80 FR 76030 - Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Approval; Control and Management of Resident Canada Geese
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 234 (December 7, 2015)
Fish and Wildlife Service
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 234 (December 7, 2015)
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| FR Document | 2015-30696 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 234 (Monday, December 7, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 76030-76031] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-30696] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Fish and Wildlife Service [FWS-HQ-MB-2015-N230; FF09M21200-156-FXMB1231099BPP0] Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Approval; 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) have sent an Information Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for review and approval. We summarize the ICR below and describe the nature of the collection and the estimated burden and cost. This information collection 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. However, under OMB regulations, we may continue to conduct or sponsor this information collection while it is pending at OMB. DATES: You must submit comments on or before January 6, 2016. ADDRESSES: Send your comments and suggestions on this information collection to the Desk Officer for the Department of the Interior at OMB-OIRA at (202) 395-5806 (fax) or [email protected] (email). Please provide a copy of your comments to the Service 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 ``1018-0133'' in the subject line of your comments. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information about this ICR, contact Hope Grey at [email protected] (email) or 703- 358-2482 (telephone). You may review the ICR online at http://www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to review Department of the Interior collections under review by OMB. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Information Collection Request 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Number of Completion time per Total annual Activity respondents responses response burden hours * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21.49--Airport Control Order--Annual 50 50 1.5 hours................. 76 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 Order-- 20 20 1 hour.................... 20 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 Approval 3 3 24 hours.................. 72 Request--Recordkeeping and Annual Report. 21.61--Population Control Approval 3 3 160 hours................. 4,80 Request--Population Estimates. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Totals.......................... 8,698 8,698 .......................... 3,360 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Rounded. Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: None. Abstract: The Migratory Bird Treaty Act prohibits the take, possession, import, export, transport, sale, purchase, or bartering of migratory birds or their [[Page 76031]] 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 inconsistent with conservation of Canada geese. Control order for airports. Our regulations at 50 CFR 21.49 allow 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. Our regulations at 50 CFR 21.50 allow 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. Our regulations at 50 CFR 21.51 allow 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. Our regulations at 50 CFR 21.52 authorize 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. Our regulations at 50 CFR 21.61 establish 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. Our 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. Comments Received and Our Responses On August 18, 2015, we published in the Federal Register (80 FR 50021) a notice of our intent to request that OMB renew approval for this information collection. In that notice, we solicited comments for 60 days, ending on October 19, 2015. We received one comment. The commenter objected to the taking of Canada geese, but did not address the information collection requirements. We did not make any changes to our requirements as a result of this comment. Request for Public Comments We again 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. 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 OMB and us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that it will be done. Dated: December 1, 2015. Tina A. Campbell, Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and Management Programs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. [FR Doc. 2015-30696 Filed 12-4-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4333-15-P
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A. Overview of Information Collection who are to respond; including through regulations, we may continue to
Title of Information Collection: Mark- the use of appropriate automated conduct or sponsor this information
to-Market Program: Requirements for collection techniques or other forms of collection while it is pending at OMB.
Community-Based Non-Profit information technology, e.g., permitting DATES: You must submit comments on
Organizations and Public Agencies. electronic submission of responses. or before January 6, 2016.
OMB Approval Number: 2502–0563. HUD encourages interested parties to
submit comment in response to these ADDRESSES: Send your comments and
Type of Request: Extension of a suggestions on this information
currently approved collection. questions.
collection to the Desk Officer for the
Form Number: None. Authority: 12 U.S.C. 1701z–1 Research
and Demonstrations.
Department of the Interior at OMB–
Description of the need for the OIRA at (202) 395–5806 (fax) or OIRA_
information and proposed use: Provides Dated: December 1, 2015. Submission@omb.eop.gov (email).
