[Federal Register: March 11, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 47)]
[Proposed Rules]               
[Page 12141-12142]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation

43 CFR Part 428

RIN 1006-AA38

 
Information Requirements for Certain Farm Operations In Excess of 
960 Acres and the Eligibility of Certain Formerly Excess Land

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, DOI.

ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation is reopening the comment period on 
our proposed rule entitled ``Information Requirements for Certain Farm 
Operations In Excess of 960 Acres and the Eligibility of Certain 
Formerly Excess Land.''


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DATES: We must receive your comments at the address below on or before 
April 12, 1999.

ADDRESSES: If you wish to comment, you may submit your comments by any 
one of several methods. You may mail comments to: Administrative 
Record, Commissioner's Office, Bureau of Reclamation, 1849 C Street 
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20240. You may also comment via the Internet to 
epetacchi@usbr.gov (see Public Comment Procedures under SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION in the November 18, 1998, notice at 63 FR 64154). In 
addition, you may hand-deliver comments to Commissioner's Office, 
Bureau of Reclamation, 1849 C Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20240.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erica Petacchi, (202) 208-3368, or 
Richard Rizzi, (303) 445-2900.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We originally published the proposed rule on 
November 18, 1998, at 63 FR 64154-64165. We asked for public comments 
until January 19, 1999, but because several people requested an 
extension of that deadline, we accepted comments until February 18, 
1999. After the close of the extended comment period, we again received 
requests for an extension. We are now reopening the comment period for 
an additional 30 days.
    In the proposed rule, we asked for comments on the proposal to 
collect information from certain farm operators. We published an 
additional notice in the January 4, 1999, issue of the Federal Register 
(64 FR 174) to collect comments on this proposal, in accordance with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). While the 
comment period on the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 forms in general 
closes on March 5, 1999, we will continue to accept comments specific 
to the proposed information collection for farm operators and the 
possible new form that we have developed as part of the comment period 
on the proposed rule that now closes on April 12, 1999.
    You can find a full description of the information collection 
proposal for farm operators in either the Paperwork Reduction Act 
statement in the preamble of the proposed rule, at 63 FR 64163; or in 
the separate Federal Register notice mentioned above, at 64 FR 174.

    Dated: March 8, 1999.
Patricia J. Beneke,
Assistant Secretary--Water and Science.
[FR Doc. 99-6066 Filed 3-10-99; 8:45 am]
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