Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 194 / Thursday, October 7, 2004 / Notices 60181

Dated: April 21, 2004. 

Emily Rice, 

Field Manager, Upper Willamette Field Office.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management 

[ID–957–1420–BJ] 

Idaho: Filing of Plats of Survey

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of filing of plats of 

surveys. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) has officially filed 

the plats of survey of the lands 

described below in the BLM Idaho State 

Office, Boise, Idaho, effective 9 a.m., on 

the dates specified.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Bureau of Land Management, 1387 

South Vinnell Way, Boise, Idaho, 

83709–1657.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: These 

surveys were executed at the request of 

the Bureau of Land Management to meet 

certain administrative and management 

purposes: The plat, in two sheets, 

constituting the entire survey record of 

the dependent resurvey of a portion of 

the subdivisional lines and a portion of 

the subdivision of section 16, and a 

metes-and-bounds survey of a portion of 

the Craters of the Moon National 

Monument in sections 15, 16, 21, and 

22, in T. 2 N., R. 24 E., Boise Meridian, 

Idaho, was accepted July 19, 2004. The 

plat constituting the entire survey 

record of the dependent resurvey of a 

portion of the subdivisional lines and a 

metes-and-bounds survey of a portion of 

the Craters of the Moon National 

Monument in sections 2, 3, and 11, in 

T. 6 S., R. 28 E., Boise Meridian, Idaho, 

was accepted August 25, 2004. 

The plat representing the dependent 

resurvey of a portion of the east 

boundary, a portion of the subdivisional 

lines, and the subdivision of sections 13 

and 24, in T. 1 S., R. 3 W., Boise 

Meridian, Idaho, was accepted August 

26, 2004. 

These surveys were executed at the 

request of the Bureau of Land 

Management to meet certain 

administrative needs of the Bureau of 

Indian Affairs. The lands surveyed are: 

The plat representing the dependent 

resurvey of a portion of the 1892 south 

boundary, the 1892 east boundary, and 

a portion of the subdivisional lines, the 

subdivision of section 13, and the 

survey of the 1999–2003 meanders of 

the Blackfoot River, the North Boundary 

of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, of 

lot 10, and a portion of the 1999–2003 

median line of the Blackfoot River, all 

in section 13, in T. 3 S., R. 35 E., Boise 

Meridian, Idaho, was accepted 

September 30, 2004. The plat 

representing the dependent resurvey of 

a portion of the south boundary, an 

informative traverse of the 1875 west 

boundary, a portion of the subdivisional 

lines and 1907 meanders of the left bank 

of the Blackfoot River in section 7, the 

subdivision of sections 7, 18, 19, and 31, 

and the survey of the 2002–2004 

meanders of the Blackfoot River and 

North Boundary of the Fort Hall Indian 

Reservation in sections 7 and 18, in T. 

3 S., R. 36 E., Boise Meridian, Idaho, 

was accepted September 30, 2004.

Dated: October 1, 2004. 

Stanley G. French, 

Chief Cadastral Surveyor for Idaho.

[FR Doc. 04–22558 Filed 10–6–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service 

Thirty-day Notice of Submission of 

Study Package to Office of 

Management and Budget—Opportunity 

for Public Comment

AGENCY: Department of the Interior, 

National Park Service.

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The National Park Service 

(NPS) Social Science Program has 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) a request for 

clearance of a renewed program of 

social science surveys of the public 

related to the mission of the NPS. The 

NPS is publishing this notice to inform 

the public of this program and to 

request comments on the program. 

Since many of the NPS surveys are 

similar in terms of the populations 

being surveyed, the types of questions 

being asked, and research 

methodologies, the NPS proposed to 

OMB and received clearance for a 

program of approval for NPS-sponsored 

public surveys (OMB# 1024–0224 exp. 

8/31/2001; three-year extension granted 

in September 2001, exp. 9/30/2004). 

The program presented an alternative 

approach to complying with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). In the 

five years since the NPS received 

clearance for the program of expedited 

approval, 193 public surveys have been 

conducted in units of the National Park 

System. The benefits of this program 

have been significant to the NPS, 

Department of the Interior (DOI), OMB, 

NPS cooperators, and the public. 

Significant time and cost savings have 

been incurred. Expedited approval was 

typically granted in 45 days or less from 

the date the Principal Investigator first 

submitted a survey package for review. 

This is a significant reduction over the 

approximate 6 months involved in the 

standard OMB approval process. It is 

estimated that the expedited approval 

process saved a total of 870 months in 

Fiscal Years 1999–2003. In five years, 

the expedited approval process has 

accounted for a cost savings to the 

federal government and PIs estimated at 

$348,001. The initial program included 

surveys of park visitors. The program 

renewed in September 2001 included 

surveys of park visitors, potential park 

visitors, and residents of communities 

near parks. The current extension 

request proposes to continue with a 

program of social science surveys of 

park visitors, potential park visitors, and 

residents of communities near parks. 

Under provisions of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 and 5 CFR Part 

1320, Reporting and Record Keeping 

Requirements, the National Park Service 

is soliciting comments on: (a) Whether 

the collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the NPS, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

NPS estimate of the burden of the 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; (c) the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (d) how to minimize 

the burden of the collection of 

information on those who are to 

respond, including the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other forms of 

information technology.

DATES: Public comments will be 

accepted on or before 30 days from the 

date of publication in the Federal 

Register.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

directly to the Desk Officer for the 

Department of the Interior (OMB #1024–

0224), Office of Management and 

Budget Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs (OMB-OIRA) by fax 

at 202–395–5806 or e-mail at 

oira_docket@omb.eop.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR A COPY OF

THE STUDY PACKAGE, CONTACT: Dr. James 

H. Gramann. Voice: 202–513–7189, Fax: 

202–371–2131, E-mail: 

james_gramann@partner.nps.gov or 

Brian E. Forist. Voice: 202–513–7190,