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U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth

Resources Observation Systems (EROS)

Data Center (EDC) near Sioux Falls,

South Dakota. The Committee,

comprised of 15 members from

academia, industry, government,

information science, natural science,

social science, and policy/law, will

provide the USGS, EDC management

with advice and consultation on

defining and accomplishing the

NSLRSDA’s archiving and access goals

to carry out the requirements of the

Land Remote Sensing Policy Act; on

priorities of the NSLRSDA’s tasks; and,

on issues of archiving, data

management, science, policy, and

public-private partnerships.

Topics to be reviewed and discussed

by the Committee include determining

the content of and upgrading the basic

data set as identified by the Congress;

metada content and accessibility;

product characteristics, availability, and

delivery; and, archiving, data access,

and distribution policies.

DATES: March 28, 2001 commencing at

8:30 a.m. and adjourning at 12 noon on

March 30, 2001.

CONTACT: Mr. Thomas M. Holm, Chief,

Data Services Branch, U.S. Geological

Survey, EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls,

South Dakota, 57198 at (605) 594–6142

or email at holm@usgs.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Meetings

of the National Satellite Land Remote

Sensing Data Archive Advisory

Committee are open to the public. The

required lead time for notification of

this meeting could not be met due to the

fact that we were awaiting final

Congressional approval of reestablishing

the Committee. Previous Committee

meeting minutes are available for public

review at http://edc.usgs.gov/programs/

nslrsda/advcomm.html.

Barbara Ryan,

Associate Director for Geography.

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BILLING CODE 4310–Y7–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[MT–070–01–1020–PG]

Resource Advisory Council Meeting;

Butte, Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The Western Montana

Resource Advisory Council will

convene on March 27, 2001, from 9:00

a.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the BLM Butte Field

Office, 106 North Parkmont, Butte,

Montana, 59701.

The topics for the meeting will be:

Recommendation on Tailpipe Travel

Management Plan by the Subcommittee,

Summary of Range Standards and

Guidelines by the Subcommittee, Field

Manager Update, and a Sage Grouse

Presentation at 2:00 p.m.

The meeting is open to the public and

written comments can be given to the

Council. Oral comments may be

presented to the Council at 11:30 a.m.

The time allotted for oral comment may

be limited, depending on the number of

persons wishing to be heard.

Individuals who plan to attend and

need further information about the

meeting, or who need special assistance,

such as sign language or other

reasonable accommodations, should

contact Jean Nelson-Dean, Resource

Advisory Coordinator, at the Butte Field

Office, 106 North Parkmont, P.O. Box

3388, Butte, Montana 59702–3388,

telephone 406–533–7617.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Richard Hotaling, Field Manager, 406–

533–7600 or Jean Nelson-Dean at the

above address and telephone number.

Dated: February 27, 2001.

Steve Hartmann,

Acting Field Manager.

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BILLING CODE 4310–DN–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service

(MMS), Interior.

ACTION: Notice of extension of a

currently approved information

collection (OMB Control Number 1010–

0043).

SUMMARY: To comply with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

(PRA), we are inviting comments on a

collection of information that we will

submit to the Office of Management and

Budget (OMB) for review and approval.

The information collection request (ICR)

is titled ‘‘30 CFR 250, Subpart F, Oil and

Gas Well-Workover Operations.’’

DATES: Submit written comments by

May 7, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Mail or hand-carry

comments to the Department of the

Interior; Minerals Management Service;

Attention: Rules Processing Team; Mail

Stop 4024; 381 Elden Street; Herndon,

Virginia 20170–4817. If you wish to email comments, the e-mail address is:

rules.comments@mms.gov. Reference

‘‘Information Collection 1010–0043’’ in

your e-mail subject line. Include your

name and return address in your e-mail

message and mark your message for

return receipt.

Our practice is to make comments,

including names and home addresses of

respondents, available for public review

during regular business hours.

Individual respondents may request that

we withhold their home address from

the record, which we will honor to the

extent allowable by law. There may be

circumstances in which we would

withhold from the record a respondent’s

identity, as allowable by the law. If you

wish us to withhold your name and/or

address, you must state this

prominently at the beginning of your

comment. However, we will not

consider anonymous comments. 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 inspection in their entirety.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Alexis London, Rules Processing Team,

telephone (703) 787–1600. You may also

contact Alexis London to obtain a copy

at no cost of the regulations that require

the subject collection of information.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: 30 CFR 250, Subpart F, Oil and

Gas Well-Workover Operations.

OMB Control Number: 1010–0043.

Abstract: The Outer Continental Shelf

(OCS) Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et

seq.), as amended, requires the Secretary

of the Interior (Secretary) to preserve,

protect, and develop sulphur resources

on the OCS; make such resources

available to meet the Nation’s energy

needs as rapidly as possible; balance

orderly energy resources development

with protection of the human, marine,

and coastal environments; ensure the

public a fair and equitable return on the

resources offshore; and preserve and

maintain free enterprise competition.

