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paperwork requirements in 43 CFR parts 

3620 and 5510, which pertain to free 

use of, respectively, petrified wood, 

timber, et al. The Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) previously approved 

this information collection activity 

under the control number 1004–0001. 

DATES: You must submit your comments 

to the BLM at the address below on or 

before March 15, 2010. The BLM is not 

obligated to consider any comments 

postmarked or received after the above 

date. 

ADDRESSES: You may mail comments to: 

U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau 

of Land Management, Mail Stop 401– 

LS, 1849 C St., NW., Washington, DC 

20240, Attention: 1004–0001. You may 

also comment by e-mail at: 

Jean_Sonneman@blm.gov. 

Comments will be available for public 

review at the L Street address during 

regular business hours (7:45 a.m. to 4:15 

p.m.), Monday through Friday, 

excluding Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You 

may contact James Bowmer, Forester— 

Stewardship Coordinator, Bureau of 

Land Management, Division of Forests 

and Woodlands, (202) 912–7247 

(Commercial or FTS). Persons who use 

a telecommunication device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) on 1–800–877– 

8339, 24 hours a day, seven days a 

week, to contact Mr. Bowmer. You may 

also contact Mr. Bowmer to obtain a 

copy, at no cost, of the regulations and 

forms that require this collection of 

information. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB 

regulations at 5 CFR 1320, which 

implement provisions of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501–3521), 

require that interested members of the 

public and affected agencies be 

provided an opportunity to comment on 

information collection and 

recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR 

1320.8(d) and 1320.12(a)). This notice 

identifies information collections that 

are contained in 43 CFR parts 3830 

through 3838 and part 5511. The BLM 

will request that the OMB approve this 

information collection activity for a 3- 

year term. 

Comments are invited on: (1) The 

need for the collection of information 

for the performance of the functions of 

the agency; (2) the accuracy of the 

agency’s burden estimates; (3) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information collection; and (4) 

ways to minimize the information 

collection burden on respondents, such 

as use of automated means of collection 

of the information. A summary of the 

public comments will accompany the 

BLM’s submission of the information 

collection requests to OMB. 

The following information is provided 

for the information collection: 

Title: Form 5510–1, Free Use 

Application and Permit (43 CFR Part 

3620 and 5510). 

Forms: 

• Form 5510, Free Use Application 

and Permit. 

OMB Control Number: 1004–0001. 

Abstract: This notice pertains to 

information collections that are 

necessary in order to manage the 

collection of limited quantities of 

petrified wood and timber for 

noncommercial purposes. The 

information collections covered by this 

notice are found at 43 CFR parts 3620 

and 5510, and in the form listed above. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Estimated Number and Description of 

Respondents: 476. 

Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Hour’’ Burden: The 

currently approved annual reporting 

burden for this collection is 952 hours. 

Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’ 

Burden: There is no currently approved 

non-hour cost burden for Control 

Number 1004–0001. 

The Paperwork Reduction Act (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. 

The BLM will summarize all 

responses to this notice and include 

them in the request for OMB approval. 

All comments will become a matter of 

public record. 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. 

Jean Sonneman, 

Acting Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, Bureau of Land Management. 

[FR Doc. 2010–399 Filed 1–11–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–84–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Minerals Management Service 

[Docket no. MMS–2010–OMM–0001] 

MMS Information Collection Activity: 

1010–NEW Study of Sharing To Assess 

Community Resilience; Notice of a 

New Collection; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service 

(MMS), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of an information 

collection (1010–NEW). 

SUMMARY: To comply with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), MMS is inviting comments on a 

new collection of information that we 

will submit to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for review and 

approval. The information collection 

request (ICR) pertains to conducting a 

survey, Study of Sharing to Assess 

Community Resilience. 

DATES: Submit written comments by 

March 15, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cheryl Blundon, Regulations and 

Standards Branch at (703) 787–1607, to 

obtain a copy, at no cost, of the survey 

that requires the subject collection of 

information. For more information on 

the survey itself, contact Chris Campbell 

in the MMS Alaska Regional Office at 

(907) 334–5264. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods listed 

below. 

• Electronically: Go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov. In the entry titled 

‘‘Enter Keyword or ID,’’ enter docket ID 

MMS–2010–OMM–0001 then click 

search. Under the tab ‘‘View By 

Relevance’’ you can submit public 

comments and view supporting and 

related materials available for this 

collection of information. The MMS will 

post all comments. 

• Mail or hand-carry comments to the 

Department of the Interior; Minerals 

Management Service; Attention: Cheryl 

Blundon; 381 Elden Street, MS–4024; 

Herndon, Virginia 20170–4817. Please 

reference ‘‘Information Collection 1010– 

NEW’’ in your subject line and include 

your name and return address. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Study of Sharing to Assess 

Community Resiliency. 

OMB Control Number: 1010–NEW. 

