BSEE will instruct respondents to identify confidential commercial or proprietary information when they submit to BSEE, and this information will be protected according to the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) and DOIâs implementing regulations (43 CFR 2); section 26 of OCSLA (43 U.S.C. 1352); 30 CFR 250.197, Data and information to be made available to the public or for limited inspection; and 30 CFR part 252, OCS Oil and Gas Information Program. This collection of information is approved for three years. If BSEE requests an extension it must include with the supporting statement a report on the types of platforms and pipelines for which it has sufficient information to estimate decommissioning costs, and the amount of additional information required to estimate the remaining types of platforms and pipelines.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
01/31/2020
36 Months From Approved
01/31/2017
3,081
0
4,867
15,524
0
29,437
1,686,396
0
2,152,644
BSEE uses the information to (1) determine the necessity for allowing a well to be temporarily abandoned and there is a definitive reason for not permanently plugging the well;(2) verify that respondents are diligently pursuing the final disposition of a well and have performed temporary plugging of the wellbore;(3) ensure platform or pipeline removal activities are properly performed; (4) ensure that decommissioning a platform in place will not be a hazard to navigation and commercial fishing operations or interfere with other uses of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and (5) to help BSEE better estimate future decommissioning costs for OCS leases, rights-of-way, and rights of use and easements.
US Code:
43 USC 1334
Name of Law: Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act
US Code:
31 USC 9701
Name of Law: Independent Offices Appropriations Act
US Code:
30 USC 1751
Name of Law: Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act
The current OMB approved annual hour burden is 29,437 burden hours for this collection of information. This submission requests 15,524 burden hours. The adjustment decrease of 13,913 hours is due to re-estimating the average annual responses and the amount of time required to respond based on outreach (decreased by -550 burden hours); and the publication of the final blowout preventer regulations which moved many of the requirements of Subpart Q into the new Subpart G regulations, Well Operations and Equipment (decreased by -14,183 burden hours). Also, BSEE published a final rule (80 FR 75806), Decommissioning Costs, to require respondents submit a summary of actual decommissioning expenditures for each activity (increased by +820 burden hours). The current OMB approved annual reporting and recordkeeping non-hour cost burden is $2,152,644 for this collection of information. This submission requests $1,686,396. The adjustment decrease of $466,248 is due to re-estimating the average number of annual decommissioning applications that have associated cost recovery fees.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
30-day FR Notice published 10-20-16 [81 FR 72612].pdf
0010-16-SS.docx
250.1753; 1704(e) - Post Pipeline Report - Pipeline Decommissioning