80 FR 44147 - Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Approval; Survey of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Habitat Conservation Bank Sponsors and Managers
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 142 (July 24, 2015)
Fish and Wildlife Service
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 142 (July 24, 2015)
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| FR Document | 2015-18080 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 142 (Friday, July 24, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 44147-44148] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-18080] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Fish and Wildlife Service [FWS-HQ-ES-2015-N143; FXES1112090000-134-FF09E31000] Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Approval; Survey of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Habitat Conservation Bank Sponsors and Managers AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice; request for comments. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) have sent an Information Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for review and approval. We summarize the ICR below and describe the nature of the collection and the estimated burden and cost. We 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. DATES: You must submit comments on or before August 24, 2015. ADDRESSES: Send your comments and suggestions on this information collection to the Desk Officer for the Department of the Interior at OMB-OIRA at (202) 395-5806 (fax) or [email protected] (email). Please provide a copy of your comments to the Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, MS BPHC, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041-3803 (mail), or [email protected] (email). Please include ``1018-Conservation Banking Survey'' in the subject line of your comments. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information about this ICR, contact Hope Grey at [email protected] (email) or 703- 358-2482 (telephone). You may review the ICR online at http://www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to review Department of the Interior collections under review by OMB. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Information Collection Request OMB Control Number: 1018--XXXX. Title: Survey of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Habitat Conservation Bank Sponsors and Managers. Service Form Number: None. Type of Request: Request for a new OMB control number. Description of Respondents: Sponsors and managers of conservation banks. Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary. Frequency of Collection: One time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Total annual Activity responses Completion time per response burden hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Initial Contact............................... 85 5 minutes....................... 7 Initial Invitation Email...................... 186 2 minutes....................... 6 Complete Survey 1............................. 72 10 minutes...................... 12 Complete Survey 2............................. 86 15 minutes...................... 22 [[Page 44148]] Reminder 1.................................... 102 1 minute........................ 2 Reminder 2.................................... 56 1 minute........................ 1 rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Totals.................................... 587 ................................ 50 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: None. Abstract: Conservation banks are permanently protected lands that contain natural resource values, which are conserved and permanently managed for species that are endangered or threatened, candidates for listing as endangered or threatened, or are otherwise species at risk. The habitat preserved, restored, or established in conservation banks is used to offset adverse impacts to species that occurred elsewhere. We approve habitat or species credits that bank owners may sell in exchange for permanently protecting and managing habitat for these species. We began approving conservation banks in the early 1990s, and 132 banks have been approved as of January 2015 (including approved and sold-out banks). The Service and the Department of the Interior's Office of Policy Analysis are conducting an analysis to identify potential institutional or other impediments to the habitat conservation banking program, and develop possible options for encouraging expanded use of the program. We plan to survey conservation bank sponsors and managers. The surveys will benefit the Service by helping to identify constraints in the current conservation banking program, and thus provide important information for developing recommendations for further expansion or perhaps changes to the program. We will survey leaders and managers from the entire sample of entities sponsoring conservation banks. Two surveys will be used to obtain information from a corporate or organizational point of view, as well as information about the operation of individual banks. We plan to collect: (1) Background information on the bank(s). (2) Information about experience with the conservation banking program. (3) Perceptions of technical and institutional obstacles encountered in the conservation banking program. (4) Perceptions of incentives that would help foster successful banks. Comments Received and Our Responses Comments: On May 15, 2013, we published in the Federal Register (78 FR 28619) a notice of our intent to request that OMB approve this information collection. In that notice, we solicited comments for 60 days, ending on July 15, 2013. We received one comment in response to that notice. The commenter objected to the survey, but did not address the information collection requirements. We did not make any changes to the survey. Request for Public Comments We again invite comments concerning this information collection on:Whether or not the collection of information is necessary, including whether or not the information will have practical utility; The accuracy of our estimate of the burden for this collection of information; 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 respondents. Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of public record. Before including your address, phone number, email address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment, including your personal identifying information, may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask OMB in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that it will be done. Dated: July 15, 2015. Tina A. Campbell, Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and Management Programs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. [FR Doc. 2015-18080 Filed 7-23-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310-55-P
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monitor agency compliance with 24 data information system, and input local government agencies applying to
CFR 115.307 and 24 CFR 115.308, complaint processing information into participate in the FHAP.
