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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

more information on the CPA 241/247/ 

EPA 226 Draft Supplemental EIS, you 

may contact Mr. Gary D. Goeke, Bureau 

of Ocean Energy Management, Gulf of 

Mexico OCS Region, Office of 

Environment (GM 623E), 1201 Elmwood 

Park Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 

70123–2394 or by email at cpa241- 

epa226@boem.gov. You may also 

contact Mr. Goeke by telephone at 504– 

736–3233. 

Public Disclosure of Names and 

Addresses 

As BOEM does not consider 

anonymous comments, please include 

your name and address as part of your 

submittal. BOEM makes all comments, 

including the names and addresses of 

respondents, available for public review 

during regular business hours. 

Individual respondents may request that 

BOEM withhold their names and/or 

addresses from the public record; 

however, BOEM cannot guarantee that 

we will be able to do so. If you wish 

your name and/or address to be 

withheld, you must state your 

preference prominently at the beginning 

of your comment. All submissions from 

organizations or businesses and from 

individuals identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses will be 

made available for public inspection in 

their entirety. 

Dated: January 14, 2015. 

Abigail Ross Hopper, 

Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01758 Filed 1–29–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of Natural Resources Revenue 

[Docket No. ONRR–2011–0009; DS63610300 

DR2PS0000.CH7000 134D0102R2] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Collection of Monies Due 

the Federal Government; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Office of Natural Resources 

Revenue (ONRR), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of extension. 

SUMMARY: To comply with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), we are 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 

30 CFR part 1218. This notice also 

provides the public a second 

opportunity to comment on the 

paperwork burden of these regulatory 

requirements. 

DATES: OMB has up to 60 days to 

approve or disapprove this information 

collection request but may respond after 

30 days; therefore, you should submit 

your public comments to OMB by 

March 2, 2015 for the assurance of 

consideration. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit your 

written comments directly to the Desk 

Officer for the Department of the 

Interior (OMB Control Number 1012– 

0008), Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, OMB, by email to 

OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov or 

telefax at (202) 395–5806. Please also 

mail a copy of your comments to Mr. 

Luis Aguilar, Regulatory Specialist, 

ONRR, P.O. Box 25165, MS 61030A, 

Denver, Colorado 80225–0165, or email 

Luis.Aguilar@onrr.gov. Please reference 

OMB Control Number 1012–0008 in 

your comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions on technical issues, contact 

Ms. Lee-Ann Martin, Reporting and 

Solid Minerals Services, ONRR, 

telephone (303) 231–3313, or email 

LeeAnn.Martin@onrr.gov. For other 

questions, contact Mr. Luis Aguilar, 

telephone (303) 231–3418, or email 

Luis.Aguilar@onrr.gov. You may also 

contact Mr. Aguilar to obtain copies 

(free of charge) 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: Collection of Monies Due the 

Federal Government—30 CFR part 1218. 

OMB Control Number: 1012–0008. 

Bureau Form Number: Form ONRR– 

4425. 

Abstract: The Secretary of the U.S. 

Department of the Interior is responsible 

for collecting royalties from lessees who 

produce minerals from leased Federal 

and Indian lands and the Outer 

Continental Shelf (OCS). Under various 

laws, the Secretary’s responsibility is to 

manage mineral resources production 

on Federal and Indian lands and the 

OCS, collect royalties due, and 

distribute the funds collected under 

those laws. ONRR performs the royalty 

management functions for the Secretary. 

Public laws pertaining to mineral 

leases on Federal and Indian lands and 

the OCS are posted at http://

www.onrr.gov/Laws_R_D/PubLaws/

default.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 lessee is required to 

report various kinds of information to 

the lessor relative to the disposition of 

the 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 collected includes data 

necessary to ensure that production is 

accurately valued and that royalties are 

appropriately paid. 

This ICR covers unique reporting 

circumstances, including (1) cross-lease 

netting in calculation of late-payment 

interest; (2) designation of a designee; 

and (3) Tribal permission for 

recoupment on Indian oil and gas 

leases. 

Cross-Lease Netting in Calculation of 

Late-Payment Interest 

Regulations at § 1218.54 require 

ONRR to assess interest on unpaid or 

underpaid amounts. ONRR distributes 

these interest revenues to States, Indian 

Tribes, and the U.S. Treasury based on 

financial lease distribution information. 

