80 FR 50021 - Proposed Information Collection; Control and Management of Resident Canada Geese
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 159 (August 18, 2015)
Fish and Wildlife Service
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 159 (August 18, 2015)
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[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 159 (Tuesday, August 18, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 50021-50023] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-20335] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Fish and Wildlife Service [FWS-HQ-MB-2015-N159; FF09M21200-156- FXMB1231099BPP0] Proposed Information Collection; Control and Management of Resident Canada Geese AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice; request for comments. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) will ask the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection (IC) described below. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act 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. This IC is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2015. We may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. DATES: To ensure that we are able to consider your comments on this IC, we must receive them by October 19, 2015. ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the IC to the Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, MS BPHC, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041-3803 (mail); or hope_grey@fws.gov (email). Please include ``1018-0133'' in the subject line of your comments. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information about this IC, contact Hope Grey at hope_grey@fws.gov (email) or 703- 358-2482 (telephone). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Abstract The Migratory Bird Treaty Act prohibits the take, possession, import, export, transport, sale, purchase, or bartering of migratory birds or their parts except as permitted under the terms of a valid permit or as permitted by regulations. In 2006, we issued regulations establishing two depredation orders and three control orders that allow State and tribal wildlife agencies, private landowners, and airports to conduct resident Canada goose population management, including the take of birds. We monitor the data collected for activities under these orders and may rescind an order if monitoring indicates that activities are [[Page 50022]] inconsistent with conservation of Canada geese. Control order for airports. 50 CFR 21.49 allows managers at commercial, public, and private airports and military airfields and their employees or agents to implement management of resident Canada geese to resolve or prevent threats to public safety. An airport must be part of the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems and have received Federal grant-in-aid assistance or be a military airfield under the jurisdiction, custody, or control of the Secretary of a military department. Each facility exercising the privileges of the order must submit an annual report with the date, numbers, and locations of birds, nests, and eggs taken. Depredation order for nests and eggs. 50 CFR 21.50 allows private landowners and managers of public lands to destroy resident Canada goose nests and eggs on property under their jurisdiction, provided they register annually on our Web site at https://epermits.fws.gov/eRCGR. Registrants must provide basic information, such as name, address, phone number, and email, and identify where the control work will occur and who will conduct it. Registrants must return to the Web site to report the number of nests with eggs they destroyed. Depredation order for agricultural facilities. 50 CFR 21.51 allows States and tribes, via their wildlife agencies, to implement programs to allow landowners, operators, and tenants actively engaged in commercial agriculture to conduct damage management control when geese are committing depredations or to resolve or prevent other injury to agricultural interests. State and tribal wildlife agencies in the Atlantic, Central, and Mississippi Flyway portions of 41 States may implement the provisions of the order. Each implementing agricultural producer must maintain a log of the date and number of birds taken under this authorization. Each State and tribe exercising the privileges of the order must submit an annual report of the numbers of birds, nests, and eggs taken, and the county or counties where take occurred. Public health control order. 50 CFR 21.52 authorizes States and tribes of the lower 48 States to conduct (via the State or tribal wildlife agency) resident Canada goose control and management activities when the geese pose a direct threat to human health. States and tribes operating under this order must submit an annual report summarizing activities, including the numbers of birds taken and the county where take occurred. Population control. 50 CFR 21.61 establishes a managed take program to reduce and stabilize resident Canada goose populations when traditional and otherwise authorized management measures are not successful or feasible. A State or tribal wildlife agency in the Atlantic, Mississippi, or Central Flyway may request approval for this population control program. If approved, the State or tribe may use hunters to harvest resident Canada geese during the month of August. Requests for approval must include a discussion of the State's or tribe's efforts to address its injurious situations using other methods, or a discussion of the reasons why the methods are not feasible. If the Service Director approves a request, the State or tribe must (1) keep annual records of activities carried out under the authority of the program, and (2) provide an annual summary, including number of individuals participating in the program and the number of resident Canada geese shot. Additionally, participating States and tribes must monitor the spring breeding population by providing an annual estimate of the breeding population and distribution of resident Canada geese in their State. Regulations at 50 CFR 21.49, 21.50, 21.51, and 21.52 require that persons or entities operating under the depredation and control orders must immediately report the take of any species protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This information ensures that the incidental take limits authorized under Section 7 of the ESA are not exceeded. II. Data OMB Control Number: 1018-0133. Title: Control and Management of Resident Canada Geese, 50 CFR 20.21, 21.49, 21.50, 21.51, 21.52, and 21.61. Service Form Number: None. Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection. Description of Respondents: State fish and wildlife agencies, tribes, and local governments; airports; landowners; and farms. Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit. Frequency of Collection: Annually. Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: None. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Number of Completion time per Total annual Activity respondents responses response burden hours * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21.49--Airport Control Order-- 50 50 1.5 hours........... 76 Annual Report. 21.50--Nest and Egg Depredation 1,000 1,000 30 minutes.......... 500 Order--Initial Registration. 21.50--Nest and Egg Depredation 3,000 3,000 15 minutes.......... 751 Order--Renew Registration. 21.50--Nest and Egg Depredation 4,000 4,000 15 minutes.......... 1,000 Order--Annual Report. 21.51--Agricultural Depredation 600 600 30 minutes.......... 300 Order--Recordkeeping. 21.51--Agricultural Depredation 20 20 8 hours............. 160 Order--Annual Report. 21.52--Public Health Control 20 20 1 hour.............. 20 Order--Annual Report. 21.49, 21.50, 21.51, and 21.52-- 2 2 15 minutes.......... 1 Report Take of Endangered Species. 21.61--Population Control 8 8 24 hours............ 192 Approval Request--Recordkeeping and Annual Report. 21.61--Population Control 8 8 160 hours........... 1,280 Approval Request--Population Estimates. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Totals....................... 8,708 8,708 .................... 4,280 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Rounded. III. Comments We 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 [[Page 50023]] 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. We will include or summarize each comment in our request to OMB to approve this IC. 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 us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. Dated: August 13, 2015. Tina A. Campbell, Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and Management Programs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. [FR Doc. 2015-20335 Filed 8-17-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310-55-P
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SUMMARY: U.S. Customs and Border entry and exit system capable of DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Protection (CBP) of the Department of improving the information resources
Homeland Security will be submitting available to immigration and border Fish and Wildlife Service
the following information collection management decision-makers. These
request to the Office of Management and biometrics include: Digital fingerprint [FWS–HQ–MB–2015–N159; FF09M21200–
Budget (OMB) for review and approval scans, photographs, facial images and 156– FXMB1231099BPP0]
in accordance with the Paperwork iris images, or other biometric
Reduction Act: Biometric Identity. CBP identifiers. Biometrics are collected Proposed Information Collection;
is proposing that this information from those aliens specified in 8 CFR Control and Management of Resident
collection be extended with a change to 215.8 and 8 CFR 235.1(f). Non-exempt, Canada Geese
the burden hours but no change to the non-U.S. citizens will have their facial AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,
information collected. This document is and iris images captured upon entry to Interior.
published to obtain comments from the and exit from the United States. The
public and affected agencies. ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
information collected is used to provide
DATES: Written comments should be assurance of identity and determine SUMMARY: We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife
received on or before October 19, 2015 admissibility of those seeking entry into Service) will ask the Office of
to be assured of consideration. the United States. Management and Budget (OMB) to
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be The federal statutes that mandate DHS approve the information collection (IC)
mailed to U.S. Customs and Border to create a biometric entry and exit described below. As required by the
Protection, Attn: Tracey Denning, system include: Section 2(a) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and
Regulations and Rulings, Office of Immigration and Naturalization Service as part of our continuing efforts to
International Trade, 90 K Street NE., Data Management Improvement Act of reduce paperwork and respondent
10th Floor, Washington, DC 20229– 2000 (DMIA), Public Law 106–215, 114 burden, we invite the general public and
1177. Stat. 337 (2000); Section 205 of the Visa other Federal agencies to take this
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Waiver Permanent Program Act of 2000, opportunity to comment on this IC. This
Requests for additional information Public Law 106–396, 114 Stat. 1637, IC is scheduled to expire on December
should be directed to Tracey Denning, 1641 (2000); Section 414 of the Uniting 31, 2015. We may not conduct or
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Strengthening America by sponsor and a person is not required to
Regulations and Rulings, Office of Providing Appropriate Tools Required respond to a collection of information
International Trade, 90 K Street NE., to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act unless it displays a currently valid OMB
10th Floor, Washington, DC 20229– of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act), Public control number.
