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impose. The USCIS, Application for 

Travel Document, (Form I–131), has 

been approved by OMB and assigned 

OMB control number 1615–0013. USCIS 

is making no changes to this form in 

connection with the implementation of 

the HFRP Program and this notice. 

USCIS estimates that the HFRP Program 

will result in an average of 5,000 Form 

I–131 filings per year. The current OMBapproved estimated number of annual 

respondents filing Form I–131 is 

940,671. USCIS believes it has 

overestimated the number of 

individuals who will use this form to 

apply for immigration benefits to the 

degree that additional respondents who 

will use it to file a HFRP Programrelated request will be covered within 

the 940,671 estimated. Because USCIS is 

not changing the collection instrument 

or increasing its burden estimates in 

connection with this notice, it is 

publishing no notice under the PRA and 

making no revisions to the currently 

approved burden for OMB control 

number 1615–0013. 

Additional information about the 

HFRP program and the application 

process will be posted on the USCIS 

Web site at www.uscis.gov. 

Dated: December 11, 2014. 

Leo ́n Rodrı ́guez, 

Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Services. 

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BILLING CODE 9111–97–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

[Docket No. ONRR–2014–0002; DS63610000 

DR2PS0000.CH7000 145D0102R2] 

Office of Natural Resources Revenue; 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection–United 

States Extractive Industries 

Transparency Initiative (USEITI) 

Revenue Information Collection, 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Office of Natural Resources 

Revenue (ONRR), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of a new information 

collection. 

SUMMARY: To comply with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), we are inviting comments on an 

information request that we will submit 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval. This 

Information Collection Request (ICR) 

covers the voluntary paperwork 

requirements for participation in the 

United States’ implementation of the 

Extractive Industries Transparency 

Initiative (EITI). It encompasses 

upcoming requests that certain 

companies voluntarily provide 

information on the amount of revenue 

which they have paid to the Federal 

government for extracting Federallyowned natural resources. 

DATES: Submit written comments on or 

before February 17, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

on this ICR to ONRR by using one of the 

following three methods (please use 

ONRR 2014–0002 as an identifier in 

your comment): 

1. Electronically, go to http://

www.regulations.gov. In the entry titled 

‘‘Enter Keyword or ID,’’ enter ONRR– 

2014–0002 and then click ‘‘Search.’’ 

Follow the instructions to submit public 

comments. ONRR will post all 

comments. 

2. Mail comments to Mr. Luis Aguilar, 

Regulatory Specialist, ONRR, P.O. Box 

25165, MS 61030A, Denver, Colorado 

80225–0165. 

3. Hand-carry or mail comments, 

using an overnight courier service, to 

ONRR. Our courier address is Building 

85, Room A–614, Denver Federal 

Center, West 6th Ave. and Kipling St., 

Denver, Colorado 80225. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions on technical issues, contact 

Mr. Jon Swedin, Program Analyst, at 

(303) 231–3028, or email 

Jonathan.Swedin@onrr.gov. For other 

questions, contact Mr. Luis Aguilar, 

telephone (303) 231–3418, or email 

Luis.Aguilar@onrr.gov. You may also 

contact Mr. Aguilar to obtain copies, at 

no cost, of (1) the ICR, (2) any associated 

form, and (3) the regulations that require 

us to collect the information. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: United States Extractive 

Industries Transparency Initiative 

(USEITI) Revenue Information 

Collection. 

OMB Control Number: 1012—0NEW. 

Bureau Form Number: United States 

Extractive Industries Transparency 

Initiative (USEITI) Company Payment 

Reporting Template. 

Abstract: The Secretary of the U.S. 

