83962 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 230 / Friday, December 1, 2023 / Notices 

Schedule for the Decision-Making 

Process 

The BLM will provide additional 

opportunities for public participation 

consistent with the NEPA and land use 

planning processes, including a 90-day 

comment period on the Draft RMP 

Amendments/EIS and concurrent 30- 

day public protest period and 60-day 

Governors’ consistency review on the 

Proposed RMP Amendments. The Draft 

RMP Amendments/EIS is anticipated to 

be available for public review in late 

2024 or early 2025, and the Proposed 

RMP Amendments/Final EIS is 

anticipated to be available for public 

protest of the Proposed RMP 

Amendments in Summer 2025 with 

Approved RMP Amendments and a 

Record of Decision expected in Fall 

2025. 

Public Scoping Process 

This notice of intent initiates the 

scoping period and public review of the 

planning criteria, which guide the 

development and analysis of the Draft 

RMP Amendments/EIS. The BLM will 

be holding two virtual public scoping 

meetings and four in-person meetings. 

The specific dates and locations of these 

scoping meetings will be announced at 

least 15 days in advance through local 

media, social media, newspapers, and 

the ePlanning website (see ADDRESSES). 

Lead and Cooperating Agencies 

The BLM is the lead agency for the 

NEPA analysis associated with this 

planning effort. The BLM has invited 

other Federal agencies, State and local 

government agencies, and Tribes to be 

cooperating agencies. Other 

stakeholders that may be interested in or 

affected by the revision are invited to 

participate in the scoping process and, 

if eligible, may request or be requested 

by the BLM to participate in the 

development of the EIS as a cooperating 

agency. 

Responsible Official 

The BLM Director is the deciding 

official for this planning effort. 

Nature of Decision To Be Made 

The BLM will decide whether to 

amend RMPs to address the purpose 

and need, consistent with the principles 

of multiple use and sustained yield. 

Interdisciplinary Team 

The BLM will use an interdisciplinary 

approach to develop the plan 

amendments in order to consider the 

variety of resource issues and concerns 

identified. Specialists with expertise in 

the following disciplines will be 

involved in this planning effort: 

rangeland management, minerals and 

geology, forestry, outdoor recreation, 

archaeology, paleontology, wildlife and 

fisheries, lands and realty, hydrology, 

soils, sociology, and economics. 

Additional Information 

The BLM will consider mitigation to 

appropriately address reasonably 

foreseeable impacts on resources from 

the proposed plan amendments and 

reasonable alternatives and future 

energy infrastructure development. 

Mitigation may include avoidance, 

minimization, rectification, reduction or 

elimination over time, and 

compensation, and may be considered 

at multiple scales, including the 

landscape scale. 

The BLM will utilize and coordinate 

the NEPA and land use planning 

processes for this planning effort to help 

support compliance with applicable 

procedural requirements under the 

Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C. 

1536) and Section 106 of the National 

Historic Preservation Act (54 U.S.C. 

306108) as provided in 36 CFR 

800.2(d)(3), 800.3(b), and 800.8(a), 

including public involvement 

requirements of Section 106. 

Information about historic and cultural 

resources and threatened and 

endangered species within the area 

potentially affected by the proposed 

plan amendments will assist the BLM in 

identifying and evaluating impacts on 

such resources. 

The BLM will consult with Indian 

Tribal Nations on a government-togovernment basis in accordance with 

Executive Order 13175 and applicable 

Bureau and Departmental policies. 

Tribal concerns, including impacts on 

Indian trust assets and potential impacts 

on cultural resources, will be given due 

consideration. Federal, State, and local 

agencies, along with Indian Tribal 

Nations and other stakeholders that may 

be interested in or affected by the 

proposed changes to Section 368 energy 

corridors that the BLM is evaluating, are 

invited to participate in the scoping 

process and, if eligible, may request or 

be requested by the BLM to participate 

in the development of the 

environmental analysis as a cooperating 

agency. The BLM intends to hold a 

series of government-to-government 

consultation meetings. The BLM will 

send invitations to potentially affected 

Tribal Nations prior to the meetings. 

The BLM will provide additional 

opportunities for government-togovernment consultation during the 

NEPA process. 

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. 

