80_FR_54483 80 FR 54309 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments

80 FR 54309 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 174 (September 9, 2015)

Page Range54309-54310
FR Document2015-22642

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 174 (Wednesday, September 9, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 174 (Wednesday, September 9, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54309-54310]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-22642]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

U.S. Geological Survey

[GX155EE000101000]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments

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

ACTION: Notice of a new information collection, Doug D. Nebert NSDI 
Champion of the Year Award.

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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 November 9, 2015.

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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, Doug D. Nebert NSDI Champion of the 
Year Award'' in all correspondence.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brigitta Urban-Mathieux, Federal 
Geographic Data Committee Office of the Secretariat, U.S. Geological 
Survey, at (703) 648-5175 or burbanma@usgs.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract

    The Doug D. Nebert NSDI Champion of the Year Award honors a 
respected colleague, technical visionary, and recognized national 
leader in the establishment of spatial data infrastructures that 
significantly enhance the understanding of our physical and cultural 
world. The award is sponsored by the Federal Geographic Data Committee 
(FGDC) and its purpose is to recognize an individual or a team 
representing Federal, State, Tribal, regional, and (or) local 
government, academia, or non-profit and professional organization that 
has developed an outstanding, innovative, and operational tool, 
application, or service capability used by multiple organizations that 
furthers the vision of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI).
    National nominations are accepted from the public and private 
sector individuals, teams, organizations, and professional societies. 
Nomination packages include three sections: (A) Cover Sheet, (B) 
Summary Statement, and (C) Supplemental Materials. The cover sheet 
includes professional contact information. The Summary Statement is 
limited to two pages and describes the nominee's achievements in the 
development of an outstanding, innovative, and operational tool, 
application, or service capability that directly supports the spatial 
data infrastructures. Nominations may include up to 10 pages of 
supplemental information such as resume, publications list, and/or 
letters of endorsement. The award consists of a citation and plaque, 
which are presented to the recipient at an appropriate public forum by 
the FGDC Chair. The name of the recipient is also inscribed on a 
permanent plaque, which are displayed by the FGDC.

