[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 229 (Tuesday, November 30, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66930-66931]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-30992]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Minerals Management Service
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submitted for Office of
Management and Budget Review, Comment Request
AGENCY: Minerals Management Service (MMS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection.
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SUMMARY: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are soliciting
comments on an information collection titled Royalty-In-Kind Small
Refiner Sale Program, OMB Control Number 1010-0135, which expires on
April 30, 2000.
DATES: Written comments should be received on or before January 31,
2000.
ADDRESSES: The mailing address for written comments regarding this
information collection is David S. Guzy, Chief, Rules and Publications
Staff, Minerals Management Service, Royalty Management Program, P.O.
Box 25165, MS 3021, Denver, Colorado 80225. Courier address is Building
85, Room A-613, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225. Email
address is RMP.comments@mms.gov.
PUBLIC COMMENT PROCEDURE: If you wish to comment, you may submit your
comments by any one of several methods. You may mail comments to David
S. Guzy, Chief, Rules and Publications Staff, Minerals Management
Service, Royalty Management Program, P.O. Box 25165, MS 3021, Denver,
Colorado 80225-0165. Courier or overnight delivery address is Building
85, Room A-613, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225. You may
also comment via the Internet to RMP.comments@mms.gov. Please submit
Internet comments as an ASCII file avoiding the use of special
characters and any form of encryption. Please also include Attn:
Royalty-In-Kind Small Refiner Sale Program, OMB Control Number 1010-
0135, and your name and return address in your Internet message. If you
do not receive a confirmation from the system that we have received
your Internet message, contact David S. Guzy directly at (303) 231-
3432.
We will post public comments after the comment period closes on the
Internet at http://www.rmp.mms.gov. You may arrange to view paper
copies of the comments by contacting David S. Guzy, Chief, Rules and
Publications Staff, telephone (303) 231-3432, fax (303) 231-3385. Our
practice is to make comments, including names and addresses of
respondents, available for public review on the Internet and during
regular business hours at our offices in Lakewood, Colorado. Individual
respondents may request that we withhold their home address from the
rulemaking record, which we will honor to the extent allowable by law.
There also may be circumstances in which we would withhold from the
rulemaking record a respondent's identity, as allowable by law. If you
wish us to withhold your name and/or address, you must state this
prominently at the beginning of your comment. However, we will not
consider anonymous comments. We will make all submissions from
organizations or businesses, and from individuals identifying
themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or
businesses, available for public inspection in their entirety.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis C. Jones, Rules and
Publications Staff, phone (303) 231-3046, fax (303) 231-3385, email
Dennis.C.Jones@mms.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act requires each agency ``to provide notice * * * 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
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respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Interior is the department within the Federal Government
responsible for matters relevant to mineral resource development on
Federal and Indian Lands and the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The
Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) is responsible for managing the
production of minerals from Federal and Indian Lands and the OCS, for
collecting royalties from lessees who produce minerals, and for
distributing the funds collected in accordance with applicable laws.
MMS performs the royalty management functions for the Secretary.
When the Secretary determines that sufficient need exists among
small refining companies to justify taking royalty oil in kind and
offering this oil for sale to eligible refiners, small refiners may
apply to participate in this sale of Federal royalty oil and follow
procedures under which contracts for the purchase of royalty oil will
be awarded. Completed applications to participate in the sale bid
proposals, signed contracts, and surety instruments must be submitted
to MMS.
The application must be complete and timely filed, and applicants
for royalty oil will be required to provide a surety instrument with
their bid package. This surety instrument must be a Letter of Credit,
Form MMS-4071, or a Royalty-In-Kind Contract Surety Bond, Form MMS-
4072. We estimate the annual reporting burden for refiners submitting
either surety document is 1 hour. Both surety documents are approved
for use through April 30, 2000, and can be found on our web site at
http://www.rmp.mms.gov/custserv/pubserv/forms.htm.
Dated: November 19, 1999.
Lucy Querques Denett,
Associate Director for Royalty Management.
[FR Doc. 99-30992 Filed 11-29-99; 8:45 am]
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