67164 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 220 / Tuesday, November 16, 2004 / Notices 

Comments: Before submitting an ICR 

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

requires each agency ‘‘* * * to provide 

notice * * * 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 

‘‘non-hour cost’’ burden to respondents 

or recordkeepers resulting from the 

collection of information. We have not 

identified non-hour cost burdens for 

this information collection. 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. The ICR also will be 

posted on our Web site (see below). 

Public Comment Policy: We will post 

all comments in response to this notice 

on our Web site at http://

www.mrm.mms.gov/Laws_R_D/

FRNotices/FRInfColl.htm. We also will 

make copies of the comments available 

for public review, including names and 

addresses of respondents, during regular 

business hours at our offices in 

Lakewood, Colorado. Upon request, we 

will withhold an individual 

respondent’s home address from the 

public record, as allowable by law. 

There also may be circumstances in 

which we would withhold from the 

rulemaking record a respondent’s 

identity, as allowable by law. If you 

request that we withhold your name 

and/or address, state your request 

prominently at the beginning of your 

comment. However, we will not 

consider anonymous comments. We 

will make all submissions from 

organizations or businesses, and from 

individuals identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, available 

for public inspection in their entirety. 

MMS Information Collection 

Clearance Officer: Arlene Bajusz (202) 

208–7744.

Dated: November 5, 2004. 

Lucy Querques Denett, 

Associate Director for Minerals Revenue 

Management.

[FR Doc. 04–25330 Filed 11–15–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submitted for Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service 

(MMS), Interior.

ACTION: Notice of a new information 

collection (1010–NEW). 

SUMMARY: To comply with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), we are notifying the public that 

we have submitted to OMB an 

information collection request (ICR) for 

review and approval of the paperwork 

requirements in the regulations under 

30 CFR 250, Subpart I, Platforms and 

Structures, and related documents. This 

notice also provides the public a second 

opportunity to comment on the 

paperwork burden of these regulatory 

requirements.

DATES: Submit written comments by 

December 16, 2004.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

either by fax (202) 395–6566 or email 

(OIRA_DOCKET@omb.eop.gov) directly 

to the Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, OMB, Attention: 

Desk Officer for the Department of the 

Interior (1010–New). Mail or hand carry 

a copy of your comments to the 

Department of the Interior; Minerals 

Management Service; Attention: Rules 

Processing Team; Mail Stop 4024; 381 

Elden Street; Herndon, Virginia 20170–

4817. Interested parties may submit a 

copy of their comments on-line to MMS, 

the address is: https://

ocsconnect.mms.gov. From the Public 

Connect ‘‘Welcome’’ screen, you will be 

able to either search for Information 

Collection 1010–New or select it from 

the ‘‘Projects Open For Comment’’

menu.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Cheryl Blundon, Rules Processing 

Team, (703) 787–1600. You may also 

contact Cheryl Blundon to obtain a 

copy, at no cost, of the regulations, and 

the Notice to Lessee (NTL) that require 

the subject collection of information.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Assessment of Existing OCS 

Platforms Notice to Lessees (NTL). 

OMB Control Number: 1010–New. 

Abstract: The Outer Continental Shelf 

(OCS) Lands Act, as amended (43 U.S.C. 

1331 et seq. and 43 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), 

authorizes the Secretary of the Interior 

(Secretary) to prescribe rules and 

regulations to administer leasing of the 

OCS. Such rules and regulations will 

apply to all operations conducted under 

a lease. Operations on the OCS must 

preserve, protect, and develop oil and 

natural gas resources in a manner that 

is consistent with the need to make such 

resources available to meet the Nation’s 

energy needs as rapidly as possible; to 

balance orderly energy resource 

development with protection of human, 

marine, and coastal environments; to 

ensure the public a fair and equitable 

return on the resources of the OCS; and 

to preserve and maintain free enterprise 

competition. 

