81 FR 17735 - Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Approval; National Park Service Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (NPS IACUC) Amendment, Annual Review, Exhibition, and General Submission Forms

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 61 (March 30, 2016)

Page Range		17735-17735
FR Document		2016-07167

We (National Park Service, NPS) are asking the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the Information Collection Request (IC) described below. This collection is set to expire on March 31, 2016. The NPS is requesting approval of a previously approved collection and two additional new forms that will be used by the Institutional Animal Care and use Committee (NPS IACUC/the Committee) to collect information from researchers, and to ensure compliance with the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), its regulations (AWAR) and standards, and the Interagency Research Animal Committee (IRAC) principles, for projects involving the use of vertebrate animals in research, teaching, and training. 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. 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.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NRSS-EQD-SSB-20715; PPWONRADE3, PPMRSNR1Y.NM000]


Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for Approval; National Park Service Institutional 
Animal Care and Use Committee (NPS IACUC) Amendment, Annual Review, 
Exhibition, and General Submission Forms

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: We (National Park Service, NPS) are asking the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the Information Collection 
Request (IC) described below. This collection is set to expire on March 
31, 2016. The NPS is requesting approval of a previously approved 
collection and two additional new forms that will be used by the 
Institutional Animal Care and use Committee (NPS IACUC/the Committee) 
to collect information from researchers, and to ensure compliance with 
the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), its regulations (AWAR) and standards, and 
the Interagency Research Animal Committee (IRAC) principles, for 
projects involving the use of vertebrate animals in research, teaching, 
and training. 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. 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 your comments on this ICR are considered, we must 
receive them on or before April 29, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Please direct all written comments on this ICR directly to 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Desk Officer for the Department of the 
Interior, to [email protected] (email) or 202-395-5806 (fax); 
and identify your submission as 1024-0265 IACUC. Also send a copy to 
Phadrea Ponds, Information Collection Coordinator, National Park 
Service, 1201 Oakridge Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80525 (mail); or 
[email protected] (email). Please reference Information Collection 
1024-0265 in your email.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Aaron Smith, NPS IACUC Administrator 
by mail at Biological Resource Division, 1201 Oakridge Drive, Suite 
200, Fort Collins, CO 80525 or [email protected] (email). You may 
also contact Tracy Thompson at [email protected] (email). You may 
also access this ICR at www.reginfo.gov by using the OMB Control number 
(1024-0265).
    I. Abstract: The NPS is requesting to renew a previously approved 
collection (OMB Control Number: 1024-0265) and have two additional 
forms approved. All research, teaching, and training projects involving 
vertebrate animals taking place on NPS territories must be approved by 
the NPS IACUC prior to their commencement. Principal Investigators (PI) 
are required to submit the completed General Submission, Annual 
Renewal, Amendment, BioBlitz/Field Study, or Concurrence Submission 
forms as required for approval to the NPS IACUC Office.
    Under the provisions of the Animal Welfare Act, Interagency 
Research Animal Committee's U.S. Government Principles, and The NPS 
Organic Act, 16 U.S.C. a-1, individuals or agencies proposing research, 
teaching, or training activities involving vertebrate animals must have 
IACUC review and oversight of these activities. This collection will 
continue to gather information on these activities that will be 
conducted in NPS units for the NPS IACUC to meet these requirements.
    II. Data:
    OMB Control Number: 1024-0265.
    Title: National Park Service Institutional Animal Care and Use 
Committee (NPS IACUC) Amendment, Annual Review, Exhibition, and General 
Submission Forms.
    Form Numbers: 10-1301, General Submission Form; 10-1301A, Amendment 
Form; 10-1302, Annual Review Form; 10-1303, Concurrence Form; and 10-
1304, BioBlitz Field Study Form.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: State and local governments; private businesses.
    Respondent Obligation: Mandatory.
    Frequency of Collection: One time; on occasion
    Estimated Number of Responses: 230.
    Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 140 hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-Hour Cost'': 
None.
    III. Request for Comments: On January 13, 2016, we published a 
Federal Register notice (81 FR 1642) announcing that we would submit 
this IC to OMB for approval. Public comments were solicited for 60 days 
ending March 14, 2016. We did not receive any comments in response to 
that notice.
    We again invite comments concerning this information collection on:
     Whether or not the collection of information is in 
accordance with the regulatory requirements;
     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.
    A Federal agency 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. 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 in your 
comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public 
review, we cannot guarantee that it will be done.

