15532 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 62 / Tuesday, April 1, 1997 / Notices

information to be collected; and (4)

Minimize the burden of the collection of

information on those who are to

respond, including through the use of

appropriate automated collection

techniques or other forms of information

technology, e.g., permitting electronic

submission of responses.

This Notice also lists the following

information:

Title of Proposal: Community

Development Block Grant Entitlement

Program.

OMB Control Number, if applicable:

2506.0077.

Description of the need for the

information and proposed use:

Community Development Block Grant

(CDBG) Entitlement grantees are

required by 24 CFR 570.506 to retain

records necessary to document

compliance with statutes, regulations,

Executive Orders, and OMB Circulars

applicable to the CDBG Entitlement

Program. Also, Entitlement grantees are

required by Section 104(e) of Title I of

the Housing and Community

Development Act to annually submit a

performance report, which is necessary

for the Secretary to perform an annual

review of performance required by that

section of the law, as well as providing

the documentation necessary to prepare

the Annual Report to Congress on the

CDBG program.

Entitlement grantees will no longer be

required to submit a separate annual

report (Grantee Performance Report or

GPR) specifically addressing all CDBG

Entitlement program activities. Grantees

will now report on their CDBG activities

in the Consolidated Annual

Performance and Evaluation Report

(which would also include performance

report information for the HOME

Investment Partnership, Emergency

Shelter Grants [ESG], and Housing

Opportunities for Persons With AIDS

[HOPWA] programs as well, should the

CDBG grantee also be a recipient of any

funds under these programs).

The automated Integrated

Disbursement and Information System

(IDIS) will be a key component in the

production of the Consolidated Annual

Performance and Evaluation Report.

Grantees will input information about

their CDBG program activities into IDIS

on an on-going basis throughout their

program year. Since data can be easily

extracted from IDIS to be included in

the Consolidated Annual Performance

and Evaluation Report, the time

necessary to produce the report will be

reduced. Duplication of information and

inconsistent reporting will be reduced

also. There are no standard forms

required to be used in the Consolidated

Annual Performance and Evaluation

Report, therefore grantees have much

flexibility with respect to its design and

format.

The proposed information collection

requirement includes a revision of the

currently approved recordkeeping and

reporting requirements for entitlement

grantees in the CDBG program. The

existing approval granted under OMB

Number 2506–0077 is due to expire May

31, 1997. The existing approval includes

the Final Statement (SF–424), which

was submitted by grantees as a

condition for receiving their grant, and

GPR (Forms HUD–4949.1 through

4949.6), which was submitted at the end

of each grantee’s program year.

This is to advise that the Final

Statement will be excluded from the

information collection requirement,

since the information previously

included in the Final Statement is now

submitted to the Department as part of

the consolidated Submission for

Community Development Planning and

Development Programs (see OMB

approval No. 2506–0117).

Although the IDIS and the

Consolidated Annual Performance and

Evaluation Report can contain

information on a grantee’s CDBG,

HOME, ESG, and HOPWA programs,

this information collection requirement

submitted to OMB requests approval for

CDBG Entitlement Program

recordkeeping and reporting

requirements only.

The Department is in the process of

converting all of its CDBG Entitlement

grantees into the IDIS. Given the wide

range of grantee program year start dates

for 1997 (January 1, 1997 to October 1,

1997) some grantees have yet to be fully

converted into the IDIS. Some

communities may continue to report

through the GPR until they are fully

converted into the IDIS. Also, the IDIS

does not collect all information

necessary to meet all requirements for

the Entitlement CDBG program.

Grantees will have to submit

supplementary documents with their

Consolidated Annual Performance and

Evaluation Report to meet these

requirements. In future program years,

grantees will report through the IDIS

system, with supplementary documents

submitted.

Members of affected public:

Entitlement grantees of the Community

Development Block Grant Program.

Estimation of the total numbers of

hours needed to prepare the information

collection, including number of

respondents, frequency of response, and

hours of response: The Department

estimates that each of its 925 grantees

will annually use, on average, 125 hours

to keep records (non-IDIS

recordkeeping) on their CDBG activities,

and 305 hours to prepare reports on

activities (both IDIS-generated and nonIDIS reports).