Current regulations at § 1218.42 provide 

that an overpayment on a lease or leases 

may be offset against an underpayment 

on a different lease or leases to 

determine the net payment subject to 

interest when certain conditions are 

met. This process is called cross-lease 

netting. Sections 6(a), (b), and (c) of the 

Royalty Simplification and Fairness Act 

(RSFA) require ONRR to pay interest on 

lessees’ Federal oil and gas 

overpayments made on or after February 

13, 1997 (six months after the August 

13, 1996, enactment of RSFA). ONRR 

implemented this RSFA provision in 

1997 and began calculating interest on 

both underpayments and overpayments 

for Federal oil and gas leases, making 

the cross-lease netting provisions at 

§ 1218.42 no longer applicable for these 

leases. However, lessees must still 

comply with the provisions at 30 CFR 

1218.42(b) and (c) for Indian Tribal 

leases or Federal leases other than oil 

and gas. They must demonstrate that 

cross-lease netting is correct by 

submitting production reports, pipeline 

allocation reports, or other similar 

documentary evidence. This 

information is necessary in order for 

ONRR to determine the correct amount 


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of interest that the lessee owes and to 

ensure that we collect in full all monies 

owed to the Federal Government. 

Designation of Designee 

Requirements of RSFA established 

that owners of, primarily, operating 

rights or, secondarily, lease record title 

(both referred to as ‘‘lessees’’) are 

responsible for making royalty and 

related payments on Federal oil and gas 

leases (see 30 CFR 1218.52). It is 

common however, for a payor—rather 

than a lessee—to make these payments. 

When a payor makes payments on 

behalf of a lessee, RSFA section 6(g) 

requires that the lessee designate the 

payor as its designee and notify ONRR 

of this arrangement in writing. We 

designed Form ONRR–4425, 

Designation Form for Royalty Payment 

Responsibility, to request all the 

information necessary for lessees to 

comply with these RSFA requirements 

when choosing to designate an agent to 

pay for them. We require this 

information to ensure proper mineral 

revenue collection. 

Tribal Permission for Recoupment on 

Indian Oil and Gas Leases 

In order to report cross-lease netting 

on Indian oil and gas leases, lessees 

must also comply with regulations at 30 

CFR 12l8.53(b), allowing only lessees 

with written permission from the Tribe 

to recoup overpayments on one lease 

against a different lease for which the 

Tribe is the lessor. The payor must 

provide ONRR with a copy of the 

Tribe’s written permission. 

OMB Approval 

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 and may also result 

in the loss of royalty payments. 

Proprietary information submitted is 

protected, and there are no questions of 

a sensitive nature included in this 

information collection. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Estimated Number and Description of 

Respondents: 35 Federal and Indian 

lessees. 

Estimated Annual Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Hour’’ Burden: 59 

hours. 

We have not included in our 

estimates certain requirements 

performed in the normal course of 

business that are considered usual and 

customary. The following chart shows 

the estimated burden hours by CFR and 

paragraph: 

Citation 30 CFR Part 1218 Reporting and recordkeeping requirement Hour burden 

Average number of annual 

responses 

Annual burden 

hours 

Subpart A—General Provisions—Cross-lease netting in calculation of late-payment interest. 

1218.42(b) and (c) .................. Cross-lease netting in calculation of late-payment interest. 

(b) Royalties attributed to production from a lease or 

leases which should have been attributed to production 

from a different lease or leases may be offset . . . if . . . 

the payor submits production reports, pipeline allocation 

reports, or other similar documentary evidence pertaining 

to the specific production involved which verifies the correct production information. . . . (c) If ONRR assesses 

late-payment interest and the payor asserts that some or 

all of the interest is not owed . . . the burden is on the 

payor to demonstrate that the exception applies. . . . 

2 25 50 

Subpart B—Oil and Gas, General—How does a lessee designate a Designee? 

1218.52(a), (c), and (d) .......... How does a lessee designate a Designee? (a) If you are a 

lessee under 30 U.S.C. 1701(7), and you want to designate a person to make all or part of the payments due 

under a lease on your behalf . . . you must notify ONRR 

. . . in writing of such designation. . . . (c) If you want to 

terminate a designation . . . you must provide [the following] to ONRR in writing. . . . (d) ONRR may require 

you to provide notice when there is a change in the percentage of your record title or operating rights ownership. 

0.75 5 4 

ONRR currently uses Form ONRR–4425, Designation Form 

for Royalty Payment Responsibility, to collect this information. 

Subpart B—Oil and Gas, General—Recoupment of overpayments on Indian mineral leases. 

