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public understand our information 

collection requirements and provide the 

requested data in the desired format. 

We are soliciting comments on the 

proposed ICR that is described below. 

We are especially interested in public 

comment addressing the following 

issues: (1) is the collection necessary to 

the proper functions of the agency; (2) 

will this information be processed and 

used in a timely manner; (3) is the 

estimate of burden accurate; (4) how 

might the agency enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (5) how might the 

agency minimize the burden of this 

collection on the respondents, including 

through the use of information 

technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our 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 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: This information collection 

requirement is needed to provide 

assistance to qualified small mine 

operators under 30 U.S.C. 1257. The 

information requested will provide the 

regulatory authority with data to 

determine the eligibility of the applicant 

and the capability and expertise of 

laboratories to perform required tasks. 

Title of Collection: Permanent 

Regulatory Program—Small Operator 

Assistance Program. 

OMB Control Number: 1029–0061. 

Form Number: FS–6. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Businesses and state governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 4. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 4. 

Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: Varies from 1 hours to 70 

hours, depending on activity. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 93. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: One time. 

Total Estimated Annual Nonhour 

Burden Cost: $0. 

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.). 

Mark J. Gehlhar, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and 

Enforcement. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02803 Filed 2–9–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 

and Enforcement 

[S1D1S SS08011000 SX064A000 

245S180110; S2D2S SS08011000 

SX064A000 24XS501520; OMB Control 

Number 1029–0036] 

Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Surface Mining Permit 

Applications—Minimum Requirements 

for Reclamation and Operation Plan 

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, 

the Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE), 

are proposing to renew an information 

collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before April 12, 

2024. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments on 

this information collection request (ICR) 

by mail to Mark Gehlhar, Office of 

Surface Mining Reclamation and 

Enforcement, 1849 C Street NW, Room 

4556–MIB, Washington, DC 20240, or by 

email to mgehlhar@osmre.gov. Please 

reference OMB Control Number 1029– 

0036 in the subject line of your 

comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Mark Gehlhar by email 

at mgehlhar@osmre.gov, or by telephone 

at 202–208–2716. 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. 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 (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. 

We are soliciting comments on the 

proposed ICR that is described below. 

We are especially interested in public 

comment addressing the following 

issues: (1) is the collection necessary to 

the proper functions of the agency; (2) 

will this information be processed and 

used in a timely manner; (3) is the 

estimate of burden accurate; (4) how 

might the agency enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (5) how might the 

agency minimize the burden of this 

collection on the respondents, including 

through the use of information 

technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our 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 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: Sections 507(b), 508(a), 

510(b), 515(b) and (d), and 522 of 30 

U.S.C. 1201 et seq. require applicants to 

submit operation and reclamation plans 

for coal mining activities. This 

information collection is needed to 

determine whether the plans will 

achieve the reclamation and 

environmental protections pursuant to 

the Surface Mining Control and 

Reclamation Act. Without this 

information, Federal and State 

regulatory authorities cannot review and 

approve permit application requests. 

Title of Collection: Surface Mining 

Permit Applications—Minimum 

Requirements for Reclamation and 

Operation Plan. 


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OMB Control Number: 1029–0036. 

Form Number: None. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State 

governments and businesses. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 100. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 3,091. 

Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: Varies from 2 hours to 160 

hours, depending on activity. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 96,158. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: One time. 

Total Estimated Annual Nonhour 

Burden Cost: $791,900. 

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.). 

Mark J. Gehlhar, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and 

Enforcement. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02802 Filed 2–9–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Proposed 

Consent Decree Under the Clean Water 

Act 

On February 5, 2024, the Department 

of Justice lodged a proposed consent 

decree with the United States District 

Court for the District of Massachusetts 

in United States and Commonwealth of 

Massachusetts v. City of Lowell, 

Massachusetts, 1:24–cv–10290 (D. 

Mass.). 

