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970–241–8411 or 1–800–800–7796. The 

field tour will depart from the hotel 

lobby. 

Written comments pertaining to the 

October 18–19, 2017, Advisory Board 

meeting and written statements that will 

be presented to the board can be mailed 

to the National Wild Horse and Burro 

Program,WO–260, Attention: Ramona 

DeLorme, 1340 Financial Boulevard, 

Reno, NV 89502–7147, or emailed to: 

whbadvisoryboard@blm.gov. Please 

include ‘‘Advisory Board Comment’’ in 

the subject line of the email. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ramona DeLorme, Wild Horse and 

Burro Administrative Assistant, at 775– 

861–6583, or by email at rdelorme@

blm.gov. Persons who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Relay 

Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to 

contact the above individual during 

normal business hours. FRS is available 

24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave 

a message or question with the above 

individual. You will receive a reply 

during normal business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Advisory Board advises the Secretary of 

the Interior, the BLM Director, the 

Secretary of Agriculture, and the Chief 

of the U.S. Forest Service on matters 

pertaining to the management and 

protection of wild, free-roaming horses 

and burros on the Nation’s public lands. 

The Advisory Board operates under the 

authority of 43 CFR 1784. The tentative 

agenda for the meeting is: 

I. Advisory Board Public Meeting 

Tuesday, October 17, 2017 (8 a.m.–5 

p.m.) 

Field Tour of the Little Book Cliffs Herd 

Management Area. 

The field tour is open to limited 

public attendance on a first-come, firstserved advance sign up. Attendees must 

provide for their own transportation 

(high-clearance vehicle recommended) 

and personal needs. To sign up, contact 

Dorothea Boothe by email at dboothe@

blm.gov. 

Wednesday, October 18, 2017 (8 a.m.– 

5:00 p.m.) 

Welcome, Introductions, and Agenda 

Review 

Advisory Board September Meeting 

Minutes Review/Approval 

BLM Responses to Advisory Board 

Recommendations from September 

2016 Meeting 

Wild Horse and Burro Program 

Overview and Status 

Science Presentations 

Public Comment Period (3 p.m.–5 p.m.) 

Adjourn 

Thursday, October 19, 2017 (8 a.m.–5 

p.m.) 

Welcome, Introductions, and Agenda 

Review 

What are the Key Elements of a 

Sustainable Wild Horse and Burro 

Program? 

Advisory Board Discussion and 

Recommendations to the BLM 

Adjourn 

The meeting will be live-streamed at 

www.blm.gov/live. The meeting site is 

accessible to individuals with 

disabilities. An individual with a 

disability needing an auxiliary aid or 

service to participate in the meeting, 

such as an interpreting service, assistive 

listening device, or materials in an 

alternate format, must notify Ms. 

DeLorme 2 weeks before the scheduled 

meeting date, see the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section above. 

Although the BLM will attempt to meet 

a request received after that date, the 

requested auxiliary aid or service may 

not be available because of insufficient 

time to arrange for it. 

II. Public Comment Procedures 

On Wednesday, October 18, from 3 

p.m. to 5 p.m., members of the public 

will have the opportunity to make 

comments to the Advisory Board on the 

Wild Horse and Burro Program. Persons 

wishing to make comments during the 

meeting should register in person with 

the BLM prior to 3 p.m. on October 18, 

at the meeting location. Depending on 

the number of commenters, the 

Advisory Board may limit the length of 

comments. At previous meetings, 

comments have been limited to 3 

minutes in length; however, this time 

may vary. Speakers are requested to 

submit a written copy of their statement 

to the address listed in the ADDRESSES

section above, or bring a written copy to 

the meeting. There may be a webcam 

present during the entire meeting and 

individual comments may be recorded. 

