The BOEMRE will collect the
information to obtain knowledge of equipment, procedures, and
circumstances involved in OCS incidents. We will use the
information to identify OCS incident causes and trends in order to
improve safety on the OCS through regulation, performance
standards, research, and cooperative initiatives with industry. The
BOEMRE uses the information to determine that crane operations are
safe and that crane operators and rigger personnel meet the
physical qualifications and have completed appropriate training.
Respondents are Outer Continental Shelf Federal and 1 State oil and
gas or sulphur lessees.
The currently approved OMB
paperwork burden is 36,739 burden hours for this collection of
information. This submission requests 44,413 hours with both
program increases as well as adjustment increases.(a)The program
increase of 2,001 hours is due to: the requirement for submitting a
confidentiality agreement when required under § 250.197(c) was
inadvertently not included from final rulemaking (71 FR 16033,
March 30, 2006)(+1 burden hour); we separated out the IC for §
250.186 to stand on its own, since we felt that the regulatory
requirement did not only pertain to incident reporting requirements
for a program increase (+2,000 burden hours).(b)The adjustment
increase of 5,673 hours is due to re-estimating the average annual
responses and the amount of time required to respond based on
consultations. The currently approved OMB non-hour cost burden is
$810,200 for this collection of information. This submission
requests $1,311,289. The adjustment increase of $501,089 is a
result of re-estimating the number of annual responses that have
associated cost recovery fees.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.