80_FR_35510 80 FR 35392 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments

80 FR 35392 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 118 (June 19, 2015)

Page Range35392-35393
FR Document2015-15073

We (the U.S. Geological Survey) are notifying the public that we have submitted to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) the information collection request (ICR) described below. To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and as part of our continuing efforts to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, we invite the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on this ICR. This collection is scheduled to expire on September 30, 2015.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 118 (Friday, June 19, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 118 (Friday, June 19, 2015)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-15073]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

U.S. Geological Survey

[USGS--GX15GL00DT7ST00]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments

AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Interior.

ACTION: Notice of revision of a currently approved information 
collection (1028-0087).

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SUMMARY: We (the U.S. Geological Survey) are notifying the public that 
we have submitted to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) the 
information collection request (ICR) described below. To comply with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and as part of our continuing 
efforts to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, we invite the 
general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to 
comment on this ICR. This collection is scheduled to expire on 
September 30, 2015.

DATES: To ensure that your comments on this ICR are considered, OMB 
must receive them on or before July 20, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Please submit written comments on this information 
collection directly to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Desk Officer 
for the Department of the Interior, via email: 
([email protected]); or by fax (202) 395-5806; and identify 
your submission with `OMB Control Number 1028-0087 National Geological 
and Geophysical Data Preservation Program'. Please also forward a copy 
of your comments and suggestions on this information collection to the 
Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 
Sunrise Valley Drive MS 807, Reston, VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648-7195 
(fax); or [email protected] (email). Please reference `OMB 
Information Collection 1028-0087: National Geological and Geophysical 
Data Preservation Program' in all correspondence.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Betty Adrian at (303) 202-4828 or by 
mail at U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, MS 975, Denver Federal 
Center, Denver, CO 80225, or by email at [email protected]. You may also 
find information about this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract

    This notice concerns the collection of information that is 
sufficient and relevant to evaluate and select proposals for funding 
under the NGGDPP. We will accept proposals from State geological 
surveys requesting funds to (1) inventory, assess, and preserve the 
condition of geoscientific collections and individual physical samples, 
(2) create metadata for individual samples and collections, (3) create 
or update digital infrastructure, including data migration to 
contemporary formats to assure data are not lost due to recording media 
degradation or changing data recording formats or software programs; 
and (4) rescue data at risk. Financial assistance will be awarded 
annually on a competitive basis following the evaluation and ranking of 
State proposals by a review panel composed of representatives from the 
Department of the Interior, State geological surveys, academic 
institutions, and the private sector. To submit a proposal, respondents 
must complete a project narrative and submit the application via 
www.grants.gov. Grant recipients must complete a final technical report 
at the end of the project period. Narrative and report guidance is 
available through http://datapreservation.usgs.gov and at 
www.grants.gov.

II. Data

    OMB Control Number: 1028-0087.
    Form Number: not applicable.
    Title: National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation 
Program (NGGDPP).
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved information 
collection.
    Respondent Obligation: Voluntary, but necessary to receive 
benefits.
    Frequency of Collection: Annually.
    Description of Respondents: All State Geological Surveys will have 
the opportunity to apply for matching Federal funds.
    Estimated Total Number of Annual Responses: 59 (32 applications and 
27 reports).
    Estimated Time per Response: We estimate that it will take 42 hours 
per person to fill out and submit an application requesting financial 
assistance and provide a final report.
    Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 1,324 burden hours. We expect to 
receive approximately 32 applications. It takes each applicant 
approximately 38 hours to complete the narrative and to present 
supporting documents. This includes the time for project conception and 
development, proposal writing and reviewing, and submitting the 
proposal application through Grants.gov (totaling 1,324 burden hours). 
We anticipate awarding 27 grants per year. The award recipients must 
submit a final report. We estimate that it will take approximately 4 
hours to complete the requirement for the final report (totaling 108 
hours).
    Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-Hour Cost'' Burden: 
There are no ``non-hour cost'' burdens associated with this collection 
of information.
    Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) 
provides that an agency may not conduct or sponsor and you are not 
required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a 
currently valid OMB control number. Until the OMB approves a collection 
of information, you are not obliged to respond.
    Comments: On March 24, 2015, we published a Federal Register notice 
80 FR 15631 announcing that we would submit this ICR to OMB for 
approval and soliciting comments. The comment period closed on May 26, 
2015. We received no comments.