    Dated: March 25, 2016.
Madonna L. Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service.
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of Choctaw Indians; Kialegee Tribal DATES: To ensure that your comments Form Numbers: 10–1301, General
Town; Mississippi Band of Choctaw on this ICR are considered, we must Submission Form; 10–1301A,
Indians; Shawnee Tribe; The Chickasaw receive them on or before April 29, Amendment Form; 10–1302, Annual
Nation; The Choctaw Nation of 2016. Review Form; 10–1303, Concurrence
Oklahoma; The Muscogee (Creek) Form; and 10–1304, BioBlitz Field
ADDRESSES: Please direct all written
Nation; Poarch Band of Creeks Study Form.
comments on this ICR directly to the
(previously listed as the Poarch Band of Type of Request: Revision of a
Creek Indians of Alabama); The Quapaw Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) Office of Information and currently approved collection.
Tribe of Indians; The Seminole Nation
Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Desk Affected Public: State and local
of Oklahoma; Thlopthlocco Tribal
Officer for the Department of the governments; private businesses.
Town; Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe; and
the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Interior, to OIRA_Submission@ Respondent Obligation: Mandatory.
Indians in Oklahoma that this notice has omb.eop.gov (email) or 202–395–5806 Frequency of Collection: One time; on
been published. (fax); and identify your submission as occasion
1024–0265 IACUC. Also send a copy to
Dated: February 29, 2016. Estimated Number of Responses: 230.
Phadrea Ponds, Information Collection
Melanie O’Brien, Coordinator, National Park Service, Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 140
Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 1201 Oakridge Drive, Fort Collins, CO hours.
[FR Doc. 2016–07110 Filed 3–29–16; 8:45 am] 80525 (mail); or phadrea_ponds@ Estimated Annual Reporting and
BILLING CODE 4312–50–P nps.gov (email). Please reference Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’: None.
Information Collection 1024–0265 in III. Request for Comments: On January
your email. 13, 2016, we published a Federal
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Register notice (81 FR 1642) announcing
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Aaron Smith, NPS IACUC that we would submit this IC to OMB
National Park Service for approval. Public comments were
Administrator by mail at Biological
[NPS–WASO–NRSS–EQD–SSB–20715; Resource Division, 1201 Oakridge Drive, solicited for 60 days ending March 14,
PPWONRADE3, PPMRSNR1Y.NM000] Suite 200, Fort Collins, CO 80525 or 2016. We did not receive any comments
aaron_d_smith@nps.gov (email). You in response to that notice.
Information Collection Request Sent to
may also contact Tracy Thompson at We again invite comments concerning
the Office of Management and Budget
tracy_thompson@nps.gov (email). You this information collection on:
(OMB) for Approval; National Park
Service Institutional Animal Care and may also access this ICR at • Whether or not the collection of
Use Committee (NPS IACUC) www.reginfo.gov by using the OMB information is in accordance with the
Amendment, Annual Review, Control number (1024–0265). regulatory requirements;
Exhibition, and General Submission I. Abstract: The NPS is requesting to • The accuracy of our estimate of the
Forms renew a previously approved collection burden for this collection of
(OMB Control Number: 1024–0265) and information;
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. have two additional forms approved. All • Ways to enhance the quality, utility,
ACTION: Notice; request for comments. research, teaching, and training projects and clarity of the information to be
involving vertebrate animals taking collected; and
SUMMARY: We (National Park Service,
place on NPS territories must be
NPS) are asking the Office of • Ways to minimize the burden of the
approved by the NPS IACUC prior to
Management and Budget (OMB) to collection of information on
their commencement. Principal
approve the Information Collection respondents.
Investigators (PI) are required to submit
Request (IC) described below. This A Federal agency may not conduct or
the completed General Submission,
collection is set to expire on March 31, sponsor and a person is not required to
Annual Renewal, Amendment, BioBlitz/
2016. The NPS is requesting approval of respond to a collection of information
a previously approved collection and Field Study, or Concurrence Submission
forms as required for approval to the unless it displays a currently valid OMB
two additional new forms that will be control number. Comments that you
used by the Institutional Animal Care NPS IACUC Office.
Under the provisions of the Animal submit in response to this notice are a
and use Committee (NPS IACUC/the matter of public record. Before
Committee) to collect information from Welfare Act, Interagency Research
Animal Committee’s U.S. Government including your address, phone number,
researchers, and to ensure compliance email address, or other personal
with the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), its Principles, and The NPS Organic Act,
16 U.S.C. a–1, individuals or agencies identifying information in your
regulations (AWAR) and standards, and comment, you should be aware that
the Interagency Research Animal proposing research, teaching, or training
activities involving vertebrate animals your entire comment, including your
Committee (IRAC) principles, for personal identifying information, may
projects involving the use of vertebrate must have IACUC review and oversight
of these activities. This collection will be made publicly available at any time.
animals in research, teaching, and While you can ask OMB in your
training. As required by the Paperwork continue to gather information on these
activities that will be conducted in NPS comment to withhold your personal
Reduction Act of 1995 and as part of our identifying information from public
continuing efforts to reduce paperwork units for the NPS IACUC to meet these
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requirements. review, we cannot guarantee that it will
and respondent burden, we invite the be done.
general public and other federal II. Data:
agencies to take this opportunity to OMB Control Number: 1024–0265. Dated: March 25, 2016.
comment on this IC. We may not Title: National Park Service Madonna L. Baucum,
conduct or sponsor, and a person is not Institutional Animal Care and Use Information Collection Clearance Officer,
required to respond to, a collection of Committee (NPS IACUC) Amendment, National Park Service.
information unless it displays a Annual Review, Exhibition, and General [FR Doc. 2016–07167 Filed 3–29–16; 8:45 am]
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Section		Notices
Action		Notice; request for comments.
Dates		To ensure that your comments on this ICR are considered, we must receive them on or before April 29, 2016.
Contact		Aaron Smith, NPS IACUC Administrator by mail at Biological Resource Division, 1201 Oakridge Drive, Suite 200, Fort Collins, CO 80525 or [email protected] (email). You may also contact Tracy Thompson at [email protected] (email). You may also access this ICR at www.reginfo.gov by using the OMB Control number (1024-0265).
FR Citation		81 FR 17735

81 FR 17735 - Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Approval; National Park Service Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (NPS IACUC) Amendment, Annual Review, Exhibition, and General Submission Forms

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORNational Park Service

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 61 (March 30, 2016)

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service