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to OMB to approve this IC. Before 

including your address, phone number, 

e-mail address, or other personal 

identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment, including your 

personal identifying information, may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Dated: March 22, 2011. 

Robert Gordon, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, 

National Park Service. 

[FR Doc. 2011–7112 Filed 3–24–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of Natural Resources Revenue 

[Docket No. ONRR–2011–0006] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection, 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Office of Natural Resources 

Revenue (ONRR), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of a revision of a 

currently approved information 

collection (OMB Control Number 1012– 

0009, formerly 1010–0073). 

SUMMARY: To comply with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), we are inviting comments on a 

collection of information that we will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for review and approval. 

This information collection request 

(ICR) was formerly approved under 

OMB Control Number 1010–0073. After 

the Secretary of the Interior established 

ONRR (the former Minerals Revenue 

Management, a program under the 

Minerals Management Service) on 

October 1, 2010, OMB approved a new 

series number for ONRR and 

renumbered our ICRs. Also, effective 

October 1, 2010, ONRR reorganized and 

transferred their regulations from 

chapter II to chapter XII in title 30 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), 

resulting in a change in our citations. 

This ICR covers the paperwork 

requirements in the regulations under 

30 CFR part 1220 (previously 30 CFR 

part 220). The revised title of this 

information collection request (ICR) is 

‘‘30 CFR Part 1220, OCS Net Profit Share 

Payment Reporting.’’ There are no forms 

associated with this information 

collection. 

DATES: Submit written comments on or 

before May 24, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

on this ICR to ONRR by any of the 

following methods. Please use ‘‘ICR 

1012–0009’’ as an identifier in your 

comment. 

• Electronically go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov. In the entry titled 

‘‘Enter Keyword or ID,’’ enter ONRR– 

2011–0006, and then click search. 

Follow the instructions to submit public 

comments. The ONRR will post all 

comments. 

• Mail comments to Armand 

Southall, Regulatory Specialist, Office of 

Natural Resources Revenue, P.O. Box 

25165, MS 61013B, Denver, Colorado 

80225. Please reference ICR 1012–0009 

in your comments. 

• Hand-carry comments or use an 

overnight courier service. Our courier 

address is Building 85, Room A–614, 

Denver Federal Center, West 6th Ave. 

and Kipling St., Denver, Colorado 

80225. Please reference ICR 1012–0009 

in your comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions on technical issues, contact 

Mary Ann Guilinger, Audit and 

Compliance Management (ACM), Office 

of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR), 

telephone (303) 231–3408, or e-mail 

maryann.guilinger@onrr.gov. For other 

comments or questions, contact Armand 

Southall, Project Management Office— 

Regulations, ONRR, telephone (303) 

231–3221, or e-mail 

armand.southall@onrr.gov. You may 

contact Mr. Southall to obtain copies, at 

no cost, of (1) the ICR and (2) the 

regulations that require the subject 

information collection. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: 30 CFR Part 1220, OCS Net 

Profit Share Payment Reporting. 

OMB Control Number: 1012–0009. 

Bureau Form Number: None. 

Abstract: The Secretary of the 

Department of the Interior is responsible 

for collecting royalties from lessees who 

produce minerals from leased Federal 

and Indian lands and the Outer 

Continental Shelf (OCS). The Secretary 

is required by various laws to manage 

mineral resources production on 

Federal and Indian lands and the OCS, 

collect the royalties due, and distribute 

the funds collected in accordance with 

those laws. The ONRR performs the 

royalty management functions for the 

Secretary. 

Public laws pertaining to mineral 

leases on Federal and Indian lands and 

the OCS are posted at http:// 

www.onrr.gov/Laws_R_D/ 

PublicLawsAMR.htm. 

I. General Information 

The ONRR collects and uses this 

information to determine all allowable 

direct and allocable joint costs and 

credits under § 1220.011 incurred 

during the lease term, appropriate 

overhead allowance permitted on these 

costs under § 1220.012, and allowances 

for capital recovery calculated under 

§ 1220.020. The ONRR also collects this 

information to ensure royalties or net 

profit share payments are accurately 

valued and appropriately paid. This ICR 

affects only oil and gas leases on 

submerged Federal lands on the OCS. 

II. Information Collections 

Title 30 CFR part 1220 covers the net 

profit share lease (NPSL) program and 

establishes reporting requirements for 

determining the net profit share base 

and calculating net profit share 

payments due the Federal Government 

for the production of oil and gas from 

leases. 