II. Data

    OMB Control Number: 1028--NEW.
    Title: Doug D. Nebert NSDI Champion of the Year Award.
    Type of Request: New information collection.
    Affected Public: Personnel from Federal, State, Local, and Tribal 
governments; Private Sector; Academia; and Non-profit organizations.
    Respondent's Obligation: None. Participation is voluntary.
    Frequency of Collection: This is an annual offer.
    Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 10.
    Estimated Total Number of Annual Responses: 10.
    Estimated Time per Response: 10 hours.
    Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 100 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.
[FR Doc. 2015-22642 Filed 9-8-15; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 174 / Wednesday, September 9, 2015 / Notices 54309 improvement of the status of listed The Technical/Agency Draft Recovery will allow monitoring of recruitment species to the point at which listing is Plan for the Dusky Gopher Frog was events and other population attributes no longer needed under any criteria developed by the Dusky Gopher Frog in a species that has been characterized specified in section 4(a)(1) of the Act. Recovery Team and our Mississippi by highly variable reproductive and To help guide the recovery effort, we Field Office. This draft plan was survival rates. In each of at least two prepare recovery plans for most listed published on September 10, 2014, and annual breeding events within a 3-year species. Recovery plans describe actions made available for public comment period, a total of 30 egg masses per considered necessary for conservation of through November 10, 2014 (79 FR metapopulation must be documented the species, establish criteria for 53728). and recruitment must be verified. downlisting or delisting, and estimate We received public comments on our 3. Breeding and adjacent upland time and cost for implementing recovery draft recovery plan and incorporated habitats within the six metapopulations measures. The Act requires the them into the final plan, as appropriate. are protected long term through development of recovery plans for listed We also considered the information we management agreements, public species, unless such a plan would not received from peer reviewers in our ownership, or other means, in sufficient promote the conservation of a particular preparation and approval of this final quantity and quality (to be determined species. recovery plan. by recovery task) to support growing The Service listed the Mississippi Recovery Plan Components populations. gopher frog (Rana capito sevosa) under 4. Studies of the dusky gopher frog’s the Act, as an endangered distinct The Service’s recovery objectives are biological and ecological requirements vertebrate population segment (DPS) of to work to reduce threats so that the are completed, and any required the gopher frog (Rana capito) on dusky gopher frog may be downlisted to recovery measures discovered during December 4, 2001 (66 FR 62993). On threatened status. Defining reasonable these studies are developed and June 12, 2012, we published a final rule delisting criteria is not possible at this implemented. (77 FR 35118) designating critical time, given the current low number of * Information defining what habitat for this listed entity, changing its populations and individuals, lack of constitutes a viable metapopulation can status to ‘‘species,’’ and changing its information about the species’ biology, be found in the Service’s final recovery name to dusky gopher frog (Rana and magnitude of threats. Therefore, plan. sevosa) based on taxonomic changes this recovery plan only establishes downlisting criteria for the dusky Authority and the acceptance of these changes by the herpetological scientific community. gopher frog. The authority for this action is section Downlisting of the dusky gopher frog 4(f) of the Endangered Species Act, 16 The frog’s current distribution is will be considered when: U.S.C. 1533 (f). restricted to the State of Mississippi. At 1. Six viable metapopulations* are the time of listing, only one population documented within blocks of recovery Dated: July 24, 2015. of the species was known. focus areas (described in Section II of Cynthia K. Dohner, Subsequently, two other naturally the recovery plan) and are widely Regional Director, Southeast Region. occurring populations were discovered. distributed across the range of the [FR Doc. 2015–22733 Filed 9–8–15; 8:45 am] One additional dusky gopher frog species. The six metapopulations would BILLING CODE 4310–55–P population has been established in include a minimum of 12 breeding Mississippi as a result of translocation ponds and would be distributed as experiments. Presently, we estimate that follows: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR a minimum of 135 individual adult a. One metapopulation in Block #1 frogs survive in the wild, the vast (Louisiana: Portions of St. Tammany, U.S. Geological Survey majority of which occur in the original Tangipahoa, and Washington Parishes, [GX155EE000101000] population known at the time of listing. west to the Tangipahoa River); Principal threats to the dusky gopher b. Two metapopulations each in Block Agency Information Collection frog include degradation and #2 (South-Central Mississippi: North of Activities: Request for Comments destruction of breeding and State Hwy. 26, between the Pearl and nonbreeding habitat, habitat Pascagoula Rivers; Forrest County and AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), fragmentation, and alteration of portions of Lamar, Pearl River, Perry, Interior. hydrological patterns due to and Stone Counties) and Block #3 ACTION: Notice of a new information urbanization and climate change. (South Mississippi: South of Hwy. 26, collection, Doug D. Nebert NSDI Additional threats include the restricted between the Pearl and Pascagoula Champion of the Year Award. range of the dusky gopher frog, its small Rivers; Hancock and Harrison Counties, number of populations, and disease. All and portions of Jackson, George, Pearl SUMMARY: We (the U.S. Geological these factors act to increase the River, and Stone Counties); and Survey) will ask the Office of vulnerability of the species to a single c. One metapopulation in either Block Management and Budget (OMB) to catastrophic event and to the deleterious #4 (Eastern Mississippi: East of approve the information collection (IC) effects of genetic inbreeding. Pascagoula/Leaf Rivers; portions of described below. As required by the George, Greene, Jackson, and Wayne Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of Recovery Plan 1995, and as part of our continuing Counties) or Block #5 (Alabama: West of Section 4(f) of the Act requires us to the Mobile River Delta; Mobile and efforts to reduce paperwork and Lhorne on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with NOTICES provide public notice and an Washington Counties, small portion of respondent burden, we invite the opportunity for public review and Choctaw County). general public and other Federal comment prior to final approval of 2. Long-term monitoring (at least 10 agencies to take this opportunity to recovery plans. We and other Federal years) of each metapopulation is able to comment on this IC. agencies will take these comments into document population viability (viability DATES: To ensure that your comments account in the course of implementing standard to be defined through a are considered, we must receive them approved recovery plans. recovery task). 