Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 12 / Wednesday, January 19, 2022 / Notices 2897 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–CONC–32683; PPWOBSADC0, 

PPMVSCS1Y.Y00000] 

Notice of Intent To Award a SoleSource Concession Contract for 

Yellowstone National Park 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed award of a 

sole-source concession contract for 

Yellowstone National Park. 

SUMMARY: Public notice is hereby given 

that the National Park Service proposes 

to award a sole-source concession 

contract for the conduct of certain 

visitor services within Yellowstone 

National Park. The visitor services 

include food and beverage and retail. 

DATES: The term of the sole-source 

concession contract will commence (if 

awarded) no earlier than sixty (60) days 

from the publication of this notice, but 

the National Park Service intends for the 

term to begin March 1, 2022 (estimated) 

and end December 31, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kurt 

Rausch, Program Chief, Commercial 

Services Program, National Park 

Service, 1849 C Street NW, Mail Stop 

2410, Washington, DC 20240; 

Telephone: 202–513–7156. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to 36 CFR 51.25, the Director of the 

National Park Service (Service) may 

award a concession contract noncompetitively upon a determination that 

extraordinary circumstances exist under 

which compelling and equitable 

considerations require the award of the 

concession contract to a particular 

qualified person in the public interest 

and that such an award is otherwise 

consistent with the requirements of part 

51. Contracts that are awarded noncompetitively under this authority are 

commonly referred to as ‘‘sole-source’’ 

contracts. The Service has determined 

that the proposed award of a sole-source 

contract to DNC Parks and Resorts at 

Yellowstone, LLC is necessary based on 

the following information. 

The extraordinary circumstances in 

this instance include delays caused by 

the COVID–19 pandemic and the 

required updates to the YELL002 

prospectus as a result of the pandemic’s 

socio-economic impacts, as such 

impacts affected the assumptions 

developed for the prospectus to such an 

extent that the Service could not release 

the prospectus in July 2020 as originally 

planned. Additionally, the Service has 

exhausted the time allowed for 

temporary contracts authorized under 

36 CFR 51.24, and does not have 

sufficient time to update the 

assumptions and requirements for a new 

prospectus, solicit and evaluate 

proposals, provide the 60-day notice to 

Congress, and competitively award a 

new contract before the expiration of the 

temporary contract on February 28, 

2022. 

The Service has determined that DNC 

Parks and Resorts at Yellowstone, LLC 

is a ‘‘qualified person’’ as defined by 36 

CFR 51.3, and has determined that 

compelling and equitable considerations 

exist as only DNC Parks and Resorts at 

Yellowstone, LLC, having provided the 

visitor services since 2002 and having 

already made the investments necessary 

to provide the operations, is positioned 

to provide the visitor services without 

having potentially severe consequences 

to visitors to the Park. 

The Service has determined that a 

sole-source concession contract is in the 

public interest because it is the 

authorization most likely to avoid 

interruption of visitor services and 

provide for the continued maintenance 

of government-owned facilities. 

This is not a request for proposals. 

The publication of this notice reflects 

the intent of the Service but does not 

bind the Service to award the solesource contract. Should the Service 

award the sole-source contract, the NPS 

will ensure such award is otherwise 

consistent with the requirements of part 

51. 

Justin Unger, 

Associate Director, Business Services. 

[FR Doc. 2022–00656 Filed 1–18–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–53–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 

and Enforcement 

[S1D1S SS08011000 SX064A000 

221S180110; S2D2S SS08011000 

SX064A000 22XS501520; OMB Control 

Number 1029–0120] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Nomination and Request for 

Payment Form for OSMRE’s National 

Technical Training Courses 

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 February 

18, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. Please provide a copy 

of your comments 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 1029–0120 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. 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 (PRA; 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. 

A Federal Register notice with a 60- 

day public comment period soliciting 

comments on this collection of 

information was published on 

September 30, 2021 (86 FR 54236). No 

comments were received. 

As part of our continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burdens, we are again soliciting 

comments from the public and other 

Federal agencies on the proposed ICR 

that is described below. We are 

especially interested in public comment 

addressing the following: 

(1) Whether or not the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether or not the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the 

burden for this collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 


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