Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 236 / Friday, December 8, 2006 / Notices 71189 

• Los Angeles Central Library, 630 

West 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071. 

• Visalia Branch Library—Main 

Library, 200 West Oak Avenue, Visalia, 

CA 932891–4993. 

Public Disclosure Statement: 

Comments received in response to this 

notice will become part of the 

administrative record and are subject to 

public inspection. Our practice is to 

make comments, including names, 

home addresses, home phone numbers, 

and e-mail addresses of respondents, 

available for public review. Individual 

respondents may request that we 

withhold their names and/or home 

addresses, etc., but if you wish us to 

consider withholding this information, 

you must state this prominently at the 

beginning of your comments. In 

addition, you must present a rationale 

for withholding this information. This 

rationale must demonstrate that 

disclosure would constitute a clearly 

unwarranted invasion of privacy. 

Unsupported assertions will not meet 

this burden. In the absence of 

exceptional, documentable 

circumstances, this information will be 

released. We will always make 

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. 

Frank J. Michny, 

Acting Assistant Regional Director, MidPacific Region. 

[FR Doc. 06–9601 Filed 12–7–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MN–M 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 

and Enforcement 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection for 1029–0089 

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 

and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing 

its intention to request renewed 

authority for the following collection of 

information: 30 CFR part 702 regarding 

the exemption of coal extraction 

incidental to the extraction of other 

minerals. This information collection 

activity was previously approved by the 

Office of the Management and Budget 

(OMB), and assigned clearance number 

1029–0089. 

DATES: Comments on the proposed 

information collection must be received 

by February 6, 2007, to be assured of 

consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to 

John A. Trelease, Office of Surface 

Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, 

1951 Constitution Ave., NW., Room 

202—SIB, Washington, DC 20240. 

Comments may also be submitted 

electronically to jtrelease@osmre.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request a copy of the information 

collection request and explanatory 

information contact John A. Trelease, at 

(202) 208–2783 or e-mail at the address 

provided above. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB 

regulations at 5 CFR 1320, which 

implement provisions of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13), 

require that interested members of the 

public and affected agencies have an 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection and recordkeeping activities 

[see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)]. This notice 

identifies an information collection that 

OSM will be submitting to OMB for 

approval. This collection is contained in 

30 CFR Part 702, Exemption for Coal 

Extraction Incidental to the Extraction 

of Other Minerals. OSM will request a 

3-year term of approval for this 

information collection activity. 

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 

OSM’s submission of the information 

collection request to OMB. 

The following information is provided 

for each information collection: (1) Title 

of the information collection; (2) OMB 

control number; (3) summary of the 

information collection activity; and (4) 

frequency of collection, description of 

the respondents, estimated total annual 

responses, and the total annual 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

the collection of information. 

Title: 30 CFR Part 702, Exemption for 

Coal Extraction Incidental to the 

Extraction of Other Minerals. 

OMB Control Number: 1029–0089. 

Summary: This part implements the 

requirement in Section 701(28) of the 

Surface Mining Control and 

Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA), 

which grants an exemption from the 

requirements of SMCRA to operators 

extracting not more than 162⁄3

percentage tonnage of coal incidental to 

the extraction of other minerals. This 

information will be used by the 

regulatory authorities to make that 

determination. 

Bureau Form Number: None. 

Frequency of Collection: Once and 

annually thereafter. 

Description of Respondents: 

Producers of coal and other minerals 

and State regulatory authorities. 

Total Annual Responses: 120. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 535. 

Total Non-wage Costs: $200. 

Dated: December 4, 2006. 

John R. Craynon, 

Chief, Division of Regulatory Support. 

[FR Doc. 06–9592 Filed 12–7–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–05–M 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Solicitor; Public Forum on 

the Department of Labor Freedom of 

Information Act (FOIA) Improvement 

Plan 

AGENCY: Office of the Solicitor (SOL), 

Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Scheduling of public forum; 

invitation to participate and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor is 

scheduling a public forum to seek input 

from the public on how it might 

improve the quality and efficiency of 

the Department’s administration of the 

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). 

This forum is part of the Department’s 

FOIA Improvement Plan finalized 

earlier in 2006. Interested persons are 

encouraged to submit written comments 

in response to the questions contained 

in this notice and offer additional 

suggestions for improving the quality 

and efficiency of the Department’s FOIA 

efforts. Attendees are invited to speak 

on these questions and other related 

issues at the public forum; those who 

only wish to observe the forum are 

welcome to attend as well. The 

Department’s FOIA Improvement Plan 

is available at http://www.dol.gov/dol/ 

foia/ (See link for ‘‘Agency Plan and 

Report’’). 

Background: On June 14, 2006, the 

Department submitted its FOIA 

Improvement Plan and Report pursuant 

to Executive Order 13392 (‘‘Improving 

Agency Disclosure of Information’’). As 

part of its FOIA Improvement Plan, the 

Department has been examining various 

components of its FOIA practices and 


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