Abstract: The United States Congress, 

through the 1953 Outer Continental 

Shelf (OCS) Lands Act (OCSLA) [Pub. L. 

95–372, Section 20] and its subsequent 

amendments, requires the Secretary of 

the Department of the Interior to 

monitor and assess the impacts of 

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resource development activities in 

Federal waters on human, marine, and 

coastal environments. The OCSLA 

amendments authorize the Secretary of 

the Interior to conduct studies in areas 

or regions of sales to ascertain the 

‘‘environmental impacts on the human, 

marine, and coastal environments of the 

outer Continental Shelf and the coastal 

areas which may be affected by oil and 

gas or other mineral development’’ (43 

U.S.C. 1346). 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321– 

4347) requires that all Federal Agencies 

use a systematic, interdisciplinary 

approach to ensure the integrated use of 

the natural and social sciences in any 

planning and decision making that may 

have an effect on the human 

environment. The Council on 

Environmental Quality’s Regulations for 

Implementing Procedural Provisions of 

NEPA (40 CFR 1500–1508) state that the 

‘‘human environment’’ is to be 

‘‘interpreted comprehensively’’ to 

include ‘‘the natural and physical 

environment and the relationship of 

people with that environment’’ (40 CFR 

1508.14). An action’s ‘‘aesthetic, 

historic, cultural, economic, social or 

health’’ effects must be assessed, 

‘‘whether direct, indirect, or cumulative’’ 

(40 CFR 1508.8). 

The U.S. Department of the Interior/ 

Minerals Management Service (DOI/ 

MMS) is the Federal administrative 

agency created both to conduct OCS 

lease sales and to monitor and mitigate 

adverse impacts that might be 

associated with offshore resource 

development. Within the MMS, the 

Environmental Studies Program 

functions to implement and manage the 

responsibilities of research. This study 

will facilitate the meeting of DOI/MMS 

information needs on subsistence food 

harvest and sharing activities in coastal 

Alaska, with specific focus on the 

Beaufort-Chukchi Planning Area. 

The North Slope Planning Area 

includes more than 94,763 square 

miles—a large geographic area with 

diverse, abundant, and environmentally 

sensitive resources. Within that area, the 

DOI/MMS’s Proposed OCS Oil and Gas 

Leasing Program 2007–2012 considers 

two oil and gas lease exploration plans 

for 2010, one in the Chukchi Sea and 

one in the Beaufort Sea. The areas slated 

for exploration and adjacent areas 

support major productive subsistence 

fisheries, provide habitat to numerous 

marine mammals, including bowhead 

whales, and are a significant migration 

and staging area for internationally 

important waterfowl. More than eight 

communities in the North Slope area 

rely heavily on subsistence. 

This information collection (IC) 

request involves a 36-month study that 

will assess the vulnerabilities of two 

North Slope coastal communities and 

one control community to the potential 

effects of offshore oil and gas 

development on subsistence food 

harvest and sharing activities. It will 

investigate the resilience of local 

sharing networks that structure 

contemporary subsistence-cash 

economies using survey research 

methods that involves residents of two 

communities most proximate to the 

proposed exploration areas, Wainwright 

and Kaktovik, and one control 

community, Venetie. Future collections 

will involve other area communities. 

The MMS will use the information 

collected to gain knowledge about local 

social systems in a way that may shape 

development strategies and serve as an 

interim baseline for impact monitoring 

to compare against future research in 

these areas. Without this data, MMS 

will not have sufficient information to 

make informed leasing and 

development decisions for these areas. 

Survey Instrument: The research will 

be collected from a survey, given to each 

head of household, in the three 

communities, that will collect 

information about the subsistence 

(harvest data) and sharing networks of 

the communities. The information 

under this proposed collection will be 

obtained through personal interviews 

that are voluntary. 

Interview methods: The interviews for 

each survey will be done face to face in 

a setting that is most comfortable for the 

respondents. This personal method is 

more expensive and time consuming for 

the researchers, but these drawbacks are 

outweighed by improvements in the 

quality of information obtained and the 

rapport established between the 

surveyor and the person interviewed. 

Telephone interviews have not been 

successful on the North Slope. Each 

respondent will be paid an honorarium 

for taking part in the survey. 

Responses are voluntary. 

Frequency: One-time event for each 

survey. 

Estimated Number and Description of 

Respondents: Approximately 349 

respondents from the communities 

involved. 

Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Hour’’ Burden: The 

MMS estimates the total annual burden 

hours to be 524 (rounded) (349 × 1.5 for 

each study = 523.5 total burden hours). 

Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’ 

Burden: We have identified no non-hour 

cost burdens for this collection. 

Protections of Respondent 

Confidentiality: The survey is voluntary. 

The questionnaires will be administered 

under the guidelines of 45 CFR 46. The 

introduction that will be covered with 

each participant stresses that 

participation is voluntary and 

confidentiality will be maintained. No 

names will appear on the survey form, 

no photographs will be taken of any 

informant, and no videotaping will be 

conducted. Minor children will not be 

interviewed. Procedures designed to 

protect the confidentiality of the 

information provided will include the 

use of coded selection and identification 

number to protect the identities of 

respondents. 

