81_FR_53310 81 FR 53155 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments

81 FR 53155 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 155 (August 11, 2016)

Page Range53155-53156
FR Document2016-19110

We (the U.S. Geological Survey) are notifying the public that we have submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) the information collection request (ICR) described below. To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) 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 ICR. This collection is scheduled to expire on August 31, 2016.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 155 (Thursday, August 11, 2016) 
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

U.S. Geological Survey

[GX16EN05ESB0500]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments

AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Interior.

ACTION: Notice of revision of a currently approved information 
collection, (1028-0096).

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SUMMARY: We (the U.S. Geological Survey) are notifying the public that 
we have submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) the 
information collection request (ICR) described below. To comply with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) 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 ICR. This collection is scheduled to expire on August 
31, 2016.

DATES: To ensure that your comments on this ICR are considered, OMB 
must receive them on or before September 12, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Please submit written comments on this information 
collection directly to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Desk Officer 
for the Department of the Interior, via email: 
(OIRA[email protected]); or

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by fax (202) 395-5806; and identify your submission with `OMB Control 
Number 1028-0028 Department of the Interior Regional Climate Science 
Centers'. Please also forward a copy of your comments and suggestions 
on this information collection to the Information Collection Clearance 
Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 807, 
Reston, VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648-7195 (fax); or [email protected] (email). Please reference `OMB Information 
Collection 1028-0028 Department of the Interior Regional Climate 
Science Centers' in all correspondence.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robin O'Malley, National Climate 
Change and Wildlife Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 
Sunrise Valley Drive, Mail Stop 516, Reston, VA 20192 (mail); 703-648-
4086 (phone); or [email protected] (email). You may also find 
information about this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) manages eight Department of the 
Interior (DOI) Climate Science Centers (CSC). Each CSC involves a 
cooperative agreement with a host institution. The initial host 
institution agreements will be re-competed, requiring collection of 
information from potential host institutions. In addition, this 
information collection addresses quarterly and annual reporting 
required of host institutions.

II. Data

    OMB Control Number: 1028-0096.
    Form Number: NA.
    Title: Department of the Interior Regional Climate Science Centers.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved information 
collection.
    Respondent Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    Frequency of Collection: Information will be collected one time 
every five years (approximately) for each CSC, to enable re-competition 
of CSC hosting agreements. In addition, host institutions are required 
to fill four quarterly financial statements and one annual progress 
report.
    Description of Respondents: Institutions that are expected to 
propose to serve as CSC host or partner institutions include State, 
local government, and tribal entities, including academic institutions. 
Existing host institutions are State academic institutions.
    Estimated Total Number of Annual Responses: USGS expects to request 
proposals for a maximum of three CSCs in any year, and to receive an 
average of five proposals per CSC-request, for a total of fifteen 
proposals in any single year. USGS expects to enter into hosting 
agreements with a minimum of eight CSC host institutions. Thus USGS 
would request quarterly financial statements and annual progress 
reports covering host agreements from eight institutions. In addition, 
USGS expects to have in place approximately forty cooperative 
agreements per year addressing specific research projects funded under 
these hosting agreements. Each of these 40 agreements requires 
quarterly financial statements and one annual progress report.
    Estimated Time per Response: Each proposal for CSC hosting is 
expected to take 200 hours to complete. The time required to complete 
quarterly and annual reports for any specific host cooperative 
agreement or research project agreement is expected to total 2.5 hours 
per report.
    Estimated Annual Burden Hours: A maximum of 3,000 hours in years 
when proposals are requested, and 1 hours in those years with only 
quarterly and annual reporting.
    Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-Hour Cost'' Burden: 
There are no ``non-hour cost'' burdens associated with this collection 
of information.
    Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) 
provides that an agency may not conduct or sponsor and you are not 
required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a 
currently valid OMB control number. Until the OMB approves a collection 
of information, you are not obliged to respond.
    Comments: On September 1, 2015, we published a Federal Register 
notice (80 FR 52786) announcing that we would submit this ICR to OMB 
for approval and soliciting comments. The comment period closed on 
November 2, 2015. We received no comments.

III. Request for Comments

    We again invite comments concerning this ICR as to: (a) Whether the 
proposed collection of information is necessary for the agency to 
perform its duties, including whether the information is useful; (b) 
the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed 
collection of information; (c) how to enhance the quality, usefulness, 
and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) how to minimize 
the burden on the respondents, including the use of automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
    Please note that comments submitted in response to this notice are 
a matter of public record. Before including your personal mailing 
address, phone number, email address, or other personally identifiable 
information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire 
comment, including your personally identifiable information, may be 
made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us and the OMB 
in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from 
public review, we cannot guarantee that it will be done.

