) to administer OCS
leasing and to prescribe the necessary
regulations to do so. The Act authorizes
the Secretary to lease any mineral other
than oil, gas, and sulphur, subject to
royalty, rental, and other terms and
conditions that the Secretary may
prescribe at the time of the lease offer.
Regulations at 30 CFR part 581
implement these statutory requirements.
BOEM has not conducted any OCS
leasing activity for minerals other than
oil, gas, or sulphur in many years.
Consequently, BOEM has not generally
collected information under this part of
its regulations. However, BOEM
recognizes that the potential for such
information collection exists under part
581. Therefore, BOEM seeks OMB
renewal of the part 581 information
collection.
BOEM will use the information
required by 30 CFR part 581 to
determine if statutory requirements are
met prior to the issuance of a lease.
Specifically, BOEM will use the
information to:
• Evaluate the area and minerals
requested by the applicant to assess the
viability of offering leases for sale;
• Request States to establish a joint
task force to assess the proposed action;
• Ensure excessive overriding royalty
interests are not created that would put
economic constraints on all parties
involved;
• Document that a leasehold or
geographical subdivision has been
surrendered by the record title holder;
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• Determine if activities on the
proposed lease area(s) will have a
significant impact on the environment.
OMB Control Number: 1010–0082.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Renewal of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents and Affected Public: As
there are no active respondents, BOEM
estimates the potential annual number
of respondents to be one. Potential
respondents are OCS lease requestors,
State governments, and OCS mineral
lessees.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 11 responses.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 1,004 hours.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
retain or obtain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Total Estimated Annual Non-hour
Burden Cost: $50 non-hour cost burden.
The following table details the
individual information collection
components and respective hour burden
estimates of this ICR. The current
approved annual burden hours are equal
to 984 hours and the annual responses
are equal to 10. This information
collection request increases burdens to
1,004 and annual responses to 11 due to
the potential of tie bids. Tie bids
requirements would involve more than
one respondent, so BOEM plans to
increase this by one response and 20
annual burden hours. BOEM assumed
that respondents perform certain
requirements in the normal course of
their activities. BOEM considers such
requirements to be usual and customary
and took that into account in estimating
the burden.

BURDEN TABLE
Citation 30 CFR 581

Reporting and/or recordkeeping requirements *

Hour
burden

Average
number of
annual reponses

Annual
burden
hours

Non-hour cost burden(s) *
Subpart A—General
6 ...........................................

Appeal decisions .............................................................................................................

9 ...........................................

Governor of affected State initiates negotiations on jurisdictional controversy, etc.,
and enters agreement with BOEM.

Exempt under 5 CFR
1320.4(a)(2), (c).

0

16

1 request ..............

16

Subtotal ...........................................................................................................................................................................................

1 response ...........

16

1 request ..............

60

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Subpart B—Leasing Procedures
11(a), (c) ...............................

Submit request for approval for mineral lease with required information .......................

12 .........................................

Submit response to Call for Information and Interest on areas for leasing of minerals
(other than oil, gas, or sulphur) in accordance with approved lease program, including information from States/local governments, industry, Federal agencies.

13; 16 ...................................

States or local governments establish task force; submit comments/recommendations
on planning, coordination, consultation, and other issues that may contribute to the
leasing process.

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Not considered IC as defined
in 5 CFR 1320.3(h)(4).

200

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0

200

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BURDEN TABLE—Continued
Hour
burden

Average
number of
annual reponses

Annual
burden
hours

Citation 30 CFR 581

Reporting and/or recordkeeping requirements *

16 .........................................

Submit suggestions and relevant information in response to request for comments on
the proposed leasing notice, including information from States/local governments.

18; 20(e), (f); 26(a), (b) ........

Submit bids (oral or sealed) and required information ...................................................

250

1 response ...........

250

18(b)(3), (c); 20 (e), (f) .........

Tie bids—submit oral bids for highest bidder .................................................................

20

2 responses ..........

40

20(a), (b), (c); 41(a) .............

Establish a company file for qualification, submit updated information, submit qualifications for lessee/bidder and required information.

58

1 response ...........

58

21(a); 47(c) ...........................

Request for reconsideration of bid rejection/cancellation ...............................................

21(b), (e); 23; 26(e), (i);
40(b); 41.

Execute lease (includes submission of evidence of authorized agent and request for
dating of leases); maintain auditable records re 30 CFR Chapter II, Subchapter A—
[burden under ONRR requirements].

Not considered IC as defined
in 5 CFR 1320.3(h)(4).

0

Not considered IC per 5 CFR
1320.3(h)(9).

0

100

1 lease ..................

100

Subtotal ...........................................................................................................................................................................................

7 responses ..........

708

I1 application .........

160

Subpart C—Financial Considerations
31(b); 41 ...............................

File application and required information for assignment or transfer for approval .........

160

$50 required or non-required filing document
fee × 1 = $50.
32(b), (c) ...............................

File application for waiver, suspension, or reduction and required documentation .......

33; 41(c) ...............................

Submit surety or personal bond ......................................................................................

80

I1 application .........

Burden covered under 1010–
0081.

Subtotal ...........................................................................................................................................................................................

I2 responses ..........

80
0
240

$50 non-Hour Cost Burden.
Subpart E—Termination of Leases
46 .........................................

I File written request for relinquishment

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

40

1 response ...........

40

Total Burden ....................................................................................................................................................................................

11 responses ........

1,004

I
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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.
The authority for this action is the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Karen Thundiyil,
Chief, Office of Regulations, Bureau of Ocean
Energy Management.

Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Certification and
Noncoal Reclamation

[FR Doc. 2024–04554 Filed 3–4–24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4340–98–P

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement
[S1D1S SS08011000 SX064A000
245S180110; S2D2S SS08011000
SX064A000 24XS501520; OMB Control
Number 1029–0103]

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 May 6,
2024.

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$50 Non-Hour Cost Burden.

Send your comments on
this information collection request (ICR)
by mail to Mark Gehlhar, Office of
Surface Mining Reclamation and
Enforcement, 1849 C Street NW, Room
1544–MIB, Washington, DC 20240, or by
email to [email protected]. Please
reference OMB Control Number 1029–
0103 in the subject line of your
comments.

ADDRESSES:

To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Mark Gehlhar by email
at [email protected], or by telephone
at 202–208–2716. Individuals in the
United States who are deaf, deafblind,
hard of hearing, or have a speech
disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or
TeleBraille) to access
telecommunications relay services.
Individuals outside the United States
should use the relay services offered
within their country to make
international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. You may
also view the ICR at http://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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