1177, at 202–325–0265. Law 107–56, 115 Stat. 272, 353 (2001); DATES: To ensure that we are able to
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CBP Section 302 of the Enhanced Border consider your comments on this IC, we
invites the general public and other Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of must receive them by October 19, 2015.
Federal agencies to comment on 2002 (Border Security Act), Public Law
ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the
proposed and/or continuing information 107–173, 116 Stat. 543, 552, (2002);
IC to the Information Collection
collections pursuant to the Paperwork Section 7208 of the Intelligence Reform
Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13). and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004
Wildlife Service, MS BPHC, 5275
The comments should address: (a) (IRTPA), Public Law 108–458, 118 Stat.
Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041–
Whether the collection of information is 3638, 3817 (2004); and Section 711 of
3803 (mail); or hope_grey@fws.gov
necessary for the proper performance of the Implementing Recommendations of
(email). Please include ‘‘1018–0133’’ in
the functions of the agency, including the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007,
the subject line of your comments.
whether the information shall have Public Law 110–52, 121 Stat. 266
(2007). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
request additional information about
agency’s estimates of the burden of the Current Actions: This submission is this IC, contact Hope Grey at hope_
collection of information; (c) ways to being made to extend the expiration grey@fws.gov (email) or 703–358–2482
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity date with a change to the burden hours (telephone).
of the information to be collected; (d) based on most recent estimates for the
ways to minimize the burden including annual number of responses. There are SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
the use of automated collection no changes to the information being I. Abstract
techniques or the use of other forms of collected.
information technology; and (e) the The Migratory Bird Treaty Act
Type of Review: Extension (with
annual cost burden to respondents or prohibits the take, possession, import,
change).
record keepers from the collection of export, transport, sale, purchase, or
Affected Public: Individuals. bartering of migratory birds or their
information (total capital/startup costs
and operations and maintenance costs). Estimated Number of Respondents: parts except as permitted under the
The comments that are submitted will 113,200,000. terms of a valid permit or as permitted
be summarized and included in the CBP Estimated Time per Respondent: by regulations. In 2006, we issued
request for OMB approval. All .0097 hours. regulations establishing two
depredation orders and three control
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comments will become a matter of Estimated Total Annual Burden
public record. In this document, CBP is Hours: 1,098,040. orders that allow State and tribal
soliciting comments concerning the wildlife agencies, private landowners,
Dated: August 12, 2015. and airports to conduct resident Canada
following information collection:
Title: Biometric Identity. Tracey Denning, goose population management,
OMB Number: 1651–0138. Agency Clearance Officer, U.S. Customs and including the take of birds. We monitor
Abstract: In order to enhance national Border Protection. the data collected for activities under
security, the Department of Homeland [FR Doc. 2015–20400 Filed 8–17–15; 8:45 am] these orders and may rescind an order
Security developed a biometric based BILLING CODE 9111–14–P if monitoring indicates that activities are
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• Ways to minimize the burden of the inform people of opportunities to EPA’s Role in the EIS Process
collection of information on provide comments. The EPA is charged under Section 309
respondents. ADDRESSES: Send your comments or of the Clean Air Act to review all
Comments that you submit in requests for more information by any Federal agencies’ EISs and to comment
response to this notice are a matter of one of the following methods: on the adequacy and the acceptability of
public record. We will include or • Electronically via the Federal the environmental impacts of proposed
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to OMB to approve this IC. Before www.regulations.gov. In the ‘‘Search’’ EPA also serves as the repository (EIS
including your address, phone number, box, commenters will enter the docket database) for EISs prepared by Federal
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comment, you should be aware that submitted by clicking on ‘‘Comment EIS database provides information about
your entire comment, including your Now!’’ Attachments can be made to the EISs prepared by Federal agencies, as
personal identifying information, may electronic comment form. well as EPA’s comments concerning the
be made publicly available at any time. • By hard copy via U.S. mail or hand- EISs. All EISs are filed with EPA, which
While you can ask us in your comment delivery to: Public Comments publishes a notice of availability on
to withhold your personal identifying Processing, Attn: FWS–R5–NWRS– Fridays in the Federal Register. For
information from public review, we 2015–0036; U.S. Fish and Wildlife more information, see http://
cannot guarantee that we will be able to Service; MS BPHC; 5275 Leesburg Pike, www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/
do so. Falls Church, VA 22041–3803. eisdata.html. You may search for EPA
Dated: August 13, 2015. • Via oral public testimony at one of comments on EISs, along with EISs
Tina A. Campbell, the four public hearings that will be themselves, at https://
Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and scheduled. cdxnodengn.epa.gov/cdx-enepa-public/
Management Programs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife All comments will be posted to action/eis/search.
