81 FR 49924 - Information Collection; Forest Industries and Logging Operations Data Collection Systems
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 146 (July 29, 2016)
Forest Service
Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 146 (July 29, 2016)
| Page Range | 49924-49925 | |
| FR Document | 2016-17862 |
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 146 (Friday, July 29, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 49924-49925] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-17862] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Forest Service Information Collection; Forest Industries and Logging Operations Data Collection Systems AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. ACTION: Notice; request for comment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Forest Service is seeking comments from all interested individuals and organizations on the renewal of a currently approved information collection, Forest Industries and Residential Fuelwood and Post Data Collection Systems with a revision adding a Logging Operations Data Collection System. DATES: Comments must be received in writing on or before September 27, 2016 to be assured of consideration. Comments received after that date will be considered to the extent practicable. ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this notice should be addressed to: USDA, Forest Service, Attn: Consuelo Brandeis, Southern Research Station, Forest Inventory and Analysis, 4700 Old Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. Comments also may be submitted via facsimile to 865-862-0262 or by email to: [email protected]. The public may inspect comments received at the Southern Research Station, 4700 Old Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN during normal business hours. Visitors are encouraged to call ahead to 865-862-2000 to facilitate entry to the building. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Consuelo Brandeis, Southern Research Station, at 865-862-2028. Individuals who use telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800- 877-8339 twenty-four hours a day, every day of the year, including holidays. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: Forest Industries and Logging Operations Data Collection Systems. OMB Number: 0596-0010. Expiration Date of Approval: September 30, 2016. Type of Request: Extension with Revision. Abstract: The Forest and Range Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 and the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act of 1978 require the Forest Service to evaluate trends in the use of logs and wood chips, to forecast anticipated levels of logs and wood chips, and to analyze changes in the harvest of these resources from the Nation's forest resource. To collect this information, Forest Service or State natural resource agency personnel use three questionnaires, two of which are collected by personal mill visits or phone calls, or which respondents return in self-addressed, postage pre-paid envelopes, or by email. The logging operations questionnaire will be delivered in person by field personnel collecting tree utilization data at sampled logging sites. Pulpwood Received Questionnaire: Forest Service personnel use this questionnaire to collect and evaluate information from pulp and composite panel mills in order to monitor the volume, types, species, sources, and prices of timber products harvested throughout the Nation. The data collected will be used to provide essential information about the current use of the Nation's timber resources for pulpwood industrial products and is not available from other sources. Logs and Other Roundwood Received Questionnaire: This questionnaire is used by Forest Service or State natural resource agency personnel to collect and evaluate information from the other, non-pulp or composite panel, primary wood-using mills, including small, part-time mills, as well as large corporate entities. Primary wood-using mills are facilities that use harvested wood in log or chip form, such as sawlogs, veneer logs, posts, and poles, to manufacture a secondary product, such as lumber or veneer. Forest Service personnel evaluate the information collected and use it to monitor the volume types, species, sources, and prices of timber products harvested throughout the Nation. Logging Operations Questionnaire: This questionnaire is used by Forest Service or State natural resource agency personnel to collect and evaluate information from logging operations, to help characterize the logging industry and its response to outside influences. The information will be used to measure the health of the logging industry as well as to provide background information for decision-making. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Logs and other Pulpwood received roundwood received Logging operations questionnaire questionnaire questionnaire ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimate of Annual Burden Hours... 35 minutes (0.58).... 38 minutes (0.64).... 12 minutes (0.2). Type of Respondents............... Primary users of Primary users of Loggers. industrial pulpwood. industrial roundwood products. Estimated Annual Average Number of 183.................. 1,788................ 435. Respondents. Estimated Annual Average Number of 1.................... 1.................... 1. Responses per Respondent. [[Page 49925]] Estimated Total Annual Average 106 hours............ 1,144 hours.......... 87 hours. Burden Hours on Respondents. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment Is Invited Comment is invited on: (1) Whether this collection of information is necessary for the stated purposes and the proper performance of the functions of the Agency, including whether the information will have practical or scientific utility; (2) the accuracy of the Agency's estimate of the burden of the 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 respondents, including the use of automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology. All comments received in response to this notice, including names and addresses when provided, will be a matter of public record. Comments will be summarized and included in the submission request toward Office of Management and Budget approval. Carlos Rodriguez Franco, Acting Associate Deputy Chief, Research & Development. [FR Doc. 2016-17862 Filed 7-28-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3411-15-P
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Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 SUMMARY: In accordance with the resources from the Nation’s forest
between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the resource. To collect this information,
Eastern Standard Time, Monday Forest Service is seeking comments Forest Service or State natural resource
through Friday. from all interested individuals and agency personnel use three
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The organizations on the renewal of a questionnaires, two of which are
purpose of the meeting is to: currently approved information collected by personal mill visits or
1. Approve Minutes from July 14, collection, Forest Industries and phone calls, or which respondents
2016 Meeting; Residential Fuelwood and Post Data return in self-addressed, postage pre-
2. Discuss/Recommend/Approve new Collection Systems with a revision paid envelopes, or by email. The logging
projects; adding a Logging Operations Data operations questionnaire will be
The meeting is open to the public. Collection System. delivered in person by field personnel
The agenda will include time for people DATES: Comments must be received in collecting tree utilization data at
to make oral statements of three minutes writing on or before September 27, 2016 sampled logging sites.
