Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for Office

of Management and Budget Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service (MMS), Interior.

ACTION: Notice to reinstate a previously approved collection.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Interior has submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for approval under the provisions of the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Act) a request for emergency

processing to reinstate the collection of information discussed below.

The Act requires that OMB provide interested Federal agencies and the

public an opportunity to comment on information collection requests.

The Act also provides that 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 number.

DATES: Submit written comments by February 5, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments and suggestions directly to the Office of

Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for

the Department of the Interior (1010-0057), 725 17th Street, NW.,

Washington, DC 20503.

Send a copy of your comments to the Chief, Engineering and

Standards Branch, Mail Stop 4700, Minerals Management Service, 381

Elden Street, Herndon, Virginia 20170-4817.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Alexis London, Engineering and Standards Branch, Minerals Management

Service, telephone (703) 787-1600. You may obtain copies of the

proposed collection of information and related forms by contacting

MMS's Information Collection Clearance Officer at (703) 787-1242.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: 30 CFR 250, Subpart C, Pollution Prevention and Control.

OMB Number: 1010-0057.

Abstract: The information collected consists of information that

MMS uses to assess the ability of a lessee to prevent or contain

pollution in offshore waters. Responses to this collection of

information are mandatory.

Description of Respondents: Federal Outer Continental Shelf oil,

gas, and sulphur lessees.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 130.

Frequency: The reporting and recordkeeping requirements and number

of respondents vary by section and are on occasion or monthly.

Estimated Annual Burden on Respondents: Reporting burden of 12,440

hours and recordkeeping burden of 137,070 hours, for a total of 149,510

burden hours. The average burden per respondent for both reporting and

recordkeeping is estimated to be 1,150 hours.

Estimated Annual Other Costs to Respondents: $250,000 annualized

one-time cost for the collection of meteorological data from selected

sites to determine cumulative impacts of air quality within the 100-

kilometer radius of the Breton National Wilderness Area.

Type of Request: Emergency reinstatement without change of a

previously approved collection and subsequent extension of a currently

approved collection of information.

Form Number: N/A.

Comments: The OMB is required to make a decision on a request for

emergency processing within the time period requested by the agency

submitting the collection of information. We requested approval within

7 days after OMB receives our request. OMB may approve an emergency

request for 120 days.

During that period of emergency approval, MMS will immediately

resubmit a request to OMB for a standard 3-year extension of this

collection of information. OMB may make a decision to approve or

disapprove this collection of information after 30 days from receipt of

that request. Therefore, your comments are best ensured of being

considered by OMB if OMB receives them within that time period.

The publication of this notice for comments will serve as notice

for both submissions to OMB. All comments will become a matter of

public record.

On July 11, 1996, MMS provided an opportunity for comments (61 FR

36565) as required by 5 CFR 1320.8(d). No comments were received in

response to that notice.

Bureau Clearance Officer: Carole de Witt (703) 787-1242.

Dated: December 4, 1996.

E.P. Danenberger,

Acting Deputy Associate Director for Operations and Safety Management.

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