80_FR_43933 80 FR 43792 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments

80 FR 43792 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 141 (July 23, 2015)

Page Range43792-43793
FR Document2015-18057

We (the U.S. Geological Survey) will ask the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection (IC) described below. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, 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 IC.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 141 (Thursday, July 23, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 141 (Thursday, July 23, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43792-43793]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-18057]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

 Geological Survey

[GX15CC009UKWG00]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments

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

ACTION: Notice of a new information collection, State Water Use 
Cooperative Funding Application

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SUMMARY: We (the U.S. Geological Survey) will ask the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection (IC) 
described below. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 
1995, 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 IC.

DATES: To ensure that your comments are considered, we must receive 
them on or before September 21, 2015.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 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-
7197 (fax); or gs-info_collections@usgs.gov (email). Please reference 
`Information Collection 1028-NEW, `State Water Use Cooperative Funding 
Application' in all correspondence.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Melinda Dalton, USGS, at (678) 924-
6637 or msdalton@usgs.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    The USGS is working with State Water Resource agencies to operate a 
Water Use Data and Research program (WUDR). Section 9508 of the SECURE 
Water Act directs the Secretary of the Interior to administer grants to 
State water resource agencies to assist in developing water use and 
availability datasets that are integrated with each appropriate dataset 
developed or maintained by the Secretary or grants that integrate any 
water use or water availability dataset of the State water resource 
agency into each appropriate dataset developed or maintained by the 
Secretary. Responsibility for administration of this State Water Use 
Grants program has been delegated to the U.S. Geological Survey. State 
Water Use Grants will be used to improve the collection and reporting 
of water use categories by State agencies, including the inclusion of 
categories that have been discontinued in the past due to limited 
resources. The total authorized funding for the State Water Use Grants 
program is $12,500,000 for a period of five years.
    In FY15 grant funds will be awarded non-competitively, with all 50 
states receiving awards ($26,000 each) to develop workplans that 
outline priorities for use of grant funds, with the goal of States 
reporting, to the USGS, withdrawal and ancillary information for each 
major category of water use that improve national water withdrawal and 
consumptive use estimates. The USGS has developed a draft baseline 
standard table for all water use categories and will require that 
States identify current data collection levels (tiers) for each 
category as part of workplan development. States will be required to 
use these standards to identify categories for improvement in data 
collection and/or research activities that improve data estimation 
techniques nationally. For States that already meet the baseline 
standards, goals are provided in Tier 2 and 3 for additional data that 
would benefit national estimates and provide information for water 
availability studies by water managers, academia, federal, and or local 
agencies. In order to receive awards as part of the competitive process 
beginning in FY16, States must submit a completed workplan.
    Beginning in FY16 grant funds will be announced and awarded as part 
of a competitive process that will be guided, annually, by a technical 
committee whose members will include representatives from the 
stakeholder community as well as USGS. State Grant funds will be 
coordinated with a single agency in each State and the USGS is working, 
through the USGS Regional Water Use Specialists, to identify which 
agencies will be the lead contact in each State. Collaboration and 
coordination with USGS personnel will be required as part of the Grants 
program. Data must be stored electronically and made available at the 
HUC-8 and county level in formats appropriate for existing USGS 
databases. Additionally, methods used for data collection (estimated 
values, coefficients, etc.) and a description of data quality assurance 
and control will be required.

II. Data

    OMB Control Number: 1028-NEW.
    Title: State Water Use Cooperative Funding Application.
    Type of Request: New information collection.
    Affected Public: State water-resource agencies who collect water 
use data.

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    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory to be considered for funding.
    Frequency of Collection: Annually.
    Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 52.
    Estimated Total Number of Annual Responses: 52.
    Estimated Time per Response: 40 hours to prepare the proposal. This 
includes time to review the WUDR Guidance Document to understand the 
program design and requirements for data providers.
    Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 2080.
    Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-Hour Cost'' Burden: 
None.
    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 and current expiration date.

III. Request for Comments

    We are soliciting comments as to: (a) Whether the proposed 
collection of information is necessary for the agency to perform its 
duties, including whether the information is useful; (b) the accuracy 
of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of 
information; (c) ways 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 the 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 us in your 
comment to withhold your personally identifiable information from 
public view, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.