Douglas Beard,
 Chief of National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center.
[FR Doc. 2016-19110 Filed 8-10-16; 8:45 am]
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This endangered species. number, email address, or other data is generated in the processing of A permit granted by us under section personal identifying information in your the homeownership and rental housing 10(a)(1)(A) of the Act authorizes the comment, you should be aware that counseling certification process. permittee to conduct activities your entire comment—including your (including take or interstate commerce) personal identifying information—may SYSTEMS EXEMPTED FROM CERTAIN PROVISIONS with respect to U.S. endangered or be made publicly available at any time. OF THE ACT: threatened species for scientific While you can ask us in your comment None. purposes or enhancement of to withhold your personal identifying [FR Doc. 2016–19134 Filed 8–10–16; 8:45 am] propagation or survival. Our regulations information from public review, we BILLING CODE 4210–67–P implementing section 10(a)(1)(A) of the cannot guarantee that we will be able to Act for these permits are found at 50 do so. CFR 17.22 for endangered wildlife species, 50 CFR 17.32 for threatened Authority DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR wildlife species, 50 CFR 17.62 for We provide this notice under section Fish and Wildlife Service endangered plant species, and 50 CFR 10 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). [FWS–R1–ES–2016–N134; 17.72 for threatened plant species. Dated: August 3, 2016. FXES11130100000–167–FF01E00000] Applications Available for Review and Stephen J. Zylstra, Comment Acting Regional Director, Pacific Region, U.S. Endangered Species; Recovery Permit Fish and Wildlife. Applications We invite local, State, and Federal [FR Doc. 2016–19089 Filed 8–10–16; 8:45 am] agencies and the public to comment on AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, the following applications. Please refer BILLING CODE 4333–15–P Interior. to the permit number for the application ACTION: Notice of availability; request when submitting comments. Documents and other information DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR for comments. submitted with these applications are U.S. Geological Survey SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and available for review by request from the Wildlife Service, invite the public to Program Manager for Restoration and [GX16EN05ESB0500] comment on the following applications Endangered Species Classification at the for recovery permits to conduct address listed in the ADDRESSES section Agency Information Collection activities with the purpose of enhancing of this notice, subject to the Activities: Request for Comments the survival of endangered species. The requirements of the Privacy Act (5 AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Endangered Species Act of 1973, as U.S.C. 552a) and the Freedom of Interior. amended (Act), prohibits certain Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552). ACTION: Notice of revision of a currently activities with endangered species unless a Federal permit allows such Permit Number: TE–09155B approved information collection, (1028– activity. The Act also requires that we 0096). Applicant: Renee Robinette Ha, invite public comment before issuing University of Washington, Seattle, SUMMARY: We (the U.S. Geological such permits. Washington Survey) are notifying the public that we DATES: To ensure consideration, please The applicant requests a permit have submitted to the Office of send your written comments by amendment to take (collect blood Management and Budget (OMB) the September 12, 2016. samples and attach radio transmitters) information collection request (ICR) ADDRESSES: Program Manager, Mariana crow (Corvus kubaryi) in described below. To comply with the Restoration and Endangered Species conjunction with survey and population Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) Classification, Ecological Services, U.S. monitoring activities on the island of and as part of our continuing efforts to Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern reduce paperwork and respondent Regional Office, 911 NE. 11th Avenue, Mariana Islands, for the purpose of burden, we invite the general public and Portland, OR 97232–4181. Please refer enhancing the species’ survival. other Federal agencies to take this to the permit number for the application opportunity to comment on this ICR. when submitting comments. Permit Number: TE–02971C This collection is scheduled to expire FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Applicant: Stephen Weller, University of on August 31, 2016. Colleen Henson, Fish and Wildlife California, Irvine, California DATES: To ensure that your comments Biologist, at the above address, or by The applicant requests a new recovery on this ICR are considered, OMB must telephone (503–231–6131) or fax (503– permit to remove and reduce to receive them on or before September 12, 231–6243). possession (collect leaf cuttings) 2016. ADDRESSES: Please submit written sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Schiedea hawaiiensis (ma‘oli‘oli) on the island of Hawaii in conjunction with comments on this information Background collection directly to the Office of genetic research for the purpose of The Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) enhancing the species’ survival. Management and Budget (OMB), Office prohibits certain activities with respect of Information and Regulatory Affairs, to endangered and threatened species Public Availability of Comments Attention: Desk Officer for the unless a Federal permit allows such All comments and materials we Department of the Interior, via email: activity. Along with our implementing receive in response to this request will (OIRA_SUBMISSION@omb.eop.gov); or VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:44 Aug 10, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00038 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\11AUN1.SGM 11AUN1

