80_FR_65899 80 FR 65692 - Notice of Request To Extend an Information Collection

80 FR 65692 - Notice of Request To Extend an Information Collection

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Natural Resources Conservation Service

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 207 (October 27, 2015)

Page Range65692-65693
FR Document2015-27286

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice announces NRCS' intent to request an extension for currently approved information collection, Volunteer Program--Earth Team. This information collection is set to expire December 31, 2015. NRCS is seeking to extend the expiration date for the volunteer Interest and Placement Summary form and the Timesheet form to December 31, 2018. The collected information helps NRCS to match the skills of individuals interested in volunteering for opportunities that will further the agency's mission. Information will be collected from potential volunteers who are 14 years of age or older.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 207 (Tuesday, October 27, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 207 (Tuesday, October 27, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65692-65693]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-27286]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service

[Docket No. NRCS-2015-0012]


Notice of Request To Extend an Information Collection

AGENCY: Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), United States 
Department of Agriculture (USDA).

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 
U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice announces NRCS' intent to request an 
extension for currently approved information collection, Volunteer 
Program--Earth Team. This information collection is set to expire 
December 31, 2015. NRCS is seeking to extend the expiration date for 
the volunteer Interest and Placement Summary form and the Timesheet 
form to December 31, 2018. The collected information helps NRCS to 
match the skills of individuals interested in volunteering for 
opportunities that will further the agency's mission. Information will 
be collected from potential volunteers who are 14 years of age or 
older.

DATES: Comments received by December 28, 2015 will be considered.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be submitted and identified by Docket Number 
NRCS-2015-0012, using either of the following methods:
     Government-wide rulemaking Web site: http://regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for sending comments 
electronically.
     Mail: Public Comments Processing, Attention: Docket No. 
NRCS-2015-0012, Regulatory and Agency Policy Team, Strategic Planning 
and Accountability, Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources 
Conservation Service, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Building 1-1112D, 
Beltsville, Maryland 20705.
    NRCS will post comments on http://www.regulations.gov. Do not 
include personal identifying information (PII) with your comments. In 
general, personal information provided with comments will be posted. If 
your comment includes your address, telephone number, email address, or 
other PII, this information, including PII, may be available to the 
public. You may ask, in your comment, that your PII be withheld from 
public view, but this cannot be guaranteed.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the information collection instrument should be directed to 
Michele Brown, National Volunteer Coordinator, 4407 121st Street, 
Urbandale, Iowa 50323; telephone: (515) 270-4864, ext. 102, and email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Volunteer Interest and Placement Summary Form

    Title: NRCS-PER-002, Volunteer Interest and Placement Summary Form.
    OMB Number: 0578-0024.
    Expiration Date of Approval: 3 years from approval date.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Abstract: Collection of this information is necessary to match 
volunteer assignment to agency mission as required by Federal Personnel 
Manual, Supplement 296-33, Subchapter 3. Agencies are authorized

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to recruit, train, and accept with regard to Civil Service 
classification laws, rules, or regulations, the services of individuals 
to serve without compensation. Subject to certain conditions, most 
volunteers may assist in agency programs/projects, and may perform 
activities that agency employees are allowed to perform. Volunteers 
must be at least 14 years of age. Persons interested in volunteering 
must write, call, email, visit an NRCS office, or the NRCS Web site at 
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov. The forms are available electronically and 
can be completed electronically.
    Estimate of Burden: Public reporting burden for this collection of 
information is estimated to average 4 minutes per response.
    Type of Respondents: Retirees, students, teachers, or senior 
citizens.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 200.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 200.
    Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 13 hours.

