81_FR_2242 81 FR 2232 - Proposed Information Collection; National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program

81 FR 2232 - Proposed Information Collection; National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 10 (January 15, 2016)

Page Range2232-2233
FR Document2016-00713

We (National Park Service) will ask the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection 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 July 31, 2016. We may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 10 (Friday, January 15, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 10 (Friday, January 15, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2232-2233]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-00713]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-NER-19995, PPNEHATUC0, PPMRSCR1Y.CU0000 (166)]


Proposed Information Collection; National Underground Railroad 
Network to Freedom Program

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: We (National Park Service) will ask the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection 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 July 31, 2016. 
We may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond 
to a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control 
number.

DATES: To ensure we are able to consider your comments, we must receive 
them on or before March 15, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Please send your comments on the ICR to Madonna L. Baucum, 
Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service, 12201 
Sunrise Valley Drive, Room 2C114, Mail Stop 242, Reston, VA 20192 
(mail); or madonna_baucum@nps.gov (email). Please reference OMB Control 
Number ``1024-0232, NPS National Underground Railroad Network to 
Freedom'' in the subject line of your comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Diane Miller, National Manager, 
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program, National Park 
Service, c/o Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, 2145 Key Wallace 
Drive, Cambridge, Maryland 21613; or via email at diane_miller@nps.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    Public Law 105-203 (National Underground Railroad Network to 
Freedom Act of 1998) authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to 
establish the Network to Freedom (Network). The Network is a collection 
of sites, facilities, and programs, both governmental and 
nongovernmental, around the United States. All entities must have a 
verifiable association with the historic Underground Railroad movement. 
The National Park Service administers the National Underground Railroad 
Network to Freedom Program. The program coordinates preservation and 
education efforts Nationwide and integrates local historical places, 
museums, and interpretive programs associated with the Underground 
Railroad into a mosaic of community, regional, and national stories.
    Individuals; businesses; organizations; State, tribal and local 
governments; and Federal agencies that want to join the Network must 
complete an application form. The application and instructions are 
available on our Web site at http://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm. Respondents must (1) verify associations and characteristics 
through descriptive texts that are the result of historical research 
and (2) submit supporting documentation; e.g., copies of rare 
documents, photographs, and maps. Much of the information is submitted 
in electronic format and used to determine eligibility to become part 
of the Network.
    Upon approval by OMB of this extension request, the NPS will begin 
developing a HTML version of the 10-946, ``National Park Service 
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Application Form'' on 
the Department of the Interior's Enterprise Forms System (EFS) Web 
site. The EFS will consolidate all internal forms used by the 
Department and external forms used by the public into a centralized 
automated forms program. This will

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increase efficiency and responsiveness through the centralization and 
automation of all Departmental forms. In addition, the forms process 
will be modernized through the implementation of a completely digital 
workflow, the integration of digital and electronic signatures, and the 
ability to utilize real-time workflow through the use of unified 
messaging.
    One of the principal components of the Network to Freedom Program 
is to validate the efforts of local and regional organizations, and to 
make it easier for them to share expertise and communicate with us and 
each other. The vehicle through which this can happen is for these 
local entities to become Network Partners. Partners of the Network to 
Freedom Program work alongside and often in cooperation with us to 
fulfill the program's mission. Prospective partners must submit a 
letter with the following information:
     Name and address of the agency, company or organization;
     Name, address, and phone, fax, and email information of 
principal contact;
     Abstract not to exceed 200 words describing the partner's 
activity or mission statement; and
     Brief description of the entity's association to the 
Underground Railroad.

II. Data

    OMB Number: 1024-0232.
    Title: National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program.
    Form(s): NPS Form 10-946, ``National Park Service National 
Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Application Form''.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    Description of Respondents: Individuals; businesses; nonprofit 
organizations; and Federal, State, tribal, and local governments.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion.

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                                                                                    Completion
                                                     Number of       Number of       time per      Total annual
                    Activity                        respondents      responses       response      burden hours
                                                                                      (hours)
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Network Applications............................              35              35              25             875
Partner Requests................................               2               2              .5               1
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    Totals......................................              37              37              26             876
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    Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: None.

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 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 to respondents, including use 
of automated information techniques or other forms of information 
technology.
    Please note that the comments submitted 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 it will be done.