The United States filed a complaint 

for injunctive relief and civil penalties 

under sections 309(b) and (d) of the 

Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1319(b) and 

(d), against Defendant, City of Lowell 

for: (1) unpermitted and illegal 

discharges from its wastewater 

collection system, without authorization 

under a National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System (‘‘NPDES’’) permit 

and in violation of section 301 of the 

Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311; and (2) 

unpermitted and illegal discharges of 

pollutants from its Small Municipal 

Separate Storm Sewer System. The 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts has 

moved to file an Intervenor’s Complaint 

alleging violations of the Clean Water 

Act, the Massachusetts Clean Waters 

Act, M.G.L. c. 21, sections 26–53, and 

the regulations promulgated thereunder, 

314 C.M.R. sections 3.00, et seq., 7.00, 

et seq., and 12.00, et seq. Under the 

proposed Consent Decree among the 

parties, the City of Lowell must take 

measures necessary to achieve and 

maintain compliance with the Federal 

Clean Water Act, the Massachusetts 

Clean Waters Act, and the City’s NPDES 

permit. These include measures to 

separate wastewater sewer pipes and 

stormwater pipes to prevent sewage 

discharges to the Merrimack and 

Concord Rivers and Beaver Brook from 

the combined pipes during rain events. 

Under the proposed Consent Decree, the 

City will also update and implement its 

Illicit Discharge Detection and 

Elimination program to detect and 

eliminate illicit connections from 

wastewater pipes or other sources of 

wastewater to the stormwater system. 

Finally, under the proposed settlement, 

the City will pay a $200,000 civil 

penalty for past noncompliance. 

The publication of this notice opens 

a period for public comment on the 

proposed Consent Decree. Comments 

should be addressed to the Assistant 

Attorney General, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division, United 

States Department of Justice, and should 

refer to United States and 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. City 

of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1:24–cv– 

10290 (D. Mass.), D.J. Ref. No. 90–5–1– 

1–12515. All comments must be 

submitted no later than thirty (30) days 

after the publication date of this notice. 

Comments may be submitted either by 

email or by mail: 

To submit 

comments: Send them to: 

By email ....... pubcomment-ees.enrd@

usdoj.gov. 

By mail ......... Assistant Attorney General, 

U.S. DOJ—ENRD, P.O. 

Box 7611, Washington, 

D.C. 20044–7611. 

Any comments submitted in writing 

may be filed by the United States in 

whole or in part on the public court 

docket without notice to the commenter. 

During the public comment period, 

the proposed consent decree may be 

examined and downloaded at this 

Justice Department website: https://

www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees. 

If you require assistance accessing the 

proposed consent decree, you may 

request assistance by email or by mail 

to the addresses provided above for 

submitting comments. 

Henry S. Friedman, 

Assistant Section Chief, Environmental 

Enforcement Section, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02738 Filed 2–9–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Proposed 

Consent Decree Under the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act 

On February 5, 2024, the Department 

of Justice lodged a proposed consent 

decree with the United States District 

Court for the Southern District of 

Indiana in the lawsuit entitled United 

States and State of Indiana v. 1500 

South Tibbs LLC, Civil Action No. 1:24– 

cv–235. 

The proposed Consent Decree settles 

claims brought by the United States and 

the State of Indiana under sections 106 

and 107 of the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, 

Compensation, and Liability Act 

(‘‘CERCLA’’), 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607 

against 1500 South Tibbs LLC 

(‘‘Defendant’’) seeking reimbursement of 

response costs and performance of 

remedial measures with respect to 

Reilly Tar and Chemical Superfund Site 

in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Consent 

Decree requires Defendant to pay the 

United States a total of $112,805.24 for 

EPA’s response costs, pay the State a 

total of $21,061.53 for its past response 

costs, pay future response costs incurred 

by the United States and the State, and 

perform the remedial ‘‘Work’’ defined in 

the Scope of Work, attached to the 

Consent Decree as Attachment A. The 

Work consists of designing and 

implementing a revised Operable Unit 1 

(OU1) remedy for the treatment of 

groundwater underneath the Site and to 

continue operating and maintaining the 

remedies for contamination at the other 

Operable Units. 

The publication of this notice opens 

a period for public comment on the 

proposed consent decree. Comments 

should be addressed to the Assistant 

Attorney General, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division, and should 

refer to United States and State of 

Indiana v. 1500 South Tibbs LLC, D.J. 

Ref. No. 90–11–3–1028/2. All comments 

must be submitted no later than thirty 

(30) days after the publication date of 

this notice. Comments may be 

submitted either by email or by mail: 


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