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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 241 / Wednesday, December 16, 2015 / Notices

Dated: November 17, 2015.
J. Paul Loether,
Chief, National Register of Historic Places/
National Historic Landmarks Program.
[FR Doc. 2015–31589 Filed 12–15–15; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–NRSS–GRD–19921, PPWONRADG0,
PPMRSNR1N.NG0000 (166)]

Proposed Information Collection;
Mining Claims and Non-Federal Oil and
Gas Rights
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice; request for comments.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

We (National Park Service,
NPS) will ask the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) to approve the
information collection (IC) described
below. To comply with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 and as a part of
our continuing efforts to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden, we
invite the general public and other
Federal agencies to comment on this IC.
This IC is scheduled to expire on March
31, 2016. We may not conduct or
sponsor and a person is not required to
respond to a collection unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
DATES: You must submit comments on
or before February 16, 2016.
SUMMARY:

ADDRESSES:

Please send a copy of your
comments to Madonna L. Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, National Park Service, 12201
Sunrise Valley Drive (Mail Stop 242,
Room 2C114), Reston, VA 20192 (mail);
or madonna_baucum@nps.gov (email).
Please include ‘‘1024–0064’’ in the
subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this IC, contact Edward O. Kassman, Jr.,
Regulatory Specialist, Energy and
Minerals Branch, Geologic Resources
Division, National Park Service, at (303)
969–2146 or via email at Edward_
Kassman@nps.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

authority under the NPS Organic Act of
1916, 16 U.S.C. 1 et seq., and individual
park enabling statutes. As directed by
Congress, we developed the regulations
to protect park resources and visitor
values from the adverse impacts
associated with mineral development in
park boundaries. The regulations
require operators to submit specific
technical information describing their
future development plans, including
steps to mitigate the impacts of
operations. We use the information to
evaluate proposed operations, ensure
that all necessary mitigation measures
are employed to protect park resources
and values, and ensure compliance with
all applicable laws and regulations.

I. Abstract
We regulate mineral development
activities inside park boundaries
pursuant to rights associated with
mining claims and non-Federal oil and
gas rights under regulations codified at
36 CFR part 9, subpart A (‘‘9A
Regulations’’), and 36 CFR part 9,
subpart B (‘‘9B Regulations’’),
respectively. We promulgated both sets
of regulations in the late 1970’s. In the
case of mining claims, we promulgated
the 9A Regulations pursuant to
congressional authority granted under
the Mining in the Parks Act of 1976, 54
U.S.C § 100731 et seq., and individual
park enabling statutes. For non-Federal
oil and gas rights, we regulate
development activities pursuant to

II. Data

Estimated
number of
annual
responses

Activity

Estimated
response time
(minutes)

Estimated
annual
burden (hours)

36 CFR Part 9, Subpart A—Mining and Mining Claims ..............................................................
36 CFR Part 9, Subpart B—Non-Federal Oil and Gas Operations in the National Park System ...........................................................................................................................................

1

176

176

20

176

3,520

Total ......................................................................................................................................

21

........................

3,696

III. Comments

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OMB Control Number: 1024–0064.
Title: Mining Claims and Non-Federal
Oil and Gas Rights, 36 CFR 9, subparts
A and B.
Service Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved collection of
information.
Description of Respondents:
Businesses (one-fourth medium to large
publicly owned companies and threefourths private entities).
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden
Cost: None

We invite comments concerning this
information collection on:
• Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary, including
whether or not the information will
have practical utility;
• The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information;
• Ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of

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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.

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Dated: December 9, 2015.
Madonna L. Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
National Park Service.
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