[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 182 (Tuesday, September 19, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56593-56594]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-24014]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Minerals Management Service
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submitted for Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) Review; Comment Request
AGENCY: Minerals Management Service (MMS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of new information collection survey.
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SUMMARY: To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), we
are submitting to OMB for review and approval an information collection
request (ICR) to conduct a new survey on ``Labor Migration and the
Deepwater Oil Industry.'' We are also soliciting comments from the
public on this ICR.
DATES: Submit written comments by October 19, 2000.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments directly to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for
the Department of the Interior (1010-0091), 725 17th Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20503. Mail or hand carry a copy of your comments to the
Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Attention:
Rules Processing Team, Mail Stop 4024, 381 Elden Street; Herndon,
Virginia 20170-4817.
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 rulemaking 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
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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. For details on the proposed survey or to
obtain a copy of the survey questions, you may contact Harry Luton, in
the MMS Gulf of Mexico Regional Office, telephone (504) 736-2784.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Survey--Labor Migration and the Deepwater Oil Industry.
OMB Control Number: 1010-NEW.
Abstract: The Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Lands Act, 43 U.S.C.
1331 et seq., requires the Secretary of the Interior to preserve,
protect, and develop oil and gas resources in 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 environment; ensure the public a fair
and equitable return on the resources offshore; and preserve and
maintain free enterprise competition.
The OCS Lands Act (at 43 U.S.C. 1346, Environmental Studies)
instructs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct studies to establish
environmental information as he deems necessary and to monitor the
human, marine, and coastal environments. The purpose of the studies is
to provide time-series and data trend information which can be used to
identify any significant changes in the quality and productivity of
such environments, to establish trends in the areas studied and
monitored, and to design experiments to identify the causes of such
changes. This authority and responsibility are among those delegated to
MMS.
MMS proposes to conduct a survey to examine the consequences of
international labor on four port communities in southern Louisiana. The
information collected will aid MMS in understanding the impact of
foreign labor on the well-being of communities in southern Louisiana.
The scientific information is needed to understand the concerns, fears,
and desires of communities with respect to OCS activities, and it is
necessary for successful operation of the OCS oil and gas program in
the region.
Questions in the survey will address the respondent's historical
ties to the oil and gas industry; current views about his/her
community, impact of the presence of foreign-born immigrants in the
four communities, and background and household information.
Responses are voluntary. No proprietary items or questions of a
sensitive nature will be collected.
Frequency: This will be a one-time data collection activity.
Estimated Number and Description of Respondents: Approximately 200
randomly selected households in each of the four communities (800
respondents).
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Hour'' Burden:
Approximately 25 minutes per survey for the primary data collection
effort. Follow-up discussions, when held, will average approximately 20
minutes. The total annual burden is estimated at 340 hours (333 hours
for primary survey + 7 hours for follow-up conversations).
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-Hour Cost''
Burden: We have identified no non-hour cost burdens to the respondents.
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. Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA 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.
To comply with the public consultation process, on June 22, 2000,
we published a Federal Register notice (65 FR 38852) with the required
60-day comment period announcing that we would submit this ICR to OMB
for approval. We have received no comments in response to that initial
notice. If you wish to comment in response to this notice, send your
comments directly to the offices listed under the ADDRESSES section of
this notice. The OMB has up to 60 days to approve or disapprove the
information collection but may respond after 30 days. Therefore, to
ensure maximum consideration, OMB should receive public comments by
October 19, 2000.
MMS Information Collection Clearance Officer: Jo Ann Lauterbach,
(202) 208-7744.
Dated: August 29, 2000.
E. P. Danenberger,
Chief, Engineering and Operations Division.
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