Timesheet Form

    Title: NRCS-PER-004, Timesheet Form.
    OMB Number: 0578-0024.
    Expiration Date of Approval: 3 years from approval date.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Abstract: The timesheet is an optional form and provides the 
volunteer or volunteer's supervisor a simplified method for tracking 
the volunteer's time. The form is placed in a volunteer ``case file'' 
and will be destroyed 3 years after the volunteer has completed 
service. In the event the volunteer is injured while engaged in 
volunteer activities and claims Workman's Compensation, the ``case 
file'' will be transferred to an Official Personnel Folder.
    Estimate of Burden: Public reporting burden for this collection of 
information is estimated to average 4 minutes per response.
    Type of Respondents: Retirees, students, teachers, or senior 
citizens.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 7,120.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 3,760.
    Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 2.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 474 hours.
    Comments are invited on (1) whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information will have practical 
utility; (2) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) ways 
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who 
are to respond, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, 
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms 
of information technology.
    All responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the 
request for OMB approval. All comments will become a matter of public 
record.

    Signed this 16 day of October 2015, in Washington, DC.
Jason A. Weller,
Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Service.
[FR Doc. 2015-27286 Filed 10-26-15; 8:45 am]
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65692 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 207 / Tuesday, October 27, 2015 / Notices manner conducive to moving resources Alaska, Department of Environmental expiration date for the volunteer Interest towards the desired conditions Conservation; and Placement Summary form and the described in the Forest Plan. • Solid Waste Disposal Permit State Timesheet form to December 31, 2018. of Alaska, Department of Natural The collected information helps NRCS Possible Alternatives Resources; to match the skills of individuals In addition to the proposed action and • Authorization for occupancy and interested in volunteering for the no action alternative, the Forest use of tidelands and submerged lands. opportunities that will further the Service is considering a range of action Scoping Process agency’s mission. Information will be alternatives with varying levels of collected from potential volunteers who harvest and road construction based on The initial scoping period started are 14 years of age or older. when the NOI was published in 2010. public input received to date. Because DATES: Comments received by December This proposal has been listed on the the Forest Plan is now undergoing an 28, 2015 will be considered. Tongass National Forest Schedule of amendment process, the project will not ADDRESSES: Comments should be Proposed Actions since January, 2011. propose any project-specific Forest Plan submitted and identified by Docket An updated scoping document has been amendments. Number NRCS–2015–0012, using either posted on the Tongass National Forest Responsible Official public Web site at http:// of the following methods: www.fs.usda.gov/goto/R10/Tongass/ • Government-wide rulemaking Web The responsible official for this site: http://regulations.gov. Follow the WrangellEIS, and a project update letter project is M. Earl Stewart, Forest instructions for sending comments will be mailed out to those who Supervisor, Tongass National Forest, electronically. previously commented. Federal Building, 648 Mission Street, It is important that reviewers provide • Mail: Public Comments Processing, Ketchikan, Alaska 99901. their comments at such times and in Attention: Docket No. NRCS–2015– Nature of Decision To Be Made such manner that they are useful to the 0012, Regulatory and Agency Policy agency’s preparation of the Team, Strategic Planning