A. NPSL Bidding System 

To encourage exploration and 

development of oil and gas leases on 

submerged Federal lands on the OCS, 

the Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Regulation, and 

Enforcement (BOEMRE, the former 

Offshore Energy and Minerals 

Management [OEMM] of Minerals 

Management Service [MMS]) 

promulgated regulations at 30 CFR 

260—Outer Continental Shelf Oil and 

Gas Leasing. Also, BOEMRE 

promulgated specific implementing 

regulations for the NPSL bidding system 

at § 260.110(d). The BOEMRE, formerly 

OEMM/MMS, established the NPSL 

bidding system to balance a fair market 

return to the Federal Government for the 

lease of its public lands with a fair profit 

to companies risking their investment 

capital. The system provides an 

incentive for early and expeditious 

exploration and development and 

provides for sharing the risks by the 

lessee and the Federal Government. The 

NPSL bidding system incorporates a 

fixed capital recovery system as a means 

through which the lessee recovers costs 

of exploration and development from 

production revenues, along with a 

reasonable return on investment. 

B. NPSL Capital Account 

The Federal Government does not 

receive a profit share payment from an 

NPSL until the lessee shows a credit 

balance in its capital account, that is, 

when cumulative revenues and other 

credits exceed cumulative costs. Lessees 

multiply the credit balance by the net 

profit share rate (30 to 50 percent), 

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share payment due the Federal 

Government. 

The ONRR requires lessees to 

maintain an NPSL capital account for 

each lease under § 1220.010, which 

transfers to a new owner when sold. 

Following the cessation of production, 

lessees are also required to provide 

either an annual or a monthly report to 

the Federal Government, using data 

from the capital account. 

C. NPSL Inventories 

The NPSL lessees must notify ONRR 

of their intent to perform an inventory 

and file a report after each inventory of 

controllable materiel under § 1220.032. 

D. NPSL Audits 

When non-operators of an NPSL call 

for an audit, they must notify ONRR. 

When ONRR calls for an audit, the 

lessee must notify all non-operators on 

the lease. These requirements are 

located at § 1220.033. 

III. OMB Approval 

The information we collect under this 

ICR is essential in order to determine 

when net profit share payments are due 

and to ensure lessees properly value and 

pay royalties or net profit share 

payments. 

The ONRR will request OMB’s 

approval to continue to collect this 

information. Not collecting this 

information would limit the Secretary’s 

ability to discharge fiduciary duties and 

may also result in the inability to 

confirm the accurate royalty value. 

Proprietary information submitted to 

ONRR under this collection is protected, 

and no items of a sensitive nature are 

collected. 

Frequency: Annually, monthly, and 

on occasion. 

Estimated Number and Description of 

Respondents: 6 lessees. 

Estimated Annual Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Hour’’ Burden: 1,046 

hours. 

All six lessees report monthly because 

all current NPSLs are in producing 

status. Because the requirements for 

establishment of capital accounts at 

§ 1220.010(a) and reporting of annual 

capital account at § 1220.031(a) are 

necessary only during non-producing 

status of a lease, we included only one 

response annually for these 

requirements, in case a new NPSL is 

established. We have not included in 

our estimates certain requirements 

performed in the normal course of 

business, which are considered usual 

and customary. The following chart 

shows the estimated annual burden 

hours by CFR section and paragraph. 

RESPONDENTS’ ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS

Citation 30 CFR 1220 Reporting and recordkeeping requirement Hour burden 

Number of 

annual 

responses 

Annual burden 

hours 

PART 1220—Accounting Procedures for Determining Net Profit Share Payment for Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leases 

§ 1220.010 NPSL capital account. 

1220.010(a) .................... (a) For each NPSL tract, an NPSL capital account shall be established and maintained by the lessee for NPSL operations. 1 1 1 

§ 1220.030 Maintenance of records 

1220.030(a) and (b) ....... (a) Each lessee . . . shall establish and maintain such records 

as are necessary. 

1 6 6 

§ 1220.031 Reporting and payment requirements 

1220.031(a) .................... (a) Each lessee subject to this part shall file an annual report 

during the period from issuance of the NPSL until the first 

month in which production revenues are credited to the NPSL 

capital account. 

1 1 1 

1220.031(b) .................... (b) Beginning with the first month in which production revenues 

are credited to the NPSL capital account, each lessee. shall 

file a report for each NPSL, not later than 60 days following the 

end of each month. 

13 72 936 

1220.031(c) .................... (c) Each lessee subject to this Part 1220 shall submit, together 

with the report required . . . any net profit share payment due. 

Burden hours covered under § 1220.031(b). 

1220.031(d) .................... (d) Each lessee . . . shall file a report not later than 90 days 

after each inventory is taken. 

8 6 48 

1220.031(e) .................... (e) Each lessee . . . shall file a final report, not later than 60 

days following the cessation of production. 

