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Form No. 

Burden 

estimate 

per form 

(in minutes) 

Number of 

respondents 

Annual 

number of 

responses 

Annual burden 

on respondents 

(in hours) 

Form 7–21FARMOP .................................................................................... 78 100 102 133 

Totals .................................................................................................... ........................ 5,544 5,655 5,088 

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. 

The authority for this action is the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

Matthew Tracy, 

Acting Director, Mission Assurance and 

Protection Organization. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24030 Filed 10–31–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

[RR83550000, 234R5065C6, 

RX.59389832.1009676; OMB Control 

Number 1006–0023] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Forms To Determine 

Compliance by Certain Landholders 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, 

the Bureau of Reclamation 

(Reclamation), are proposing to renew 

an information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

December 1, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently Under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. Please provide a copy 

of your comments to Janice Perez, 

Bureau of Reclamation, at janiceperez@

usbr.gov. Please reference OMB Control 

Number 1006–0023 in the subject line of 

your comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this information collection request 

(ICR), contact Janice Perez by email at 

janiceperez@usbr.gov, or by telephone 

at (303) 817–4477. Individuals who are 

deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have 

a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, 

TDD, or TeleBraille) to access 

telecommunications relay services. You 

may also view the ICR at http://

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA, 44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), we 

provide the general public and other 

Federal agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on new, proposed, revised, 

and continuing collections of 

information. This helps us assess the 

impact of our information collection 

requirements and minimize the public’s 

reporting burden. It also helps the 

public understand our information 

collection requirements and provide the 

requested data in the desired format. 

A Federal Register notice with a 60- 

day public comment period soliciting 

comments on this collection of 

information was published on July 10, 

2023 (88 FR 43629). No comments were 

received. 

As part of our continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burdens, we are again soliciting 

comments from the public and other 

Federal agencies on the proposed ICR 

that is described below. We are 

especially interested in public comment 

addressing the following: 

(1) Whether or not the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether or not the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the 

burden for this collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(4) How might the agency 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 response. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. Before including your 

address, phone number, email 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. 

Abstract: Identification of limited 

recipients—Some entities that receive 

Reclamation irrigation water may 

believe that they are under the 

Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 (RRA) 

forms submittal threshold and, 

consequently, may not submit the 

appropriate RRA form(s). However, 

some of these entities may in fact have 

a different RRA forms submittal 

threshold than what they believe it to be 

due to the number of natural persons 

benefiting from each entity and the 

location of the land held by each entity. 

In addition, some entities that are 

exempt from the requirement to submit 

RRA forms due to the size of their 

landholdings (directly and indirectly 

owned and leased land) may in fact be 

receiving Reclamation irrigation water 

for which the full-cost rate must be paid 

because the start of Reclamation 

irrigation water deliveries occurred after 

October 1, 1981 [43 CFR 426.6(b)(2)]. 

The information obtained through 

completion of the Limited Recipient 

Identification Sheet (Form 7–2536) 

allows us to establish entities’ 

compliance with Federal reclamation 

law. The Limited Recipient 

Identification Sheet is disbursed at our 

discretion. 

Trust review—In order to administer 

section 214 of the RRA and 43 CFR 

426.7, we are required to review and 

approve all trusts. Land held in trust 

generally will be attributed to the 

beneficiaries of the trust rather than the 

trustee if the criteria specified in the 

RRA and 43 CFR 426.7 are met. We may 

extend the option to complete and 

submit for our review the Trust 

Information Sheet (Form 7–2537) 

instead of actual trust documents when 


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we become aware of trusts with a 

relatively small landholding (40 acres or 

less in districts subject to the prior law 

provisions of Federal reclamation law, 

240 acres or less in districts subject to 

the discretionary provisions of Federal 

reclamation law). If we find nothing on 

the completed Trust Information Sheet 

that would warrant the further 

investigation of a particular trust, that 

trustee will not be burdened with 

submitting trust documents to us for indepth review. The Trust Information 

Sheet is disbursed at our discretion. 

