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the Quino checkerspot butterfly 

(Euphydryas editha quino) in 

conjunction with survey activities 

throughout the range of the species in 

California and to take (monitor nests) 

the least Bell’s vireo (Vireo bellii 

pusillus) in conjunction with surveys 

and population monitoring activities in 

Los Angeles County, California, for the 

purpose of enhancing the species’ 

survival. 

Permit No. TE–006328 

Applicant: Brian M. Drake, Nuevo, 

California. 

The applicant requests an amendment 

to a permit to take (harass by survey) the 

Casey’s June beetle (Dinacoma caseyi) 

in conjunction with survey activities 

throughout the range of the species in 

California for the purpose of enhancing 

the species’ survival. 

Permit No. TE–029414 

Applicant: Nathan T. Moorhatch, 

Placentia, California. 

The applicant requests an amendment 

to a permit to take (harass by survey) the 

Casey’s June beetle (Dinacoma caseyi) 

in conjunction with survey activities 

throughout the range of the species in 

California for the purpose of enhancing 

the species’ survival. 

Permit No. TE–836491 

Applicant: Michael D. Wilcox, 

Riverside, California. 

The applicant requests an amendment 

to a permit to take (harass by survey) the 

Casey’s June beetle (Dinacoma caseyi) 

in conjunction with survey activities 

throughout the range of the species in 

California for the purpose of enhancing 

the species’ survival. 

Permit No. TE–837760 

Applicant: Kendall H. Osborne, 

Riverside, California. 

The applicant requests an amendment 

to a permit to take (harass by survey) the 

Casey’s June beetle (Dinacoma caseyi) 

in conjunction with survey activities 

throughout the range of the species in 

California for the purpose of enhancing 

the species’ survival. 

Permit No. TE–64509A 

Applicant: James W. Cornett, Palm 

Springs, California. 

The applicant requests a permit to 

take (harass by survey) the Casey’s June 

beetle (Dinacoma caseyi) in conjunction 

with survey activities throughout the 

range of the species in California for the 

purpose of enhancing the species’ 

survival. 

Permit No. TE–084254 

Applicant: Ellen K. Schafhauser, 

Weldon, California. 

The applicant requests an amendment 

to a permit to take (harass by survey) the 

Casey’s June beetle (Dinacoma caseyi) 

in conjunction with survey activities 

throughout the range of the species in 

California for the purpose of enhancing 

the species’ survival. 

Permit No. TE–09385A 

Applicant: Susan E. Williams, 

Ridgecrest, California. 

The applicant requests an amendment 

to a permit to take (survey, capture, 

handle, mark, and release) the Mohave 

tui chub (Gila bicolor mohavensis) in 

conjunction with surveys, population 

monitoring, and restoration activities 

throughout the range of the species in 

San Bernardino County, California, for 

the purpose of enhancing the species’ 

survival. 

Permit No. TE–64124A 

Applicant: Nicholas A. Rice, Las Vegas, 

Nevada. 

The applicant requests a permit to 

take (harass by survey) the southwestern 

willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii 

extimus) and Yuma clapper rail (Rallus 

longirostris yumanensis) in conjunction 

with surveys in Clark County, Nevada, 

for the purpose of enhancing the 

species’ survival. 

Permit No. TE–64547A 

Applicant: United States Geological 

Survey, Bishop Field Station, Bishop, 

California. 

The applicant requests a permit to 

remove and reduce to possession from 

lands under Federal jurisdiction the 

Oenothera californica subsp. eurekensis 

(Eureka Valley evening primrose) in 

conjunction with floristic surveys and 

research activities throughout the range 

of the species in California for the 

purpose of enhancing the species’ 

survival. 

Permit No. TE–64546A 

Applicant: Power Engineers 

Incorporated, Meridian, Idaho. 

The applicant requests a permit to 

take (harass by survey and monitor 

nests) the southwestern willow 

flycatcher (Empidonax traillii extimus) 

and the least Bell’s vireo (Vireo bellii 

pusillus) in conjunction with surveys 

and population monitoring activities 

throughout the range of each species for 

the purpose of enhancing the species’ 

survival. 