(Authority: 40 CFR 1501.9 and 43 CFR 

1610.2) 

Benjamin E. Gruber, 

Acting Assistant Director, Energy, Minerals 

and Realty Management. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26493 Filed 11–30–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4331–29–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of Natural Resources Revenue 

[Docket No. ONRR–2011–0009; DS63644000 

DRT000000.CH7000 234D1113RT; OMB 

Control Number 1012–0008] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Collection of Monies Due 

the Federal Government; and 

Processing Refund Requests Related 

to Overpayments Made to ONRR 

AGENCY: Office of Natural Resources 

Revenue (‘‘ONRR’’), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

ONRR is proposing to revise an 

information collection. Through this 

Information Collection Request (ICR), 

ONRR seeks renewed authority to 

collect information necessary to cover 

cross-lease netting in the calculation of 

late-payment interest; a lessee’s 

designation of designee for payment 

obligations; tribal permission for 

recoupment on Indian oil and gas 

leases; and refund requests for 

overpayments made to ONRR. 

DATES: You must submit your written 

comments on or before January 30, 

2024. 

ADDRESSES: All comment submissions 

must (1) reference ‘‘OMB Control 

Number 1012–0008’’ in the subject line; 

(2) be sent to ONRR before the close of 

the comment period listed under DATES; 

and (3) be sent using the following 

method: 

Electronically via the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: Please visit https:// 

www.regulations.gov. In the Search Box, 

enter the Docket ID Number for this ICR 

renewal (‘‘ONRR–2011–0009’’) and click 

‘‘search’’ to view the publications 

associated with the docket folder. 

Locate the document with an open 


lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1
Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 230 / Friday, December 1, 2023 / Notices 83963 

comment period and click the 

‘‘Comment Now!’’ button. Follow the 

prompts to submit your comment prior 

to the close of the comment period. 

Docket: To access the docket folder to 

view the ICR Federal Register 

publications, go to https://

www.regulations.gov and search 

‘‘ONRR–2011–0009’’ to view renewal 

notices recently published in the 

Federal Register, publications 

associated with prior renewals, and 

applicable public comments received 

for this ICR. ONRR will make the 

comments submitted in response to this 

notice available for public viewing at 

https://www.regulations.gov. 

OMB ICR Data: OMB also maintains 

information on ICR renewals and 

approvals. You may access this 

information at https://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRASearch. Please use the 

following instructions: Under the ‘‘OMB 

Control Number’’ heading enter ‘‘1012– 

0008’’ and click the ‘‘Search’’ button 

located at the bottom of the page. To 

view the ICR renewal or OMB approval 

status, click on the latest entry (based on 

the most recent date). On the ‘‘View 

ICR—OIRA Conclusion’’ page, check the 

box next to ‘‘All’’ to display all available 

ICR information provided by OMB. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Mr. Christopher Davis, 

Financial Management, ONRR by email 

at Christopher.Davis@onrr.gov or by 

telephone at (303) 231–3977. To inquire 

about form ONRR–4425, please contact 

Aaron Lindquist, Data Solutioning and 

Technical Support, ONRR by email at 

Aaron.Lindquist@onrr.gov or by 

telephone at (303) 231–3020. To inquire 

about refund requests, please contact 

Thomas Anthony, Revenue, Reporting, 

and Compliance Management, ONRR by 

email at Thomas.Anthony@onrr.gov or 

by telephone at (303) 231–3708. 

Individuals in the United States who 

are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or 

have a speech disability may dial 711 

(TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access 

telecommunications relay services. 

Individuals outside the United States 

should use the relay services offered 

within their country to make 

international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq., and 

5 CFR 1320.5, all information 

collections, as defined in 5 CFR 1320.3, 

require approval by OMB. ONRR may 

not conduct or sponsor, and you are not 

required to respond to, a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

As part of ONRR’s continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burdens, ONRR is inviting the public 

and other Federal agencies to comment 

on new, proposed, revised, and 

continuing collections of information in 

accordance with the PRA and 5 CFR 

1320.8(d)(1). This helps ONRR to assess 

the impact of its information collection 

requirements and minimize the public’s 

reporting burden. It also helps the 

public understand ONRR’s information 

collection requirements and provide the 

requested data in the desired format. 

ONRR is especially interested in 

public comments addressing the 

following: 

(1) Whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) The accuracy of ONRR’s 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. ONRR will include or 

summarize each comment in its request 

to OMB to approve this ICR. 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 ONRR in your 

comment to withhold your personal 

identifying information from public 

review, ONRR cannot guarantee that it 

will be able to do so. 