4 6 24 

§ 1220.032 Inventories 

1220.032(b) .................... (b) At reasonable intervals, but at least once every three years, 

inventories of controllable materiel shall be taken by the lessee. Written notice of intention to take inventory shall be given 

by the lessee at least 30 days before any inventory is to be 

taken so that the Director may be represented at the taking of 

inventory. 

1 6 6 


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RESPONDENTS’ ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS—Continued 

Citation 30 CFR 1220 Reporting and recordkeeping requirement Hour burden 

Number of 

annual 

responses 

Annual burden 

hours 

§ 1220.033 Audits 

1220.033(b)(1) ................ (b)(1) When nonoperators of an NPSL lease call an audit in accordance with the terms of their operating agreement, the Director shall be notified of the audit call..2 6 12 

1220.033(b)(2) ................ (b)(2) If DOI determines to call for an audit, DOI shall notify the 

lessee of its audit call and set a time and place for the audit 

. . . The lessee shall send copies of the notice to the nonoperators on the lease..

2 6 12 

1220.033(e) .................... (e) Records required to be kept under § 1220.030(a) shall be 

made available for inspection by any authorized agent of DOI..

The Office of Regulatory Affairs determined that 

the audit process is exempt from the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 because MMS staff asks 

non-standard questions to resolve exceptions. 

Total Burden ........... ......................................................................................................... ........................ 110 1,046 

Estimated Annual Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-hour’’ Cost Burden: 

We have identified no ‘‘non-Hour cost’’ 

burdens. 

Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA 

(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) 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. 

Comments: Before submitting an ICR 

to OMB, PRA Section 3506(c)(2)(A) 

requires each agency to ‘‘* * * provide 

60-day notice in the Federal Register 

* * * 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 

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. 

The PRA also requires agencies to 

estimate the total annual reporting ‘‘nonhour cost’’ burden to respondents or 

recordkeepers resulting from the 

collection of information. If you have 

costs to generate, maintain, and disclose 

this information, you should comment 

and provide your total capital and 

startup cost components or annual 

operation, maintenance, and purchase 

of service components. You should 

describe the methods you use to 

estimate major cost factors, including 

system and technology acquisition, 

expected useful life of capital 

equipment, discount rate(s), and the 

period over which you incur costs. 

Capital and startup costs include, 

among other items, computers and 

software you purchase to prepare for 

collecting information; monitoring, 

sampling, and testing equipment; and 

record storage facilities. Generally, your 

estimates should not include equipment 

or services purchased: (i) Before October 

1, 1995; (ii) to comply with 

requirements not associated with the 

information collection; (iii) for reasons 

other than to provide information or 

keep records for the Government; or (iv) 

as part of customary and usual business 

or private practices. 

We will summarize written responses 

to this notice and address them in our 

ICR submission for OMB approval, 

including appropriate adjustments to 

the estimated burden. We will provide 

a copy of the ICR to you without charge 

upon request. We also will post the ICR 

at http://www.onrr.gov/Laws_R_D/ 

FRNotices/FRInfColl.htm. 

Public Comment Policy: We will post 

all comments, including names and 

addresses of respondents, at http:// 

regulations.gov. Before including your 

address, phone number, e-mail address, 

or other personal identifying 

information in your comment, be 

advised that your entire comment— 

including your personal identifying 

information—may be made publicly 

available at any time. While you can ask 

us in your comment to withhold from 

public view your personal identifying 

information, we cannot guarantee that 

we will be able to do so. 

ONRR Information Collection 

Clearance Officer: Rachel Drucker (202) 

208–3568. 

Dated: March 22, 2011. 

Gregory J. Gould, 

Director for Office of Natural Resources 

Revenue. 

[FR Doc. 2011–7140 Filed 3–24–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

Central Valley Project Improvement 

Act, Standard Criteria for Ag and 

Urban Water Management Plans 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The ‘‘Standard Criteria for 

Agricultural and Urban Water 

Management Plans’’ (Criteria) are now 

available for public comment. To meet 

the requirements of the Central Valley 

Project Improvement Act of 1992 

(CVPIA) and the Reclamation Reform 

Act of 1982 (RRA), the Bureau of 

Reclamation (Reclamation) developed 

and published the Criteria. The Criteria 

apply to any Water Management Plans 

(Plans) submitted to Reclamation as 

required by applicable Central Valley 

Project (CVP) water service contracts, 

settlement contracts, or any contracts 

that specifically invokes the Criteria. 

Note: For the purpose of this 

announcement, Water Management 

Plans are considered the same as Water 

Conservation Plans. 

DATES: Submit written comments by 

April 25, 2011. 


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