and The responsible official will decide: environmental impact statement. Accountability, Department of (1) The estimated timber volume to Therefore, comments should be Agriculture, Natural Resources make available from the project, as well provided prior to the close of the Conservation Service, 5601 Sunnyside as the location, design, and scheduling comment period and should clearly Avenue, Building 1–1112D, Beltsville, of timber harvest, road construction and articulate the reviewer’s concerns and Maryland 20705. reconstruction, and silvicultural contentions. Comments received in NRCS will post comments on http:// practices used; (2) road and access response to this solicitation, including www.regulations.gov. Do not include management; (3) mitigation measures names and addresses of those who personal identifying information (PII) and monitoring requirements; and (4) comment, will be part of the public with your comments. In general, whether there may be a significant record. Comments submitted personal information provided with restriction on subsistence uses. anonymously will also be accepted and comments will be posted. If your Preliminary Issues considered. comment includes your address, telephone number, email address, or The initial scoping identified Dated: October 19, 2015. other PII, this information, including preliminary issues and concerns which M. Earl Stewart, PII, may be available to the public. You may be analyzed in the EIS to disclose Forest Supervisor. may ask, in your comment, that your PII potential effects of the project on the [FR Doc. 2015–27204 Filed 10–26–15; 8:45 am] be withheld from public view, but this following: Timber supply, timber sale BILLING CODE 3410–11–P cannot be guaranteed. economics, supporting the timber FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: industry through the transition from Requests for additional information or old-growth harvest to young-growth DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE copies of the information collection management, road and access instrument should be directed to management, economic and rural Natural Resources Conservation Service Michele Brown, National Volunteer stability, wildlife habitat, aquatic habitat Coordinator, 4407 121st Street, (fisheries/hydrology/watersheds), soil [Docket No. NRCS–2015–0012] Urbandale, Iowa 50323; telephone: (515) productivity and slope stability, 270–4864, ext. 102, and email: invasive species, heritage resources, Notice of Request To Extend an Michele.brown@ia.usda.gov. roadless area characteristics, scenery, Information Collection SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: recreation, subsistence use, and climate AGENCY: Natural Resources change and carbon cycling. Preliminary Conservation Service (NRCS), United Volunteer Interest and Placement key issues identified include timber States Department of Agriculture Summary Form supply, timber demand, scenery, (USDA). Title: NRCS–PER–002, Volunteer wildlife habitat and access management. ACTION: Notice and request for Interest and Placement Summary Form. Preliminary List of Permits or Licenses comments. OMB Number: 0578–0024. Required Expiration Date of Approval: 3 years SUMMARY: In accordance with the from approval date. All necessary permits would be Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 Type of Request: Revision of a tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES obtained prior to project U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice currently approved collection. implementation, and may include the announces NRCS’ intent to request an Abstract: Collection of this following: extension for currently approved information is necessary to match information collection, Volunteer volunteer assignment to agency mission U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Program—Earth Team. This information as required by Federal Personnel • Review Spill Prevention Control collection is set to expire December 31, Manual, Supplement 296–33, and Countermeasure Plan State of 2015. NRCS is seeking to extend the Subchapter 3. Agencies are authorized VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:58 Oct 26, 2015 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\27OCN1.SGM 27OCN1

Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 207 / Tuesday, October 27, 2015 / Notices 65693 to recruit, train, and accept with regard whether the information will have (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental to Civil Service classification laws, practical utility; (2) the accuracy of the Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail rules, or regulations, the services of agency’s estimate of the burden of the Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250– individuals to serve without proposed collection of information, 7602. Comments regarding these compensation. Subject to certain including the validity of the information collections are best assured conditions, most volunteers may assist methodology and assumptions used; (3) of having their full effect if received in agency programs/projects, and may ways to enhance the quality, utility, and within 30 days of this notification. perform activities that agency clarity of the information to be Copies of the submission(s) may be employees are allowed to perform. collected; and (4) ways to minimize the obtained by calling (202) 720–8681. Volunteers must be at least 14 years of burden of the collection of information An agency may not conduct or age. Persons interested in volunteering on those who are to respond, including sponsor a collection of information must write, call, email, visit an NRCS the use of appropriate automated, unless the collection of information office, or the NRCS Web site at http:// electronic, mechanical, or other displays a currently valid OMB control www.nrcs.usda.gov. The forms are technological collection techniques or number and the agency informs available electronically and can be other forms of information technology. potential persons who are to respond to completed electronically. All responses to this notice will be the collection of information that such Estimate of Burden: Public reporting summarized and included in the request persons are not required to respond to burden for this collection of information for OMB approval. All comments will the collection of information unless it is estimated to average 4 minutes per become a matter of public record. displays a currently valid OMB control response. Signed this 16 day of October 2015, in number. Type of Respondents: Retirees, Washington, DC. students, teachers, or senior citizens. Jason A. Weller, Rural Utilities Service Estimated Number of Respondents: Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Title: Certification of Authority. 200. Service. Estimated Number of Responses: 200. OMB Control Number: 0572–0074. [FR Doc. 2015–27286 Filed 10–26–15; 8:45 am] Estimated Number of Responses per BILLING CODE 3410–16–P Summary of Collection: The Rural Respondent: 1. Utilities Service (RUS) is a credit agency Estimated Total Annual Burden on of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Respondents: 13 hours. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (USDA). It makes mortgage loans and Timesheet Form loan guarantees to finance electric, Rural Utility Service telecommunications, and water and Title: NRCS–PER–004, Timesheet waste facilities in rural areas. Rural Form. Submission for OMB Review; Electrification Act of 1936, 7 U.S.C. 901 OMB Number: 0578–0024. Comment Request et seq., as amended, (RE ACT) and as Expiration Date of Approval: 3 years prescribed by Office of Management and from approval date. October 22, 2015. The Department of Agriculture has Budget (OMB) Circular A–129, Policies Type of Request: Revision of a for Federal Credit Programs and Non- currently approved collection. submitted the following information collection requirement(s) to Office of Tax Receivables, which states that Abstract: The timesheet is an optional Management and Budget (OMB) for agencies must, based on a review of a form and provides the volunteer or review and clearance under the loan application, determine that an volunteer’s supervisor a simplified Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, applicant complies with statutory, method for tracking the volunteer’s Public Law 104–13. Comments regulatory, and administrative eligibility time. The form is placed in a volunteer regarding (a) whether the collection of requirements for loan assistance. A ‘‘case file’’ and will be destroyed 3 years information is necessary for the proper major factor in managing loan programs after the volunteer has completed performance of the functions of the is controlling the advancement of funds. service. In the event the volunteer is agency, including whether the RUS Form 675 allows this control to be injured while engaged in volunteer information will have practical utility; achieved by providing a list of activities and claims Workman’s (b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate authorized signatures against which Compensation, the ‘‘case file’’ will be of burden including the validity of the signatures requesting funds are transferred to an Official Personnel methodology and assumptions used; (c) compared. Folder. Estimate of Burden: Public reporting ways to enhance the quality, utility and Need and Use of the Information: burden for this collection of information clarity of the information to be RUS will collect information to ensure is estimated to average 4 minutes per collected; (d) ways to minimize the that only authorized representatives of response. burden of the collection of information the borrower signs the lending Type of Respondents: Retirees, on those who are to respond, including requisition form. Without the students, teachers, or senior citizens. through the use of appropriate information RUS would not know if the Estimated Number of Respondents: automated, electronic, mechanical, or request for a loan advance was 7,120. other technological collection legitimate or not and the potential for Estimated Number of Responses: techniques or other forms of information waste, loss, unauthorized use, and 3,760. technology should be addressed to: Desk misappropriation would be increased. Estimated Number of Responses per Officer for Agriculture, Office of Description of Respondents: Not-for- tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Respondent: 2. Information and Regulatory Affairs, profit institutions; Business or other for- Estimated Total Annual Burden on Office of Management and Budget, New profit. Respondents: 474 hours. Executive Office Building, 725—17th Number of Respondents: 250. Comments are invited on (1) whether Street NW., Washington, DC 20502. the proposed collection of information Commenters are encouraged to submit Frequency of Responses: Reporting: is necessary for the proper performance their comments to OMB via email to: On occasion. of the functions of the agency, including OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov or fax Total Burden Hours: 25. VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:58 Oct 26, 2015 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\27OCN1.SGM 27OCN1


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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice and request for comments.
DatesComments received by December 28, 2015 will be considered.
ContactRequests for additional information or copies of the information collection instrument should be directed to Michele Brown, National Volunteer Coordinator, 4407 121st Street, Urbandale, Iowa 50323; telephone: (515) 270-4864, ext. 102, and email: [email protected]
FR Citation80 FR 65692 
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