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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

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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

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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
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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.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
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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
Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

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
SUMMARY:

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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 60day 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
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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
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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.
Burden
estimate
per form
(in minutes)

Form No.

Number of
respondents

Annual
number of
responses

Annual
burden on
respondents
(in hours)

Limited Recipient Identification Sheet .............................................................
Trust Information Sheet ...................................................................................
Public Entity Information Sheet .......................................................................
Religious or Charitable Identification Sheet ....................................................

5
5
15
15

175
150
100
75

175
150
100
75

15
13
25
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.
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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
Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

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
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Frequency of Collection: Annually.
Total Estimated Annual Nonhour
Burden Cost: None.

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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 60day 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

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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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