    Dated: January 11, 2016.
Madonna L. Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 2016-00713 Filed 1-14-16; 8:45 am]
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2232 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 10 / Friday, January 15, 2016 / Notices status reviews and accompanying 12- to Tribes and other stakeholders in the madonna_baucum@nps.gov (email). month findings and to assist with prioritization of our upcoming Please reference OMB Control Number prioritizing actions in order to develop workload. We will continue to work ‘‘1024–0232, NPS National the National Listing Workplan for each with Tribes as we finalize this draft Underground Railroad Network to fiscal year. Below we make methodology and obtain the information Freedom’’ in the subject line of your determinations provided for under necessary to accurately bin specific comments. several Executive Orders and statutes actions and develop our National FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: that may apply where a Federal action Listing Workplan. Diane Miller, National Manager, is not a binding rule or regulation. National Underground Railroad Authors National Environmental Policy Act Network to Freedom Program, National The primary authors of this draft (NEPA) Park Service, c/o Blackwater National policy are the staff members of the We are analyzing this draft Wildlife Refuge, 2145 Key Wallace Division of Conservation and methodology in accordance with the Drive, Cambridge, Maryland 21613; or Classification, U.S. Fish and Wildlife criteria of the National Environmental via email at diane_miller@nps.gov. Service, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Policy Act (NEPA; 42 U.S.C. 4321 et SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Church, VA 22041. seq.), the Department of the Interior I. Abstract regulations on Implementation of the Authority National Environmental Policy Act (43 The authority for this action is the Public Law 105–203 (National CFR 46.10–46.450), and the Department Endangered Species Act of 1973, as Underground Railroad Network to of the Interior Manual (516 DM 1–6 and amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). Freedom Act of 1998) authorizes the 8). We invite the public to comment on Secretary of the Interior to establish the Dated: January 6, 2016. Network to Freedom (Network). The the extent to which this draft Stephen Guertin, Network is a collection of sites, methodology may have a significant impact on the human environment, or Acting Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife facilities, and programs, both Service. governmental and nongovernmental, fall within one of the categorical exclusions for actions that have no [FR Doc. 2016–00616 Filed 1–14–16; 8:45 am] around the United States. All entities individual or cumulative effect on the BILLING CODE 4333–15–P must have a verifiable association with quality of the human environment. We the historic Underground Railroad will complete our analysis, in movement. The National Park Service compliance with NEPA, before DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR administers the National Underground finalizing this methodology. Railroad Network to Freedom Program. National Park Service The program coordinates preservation Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 [NPS–NER–19995, PPNEHATUC0, and education efforts Nationwide and This draft methodology does not PPMRSCR1Y.CU0000 (166)] integrates local historical places, contain any collections of information museums, and interpretive programs that require approval by the Office of Proposed Information Collection; associated with the Underground Management and Budget (OMB) under National Underground Railroad Railroad into a mosaic of community, the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Network to Freedom Program regional, and national stories. 3501 et seq.). This draft methodology Individuals; businesses; AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. will not impose recordkeeping or organizations; State, tribal and local ACTION: Notice; request for comments. governments; and Federal agencies that reporting requirements on State or local governments, individuals, businesses, or SUMMARY: We (National Park Service) want to join the Network must complete organizations. We may not conduct or will ask the Office of Management and an application form. The application sponsor and you are not required to Budget (OMB) to approve the and instructions are available on our respond to a collection of information information collection described below. Web site at http://www.nps.gov/ unless it displays a currently valid OMB As required by the Paperwork subjects/ugrr/index.htm. Respondents control number. Reduction Act of 1995 and as part of our must (1) verify associations and continuing efforts to reduce paperwork characteristics through descriptive texts Government-to-Government that are the result of historical research Relationship With Tribes and respondent burden, we invite the general public and other Federal and (2) submit supporting In accordance with the President’s agencies to take this opportunity to documentation; e.g., copies of rare memorandum of April 29, 1994, comment on this IC. This IC is documents, photographs, and maps. ‘‘Government-to-Government Relations scheduled to expire on July 31, 2016. Much of the information is submitted in with Native American Tribal We may not conduct or sponsor and a electronic format and used to determine Governments’’ (59 FR 22951), Executive person is not required to respond to a eligibility to become part of the Order 13175 ‘‘Consultation and collection of information unless it Network. Coordination with Indian Tribal displays a valid OMB control number. Upon approval by OMB of this Governments,’’ and the Department of extension request, the NPS will begin DATES: To ensure we are able to the Interior Manual at 512 DM 2, and developing a HTML version of the 10– the Department of Commerce American consider your comments, we must 946, ‘‘National Park Service National receive them on or before March 15, mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Indian and Alaska Native Policy (March Underground Railroad Network to 30, 1995), we have considered possible 2016. Freedom Application Form’’ on the effects on federally recognized Indian ADDRESSES: Please send your comments Department of the Interior’s Enterprise tribes and have preliminarily on the ICR to Madonna L. Baucum, Forms System (EFS) Web site. 