Acreage limitation provisions 

applicable to public entities—Land 

farmed by a public entity can be 

considered exempt from the application 

of the acreage limitation provisions 

provided the public entity meets certain 

criteria pertaining to the revenue 

generated through the entity’s farming 

activities (43 CFR 426.10 and the Act of 

July 7, 1970, Pub. L. 91–310). We are 

required to ascertain whether or not 

public entities that receive Reclamation 

irrigation water meet such revenue 

criteria regardless of how much land the 

public entities hold (directly or 

indirectly own or lease) [43 CFR 

426.10(a)]. In order to minimize the 

burden on public entities, standard RRA 

forms are submitted by a public entity 

only when the public entity holds more 

than 40 acres subject to the acreage 

limitation provisions westwide, which 

makes it difficult to apply the revenue 

criteria as required to those public 

entities that hold less than 40 acres. 

When we become aware of such public 

entities, we request those public entities 

complete and submit for our review the 

Public Entity Information Sheet (Form 

7–2565), which allows us to establish 

compliance with Federal reclamation 

law for those public entities that hold 40 

acres or less and, thus, do not submit a 

standard RRA form because they are 

below the RRA forms submittal 

threshold. In addition, for those public 

entities that do not meet the exemption 

criteria, we must determine the proper 

rate to charge for Reclamation irrigation 

water deliveries. The Public Entity 

Information Sheet is disbursed at our 

discretion. 

Acreage limitation provisions 

applicable to religious or charitable 

organizations—Some religious or 

charitable organizations that receive 

Reclamation irrigation water may 

believe that they are under the RRA 

forms submittal threshold and, 

consequently, may not submit the 

appropriate RRA form(s). However, 

some of these organizations may in fact 

have a different RRA forms submittal 

threshold than what they believe it to be 

depending on whether these 

organizations meet all of the required 

criteria for full special application of the 

acreage limitations provisions to 

religious or charitable organizations [43 

CFR 426.9(b)]. In addition, some 

organizations that (1) do not meet the 

criteria to be treated as a religious or 

charitable organization under the 

acreage limitation provisions, and (2) 

are exempt from the requirement to 

submit RRA forms due to the size of 

their landholdings (directly and 

indirectly owned and leased land), may 

in fact be receiving Reclamation 

irrigation water for which the full-cost 

rate must be paid because the start of 

Reclamation irrigation water deliveries 

occurred after October 1, 1981 [43 CFR 

426.6(b)(2)]. The Religious or Charitable 

Organization Identification Sheet (Form 

7–2578) allows us to establish certain 

religious or charitable organizations’ 

compliance with Federal reclamation 

law. The Religious or Charitable 

Organization Identification Sheet is 

disbursed at our discretion. 

Title of Collection: Forms to 

Determine Compliance by Certain 

Landholders, 43 CFR part 426. 

OMB Control Number: 1006–0023. 

Form Numbers: Form 7–2536, Form 

7–2537, Form 7–2565, and Form 7– 

2578. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: Entity 

landholders, trusts, public entities, and 

religious or charitable organizations 

identified by Reclamation that are 

subject to the acreage limitation 

provisions of Federal reclamation law. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 125. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 125. 

Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: See table below. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 15 hours. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: Annually. 

Total Estimated Annual Nonhour 

Burden Cost: None. 

Form 

Burden 

estimate 

per form 

(in minutes) 

Number of 

respondents 

Annual 

number of 

responses 

Annual burden 

on respondents 

(in hours) 

Limited Recipient Identification Sheet ......................................................... 5 50 50 4 

Trust Information Sheet ............................................................................... 5 50 50 4 

Public Entity Information Sheet ................................................................... 15 15 15 4 

Religious or Charitable Identification Sheet ................................................ 15 10 10 3 

Totals .................................................................................................... ........................ 125 125 15 

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. 

The authority for this action is the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

Matthew Tracy, 

Acting Director, Mission Assurance and 

Protection Organization. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24029 Filed 10–31–23; 8:45 am] 

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