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(c) Ways to enhance the quality, 

usefulness, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and 

(d) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

We will summarize all comments 

received regarding this notice. We will 

publish that summary in the Federal 

Register when the information 

collection request is submitted to OMB 

for review and approval. 

Department of the Interior practice is 

to make comments, including names 

and home addresses of respondents, 

available for public review. Individual 

respondents may request that we 

withhold their home address from 

public disclosure, which we will honor 

to the extent allowable by law. There 

also may be circumstances in which we 

would withhold a respondent’s identity 

from public disclosure, as allowable by 

law. If you wish us to withhold your 

name and/or address, you must state 

this prominently at the beginning of 

your comment. We will make all 

submissions from organizations or 

businesses, and from individuals 

identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, available 

for public disclosure in their entirety.

Dated: January 14, 2005. 

Roseann Gonzales, 

Director, Office of Program and Policy 

Services, Denver Office.

[FR Doc. 05–1789 Filed 1–31–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MN–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Revisions to a 

Currently Approved Information 

Collection; Comment Request

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of renewal of a currently 

approved collection (OMB No. 1006–

0023). 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Bureau of 

Reclamation (we, our, or us) intends to 

submit a request for renewal (with 

revisions) of an existing approved 

information collection to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB): 

Limited Recipient Identification Sheet, 

Trust Information Sheet for Acreage 

Limitation, 43 CFR part 426, OMB 

Control Number: 1006–0023. As a result 

of Reclamation’s activities to fully 

implement the acreage limitation 

provisions applicable to public entities 

(43 CFR 426.10 and the Act of July 7, 

1970, Public Law 91–310), a new 

‘‘Public Entity Information Sheet’’

(Form 7–2565) has been developed for 

approval as part of this information 

collection. We request your comments 

on the proposed RRA forms and specific 

aspects of the information collection.

DATES: Your written comments must be 

received on or before April 4, 2005.

ADDRESSES: You may send written 

comments to the Bureau of Reclamation, 

Attention: D–5300, PO Box 25007, 

Denver, CO 80225–0007. You may 

request copies of the proposed forms by 

writing to the above address or by 

contacting Stephanie McPhee at: (303) 

445–2897.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Stephanie McPhee at: (303) 445–2897.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Limited Recipient Identification 

Sheet, Trust Information Sheet, Public 

Entity Information Sheet for Acreage 

Limitation, 43 CFR part 426 and the Act 

of July 7, 1970, Public Law 91–310. 

Abstract: Identification of limited 

recipients—Some entities that receive 

Reclamation irrigation water may 

believe that they are under the RRA 

forms submittal threshold and 

consequently, may not submit the 

appropriate RRA form(s). However, 

some of these entities may in fact have 

a different RRA forms submittal 

threshold than what they believe it to be 

due to the number of natural persons 

benefiting from each entity and the 

location of the land held by each entity. 

In addition, some entities that are 

exempt from the requirement to submit 

RRA forms due to the size of their 

landholdings (directly and indirectly 

owned and leased land) may in fact be 

receiving Reclamation irrigation water 

for which the full-cost rate must be paid 

because the start of Reclamation 

irrigation water deliveries occurred after 

October 1, 1981 (43 CFR 426.6(b)(2)). 

The information obtained through 

completion of the Limited Recipient 

Identification Sheet allows us to 

establish entities’ compliance with 

Federal reclamation law. The Limited 

Recipient Identification Sheet is 

disbursed at our discretion. The 

proposed revisions to the Limited 

Recipient Identification Sheet will be 

included starting in the 2006 water year, 

and are designed to facilitate ease of 

completion. 

Trust review—We are required to 

review and approve all trusts (43 CFR 

426.7(b)(2)) in order to ensure trusts 

meet the regulatory criteria specified in 

43 CFR 426.7. Land held in trust 

generally will be attributed to the 

beneficiaries of the trust rather than the 

trustee if the criteria are met. When we 

become aware of trusts with a relatively 

small landholding (40 acres or less), we 

may extend to those trusts the option to 

complete and submit for our review the 

Trust Information Sheet instead of 

actual trust documents. If we find 

nothing on the completed Trust 

Information Sheet that would warrant 

the further investigation of a particular 

trust, that trustee will not be burdened 

with submitting trust documents to us 

for in-depth review. The Trust 

Information Sheet is disbursed at our 

discretion. The proposed revisions to 

the Trust Information Sheet will be 

included starting in the 2006 water year, 

and are designed to facilitate ease of 

completion. 

Acreage limitation provisions 

applicable to public entities—Land 

farmed by a public entity can be 

considered exempt from the application 

of the acreage limitation provisions 

provided the public entity meets certain 

criteria pertaining to the revenue 

generated through the entity’s farming 

activities (43 CFR 426.10 and the Act of 

July 7, 1970, Public Law 91–310). We 

are required to ascertain whether or not 

public entities that receive Reclamation 

irrigation water meet such revenue 

criteria regardless of how much land the 

public entities hold (directly or 

indirectly own or lease) (43 CFR 

426.10(a)). In order to minimize the 

burden on public entities, standard RRA 

forms are submitted by a public entity 

only when the public entity holds more 

than 40 acres, which makes it difficult 

to apply the revenue criteria as required 

to those public entities that hold less 

than 40 acres. A new ‘‘Public Entity 

Information Sheet’’ (Form 7–2565) has 

been developed for approval as part of 

this information collection. The 

information obtained through 

completion of Form 7–2565 allows us to 

establish compliance with Federal 

reclamation law for those public entities 

that hold less than 40 acres and thus do 

not submit a standard RRA form 

because they are below the RRA forms 

submittal threshold. In addition, for 

those public entities that do not meet 

the exemption criteria, we must 

determine the proper rate to charge for 

Reclamation irrigation water deliveries. 

