Agency Information Collection Activities: Approved Collection

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service

Agency Information Collection Activities: Approved Collection

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service (MMS), Interior.

ACTION: Notice of approval of information collection (1010-0106).

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SUMMARY: As part of our continuing effort to reduce paperwork and

respondent burden, this notice informs the public and other Federal

agencies that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved

the collection of information in the Oil Spill Financial Responsibility

for Offshore Facilities final regulations. The Paperwork Reduction Act

of 1995 (PRA) 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alexis London, Rules Processing Team,

telephone (703) 787-1600. You may also contact Alexis London to obtain

a copy of this collection of information.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

OMB Control Number: 1010-0106.

Title: 30 CFR Part 253, Oil Spill Financial Responsibility for

Offshore Facilities.

Abstract: On August 11, 1998, we published a final rule on this

collection (RIN 1010-AC33, 63 FR 42699) with an effective date of

October 13, 1998. The preamble to the final rule stated that the

information collection aspects of this rule would not take effect until

approved by OMB and the preamble established the required 60-day

comment period. On October 7, 1998, OMB approved the collection of

information requirements and MMS forms required in 30 CFR part 253 with

an expiration date of October 31, 2001. The cover sheet to the approved

forms contains the required Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 Statement.

The forms covered under this approval include:

Form MMS-1016, Designated Applicant Information

Form MMS-1017, Designation of Applicant

Form MMS-1018, Self-insurance or Indemnity Information

Form MMS-1019, Insurance Certificate

Form MMS-1020, Surety Bond

Form MMS-1021, Covered Offshore Facilities

Form MMS-1022, Covered Offshore Facility Changes

These forms are located on our website at www.gomr.mms.gov/homepg/

lsesale/osfr.html in PDF format. You may also obtain copies by

contacting Pat Clancy in the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, Adjudication

Unit, at (504) 736-2600.

MMS Information Collection Clearance Officer: Jo Ann Lauterbach

(202) 208-7744.

Dated: October 16, 1998.

E.P. Danenberger,

Chief, Engineering and Operations Division.

[FR Doc. 98-28730 Filed 10-26-98; 8:45 am]

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