Public Comments 

We invite public review and comment 

on each of these recovery permit 

applications. Comments and materials 

we receive will be available for public 

inspection, by appointment, during 

normal business hours at the address 

listed in the ADDRESSES section of this 

notice. 

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. 

Michael Long, 

Acting Regional Director, Region 8, 

Sacramento, California. 

[FR Doc. 2012–4949 Filed 2–29–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of Natural Resources Revenue 

[Docket No. ONRR–2011–0019] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submitted for Office of 

Management and Budget Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Office of Natural Resources 

Revenue, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of an extension of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

SUMMARY: To comply with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), the Office of Natural Resources 

Revenue (ONRR) is notifying the public 

that we have submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) an 

information collection request (ICR) to 

renew approval of the paperwork 

requirements in the regulations under 

the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 

(CFO). This notice also provides the 

public a second opportunity to 

comment on the paperwork burden of 

these regulatory requirements. 

DATES: Submit written comments on or 

before April 2, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 

by either Fax (202) 395–5806 or email 

(OIRA_Docket@omb.eop.gov) directly to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, OMB, Attention: Desk Officer 

for the Department of the Interior (OMB 

Control Number 1012–0001). 

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Please also submit a copy of your 

comments to ONRR by one of the 

following methods: 

• Electronically go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov. In the entry titled 

‘‘Enter Keyword or ID,’’ enter ONRR– 

2011–0019, and then click search. 

Follow the instructions to submit public 

comments. We will post all comments. 

• Mail comments to Hyla Hurst, 

Regulatory Specialist, Office of Natural 

Resources Revenue, P.O. Box 25165, MS 

64000A, Denver, Colorado 80225. Please 

reference ICR 1012–0001 in your 

comments. 

• Hand-carry comments or use an 

overnight courier service. Our courier 

address is Building 85, Room A–614, 

Denver Federal Center, West 6th Ave. 

and Kipling St., Denver, Colorado 

80225. Please reference ICR 1012–0001 

in your comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hyla 

Hurst, telephone (303) 231–3495, or 

email hyla.hurst@onrr.gov. You may 

also contact Hyla Hurst to obtain copies, 

at no cost, of (1) The ICR, (2) any 

associated forms, and (3) the regulations 

that require the subject collection of 

information. You may also review the 

information collection request online at 

http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/

PRAMain. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Accounts Receivable 

Confirmations. 

OMB Control Number: 1012–0001. 

Bureau Form Number: None. 

Abstract: The Secretary of the U.S. 

Department of the Interior is responsible 

for mineral resource development on 

Federal and Indian lands and the Outer 

Continental Shelf (OCS). Various laws 

require the Secretary to manage mineral 

resource production from Federal and 

Indian lands and the OCS, collect the 

royalties and other mineral revenues 

due, and distribute the funds collected 

in accordance with applicable laws. The 

Secretary also has a trust responsibility 

to manage Indian lands and seek advice 

and information from Indian 

beneficiaries. ONRR performs the 

minerals revenue management functions 

for the Secretary and assists the 

Secretary in carrying out the 

Department’s trust responsibility for 

Indian lands. Public laws pertaining to 

mineral leases on Federal and Indian 

lands are available at http://www.onrr.

gov/Laws_R_D/PublicLawsAMR.htm. 

Minerals produced from Federal and 

Indian leases vary greatly in the nature 

of occurrence, production, and 

processing methods. When a company 

or an individual enters into a lease to 

explore, develop, produce, and dispose 

of minerals from Federal or Indian 

lands, that company or individual 

agrees to pay the lessor a share in an 

amount or value of production from the 

leased lands. The regulations require the 

lessee to report various kinds of 

information to the lessor relative to the 

disposition of the leased minerals. Such 

information is generally available 

within the records of the lessee or others 

involved in developing, transporting, 

processing, purchasing, or selling such 

minerals. The information we collect 

includes data necessary to ensure that 

lessees accurately value production and 

appropriately pay royalties. 

Companies submit financial 

information monthly to ONRR on Form 

MMS–2014, Report of Sales and Royalty 

Remittance (OMB Control Number 

1012–0004) and on Form MMS–4430, 

Solid Minerals Production and Royalty 

Report (OMB Control Number 1012– 

0010). 