Participation in the Advisory Board 

meeting does not require the submission 

of written comments. The BLM invites 

written comments from all interested 

parties. Your written comments should 

be specific and explain the reason for 

any recommendation. The BLM 

considers comments that are either 

supported by quantitative information 

or studies, or those that include 

citations to and analysis of applicable 

laws and regulations, to be the most 

useful and likely to influence the BLM’s 

decisions on the management and 

protection of wild horses and burros. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email 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 in your comment that 

the BLM withhold your personal 

identifying information from public 

review, the BLM cannot guarantee that 

it will be able to do so. 

Authority: 43 CFR 1784.4–2 

Kristin Bail, 

Assistant Director, Resources and Planning. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20935 Filed 9–29–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–84–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

[RR83550000, 17XR0680A1, 

RX.31580001.0090104; OMB Control 

Number 1006–0023] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Forms To Determine 

Compliance by Certain Landholders, 

43 CFR Part 426 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, 

the Bureau of Reclamation 

(Reclamation), are proposing to renew 

an information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

November 1, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments on 

this information collection request (ICR) 

to the Office of Management and 

Budget’s Desk Officer for the 

Department of the Interior by email at 

OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov; or via 

facsimile to (202) 395–5806. Please 

provide a copy of your comments to 

Stephanie McPhee, Bureau of 

Reclamation, 84–55000, P.O. Box 25007, 

Denver, CO 80225–0007; or via email to 

smphee@usbr.gov. Please reference 

OMB Control Number 1006–0023 in the 

subject line of your comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Stephanie McPhee, 

Bureau of Reclamation, by email at 

smcphee@usbr.gov, or by telephone at 

(303) 445–2897. You may also view the 

information collection request at http:// 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Paperwork 


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Reduction Act of 1995, we provide the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on new, proposed, revised, 

and continuing collections of 

information. This helps us assess the 

impact of our information collection 

requirements and minimize the public’s 

reporting burden. It also helps the 

public understand our information 

collection requirements and provide the 

requested data in the desired format. 

A Federal Register notice with a 60- 

day public comment period soliciting 

comments on this collection of 

information was published on December 

21, 2016 (81 FR 93709). No comments 

were received. 

We are again soliciting comments on 

the proposed ICR that is described 

below. We are especially interested in 

public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) Is the collection 

necessary to the proper functions of 

Reclamation; (2) will this information be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might Reclamation enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might Reclamation minimize the burden 

of this collection on the respondents, 

including through the use of 

information technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. Before including your 

address, phone number, email 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. 

Abstract: Identification of limited 

recipients—Some entities that receive 

Reclamation irrigation water may 

believe that they are under the 

Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 (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 (Form 7–2536) 

allows us to establish entities’ 

compliance with Federal reclamation 

law. The Limited Recipient 

Identification Sheet is disbursed at our 

discretion. 

Trust review—In order to administer 

section 214 of the RRA and 43 CFR 

426.7, we are required to review and 

approve all trusts. Land held in trust 

generally will be attributed to the 

beneficiaries of the trust rather than the 

trustee if the criteria specified in the 

RRA and 43 CFR 426.7 are met. We may 

extend the option to complete and 

submit for our review the Trust 

Information Sheet (Form 7–2537) 

instead of actual trust documents when 

we become aware of trusts with a 

relatively small landholding (40 acres or 

less in districts subject to the prior law 

provisions of Federal reclamation law, 

240 acres or less in districts subject to 

the discretionary provisions of Federal 

reclamation law). 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 indepth review. The Trust Information 

Sheet is disbursed at our discretion. 

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, Pub. L. 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 subject to the acreage 

limitation provisions westwide, which 

makes it difficult to apply the revenue 

criteria as required to those public 

entities that hold less than 40 acres. 

When we become aware of such public 

entities, we request those public entities 

complete and submit for our review the 

Public Entity Information Sheet (Form 

7–2565), which allows us to establish 

compliance with Federal reclamation 

law for those public entities that hold 40 

acres or less 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. The Public Entity 

Information Sheet is disbursed at our 

discretion. 