proof of tenant endorsement of entity Colette Pollard, Please provide a copy of your comments
proposing to purchase restructured Department Reports Management Officer, to the Service Information Collection
property and obtain modification, Office of the Chief Information Officer. Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and
assignment, or forgiveness of second [FR Doc. 2015–30795 Filed 12–4–15; 8:45 am] Wildlife Service, MS BPHC, 5275
mortgage and/or third mortgage debt. BILLING CODE 4210–67–P Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041–
Respondents: Non-profits/public 3803 (mail), or hope_grey@fws.gov
agencies and tenants/heads of (email). Please include ‘‘1018–0133’’ in
households. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR the subject line of your comments.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
371. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
Fish and Wildlife Service
Estimated Number of Responses: 371. request additional information about
Frequency of Response: 1. [FWS–HQ–MB–2015–N230; FF09M21200– this ICR, contact Hope Grey at hope_
Average Hours per Response: 10 (non- 156–FXMB1231099BPP0] grey@fws.gov (email) or 703–358–2482
profits/public agencies); 1 (tenants/ (telephone). You may review the ICR
Information Collection Request Sent to online at http://www.reginfo.gov. Follow
heads of households). the Office of Management and Budget
Total Estimated Burdens: 398. the instructions to review Department of
(OMB) for Approval; Control and the Interior collections under review by
B. Solicitation of Public Comment Management of Resident Canada OMB.
This notice is soliciting comments Geese
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
from members of the public and affected AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,
parties concerning the collection of Interior. Information Collection Request
information described in Section A on ACTION: Notice; request for comments. OMB Control Number: 1018–0133.
the following: Title: Control and Management of
(1) Whether the proposed collection SUMMARY: We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Resident Canada Geese, 50 CFR 20.21,
of information is necessary for the Service) have sent an Information
21.49, 21.50, 21.51, 21.52, and 21.61.
proper performance of the functions of Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for
review and approval. We summarize the Service Form Number: None.
the agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility; ICR below and describe the nature of the Type of Request: Extension of a
(2) The accuracy of the agency’s collection and the estimated burden and currently approved collection.
estimate of the burden of the proposed cost. This information collection is Description of Respondents: State fish
collection of information; scheduled to expire on December 31, and wildlife agencies, tribes, and local
(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 2015. We may not conduct or sponsor governments; airports; landowners; and
utility, and clarity of the information to and a person is not required to respond farms.
be collected; and to a collection of information unless it Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
(4) Ways to minimize the burden of displays a currently valid OMB control obtain or retain a benefit.
the collection of information on those number. However, under OMB Frequency of Collection: Annually.
Completion
Number of Number of Total annual
Activity time per
respondents responses burden hours *
response
21.49—Airport Control Order—Annual Report ................................................ 50 50 1.5 hours ........ 76
21.50—Nest and Egg Depredation Order—Initial Registration ...................... 1,000 1,000 30 minutes ..... 500
21.50—Nest and Egg Depredation Order—Renew Registration .................... 3,000 3,000 15 minutes ..... 751
21.50—Nest and Egg Depredation Order—Annual Report ............................ 4,000 4,000 15 minutes ..... 1,000
21.51—Agricultural Depredation Order—Recordkeeping ............................... 600 600 30 minutes ..... 300
21.51—Agricultural Depredation Order—Annual Report ................................ 20 20 8 hours ........... 160
21.52—Public Health Control Order—Annual Report ..................................... 20 20 1 hour ............ 20
21.49, 21.50, 21.51, and 21.52—Report Take of Endangered Species ........ 2 2 15 minutes ..... 1
21.61—Population Control Approval Request—Recordkeeping and Annual 3 3 24 hours ......... 72
Report.
21.61—Population Control Approval Request—Population Estimates ........... 3 3 160 hours ....... 4,80
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Totals ........................................................................................................ 8,698 8,698 ........................ 3,360
* Rounded.
Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Abstract: The Migratory Bird Treaty import, export, transport, sale, purchase,
Cost: None. Act prohibits the take, possession, or bartering of migratory birds or their
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parts except as permitted under the numbers of birds, nests, and eggs taken, requirements. We did not make any
terms of a valid permit or as permitted and the county or counties where take changes to our requirements as a result
by regulations. In 2006, we issued occurred. of this comment.
regulations establishing two Public health control order. Our
regulations at 50 CFR 21.52 authorize Request for Public Comments
depredation orders and three control
orders that allow State and tribal States and tribes of the lower 48 States We again invite comments concerning
wildlife agencies, private landowners, to conduct (via the State or tribal this information collection on:
and airports to conduct resident Canada wildlife agency) resident Canada goose • Whether or not the collection of
goose population management, control and management activities when information is necessary, including
including the take of birds. We monitor the geese pose a direct threat to human whether or not the information will
the data collected for activities under health. States and tribes operating under have practical utility;
these orders and may rescind an order this order must submit an annual report • The accuracy of our estimate of the
if monitoring indicates that activities are summarizing activities, including the burden for this collection of
inconsistent with conservation of numbers of birds taken and the county information;
Canada geese. where take occurred. • Ways to enhance the quality, utility,
Control order for airports. Our Population control. Our regulations at and clarity of the information to be
regulations at 50 CFR 21.49 allow 50 CFR 21.61 establish a managed take collected; and
managers at commercial, public, and program to reduce and stabilize resident • Ways to minimize the burden of the
private airports and military airfields Canada goose populations when collection of information on
and their employees or agents to traditional and otherwise authorized respondents.