Department of the Interior is responsible 

for mineral resource development on 

Federal and Indian lands and the Outer 

Continental Shelf (OCS). Under various 

laws, the Secretary’s responsibility is to 

manage mineral resources production 

on Federal and Indian lands and the 

OCS, collect the royalties and other 

mineral revenues due, and distribute the 

funds collected under those laws. ONRR 

performs the royalty management 

functions and assists the Secretary in 

carrying out the Department’s 

responsibility. We have posted those 

laws pertaining to mineral leases on 

Federal and Indian lands and the OCS 

at http://www.onrr.gov/Laws_R_D/

PubLaws/default.htm. 

In September 2011, President Obama 

announced the U.S. commitment to 

domestic implementation of EITI, a key 

element of the President’s Open 

Government Partnership commitments. 

President Obama appointed the 

Secretary of the Interior as the senior 

U.S. official to lead USEITI 

implementation. EITI is a voluntary 

global effort designed to strengthen 

transparency, accountability, and public 

trust for the revenues paid and received 

for a country’s oil, gas, and mineral 

resources. The Administration renewed 

its commitment to implement EITI in 

the December 2013 U.S. Open 

Government National Action Plan. By 

signing onto the global EITI standard, 

the U.S. Government will help ensure 

that American taxpayers are receiving 

every dollar due for the extraction of 

these valuable public resources. The 

EITI Standard contains the set of 

requirements that countries need to 

meet in order to be recognized first as 

an EITI Candidate and, ultimately, an 

EITI-Compliant Country. In March 2014, 

the U.S. became the first G7 country to 

achieve Candidate Country status. When 

fully implemented, EITI will ensure 

more transparency in how the country’s 

natural resources are governed and also 

will provide full disclosure of 

government revenues from its extractive 

sector. 

The following laws and executive 

initiative are applicable to USEITI, 

including the Secretary’s and ONRR’s 

management of mineral resource 

production, revenue, and information 

disclosure obligations: 

• U.S. Open Government National 

Action Plan 

• Freedom of Information Act, as 

amended (5 U.S.C. 552) 

• Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, as 

amended (43 U.S.C. 1331–56b), 

including provisions of the Energy 

Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15801 

et seq.) 

• Federal Oil and Gas Royalty 

Management Act of 1982 as amended 

by the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty 

Simplification and Fairness Act of 

1996 (30 U.S.C. 1701–1759). 

• Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 (30 

U.S.C. 1001–28) 

• Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181– 

287) 

• Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired 

Lands (30 U.S.C. 351–60) 

General Information 

International EITI requirements direct 

participating governments to publish 

annual reports to help citizens 

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understand how governments manage 

their extractive sectors. The U.S. Open 

Government National Action Plan 

commits the U.S. to publish the first 

United States EITI report in 2015 and to 

achieve EITI compliance in 2016. An 

Independent Administrator produces 

the annual reports, which include 

parallel public disclosures by both the 

government and companies, of the 

payments that companies have made to 

the government on their oil, gas, and 

mining development. In order to 

produce the USEITI annual reports, the 

Independent Administrator will collect 

revenue information from extractive 

companies who meet payment 

thresholds. The requested information 

will include the amounts of royalties, 

rentals, and other payments related to 

mineral development that companies 

have made to the Federal Government. 

The Independent Administrator will not 

collect items of a sensitive nature such 

as proprietary data, Personally 

Identifiable Information, etc. EITI is a 

voluntary initiative, and companies are 

not required to provide the requested 

information. 

OMB Approval 

We will request OMB approval to 

collect this information. If the Secretary 

does not collect this information, the 

United States will not become an EITI 

Compliant Country, limiting the 

Secretary’s ability to provide more 

transparency in how the country’s 

natural resources are governed, 

including better transparency on our 

country’s revenue collection process. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Estimated Number and Description of 

Respondents: 76 extractive companies 

who meet annual revenue payment 

thresholds. 

Estimated Annual Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Hour’’ Burden for the 

76 extractive companies who meet 

annual revenue payment thresholds: 

5,776 hours. 

Estimated Annual Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-hour’’ Cost 

Burden: We have not identified a ‘‘nonhour’’ cost burden associated with the 

collection of information. 