Section 5(a) of the OCS Lands Act

requires the Secretary to prescribe rules

and regulations ‘‘to provide for the

prevention of waste, and conservation of

the natural resources of the Outer

Continental Shelf, and the protection of

correlative rights therein’’ and to

include provisions ‘‘for the prompt and

efficient exploration and development

of a lease area.’’ These authorities and

responsibilities are among those

delegated to MMS under which we

issue regulations to ensure that

operations in the OCS will meet

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statutory requirements; provide for

safety and protection of the

environment; and result in diligent

exploration, development, and

production of OCS leases. This

information collection request addresses

the regulations at 30 CFR 250, subpart

F, Oil and Gas Well-Workover

Operations and the associated

supplementary notices to lessees and

operators intended to provide

clarification, description, or explanation

of these regulations.

MMS District Supervisors use the

information collected to analyze and

evaluate planned well-workover

operations to ensure that operations

result in personnel safety and protection

of the environment. They use this

evaluation in making decisions to

approve, disapprove, or to require

modification to the proposed wellworkover operations. For example,

MMS uses the information to:

• Review log entries of crew meetings

to verify that safety procedures have

been properly reviewed.

• Review well-workover procedures

relating to hydrogen sulfide (H2S) to

ensure the safety of the crew in the

event of encountering H2S.

• Review well-workover diagrams

and procedures to ensure the safety of

well-workover operations.

• Verify that the crown block safety

device is operating and can be expected

to function and avoid accidents.

• Verify that the proposed operation

of the annular preventer is technically

correct and will provide adequate

protection for personnel, property, and

natural resources.

• Verify the reasons for postponing

blowout preventer (BOP) tests, verify

the state of readiness of the equipment

and to ascertain that the equipment

meets safety standards and

requirements, ensure that BOP tests

have been conducted in the manner and

frequency to promote personnel safety

and protect natural resources. Specific

testing information must be recorded to

verify that the proper test procedures

were followed.

• Assure that the well-workover

operations are conducted on well casing

that is structurally competent.

Responses are mandatory. No

questions of a sensitive nature are

asked. MMS will protect proprietary

information according to the Freedom of

Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) and its

implementing regulations (43 CFR 2), 30

CFR 250.196 (Data and information to

be made available to the public), and 30

CFR part 252 (OCS Oil and Gas

Information Program).

Frequency: The frequency varies by

section, but is primarily monthly or ‘‘on

occasion.’’

Estimated Number and Description of

Respondents: Approximately 130

Federal OCS oil and gas or sulphur

lessees.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping ‘‘Hour’’ Burden: The

currently approved ‘‘hour’’ burden for

this information collection is a total of

7,920 hours. The following chart details

the individual components of this

burden and estimated burden per

response or record. In calculating the

burden, we assumed that respondents

perform certain requirements in the

normal course of their activities. We

consider these to be usual and

customary and took that into account in

estimating the burden.

Citation

30 CFR 250

Subpart F

Reporting or recordkeeping requirement Hour burden per response/record

Reporting Requirements

602 .................................................. Request exceptions prior to moving well- workover equipment ........... .25 hour.

605; 613; 615(a) .............................. Request approval to begin subsea well-workover operations; submit

forms MMS–124 and/or MMS–125.

Burden included in 1010–0045

and 1010–0046.

614 .................................................. Post number of stands of drill pipe or workover string and drill collars

that may be pulled prior to filling the hole and equivalent well-control fluid volume.

.25 hour.

616(a) .............................................. Request exception to rated working pressure of the BOP equipment;

request exception to annular-type BOP testing.

1 hour.

617(b) .............................................. Pressure test, caliper, or otherwise evaluate tubing & wellhead equipment casing; submit results (every 30 days during prolonged operations).4 hours.

617(c) .............................................. Notify MMS if sustained casing pressure is observed on a well .......... .25 hour.

600 thru 618 .................................... General departure and alternative compliance requests not specifically covered elsewhere in subpart F regulations.2 hours.

Recordkeeping Requirements

606 .................................................. Instruct crew members in safety requirements of operations to be

performed; document meeting (weekly for 2 crews × 2 weeks per

workover = 4).

.5 hour.

611 .................................................. Perform operational check of traveling-block safety device; document

results (weekly × 2 weeks per workover = 2).

.25 hour.

616(a), (b), (d), (e) .......................... Perform BOP pressure tests, actuations & inspections; record results;

retain records 2 years following completion of workover activities

(when installed; at a minimum every 7 days × 2 weeks per

workover = 2).

6 hours.

616(b)(2) .......................................... Test blind or blind-shear rams; document results (every 30 days during operations). (Note: this is part of BOP test when BOP test is

conducted.)

.25 hour.

