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

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

[email protected] (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.

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