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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Proposed Renewal of Information 

Collection: OMB Control Number 

1093–0005, Payments in Lieu of Taxes 

AGENCY: Office of Budget, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice and Request for 

Comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with section 

3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of 

Budget, Office of the Secretary, 

Department of the Interior (DOI), 

announces the proposed extension of a 

public information collection required 

by the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act 

(PILT) and seeks public comments on 

the provisions thereof. After public 

review, the Office of Budget will submit 

the information collection to Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by August 17, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Send your written 

comments to the U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Office of the Secretary, Office 

of Budget, Attn. Brian Yost, 1849 C St., 

NW., MS 4119 MIB, Washington, DC 

20240. Send any faxed comments to 

(202) 208–3911, attn Brian Yost. 

Comments may also be e-mailed to 

Brian_Yost@ios.doi.gov. Individuals 

providing comments should reference 

OMB Control Number 1093–0005, 

‘‘Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT Act), 

Statement of Federal Land Payments, 

143 CFR 441.’’ 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 us in your comment to 

withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information on 

this renewed information collection 

should be directed to Brian Yost at U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Office of the 

Secretary, Office of Budget, 1849 C St., 

NW., MS 4119 MIB, Washington, DC 

20240. You may also fax requests for 

further information to (202) 208–3911, 

or e-mail him at Brian_Yost@ios.doi.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, 

which implement the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13), 

require that interested members of the 

public and affected agencies have an 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection and recordkeeping activities 

(see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)). This notice 

identifies an information collection 

activity that the Office of Budget is 

planning to submit to OMB for 

extension or re-approval. 

Public Law 97–258 (31 U.S.C. 6901– 

6907), as amended, the Payments in 

Lieu of Taxes (PILT) Act, was designed 

by Congress to help local governments 

recover some of the expenses they incur 

in providing services on public lands. 

These local governments receive funds 

under various Federal land payment 

programs such as the National Forest 

Revenue Act, the Mineral Lands Leasing 

Act, and the Taylor Grazing Act. PILT 

payments supplement the payments that 

local governments receive under these 

other programs. 

The PILT Act requires that the 

Governor of each State furnish the 

Department of the Interior with a listing 

of payments disbursed to local 

governments by the States on behalf of 

the Federal Government under 12 

statutes described in Section 4 of the 

Act (31 U.S.C. 6903). The Department of 

the Interior uses the amounts reported 

by the States to reduce PILT payments 

to units of general local governments 

from that which they might otherwise 

receive. If such listings were not 

furnished by the Governor of each 

affected State, the Department would 

not be able to compute the PILT 

payments to units of general local 

government within the States in 

question. 

In fiscal year 2004, administrative 

authority for the PILT program was 

transferred from the Bureau of Land 

Management to the Office of the 

Secretary of the Department of the 

Interior. Applicable DOI regulations 

pertaining to the PILT program to be 

administered by the Office of the 

Secretary were published as a final rule 

in the Federal Register on December 7, 

2004 (69 FR 70557). The Office of 

Budget, Office of the Secretary is now 

planning to extend the information 

collection approval authority in order to 

enable the Department of the Interior to 

continue to comply with the PILT Act. 

II. Data 

(1) Title: Payments in Lieu of Taxes 

(PILT Act), Statement of Federal Land 

Payments (43 CFR 44). 

OMB Control Number: 1093–0005. 

Current Expiration Date: December 

31, 2009. 

Type of Review: Information 

Collection Renewal. 

Affected Entities: State, local or Tribal 

government. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 43. 

Frequency of Response: Annual. 

(2) Annual Reporting and Record 

Keeping Burden: Average Reporting 

Burden per Application: 50 hours. 

Total Annual Reporting: 2,150 hours. 

(3) Description of the Need and Use 

of the Information: The statutorilyrequired information is needed to 

compute payments due units of general 

local government under the PILT Act 

(31 U.S.C. 6901–6907). The Act requires 

that the Governor of each State furnish 

a statement as to amounts paid to units 

of general local government under 12 

revenue-sharing statutes in the prior 

fiscal year. 

III. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (b) The accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

information collection; (c) Ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information to be collected; and 

(d) Ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

respond, including through the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. 

Burden means the total time, effort, or 

financial resources expended by persons 

to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or 

provide information to or for a Federal 

agency. This includes the time needed 

to review instructions; to develop, 

acquire, install and utilize technology 

and systems for the purpose of 

collecting, validating and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information; to train 

personnel and to be able to respond to 

a collection of information, to search 

data sources, to complete and review 

the collection of information; and to 

transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. 

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 

Office of Management and Budget 

control number. 


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28718 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 115 / Wednesday, June 17, 2009 / Notices 

All written comments will be 

available for public inspection in the 

Main Interior Building, 1849 C Street, 

NW., Washington, DC during normal 

business hours, excluding legal 

holidays. For an appointment to inspect 

comments, please contact Brian Yost by 

telephone on (202) 208–7409, or by email at Brian_Yost@ios.doi.gov to make 

an appointment. A valid picture 

identification is required for entry into 

the Department of the Interior. 

Pam Haze, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Budget and 

Business Management. 