or less. Individuals wishing to make an to be assured of consideration.
oral statement should request in writing Pulpwood Received Questionnaire:
Comments received after that date will Forest Service personnel use this
by Friday, August 12, 2016, to be be considered to the extent practicable.
scheduled on the agenda. Anyone who questionnaire to collect and evaluate
ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this information from pulp and composite
would like to bring related matters to
the attention of the committee may file notice should be addressed to: USDA, panel mills in order to monitor the
written statements with the committee Forest Service, Attn: Consuelo Brandeis, volume, types, species, sources, and
staff before or after the meeting. Written Southern Research Station, Forest prices of timber products harvested
comments and requests for time for oral Inventory and Analysis, 4700 Old throughout the Nation. The data
comments must be sent to Becky Nix, Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. collected will be used to provide
RAC Coordinator, Sabine-Angelina Comments also may be submitted via essential information about the current
Resource Advisory Committee, 5050 facsimile to 865–862–0262 or by email use of the Nation’s timber resources for
State Highway 21 E, Hemphill, Texas to: cbrandeis@fs.fed.us. pulpwood industrial products and is not
75948; by email to bnix@fs.fed.us, or via The public may inspect comments available from other sources.
facsimile to 409–625–1953. received at the Southern Research
Station, 4700 Old Kingston Pike, Logs and Other Roundwood Received
Meeting Accommodations: If you are Questionnaire: This questionnaire is
a person requiring reasonable Knoxville, TN during normal business
hours. Visitors are encouraged to call used by Forest Service or State natural
accommodation, please make requests resource agency personnel to collect and
in advance for sign language ahead to 865–862–2000 to facilitate
entry to the building. evaluate information from the other,
interpreting, assistive listening devices, non-pulp or composite panel, primary
or other reasonable accommodation. For FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
wood-using mills, including small, part-
access to the facility or proceedings, Consuelo Brandeis, Southern Research
time mills, as well as large corporate
please contact the person listed in the Station, at 865–862–2028. Individuals
entities. Primary wood-using mills are
section titled For Further Information who use telecommunication devices for
the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal facilities that use harvested wood in log
Contact. All reasonable accommodation
Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 or chip form, such as sawlogs, veneer
requests are managed on a case by case
twenty-four hours a day, every day of logs, posts, and poles, to manufacture a
basis.
the year, including holidays. secondary product, such as lumber or
Dated: July 25, 2016. veneer. Forest Service personnel
Kimpton M. Cooper, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
evaluate the information collected and
Designated Federal Officer, Sabine-Angelina Title: Forest Industries and Logging
use it to monitor the volume types,
RAC. Operations Data Collection Systems.
species, sources, and prices of timber
[FR Doc. 2016–17964 Filed 7–28–16; 8:45 am] OMB Number: 0596–0010.
products harvested throughout the
Expiration Date of Approval:
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September 30, 2016.
Type of Request: Extension with Logging Operations Questionnaire:
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Revision. This questionnaire is used by Forest
Abstract: The Forest and Range Service or State natural resource agency
Forest Service Renewable Resources Planning Act of personnel to collect and evaluate
1974 and the Forest and Rangeland information from logging operations, to
Information Collection; Forest Renewable Resources Research Act of help characterize the logging industry
Industries and Logging Operations 1978 require the Forest Service to and its response to outside influences.
Data Collection Systems evaluate trends in the use of logs and The information will be used to measure
AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. wood chips, to forecast anticipated the health of the logging industry as
levels of logs and wood chips, and to well as to provide background
ACTION: Notice; request for comment.
analyze changes in the harvest of these information for decision-making.
Pulpwood received Logs and other roundwood Logging operations
questionnaire received questionnaire questionnaire
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Estimate of Annual Burden Hours ........................................ 35 minutes (0.58) ................. 38 minutes (0.64) ................. 12 minutes (0.2).
Type of Respondents ............................................................ Primary users of industrial Primary users of industrial Loggers.
pulpwood. roundwood products.
Estimated Annual Average Number of Respondents ........... 183 ........................................ 1,788 ..................................... 435.
Estimated Annual Average Number of Responses per Re- 1 ............................................ 1 ............................................ 1.
spondent.
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Pulpwood received Logs and other roundwood Logging operations
questionnaire received questionnaire questionnaire
Estimated Total Annual Average Burden Hours on Re- 106 hours .............................. 1,144 hours ........................... 87 hours.
spondents.
