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proposed special rules include acts

which are prohibited.

COMMENT PERIOD: Interested parties may

submit comments within 30 days of the

publication of this notice. Please send

comments to the Prineville District

Manager, Attention Law Enforcement,

Bureau of Land Management, P.O. Box

550, Prineville, OR 97754. Any adverse

comments will be evaluated by the

District Manager, who may vacate or

modify these proposed amendments and

issue a final determination.

EFFECTIVE DATE: In the absence of any

further action by the District Manager,

these proposed special rules will

become the final determination of the

Department of the Interior, on or before

July 17, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Contact Tom

Teaford at 541–416–6759.

Special Rules

Pursuant to 43 CFR 8351.2–1, the

following acts are prohibited on the

land and water surfaces administered by

the BLM, Prineville District, within the

designated boundaries of the Deschutes

National Wild and Scenic River Area.

The acts are prohibited to protect

natural resources and to provide for

public safety and enjoyment. Prior

authorization for exemption from a

prohibited act must be obtained from a

BLM authorized officer, as defined in 43

CFR 8360.0–5(a).

Part 1. Camping is revised as follows:

Camping means the erecting of a tent

or shelter of natural or synthetic

material, preparing a sleeping bag or

other bedding material for use, parking

of a motor vehicle, motor home, or

trailer or mooring of a vessel for the

apparent purpose of overnight

occupancy.

a. Camping longer than four

consecutive nights at a boat-in-only

campsite or vehicle camping for a total

period of more than 14 days during any

28 day period. The 28 day period begins

on the first full day the site is occupied.

The 14 day limit may be reached either

through a number of separate visits or

through a period of continuous

occupation. Once the 14 day limit is

reached in any camping area, the

person(s) must move a distance of not

less than 50 miles if they intend to

continue camping on public lands.

b. Digging or leveling the ground at

any campsite.

c. Installation of permanent camping

facilities.

d. Camping on river islands or any

area posted as closed to camping.

e. Camping outside of designated

campsites between Locked Gate and

Buck Hollow Recreation Site.

f. Camping outside of designated

campsites on the east (road side) of the

River between Buck Hollow Recreation

Site and Macks Canyon Recreation Site.

g. Vehicle camping anywhere along

the River outside of designated

campsites.

h. Occupying any area designated as

day use only between sunset and

sunrise.

i. Possessing or leaving refuse, debris,

or litter in an exposed, unsightly, or

unsanitary condition.

j. Leaving campground equipment,

site alterations, or refuse after departing

any campsite or in any unoccupied

campsite.

k. Failure to pay fees within 30

minutes of occupying a fee campsite.

l. Exceeding party or group sizes of:

16 in river segments 1,3, and 4. 24 in

river segment 2 in any boat-in site and

in any designated group campsite. 8 in

any designated single drive-in site.

m. After camping at a boat-in-only

site, failure to move from that site at

least 1⁄4 mile and failure to vacate that

site at least 3 nights before returning to

that site.

n. Exceeding the maximum allowable

number of persons and/or vehicles

allowed for a designated campsite.

o. Reserving, holding, or transferring

campsites for the benefit of another

party.

p. Moving any table, stove, barrier,

litter receptacle, or other campground

equipment.

Part 3, Sanitation and Refuse, is revised

as follows:

An ‘‘approved carry out system’’ is a

portable unit designed for the

deposition and transportation and

disposal of human body waste. Such a

system must have a water-tight seal and

be designed to be emptied into

designated BLM dump facilities or RV

waste dump stations. Systems which

use plastic bags or similar material are

not considered approved carry out

systems because plastic cannot be

accepted by dump facilities.

A ‘‘toilet facility’’ is a vault-type toilet

provided by the Bureau of Land

Management.

a. When camping less than 800 feet

from a toilet facility, disposing of

human body waste except in a toilet

facility.

b. When camping more than 800 feet

from a toilet facility, failing to use an

approved carry out system.

c. When not camping and less than

800 feet from a toilet facility, disposing

of human body waste except in fixtures

provided for that purpose.

d. When not camping and more than

800 feet from a toilet facility, failing to

bury human body wastes at least six

inches deep and more than fifty feet

from any natural water source.

e. Emptying waste from an approved

carry out system into the interior fixture

of a toilet.

f. Disposing of refuse in other than

refuse receptacles.

g. Depositing refuse in the plumbing

fixtures or vaults of a toilet facility.

h. Using government refuse

receptacles for dumping household,

commercial, or industrial refuse brought

in as such from non- US government

property except in accordance with

conditions established by an authorized

official.

i. Draining any refuse from a trailer or

vehicle except in facilities provided for

that purpose.

j. Washing dishes or using soap in the

River or any tributaries or less than 50

feet from any natural water source.

Part 6, Vehicles, supart (k)(6), is added

as follows:

Riding or allowing to ride on the

external part of a motor vehicle,

including but not limited to hoods,

bumpers, fenders, tailgates, trunks,

window sills, running boards, or above

cargo bed side rails.

Part 9, Alcoholic beverages and

controlled substances, subpart (i)(2) is

revised as follows:

The alcohol content of the operator’s

blood is. 08 percent or more by weight

of alcohol in the blood.

Dated: July 14, 1998.

Donald L. Smith,

Acting District Manager.

[FR Doc. 98–20407 Filed 7–29–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–33–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Submission of Study

Package to the Office of Management

and Budget; Opportunity for Public

Comment

AGENCY: National Park Service,

Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice and request for

comments.