Specifically, the OCS Lands Act (43 

U.S.C. 1356) requires the issuance of 

‘‘* * * regulations which require that 

any vessel, rig, platform, or other 

vehicle or structure * * * (2) which is 

used for activities pursuant to this 

subchapter, comply * * * with such 

minimum standards of design, 

construction, alteration, and repair as 

the Secretary * * * establishes * * *’’

The OCS Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1332(6)) 

also states, ‘‘operations in the [O]uter 

Continental Shelf should be conducted 

in a safe manner * * * to prevent or 

minimize the likelihood of * * * 

physical obstruction to other users of 

the water or subsoil and seabed, or other 

occurrences which may cause damage to 

the environment or to property, or 

endanger life or health.’’ These 

authorities and responsibilities are 

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among those delegated to MMS under 

which we issue regulations to ensure 

that operations in the OCS will meet 

statutory requirements; provide for 

safety and protection of the 

environment; and result in diligent 

exploration, development, and 

production of OCS leases. This 

information collection request addresses 

the regulations at 30 CFR 250, Subpart 

I, Platforms and Structures. 

The MMS OCS Regions use the 

information submitted under Subpart I 

to determine the structural integrity of 

all offshore structures and ensure that 

such integrity will be maintained 

throughout the useful life of these 

structures. We use the information to 

ascertain, on a case-by-case basis, that 

the platforms and structures are 

structurally sound and safe for their 

intended use to ensure safety of 

personnel and pollution prevention. 

Currently, lessees are required to 

conduct these platform assessments and 

evaluations (API RP 2A–WSD, 21st 

edition, incorporated by reference April 

21, 2003 (68 FR 193521), into 30 CFR 

250.900(g)), but the regulations under 

Subpart I do not require lessees to 

submit the results to MMS. Therefore, 

with this information collection request, 

MMS is requesting the submission of 

the results of platform assessments and 

evaluations. Upon OMB approval of this 

collection, MMS will issue an NTL that 

requests lessees to submit their results 

of platform assessments and evaluations 

on a voluntary basis. MMS will use this 

information to verify that lessees have 

conducted assessments of existing 

platforms in an appropriate and timely 

manner to evaluate the risk of allowing 

existing platforms to finish their 

originally approved purposes; more 

specifically, we will use the information 

submitted through the NTL to: 

• Verify that existing platforms 

comply with design criteria in 

accordance to API RP 2A–WSD (21st 

edition), ‘‘Recommended Practice For 

Planning, Designing, And Constructing 

Fixed Offshore Platforms—Working 

Stress Design,’’ and to evaluate the risk 

of allowing existing platforms to finish 

their originally approved purpose. 

• Review reports that relate to 

framing patterns, soil data, exposure 

category, initiator data, assessment 

screening, design level analysis, and 

ultimate strength analysis. 

• Review mitigation plans and 

platform applications for platforms that 

fail the ultimate strength analysis. 

We will protect information from 

respondents considered proprietary 

under the Freedom of Information Act 

(5 U.S.C. 552) and its implementing 

regulations (43 CFR Part 2) and under 

regulations at 30 CFR 250.196, ‘‘Data 

and information to be made available to 

the public.’’ No items of a sensitive 

nature are collected. Submissions are 

voluntary. 

Frequency: Submission occurs 

periodically based on assessment. 

Estimated Number and Description of 

Respondents: Approximately 130 

Federal OCS oil and gas or sulphur 

lessees. 

Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Hour’’ Burden: We 

estimate that the reporting burden for 

this collection is 113,528 burden hours. 

The oil and gas industry and MMS 

recognize that some existing platforms 

may not comply with the design criteria 

required for new platforms. Design 

criteria were developed to provide a 

way to evaluate the risk of allowing 

existing platforms to finish their 

originally approved purpose. The 

following discussion details the 

individual components and the 

respective hour burden estimates of this 

ICR. In calculating the burdens, we 

assumed that respondents perform 

certain requirements in the normal 

course of their activities. We consider 

these to be usual and customary and 

took that into account in estimating the 

burden. 

• MMS estimates that 3,347 platforms 

in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) OCS will 

require submittal of framing patterns, 

soil data, exposure category, initiator 

data, and the assessment screening and 

report. Estimate 24 hours per submittal. 

Total burden = 80,328 hours. 

• MMS estimates that 400 platforms 

will fail the assessment screening and 

require a design level analysis and 

report. Estimate 50 hours per submittal. 

