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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: Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the PRA 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. 

To comply with the public 

consultation process, we published a 

notice in the Federal Register on 

November 13, 2008 (73 FR 67197), 

announcing that we would submit this 

ICR to OMB for approval. The notice 

provided the required 60-day comment 

period. We received no comments in 

response to the notice. 

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. The 

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 September 30, 

2009. 

Public Comment Policy: We will post 

all comments in response to this notice 

at http://www.mrm.mms.gov/Laws_R_D/ 

FRNotices/FRInfColl.htm. We also will 

post all comments, including names and 

addresses of respondents, at http:// 

www.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. 

MMS Information Collection 

Clearance Officer: Arlene Bajusz (202) 

208–7744. 

Dated: August 11, 2009. 

Jennifer L. Goldblatt, 

Acting Associate Director for Minerals 

Revenue Management. 

[FR Doc. E9–20905 Filed 8–28–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[MT–010–L10600000 HI0000] 

Notice of Temporary Closure on Public 

Lands in the Pryor Mountain Wild 

Horse Range (Including the Britton 

Springs Administrative Site) in the 

Southeastern Portion of Carbon 

County, MT, and the Northern Portion 

of Big Horn County, WY 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Temporary Closure. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a 

temporary closure to public access, use, 

or occupancy is in effect on public lands 

administered by the Billings Field 

Office, Bureau of Land Management, in 

the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range 

in Carbon County, Montana, and Big 

Horn County, Wyoming. 

DATES: This temporary closure will be in 

effect on the Pryor Mountain Wild 

Horse Range from 12:01 a.m. MDT on 

Monday, August 31, 2009 until 

September 10, 2009 at 11:59 p.m. MDT. 

The closure will remain in effect at the 

Britton Springs Administrative Site 

until 11:59 p.m. MDT on October 1, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: The Billings Field Office 

address is 5001 Southgate Drive, 

Billings, Montana 59101. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James M. Sparks, Field Manager, at the 

address above or by phone at 406–896– 

5013. Persons who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 

to contact the above individuals during 

normal business hours. The FIRS is 

available 24 hours a day, seven days a 

week, to leave a message or question 

with the above individuals. You will 

receive a reply during normal hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

temporary closure to public access 

affects public lands at the Pryor 

Mountain Wild Horse Range in Carbon 

County, Montana, and Bighorn County, 

Wyoming. The legal description of the 

affected public lands is: 

Principal Meridian, Montana 

T. 8 S., R. 28 E., 

Sec. 5, S1⁄2 and S1⁄2N1⁄2; 

Sec. 6, E1⁄2E1⁄2; 

Sec. 8, N1⁄2NE1⁄4, SE1⁄4NE1⁄4, and 

NE1⁄4SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 9; 

Secs. 16 and 17; 

Sec. 18, E1⁄2E1⁄2; 

Sec. 19, E1⁄2E1⁄2; 

Sec. 20; 

Sec. 21, W1⁄2 and W1⁄2E1⁄2; 

Sec. 28, W1⁄2; 

Sec. 29; 

Sec. 30, E1⁄2E1⁄2; 

Sec. 31, E1⁄2E1⁄2; 

Sec. 32; 

Sec. 33, W1⁄2 and W1⁄2SE1⁄4. 

Principal Meridian, Montana 

T. 9 S., R. 27 E., 

Secs. 1, 2, 11 to 14, inclusive, 23, and 

24; 

Sec. 25, E1⁄2 and E1⁄2NW1⁄4; 

Sec. 36, N1⁄2NE1⁄4 and SE1⁄4NE1⁄4. 

Principal Meridian, Montana 

T. 9 S., R. 28 E., 

Sec. 4, NW1⁄4NE1⁄4, S1⁄2NE1⁄4, W1⁄2, 

and SE1⁄4; 

Secs. 5 to 9, inclusive; 

Sec. 10, W1⁄2SW1⁄4; 

Sec. 15, NW1⁄4NW1⁄4, S1⁄2NW1⁄4, and 

SW1⁄4; 

Secs. 16 to 21, inclusive, and 28; 

Sec. 27, W1⁄2; 

Secs. 29 to 33, inclusive; 

Sec. 34, W1⁄2. 

Sixth Principal Meridian, Wyoming 

T. 58 N., R. 95 W., 

Sec. 19, NE1⁄4NE1⁄4; 

Sec. 20, N1⁄2N1⁄2, SE1⁄4NW1⁄4, 

S1⁄2NW1⁄4, and SE1⁄4; 

Secs. 21 and 22; 

Sec. 23, NW1⁄4 and W1⁄2SW1⁄4; 

Sec. 27; 

Sec. 28, N1⁄2; 

Sec. 29, N1⁄2NE1⁄4 and SE1⁄4NE1⁄4. 

This temporary closure is necessary to 

prevent public access, use, or 

occupancy during wild horse capture 

operations to ensure the safety and 

welfare of the public, contractors, and 

government employees, the orderly 

execution of authorized actions, and to 

protect the wild horses as a natural 

resource on public lands. The gather 

operation includes the authorized use of 

low-flying aircraft to herd and capture 

wild horses from various portions of the 

Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range and 

adjacent lands administered by the U.S. 