Acreage limitation provisions 

applicable to religious or charitable 

organizations—Some religious or 

charitable organizations 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 organizations may in fact 

have a different RRA forms submittal 

threshold than what they believe it to be 

depending on whether these 

organizations meet all of the required 

criteria for full special application of the 

acreage limitations provisions to 

religious or charitable organizations [43 

CFR 426.9(b)]. In addition, some 

organizations that (1) do not meet the 

criteria to be treated as a religious or 

charitable organization under the 

acreage limitation provisions, and (2) 

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 Religious or Charitable 

Organization Identification Sheet (Form 

7–2578) allows us to establish certain 

religious or charitable organizations’ 

compliance with Federal reclamation 

law. The Religious or Charitable 

Organization Identification Sheet is 

disbursed at our discretion. 

Title of Collection: Forms to 

Determine Compliance by Certain 

Landholders, 43 CFR part 426. 

Form Numbers: Form 7–2536, Form 

7–2537, Form 7–2565, and Form 7– 

2578. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: Entity 

landholders, trusts, public entities, and 

religious or charitable organizations 

identified by Reclamation that are 

subject to the acreage limitation 

provisions of Federal reclamation law. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 500. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 500. 


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Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: See table below. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 72 hours. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Frequency of Collection: Annually. 

Total Estimated Annual Nonhour 

Burden Cost: None. 

Form No. 

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 13 

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

Religious or Charitable Identification Sheet .................................................... 15 75 75 19 

Totals ........................................................................................................ ........................ 500 500 72 

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. 

The authority for this action is the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq). 

Dated: August 9, 2017. 

Ruth Welch, 

Director, Policy and Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2017–21098 Filed 9–29–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4332–90–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

[RR83550000, 17XR0680A1, 

RX.31580001.0090104; OMB Control 

Number 1006–0006] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Certification Summary 

Form and Reporting Summary Form 

for Acreage Limitation, 43 CFR Part 

426 and 43 CFR Part 428 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, 

the Bureau of Reclamation 

(Reclamation), are proposing to renew 

an information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

November 1, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments on 

this information collection request (ICR) 

to the Office of Management and 

Budget’s Desk Officer for the 

Department of the Interior by email at 

OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov; or via 

facsimile to (202) 395–5806. Please 

provide a copy of your comments to 

Stephanie McPhee, Bureau of 

Reclamation, 84–55000, P.O. Box 25007, 

Denver, CO 80225–0007; or via email to 

smcphee@usbr.gov. Please reference 

OMB Control Number 1006–0006 in the 

subject line of your comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Stephanie McPhee, 

Bureau of Reclamation, by email at 

smcphee@usbr.gov, or by telephone at 

(303) 445–2897. You may also view the 

information collection request at http:// 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, we provide the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on new, proposed, revised, 

and continuing collections of 

information. This helps us assess the 

impact of our information collection 

requirements and minimize the public’s 

reporting burden. It also helps the 

public understand our information 

collection requirements and provide the 

requested data in the desired format. 

A Federal Register notice with a 60- 

day public comment period soliciting 

comments on this collection of 

information was published on December 

21, 2016 (81 FR 93711). No comments 

were received. 

We are again soliciting comments on 

the proposed ICR that is described 

below. We are especially interested in 

public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) Is the collection 

necessary to the proper functions of 

Reclamation; (2) will this information be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might Reclamation enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might Reclamation minimize the burden 

of this collection on the respondents, 

including through the use of 

information technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. Before including your 

address, phone number, email 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. 

Abstract: 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. The 

forms in this information collection are 

to be used by district offices to 

summarize individual landholder 

(direct or indirect landowner or lessee) 

and farm operator certification and 

reporting forms. This information 

allows us to establish water user 

compliance with Federal reclamation 

law. 

Title of Collection: Certification 

Summary Form and Reporting Summary 

Form for Acreage Limitation, 43 CFR 

part 426 and 43 CFR part 428. 

Form Numbers: Form 7–21SUMM–C 

and Form 7–21SUMM–R. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Contracting entities that are subject to 

the acreage limitation provisions of 

Federal reclamation law. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 177. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 221. 

Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: See table below. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 8,840 hours. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Frequency of Collection: Annually. 


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