# Pipeline Safety: Agency Information Collection Activities: Notice of Request for Extension of Currently Approved Information Collections
**AGENCY:**
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
**ACTION:**
Notice and request for comments.
**SUMMARY:**
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 *et seq.* ), this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below is being forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comments. A *Federal Register* Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on the following information collection was published in the *Federal Register* on December 7, 2010 (75 FR 76077) under Docket No. PHMSA-2010-0355. No comments were received. The purpose of this notice is to allow the public an additional 30 days to submit comments to OMB on the information collection described below.
**ADDRESSES:**
Send comments regarding the burden estimate, including suggestions for reducing the burden, to the Office of Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attn: Desk Officer for DOT/PHMSA, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.
**DATES:**
Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before March 16, 2011.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Angela Dow by telephone at 202-366-1246, by e-mail at *[email protected],* or by mail at U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., PHP-30, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
*Title:* Pipeline Safety: Periodic Underwater Inspections.
*OMB Control Number:* 2137-0618.
*Type of Request:* Renewal of a currently approved information collection.
*Abstract:* The Federal pipeline safety regulations (49 CFR parts 190-199) require operators to conduct appropriate underwater inspections in the Gulf of Mexico. If an operator finds that its pipeline is exposed on the seabed floor or constitutes a hazard to navigation, the operator must contact the National Response Center by telephone within 24 hours of discovery to report the location of the exposed pipeline.
*Affected Public:* Operators of underwater pipeline facilities.
*Estimated number of responses:* 82.
*Estimated annual burden hours:* 1,312 hours.
*Frequency of collection:* On occasion.
Comments are invited on: The need for the proposed collection of information for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility; the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques. A comment to OMB is most effective if OMB receives it within 30 days of the date of publication in the *Federal Register.*
**Authority:**
The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended; and 49 CFR part 1.
Issued in Washington, DC, on February 8, 2011.
Linda Daugherty,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy and Programs.