III. Request for Comments

    We again invite comments concerning this ICR as to: (a) Whether the 
proposed collection of information is necessary for the agency to 
perform its duties,

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including whether the information is useful; (b) the accuracy of the 
agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of 
information; (c) how to enhance the quality, usefulness, and clarity of 
the information to be collected; and (d) how to minimize the burden on 
the respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques 
or other forms of information technology.
    Please note that comments submitted in response to this notice are 
a matter of public record. Before including your personal mailing 
address, phone number, email address, or other personally identifiable 
information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire 
comment, including your personally identifiable information, may be 
made publicly available at any time. While you can ask the OMB in your 
comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public 
review, we cannot guarantee that it will be done.

Betty M. Adrian,
Program Coordinator, National Geological and Geophysical Data 
Preservation Program.
[FR Doc. 2015-15073 Filed 6-18-15;8:45 am]
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35392 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 118 / Friday, June 19, 2015 / Notices • The accuracy of our estimate of the collection directly to the Office of II. Data burden for this collection of Management and Budget (OMB), Office OMB Control Number: 1028–0087. information; of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Form Number: not applicable. • Ways to enhance the quality, utility, Attention: Desk Officer for the Title: National Geological and and clarity of the information to be Department of the Interior, via email: Geophysical Data Preservation Program collected; and (OIRA_SUBMISSION@omb.eop.gov); or (NGGDPP). • Ways to minimize the burden of the by fax (202) 395–5806; and identify your Type of Request: Revision of a collection of information on submission with ‘OMB Control Number currently approved information respondents. 1028–0087 National Geological and collection. Comments that you submit in Geophysical Data Preservation Program’. Respondent Obligation: Voluntary, response to this notice are a matter of Please also forward a copy of your but necessary to receive benefits. public record. We will include or comments and suggestions on this Frequency of Collection: Annually. summarize each comment in our request information collection to the Description of Respondents: All State to OMB to approve this IC. Before Information Collection Clearance Geological Surveys will have the including your address, phone number, Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 opportunity to apply for matching email address, or other personal Sunrise Valley Drive MS 807, Reston, Federal funds. identifying information in your VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648–7195 (fax); Estimated Total Number of Annual comment, you should be aware that or gs-info_collections@usgs.gov (email). Responses: 59 (32 applications and 27 your entire comment, including your Please reference ‘OMB Information reports). personal identifying information, may Collection 1028–0087: National Estimated Time per Response: We be made publicly available at any time. Geological and Geophysical Data estimate that it will take 42 hours per While you can ask us in your comment Preservation Program’ in all person to fill out and submit an to withhold your personal identifying correspondence. application requesting financial information from public review, we assistance and provide a final report. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: cannot guarantee that we will be able to Estimated Annual Burden Hours: do so. Betty Adrian at (303) 202–4828 or by mail at U.S. Geological Survey, Box 1,324 burden hours. We expect to Dated: June 15, 2015. 