which set forth requirements for FHAP that system in a timely manner. Frequency/Burden: The Department
participation and reporting and record Respondents (i.e., affected public): estimates that requests for substantial
keeping requirements including, but not State and local government agencies equivalence will have the following
limited to, the requirement that FHAP participating in the Fair Housing
reporting burdens:
agencies use HUD’s official complaint Assistance Program as well State and
Number of Annual Hours per
× × = Burden hours
respondents responses response
Reporting Burden ..................................................................... 5 6 15 450
The Department estimates that performance will have the following
reporting information related to agency reporting burdens:
Number of Annual Hours per
× × = Burden hours
respondents responses response
REPORTING BURDEN ........................................................... 88 .... 33 .... 20 .... 58,080
Total Estimated Burden Hours: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
58,530. MS BPHC, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls
Fish and Wildlife Service Church, VA 22041–3803 (mail), or
B. Solicitation of Public Comment
[FWS–HQ–ES–2015–N143; hope_grey@fws.gov (email). Please
This notice is soliciting comments include ‘‘1018–Conservation Banking
FXES1112090000–134–FF09E31000]
from members of the public and affected Survey’’ in the subject line of your
parties concerning the collection of Information Collection Request Sent to comments.
information described in Section A on the Office of Management and Budget
the following: (OMB) for Approval; Survey of U.S. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
(1) Whether the proposed collection Fish and Wildlife Service Habitat request additional information about
of information is necessary for the Conservation Bank Sponsors and this ICR, contact Hope Grey at hope_
proper performance of the functions of Managers grey@fws.gov (email) or 703–358–2482
the agency, including whether the
(telephone). You may review the ICR
information will have practical utility; AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,
(2) The accuracy of the agency’s online at http://www.reginfo.gov. Follow
Interior.
estimate of the burden of the proposed the instructions to review Department of
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
collection of information; the Interior collections under review by
(3) Ways to enhance the quality, SUMMARY: We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife OMB.
utility, and clarity of the information to Service) have sent an Information SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
be collected; and Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for
(4) Ways to minimize the burden of review and approval. We summarize the Information Collection Request
the collection of information on those ICR below and describe the nature of the
who are to respond, including through collection and the estimated burden and OMB Control Number: 1018—XXXX.
the use of appropriate automated cost. We may not conduct or sponsor Title: Survey of U.S. Fish and Wildlife
collection techniques or other forms of and you are not required to respond to Service Habitat Conservation Bank
information technology, e.g., permitting a collection of information unless it Sponsors and Managers.
electronic submission of responses. displays a currently valid OMB control
HUD encourages interested parties to Service Form Number: None.
number.
submit comment in response to these Type of Request: Request for a new
DATES: You must submit comments on
questions. OMB control number.
or before August 24, 2015.
Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork ADDRESSES: Send your comments and
Description of Respondents: Sponsors
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35. and managers of conservation banks.
suggestions on this information
Dated: July 16, 2015. collection to the Desk Officer for the Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Colette Pollard, Department of the Interior at OMB– Frequency of Collection: One time.
Department Reports Management Officer, OIRA at (202) 395–5806 (fax) or OIRA_
Office of the Chief Information Officer. Submission@omb.eop.gov (email).
[FR Doc. 2015–18228 Filed 7–23–15; 8:45 am] Please provide a copy of your comments
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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P to the Information Collection Clearance
Number of Total annual
Activity Completion time per response
responses burden hours
Initial Contact ............................................................................................. 85 5 minutes ......................................... 7
Initial Invitation Email ................................................................................ 186 2 minutes ......................................... 6
Complete Survey 1 .................................................................................... 72 10 minutes ....................................... 12
Complete Survey 2 .................................................................................... 86 15 minutes ....................................... 22
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Number of Total annual
Activity Completion time per response
responses burden hours
Reminder 1 ................................................................................................ 102 1 minute ........................................... 2
Reminder 2 ................................................................................................ 56 1 minute ........................................... 1
Totals .................................................................................................. 587 .......................................................... 50
Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden request that OMB approve this ACTION: Notice.
