[Federal Register: February 21, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 35)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Minerals Management Service
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submitted for Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) Review, Comment Request
AGENCY: Minerals Management Service (MMS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of extension of a currently approved information
collection (OMB Control Number 1010-0098).
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SUMMARY: To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), we are notifying you that an information
collection request (ICR) titled ``Office of Indian Royalty Assistance
Customer Satisfaction Postcard'' has been forwarded to OMB for review
and approval. We are also soliciting your comments on this ICR which
describes the information collection, its expected costs and burden,
and how the data will be collected.
DATES: Submit written comments on or before March 23, 2001.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments directly to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for
the Department of the Interior (OMB Control Number 1010-0098), 725 17th
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503. Also, please submit copies of your
comments to Dennis C. Jones, Regulations and FOIA Team, Minerals
Management Service, Minerals Revenue Management, PO Box 25165, MS
320B2, Denver, Colorado 80225. If you use an overnight courier service,
our courier address is Building 85, Room A-613, Denver Federal Center,
Denver, Colorado 80225.
PUBLIC COMMENT PROCEDURE: Please submit your comments to the offices
listed in the ``ADDRESSES'' section, or email your comments to us at
MRM.comments@mms.gov. Include the title of the information collection,
the OMB Control Number in the ``Attention'' line of your comment, and
your name and return address. Submit electronic comments as an ASCII
file avoiding the use of special characters and any form of encryption.
If you do not receive a confirmation that we have received your email,
contact Mr. Jones at (303) 231-3046, FAX (303) 231-3385. We will post
all comments for public review at http://www.rmp.mms.gov.
Also, contact Mr. Jones to review paper copies of the comments. Our
practice is to make comments, including names and addresses of
respondents, available for public review during regular business hours
at our offices in Lakewood, Colorado. Individual respondents may
request that we withhold their home address from the public 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 request that we
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, Regulations and FOIA
Team, telephone (303) 231-3046, FAX (303) 231-3385, email
Dennis.C.Jones@mms.gov. You may also contact Mr. Jones to obtain at no
cost a copy of our submission to OMB, which includes a copy of the
postcard that will be used to collect this information.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: Office of Indian Royalty Assistance
Customer Satisfaction Postcard.
OMB Control Number: 1010-0098.
Bureau Form Number: N/A.
Abstract: The Department of the Interior (DOI) is 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. The Secretary also
has an Indian trust responsibility to manage Indian lands and seek
advice and information from Indian beneficiaries. We perform the
royalty management functions and assist the Secretary in carrying out
DOI's Indian trust responsibility.
MMS's Office of Indian Royalty Assistance (OIRA) often resolves
questions and issues related to individual Indian royalty payments.
When an individual Indian mineral owner requests assistance from an
OIRA office, we include a Customer Satisfaction Postcard, consisting of
four questions, when responding to the owner's request to help us
determine if our service was effective and to identify how we can
improve our service.
Responses to this information collection are voluntary. No
proprietary, confidential, or sensitive information is collected.
Frequency: On occasion.
Estimated Number and Description of Respondents: 200 Individual
Indian mineral owners.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Hour'' Burden: 7
hours.
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Annual reporting/recordkeeping Annual burden
requirements Frequency No. of respondents Burden hours hours
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Customer Satisfaction Postcard. On occasion........ 200............... 2 minutes......... 7 hours
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Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-hour Cost''
Burden: N/A.
Comments: The PRA provides that an agency shall 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.
Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA 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
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information to be collected; and (d) minimize the burden on the
respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
To comply with the public consultation process, we published a 60-
day Federal Register Notice on April 19, 2000 (65 FR 21007), with the
required 60-day comment period soliciting comments on this information
collection. No comments were received.
If you wish to comment in response to this notice, send your
comments directly to the offices listed under the ADDRESSES section of
this notice. OMB has up to 60 days to approve or disapprove the
information collection but may respond after 30 days. Therefore, to
ensure maximum consideration, OMB should receive public comments by
March 23, 2001.
MMS Information Collection Clearance Officer: Jo Ann Lauterbach,
telephone (202) 208-7744.
Dated: February 12, 2001.
Lucy Querques Denett,
Associate Director for Royalty Management.
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