1218.53(b) ............................... Recoupment of overpayments on Indian mineral leases. (b) 

With written permission authorized by tribal statute or resolution, a payor may recoup an overpayment against royalties or other revenues owed . . . under other leases. 

. . . A copy of the tribe’s written permission must be furnished to ONRR. . . . 

1 5 5 

TOTAL BURDEN ............. ................................................................................................. ........................ 35 59 

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 


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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 May 

28, 2014 (79 FR 30651), 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 the information collection 

but may respond after 30 days. 

Therefore, to ensure maximum 

consideration, OMB should receive 

public comment by March 2, 2015. 

Public Comment Policy: ONRR will 

post all comments, including names and 

addresses of respondents at http://

www.regulations.gov. Before including 

Personally Identifiable Information (PII), 

such as your address, phone number, 

email address, or other personal 

information in your comment(s), you 

should be aware that your entire 

comment (including PII) may be made 

available to the public at any time. 

While you may ask us, in your 

comment, to withhold PII from public 

view, we cannot guarantee that we will 

be able to do so. 

Dated: January 28, 2015. 

Gregory J. Gould, 

Director, Office of Natural Resources 

Revenue. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01886 Filed 1–29–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4335–30–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation No. 731–TA–1092 (Review)] 

Diamond Sawblades and Parts Thereof 

From China; Determination To 

Conduct a Full Five-Year Review and 

Scheduling of the Review 

AGENCY: United States International 

Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission hereby gives 

notice that it will proceed with a full 

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 diamond sawblades and parts 

thereof from China would be likely to 

lead to continuation or recurrence of 

material injury within a reasonably 

foreseeable time. The Commission also 

gives notice of the scheduling of the full 

review pursuant to section 751(c)(5) of 

the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 

1675(c)(5)). 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). 

DATES: Effective Date: January 22, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Szustakowski (202) 205–3169, 

Office of Investigations, U.S. 

International Trade Commission, 500 E 

Street SW., Washington, DC 20436. 

Hearing-impaired 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 December 2, 2013, 

the Commission instituted a five-year 

review on the antidumping duty order 

on imports of diamond sawblades and 

parts thereof from China (78 FR 72116, 

December 2, 2013). The U.S. 

Department of Commerce initiated its 

five-year review of the order on the 

same day (78 FR 72061, December 2, 

2013). The Diamond Sawblades 

Manufacturers’ Coalition (DSMC), an 

association of domestic producers of 

diamond sawblades, filed an action in 

the U.S. Court of International Trade 

(CIT) to declare that the five-year 

reviews that Commerce initiated and the 

Commission instituted were ultra vires 

because they began prematurely. On 

September 23, 2014, the CIT directed 

the Commission to cease further work 

on the five-year review it previously 

instituted, and to instead institute a 

review on November 4, 2014. Prior to 

terminating proceedings, the 

Commission had voted to conduct a full 

review. 

Effective November 4, 2014, the 

Commission rescinded the previously 

instituted five-year review and 

instituted the current review (79 FR 

65420, November 4, 2014). The 

institution notice for the current review 

gave notification that the Commission 

reserved the right to waive its 

regulations concerning filing of 

comments on whether to conduct an 

expedited review. The Commission 

stated in the notice that both domestic 

and respondent interested parties 

responded to the notice of institution it 

published on December 2, 2013, and 

that in light of these responses the 

Commission determined that 

conducting a full review was 

appropriate. 

In its November 4, 2014 notice, the 

Commission did not require those 

interested parties that submitted 

adequate responses to the December 2, 

2013 institution notice to submit full 

responses. Instead, the Commission 

stated that each such party could submit 

a response no later than December 4, 

2014 indicating that: (1) It incorporated 

the contents of its response to the 

December 2, 2013 institution notice and 

(2) that it was willing to participate in 

this review by providing information 

requested to the Commission. Any such 

party was also allowed to provide 

additional information of the nature 

specified in the notice. Parties that did 

not submit an adequate response to the 

December 2, 2013 institution notice 

were also allowed to provide additional 

information of the nature specified in 

the notice no later than December 4, 

2014. 

The notice also stated that should 

those parties that submitted adequate 

responses to the December 2, 2013 

institution notice indicate their desire to 

participate in this review, the 

Commission intended to issue a notice 

stating that it will conduct a full review. 

In light of this, the Commission reserved 

the right to waive the process specified 

in 19 CFR 207.62(b) for submitting 

comments to the Commission on 


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