570.506 (recordkeeping) (on-going):

925×125 hrs=115,625 hrs.

570.507 (reporting): 925×305

hrs=282,125 hrs.

Total burden hours=397,750 hrs.

Computation of reporting hours:

(Quarterly and annual reports from

IDIS, annual total): 925×284

hrs=262,700

(Non-IDIS reports, Supplemental

annual): 925×21 hrs=19,425

Total reporting hrs=282,125 hrs.

Status of the proposed information

collection: Reinstatement, with change,

of a previously approved collection for

which approval is near expiration and

request for OMB renewal for three years.

The current OMB approval expires in

May 1997.

This report does not include 35,920

hours spent on Consolidated Plan

preparation and submission. Those

hours are reported with 2606–0117.

Authority: Section 3506 of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35,

as amended.

Dated: March 26, 1997.

Jacquie Lawing,

General Deputy Assistant Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–8210 Filed 3–31–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4210–29–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Western Water Policy Review Advisory

Commission Meeting

AGENCY: Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of open meeting.

SUMMARY: As required by the Federal

Advisory Committee Act, notice is

hereby given that the Western Water

Policy Review Advisory Commission

(Commission), established by the

Secretary of the Interior under the

Reclamation Projects Authorization and

Adjustment Act of 1992, will meet to

receive direct testimony from its

contracted researchers who are

reporting on issues in six major river

basins in the west and to meet on other

Commission business.

DATES: Thursday, April 17, 1997, 8:30

a.m.–5:00 p.m.; Friday, April 18, 1997,

8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.; Saturday, April 19,

1997, 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: Location: Regal Harvest

House, 1345 28th Street, Boulder,

Colorado. Room locations will be posted

in the hotel lobby. Copies of the agenda

are available from the Western Water

Policy Review Office, D–5001; P.O. Box

25007; Denver, CO 80225–0007.
Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 62 / Tuesday, April 1, 1997 / Notices 15533

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

The Commission Office at telephone

303–236–6211, FAX 303–236–4286, or

E-mail to rgunnarson@do.usbr.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public

Participation: Written statements may

be provided in advance to the Western

Water Policy Review Office, address

cited under the ADDRESSES caption of

this notice, or submitted directly at the

meeting. Statements will be provided to

the members prior to the meeting if

received by no later than April 10, 1997.

The Commission’s schedule will not

allow time for formal presentations by

the public during the meeting.

Dated: March 25, 1997.

Larry Schulz,

Administrative Officer.

[FR Doc. 97–8227 Filed 3–31–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–94–M

Bureau of Land Management

[WY–920–07–1320–00]

Powder River Regional Coal Team

Activities: Amendment of Agenda

AGENCY: Department of Interior,

Wyoming.

ACTION: Modification of regional coal

team meeting agenda.

SUMMARY: Addition of Discussion Items

to Regional Coal Team (RCT) agenda for

its Annual meeting.

DATES: The RCT meeting remains as

initially scheduled; e.g. 9:00 a.m. M.D.T.

on Wednesday, April 23, 1997.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held as

originally scheduled at the Wyoming

Conservation Commission’s Meeting

Room, 777 West 1st Street, Casper,

Wyoming.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pam

Hernandez or Eugene Jonart, Wyoming

State Office, Attn: (922), P.O. Box 1828,

Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003, telephone

(307) 775–6270 or 775–6257.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The RCT

would like to announce that several

changes have occurred which they

would like to bring to the public’s

attention. A new coal lease-byapplication (LBA) was filed with the

BLM Wyoming State Office by Amax

Land Company (WYW141568), on

March 20, 1997, for an estimated 200

million tons and 1,578 acres. This is the

initial public notification of this

pending application, in accordance with

the Powder River Operational

Guidelines (1991).