Sonya Jones,
Program Coordinator, Water Availability and Use Program.
[FR Doc. 2015-18057 Filed 7-22-15; 8:45 am]
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43792 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 141 / Thursday, July 23, 2015 / Notices Applicant: Washington Park Zoo, IN; DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR the inclusion of categories that have PRT–58205B been discontinued in the past due to Geological Survey limited resources. The total authorized The applicant requests a captive-bred funding for the State Water Use Grants [GX15CC009UKWG00] wildlife registration under 50 CFR program is $12,500,000 for a period of 17.21(g) for the following species to Agency Information Collection five years. enhance species propagation or Activities: Request for Comments In FY15 grant funds will be awarded survival: Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur non-competitively, with all 50 states catta) and Cottontop tamarin (Saguinus AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), receiving awards ($26,000 each) to oedipus). This notification covers Department of the Interior. develop workplans that outline activities to be conducted by the ACTION: Notice of a new information priorities for use of grant funds, with the applicant over a 5-year period. collection, State Water Use Cooperative goal of States reporting, to the USGS, Funding Application withdrawal and ancillary information Applicant: Sam Noble Oklahoma for each major category of water use that Museum of Natural History, Norman, SUMMARY: We (the U.S. Geological improve national water withdrawal and OK: PRT–075249 Survey) will ask the Office of consumptive use estimates. The USGS Management and Budget (OMB) to has developed a draft baseline standard The applicant requests renewal of approve the information collection (IC) table for all water use categories and their permit to export and reimport described below. As required by the will require that States identify current nonliving museum specimens of Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of data collection levels (tiers) for each endangered and threatened species 1995, and as part of our continuing category as part of workplan previously accessioned into the efforts to reduce paperwork and development. States will be required to applicant’s collection for scientific respondent burden, we invite the use these standards to identify research. This notification covers general public and other Federal categories for improvement in data activities to be conducted by the agencies to take this opportunity to collection and/or research activities that applicant over a 5-year period. comment on this IC. improve data estimation techniques DATES: To ensure that your comments nationally. For States that already meet Applicant: Timothy Twietmeyer, are considered, we must receive them the baseline standards, goals are Weston, FL; PRT–70086B on or before September 21, 2015. provided in Tier 2 and 3 for additional The applicant requests a permit to ADDRESSES: You may submit comments data that would benefit national import a sport-hunted trophy of one on this information collection to the estimates and provide information for Information Collection Clearance water availability studies by water male bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 managers, academia, federal, and or pygargus) culled from a captive herd Sunrise Valley Drive MS 807, Reston, local agencies. In order to receive maintained under the management awards as part of the competitive program of the Republic of South Africa, VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648–7197 (fax); or gs-info_collections@usgs.gov (email). process beginning in FY16, States must for the purpose of enhancement of the submit a completed workplan. survival of the species. Please reference ‘Information Collection 1028–NEW, ‘State Water Use Beginning in FY16 grant funds will be B. Endangered Marine Mammals and Cooperative Funding Application’ in all announced and awarded as part of a Marine Mammals correspondence. competitive process that will be guided, annually, by a technical committee FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Applicant: Melissa McKinney, Storrs, whose members will include Melinda Dalton, USGS, at (678) 924– CT; PRT–59633B representatives from the stakeholder 6637 or msdalton@usgs.gov. community as well as USGS. State Grant The applicant requests a permit to SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: funds will be coordinated with a single import and export wild walrus I. Abstract agency in each State and the USGS is (Odobenus rosmarus divergens), working, through the USGS Regional (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus), and The USGS is working with State Water Use Specialists, to identify which polar bear (Ursus maritimus) biological Water Resource agencies to operate a agencies will be the lead contact in each samples for the purpose of scientific Water Use Data and Research program State. Collaboration and coordination research. This notification covers (WUDR). Section 9508 of the SECURE with USGS personnel will be required Water Act directs the Secretary of the as part of the Grants program. Data must activities to be conducted by the Interior to administer grants to State be stored electronically and made applicant over a 5-year period. water resource agencies to assist in available at the HUC–8 and county level Concurrent with publishing this developing water use and availability notice in the Federal Register, we are in formats appropriate for existing datasets that are integrated with each USGS databases. Additionally, methods forwarding copies of the above appropriate dataset developed or used for data collection (estimated applications to the Marine Mammal maintained by the Secretary or grants values, coefficients, etc.) and a Commission and the Committee of that integrate any water use or water description of data quality assurance Scientific Advisors for their review. availability dataset of the State water and control will be required. resource agency into each appropriate Brenda Tapia, II. Data mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES dataset developed or maintained by the Program Analyst/Data Administrator, Branch Secretary. Responsibility for OMB Control Number: 1028–NEW. of Permits, Division of Management administration of this State Water Use Title: State Water Use Cooperative Authority. Grants program has been delegated to Funding Application. [FR Doc. 2015–18041 Filed 7–22–15; 8:45 am] the U.S. Geological Survey. State Water Type of Request: New information BILLING CODE 4310–55–P Use Grants will be used to improve the collection. collection and reporting of water use Affected Public: State water-resource categories by State agencies, including agencies who collect water use data. VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:39 Jul 22, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00088 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\23JYN1.SGM 23JYN1

Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 141 / Thursday, July 23, 2015 / Notices 43793 Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATES: August 24, 2015. to be considered for funding. Geological Survey ADDRESSES: A copy of the plats may be Frequency of Collection: Annually. obtained from the California State Estimated Annual Number of Scientific Earthquake Studies Advisory Office, Bureau of Land Management, Respondents: 52. Committee 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, Estimated Total Number of Annual California 95825, upon required AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey, payment. Responses: 52. Interior. Estimated Time per Response: 40 ACTION: Notice of meeting. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: hours to prepare the proposal. This Chief, Branch of Geographic Services, SUMMARY: Pursuant to Public Law 106– includes time to review the WUDR Bureau of Land Management, California 503, the Scientific Earthquake Studies Guidance Document to understand the State Office, 2800 Cottage Way W–1623, Advisory Committee (SESAC) will hold program design and requirements for Sacramento, California 95825, (916) its next meeting on September 1–2, data providers. 2015, in the Ernst & Young Gallery of 978–4310. Persons who use a the Fincher Building, Cox School of telecommunications device for the deaf Estimated Annual Burden Hours: Business, at the Southern Methodist (TDD) may call the Federal Information 2080. University in Dallas, Texas. The Relay Service (FIRS) at 1(800) 877–8339 Estimated Reporting and to contact the above individual during Committee is comprised of members Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’ normal business hours. The FIRS is from academia, industry, and State Burden: None. government. The Committee shall available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA advise the Director of the U.S. to leave a message or question with the (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an Geological Survey (USGS) on matters above individual. You will receive a agency may not conduct or sponsor and relating to the USGS’s participation in reply during normal business hours. you are not required to respond to a the National Earthquake Hazards SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A person collection of information unless it Reduction Program. or party who wishes to protest a survey displays a currently valid OMB control The Committee will review the must file a notice that they wish to number and current expiration date. research and monitoring activities protest with the Chief, Branch of supported by the USGS Earthquake III. Request for Comments Geographic Services. A statement of Hazards Program that are focused on the reasons for a protest may be filed with Central and Eastern U.S. We are soliciting comments as to: (a) Meetings of the Scientific Earthquake the notice of protest and must be filed Whether the proposed collection of Studies Advisory Committee are open to with the Chief, Branch of Geographic information is necessary for the agency the public. Services within thirty days after the to perform its duties, including whether DATES: September 1–2, 2015, protest is filed. If a protest against the the information is useful; (b) the commencing at 9:00am on the first day survey is received prior to the date of accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the and adjourning at 5:00pm and official filing, the filing will be stayed burden of the proposed collection of commencing at 9:00am and adjourning pending consideration of the protest. A information; (c) ways to enhance the by 1:00pm on September 2, 2015. plat will not be officially filed until the quality, usefulness, and clarity of the Contact: Dr. William Leith, U.S. day after all protests have been information to be collected; and (d) how Geological Survey, MS 905, 12201 dismissed or otherwise resolved. Before to minimize the burden on the Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, Virginia including your address, phone number, respondents, including the use of 20192, (703) 648–6786, wleith@ email address, or other personal automated collection techniques or usgs.gov. identifying information in your other forms of information technology. Billing Code: GX15GG00995TR00. comment, you should be aware that your entire comment—including your Please note that the comments William Leith, personal identifying information—may submitted in response to this notice are Senior Science Advisor for Earthquake and be made publicly available at any time. a matter of public record. Before Geologic Hazards. While you can ask us in your comment including your personal mailing [FR Doc. 2015–18066 Filed 7–22–15; 8:45 am] to withhold your personal identifying address, phone number, email address, BILLING CODE P information from public review, we or other personally identifiable cannot guarantee that we will be able to information in your comment, you do so. should be aware that your entire DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR comment, including your personally Mount Diablo Meridian, California Bureau of Land Management identifiable information, may be made T. 18 N., R. 14 W., subdivision and publicly available at any time. While [LLCA942000 L57000000.BX0000 13X L5017AR] survey, accepted June 15, 2015. you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personally identifiable T. 1 S., R. 19 E., supplemental plat, Filing of Plats of Survey: California accepted June 25, 2015. information from public view, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, T. 23 N., R. 13 W., dependent mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES do so. Interior. resurvey and survey, accepted July 13, ACTION: Notice. 2015. Sonya Jones, Program Coordinator, Water Availability and SUMMARY: The plats of survey of lands San Bernardino Meridian, California Use Program. described below are scheduled to be officially filed in the Bureau of Land T. 2 N., R. 2 W., dependent resurvey [FR Doc. 2015–18057 Filed 7–22–15; 8:45 am] Management, California State Office, and survey, accepted June 15, 2015. BILLING CODE 4311–AM–P Sacramento, California. Authority: 43 U.S.C., Chapter 3. 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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 a new information collection, State Water Use Cooperative Funding Application
DatesTo ensure that your comments are considered, we must receive them on or before September 21, 2015.
ContactMelinda Dalton, USGS, at (678) 924- 6637 or [email protected]
FR Citation80 FR 43792 
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