Total burden = 20,000 hours. 

• MMS estimates that 200 platforms 

will fail the design level analysis and 

require an ultimate strength analysis 

and report. Estimate 48 hours per 

submittal. Total burden = 9,600 hours. 

• MMS estimates that 100 platforms 

will fail the ultimate strength analysis 

and require mitigation and a platform 

application. Estimate 36 hours per 

submittal. Total burden = 3,600 hours. 

• Program = 113,528 hours. 

Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’

Burden: We have identified no ‘‘nonhour cost’’ burdens associated with the 

collection of information.

Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA 

(44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an 

agency may not conduct or sponsor a 

collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. Until OMB approves a 

collection of information, you are not 

obligated to respond. 

Comments: Before submitting an ICR 

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

requires each agency ‘‘ * * * to provide 

notice * * * 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. 

To comply with the public 

consultation process, on August 17, 

2004, we published a Federal Register

notice (69 FR 51101) announcing that 

we would submit this ICR to OMB for 

approval. The notice provided the 

required 60-day comment period. We 

have received no comments in response 

to this notice. In addition, § 250.199 

provides the OMB control number for 

the information collection requirements 

imposed by the 30 CFR 250 regulations. 

The regulation also informs the public 

that they may comment at any time on 

the collections of information and 

provides the address to which they 

should send comments. 

If you wish to comment in response 

to this notice, you may send your 

comments to the offices listed under the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice. OMB 

has up to 60 days to approve or 

disapprove the information collection 

but may respond after 30 days. 

Therefore, to ensure maximum 

consideration, OMB should receive 

public comments by December 16, 2004. 

Public Comment Policy: MMS’s 

practice is to make comments, including 

names and addresses of respondents, 

available for public review during 

regular business hours. If you wish your 

name and/or address to be withheld, 

you must state this prominently at the 

beginning of your comment. MMS will 

honor this request to the extent 

allowable by law; however, anonymous 

comments will not be considered. All 

submissions from organizations or 

businesses, and from individuals 

identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, will be 

made available for public inspection in 

their entirety. 

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MMS Information Collection 

Clearance Officer: Arlene Bajusz (202) 

208–7744.

Dated: October 20, 2004. 

E.P. Danenberger, 

Chief, Engineering and Operations Division.

[FR Doc. 04–25331 Filed 11–15–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service 

Cuyahoga Valley National Park, OH

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Availability of a Plan 

of Operations and Environmental 

Assessment for a 30-day public review 

at Cuyahoga Valley National Park, 

Summit County, Ohio. 

SUMMARY: The National Park Service 

(NPS), in accordance with Section 

9.52(b) of Title 36 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations has received from Medina 

Fuel Company, Inc., a Plan of 

Operations to Conduct Geophysical 

(seismic) Testing within Camp Manatoc 

Boy Scout Reservation for the purpose 

of developing future oil/gas wells 

within the camp. A plan of operations 

describes the proposed operation, 

including the equipment, methods and 

materials to be used in the operation, 

mitigation measures to protect park 

resources and values and environmental 

conditions in the vicinity of the site, 

and environmental impacts of the 

proposed operation. When approved, 

the plan of operations serves as the 

operator’s permit to conduct operations 

in a park. Camp Manatoc is private 

property located within Cuyahoga 

Valley National Park, just east of 

Peninsula, Ohio. The proposed plan of 

operation is subject to the existing Deed 

of Preservation and Conservation 

Easement between the Boy Scouts of 

America and the National Park Service 

at Cuyahoga Valley National Park. 

Under the provisions of the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the 

National Park Service has prepared an 

Environmental Assessment which 

evaluates potential environmental 

impacts associated with the proposed 

geophysical operation located within 

the park.

DATES: The above documents are 

available for public review and 

comment for a period of 30 days from 

the publication date of this notice in the 

Federal Register.

