BOARD02620

• Board Meeting Date: 5/24/1999
• Description: Colorado River Basin Issues - Animas-La Plata Project - Status Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Federal Register/Vol. 64. No. 1/Monday. January 4. 1999/Notices

on November 18. 1998 (63 FR 64154.
Nov. 18. 1998), and requested comments
. the proposed rule and the
formation collection to be submitted
o us by January 19. 1999. The proposed
rulemaking requires farm operators who
provide services to more than 960
nonexempt acres westwide, held by a
single trust or legal entity or any
combination of trusts and legal entities
to submit RRA forms '0 the district(s)
where such land is located. We
requested comments from the public on
whether to revise an existing RRA form
or create a new form for farm operators
to prepare.
Just in case, if the rule is finalized and
it is determined that farm operators will
be required to submit a separate form,
we have prepared a draft of this form for
review and comment (see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT). We have
included the estimated burden for the

draft farm operator form (Form 7-
21FARMOP) in this notice. Farm
operators are not required to submit an
RRA form to their district until the
proposed rulemaking is published as a
final rule in the Federal Register.
Title: Individual Landholder's
Certification and Reporting Forms for
Acreage Limitation. 43 CFR Part 426.
Abstract: This information collection
requires certain landholders to complete
forms demonstrating their compliance
with the acreage limitation provisions of
Federal reclamation law. These forms
are submitted to districts who use the
information to establish each
landholder's status with respect to
landownership limitations, full-cost
pricing thresholds, lease requirements,
and other provisions of Federal
reclamation law. All landholders whose
entire westwide landholdings total 40
acres or less are exempt from the

requirement to submit RRA forms.
Landholders who are "qualified
recipients" have RRA forms submittal
thresholds of 80 acres or 240 acres
depending on the district's RRA forms
submittal threshold caregory where the
land is held.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondents: landholders (direct or
indirect landowners or lessees) and farm
operators of cenain lands in Bureau of
Reclamation projects, whose
landholdings exceed specified RRA
forms submittal thresholds.
Estimated Total Number of
Respondents: 19.202.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1.02.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: 19.586.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 14.829 hours.
Estimate of Burden for Each Form:

Burden esti- Annual num- Annual bu rden
Number of re- on respond-
Form no. mate per torm spondents berot re- ents
(in minutes) sponses (in hours)
Form 7-2180 .................................................................................................... 60 5,358 5.465 5,465
Form 7-2180EZ ................................................................................................ 45 537 548 411
Form 7-2181 .................................................................................................... 78 1.758 1,793 2,331
Form 7-2184 .................................................................................................... 45 40 41 31
orm 7-2190 .................................................................................................... 60 1.910 1,948 1.948
rm 7-2190EZ ................................................................................................ 45 113 115 86
arm 7-2191 .................................................................................................... 78 891 909 1,182
Form 7-2194 .................................................................................................... 45 4 4 3
Form 7-21 PE ................................................................................................... 66 205 209 230
Form 7-21TRUST ............................................................................................ 60 1,331 1.358 1,358
Form 7-21VERIFY ........................................................................................... 12 6.452 6.581 1,316
Form 7-21 Fe ................................................................................................... 30 243 248 124
Form 7-21 XS ................................................................................................... 30 164 167 84
Form 7-21 FARMOP ......................................................................................... 78 196 200 260

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Comments

Comments are invited on:
(a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of our functions, including
whether the information will have
practical use;
(b) The accuracy of our burden
estimate for the proposed collection of
information;
(c) Ways to enhance the quality.
usefulness, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
(d) Ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
We will summarize all comments
received to this notice and any
.mments regarding this information
llection received during the comment
eriod for the notice of proposed
rulemaking. We will publish that
summary in the Federal Register when

the information collection request is
submitted to OMB for review and
approval.
Dated: December 18. 1998.
Alonzo D. Knapp.
Acting Director, Program Analysis Office.
[FR Doc. 98-34380 Filed 12-31-98: 8:45 ami
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation

Notice of Intent To Prepare a Draft
Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement to the 1996 Final
Supplement to the Final Environmental
Statement for the Animas-La Plata
Project and Announcement of Public
Seoplng Meetings

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a
Draft Supplemental Environmental
Impact Statement '0 the 1996 Final
Supplement to the Final Environmental
Statement and Announcement of Public
Scoping Meetings.

SUMMARY: The Deparonent of the
Interior, Bureau of Reclamation
(Reclamation), announces its intent to
prepare a Draft Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement
(DSE1S) to the 1996 Final Supplement to
the Final Environmental Statement for
the Animas-La Piata Project (ALP)
pursuant to the National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969. as amended.
This DSEIS will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the
Administration Proposal, which was
announced on August 11. 1998. for
Final Implementation of the Colorado
U'e Settlement Act. At the heart of the
proposal is a modified ALP which is
limited to a smaller dam and reservoir