Comment Is Invited DATES: The meeting will be held on accommodation, please make requests
Comment is invited on: (1) Whether August 30, 2016, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 in advance for sign language
this collection of information is p.m. Eastern Standard Time. interpreting, assistive listening devices,
necessary for the stated purposes and All RAC meetings are subject to or other reasonable accommodation. For
the proper performance of the functions cancellation. For status of meeting prior access to the facility or proceedings,
of the Agency, including whether the to attendance, please contact the person please contact the person listed in the
information will have practical or listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION section titled FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT. CONTACT. All reasonable
scientific utility; (2) the accuracy of the
Agency’s estimate of the burden of the ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at accommodation requests are managed
collection of information, including the the Ewen-Trout Creek School, 14312 on a case by case basis.
validity of the methodology and Airport Road, Ewen, Michigan. Dated: July 20, 2016.
assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance Written comments may be submitted Linda L. Jackson,
the quality, utility, and clarity of the as described under SUPPLEMENTARY Forest Supervisor.
information to be collected; and (4) INFORMATION. All comments, including
[FR Doc. 2016–17966 Filed 7–28–16; 8:45 am]
ways to minimize the burden of the names and addresses when provided,
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collection of information on are placed in the record and are
respondents, including the use of available for public inspection and
automated, electronic, mechanical, or copying. The public may inspect
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
other technological collection comments received at the Ottawa
techniques or other forms of information National Forest Supervisor’s Office. Forest Service
technology. Please call ahead to facilitate entry into
All comments received in response to the building. Assessment Report of Ecological,
this notice, including names and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa Social and Economic Conditions,
addresses when provided, will be a Klaus, RAC Coordinator, by phone at Trends and Sustainability for the
matter of public record. Comments will 906–932–1330 ext. 328 or via email at Manti-La Sal National Forest
be summarized and included in the lklaus@fs.fed.us.
submission request toward Office of Individuals who use AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.
Management and Budget approval. telecommunication devices for the deaf ACTION: Notice of initiating the
(TDD) may call the Federal Information Assessment phase of the Forest Plan
Carlos Rodriguez Franco, revision for the Manti-La Sal National
Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339
Acting Associate Deputy Chief, Research & between 8:00 a.m. and Forest.
Development.
8:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time,
[FR Doc. 2016–17862 Filed 7–28–16; 8:45 am] SUMMARY: The Manti-La Sal National
Monday through Friday.
BILLING CODE 3411–15–P Forest (Forest), located in central and
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
southeastern Utah and southwestern
purpose of the meeting is to: Colorado, is initiating the first phase of
1. Identify new RAC committee
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE the Forest Planning process pursuant to
members,
2. Review and approve the RAC’s the 2012 National Forest System Land
Forest Service Management Planning rule (36 CFR part
operating guidelines,
3. Elect a new chairperson, and 219). This process will result in a
Ontonagon Resource Advisory revised forest land management plan
Committee 4. Review and recommend projects for
Title II funding. (Forest Plan) which provides strategic
AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. The meeting is open to the public. direction for management of resources
ACTION: Notice of meeting. The agenda will include time for people on the Manti-La Sal National Forest for
to make oral statements of three minutes the next fifteen years. The first phase of
SUMMARY: The Ontonagon Resource or less. Individuals wishing to make an the planning process involves assessing
Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet in oral statement should request in writing ecological, social and economic
Ewen, Michigan. The Committee is by August 16, 2016, to be scheduled on conditions and trends in the planning
meeting as authorized under the Secure the agenda. Anyone who would like to area and documenting the findings in an
Rural Schools and Community Self- bring related matters to the attention of Assessment report.
Determination Act (the Act) and the committee may file written The Assessment phase is just
operates in compliance with the Federal statements with the committee staff beginning on the Manti-La Sal National
Advisory Committee Act. The purpose before or after the meeting. Written Forest and interested parties are invited
of the committee is to improve comments and requests for time for oral to contribute to the development of the
collaborative relationships and to Assessment. The Forest will be hosting
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comments must be sent to Attention:
provide advice and recommendations to Lisa Klaus, RAC Coordinator, Ottawa public meetings to explain the revision
the Forest Service concerning projects National Forest Supervisor’s Office, process and invite the public to share
and funding consistent with the Title II E6248 US Hwy. 2, Ironwood, Michigan information relevant to the Assessment.
of the Act. RAC information can be 49938; by email to lklaus@fs.fed.us, or At the public meetings the Forest will
found at the following Web site: http:// via facsimile to 906–932–0122. seek sources of existing information and
cloudapps-usda-gov.force.com/FSSRS/ Meeting Accommodations: If you are local knowledge of current conditions
RAC_Page?id=001t0000002JcvqAAC. a person requiring reasonable and trends in the natural resources,
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| Dates | Comments must be received in writing on or before September 27, 2016 to be assured of consideration. Comments received after that date will be considered to the extent practicable. | |
| Contact | Consuelo Brandeis, Southern Research Station, at 865-862-2028. Individuals who use telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800- 877-8339 twenty-four hours a day, every day of the year, including holidays. | |
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