There is anticipated to be a very 

minimal increase in burden hours 

resulting from the addition of this form 

because of the very limited type of 

landholders that can use this form (i.e., 

only those public entities that hold less 

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than 40 acres). The Public Entity 

Information Sheet is disbursed at our 

discretion and will be effective starting 

in the 2006 water year. Because of the 

addition of this proposed new form to 

this information collection, we also 

propose that the title of this information 

collection be changed to ‘‘Forms for 

Certain Landholders That Hold Less 

Than 40 Acres for Acreage Limitation.’’

This change in title will allow us to 

capture the purpose of the forms in this 

information collection without listing 

lengthy form names. 

Frequency: Generally, these forms 

will be submitted once per identified 

entity, trust, or public entity. Each year, 

we expect new responses in accordance 

with the following numbers. 

Respondents: Entity landholders, 

trusts, and public entities identified by 

Reclamation that are subject to the 

acreage limitation provisions of Federal 

reclamation law. 

Estimated Total Number of 

Respondents: 425. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 1.0. 

Estimated Total Number of Annual 

Responses: 425.

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Responses: 52 hours. 

Estimate of Burden for Each Form:

Form number 

Burden estimate per form

(in minutes) 

Number of

respondents 

Annual number of responses 

Annual burden 

on

respondents 

(in hours) 

Limited Recipient Identification Sheet ............................................................. 5 175 175 15 

Trust Information Sheet ................................................................................... 5 150 150 12 

Public Entity Information Sheet ....................................................................... 15 100 100 25 

Comments 

Comments are invited on: 

(a) Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of our functions, including 

whether the information will have 

practical use; 

(b) The accuracy of our burden 

estimate for the proposed new 

collection of information; 

(c) Ways to enhance the quality, 

usefulness, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and 

(d) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

We will summarize all comments 

received regarding this notice. We will 

publish that summary in the Federal 

Register when the information 

collection request is submitted to OMB 

for review and approval. 

Department of the Interior practice is 

to make comments, including names 

and home addresses of respondents, 

available for public review. Individual 

respondents may request that we 

withhold their home address from 

public disclosure, which we will honor 

to the extent allowable by law. There 

also may be circumstances in which we 

would withhold a respondent’s identity 

from public disclosure, as allowable by 

law. If you wish us to withhold your 

name and/or address, you must state 

this prominently at the beginning of 

your comment. We will make all 

submissions from organizations or 

businesses, and from individuals 

identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, available 

for public disclosure in their entirety.

Dated: January 14, 2005. 

Roseann Gonzales, 

Director, Office of Program and Policy 

Services, Denver Office.

[FR Doc. 05–1790 Filed 1–31–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MN–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation 

Agency Information Collection; 

Proposed Revisions to a Currently 

Approved Information Collection; 

Comment Request

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of renewal of a currently 

approved collection (OMB No. 1006–

0006). 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Bureau of 

Reclamation (we, our, or us) intends to 

submit a request for renewal (with 

revisions) of an existing approved 

information collection to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB): 

Certification Summary Form, Reporting 

Summary Form for Acreage Limitation, 

43 CFR part 426 and 43 CFR part 428, 

OMB Control Number: 1006–0006. This 

information collection is required under 

the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 

(RRA), Acreage Limitation Rules and 

Regulations, 43 CFR part 426, and 

Information Requirements for Certain 

Farm Operations In Excess of 960 Acres 

and the Eligibility of Certain Formerly 

Excess Land, 43 CFR part 428. We 

request your comments on the revised 

RRA forms and specific aspects of the 

information collection.

DATES: Your written comments must be 

received on or before April 4, 2005.

ADDRESSES: You may send written 

comments to the Bureau of Reclamation, 

Attention: D–5300, P.O. Box 25007, 

Denver, CO 80225–0007. You may 

request copies of the proposed revised 

forms by writing to the above address or 

by contacting Stephanie McPhee at: 

(303) 445–2897.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Stephanie McPhee at: (303) 445–2897.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Certification Summary Form, 

Reporting Summary Form for Acreage 

Limitation, 43 CFR part 426 and 43 CFR 

part 428. 

Abstract: These forms are to be used 

by district offices to summarize 

individual landholder (direct or indirect 

landowner or lessee) and farm operator 

certification and reporting forms as 

required by the RRA, 43 CFR part 426, 

and 43 CFR part 428. This information 

allows us to establish water user 

compliance with Federal reclamation 

law. 

Changes to the RRA Forms and the 

Instructions to Those Forms 

The changes made to the current 

Form 7–21SUMM–C, Form 7–

21SUMM–R, and the corresponding 

instructions clarify the completion 

instructions for these forms (for 

example, adding verbiage to specify 

when requested acreages are to be 

provided on a westwide or districtspecific basis). Other changes to the 

forms and the corresponding 

instructions are editorial in nature and 

are designed to assist the respondents 

by increasing their understanding of the 

forms, and clarifying the instructions for 

use when completing the forms. The 

proposed revisions to the RRA forms 

will be effective in the 2006 water year.