Abstract: (a) General Information: The 

Federal Oil and Gas Royalty 

Management Act of 1982 (‘‘FOGRMA’’) 

directs the Secretary of the Interior 

(‘‘Secretary’’) to ‘‘establish a 

comprehensive inspection, collection 

and fiscal and production accounting 

and auditing system to provide the 

capability to accurately determine oil 

and gas royalties, interest, fines, 

penalties, fees, deposits, and other 

payments owed, and to collect and 

account for such amounts in a timely 

manner.’’ 30 U.S.C. 1711. ONRR 

performs these and other mineral 

revenue management responsibilities for 

the Secretary. See U.S. Department of 

the Interior Departmental Manual, 112 

DM 34.1 (Dec. 9, 2020). This ICR covers 

the burden hours associated with 

performing these responsibilities. 

(b) Information Collections: This ICR 

concerns the following information. 

(1) Cross-Lease Netting in Calculation 

of Late-Payment Interest: In calculating 

late-payment interest, ONRR allows a 

lessee to offset an overpayment made on 

a lease against an underpayment made 

on another lease if certain conditions 

are met. See 30 CFR 1218.42(a). ONRR 

refers to this offset as ‘‘cross-lease 

netting.’’ If a lessee asserts that interest 

is not owed due to cross-lease netting, 

it must provide information to ONRR 

showing that the conditions are met. 

(2) Designation of Designee for 

Federal Oil and Gas Leases: FOGRMA 

allows a lessee to notify the Secretary in 

writing of its designation of ‘‘a person 

to make all or part of the payments due 

under a lease on the lessee’s behalf . . . 

in which event said designated person 

may, in its own name, pay, offset or 

credit monies, make adjustments, 

request and receive refunds and submit 

reports with respect to payments 

required by the lessee.’’ See 30 U.S.C. 

1712(a). ONRR specifies the information 

that a lessee must provide to designate 

a designee in 30 CFR 1218.52(a). A 

lessee must use form ONRR–4425, 

Designation Form for Payment 

Responsibility, to provide that 

information. 

As discussed below, ONRR is 

modifying the form ONRR–4425 as part 

of this ICR renewal to be more 

consistent with FOGRMA and to better 

capture the information that a lessee is 

required to provide under 30 CFR 

1218.52. The modifications do not 

expand the information collected or 

change the burden hours necessary to 

complete the form. 

ONRR is modifying the title of the 

form from ‘‘Designation Form for 

Royalty Payment Responsibility’’ to 

‘‘Designation Form for Payment 

Responsibility’’ because the form may 

be used for certain payment types other 

than royalty payments. See 30 U.S.C. 

1712(a) and 30 CFR 1218.52(a)(3). 

The current form ONRR–4425 has 

fields for specifying effective and 

termination dates for the designation. 

However, FOGRMA provides that a 

notice of designation, modification of 

designation, or termination of 

designation is effective upon receipt by 

the Secretary. See 30 U.S.C. 1702 

(definition of ‘‘designee’’). ONRR 

therefore is removing the fields for a 

lessee to specify effective and 


lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1
83964 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 230 / Friday, December 1, 2023 / Notices 

termination dates and adding an 

instruction stating that a designation, 

modification of designation, or 

termination of designation is effective 

upon receipt by ONRR. ONRR is also 

adding a ‘‘filing type’’ field for the 

lessee to specify whether the form is 

being filed as an initial designation, a 

modification of a designation, or a 

termination of a designation. 

The current form ONRR–4425 

contains fields for a lessee to provide 

both the ONRR lease number and the 

leasing agency (Bureau of Land 

Management or Bureau of Safety and 

Environmental Enforcement) lease 

number for the designation. ONRR is 

modifying the form to require only the 

leasing agency number since ONRR’s 

data systems can convert the leasing 

agency number to the ONRR lease 

number. 

Section 1218.52(a)(6) requires the 

lessee to provide the name, address, and 

phone number of the individual to 

contact for the designee. However, the 

current form ONRR–4425 does not have 

a field for the lessee to supply this 

information. ONRR therefore is adding a 

field to the form for the lessee to 

provide this contact information if the 

designee is a company. 

Though the current form ONRR–4425 

contains fields for a lessee to specify 

whether it is the lessee of record or 

operating rights owner, it does not 

contain a place to provide its percentage 

of operating rights ownership in the 

lease, as required by § 1218.52(a)(4). 

