80 FR 57202 - Proposed Information Collection; Bald Eagle Post-Delisting Monitoring
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 183 (September 22, 2015)
Fish and Wildlife Service
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 183 (September 22, 2015)
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| FR Document | 2015-23969 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 183 (Tuesday, September 22, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 57202-57203] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-23969] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Fish and Wildlife Service [FW-HQ-MB-2015-N185; FXMB123109EAGLE-156-FF09M20300] Proposed Information Collection; Bald Eagle Post-Delisting Monitoring 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 November 23, 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 [email protected] (email). Please include ``1018-0143'' in the subject line of your comments. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information about this IC, contact Hope Grey at [email protected] (email) or 703- 358-2482 (telephone). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Abstract. This information collection implements the monitoring requirements discussed in the Post-delisting Monitoring Plan for the Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in the Contiguous 48 States (Plan). The Plan was developed to meet post-delisting requirements of the Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) (ESA). There are no specific corresponding Service regulations for the ESA's post-delisting monitoring requirement. The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in the lower 48 States was removed from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife (delisted) on August 8, 2007 (72 FR 37346, July 9, 2007). Section 4(g) of the ESA requires that all species that are recovered and removed from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife be monitored in cooperation with the States for a period of not less than 5 years. The purpose of this requirement is to detect any failure of a recovered species to sustain itself without the protections of the ESA. We work with relevant Federal, State, and tribal entities and other species experts to develop plans and procedures for systematically monitoring recovered wildlife and plants after a species is delisted. The bald eagle has a large geographic distribution that includes substantial non-Federal land. Although the ESA requires that monitoring of recovered species be conducted for not less than 5 years, the Plan reasoned that [[Page 57203]] the life history of bald eagles is such that it is appropriate to monitor this species for a longer period of time in order to meaningfully evaluate whether or not the bald eagle continues to maintain its recovered status. We plan to monitor the status of the bald eagle in the 48 contiguous States using several information sources, including collecting data on nests over a 20-year period with sampling events in particular years. The Plan describes monitoring procedures and methods for surveying and estimating the number of occupied nests, which represents the number of breeding pairs. The Plan is available at http://www.fws.gov/midwest/eagle/protect/FinalBAEA_PDMPlan.html. We will use monitoring data to review the status of the bald eagle in the United States and determine if the population remains recovered under the ESA. II. Data OMB Control Number: 1018-0143. Title: Bald Eagle Post-delisting Monitoring. Service Form Number: None. Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection. Description of Respondents: States, tribes, and local governments; Federal land managers; and nongovernmental partners. Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary. Frequency of Collection: Once every 5 years or less. Note: For each survey, we estimate a total of 48 respondents will provide 48 responses totaling 1,478 burden hours. The burden estimates below are annualized over the 3-year period of OMB approval. Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: None. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Completion Number of Number of time per Total annual Activity respondents responses response burden hours (hours) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Survey.......................................... 16 16 30.8 493 --------------------------------------------------------------- Totals...................................... .............. .............. .............. 493 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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: September 16, 2015. Tina A. Campbell, Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and Management Programs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. [FR Doc. 2015-23969 Filed 9-21-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310-55-P
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questions regarding this notice. It is not Overview of This Information as part of our continuing efforts to
for individual case status inquiries. Collection reduce paperwork and respondent
Applicants seeking information about (1) Type of Information Collection: burden, we invite the general public and
the status of their individual cases can Extension, Without Change, of a other Federal agencies to take this
check Case Status Online, available at Currently Approved Collection. opportunity to comment on this IC. This
the USCIS Web site at http:// (2) Title of the Form/Collection: H–2 IC is scheduled to expire on December
www.uscis.gov, or call the USCIS Petitioner’s Employment Related or Fee 31, 2015. We may not conduct or
National Customer Service Center at Related Notification. sponsor and a person is not required to
800–375–5283 (TTY 800–767–1833). (3) Agency form number, if any, and respond to a collection of information
the applicable component of the DHS unless it displays a currently valid OMB
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: control number.
sponsoring the collection: No Agency
Comments Form Number; USCIS. DATES: To ensure that we are able to
(4) Affected public who will be asked consider your comments on this IC, we
You may access the information or required to respond, as well as a brief must receive them by November 23,
collection instrument with instructions, abstract: Primary: Business or other for- 2015.