SUMMARY: The National Park Service

(NPS) Social Science Program is

submitting to the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) a request for

clearance of a three year program of

collections of information that would

conduct surveys of the public regarding

park visitors and visitor services. The

NPS is publishing this notice to inform
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the public of this proposed three-year

program and to request comments on

the program and the proposed approach.

Under provisions of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 and 5 CFR part

1320, Reporting and Record Keeping

Requirements, the National Park Service

is soliciting comments on: (a) Whether

the collection of information is

necessary for the proper performance of

the functions of the NPS, including

whether the information will have

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the

NPS estimate of the burden of the

collection of information, including the

validity of the methodology and

assumptions used; (c) the quality,

utility, and clarity of the information to

be collected; and (d) how to minimize

the burden of the collection of

information on those who are to

respond, including the use of

appropriate automated, electronic,

mechanical, or other forms of

information technology.

Sixty-day Notice of Intention to

Request Clearance of Collection of

Information—Opportunity for Public

Comment was published in the Federal

Register on September 30, 1997, Vol. 63

No. 189 pgs. 51133–51143. Several

comments were received from the

public as a result of the Federal Register

Notice and have been integrated into

this final proposal.

DATES: Public Comments will be

accepted on or before August 31, 1998.

Send comments to: Office of

Management and Budget, Office of

Information and Regulatory Affairs,

ATTN: Desk Officer for the Interior

Department, Washington, DC 20503.

Also send a copy of these comments to

Mr. Jared D. Ficker, Social Science

Specialist, National Park Service, Social

Science Program, 1849 C Street NW, MS

3127, Washington, DC 20240.

The 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 comments on or before August

31, 1998.

All comments will become a matter of

public record. Copies of the proposal

requirement can be obtained from Mr.

Jared D. Ficker, Social Science

Specialist, National Park Service, Social

Science Program, voice 202–208–6330,

fax 202–208–4620, e-mail

<jaredlficker@nps.gov>. In addition, a

complete copy of the proposal is

available at the NPS Social Science

Program website at http://www.nps.gov/

socialscience/tech/survey.htm.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Programmatic Approval for NPS

Visitor Surveys.

Bureau Form Number: None.

OMB Number: To be assigned.

Expiration Date of Approval: To be

assigned.

Type of Request: Request for new

clearance.

Description of Need: NPS needs to

sponsor information collection surveys

of the public to provide to park

managers information for improving the

quality and utility to the public of park

programs. NPS finds the current process

by which it secures OMB approval of

proposed collections of information can

be improved with respect to securing

public comment and can be made more

efficient for the federal government

through reducing current levels of

personnel and funding necessary for

preparing and reviewing the proposed

collections of information. NPS believes

it has developed an alternative approach

for processing proposed collections of

information that will be both more

effective and more efficient. This

proposal is designed to test the

alternative approach using one subset of

NPS information collection surveys for

a 3-year test period.

Automated Data Collection: At the

present time, there is no automated way

to gather this information, since the

information gathering process involves

asking visitors to evaluate services and

facilities that they used during their

park visits. The intrusion on individual

visitors is minimized by rigorously

designing visitor surveys to maximize

the ability of the surveys to use small

samples of visitors to represent large

populations of visitors and by

coordinating a program of surveys to

maximize the ability of new surveys to

build on the findings of prior surveys.

Description of Respondents: A sample

of visitors to parks or of people who

have relationships to parks.

Estimated Average Number of

Respondents: The proposal does not

identify the number of respondents

because that number will differ from

individual survey to individual survey,

depending on the purpose and design of

each individual survey.

Estimated average number of

responses: The proposal does not

identify the average number of

responses because that number will

differ from individual survey to

individual survey, depending on the

purpose and design of each individual

survey. For most surveys, each

respondent will be asked to respond

only one time, so in those cases the

number of responses will be the same as

the number of respondents.

Estimated average burden hours per

response: The proposal does not

identify the average burden hours per

response because that number will

differ from individual survey to

individual survey, depending on the

purpose and design of each individual

survey.

Frequency of response: Most

individual surveys will request only 1

response per respondent.

Estimated annual reporting burden:

The proposal identifies the requested

total number of burden hours annually

for all of the surveys to be conducted

under its auspices to be 10,000 burden

hours per year. The total annual burden

per survey for most surveys conducted

under the auspices of this proposal

would be within the range of 100 to 300

hours.

Diane M. Cooke,

Information Collection Clearance Officer,

WASO Administrative Program Center,

National Park Service.

[FR Doc. 98–20369 Filed 7–29–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Trail of Tears National Historic Trail

Advisory Council

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Establishment.

SUMMARY: The National Park Service

(NPS) is giving notice of the

establishment of the Trail of Tears

National Historic Trail Advisory

Council in accordance with the Federal

Advisory Committee Act (PL 92–463, 86

Stat. 770, 5 U.S.C. Appx., section 10).

The Council was originally

established by PL 100–192, which

amended the National Trails System Act

to designate the Trail of Tears National

Historic Trail. Under the general

authority of Section 5(d) of the National

Trail System Act, PL 90–543, as

amended, October 2, 1968, an advisory

council with a 10-year term is required

for each established national scenic or

national historic trail. The Council’s

statutorily prescribed 10-year term will

expire July 7, 1998. Because the need for

the Council is expected to continue

until such time as trail plan

implementation and administration

have broadened and matured to become

fully effective and responsive to

operational and partnership

responsibilities, the National Park

Service is administratively reestablishing the Council in the same

form as it existed under its expiring

statutory authority. In this way, the

Council may continue its work without

interruption.