We have not included in our 

estimates certain requirements 

performed in the normal course of 

business, considered as usual and 

customary. 

Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA 

(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) provides that an 

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. 

Comments: Before submitting an ICR 

to OMB, PRA Section 3506(c)(2)(A) 

requires each agency to ‘‘* * * provide 

60-day notice in the Federal Register 

* * * and otherwise consult with 

members of the public and affected 

agencies concerning each proposed 

collection of information * * *.’’ 

Agencies must specifically solicit 

comments to: (a) Evaluate whether the 

proposed collection of information is 

necessary for the agency to perform its 

duties, including whether the 

information is useful; (b) evaluate the 

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information; (c) enhance the quality, 

usefulness, and clarity of the 

information collected; and (d) minimize 

the burden on the respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

The PRA also requires agencies to 

estimate the total annual reporting 

‘‘non-hour cost’’ burden to respondents 

or recordkeepers resulting from the 

collection of information. If you have 

costs to generate, maintain, and disclose 

this information, you should comment 

and provide your total capital and 

startup cost components or annual 

operation, maintenance, and purchase 

of service components. You should 

describe the methods that you use to 

estimate (1) major cost factors, including 

system and technology acquisition, (2) 

expected useful life of capital 

equipment, (3) discount rate(s), and (4) 

the period over which you incur costs. 

Capital and startup costs include, 

among other items, computers and 

software that you purchase to prepare 

for collecting information and 

monitoring, sampling, and testing 

equipment, and record storage facilities. 

Generally, your estimates should not 

include equipment or services 

purchased: (i) Before October 1, 1995; 

(ii) to comply with requirements not 

associated with the information 

collection; (iii) for reasons other than to 

provide information or keep records for 

the Federal Government; or (iv) as part 

of customary and usual business, or 

private practices. 

We will summarize written responses 

to this notice and address them in our 

ICR submission for OMB approval, 

including appropriate adjustments to 

the estimated burden. We will provide 

a copy of the ICR to you, without 

charge, upon request. We also will post 

the ICR at http://www.onrr.gov/Laws_R_

D/FRNotices/FRInfColl.htm. 

Public Comment Policy: ONRR will 

post all comments, including names and 

addresses of respondents at http://

www.regulations.gov. Before including 

Personally Identifiable Information (PII), 

such as your address, phone number, 

email address, or other personal 

information in your comment(s), you 

should be aware that your entire 

comment (including PII) may be made 

available to the public at any time. 

While you may ask us, in your 

comment, to withhold PII from public 

view, we cannot guarantee that we will 

be able to do so. 

Dated: December 11, 2014. 

Kristen Sarri, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Policy, 

Management and Budget. 

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BILLING CODE 4335–30–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R2–ES–2014–N217; 

FXES11130200000–156–FF02ENEH00] 

Draft Environmental Assessment and 

Draft Habitat Conservation Plan; 

Anderson Tract; Proposed 

Development of 60.7 Acres in Bexar 

County, Texas 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: Under the Endangered 

Species Act of 1973, as amended, we, 

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

invite the public to comment on an 

incidental take permit application for 

take of the federally listed goldencheeked warbler, including a draft 

Habitat Conservation Plan and draft 

Environmental Assessment; the take 

would result from clearing and 

construction of a residential 

development on the 60.7-acre Anderson 

Tract in Bexar County, Texas. 

DATES: Comments: We will accept 

comments received or postmarked on or 

before February 17, 2015. Any 

comments that we receive after the 

closing date may not be considered in 

the final decisions on these actions. 

ADDRESSES: You may obtain copies of 

all documents and submit comments on 

the applicant’s incidental take permit 

application by one of the following 

methods. Please refer to the permit 

number (TE–29216B) when requesting 

documents or submitting comments. 

• U.S. Mail: U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, Division of Endangered 

Species—HCP Permits, P.O. Box 1306, 

Room 6034, Albuquerque, NM 87103. 

• Electronically: fw2_hcp_permits@

fws.gov. 

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