ADDRESSES: The Plan of Operations and 

Environmental Assessment are available 

for public review and comment in the 

Office of the Superintendent, Cuyahoga 

Valley National Park, 15610 Vaughn 

Road, Brecksville, Ohio. Copies of the 

Plan of Operations are available, for a 

duplication fee, from the 

Superintendent, Cuyahoga Valley 

National Park, 15610 Vaughn Road, 

Brecksville, Ohio 44141.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Meg 

Plona, Biologist, Cuyahoga Valley 

National Park, 15610 Vaughn Road, 

Brecksville, Ohio 44141. Telephone: 

(330) 342–0764, e-mail at 

Meg_Plona@nps.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: If you 

wish to submit comments about this 

document within the 30 days, mail them 

to the address provided above, hand 

deliver them to the park at the street 

address provided above, or 

electronically file them to the e-mail 

address provided above. Our practice is 

to make the public comments we 

receive in response to planning 

documents, including names and home 

addresses of respondents, available for 

public review during regular business 

hours. We will make all submissions 

from organizations or businesses, and 

from individuals identifying themselves 

as representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, available 

for public inspection in their entirety. 

Individual respondents may request that 

we withhold their home address from 

the public record, and we will honor 

such requests to the extent allowable by 

law. If you wish to withhold your name 

and/or address, you must state this 

prominently at the beginning of your 

comment.

Dated: July 12, 2004. 

John P. Debo, Jr., 

Superintendent, Cuyahoga Valley National 

Park.

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BILLING CODE 4312–52–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service 

Draft Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Statement for the Elwha 

Ecosystem Restoration 

Implementation Final Environmental 

Impact Statement, Olympic National 

Park, Clallam County, WA; Notice of 

Availability 

Summary: Pursuant to § 102 (2)(c) of 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

of 1969 (Pub. L. 91–190, as amended) 

and corresponding Council of 

Environmental Quality implementing 

regulations (40 CFR part 1500–1508), 

the National Park Service, Department 

of the Interior and its cooperating 

agencies have completed a draft 

supplement to the Elwha River 

Ecosystem Restoration Implementation 

final environmental impact statement 

(1996 Implementation EIS). Two dams 

(built in the early 1900s) block the 

Elwha River and limit anadromous fish 

to the lowest 4.9 river miles. A 1996 

Implementation EIS (second of two 

impact statements that examined how 

best to restore the Elwha River 

ecosystem and native anadromous 

fishery in Olympic National Park) 

selected dam removal as the preferred 

option and identified a particular set of 

actions to remove the dams. The release 

of sediment from behind the dams 

would result in sometimes severe 

impacts to water quality or the 

reliability of supply to downstream 

users during the dam removal impact 

period of about 3–5 years, which the 

Implementation EIS proposed mitigating 

through a series of specific measures 

(see below). However, since 1996, when 

the Record of Decision was signed, new 

research and changes unrelated to the 

project have necessitated re-analysis of 

these measures. The primary purpose of 

the supplemental EIS (SEIS) is to 

analyze the impacts of a new set of 

water quality and supply related 

mitigation measures. 

Background: Elwha Dam was built on 

the Elwha River in 1911 and Glines 

Canyon Dam in 1925, limiting 

anadromous fish to the lowest 4.9 miles 

of river and blocking access to more 

than 70 miles of Elwha River mainstem 

and tributary habitat. The two dams and 

their associated reservoirs have also 

inundated and degraded important 

riverine and terrestrial habitat and 

severely affected fisheries habitat 

through increased temperatures, 

reduced nutrients, the absence of 

spawning gravels downstream and other 

changes. Consequently, salmon and 

steelhead populations in the river have 

been considerably reduced or 

eliminated, and the Elwha River 

ecosystem within Olympic National 

Park significantly and adversely altered. 

In 1992, Congress enacted the Elwha 

River Ecosystem and Fisheries 

Restoration Act (Pub. L. 102–495) 

directing the Secretary of the Interior to 

fully restore the Elwha river ecosystem 

and native anadromous fisheries, while 

at the same time protecting users of the 

river’s water from adverse impacts 

associated with dam removal. As noted 

above, the decisions associated with this 

process indicated removal of both dams 

was needed to fully restore the 

ecosystem. Impacts to water quality will 

result from the release of sediment 

which has accumulated behind the 

dams. Impacts to water supply will