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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 10 / Friday, January 15, 2016 / Notices 2233 increase efficiency and responsiveness become Network Partners. Partners of Title: National Underground Railroad through the centralization and the Network to Freedom Program work Network to Freedom Program. automation of all Departmental forms. alongside and often in cooperation with Form(s): NPS Form 10–946, ‘‘National In addition, the forms process will be us to fulfill the program’s mission. Park Service National Underground modernized through the Prospective partners must submit a Railroad Network to Freedom implementation of a completely digital letter with the following information: • Name and address of the agency, Application Form’’. workflow, the integration of digital and electronic signatures, and the ability to company or organization; Type of Request: Extension of a utilize real-time workflow through the • Name, address, and phone, fax, and currently approved collection of use of unified messaging. email information of principal contact; information. • Abstract not to exceed 200 words One of the principal components of Description of Respondents: describing the partner’s activity or the Network to Freedom Program is to mission statement; and Individuals; businesses; nonprofit validate the efforts of local and regional • Brief description of the entity’s organizations; and Federal, State, tribal, organizations, and to make it easier for association to the Underground and local governments. them to share expertise and Railroad. Respondent’s Obligation: Required to communicate with us and each other. obtain or retain a benefit. The vehicle through which this can II. Data happen is for these local entities to OMB Number: 1024–0232. Frequency of Collection: On occasion. Completion Number of Number of time per Total annual Activity respondents responses response burden hours (hours) Network Applications ....................................................................................... 35 35 25 875 Partner Requests ............................................................................................. 2 2 .5 1 Totals ........................................................................................................ 37 37 26 876 Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Dated: January 11, 2016. Collection Clearance Officer, National Cost: None. Madonna L. Baucum, Park Service, 12201 Sunrise Valley Information Collection Clearance Officer, Drive (Room 2C114, Mail Stop 242), III. Comments National Park Service. Reston, VA 20192 (mail); or madonna_ We invite comments concerning this [FR Doc. 2016–00713 Filed 1–14–16; 8:45 am] baucum@nps.gov (email). Please information collection on: BILLING CODE 4310–EH–P include ‘‘1024—New Case Incident Report Request’’ in the subject line of • Whether or not the collection of your comments. information is necessary, including DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To whether or not the information will request additional information about have practical utility; National Park Service this IC, contact Charis Wilson, National • The accuracy of the burden for this [NPS–WASO–ADIR–PMSP–20103; Park Service, 12795 W. Alameda collection of information; PPWOIRADC1, PPMPSAS1Y.YP0000 (166)] Parkway, P.O. Box 25287, Denver, CO 80225–0287 (mail); (303) 969–2959 • Ways to enhance the quality, utility, Proposed Information Collection; Case (phone), or charis_wilson@nps.gov and clarity of the information to be Incident Report Request (email). collected; and AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: • Ways to minimize the burden to respondents, including use of ACTION: Notice; request for comments. I. Abstract automated information techniques or The NPS maintains law enforcement SUMMARY: We (National Park Service, other forms of information technology. NPS) will ask the Office of Management incident reports in the Department of Please note that the comments and Budget (OMB) to approve the the Interior’s Incident and Management submitted in response to this notice are information collection (IC) described Reporting System (IMARS), which is a a matter of public record. We will below. As required by the Paperwork Privacy Act System of Records (DOI– include or summarize each comment in Reduction Act of 1995 and as part of our 10). In accordance with the Privacy Act continuing efforts to reduce paperwork (5 U.S.C. 552a(b)), the NPS is barred our request to OMB to approve this IC. and respondent burden, we invite the from releasing copies of records Before including your address, phone general public and other Federal contained within IMARS, including but number, email address, or other not limited to motor vehicle accident personal identifying information in your agencies to take this opportunity to reports, without the prior written comment, you should be aware that comment on this IC. We may not request and/or consent of the individual your entire comment, including your conduct or sponsor and a person is not mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES to whom the record pertains unless personal identifying information, may required to respond to a collection of authorized under appropriate routine- be made publicly available at any time. information unless it displays a use exceptions. While you can ask us in your comment currently valid OMB control number. The NPS requires the submission of to withhold your personal identifying DATES: You must submit comments on NPS Form 10–945, ‘‘Case Incident information from public review, we or before March 15, 2016. Report Request’’ in order to verify a cannot guarantee that it will be done. ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the requester’s identity and retrieve IC to Madonna L. 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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice; request for comments.
DatesTo ensure we are able to consider your comments, we must receive them on or before March 15, 2016.
ContactDiane Miller, National Manager, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program, National Park Service, c/o Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, 2145 Key Wallace Drive, Cambridge, Maryland 21613; or via email at [email protected]
FR Citation81 FR 2232 
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