[FR Doc. E9–14261 Filed 6–16–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–RK–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLWO320000 L13300000 PO0000] 

Extension of Approved Information 

Collection, OMB Control Number 1004– 

0121 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: 60-day notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 

announces its intention to request that 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) extend approval for the 

paperwork requirements in 43 CFR parts 

3500 through 3590, which cover leasing 

of solid minerals other than coal and oil 

shale. 

DATES: You must submit your comments 

to the BLM at the address below on or 

before August 17, 2009. The BLM is not 

obligated to consider any comments 

postmarked or received after the above 

date. 

ADDRESSES: You may mail comments to: 

U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau 

of Land Management, Mail Stop 401– 

LS, 1849 C St., NW., Washington, DC 

20240, Attention: 1004–0121. You may 

also comment by e-mail at: 

Jean_Sonneman@blm.gov. Comments 

will be available for public review at the 

L Street address during regular business 

hours (7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.), Monday 

through Friday, excluding Federal 

holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You 

may contact Vincent Vogt, Solid 

Minerals Group, at 202–785–6570 

(Commercial or FTS). Persons who use 

a telecommunication device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) on 1–800–877– 

8330, 24 hours a day, seven days a 

week, to contact Mr. Vogt. You may also 

contact Mr. Vogt to obtain a copy, at no 

cost, of the regulations and forms that 

require this collection of information. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB 

regulations at 5 CFR 1320, which 

implement provisions of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501–3521), 

require that interested members of the 

public and affected agencies be 

provided an opportunity to comment on 

information collection and 

recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR 

1320.8(d) and 1320.12(a)). This notice 

identifies information collections that 

are contained in 43 CFR parts 3500 

through 3590. The BLM will request 

that the OMB approve this information 

collection activity for a 3-year term. 

Comments are invited on: (1) The 

need for the collection of information 

for the performance of the functions of 

the agency; (2) the accuracy of the 

agency’s burden estimates; (3) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility and clarity 

of the information collection; and (4) 

ways to minimize the information 

collection burden on respondents, such 

as use of automated means of collection 

of the information. A summary of the 

public comments will accompany the 

BLM’s submission of the information 

collection requests to OMB. 

The following information is provided 

for the information collection: 

Title: Leasing of Solid Minerals Other 

Than Coal and Oil Shale (43 CFR 3500– 

3590). 

Forms: 

• Form 3504–1, Personal Bond and 

Power of Attorney; 

• Form 3504–3, Bond Under Lease; 

• Form 3504–4, Statewide or 

Nationwide Personal Mineral Bond for 

Prospecting Permits and Leases; 

• Form 3510–1, Prospecting 

Application and Permit; 

• Form 3510–2, Phosphate or Sodium 

Use Permit; and 

• Form 3520–7, Lease. 

OMB Control Number: 1004–0121. 

Abstract: This notice pertains to 

information collections that are 

necessary for the management of leases 

and prospecting permits for solid 

minerals other than coal and oil shale. 

The BLM manages such leases and 

permits under the Mineral Leasing Act 

of 1920, the Mineral Leasing Act for 

Acquired Lands (30 U.S.C. 351–359), 

the Multiple Mineral Development Act 

(30 U.S.C. 521–531), and other statutes 

that authorize the Secretary of the 

Interior to regulate the development of 

mineral deposits on Federal lands. The 

information collections covered by this 

notice are found at 43 CFR parts 3500 

through 3590, and in the forms listed 

above. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Estimated Number and Description of 

Respondents: Approximately 430 

Federal leases are in effect in this 

program, which are controlled by many 

operators. 

Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Hour’’ Burden: The 

currently approved annual reporting 

burden for this collection is 6,522 hours. 

The following chart details the 

individual components and respective 

hour burden estimates of this 

information collection request: 

Regulation 43 CFR Type of application Number of 

responses 

Hours per 

response 

3502 ........................... Qualification Statement .................................................................................................... 10 1 

3503 ........................... Area Avail. for Leasing .................................................................................................... 10 1 

3504 ........................... Bond Forms 3504–1, 3504–3 and 3504–4 ..................................................................... 36 4 

3505 ........................... Prospecting Permit Form 3510–1 .................................................................................... 46 10 

3506 ........................... Exploration License ......................................................................................................... 2 3 

3507 ........................... Preference Right Lease Form 3520–7 ............................................................................ 2 300 

3508 ........................... Competitive Lease Bid ..................................................................................................... 5 20 

3509 ........................... Fractional, Future Interest Lease Form 3520–7 .............................................................. 1 20 

3510 ........................... Fringe Acreage Lease or Lease Modification Form 3520–7 ........................................... 5 20 

3511 ........................... Lease Renewal or Adjustment Form 3520–7 .................................................................. 22 1 

3512 ........................... Assignment or Sublease .................................................................................................. 28 6 

3513 ........................... Royalty Rental Reduction ................................................................................................ 1 40 

3514 ........................... Relinquishment and Cancellations .................................................................................. 1 40 

3515 ........................... Lease Exchanges ............................................................................................................ 1 40 

3516 ........................... Use Permit Form 3510–2 ................................................................................................ 1 1 


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