616(b)(2) .......................................... Record reason for postponing BOP system tests ................................. .1 hour.

616(c) .............................................. Perform crew drills; record results (weekly for 2 crews × 2 weeks per

workover = 4).

.5 hour.

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Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’

Burden: We have identified no ‘‘nonhour cost’’ burdens.

Comments: 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.

Before submitting an ICR to OMB, PRA

section 3506(c)(2)(A) requires each

agency ‘‘* * * to provide notice * * *

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 to be

collected; and (d) minimize the burden

on the respondents, including the use of

automated collection techniques or

other forms of information technology.

We will summarize written responses to

this notice and address them in our

submission for OMB approval,

including any appropriate adjustments

to the estimated burden.

Agencies must estimate both the

‘‘hour’’ and ‘‘non-hour cost’’ burdens to

respondents or recordkeepers resulting

from the collection of information. We

have not identified any non-hour cost

burdens for the information collection

aspects of 30 CFR 250, subpart F.

Therefore, 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 you use to estimate major cost

factors, including system and

technology acquisition, expected useful

life of capital equipment, discount

rate(s), and the period over which you

incur costs. Capital and startup costs

include, among other items, computers

and software you purchase to prepare

for collecting information, monitoring,

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

Government; or (iv) as part of customary

and usual business or private practices.

MMS Information Collection

Clearance Officer: Jo Ann Lauterbach,

(202) 208–7744.

Dated: February 26, 2001.

E.P. Danenberger,

Chief, Engineering and Operations Division.

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BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service

(MMS), Interior.

ACTION: Notice of extension of a

currently approved information

collection (OMB Control Number 1010–

0106).

SUMMARY: To comply with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

(PRA), we are inviting comments on a

collection of information that we will

submit to the Office of Management and

Budget (OMB) for review and approval.

The information collection request (ICR)

is titled ‘‘30 CFR Part 253, Oil Spill

Financial Responsibility.’’

DATES: Submit written comments by

May 7, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Mail or hand-carry

comments to the Department of the

Interior; Minerals Management Service;

Attention: Rules Processing Team; Mail

Stop 4024; 381 Elden Street; Herndon,

Virginia 20170–4817. If you wish to email comments, the e-mail address is:

rules.comments@mms.gov. Reference

‘‘Information Collection 1010–0106’’ in

your e-mail subject line. Include your

name and return address in your e-mail

message and mark your message for

return receipt.

Our practice is to make comments,

including names and home addresses of

respondents, available for public review

during regular business hours.

Individual respondents may request that

we withhold their home address from

the record, which we will honor to the

extent allowable by law. There may be

circumstances in which we would

withhold from the record a respondent’s

identity, as allowable by the law. If you

wish us to withhold your name and/or

address, you must state this

prominently at the beginning of your

comment. However, we will not

consider anonymous comments. 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 inspection in their entirety.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Alexis London, Rules Processing Team,

telephone (703) 787–1600. You may also

contact Alexis London to obtain a copy

at no cost of the regulations that require

the subject collection of information.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: 30 CFR Part 253, Oil Spill

Financial Responsibility.

OMB Control Number: 1010–0106.

Abstract: Title I of the Oil Pollution

Act of 1990 (OPA) (33 U.S.C. 2701 et

seq.), as amended by the Coast Guard

Authorization Act of 1996 (Pub.L. 104–

324), provides at section 1016 that oil

spill financial responsibility (OSFR) for

offshore facilities be established and

maintained according to methods

determined acceptable to the President.

Section 1016 of OPA supersedes the

offshore facility OSFR provisions of the

Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act

Amendments of 1978. These authorities

and responsibilities are among those

delegated to MMS under which we

issue regulations governing oil and gas

and sulphur operations in the OCS. This

information collection request addresses

the regulations at 30 CFR Part 253, Oil

Spill Financial Responsibility for

Offshore Facilities, and the associated

supplementary notices to lessees and

operators intended to provide

clarification, description, or explanation

of these regulations.

The MMS will use the information

collected under 30 CFR part 253 to

verify compliance with section 1016 of

OPA. The information is necessary to

confirm that applicants can pay for

cleanup and damages from oil-spill

discharges from covered offshore

facilities (COFs). Routinely, the

information will be used: (a) to establish

eligibility of applicants for an OSFR

Certification; and (b) as a reference

source for clean-up and damage claims

associated with oil-spill discharges from

COFs; the names, addresses, and

telephone numbers of owners,

operators, and guarantors; designated

U.S. agents for service of process; and

persons to contact. To collect most of

the information, MMS developed

standard forms. The forms and their

purposes are:

Form MMS–1016, Designated

Applicant Information: The designated

applicant uses this form to provide

identifying information (company legal

name, address, contact name and title,

telephone numbers) and to summarize

the OSFR evidence. This form is

required for each new OSFR

Certification application.

Form MMS–1017, Designation of

Applicant: When there is more than one