75564 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 242 / Friday, December 17, 2004 / Notices 

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30 CFR 250

subpart B 

Reporting & recordkeeping requirement Hour burden 

200 through 299 .... General departure and alternative compliance requests not specifically covered elsewhere in 

subpart B regulations.

2. 

Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’

Burden: We have identified no cost 

burdens for this collection.

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. 

Agencies must also estimate the ‘‘nonhour cost’’ burdens to respondents or 

recordkeepers resulting from the 

collection of information. Therefore, 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, and 

record storage facilities. You should not 

include estimates for 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 

submission for OMB approval. As a 

result of your comments, we will make 

any necessary adjustments to the burden 

in our submission to OMB. 

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. 

MMS Information Collection 

Clearance Officer: Arlene Bajusz (202) 

208–7744.

Dated: December 13, 2004. 

E.P. Danenberger, 

Chief, Offshore Regulatory Programs.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service 

Fire Management Plans, Environmental 

Impact Statements, Guadalupe 

Mountains National Park and Big Bend 

National Park, TX, and Carlsbad 

Caverns National Park, NM

AGENCY: National Park Service, 

Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notices of Intent to prepare 

Environmental Assessments for the Fire 

Management Plans at Guadalupe 

Mountains National Park, Big Bend 

National Park, and Carlsbad Caverns 

National Park. 

SUMMARY: In Notices of Intent published 

October 10, 2002 (67 FR 63151) 

November 15, 2002 (67 FR 69239), and 

June 11, 2003 (68 FR 35002), the 

National Park Service (NPS) announced 

its intent to prepare EIS’s for the Fire 

Management Plans at Guadalupe 

Mountains National Park, Carlsbad 

Caverns National Park and Big Bend 

National Park, respectively. The NPS 

has since determined that 

environmental assessments (EA), rather 

than EIS’s, are the appropriate 

environmental documentation to 

proceed with for the Fire Management 

Plans at those parks.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NPS 

had begun working on EIS’s for the Fire 

Management Plans for each park 

following the publication of the Notices 

of Intent. Internal discussions and 

meetings, and comments from public 

scoping sessions helped frame the 

alternatives and issues related to each 

Fire Management Plan. In the 

development of each EIS, the effects of 

the alternatives have been examined in 

detail. Based on these findings and the 

input received during public scoping, 

the NPS has decided to proceed with an 

EA as the National Environmental 

Policy Act documentation for the 

update and review of these parks’ Fire 

Management Plans. 

At an undetermined date following 

the publication of this Notice of Intent, 

the parks will release their Fire 

Management Plan EA’s for 30-day 

public comment.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Lujan, Superintendent, Guadalupe 

Mountains National Park, HC 60 Box 

400, Salt Flat, TX 79847–9400, 

(915)828–3251 x104, 

GUMO_Superintendent@nps.gov., John 

King, Superintendent, Big Bend 

National Park, P.O. Box 129, Big Bend 

National Park, TX 79834–0129, 

(432)477–1101, 

BIBE_Superintendent@nps.gov, John 

Benjamin, Acting Superintendent, 

Carlsbad Caverns National Park, 3225 

National Parks Highway Carlsbad, NM 

88220, (505)785–3027 

CAVE_Superintendent@nps.gov.

Dated: October 13, 2004. 

Michael D. Snyder, 

Deputy Director, Intermountain Region, 

National Park Service.

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