Service. http://www.regulations.gov and will be Background
[FR Doc. 2015–20335 Filed 8–17–15; 8:45 am] available for public viewing. This
BILLING CODE 4310–55–P generally means that any personal The National Wildlife Refuge System
information you provide us will be Administration Act of 1966,
posted with the comment. (Administration Act), as amended by
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR You will find the draft CCP/EIS, as the National Wildlife Refuge System
well as information about the planning Improvement Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C.
Fish and Wildlife Service process and a summary of the CCP, on 668dd–668ee), requires us to develop a
the planning Web site at http:// CCP for each national wildlife refuge.
[FWS–R5–NWRS–2015–0036; BAC–4311–
www.fws.gov/refuge/Silvio_O_Conte/ The purpose of a CCP is to provide
K9–S3]
what_we_do/conservation.html. To view refuge managers with a 15-year strategy
Silvio O. Conte National Fish and comments on the CCP/EIS from the for achieving refuge purposes and
Wildlife Refuge; Draft Comprehensive Environmental Protection Agency contributing toward the mission of the
Conservation Plan and Environmental (EPA), or for information on EPA’s role National Wildlife Refuge System
Impact Statement in the EIS process, see EPA’s Role in the (NWRS), consistent with sound
EIS Process under SUPPLEMENTARY principles of fish and wildlife
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, management, conservation, legal
INFORMATION.
Interior. mandates, and Service policies. In
ACTION: Notice of availability; request FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: addition to outlining broad management
for comments. Nancy McGarigal, Planning Team direction on conserving wildlife and
Leader, phone: 413–253–8562; Email: their habitats, CCPs identify wildlife-
SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and nancy_mcgarigal@fws.gov. Please dependent recreational opportunities
Wildlife Service (Service), announce the include ‘‘Conte Refuge Draft CCP/EIS’’ available to the public, including
availability of a draft comprehensive in the subject line of the message. opportunities for hunting, fishing,
conservation plan (CCP) and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: wildlife observation and photography,
environmental impact statement (EIS) and environmental education and
for Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Introduction
interpretation. We will review and
Wildlife Refuge (Conte NFWR) for With this notice, we continue the CCP update the CCP at least every 15 years
public review and comment. In this process for Conte NFWR, which we in accordance with the Administration
draft CCP/EIS, we describe how we began by publishing a notice of intent in Act.
propose to manage Conte NFWR over the Federal Register (71 FR 62006) on Each unit of the NWRS was
the next 15 years. October 20, 2006. For more information established for specific purposes. We
DATES: To ensure consideration, we about the initial process and the history use these purposes as the foundation for
must receive your written comments by of this refuge, please see that notice. In developing and prioritizing the
November 16, 2015. We will hold addition, EPA is publishing a notice management goals and objectives for
informal public information meetings announcing the availability of the draft each refuge within the NWRS mission,
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during the comment period to provide CCP/EIS, as required under Section 309 and to determine how the public can
information and answer questions on of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et use each refuge. The planning process is
the draft plan. We will also hold four seq.). The publication of EPA’s notice of a way for us and the public to evaluate
public hearings during the comment availability is the official start of the management goals and objectives that
period to take oral comments. In minimum requirement for a 45-day will ensure the best possible approach
addition, we will use special mailings, public comment period. We have to wildlife, plant, and habitat
newspaper articles, internet postings, chosen to distribute this draft CCP/EIS conservation, while providing for
and other media announcements to for a 90-day public comment period. wildlife-dependent recreation
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