or additional information by visiting the profit. The notification requirement is
Federal eRulemaking Portal site at: ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the
necessary to ensure that alien workers IC to the Information Collection
http://www.regulations.gov and enter maintain their nonimmigrant status and Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and
USCIS–2009–0015 in the search box. will help prevent H–2 workers from Wildlife Service, MS BPHC, 5275
Regardless of the method used for engaging in unauthorized employment. Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041–
submitting comments or material, all (5) An estimate of the total number of 3803 (mail); or hope_grey@fws.gov
submissions will be posted, without respondents and the amount of time (email). Please include ‘‘1018–0143’’ in
change, to the Federal eRulemaking estimated for an average respondent to the subject line of your comments.
Portal at http://www.regulations.gov, respond: The estimated total number of
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
and will include any personal respondents for the information
information you provide. Therefore, request additional information about
collection H–2 Petitioner’s Employment
submitting this information makes it this IC, contact Hope Grey at hope_
Related or Fee Related Notification is
grey@fws.gov (email) or 703–358–2482
public. You may wish to consider 1,700 and the estimated hour burden
(telephone).
limiting the amount of personal per response is .5 hours.
information that you provide in any (6) An estimate of the total public SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
voluntary submission you make to DHS. burden (in hours) associated with the I. Abstract. This information
DHS may withhold information collection: The total estimated annual collection implements the monitoring
provided in comments from public hour burden associated with this requirements discussed in the Post-
viewing that it determines may impact collection is 850 hours. delisting Monitoring Plan for the Bald
the privacy of an individual or is (7) An estimate of the total public Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in the
offensive. For additional information, burden (in cost) associated with the Contiguous 48 States (Plan). The Plan
please read the Privacy Act notice that collection: The estimated total annual was developed to meet post-delisting
is available via the link in the footer of cost burden associated with this requirements of the Endangered Species
http://www.regulations.gov. collection of information is $8,500. Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) (ESA). There
Dated: September 15, 2015. are no specific corresponding Service
Written comments and suggestions
regulations for the ESA’s post-delisting
from the public and affected agencies Laura Dawkins,
monitoring requirement.
should address one or more of the Chief, Regulatory Coordination Division,
The bald eagle (Haliaeetus
following four points: Office of Policy and Strategy, U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services, Department of leucocephalus) in the lower 48 States
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed Homeland Security. was removed from the List of
collection of information is necessary Endangered and Threatened Wildlife
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for the proper performance of the (delisted) on August 8, 2007 (72 FR
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functions of the agency, including 37346, July 9, 2007). Section 4(g) of the
whether the information will have ESA requires that all species that are
practical utility; recovered and removed from the List of
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Endangered and Threatened Wildlife be
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the Fish and Wildlife Service monitored in cooperation with the
proposed collection of information, States for a period of not less than 5
[FW–HQ–MB–2015–N185; years. The purpose of this requirement
including the validity of the
FXMB123109EAGLE–156–FF09M20300] is to detect any failure of a recovered
methodology and assumptions used;
species to sustain itself without the
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and Proposed Information Collection; Bald
protections of the ESA. We work with
clarity of the information to be Eagle Post-Delisting Monitoring
relevant Federal, State, and tribal
collected; and entities and other species experts to
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,
(4) Minimize the burden of the Interior. develop plans and procedures for
collection of information on those who ACTION: Notice; request for comments. systematically monitoring recovered
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are to respond, including through the wildlife and plants after a species is
use of appropriate automated, SUMMARY: We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife delisted. The bald eagle has a large
electronic, mechanical, or other Service) will ask the Office of geographic distribution that includes
technological collection techniques or Management and Budget (OMB) to substantial non-Federal land. Although
other forms of information technology, approve the information collection (IC) the ESA requires that monitoring of
e.g., permitting electronic submission of described below. As required by the recovered species be conducted for not
responses. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and less than 5 years, the Plan reasoned that
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the life history of bald eagles is such number of breeding pairs. The Plan is Description of Respondents: States,
that it is appropriate to monitor this available at http://www.fws.gov/ tribes, and local governments; Federal
species for a longer period of time in midwest/eagle/protect/FinalBAEA_ land managers; and nongovernmental
order to meaningfully evaluate whether PDMPlan.html. We will use monitoring partners.
