[Federal Register: December 28, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 248)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[WO-350-1430-PE-24 1A]
Extension of Approved Information Collection, OMB Control Number
1004-0009
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has submitted an
Information Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for review and approval.
The ICR is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2007. The BLM may not
conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a
collection of information
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unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. However, under
OMB regulations, the BLM may continue to conduct or sponsor this
information collection while it is pending at OMB. On June 21, 2006,
the BLM published a notice in the Federal Register (71 FR 35698)
requesting comment on this information collection. The comment period
ended on August 21, 2006. The BLM received no comments. You may obtain
copies of the collection of information and related forms and
explanatory material by contacting the BLM Information Collection
Clearance Officer at the telephone number listed in the ADDRESSES
section below.
DATES: The OMB is required to respond to this request within 60 days
but may respond after 30 days. Submit your comments to OMB at the
address below by January 28, 2008 to receive maximum consideration.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments and suggestions on this ICR to the Desk
Officer for the Department of the Interior at OMB-OIRA at (202) 395-
6566 (fax) or OIRA_DOCKET@OMB.eop.gov (e-mail). Please provide a copy
of your comments to Alexandra Ritchie, Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Bureau of Land Management, at U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, Mail Stop 401LS, 1849 C Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20240. Additionally, you may contact Alexandra Ritchie
regarding this ICR at (202) 452-0388 (phone); (202) 653-5287 (fax); or
Alexandra_Ritchie@blm.gov (e-mail).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For program-related questions, contact
Alzata L. Ransom, Realty Use Group, on (202) 452-7772 (Commercial or
FTS). Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD)
may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-
8330, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to contact Ms. Ransom. For
questions regarding this ICR or the information collection process,
contact Alexandra Ritchie by phone, mail, fax, or e-mail (see
ADDRESSES).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB Control Number: 1004-0009.
Title: Land Use Application and Permit, 43 CFR 2920.
Bureau Form Number: 2920-1.
Type of Request: Extension of currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Private Citizens, Businesses, and State and Local
Governments.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Number of Responses: 519.
Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour per response for land use
authorizations that will cause little or no damage to the public lands
and resources; 120 hours for authorizations that may cause considerable
damage or disturbance to the public lands and resources.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,709.
Abstract: The BLM uses the information to allow State and local
governments, businesses, and private citizens to use, occupy, or
develop the public lands under certain conditions. Land uses that may
be authorized are: agricultural development, residential (under certain
conditions), recreation concessions (under certain conditions), and
business, industrial, and commercial. The types of land uses include
commercial filming, advertising displays, commercial or noncommercial
croplands, apiaries, livestock, holding or feeding areas not related to
grazing permits and leases, harvesting of native or introduced species,
temporary or permanent facilities for commercial purposes (does not
include mining claims), ski resorts, construction equipment storage
sites, assembly yards, oil rig stacking sites, mining claim occupancy
if the residential structures are not incidental to the mining
operation, and water pipelines and well pumps related to irrigation and
non-irrigation facilities.
We estimate that it will take a respondent 1 hour to complete an
application for a land use authorization that will cause little or no
damage or disturbance to the public lands and resources. Ninety-eight
percent of land use authorization respondents are in this category. It
will take a respondent 120 hours to complete an application for complex
land use authorization proposals that will cause considerable damage or
disturbance to the public lands and resources. Two percent of land use
authorization respondents are in this category. The majority of the
complex land use authorizations are from the major motion picture film
industry. The BLM did not receive any responses in this last category
during the current collection period. The average annual application
processing fee for this entire collection (complex and less complex
authorization proposals) is $148,933.28.
We again specifically request your comments on the following:
1. Whether the collection of information is necessary for the
proper functioning of the BLM, including whether the information will
have practical utility;
2. The accuracy of BLM's estimate of the burden of collecting the
information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
used;
3. The quality, utility and clarity of the information we collect;
and
4. How to minimize the burden of collecting the information on
those who are to respond, including the use of appropriate automated
electronic, mechanical, or other forms of information technology.
Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of
public record. Before including your address, phone number, e-mail
address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you
should be aware that your entire comment, including your personal
identifying information, may be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask OMB in your comment to withhold your personal
identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that it
will be done.
Dated: December 21, 2007.
Alexandra Ritchie,
Bureau of Land Management, Information Collection Clearance Officer.
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