This survey will ask five potentially 

sensitive but routine questions on 

annual household income, 

unemployment, subsistence expenses, 

and household finances. One question 

asks the views of the respondent about 

future potential oil and gas 

development. Questions such as these 

have been used in past studies in rural 

Alaska with few, if any, complaints. 

During the interviews, the respondents 

will be warned that sensitive questions 

are coming up and that they may refuse 

to answer any query they object to. 

Respondents will also be reminded that 

they are assured anonymity through the 

survey design and process. 

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 

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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 Procedures: 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. 

MMS Information Collection 

Clearance Officer: Arlene Bajusz (202) 

208–7744. 

Dated: January 5, 2010 

William S. Hauser, 

Acting Chief, Office of Offshore Regulatory 

Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2010–354 Filed 1–11–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLES930000.L14300000.PN0000] 

Notice of Application for Recordable 

Disclaimer of Interest, Florida 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Farmland Reserve, Inc. filed 

an application for a Recordable 

Disclaimer of Interest pursuant to 

Section 315 of the Federal Land Policy 

and Management Act of 1976, as 

amended (43 U.S.C. 1745), and the 

regulations in 43 CFR subpart 1864. A 

Recordable Disclaimer of Interest, if 

issued, will confirm the United States 

has no valid interest in the subject land. 

This notice is intended to inform the 

public of the pending application. 

DATES: The Bureau of Land Management 

(BLM), Eastern States, will accept 

comments on this application at the 

address below until April 12, 2010. 

During this 90-day comment period, 

interested parties may submit comments 

on this Recordable Disclaimer of Interest 

application. Please reference case file 

FLES–55708 in your comment. 

ADDRESSES: Mail comments to: Steven 

R. Wells, Deputy State Director, 

Division of Natural Resources, BLMEastern States, 7450 Boston Boulevard, 

Springfield, Virginia 22153. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A. 

Nate Felton, Supervisory Land Law 

Examiner, Branch of Lands and Realty, 

at the above address or by phone at 

(703) 440–1511. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 

15, 2009, Farmland Reserve, Inc. filed 

an application for a Recordable 

Disclaimer of Interest for the land 

described as follows: 

Tallahassee Meridian 

T. 25 S., R. 31 E., 

Fractional sec. 12, W1⁄2, NE1⁄4, and 

unsurveyed part of the SE1⁄4; 

Fractional sec. 13, unsurveyed; 

Fractional sec. 24, W1⁄2, and unsurveyed 

part of the E1⁄2; 

Fractional sec. 25, W1⁄4, SE1⁄4, and 

unsurveyed part of the NE1⁄4. 

T. 25 S., R. 32 E., 

Fractional secs. 7, and 8, secs. 17 to 20, 

inclusive, and sec. 30. 

The areas described aggregate 

approximately 4,747.73 acres in Osceola 

County, Florida. 

This land has been patented into 

private ownership. It is the opinion of 

this office that the Federal government 

no longer has an interest in this 

4,747.73-acre parcel. 

Comments will be available for public 

review at the BLM-Eastern States Office 

(see address above) during regular 

business hours, Monday through Friday, 

except holidays. 

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. 

If no valid objection is received, a 

Disclaimer of Interest may be approved 

stating the United States does not have 

a valid interest in this tract of land. 

Juan Palma, 

State Director. 

[FR Doc. 2010–309 Filed 1–11–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–GJ–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLNMP02000 L71220000.EX0000 

LVTFGX9G4200] 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Proposed HB Potash, LLC—‘‘InSitu’’ Solution Mine Project, Eddy 

County, NM 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, as amended, (NEPA) and the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM) Carlsbad Field 

Office, Carlsbad, New Mexico, intends 

to prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) and by this notice is 

announcing the beginning of the 

scoping process to solicit public 

comments and to identify issues. 

DATES: This notice initiates the public 

scoping process for the EIS. Comments 

on issues may be submitted in writing 

until February 11, 2010. The date(s) and 

location(s) of any scoping meetings will 

be announced at least 15 days in 

advance through the local media, 

including newspapers and the BLM 

Web site at: http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/ 

en/fo/Carlsbad_Field_Office.html. In 

order to be included in the Draft EIS, all 

comments must be received prior to the 

close of the scoping period or 15 days 

after the last public meeting, whichever 

is later. We will provide additional 

opportunities for public participation 

upon publication of the Draft EIS. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

related to the HB Potash, LLC—‘‘In-Situ’’ 

Solution Mine Project by any of the 

following methods: 

• E-mail: Rebecca_Hunt@blm.gov. 

• Fax: (575) 885–9264. 

• Mail: Bureau of Land Management, 

Carlsbad Field Office, Attention: 

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