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• Confederated Salish and Kootenai 

Tribes 

Yellowstone National Park has also 

invited the following tribes with treaty 

hunting rights to participate as 

cooperating agencies (responses are 

forthcoming): Blackfeet Tribe of the 

Blackfeet Indian Reservation of 

Montana, Confederated Tribes of the 

Umatilla Indian Reservation, Crow Tribe 

of Montana, Northern Arapaho Tribe of 

the Wind River Reservation, ShoshoneBannock Tribes of the Fort Hall 

Reservation, and the Yakama Nation. 

Decision Maker 

The Decision Maker is the NPS 

Regional Director for Interior Regions 6, 

7, and 8. 

Termination of 2015 EIS Process 

This notice also terminates the EIS for 

a Management Plan for Yellowstonearea Bison initiated by the NPS on 

March 16, 2015 (80 FR 13603–13604). 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. et seq. 

Michael Reynolds, 

Regional Director, Interior Regions 6, 7, & 

8. 

[FR Doc. 2022–01865 Filed 1–27–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[OMB Control Number 1010–NEW; Docket 

ID: BOEM–2017–0016] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Evaluating Connections: 

BOEM’s Environmental Studies and 

Assessments 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

(BOEM) is proposing a new information 

collection request (ICR). 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before February 

28, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your written 

comments on this ICR to the Office of 

Management and Budget’s desk officer 

for the Department of the Interior at 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice. From the www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain landing page, find 

this information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under Review—Open for 

Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. Please provide a copy 

of your comments to the BOEM 

Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, Anna Atkinson, Bureau of 

Ocean Energy Management, 45600 

Woodland Road, Sterling, Virginia 

20166; or by email to anna.atkinson@

boem.gov. Please reference Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) Control 

Number 1010–NEW in the subject line 

of your comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Anna Atkinson by email at 

anna.atkinson@boem.gov or by 

telephone at 703–787–1025. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, BOEM provides 

the public and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on new, 

proposed, revised, and continuing 

collections of information. This helps 

BOEM assess the impact of the 

information collection requirements and 

minimize the public’s reporting burden. 

It also helps the public understand 

BOEM’s information collection 

requirements. 

Title of Collection: Evaluating 

Connections: BOEM’s Environmental 

Studies and Assessments. 

Abstract: Section 20 of the Outer 

Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) 

(43 U.S.C. 1346) requires the Secretary 

of the Interior to study any area or 

region included in an oil, gas, or other 

lease sale to gather information needed 

for assessment and management of 

impacts on the human, marine, and 

coastal environments of the Outer 

Continental Shelf (OCS) and the affected 

coastal areas. Additionally, subsequent 

to the leasing and developing of any 

OCS area, the Secretary may authorize 

further environmental studies to gather 

information that can be used for 

identifying significant changes and 

trends in the quality and productivity of 

such environments and for designing 

experiments to identify the causes of 

such changes. 

This statutory authority is carried out 

through BOEM’s Environmental Studies 

Program (ESP). In fulfilling its mission, 

BOEM must comply with a range of 

environmental laws and regulations. To 

comply with relevant statutes and 

policies, BOEM requires current and 

relevant scientific information to 

develop informed environmental 

analyses required by the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and 

to conduct appropriate and meaningful 

consultations with other Federal 

agencies. For example, the following 

types of documents are considered in 

the universe of BOEM environmental 

analyses: 

• NEPA environmental impact 

statements. 

• NEPA environmental assessments. 

• National Historic Preservation Act 

documents (including section 106 

evaluations of effects on historic 

properties and programmatic 

agreements). 

• Essential fish habitat assessments 

for Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act 

consultations. 

• Endangered Species Act section 7 

biological evaluations or biological 

assessments. 

• Analyses and assessments prepared 

to comply with the Clean Air Act, 

Coastal Zone Management Act, and 

Marine Mammal Protection Act. 

• Analyses and assessments such as 

engineering analyses, regulatory impact 

analyses, resource evaluations, 

additional NEPA-related analyses, site 

assessments, and cost-benefit analyses 

prepared for OCSLA and other 

regulatory requirements. 

Environmental studies sponsored by 

ESP provide scientific information to 

inform BOEM’s environmental analyses, 

which are overseen through BOEM’s 

Environmental Assessment Program 

(EAP). BOEM describes the process by 

which environmental studies inform 

environmental analyses and 

environmental analyses inform 

environmental studies as a ‘‘feedback 

loop.’’ To determine how well this 

feedback loop is functioning and to 

identify potential improvements in the 

science-to-policy process, BOEM is 

pursuing an evaluation of the linkages 

between the scientific research it is 

funding and the information needs 

within its environmental analyses. The 

evaluation will include surveys and 

interviews of BOEM’s ESP and EAP 

partners (e.g., Federal and State 

agencies, academic institutions and 

scholars, consultants, tribal members, 

industry representatives, and 

environmental non-governmental 

organizations). 