ONRR therefore is modifying the form 

ONRR–4425 to include a field for a 

lessee to provide its percentage of 

operating rights ownership. 

Section 1218.52(a)(10) requires a 

lessee to provide a copy of the written 

designation with the form ONRR–4425, 

reflecting the designee’s acceptance of 

the designation. ONRR is modifying the 

form ONRR–4425 to remind the lessee 

of this requirement. ONRR also is 

modifying the form ONRR–4425 

instructions to specify that a lessee may 

use this written designation to (i) add 

additional leases to the designation, (ii) 

specify product types for the 

designation, and (iii) specify its 

operating rights percentages in different 

areas covered by the lease if its 

operating rights ownership is not 

uniform throughout the lease. Finally, 

ONRR is removing any requirement to 

provide fax information. 

(3) Tribal Permission for Recoupment 

on Indian Oil and Gas Leases: Pursuant 

to 30 CFR 1218.53(b), a payor may, with 

written permission authorized by tribal 

statute or resolution, recoup an 

overpayment against royalties or other 

revenues owed for the same production 

month under other leases for which that 

tribe is the lessor. See 30 CFR 

1218.53(b). The payor must provide 

ONRR with a copy of that written 

permission. Id. 

(4) Processing Refund Requests: 

FORGMA authorizes a Federal oil and 

gas lessee to request a refund for an 

overpayment in certain situations. See 

30 U.S.C. 1721a(b). FOGRMA requires 

the lessee to supply information to 

support its refund request. Id. 

Additionally, ONRR collects banking 

information from the refund recipient in 

order to disburse the overpaid amount 

to the correct account if a refund is 

warranted. 

Title: Collection of Monies Due the 

Federal Government; and Processing 

Refund Requests Related to 

Overpayments Made to ONRR. 

OMB Control Number: 1012–0008. 

Bureau Form Number: Form ONRR– 

4425. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: Federal 

and Indian lessees. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 170. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 170. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 93.75 hours. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

Total Estimated Annual Non-hour 

Burden Cost: We have identified no 

‘‘non-hour cost’’ burden associated with 

this collection of information. 

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 

PRA. 

Howard Cantor, 

Director, Office of Natural Resources 

Revenue. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26433 Filed 11–30–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4335–30–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[USITC SE–23–057] 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: United 

States International Trade Commission. 

TIME AND DATE: December 8, 2023 at 

11:00 a.m. 

PLACE: Room 101, 500 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20436, Telephone: 

(202) 205–2000. 

STATUS: Open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

1. Agendas for future meetings: none. 

2. Minutes. 

3. Ratification List. 

4. Commission vote on Inv. Nos. 701– 

TA–699–702 and 731–TA–1659–1660 

(Preliminary) (Frozen Warmwater 

Shrimp from Ecuador, India, Indonesia, 

and Vietnam). The Commission 

currently is scheduled to complete and 

file its determinations on December 11, 

2023; views of the Commission 

currently are scheduled to be completed 

and filed on December 18, 2023. 

5. Commission vote on Inv. Nos. 701– 

TA–253 and 731–TA–132, 252, 271, 

273, 532–534, and 536 (Fifth Review) 

(Circular Welded Pipe and Tube (CWP) 

from Brazil, India, Mexico, South Korea, 

Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey). The 

Commission currently is scheduled to 

complete and file its determinations and 

views of the Commission on December 

28, 2023. 

6. Outstanding action jackets: none. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Sharon Bellamy, Supervisory Hearings 

and Information Officer, 202–205–2000. 

The Commission is holding the 

meeting under the Government in the 

Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552(b). In 

accordance with Commission policy, 

subject matter listed above, not disposed 

of at the scheduled meeting, may be 

carried over to the agenda of the 

following meeting. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: November 29, 2023. 

Sharon Bellamy, 

Supervisory Hearings and Information 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26529 Filed 11–29–23; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

[OMB Number 1123–0NEW] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed eCollection 

eComments Requested; Authorization 

for Release of Information 

AGENCY: Office of the Pardon Attorney, 

Department of Justice. 

ACTION: 30-Day notice. 

SUMMARY: The Office of the Pardon 

Attorney, Department of Justice (DOJ), 

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 proposed 

information collection was previously 


lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1