25046, MS 975, Denver Federal Center, receive approximately 32 applications. Tina A. Campbell, Denver, CO 80225, or by email at It takes each applicant approximately 38 Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and badrian@usgs.gov. You may also find hours to complete the narrative and to Management Programs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife information about this ICR at present supporting documents. This Service. www.reginfo.gov. includes the time for project conception [FR Doc. 2015–15035 Filed 6–18–15; 8:45 am] and development, proposal writing and BILLING CODE 4310–55–P SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: reviewing, and submitting the proposal I. Abstract application through Grants.gov (totaling 1,324 burden hours). We anticipate DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR This notice concerns the collection of awarding 27 grants per year. The award information that is sufficient and recipients must submit a final report. U.S. Geological Survey relevant to evaluate and select proposals We estimate that it will take [USGS—GX15GL00DT7ST00] for funding under the NGGDPP. We will approximately 4 hours to complete the accept proposals from State geological requirement for the final report (totaling Agency Information Collection surveys requesting funds to (1) 108 hours). Activities: Request for Comments inventory, assess, and preserve the Estimated Reporting and condition of geoscientific collections Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’ AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and individual physical samples, (2) Burden: There are no ‘‘non-hour cost’’ Interior. create metadata for individual samples burdens associated with this collection ACTION: Notice of revision of a currently and collections, (3) create or update of information. approved information collection (1028– digital infrastructure, including data Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA 0087). migration to contemporary formats to (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an assure data are not lost due to recording agency may not conduct or sponsor and SUMMARY: We (the U.S. Geological media degradation or changing data you are not required to respond to a Survey) are notifying the public that we recording formats or software programs; collection of information unless it have submitted to Office of Management and (4) rescue data at risk. Financial displays a currently valid OMB control and Budget (OMB) the information assistance will be awarded annually on number. Until the OMB approves a collection request (ICR) described a competitive basis following the collection of information, you are not below. To comply with the Paperwork evaluation and ranking of State obliged to respond. Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and as part proposals by a review panel composed Comments: On March 24, 2015, we of our continuing efforts to reduce of representatives from the Department published a Federal Register notice 80 paperwork and respondent burden, we of the Interior, State geological surveys, FR 15631 announcing that we would invite the general public and other academic institutions, and the private submit this ICR to OMB for approval Federal agencies to take this sector. To submit a proposal, asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES and soliciting comments. The comment opportunity to comment on this ICR. respondents must complete a project period closed on May 26, 2015. We This collection is scheduled to expire narrative and submit the application via received no comments. on September 30, 2015. www.grants.gov. Grant recipients must DATES: To ensure that your comments complete a final technical report at the III. Request for Comments on this ICR are considered, OMB must end of the project period. Narrative and We again invite comments concerning receive them on or before July 20, 2015. report guidance is available through this ICR as to: (a) Whether the proposed ADDRESSES: Please submit written http://datapreservation.usgs.gov and at collection of information is necessary comments on this information www.grants.gov. for the agency to perform its duties, VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:33 Jun 18, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00094 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\19JNN1.SGM 19JNN1

Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 118 / Friday, June 19, 2015 / Notices 35393 including whether the information is Submitting Comments: You may Resource Damage Assessment useful; (b) the accuracy of the agency’s submit comments on the Draft Phase IV regulations found at 15 CFR part 990. estimate of the burden of the proposed ERP/EA by one of following methods: Kevin Reynolds, collection of information; (c) how to (1) Electronically: http:// enhance the quality, usefulness, and Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov. Assessment and Restoration Case Manager, clarity of the information to be Department of the Interior. collected; and (d) how to minimize the (2) By hard copy: Submit by U.S. mail to: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, P.O. [FR Doc. 2015–15152 Filed 6–18–15; 8:45 am] burden on the respondents, including Box 49567, Atlanta, GA 30345. BILLING CODE 4310–55–P the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: technology. Nanciann Regalado, at DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Please note that comments submitted nanciann_regalado@fws.gov. in response to this notice are a matter Bureau of Land Management of public record. Before including your SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In personal mailing address, phone [LLNM950000 L13110000.BX0000 accordance with the Oil Pollution Act of number, email address, or other 15XL1109PF] 1990 (OPA; 33 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) and personally identifiable information in the National Environmental Policy Act Notice of Filing of Plats of Survey, New your comment, you should be aware (NEPA; 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the Mexico that your entire comment, including Federal and State natural resource your personally identifiable trustee agencies (Trustees) have AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, information, may be made publicly prepared a Draft Phase IV Early Interior. available at any time. While you can ask ACTION: Notice of filing of plats of Restoration Plan and Environmental the OMB in your comment to withhold survey. Assessments (Draft Phase IV ERP/EA). your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot The Draft Phase IV ERP/EA proposes SUMMARY: The plats of survey described guarantee that it will be done. 10 early restoration projects that are below are scheduled to be officially consistent with the early restoration filed in the New Mexico State Office, Betty M. Adrian, program alternatives selected in the Bureau of Land Management, Santa Fe, Program Coordinator, National Geological New Mexico, thirty (30) calendar days Programmatic and Phase III Early and Geophysical Data Preservation Program. Restoration Plan and Early Restoration from the date of this publication. [FR Doc. 2015–15073 Filed 6–18–15;8:45 am] Programmatic Environmental Impact FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: BILLING CODE 4311–AM–P Statement. The Draft Phase IV ERP/EA These plats will be available for also includes a notice of change and inspection in the New Mexico State DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR supporting analysis for one Phase III Office, Bureau of Land Management, Early Restoration Project, 301 Dinosaur Trail, Santa Fe, New [FWS–R4–FHC–2015–N117; ‘‘Enhancement of Franklin County Parks Mexico. Copies may be obtained from FVHC98210408710–XXX–FF04G01000] and Boat Ramps—Eastpoint Fishing Pier this office upon payment. Contact Improvements.’’ Carlos Martinez at 505–954–2096, or by Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Draft email at cjjmarti@blm.gov, for Phase IV Early Restoration Plan and Background assistance. Persons who use a Environmental Assessments telecommunications device for the deaf For additional background (TDD) may call the Federal Information AGENCY: Interior. information, see our original Federal Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 ACTION: Notice of availability; extension Register notice, with which we opened to contact the above individual during of public comment period. the comment period (May 20, 2015; 80 normal business hours. FR 29019). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: SUMMARY: We are extending the public comment period on our Draft Phase IV Public Comments New Mexico Principal Meridian, New Early Restoration Plan and If you submit a comment via http:// Mexico (NM) Environmental Assessments (Draft www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov, your The Supplemental plat, representing Phase IV ERP/EA) regarding the entire comment—including any the dependent resurvey in Township 22 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. We personal identifying information—may South, Range 8 East, of the New Mexico opened the comment period via a May be made publicly available at any time. Principal Meridian, accepted April 23, 20, 2015, notice of availability. If you submit a hardcopy comment that 2015 for Group, 1168, NM. DATES: Comments must be submitted includes personal identifying The Indian Meridian, Oklahoma (OK) electronically or postmarked by 11:59 information, you may request at the top p.m. Mountain Time on July 6, 2015. The plat, in three sheets, representing of your document that we withhold this ADDRESSES: Document Availability: You information from public review. the dependent resurvey and survey in may download the Draft Phase IV ERP/ However, we cannot guarantee that we Township 9 North, Range 25 East, of the EA at http:// Indian Meridian, accepted April 15, asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES will be able to do so. www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov or at 2015, for Group 220 OK. http://www.doi.gov/deepwaterhorizon. Authority These plats are scheduled for official Alternatively, you may request a CD of filing 30 days from the notice of the Draft Phase IV ERP/EA (see FOR The authority for this action is the publication in the Federal Register, as FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). You National Environmental Policy Act (42 provided for in the BLM Manual Section may also view the document at any of U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and the Oil 2097—Opening Orders. Notice from this the public facilities listed at http:// Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701 et office will be provided as to the date of www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov. seq.) and the implementing Natural said publication. If a protest against a VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:33 Jun 18, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00095 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\19JNN1.SGM 19JNN1


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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of revision of a currently approved information collection (1028-0087).
DatesTo ensure that your comments on this ICR are considered, OMB must receive them on or before July 20, 2015.
ContactBetty Adrian at (303) 202-4828 or by mail at U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, MS 975, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, or by email at [email protected] You may also find information about this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.
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