or not the bald eagle continues to data to review the status of the bald Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
maintain its recovered status. eagle in the United States and determine Frequency of Collection: Once every 5
We plan to monitor the status of the if the population remains recovered years or less.
bald eagle in the 48 contiguous States under the ESA. Note: For each survey, we estimate a
using several information sources, II. Data total of 48 respondents will provide 48
including collecting data on nests over OMB Control Number: 1018–0143. responses totaling 1,478 burden hours.
a 20-year period with sampling events Title: Bald Eagle Post-delisting The burden estimates below are
in particular years. The Plan describes Monitoring. annualized over the 3-year period of
monitoring procedures and methods for Service Form Number: None. OMB approval.
surveying and estimating the number of Type of Request: Extension of a Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden
occupied nests, which represents the currently approved collection. Cost: None.
Completion
Number of Number of time per Total annual
Activity respondents responses response burden hours
(hours)
Survey .............................................................................................................. 16 16 30.8 493
Totals ........................................................................................................ ........................ ........................ ........................ 493
III. Comments DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 5657, phogervo@blm.gov, or Jennifer
Velez, 3106 Pierce Parkway SE.,
We invite comments concerning this Bureau of Land Management Springfield, OR 97477, (541) 222–9241,
information collection on: jvelez@blm.gov. Persons who use a
[LLORS00100.L63400000.PH0000.
• Whether or not the collection of LXSS040H0000.15XL1116AF.HAG 15–0229] telecommunications device for the deaf
information is necessary, including (TDD) may call the Federal Information
whether or not the information will Meeting of the Northwest Oregon Relay Service (FIRS) at 1(800) 877–8339
have practical utility; Resource Advisory Council to contact the above individuals during
• The accuracy of our estimate of the AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, normal business hours. The FIRS is
burden for this collection of Interior. available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
information; to leave a message or question with the
ACTION: Notice of Public Meeting.
above individuals. You will receive a
• Ways to enhance the quality, utility,
SUMMARY: In accordance with the reply during normal business hours.
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and Federal Land Policy and Management SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Act and the Federal Advisory
• Ways to minimize the burden of the Committee Act, the Bureau of Land
fifteen member Northwest Oregon RAC
collection of information on was chartered to serve in an advisory
Management’s (BLM) Northwest Oregon capacity concerning the planning and
respondents. Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will management of the public land
Comments that you submit in meet as indicated below. resources located in whole or in part
response to this notice are a matter of DATES: The RAC will meet on within the BLM’s Salem and Eugene
public record. We will include or Wednesday, October 21, 2015, from 9:00 Districts. Members represent an array of
summarize each comment in our request a.m.–4:30 p.m. and Thursday, October stakeholder interests in the land and
to OMB to approve this IC. Before 22, 2015, from 9:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m. at resources from within the local area and
including your address, phone number, the Salem District Office, 1717 Fabry statewide. Planned agenda items
email address, or other personal Road SE., Salem, OR 97306. There will include training on the Federal
identifying information in your be one public comment period: 3:00– Advisory Committee Act, advisory
comment, you should be aware that 4:30 p.m. This meeting will focus on council procedures, and RAC goal
your entire comment, including your welcoming the new RAC members, setting. At each meeting, members of the
personal identifying information, may reviewing the Charter, and discussing public will have the opportunity to
be made publicly available at any time. the responsibilities of the RAC in make comments to the RAC during a
While you can ask us in your comment making recommendations regarding public comment period. All advisory
to withhold your personal identifying general forest management, recreation committee meetings are open to the
information from public review, we fees, and Secure Rural Schools Title II public. Persons wishing to make
cannot guarantee that we will be able to project proposals. The BLM Designated comments during the public comment
do so. Federal Official (DFO) will be present to period should register in person with
share the breadth of considerations and
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Dated: September 16, 2015. the BLM preceding that meeting day’s
Tina A. Campbell, opportunities in the generation of comment period, at the meeting
Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and recommendations. location. Depending on the number of
Management Programs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: persons wishing to comment, the length
Service. Trish Hogervorst, Co-Coordinator for the of comments may be limited. The public
[FR Doc. 2015–23969 Filed 9–21–15; 8:45 am] Northwest Oregon RAC, 1717 Fabry may send written comments to the RAC
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