Every year, under the CFO, the 

Department’s Office of Inspector 

General, or its agent (agent), audits the 

Department’s financial statements. The 

Department’s goal is to receive an 

unqualified opinion. Accounts 

receivable confirmations are a common 

practice in the audit business. Due to 

continuously increasing scrutiny on 

financial audits, third-party 

confirmation of the validity of ONRR’s 

financial records is necessary. 

As part of the CFO audit, the agent 

selects royalty payors at random and 

provides the companies’ names and 

addresses to ONRR. In order to meet the 

CFO requirements, the letters must be 

on ONRR letterhead; and the Deputy 

Director for ONRR, or his or her 

designee, must sign the letters. The 

letter requests, by a specified date, 

third-party confirmation responses that 

ONRR’s accounts receivable records 

agree with royalty payor records for the 

following items: Customer 

identification; royalty/invoice number; 

payor-assigned document number; date 

of ONRR receipt; original amount the 

payor reported; and remaining balance 

due ONRR. The agent mails the letters 

to the payors, instructing them to 

respond directly to the agent to confirm 

the accuracy and/or validity of selected 

royalty receivable items and amounts. 

Verifying the amounts reported and the 

balances due requires research and 

analysis by payors. 

We are requesting OMB’s approval to 

continue to collect this information. Not 

collecting this information would limit 

the Secretary’s ability to discharge the 

duties of the office. ONRR protects 

proprietary information that payors 

submit, and there are no questions of a 

sensitive nature included in this 

information collection. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Estimated Number and Description of 

Respondents: 48 randomly selected 

Federal and Indian oil and gas and solid 

mineral royalty payors. 

Estimated Annual Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Hour’’ Burden: 12 

hours. We estimate that each response 

will take 15 minutes for payors to 

complete. 

Estimated Annual Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-hour’’ Cost 

Burden: We have identified no ‘‘nonhour cost’’ burden associated with this 

collection of information. 

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 August 

26, 2011 (76 FR 53487), 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. OMB 

has up to 60 days to approve or 

disapprove this collection of 

information; however, submit your 

comments to OMB within 30 days in 

order to assure maximum consideration. 

OMB should receive your comments by 

April 2, 2012. 

Public Comment Policy: We post all 

comments, including names and 

addresses of respondents, at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Before including 

your address, phone number, email 

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1No response to this request for information is 

required if a currently valid Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) number is not displayed; the 

OMB number is 3117–0016/USITC No. 12–5–266, 

expiration date June 30, 2014. Public reporting 

burden for the request is estimated to average 15 

hours per response. Please send comments 

regarding the accuracy of this burden estimate to 

the Office of Investigations, U.S. International Trade 

Commission, 500 E Street SW., Washington, DC 

20436. 

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. 

Information Collection Clearance 

Officer: Laura Dorey (202) 208–2654. 

Dated: February 27, 2012. 

Gregory J. Gould, 

Director, Office of Natural Resources 

Revenue. 

[FR Doc. 2012–5009 Filed 2–29–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–T2–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation No. 731–TA–1103 (Review)] 

Activated Carbon From China; 

Institution of a Five-Year Review 

AGENCY: United States International 

Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission hereby gives 

notice that it has instituted a review 

pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff 

Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1675(c)) (the Act) 

to determine whether revocation of the 

antidumping duty order on activated 

carbon from China would be likely to 

lead to continuation or recurrence of 

material injury. Pursuant to section 

751(c)(2) of the Act, interested parties 

are requested to respond to this notice 

by submitting the information specified 

below to the Commission; 1 to be 

assured of consideration, the deadline 

for responses is April 2, 2012. 

Comments on the adequacy of responses 

may be filed with the Commission by 

May 14, 2012. For further information 

concerning the conduct of this review 

and rules of general application, consult 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, part 201, subparts A through 

E (19 CFR part 201), and part 207, 

subparts A, D, E, and F (19 CFR part 

207), as most recently amended at 74 FR 

2847 (January 16, 2009). 