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54310 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 174 / Wednesday, September 9, 2015 / Notices ADDRESSES: You may submit comments II. Data cannot guarantee that we will be able to on this information collection to the do so. Information Collection Clearance OMB Control Number: 1028—NEW. Ivan DeLoatch, Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Title: Doug D. Nebert NSDI Champion Executive Director, Federal Geographic Data Sunrise Valley Drive MS 807, Reston, of the Year Award. Committee, Core Science Systems. VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648–7197 (fax); Type of Request: New information [FR Doc. 2015–22642 Filed 9–8–15; 8:45 am] or gs-info_collections@usgs.gov (email). collection. BILLING CODE 4311–AM–P Please reference ‘‘Information Collection 1028—NEW, Doug D. Nebert NSDI Affected Public: Personnel from Champion of the Year Award’’ in all Federal, State, Local, and Tribal governments; Private Sector; Academia; DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR correspondence. and Non-profit organizations. Bureau of Indian Affairs FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Respondent’s Obligation: None. Brigitta Urban-Mathieux, Federal Participation is voluntary. [156A2100DD/AAKC001030/ Geographic Data Committee Office of A0A501010.999900 253G] the Secretariat, U.S. Geological Survey, Frequency of Collection: This is an at (703) 648–5175 or burbanma@ annual offer. Pueblo of Santa Ana Title 10— usgs.gov. Estimated Annual Number of Licensing & Regulation, Chapter 1— Respondents: 10. Liquor Code (Chapter) SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Estimated Total Number of Annual AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, I. Abstract Responses: 10. Interior. The Doug D. Nebert NSDI Champion Estimated Time per Response: 10 ACTION: Notice. of the Year Award honors a respected hours. colleague, technical visionary, and Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 100 SUMMARY: This notice publishes the recognized national leader in the hours. amendment to the Pueblo of Santa Ana’s establishment of spatial data Title 10—Licensing & Regulation, Estimated Reporting and Chapter 1—Liquor Code (Chapter). This infrastructures that significantly Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’ enhance the understanding of our Chapter amends the existing Chapter Burden: None. 1—Liquor Code, Section 126, enacted by physical and cultural world. The award is sponsored by the Federal Geographic Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA the Pueblo of Santa Ana Tribal Council, Data Committee (FGDC) and its purpose (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an which was published in the Federal is to recognize an individual or a team agency may not conduct or sponsor and Register on April 7, 2006 (71 FR 17903). representing Federal, State, Tribal, you are not required to respond to a DATES: Effective Date: This code shall regional, and (or) local government, collection of information unless it become effective on October 9, 2015. academia, or non-profit and professional displays a currently valid OMB control FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. organization that has developed an number and current expiration date. Patricia Mattingly, Tribal Government outstanding, innovative, and operational Services Officer, Southwest Regional III. Request for Comments tool, application, or service capability Office, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1001 used by multiple organizations that We are soliciting comments as to: (a) Indian School Road NW., Albuquerque, furthers the vision of the National Whether the proposed collection of NM 87104–2303, Phone: (505) 536– Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). information is necessary for the agency 3100; Fax: (505) 563–3101: or Ms. National nominations are accepted to perform its duties, including whether Laurel Iron Cloud, Chief, Division of from the public and private sector the information is useful; (b) the Tribal Government Services, Office of individuals, teams, organizations, and accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the Indian Services, Bureau of Indian professional societies. Nomination burden of the proposed collection of Affairs, 1849 C Street NW., MS–4513– packages include three sections: (A) information; (c) ways to enhance the MIB, Washington, DC 20240; Telephone Cover Sheet, (B) Summary Statement, quality, usefulness, and clarity of the (202) 513–7641. and (C) Supplemental Materials. The information to be collected; and (d) how SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant cover sheet includes professional to minimize the burden on the to the Act of August 15, 1953, Public contact information. The Summary respondents, including the use of Law 83–277, 67 Stat. 586, 18 U.S.C. Statement is limited to two pages and automated collection techniques or 1161, as interpreted by the Supreme describes the nominee’s achievements other forms of information technology. Court in Rice v. Rehner, 463 U.S. 713 in the development of an outstanding, (1983), the Secretary of the Interior shall innovative, and operational tool, Please note that the comments certify and publish in the Federal application, or service capability that submitted in response to this notice are Register notice of adopted liquor directly supports the spatial data a matter of public record. Before ordinances for the purpose of regulating infrastructures. Nominations may including your personal mailing liquor transactions in Indian country. include up to 10 pages of supplemental address, phone number, email address, The Pueblo of Santa Ana Tribal Council information such as resume, or other personally identifiable of the Pueblo of Santa Ana adopted the publications list, and/or letters of information in your comment, you amendments to the Pueblo’s Title 10— Lhorne on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with NOTICES endorsement. The award consists of a should be aware that your entire Licensing & Regulation, Chapter 1— citation and plaque, which are comment, including your personally Liquor Code (Chapter), Section 126, by presented to the recipient at an identifiable information, may be made Resolution No. 2015–R–09 on June 11, appropriate public forum by the FGDC publicly available at any time. While 2015. This Federal Register notice Chair. The name of the recipient is also you can ask us in your comment to amends and supersedes the Pueblo of inscribed on a permanent plaque, which withhold your personally identifiable Santa Ana Liquor Ordinance, enacted by are displayed by the FGDC. information from public view, we the Pueblo of Santa Ana Tribal Council, VerDate Sep<11>2014 14:19 Sep 08, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00052 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\09SEN1.SGM 09SEN1


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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, Doug D. Nebert NSDI Champion of the Year Award.
DatesTo ensure that your comments are considered, we must receive them on or before November 9, 2015.
ContactBrigitta Urban-Mathieux, Federal Geographic Data Committee Office of the Secretariat, U.S. Geological Survey, at (703) 648-5175 or [email protected]
FR Citation80 FR 54309 
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