80_FR_47664 80 FR 47512 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments: National Spatial Data Infrastructure Cooperative Agreements Program (NSDI CAP)

80 FR 47512 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments: National Spatial Data Infrastructure Cooperative Agreements Program (NSDI CAP)

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 152 (August 7, 2015)

Page Range47512-47513
FR Document2015-19384

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 152 (Friday, August 7, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 152 (Friday, August 7, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47512-47513]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-19384]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Geological Survey

[GX15EE000101000]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments: 
National Spatial Data Infrastructure Cooperative Agreements Program 
(NSDI CAP)

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

ACTION: Notice of a new information collection.

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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 October 6, 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, NSDI CAP in all correspondence.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brigitta Urban-Mathieux, Federal 
Geographic Data Committee Office of the Secretariat, U.S. Geological 
Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Mail Stop 590, Reston, VA 20192 
(mail); 703-648-5175 (phone); or burbanma@usgs.gov (email). You may 
also find information about this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    Respondents are submitting proposals to acquire funding for 
projects to help build the infrastructure necessary for the geospatial 
data community to effectively discover, access, share, manage, and use 
digital geographic data. The National Spatial Data Infrastructure 
(NSDI) consists of the technologies, policies, organizations, and 
people necessary to promote cost-effective production, and the ready 
availability and greater utilization of geospatial data among a variety 
of sectors, disciplines, and communities. Specific NSDI areas of 
emphasis include: Metadata

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documentation, clearinghouse establishment, geospatial data framework 
development, standards implementation, and geographic information 
system (GIS) organizational coordination.
    We will issue a request for proposal (RFP) via Grant.gov. The 
incoming proposals will be reviewed and scored based on the responses 
to the questions in the RFP. Responses are voluntary. No questions of a 
``sensitive'' nature are asked. We will protect information from 
respondents considered proprietary under the Freedom of Information Act 
(5 U.S.C. 552) and it's implementing regulations (43 CFR part 2), and 
under regulations at 30 CFR 250.197, ``Data and information to be made 
available to the public or for limited inspection.'' We intend to 
release the project abstracts and primary investigators for awarded/
funded projects only.

II. Data

    OMB Control Number: 1028--NEW.
    Form Number: NA
    Title: National Spatial Data Infrastructure Cooperative Agreements 
Program (NSDI CAP).
    Type of Request: New information collection.
    Affected Public: Private Sector; State, Local, and Tribal 
governments; Academia, and Non-profit organizations.
    Respondent's Obligation: None. Participation is voluntary.
    Frequency of Collection: This is an annual offer.
    Estimated Total Number of Annual Responses: 60
    Estimated Time per Response: 25 hours
    Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 1,500 hours.
    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.