DATES: Effective Date: March 1, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary Messer (202–205–3193), Office of 

Investigations, U.S. International Trade 

Commission, 500 E Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20436. Hearingimpaired persons can obtain 

information on this matter by contacting 

the Commission’s TDD terminal on 202– 

205–1810. Persons with mobility 

impairments who will need special 

assistance in gaining access to the 

Commission should contact the Office 

of the Secretary at 202–205–2000. 

General information concerning the 

Commission may also be obtained by 

accessing its Internet server (http:// 

www.usitc.gov). The public record for 

this review may be viewed on the 

Commission’s electronic docket (EDIS) 

at http://edis.usitc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background.—On April 27, 2007, the 

Department of Commerce issued an 

antidumping duty order on imports of 

activated carbon from China (72 FR 

20988). The Commission is conducting 

a review to determine whether 

revocation of the order would be likely 

to lead to continuation or recurrence of 

material injury to the domestic industry 

within a reasonably foreseeable time. It 

will assess the adequacy of interested 

party responses to this notice of 

institution to determine whether to 

conduct a full review or an expedited 

review. The Commission’s 

determination in any expedited review 

will be based on the facts available, 

which may include information 

provided in response to this notice. 

Definitions.—The following 

definitions apply to this review: 

(1) Subject Merchandise is the class or 

kind of merchandise that is within the 

scope of the five-year review, as defined 

by the Department of Commerce. 

(2) The Subject Country in this review 

is China. 

(3) The Domestic Like Product is the 

domestically produced product or 

products which are like, or in the 

absence of like, most similar in 

characteristics and uses with, the 

Subject Merchandise. In its original 

determination, the Commission defined 

the Domestic Like Product to be certain 

activated carbon, coextensive with 

Commerce’s scope of the investigation. 

(4) The Domestic Industry is the U.S. 

producers as a whole of the Domestic 

Like Product, or those producers whose 

collective output of the Domestic Like 

Product constitutes a major proportion 

of the total domestic production of the 

product. In its original determination, 

the Commission defined the Domestic 

Industry as all known producers of 

certain activated carbon, except 

California Carbon. The Commission 

found that appropriate circumstances 

existed to exclude California Carbon 

based on the related parties provision 

pursuant to 19 U.S.C. 1677(4)(B). 

(5) The Order Date is the date that the 

antidumping duty order under review 

became effective. In this review, the 

Order Date is April 27, 2007. 

(6) An Importer is any person or firm 

engaged, either directly or through a 

parent company or subsidiary, in 

importing the Subject Merchandise into 

the United States from a foreign 

manufacturer or through its selling 

agent. 

Participation in the review and public 

service list.—Persons, including 

industrial users of the Subject 

Merchandise and, if the merchandise is 

sold at the retail level, representative 

consumer organizations wishing to 

participate in the review as parties, 

must file an entry of appearance with 

the Secretary to the Commission, as 

provided in section 201.11(b)(4) of the 

Commission’s rules, no later than 21 

days after publication of this notice in 

the Federal Register. The Secretary will 

maintain a public service list containing 

the names and addresses of all persons, 

or their representatives, who are parties 

to the review. 

Former Commission employees who 

are seeking to appear in Commission 

five-year reviews are advised that they 

may appear in a review even if they 

participated personally and 

substantially in the corresponding 

underlying original investigation. The 

Commission’s designated agency ethics 

official has advised that a five-year 

review is not considered the ‘‘same 

particular matter’’ as the corresponding 

underlying original investigation for 

purposes of 18 U.S.C. 207, the post 

employment statute for Federal 

employees, and Commission rule 

201.15(b) (19 CFR 201.15(b)), 73 FR 

24609 (May 5, 2008). This advice was 

developed in consultation with the 

Office of Government Ethics. 

Consequently, former employees are not 

required to seek Commission approval 

to appear in a review under Commission 

rule 19 CFR 201.15, even if the 

corresponding underlying original 

investigation was pending when they 

were Commission employees. For 

further ethics advice on this matter, 

contact Carol McCue Verratti, Deputy 

Agency Ethics Official, at 202–205– 

3088. 

Limited disclosure of business 

proprietary information (BPI) under an 

administrative protective order (APO) 

and APO service list.—Pursuant to 

section 207.7(a) of the Commission’s 

rules, the Secretary will make BPI 

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