Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 26 / Tuesday, February 8, 2011 / Notices 6819 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NRSS-xxxx–xxxx; 2330–RYY] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Information 

Collection; Colorado River Valuation 

Survey 

AGENCY: National Park Service. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: We (National Park Service) 

will ask the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) to approve the 

information collection (IC) described 

below. As required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 and as part of our 

continuing efforts to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, we invite the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on this IC. We 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. 

DATES: Public comments must be 

submitted on or before April 11, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

on this IC to Dr. Bruce Peacock, Chief, 

Social Science Division, Natural 

Resource Program Center, National Park 

Service, 1201 Oakridge Drive, Fort 

Collins, CO 80525–5596 (mail); 

Bruce_Peacock@nps.gov (e-mail); or 

970–267–2106 (phone). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

John Duffield, University of Montana, 

Department of Mathematical Sciences, 

Missoula, MT 5981; bioecon@ 

montana.com (e-mail); or: 406–721– 

2265 (phone). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The National Park Service (NPS) Act 

of 1916, 38 Stat 535, 16 U.S.C. 1, et seq., 

requires that the NPS preserve national 

parks for the use and enjoyment of 

present and future generations. At the 

field level, this means resource 

preservation, public education, facility 

maintenance and operation, and 

physical developments that are 

necessary for public use, health, and 

safety. Other federal rules (National 

Environmental Policy Act, 1969 and 

NPS guidelines) require visitor use data 

in impact assessment of development on 

users and resources as part of each 

park’s general management plan. 

The NPS plans to conduct on-site and 

nationwide surveys to estimate the 

value of visitation and the associated 

relationship of water flows along the 

Colorado River. This collection will 

provide park managers and others with 

information about the values visitors to 

Colorado River, NPS units, and nonusers nationwide place on these 

national resources. 

This notice will cover the 

development and pretesting of the final 

survey instrument. 

II. Data 

OMB Number: None. This is a new 

collection. 

Title: Colorado River Valuation 

Survey. 

Type of Request: New. 

Affected Public: General public; 

Individual households. 

Respondent Obligation: Voluntary. 

Frequency of Collection: One-time; on 

occasion. 

Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 5,915. 

Annual Burden Hours: 1,972 hours. 

We estimate the public reporting burden 

averages 20 minutes per response. 

Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’ 

Burden: We have not identified any 

‘‘non-hour cost’’ burdens associated with 

this collection of information. 

III. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (1) The 

practical utility of the information being 

gathered; (2) the accuracy of the burden 

hour estimate; (3) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (4) 

ways to minimize the burden to 

respondents, including use of 

automated information techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Please note that the comments 

submitted in response to this notice are 

a matter of public record. We will 

include or summarize each comment in 

our request to OMB to approve this IC. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, e-mail address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment, including your 

personal identifying information, may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask OMB in your 

comment to withhold your personal 

identifying information from public 

review, we cannot guarantee that it will 

be done. 

Dated: February 3, 2011. 

Robert Gordon, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, 

National Park Service. 

[FR Doc. 2011–2736 Filed 2–7–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of Natural Resources Revenue 

[Docket No. ONRR–2011–0002] 

States’ Decisions on Participating in 

Accounting and Auditing Relief for 

Federal Oil and Gas Marginal 

Properties 

AGENCY: Office of Natural Resources 

Revenue, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of states’ decisions to 

participate or not participate in 

accounting and auditing relief for 

Federal oil and gas marginal properties 

located within the states’ boundaries for 

calendar year 2011. 

SUMMARY: Final regulations published 

September 13, 2004 (69 FR 55076), 

provide two types of accounting and 

auditing relief for Federal onshore or 

Outer Continental Shelf lease 

production from marginal properties. As 

required by the regulations, the Office of 

Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) (the 

former Minerals Management Service) 

provided a list of qualifying marginal 

Federal oil and gas properties to states 

that received a portion of Federal 

royalties. Each state then decided 

whether to participate in one or both 

relief options. For calendar year 2011, 

this notice provides the decisions by the 

affected states to allow one or both types 

of relief. 

DATES: Effective January 1, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas Peterson, Economic and Market 

Analysis, ONRR, telephone (303) 231– 

3869; e-mail thomas.peterson@onrr.gov; 

or mail to Office of Natural Resources 

Revenue, P.O. Box 25165, MS 61110B, 

Denver Federal Center, Denver, 

Colorado 80225–0165. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

The regulations, codified at 30 CFR 

part 1204, subpart C, implement certain 

provisions of section 7 of the Federal 

Oil and Gas Royalty Simplification and 

Fairness Act of 1996 (RSFA) (Pub. L. 

104–185, 110 Stat. 1700, 1715 (Aug. 13, 

1996)) and provide two options for 

relief: (1) Notification-based relief for 

annual reporting; and (2) other 

requested relief, as proposed by 

industry and approved by ONRR and 

the affected state. The regulations 

require ONRR to publish a list of the 

states and their decisions regarding 

marginal property relief by December 1 

of each year. 

To qualify for the first relief option 

(notification-based relief) for calendar 

year 2011, properties must have 

produced less than 1,000 barrels-of-oilequivalent (BOE) per year for the base 


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