implement management of resident management measures are not Comments that you submit in
Canada geese to resolve or prevent successful or feasible. A State or tribal response to this notice are a matter of
threats to public safety. An airport must wildlife agency in the Atlantic, public record. Before including your
be part of the National Plan of Integrated Mississippi, or Central Flyway may address, phone number, email address,
Airport Systems and have received request approval for this population or other personal identifying
Federal grant-in-aid assistance or be a control program. If approved, the State information in your comment, you
military airfield under the jurisdiction, or tribe may use hunters to harvest should be aware that your entire
custody, or control of the Secretary of a resident Canada geese during the month comment, including your personal
military department. Each facility of August. Requests for approval must identifying information, may be made
exercising the privileges of the order include a discussion of the State’s or publicly available at any time. While
must submit an annual report with the tribe’s efforts to address its injurious you can ask OMB and us in your
date, numbers, and locations of birds, situations using other methods, or a comment to withhold your personal
nests, and eggs taken. discussion of the reasons why the identifying information from public
Depredation order for nests and eggs. methods are not feasible. If the Service review, we cannot guarantee that it will
Our regulations at 50 CFR 21.50 allow Director approves a request, the State or be done.
private landowners and managers of tribe must (1) keep annual records of Dated: December 1, 2015.
public lands to destroy resident Canada activities carried out under the authority Tina A. Campbell,
goose nests and eggs on property under of the program, and (2) provide an
Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and
their jurisdiction, provided they register annual summary, including number of Management Programs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
annually on our Web site at https:// individuals participating in the program Service.
epermits.fws.gov/eRCGR. Registrants and the number of resident Canada [FR Doc. 2015–30696 Filed 12–4–15; 8:45 am]
must provide basic information, such as geese shot. Additionally, participating
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name, address, phone number, and States and tribes must monitor the
email, and identify where the control spring breeding population by providing
work will occur and who will conduct an annual estimate of the breeding DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
it. Registrants must return to the Web population and distribution of resident
site to report the number of nests with Canada geese in their State. Bureau of Indian Affairs
eggs they destroyed. Our regulations at 50 CFR 21.49,
Depredation order for agricultural 21.50, 21.51, and 21.52 require that [167 A2100DD/AAKC001030/
facilities. Our regulations at 50 CFR A0A501010.999900]
persons or entities operating under the
21.51 allow States and tribes, via their depredation and control orders must Sovereignty in Indian Education
wildlife agencies, to implement immediately report the take of any
programs to allow landowners, species protected under the Endangered AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs,
operators, and tenants actively engaged Species Act (ESA). This information Interior.
in commercial agriculture to conduct ensures that the incidental take limits ACTION: Notice of availability and
damage management control when authorized under section 7 of the ESA request for proposals.
geese are committing depredations, or to are not exceeded.
resolve or prevent other injury to SUMMARY: The Bureau of Indian
agricultural interests. State and tribal Comments Received and Our Responses Education (BIE) announces the
wildlife agencies in the Atlantic, On August 18, 2015, we published in availability of enhancement funds to
Central, and Mississippi Flyway the Federal Register (80 FR 50021) a tribes and their tribal education
departments (TEDs) to promote tribal
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portions of 41 States may implement the notice of our intent to request that OMB
provisions of the order. Each renew approval for this information control and operation of BIE-funded
implementing agricultural producer collection. In that notice, we solicited schools on their reservations. This
must maintain a log of the date and comments for 60 days, ending on notice invites tribes with at least one
number of birds taken under this October 19, 2015. We received one BIE-funded school on their reservation/
authorization. Each State and tribe comment. The commenter objected to Indian land to submit grant proposals.
exercising the privileges of the order the taking of Canada geese, but did not DATES: Grant proposals must be received
must submit an annual report of the address the information collection by December 18, 2015, at 4:00 p.m.
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