Ivan DeLoatch,
Executive Director, Federal Geographic Data Committee, Core Science 
Systems.
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47512 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 152 / Friday, August 7, 2015 / Notices standardized forms for tracking plant observation records. In total, this will DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR and animal activity as part of a project result in 2,634,269 responses. called Nature’s Notebook. The Nature’s Estimated Time per Response: When Geological Survey Notebook forms are used to record joining the program, responders spend [GX15EE000101000] phenology (e.g., timing of leafing or 13 minutes each to register and read flowering of plants and reproduction or guidelines and 83 minutes to watch all Agency Information Collection migration of animals) as part of a training videos. After that responders Activities: Request for Comments: nationwide effort to understand and may spend about 2 minutes per record National Spatial Data Infrastructure predict how plants and animals respond to observe and submit phenophase Cooperative Agreements Program to environmental variation and changes status record. (NSDI CAP) in weather and climate. Contemporary data collected through Nature’s Estimated Annual Burden Hours: AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Notebook are quality-checked, described 89,871. Interior. and made publicly available; data are Estimated Reporting and ACTION: Notice of a new information used to inform decision-making in a Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’ collection. variety of contexts, including Burden: We estimate the total annual agriculture, drought monitoring, and non-hour cost burden to be $11,447. SUMMARY: We (the U.S. Geological wildfire risk assessment. Phenological This cost applies to new observers and Survey) will ask the Office of information is also critical for the includes material used to mark sites or Management and Budget (OMB) to management of wildlife, invasive plants during the first observation. approve the information collection (IC) species, and agricultural pests, and for Marking helps to ensure reporting described below. As required by the understanding and managing risks to consistency for future observations. Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of human health and welfare, including 1995, and as part of our continuing Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA efforts to reduce paperwork and allergies, asthma, and vector-borne (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an diseases. Participants may contribute respondent burden, we invite the agency may not conduct or sponsor and general public and other Federal phenology information to Nature’s you are not required to respond to a Notebook through a browser-based web agencies to take this opportunity to collection of information unless it comment on this IC. application or via mobile applications displays a currently valid OMB control for iPhone and Android operating DATES: To ensure that your comments number and current expiration date. systems, meeting GPEA requirements. are considered, we must receive them The web application interface consists III. Request for Comments on or before October 6, 2015. several components: User registration, a ADDRESSES: You may submit comments We are soliciting comments as to: (a) searchable list of 1,016 plant and animal on this information collection to the Whether the proposed collection of species which can be observed; a Information Collection Clearance information is necessary for the agency ‘‘profile’’ for each species that contains Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 to perform its duties, including whether information about the species including Sunrise Valley Drive MS 807, Reston, the information is useful; (b) the its description and the appropriate VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648–7197 (fax); accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the monitoring protocols; a series of or gs-info_collections@usgs.gov (email). burden of the proposed collection of interfaces for registering as an observer, Please reference ‘Information Collection information; (c) ways to enhance the registering a site, registering plants and 1028—NEW, NSDI CAP in all quality, usefulness, and clarity of the animals at a site, generating datasheets correspondence. information to be collected; and (d) how to take to the field, and a data entry page to minimize the burden on the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: that mimics the datasheets. respondents, including the use of Brigitta Urban-Mathieux, Federal II. Data automated collection techniques or Geographic Data Committee Office of other forms of information technology. the Secretariat, U.S. Geological Survey, OMB Control Number: 1028–0103. 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Mail Stop Form Number: Various (4 forms). Please note that the comments Title: USA National Phenology submitted in response to this notice are 590, Reston, VA 20192 (mail); 703–648– Network—The Nature’s Notebook Plant a matter of public record. Before 5175 (phone); or burbanma@usgs.gov and Animal Observing Program. including your personal mailing (email). You may also find information Type of Request: Notice of an address, phone number, email address, about this ICR at www.reginfo.gov. extension of a currently approved or other personally identifiable SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: information collection. information in your comment, you I. Abstract Affected Public: Members of the should be aware that your entire public, registered with Nature’s comment, including your personally Respondents are submitting proposals Notebook. identifiable information, may be made to acquire funding for projects to help Respondent’s Obligation: None. publicly available at any time. While build the infrastructure necessary for Participation is voluntary. you can ask us in your comment to the geospatial data community to Frequency of Collection: On occasion. withhold your personally identifiable effectively discover, access, share, During the Spring and Fall seasons information from public view, we manage, and use digital geographic data. when phenology is changing quickly, cannot guarantee that we will be able to The National Spatial Data Infrastructure we recommend respondents make do so. (NSDI) consists of the technologies, tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES observations twice per week. policies, organizations, and people Estimated Total Number of Annual Jake Weltzin, necessary to promote cost-effective Responses: We project that 6,478 Program Manager, Status & Trends Program production, and the ready availability responders will register with Nature’s and Executive Director, USA National and greater utilization of geospatial data Notebook, and of those 648 will watch Phenology Network. among a variety of sectors, disciplines, the training videos. The same 6,478 [FR Doc. 2015–19400 Filed 8–6–15; 8:45 am] and communities. Specific NSDI areas responders will contribute 2,627,155 BILLING CODE 4311–AM–P of emphasis include: Metadata VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:24 Aug 06, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00063 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\07AUN1.SGM 07AUN1

Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 152 / Friday, August 7, 2015 / Notices 47513 documentation, clearinghouse respondents, including the use of must file a notice that they wish to establishment, geospatial data automated collection techniques or protest with the Chief, Branch of framework development, standards other forms of information technology. Geographic Services. A statement of implementation, and geographic Please note that the comments reasons for a protest may be filed with information system (GIS) organizational submitted in response to this notice are the notice of protest and must be filed coordination. a matter of public record. Before with the Chief, Branch of Geographic We will issue a request for proposal including your personal mailing Services within thirty days after the (RFP) via Grant.gov. The incoming address, phone number, email address, protest is filed. If a protest against the proposals will be reviewed and scored or other personally identifiable survey is received prior to the date of based on the responses to the questions information in your comment, you official filing, the filing will be stayed in the RFP. Responses are voluntary. No should be aware that your entire pending consideration of the protest. A questions of a ‘‘sensitive’’ nature are comment, including your personally plat will not be officially filed until the asked. We will protect information from identifiable information, may be made publicly available at any time. While day after all protests have been respondents considered proprietary under the Freedom of Information Act you can ask us in your comment to dismissed or otherwise resolved. Before (5 U.S.C. 552) and it’s implementing withhold your personally identifiable including your address, phone number, regulations (43 CFR part 2), and under information from public view, we email address, or other personal regulations at 30 CFR 250.197, ‘‘Data cannot guarantee that we will be able to identifying information in your and information to be made available to do so. comment, you should be aware that the public or for limited inspection.’’ your entire comment—including your Ivan DeLoatch, personal identifying information—may We intend to release the project Executive Director, Federal Geographic Data be made publicly available at any time. abstracts and primary investigators for Committee, Core Science Systems. awarded/funded projects only. While you can ask us in your comment [FR Doc. 2015–19384 Filed 8–6–15; 8:45 am] to withhold your personal identifying II. Data BILLING CODE 4311–AM–P information from public review, we OMB Control Number: 1028—NEW. cannot guarantee that we will be able to Form Number: NA do so. Title: National Spatial Data DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Infrastructure Cooperative Agreements Humboldt Meridian, California Bureau of Land Management Program (NSDI CAP). T. 11 N., R. 3 E., supplemental plat of the Type of Request: New information [LLCA942000 L57000000.BX0000 13X L5017AR] S 1⁄2 of the SE 1⁄4 of section 7, accepted July collection. 29, 2015. Affected Public: Private Sector; State, Local, and Tribal governments; Filing of Plats of Survey: California Mount Diablo Meridian, California Academia, and Non-profit AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, T. 23 N., R. 13 W., metes-and-bounds organizations. Interior. survey of lots in section 36, accepted July 21, Respondent’s Obligation: None. ACTION: Notice. 2015. Participation is voluntary. T. 17 S., R. 8 E., dependent resurvey and Frequency of Collection: This is an SUMMARY: The plats of survey of lands subdivision of section 6, accepted July 28, annual offer. described below are scheduled to be 2015. Estimated Total Number of Annual officially filed in the Bureau of Land Responses: 60 Management, California State Office, San Bernardino Meridian, California Estimated Time per Response: 25 Sacramento, California. T. 9 N., R. 23 E., supplemental plat of the hours DATES: September 8, 2015. NW 1⁄4 of the NE 1⁄4 of section 31, accepted Estimated Annual Burden Hours: ADDRESSES: A copy of the plats may be July 14, 2015. 1,500 hours. obtained from the California State T. 9 S., R. 14 E., supplemental plat of the Estimated Reporting and Office, Bureau of Land Management, SW 1⁄4 of section 32, accepted July 15, 2015. Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’ 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, T. 2 N., R. 9 E., dependent resurvey and Burden: None. California 95825, upon required subdivision of section 34, accepted July 21, Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA payment. 2015. (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an Authority: 43 U.S.C., Chapter 3. agency may not conduct or sponsor and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: you are not required to respond to a Chief, Branch of Geographic Services, Dated: July 31, 2015. collection of information unless it Bureau of Land Management, California Lance J. Bishop, displays a currently valid OMB control State Office, 2800 Cottage Way W–1623, Chief Cadastral Surveyor, California. number and current expiration date. Sacramento, California 95825, (916) [FR Doc. 2015–19463 Filed 8–6–15; 8:45 am] 978–4310. Persons who use a III. Request for Comments telecommunications device for the deaf BILLING CODE 4310–40–P We are soliciting comments as to: (a) (TDD) may call the Federal Information Whether the proposed collection of Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–(800)–877– information is necessary for the agency 8339 to contact the above individual to perform its duties, including whether during normal business hours. The FIRS tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES the information is useful; (b) the is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the week, to leave a message or question burden of the proposed collection of with the above individual. You will information; (c) ways to enhance the receive a reply during normal business quality, usefulness, and clarity of the hours. information to be collected; and (d) how SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A person to minimize the burden on the or party who wishes to protest a survey VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:24 Aug 06, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00064 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 9990 E:\FR\FM\07AUN1.SGM 07AUN1


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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of a new information collection.
DatesTo ensure that your comments are considered, we must receive them on or before October 6, 2015.
ContactBrigitta Urban-Mathieux, Federal Geographic Data Committee Office of the Secretariat, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Mail Stop 590, Reston, VA 20192 (mail); 703-648-5175 (phone); or [email protected] (email). You may also find information about this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.
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