The survey will focus on information 

exchange between BOEM’s ESP and 

EAP and their external program 

partners. The survey results will be used 

to understand how program partners use 

information derived from BOEM’s 

studies and analyses and to trace the 

networks through which this 

information is disseminated. The survey 

results will inform a network analysis to 

understand the network structure, 

possible network influence on 

outcomes, and people or organizations 

that could be targeted or connected to 

achieve better expected outcomes. 

The survey will be administered 

online. The survey will be sent to ESP 


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and EAP partners identified by BOEM 

staff. Following a brief email 

introduction, each survey respondent 

will receive a unique weblink to 

complete the online survey. The survey 

questions will ask respondents: (1) From 

whom they receive and with whom they 

share BOEM environmental studies and 

analyses information, and (2) how they 

use that environmental information for 

their organization’s work. The survey 

will include fewer than 20 mostly 

discrete-choice questions and will take 

up to 20 minutes to complete. 

Descriptive statistics will be calculated 

at the organizational level, and results 

will be presented in a tabular format 

and network graphs. 

All agencies, organizations, and 

institutions that BOEM identifies as 

important for understanding the 

feedback loop will be contacted for an 

interview. Interviews will be semistructured. Respondents will be asked 

questions tailored to their type of 

organization. Interviewers will ask 

respondents to provide insight into how 

and why linkages between BOEM and 

respondents are (or are not) present, and 

how and why respondents are (or are 

not) using environmental studies and 

analyses information from BOEM. As a 

semi-structured interview, the 

interviewer will have the opportunity to 

ask follow-up questions based on initial 

responses. The interviewers will ask 

about the respondents’ roles or positions 

within their organizations, how they use 

BOEM’s environmental studies and 

analyses information in their 

organizations’ work, and how their 

organizations contribute to BOEM’s 

environmental studies and analyses. 

Additionally, the interviewers will 

request recommendations on ways to 

strengthen linkages moving forward. 

The responses will be analyzed using 

qualitative coding analysis. 

This information is not otherwise 

available and will help inform BOEM’s 

efforts to improve the feedback loop and 

to ultimately better inform its decisions. 

OMB Control Number: 1010–NEW. 

Type of Review: New. 

Respondents/Affected Public: BOEM 

ESP and EAP partners. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 70 interviews; up to 300 

online surveys. 

Survey questions will be discretechoice/closed-ended; interview guide 

will be semi-structured/open-ended. 

Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: 60 minutes per interview; up 

to 20 minutes per survey. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 70 hours for interviews; 

up to 100 hours for surveys. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Frequency of Collection: One time. 

Total Estimated Annual Non-Hour 

Burden Cost: There is no non-hour cost 

burden associated with this collection. 

A Federal Register notice with a 60- 

day public comment period on this 

proposed ICR was published on April 

28, 2021 (86 FR 22451). BOEM did not 

receive any comments during the 60-day 

comment period. 

BOEM is again soliciting comments 

on this proposed ICR. BOEM is 

especially interested in public comment 

addressing the following issues: (1) Is 

the collection necessary to the proper 

functions of BOEM; (2) what can BOEM 

do to ensure this information will be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might BOEM enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might BOEM minimize the burden of 

this collection on the respondents, 

including minimizing the burden 

through the use of information 

technology? 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. BOEM will include or 

summarize each comment in its request 

to OMB for approval of this ICR. You 

should be aware that your entire 

comment—including your address, 

phone number, email address, or other 

personally identifying information— 

may be publicly disclosed. In order to 

inform BOEM’s decision whether it can 

withhold from disclosure your 

personally identifiable information, you 

must identify any information contained 

in your comments that, if released, 

would clearly constitute an 

unwarranted invasion of your privacy. 

Also, you must briefly describe possible 

harmful consequences of disclosing that 

information, such as embarrassment, 

injury, or other harm. While you can ask 

BOEM in your comment to withhold 

your personally identifiable information 

from public disclosure, BOEM cannot 

guarantee that it will be able to do so. 

BOEM protects proprietary 

information in accordance with the 

Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 

552), and the Department of the 

Interior’s implementing regulations (43 

CFR part 2). 

A Federal 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.). 

Peter Meffert, 

Acting Chief, Office of Regulations. 

[FR Doc. 2022–01722 Filed 1–27–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 

and Enforcement 

[S1D1S SS08011000 SX064A000 

221S180110; S2D2S SS08011000 

SX064A000 22XS501520; OMB Control 

Number 1029–0089] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Exemption for Coal 

Extraction Incidental to the Extraction 

of Other Minerals 

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 

28, 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 1029–0089 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 


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