In addition, a brief update of the 1996

Powder River Basin Market Analysis has

been added. Any party interested in

providing comments or data related to

the above pending application may

either do so in writing to the State

Director (922), Wyoming State Office,

Bureau of Land Management, P.O. Box

1828, Cheyenne, WY, 82003, no later

than April 18, 1997, or by addressing

the RCT with his/her concerns at the

meeting on April 23, 1997.

The amended agenda for the meeting

follows:

1. Introduction of RCT Members and

guests.

2. Approval of the Minutes of the

April 23, 1996, Regional Coal Team

meeting held in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

3. Regional Coal Activity Status:

a. Current Production and Trend.

b. Activity Since Last RCT Meeting.

c. Status of pending LBAs previously

reviewed by RCT:

—North Rochelle LBA—WYW127221,

Ziegler; filed 7/22/92; 140 million

tons; est. sale date July 1997. Draft EIS

was reviewed by public from

November 8, 1996, thru January 10,

1997. A public hearing was held in

Gillette, WY, on December 12, 1996

—Powder River—WYW136142;

Peabody; filed 3/23/95, est. 550

million tons, 4,020 acres, tentative

sale date in March 98

—Jacob’s Ranch—WYW136458;

(Wyoming), Kerr-McGee; filed 4/14/

95, est 432 million tons, 4,000 acres,

tentative sale date June 98

d. Status of Coal Exchanges—Belco/

Hay Creek; Nance/Brown AVF.

e. Pending Coal Lease Modifications

(if any).

f. New coal lease applications (LBAs).

4. Update of Selected Portions of 1996

Executive Summary.

5. Update of 1996 Market Analysis.

6. Other Regional Issues:

—Status of Buffalo Resource Area’s

Management Plan, (Wyoming).

—Encoal Corporation Presentation

—North American Power Group

Presentation

7. Lease Applicant Presentations:

—Evergreen Enterprises

—Antelope Coal Company

—Amax Land Company

8. RCT Activity Planning

Recommendations.

—Review and recommendation(s) on

pending lease Application(s)

9. Discussion of the next meeting site

and time.

10. Adjourn.

Public discussion opportunities will

be provided on all agenda items.

Alan R. Pierson,

State Director, Wyoming.

[FR Doc. 97–8163 Filed 3–31–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–22–M

[CA–930–1430–01; CAS 585]

Termination of Classifications of

Public Lands for Small Tract

Classification Number 506, Recreation

and Public Purpose, and Multiple-Use

Management, and Opening Order;

California; Correction

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Correction.

SUMMARY: In notice document 96–22270

beginning on page 46481 in the issue of

Tuesday, September 3, 1996, make the

following correction:

On page 46482 in the second column,

(a). Insert sec. 11 into the legal

description for T. 43 N., R. 13 E.; (b).

insert the following legal description:

T. 41 N., R. 14 E.,

Secs. 4 to 9, inclusive;

Secs. 16 to 21, inclusive;

Secs. 28 to 33, inclusive.

Dated: March 19, 1997.

David McIlnay,

Chief, Branch of Lands.

[FR Doc. 97–8159 Filed 3–31–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–40–P

[NV–942–07–1420–00]

Filing of Plats of Survey; Nevada

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is

to inform the public and interested State

and local government officials of the

filing of Plats of Survey in Nevada.

DATES: Filing is effective at 10:00 a.m.

on the dates indicated below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Robert H. Thompson, Acting Chief,

Cadastral Survey, Bureau of Land

Management (BLM), Nevada State

Office, 850 Harvard Way, P.O. Box

12000, Reno, Nevada 89520, 702–785–

6541.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

1. The Plat of Survey of the following

described lands was officially filed at

the Nevada State Office, Reno, Nevada

on January 9, 1997:

The plat, representing the dependent

resurvey of a portion of the north

boundary and a portion of the

subdivisional lines of Township 14

North, Range 20 East, of the Mount

Diablo Meridian, in the State of Nevada,

under Group No. 739, was accepted

January 7, 1997.

This survey was executed to meet

certain administrative needs of the

Bureau of Land Management.

2. The Plat of Survey of the following

described lands was officially filed at