[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 99 (Monday, May 24, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28009-28011]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-12999]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
Information Collection Activities Under OMB Review
AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces the following Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and comment: Individual Landholder's
Certification and Reporting Forms for Acreage Limitation, 43 CFR part
426 and Proposed Rule 43 CFR part 428, OMB Control Number: 1006-0005.
The ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its
expected cost and burden.
DATES: Your comments must be received on or before June 23, 1999.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments regarding the burden estimate, or any
other aspect of the information collection, including suggestions for
reducing the burden, to the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for
the Department of the Interior, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington DC
20503. A copy of your comments should also be directed to the Bureau of
Reclamation, Attention: D-5200, PO Box 25007, Denver, CO 80225-0007.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information or a copy of
the proposed forms contact Marilyn Rehfeld, D-5200, PO Box 25007,
Denver, CO 80225-007; or by telephone: (303) 445-2899.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: .
Title: Individual Landholder's Certification and Reporting Forms
for Acreage Limitation, 43 CFR part 426 and Proposed Rule 43 CFR part
428.
Abstract: This information collection requires certain landholders
to complete forms demonstrating their compliance with the acreage
limitation provisions of Federal reclamation law. These forms establish
each landholder's status with respect to landownership limitations,
full-cost pricing thresholds, lease requirements, and other provisions
of Federal reclamation law, Title II of Public Law 97-293, and
regulations 43 CFR part 426.
All landholders whose entire westside landholdings total 40 acres
or less are exempt from the requirement to submit RRA forms. This
collection of information allows the Bureau of Reclamation (we, our, or
us) to establish landholders' compliance with Federal reclamation law.
Changes to the RRA Forms and the Instructions to Those Forms
We made some changes to the current RRA forms and rewrote the
instructions to those forms in ``plain language'' to meet the
requirements of the President's June 1, 1998, memorandum. Other changes
to the forms and the instructions to the forms are editorial in nature
and are designed to increase the respondents' understanding of the
forms, instructions to the forms, and what information is required to
be submitted with the forms to the districts. The proposed revisions to
the RRA forms will be included starting in the 2000 water year.
Draft of a New RRA Form
We published a notice of proposed rulemaking entitled: Information
Requirements for Certain Farm Operations In Excess of 960 Acres and the
Eligibility of Certain Formerly Excess Land, 43 CFR part 428, in the
Federal Register on November 18, 1998 (63 FR 64154, Nov. 18, 1998), and
requested comments on the proposed rule and the information collection
to be submitted to us by January 19, 1999. This comment period was
later extended to February 18, 1999, and then reopened to April 12,
1999. The proposed rulemaking requires farm operators who provide
services to more than 960 nonexempt acres westwide, held by a single
trust or legal entity or any combination of trusts and legal entities,
to submit RRA forms to the district(s) where such land is located. We
requested comments from the public on whether to revise an existing RRA
form or create a new form for farm operators to prepare should the
proposed rule be finalized.
Just in case, if the rule is finalized and it is determined that
farm operators will be required to submit a separate form, we have
prepared a draft of this form for review and comment (see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT). We have included the estimated burden for the
draft farm operator form (Form 7-21FARMOP) in this notice. Farm
operators are not required to submit an RRA form to their district
unless the proposed rulemaking is published as a final rule in the
Federal Register.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondents: Landholders (direct or indirect landowners or lessees)
and farm operators of certain lands in Bureau of Reclamation projects,
whose landholdings exceed specified RRA forms submittal thresholds.
Estimated Total Number of Respondents: 19,202.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1.02.
Estimated Total Number of Annual Responses: 19,586.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 14,829 hours.
Estimate of Burden for Each Form:
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Burden
Estimated Frequency of Total annual estimate per Total burden
Form No. number of response responses form (in hours
respondents minutes)
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Form 7-2180..................... 5,358 1.02 5,465 60 5,465
Form 7-2180EZ................... 537 1.02 548 45 411
Form 7-2181..................... 1,758 1.02 1,793 (1) 2,331
Form 7-2184..................... 40 1.02 41 45 31
Form 7-2190..................... 1,910 1.02 1,948 60 1,948
Form 7-2190EZ................... 113 1.02 115 45 86
Form 7-2191..................... 891 1.02 909 (1) 1,182
Form 7-2194..................... 4 1.02 4 45 3
Form 7-21PE..................... 205 1.02 209 (2) 230
Form 7-21TRUST.................. 1,331 1.02 1,358 60 1,358
Form 7-21VERIFY................. 6,452 1.02 6,581 12 1,316
Form 7-21FC..................... 243 1.02 248 30 124
Form 7-21XS..................... 164 1.02 167 30 84
Form 7-21FARMOP................. 196 1.02 200 (2) 260
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Total....................... 19,202 1.02 19,586 .............. 14,829
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\1\ 1 hr. 18 min.
2 1 hr. 6 min.
Comments
Comments are invited on:
(a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for
the proper performance of our functions, including whether the
information will have practical use;
(b) The accuracy of our burden estimate for the proposed collection
of information;
(c) Ways to enhance the quality, usefulness, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
(d) Ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
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. Reclamation will display a valid OMB
control number on the survey form. A Federal Register notice with a 60-
day comment period soliciting
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comments on this collection of information was published in the Federal
Register on January 4, 1999 (64 FR 174, Jan. 4, 1999). A list of the
comments received and our responses to those comments is being sent to:
(1) All districts, (2) all commenters, and (3) OMB with this ICR; it is
also available from us upon request.
OMB has up to 60 days to approve or disapprove this information
collection, but may respond after 30 days; therefore, public comment
should be submitted to OMB within 30 days in order to assure maximum
consideration.
Wayne O. Deason,
Acting Director, Program Analysis Office.
[FR Doc. 99-12999 Filed 5-21-99; 8:45 am]
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