Forest Service. Animals will be held at 

the Britton Springs Administrative Site 

until September 26, 2009, for day-to-day 

care, veterinary treatment, and 

preparation for adoption. This will be 


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the fourth time that helicopters are used 

as the primary tool for herding horses 

into capture pens on the Prior Mountain 

National Wild Horse Range. In order to 

operate the aircraft in a safe and 

effective manner, and based on 

experience gained in the 1997, 2001, 

and 2003 gathers, it is necessary to close 

the affected areas to all public use 

during actual capture operations. The 

wild horses primarily occupy three 

geographic areas of the range, including 

lands administered by the U.S. Forest 

Service, the area around Pen’s Cabin, 

and the Dry Head/Layout Creek portions 

of the Bighorn Canyon National 

Recreation Area. Gather operations will 

be conducted at various times and 

locations to be determined by the 

contracting officer’s representative in 

consultation with the contractor. 

It is anticipated that the gather 

operation will take approximately seven 

days, but could last 10 days depending 

on weather, location of herds, success of 

capture operations, and other variable 

conditions. Areas subject to temporary 

closure include all lands within the 

Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range 

administered by the Bureau of Land 

Management. Not all subject lands will 

be closed during the entire period; the 

public will be authorized to use those 

areas where capture operations are not 

in progress. Areas from which the 

public will be temporarily excluded will 

be dependent upon the actual area of 

operation which will be variable 

according to the needs of the contractor. 

Areas temporarily closed to public 

access will be so posted at main entry 

points with signs, barricades, and copies 

of this temporary closure notice. Maps 

of the affected area and other documents 

associated with this closure area are 

available at the Billings Field Office, 

5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, Montana 

59101. 

This temporary closure may be 

rescinded prior to September 10, 2009, 

if gather operations are successfully 

completed before that date. The Britton 

Springs area will remain temporarily 

closed until October 1, 2009, after 

horses are adopted or sold. Once 

gathering operations have been 

completed, the public will be allowed to 

view the horses held at Britton Springs 

prior to release or adoption at times to 

be arranged. 

Further information may be obtained 

from the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse 

Range 2009 Gather and Population 

Management Plan and Environmental 

Assessment, #DOI—BLM—MT—C010– 

2009–35–EA. This document is 

available upon request from the Field 

Manager, Billings Field Office, Bureau 

of Land Management, 5001 Southgate 

Drive, Billings, Montana 59101. 

Under the authority of section 303(a) 

of the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 

1733(a)), 43 CFR 8360.0–7, and 43 CFR 

8364.1, the Bureau of Land Management 

will enforce the following rule(s) within 

the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range: 

Temporary Closure to public access, 

use or occupancy on public lands in the 

Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range in 

the southeastern portion of Carbon 

County, Montana, and the northern 

portion of Big Horn County, Wyoming. 

The following persons are exempt 

from this temporary closure: Federal, 

state, and local officers and employees 

in the performance of their official 

duties; members of organized rescue or 

fire-fighting forces in the performance of 

their official duties; and persons with 

written authorization from the Bureau of 

Land Management. 

Any person who violates the above 

rule may be tried before a United States 

Magistrate and fined no more than 

$1,000, imprisoned for no more than 12 

months, or both. Such violations may 

also be subject to the enhanced fines 

provided for by 18 U.S.C. 3571. 

Howard A. Lemm, 

Associate State Director. 

[FR Doc. E9–20987 Filed 8–28–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–DN–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Office of Community Oriented Policing 

Services 

[OMB Number 1103–0096] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Emergency Extension and 

Revision of a Previously Approved 

Collection, With Change; Comments 

Requested 

ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information 

Collection Under Review: COPS 

Application Guide. 

The Department of Justice (DOJ) 

Office of Community Oriented Policing 

Services (COPS), will be submitting the 

following information collection request 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. The emergency 

revision of a previously approved 

information collection is published to 

obtain comments from the public and 

affected agencies. 

The purpose of this notice is to allow 

for 60 days for public comment until 

October 30, 2009. This process is 

conducted in accordance with 5 CFR 

1320.10. 

If you have comments especially on 

the estimated public burden or 

associated response time, suggestions, 

or need a copy of the proposed 

emergency information collection 

instrument with instructions or 

additional information, please contact 

Rebekah Dorr, Department of Justice 

Office of Community Oriented Policing 

Services, 1100 Vermont Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20530. 

Written comments and suggestions 

from the public and affected agencies 

concerning the proposed collection of 

information are encouraged. Your 

comments should address one or more 

of the following four points: 

—Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

—Evaluate the accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

—Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

—Minimize the burden of the collection 

of information on those who are to 

respond, including through the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms 

of information technology, e.g., 

permitting electronic submission of 

responses. 

Overview of This Information 

Collection 

(1) Type of Information Collection: 

Emergency extension and revision of a 

previously approved collection, with 

change; comments requested. 

(2) Title of the Form/Collection: COPS 

Application Guide. 

(3) Agency form number, if any, and 

the applicable component of the 

Department sponsoring the collection: 

None. U.S. Department of Justice Office 

of Community Oriented Policing 

Services. 

(4) Affected public who will be asked 

or required to respond, as well as a brief 

abstract: Primary: Law enforcement 

agencies and other public and private 

entities that apply for COPS Office 

grants or cooperative agreements will be 

asked to review the COPS Application 

Guide. The COPS Application Guide 

provides instructions for all applicants 

and is the result of a COPS Office 

business process reengineering effort. 


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