Cost: None. information collection. In that notice,
Abstract: Conservation banks are we solicited comments for 60 days, SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and
permanently protected lands that ending on July 15, 2013. We received Wildlife Service, announce a joint
contain natural resource values, which one comment in response to that notice. meeting between the Trinity River
are conserved and permanently The commenter objected to the survey, Adaptive Management Working Group
managed for species that are endangered but did not address the information (TAMWG) and Trinity Management
or threatened, candidates for listing as collection requirements. We did not Council (TMC). The TAMWG is a
endangered or threatened, or are make any changes to the survey. Federal advisory committee that affords
otherwise species at risk. The habitat stakeholders the opportunity to give
Request for Public Comments
preserved, restored, or established in policy, management, and technical
conservation banks is used to offset We again invite comments concerning input concerning Trinity River
adverse impacts to species that occurred this information collection on: (California) restoration efforts to the
elsewhere. We approve habitat or • Whether or not the collection of TMC. The TMC interprets and
species credits that bank owners may information is necessary, including recommends policy, coordinates and
sell in exchange for permanently whether or not the information will reviews management actions, and
protecting and managing habitat for have practical utility; provides organizational budget
these species. We began approving • The accuracy of our estimate of the oversight.
conservation banks in the early 1990s, burden for this collection of
and 132 banks have been approved as of information; DATES: Public meeting: TAMWG and
January 2015 (including approved and • Ways to enhance the quality, utility, TMC will meet from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
sold-out banks). and clarity of the information to be Pacific time on Thursday, August 13,
The Service and the Department of collected; and 2015. Deadlines: For deadlines on
the Interior’s Office of Policy Analysis • Ways to minimize the burden of the submitting written material, please see
are conducting an analysis to identify collection of information on ‘‘Public Input’’ under SUPPLEMENTARY
potential institutional or other respondents. INFORMATION.
impediments to the habitat conservation Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
banking program, and develop possible
public record. Before including your the North Fork Grange Hall, Dutch
options for encouraging expanded use of
address, phone number, email address, Creek Road, Junction City, CA 96048.
the program. We plan to survey
conservation bank sponsors and or other personal identifying FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
managers. The surveys will benefit the information in your comment, you Elizabeth W. Hadley, Redding Electric
Service by helping to identify should be aware that your entire Utility, 777 Cypress Avenue, Redding,
constraints in the current conservation comment, including your personal CA 96001; telephone: 530–339–7327;
banking program, and thus provide identifying information, may be made email: ehadley@reupower.com or Joseph
important information for developing publicly available at any time. While C. Polos, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
recommendations for further expansion you can ask OMB in your comment to 1655 Heindon Road, Arcata, CA 95521;
or perhaps changes to the program. withhold your personal identifying telephone: 707–825–5149; email:
We will survey leaders and managers information from public review, we joe_polos@fws.gov. Individuals with a
from the entire sample of entities cannot guarantee that it will be done. disability may request an
sponsoring conservation banks. Two Dated: July 15, 2015. accommodation by sending an email to
surveys will be used to obtain Tina A. Campbell, the point of contact.
information from a corporate or Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
organizational point of view, as well as Management Programs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife accordance with the requirements of the
information about the operation of Service. Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5
individual banks. We plan to collect: [FR Doc. 2015–18080 Filed 7–23–15; 8:45 am]
(1) Background information on the U.S.C. App., we announce that the
bank(s).
BILLING CODE 4310–55–P TAMWG and the TMC will hold a joint
(2) Information about experience with meeting.
the conservation banking program. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Background
(3) Perceptions of technical and
The TAMWG affords stakeholders the
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institutional obstacles encountered in Fish and Wildlife Service
the conservation banking program. opportunity to give policy, management,
[FWS–R8–FHC–2015–N137; and technical input concerning Trinity
(4) Perceptions of incentives that
FXFR1334088TWG0W4–123–FF08EACT00] River (California) restoration efforts to
would help foster successful banks.
Trinity River Adaptive Management the TMC. The TMC interprets and
Comments Received and Our Responses recommends policy, coordinates and
Working Group; Public Meeting
Comments: On May 15, 2013, we reviews management actions, and
published in the Federal Register (78 AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, provides organizational budget
FR 28619) a notice of our intent to Interior. oversight.
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