57372 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 185 / Friday, September 22, 2000 / Notices

Act and approved State regulatory

program.

Bureau Form Number: None.

Frequency of Collection: Once,

monthly, quarterly, and annually.

Description of Respondents: State

Regulatory Authorities.

Total Annual Responses: 99,013.

Total Annual Burden Hours: 578,509.

Dated: September 18, 2000.

Richard G. Bryson,

Chief, Division of Regulatory Support.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation

and Enforcement

Notice of Proposed Information

Collection

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining

Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior.

ACTION: Notice and request for

comments.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation

and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing

that the information collection request

for the title described below has been

forwarded to the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) for review and

comment. The information collection

request describes the nature of the

information collection and the expected

burden and cost.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before October 23, 2000, to be assured

of consideration.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To

request a copy of the information

collection request, explanatory

information and related form, contact

John A. Trelease (202) 208–2783.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office

of Management and Budget (OMB)

regulations at 5 CFR 1320, which

implement provisions of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13),

require that interested members of the

public and affected agencies have an

opportunity to comment on information

collection and recordkeeping activities

(see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)). OSM has

submitted a request to OMB to renew its

approval of the collection of information

contained in 30 CFR 700, General. OSM

is requesting a 3-year term of approval

for this information collection activity.

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 OMB control

number for this collection of

information is listed in 30 CFR Part 700,

which is 1029–0094.

As required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), a

Federal Register notice soliciting

comments on these collections of

information was published on June 28,

2000 (65 FR 39924). No comments were

received. This notice provides the

public with an additional 30 days in

which to comment on the following

information collection activity:

Title: General, 30 CFR Part 700.

OMB Control Number: 1029–0094.

Summary: This Part establishes

procedures and requirements for

terminating jurisdiction of surface coal

mining and reclamation operations,

petitions for rulemaking, and citizen

suits filed under the Surface Mining

Control and Reclamation Act of 1977.

Bureau Form Number: None.

Frequency of Collection: Once.

Description of Respondents: State and

tribal regulatory authorities, private

citizens and citizen groups, and surface

coal mining companies.

Total Annual Responses: 6.

Total Annual Burden Hours: 12.

Send comments on the need for the

collections of information for the

performance of the functions of the

agency; the accuracy of the agency’s

burden estimates; ways to enhance the

quality, utility and clarity of the

information collections; and ways to

minimize the information collection

burdens on respondents, such as use of

automated means of collections of the

information, to the following addresses.

Please refer to the appropriate OMB

control number in all correspondence.

ADDRESSES: Office of Information and

Regulatory Affairs, Office of

Management and Budget, Attention:

Department of Interior Desk Officer, 725

17th Street, NW., Washington, DC

20503. Also, please send a copy of your

comments to John A. Trelease, Office of

Surface Mining Reclamation and

Enforcement, 1951 Constitution Ave.,

NW., Room 210–SIB, Washington, DC

20240, or electronically to

jtreleas@osmre.gov.

Dated: September 18, 2000.

Richard G. Bryson,

Chief, Division of Regulatory Support.

[FR Doc. 00–24374 Filed 9–21–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation

and Enforcement

Proposed Wright Junior/Senior High

School Improvements Project in

Wyoming

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining

Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM),

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of application for grant

funding; public comment period on

request to fund the Wright Junior/Senior

High School improvements project.

SUMMARY: OSM is announcing its receipt

of a grant application from the Wyoming

Department of Environmental Quality,

Abandoned Mine Land Division

(AMLD). Wyoming is requesting

$500,000 from the Abandoned Mine

Reclamation Fund to pay approximately

50 percent of the cost of building the

Wright Junior/Senior High School

Improvements project in Campbell

County, Wyoming. In its application,

the State proposes paying for part of the

reconstruction cost as a public facility

project that will benefit a community

impacted by coal and mineral mining

activities.

This notice describes when and where

the Wyoming abandoned mine land

(AML) program and the grant

application for funding the Wright

Junior/Senior High School

Improvements project are available for

you to read. It also sets the time period

during which you may send written

comments on the request to us.

DATES: We will accept written

comments until 4:00 p.m., m.s.t.,

October 23, 2000.

ADDRESSES: You should mail or handdeliver written comments to Guy V.

Padgett, Casper Field Office Director, at

the address shown below. You may read

Wyoming’s grant application for this

proposed project during normal

business hours Monday through Friday

(excluding holidays) at the same

address. Also, we will send one free

copy of the grant application to you if

you contact OSM’s Casper Field Office.

Guy V. Padgett, Director, Casper Field

Office, Office of Surface Mining

Reclamation and Enforcement, Federal

Building, Rm. 2403, 100 East ‘‘B’’ Street,

Casper, Wyoming 82601–1918.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Guy

V. Padgett, Telephone: (307) 261–6555.

Our practice is to make comments,

including names and home addresses of

respondents, available for public review

during regular business hours.

Individual respondents may request that

we withhold their home address from