9964 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 43 / Tuesday, March 6, 2007 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Revisions to a 

Currently Approved Information 

Collection; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of renewal of a currently 

approved collection (OMB No. 1006–

0023). 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Bureau of 

Reclamation (we, our, or us) intends to 

submit a request for renewal (with 

revisions) of an existing approved 

information collection to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB): Forms 

to Determine Compliance by Certain 

Landholders, 43 CFR part 426, OMB 

Control Number: 1006–0023. As a result 

of the regulatory requirements to ensure 

compliance with Federal reclamation 

law and assessment of the appropriate 

water rate [43 CFR 426.6(b)(2) and 43 

CFR 426.9(b)], a new ‘‘Religious or 

Charitable Organization Identification 

Sheet’’ (Form 7–2578) has been 

developed for approval as part of this 

information collection. We request your 

comments on the proposed Reclamation 

Reform Act of 1982 (RRA) forms and 

specific aspects of the information 

collection. 

DATES: Your written comments must be 

received on or before May 7, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: You may send written 

comments to the Bureau of Reclamation, 

Attention: 84–53000, P.O. Box 25007, 

Denver, CO 80225–0007. You may 

request copies of the proposed forms by 

writing to the above address or by 

contacting Stephanie McPhee at: (303) 

445–2897. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephanie McPhee at: (303) 445–2897. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Forms to Determine Compliance 

by Certain Landholders, 43 CFR part 

426. The former title of this information 

collection was ‘‘Limited Recipient 

Identification Sheet, Trust Information 

Sheet, Public Entity Information Sheet 

for Acreage Limitation, 43 CFR part 

426.’’ Because of the addition of the 

proposed new form to this information 

collection as described below, we have 

changed the title of this information 

collection to ‘‘Forms to Determine 

Compliance by Certain Landholders, 43 

CFR part 426.’’ This title change will 

allow us to capture the purpose of the 

forms in this information collection 

without listing lengthy form names. 

Abstract: Identification of limited 

recipients—Some entities 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 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. The proposed revisions to 

the Limited Recipient Identification 

Sheet will be included starting in the 

2008 water year, and are designed to 

facilitate ease of completion. 

Trust review—We are required to 

review and approve all trusts [43 CFR 

426.7(b)(2)] in order to ensure trusts 

meet the regulatory criteria specified in 

43 CFR 426.7. Land held in trust 

generally will be attributed to the 

beneficiaries of the trust rather than the 

trustee if the criteria are met. When we 

become aware of trusts with a relatively 

small landholding (40 acres or less), we 

may extend to those trusts the option to 

complete and submit for our review the 

Trust Information Sheet (Form 7–2537) 

instead of actual trust documents. 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 in-depth review. The Trust 

Information Sheet is disbursed at our 

discretion. The proposed revisions to 

the Trust Information Sheet will be 

included starting in the 2008 water year, 

and are designed to facilitate ease of 

completion. 

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 may extend to those public 

entities the option to 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. The 

proposed revisions to the Public Entity 

Information Sheet will be effective 

starting in the 2008 water year and are 

designed to facilitate ease of 

completion. 

Acreage limitation provisions 

applicable to religious or charitable 

organizations (new form)—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 


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Reclamation irrigation water deliveries 

occurred after October 1, 1981 [43 CFR 

426.6(b)(2)]. A new ‘‘Religious or 

Charitable Organization Identification 

Sheet’’ (Form 7–2578) has been 

developed for approval as part of this 

information collection, and will allow 

us to establish certain religious or 

charitable organizations’ compliance 

with Federal reclamation law. 

Reclamation anticipates a very minimal 

increase in burden hours resulting from 

the addition of this form because of the 

very limited type of landholders that 

can use this form. The Religious or 

Charitable Organization Identification 

Sheet is disbursed at our discretion and 

will be effective starting in the 2008 

water year. 

Frequency: Generally, these forms 

will be submitted once per identified 

entity, trust, public entity, or religious 

or charitable organization. Each year, we 

expect new responses in accordance 

with the following numbers. 

Respondents: 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. 

Estimated Total Number of 

Respondents: 500. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 1.0. 

Estimated Total Number of Annual 

Responses: 500. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 72 hours. 

Estimate of Burden for Each Form: 

Form No. 

Burden estimate per form 

(in minutes) 

Number of 

respondents 

Annual number of 

responses 

Annual burden 

on 

respondents 

(in hours) 

Limited Recipient Identification Sheet ............................................................. 5 175 175 15 

Trust Information Sheet ................................................................................... 5 150 150 13 

Public Entity Information Sheet ....................................................................... 15 100 100 25 

Religious or Charitable Identification Sheet .................................................... 15 75 75 19 

Totals ........................................................................................................ ........................ 500 500 ........................

Comments 

Comments are invited on: 

(a) Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of our functions, including 

whether the information will have 

practical use; 

(b) the accuracy of our burden 

estimate for the proposed collection of 

information; 

(c) ways to enhance the quality, 

usefulness, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and 

(d) ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

We will summarize all comments 

received regarding this notice. We will 

publish that summary in the Federal 

Register when the information 

collection request is submitted to OMB 

for review and approval. 

Before including your address, 

telephone 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. 

Dated: January 29, 2007. 

Roseann Gonzales, 

Director, Office of Program and Policy 

Services, Denver Office. 

[FR Doc. E7–3844 Filed 3–5–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MN–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

Agency Information Collection; 

Proposed Revisions to a Currently 

Approved Information Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of renewal of a currently 

approved collection (OMB No. 1006–

0005). 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Bureau of 

Reclamation (we, our, or us) intends to 

submit a request for renewal (with 

revisions) of an existing approved 

information collection to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB): 

Individual Landholder’s and Farm 

Operator’s Certification and Reporting 

Forms for Acreage Limitation, 43 CFR 

part 426 and 43 CFR part 428, OMB 

Control Number: 1006–0005. This 

information collection is required under 

the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 

(RRA), Acreage Limitation Rules and 

Regulations, 43 CFR part 426, and 

Information Requirements for Certain 

Farm Operations In Excess of 960 Acres 

and the Eligibility of Certain Formerly 

Excess Land, 43 CFR part 428. We 

request your comments on the revised 

RRA forms and specific aspects of the 

information collection. 

DATES: Your written comments must be 

received on or before May 7, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: You may send written 

comments to the Bureau of Reclamation, 

Attention: 84–53000, P.O. Box 25007, 

Denver, CO 80225–0007. You may 

request copies of the proposed revised 

forms by writing to the above address or 

by contacting Stephanie McPhee at: 

(303) 445–2897. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephanie McPhee at: (303) 445–2897. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Individual Landholder’s and 

Farm Operator’s Certification and 

Reporting Forms for Acreage Limitation, 

43 CFR part 426 and 43 CFR part 428. 

Abstract: This information collection 

requires certain landholders (direct or 

indirect landowners or lessees) and farm 

operators to complete forms 

demonstrating their compliance with 

the acreage limitation provisions of 

Federal reclamation law. These forms 

are submitted to districts who use the 

information to establish each 

landholder’s status with respect to 

landownership limitations, full-cost 

pricing thresholds, lease requirements, 

and other provisions of Federal 

reclamation law. In addition, forms are 

submitted by certain farm operators to 

provide information concerning the 

services they provide and the nature of 

their farm operating arrangements. All 

landholders whose entire westwide 

landholdings total 40 acres or less are 


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