Notice2025-05542
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Nonferrous Metals Surveys (26 Forms)
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Published
April 1, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentGeological Survey
Abstract
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS, we) proposes to renew an information collection with revisions.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 61 (Tuesday, April 1, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14377-14378]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-05542]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey
[GX25LR000F60100; OMB Control Number 1028-0053/Renewal]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Nonferrous
Metals Surveys (26 Forms)
AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995,
the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS, we) proposes to renew an information
collection with revisions.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments. To be
considered, we must receive your comments on or before May 1, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send your 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 <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b6f9ffe4f7e9e5c3d4dbdfc5c5dfd9d8f6d9dbd498d3d9c698d1d9c0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8ac5c3d8cbd5d9ffe8e7e3f9f9e3e5e4cae5e7e8a4efe5faa4ede5fc">[email protected]</span></a>; or
via facsimile to (202) 395-5806. Please provide a copy of your comments
by mail to U.S. Geological Survey, Information Collections Clearance
Officer, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 159, Reston, VA 20192; or by
email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2641550b4f4840497945494a4a4345524f494855665355415508414950"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b8dfcb95d1d6ded7e7dbd7d4d4dddbccd1d7d6cbf8cdcbdfcb96dfd7ce">[email protected]</span></a>. Please reference OMB Control
Number 1028-0053 Nonferrous Metals Surveys in the subject line of your
comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth S. Sangine by email at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#690c1a0a061d1d1a08070e00070c291c1a0e1a470e061f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2a4f5949455e5e594b444d43444f6a5f594d59044d455c">[email protected]</span></a>, or by telephone at 703-648-7720. Individuals in
the United States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a
speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access
telecommunications relay services. Individuals outside the United
States should use the relay services offered within their country to
make international calls to the point-of-contact in the United States.
You may also view the ICR at <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the PRA, as part of our
continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burdens, 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 60-day public comment period on
this information collection was published on November 12, 2024 (89 FR
89025). One comment was received from the Bureau of Economic Analysis
supporting the collection of this data as nationally important. We are
again soliciting comments on the proposed ICR that is described below.
We are especially interested in public comments addressing the
following issues:
(1) is the collection necessary to the proper functions of the USGS
minerals information mission; (2) will this information be processed
and used in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate of burden accurate;
(4) how might the USGS enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (5) how might the USGS 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. We will include or summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this ICR. Before including your address, phone
number, email address, or other personally identifiable information
(PII) in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--
including your PII--may be made publicly available at any time. While
you can ask us in your comment to withhold your PII from public review,
we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
Abstract: Respondents will provide the USGS with domestic
production and consumption data for 22 ores, concentrates, and metals,
some of which are considered strategic and critical. This data will
help determine national defense stockpile goals. USGC will collect this
data through the use of on-line electronic and paper forms. These data
and derived information will be published as chapters in minerals
yearbooks, monthly mineral industry surveys, annual mineral commodity
summaries, and special publications for use by government agencies,
congressional offices, educational institutions, research
organizations, financial institutions, consulting firms, industry,
academia, and the general public.
We will add a currently OMB-exempt ``Battery Recycling'' (USGS Form
9-4147-A) canvass that will permanently exceed 9 potential respondents
and convert to OMB-exempt status the
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``Alumina'' (USGS Form 9-4055-A) and ``Pig Tin'' (USGS Form 9-4090-M)
canvasses because of a permanent reduction in the number of potential
respondents.
OMB-exempt canvasses are the canvasses with less than 10 expected
potential respondents. Canvasses with less than 10 potential
respondents are exempted under the PRA, and, therefore, are not
included in ICRs. Such canvasses contain the statement ``OMB approval
not required'' in the upper right corner. We also include the following
statement on the canvass instrument: ``This canvass is exempt from
requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 35) and does not
require clearance from OMB.''
Title of Collection: Nonferrous Metals Surveys.
OMB Control Number: 1028-0053.
Form Number: Various (26 USGS forms).
Type of Review: Renewal with revisions of a currently approved
collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit
institutions; U.S. nonfuel minerals producers and consumers of
nonferrous metals and related materials.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 1,508.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 4,885.
Estimated Completion Time per Response: For each form, we will
include an average burden time ranging from 20 minutes to 90 minutes.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 3,616.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: monthly, quarterly, or annually.
Total Estimated Annual Non-hour Burden Cost: There are no ``non-
hour cost'' burdens associated with this ICR.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, nor is a person required to
respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently
valid OMB control number.
The authorities for this action are the PRA, the National Materials
and Minerals Policy, Research and Development Act of 1980 (30 U.S.C.
1601 et seq.), the National Mining and Minerals Policy Act of 1970 (30
U.S.C. 21(a)), the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act
(50 U.S.C. 98 et seq.), and the Defense Production Act (50 U.S.C. 2061
et seq.).
Braden Harker,
Director, National Minerals Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey.
[FR Doc. 2025-05542 Filed 3-31-25; 8:45 am]
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