53156 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 155 / Thursday, August 11, 2016 / Notices by fax (202) 395–5806; and identify your proposals for a maximum of three CSCs Please note that comments submitted submission with ‘OMB Control Number in any year, and to receive an average in response to this notice are a matter 1028–0028 Department of the Interior of five proposals per CSC-request, for a of public record. Before including your Regional Climate Science Centers’. total of fifteen proposals in any single personal mailing address, phone Please also forward a copy of your year. USGS expects to enter into hosting number, email address, or other comments and suggestions on this agreements with a minimum of eight personally identifiable information in information collection to the CSC host institutions. Thus USGS your comment, you should be aware Information Collection Clearance would request quarterly financial that your entire comment, including Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 statements and annual progress reports your personally identifiable Sunrise Valley Drive MS 807, Reston, covering host agreements from eight information, may be made publicly VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648–7195 (fax); institutions. In addition, USGS expects available at any time. While you can ask or gs-info_collections@usgs.gov (email). to have in place approximately forty us and the OMB in your comment to Please reference ‘OMB Information cooperative agreements per year withhold your personal identifying Collection 1028–0028 Department of the addressing specific research projects information from public review, we Interior Regional Climate Science funded under these hosting agreements. cannot guarantee that it will be done. Centers’ in all correspondence. Each of these 40 agreements requires Douglas Beard, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: quarterly financial statements and one annual progress report. Chief of National Climate Change and Robin O’Malley, National Climate Wildlife Science Center. Change and Wildlife Science Center, Estimated Time per Response: Each proposal for CSC hosting is expected to [FR Doc. 2016–19110 Filed 8–10–16; 8:45 am] U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Mail Stop 516, Reston, VA take 200 hours to complete. The time BILLING CODE 4338–11–P 20192 (mail); 703–648–4086 (phone); or required to complete quarterly and romalley@usgs.gov (email). You may annual reports for any specific host also find information about this ICR at cooperative agreement or research INTERNATIONAL TRADE www.reginfo.gov. project agreement is expected to total COMMISSION SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 2.5 hours per report. [Investigation No. 337–TA–993] Estimated Annual Burden Hours: A I. Abstract maximum of 3,000 hours in years when Certain Overflow and Drain The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) proposals are requested, and 1 hours in Assemblies for Bathtubs and manages eight Department of the those years with only quarterly and Components Thereof; Notice of the Interior (DOI) Climate Science Centers annual reporting. Commission’s Determination Not To (CSC). Each CSC involves a cooperative Estimated Reporting and Review an Initial Determination agreement with a host institution. The Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’ Terminating Better Enterprise Co. Ltd. initial host institution agreements will Burden: There are no ‘‘non-hour cost’’ From the Investigation; Issuance of be re-competed, requiring collection of burdens associated with this collection Consent Order; Termination of the information from potential host of information. Investigation Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA institutions. In addition, this AGENCY: U.S. International Trade (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an information collection addresses Commission. agency may not conduct or sponsor and quarterly and annual reporting required you are not required to respond to a ACTION: Notice. of host institutions. collection of information unless it II. Data displays a currently valid OMB control SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that number. Until the OMB approves a the U.S. International Trade OMB Control Number: 1028–0096. Commission has determined not to Form Number: NA. collection of information, you are not obliged to respond. review the presiding administrative law Title: Department of the Interior Comments: On September 1, 2015, we judge’s (‘‘ALJ’’) initial determination Regional Climate Science Centers. Type of Request: Revision of a published a Federal Register notice (80 (‘‘ID’’) (Order No. 6) terminating Better currently approved information FR 52786) announcing that we would Enterprise Co. Ltd. (‘‘BEC’’) based on a collection. submit this ICR to OMB for approval consent order stipulation and proposed Respondent Obligation: Required to and soliciting comments. The comment consent order. The Commission obtain or retain benefits. period closed on November 2, 2015. We terminates the investigation. Frequency of Collection: Information received no comments. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: will be collected one time every five Amanda Pitcher Fisherow, Esq., Office III. Request for Comments of the General Counsel, U.S. years (approximately) for each CSC, to enable re-competition of CSC hosting We again invite comments concerning International Trade Commission, 500 E agreements. In addition, host this ICR as to: (a) Whether the proposed Street SW., Washington, DC 20436, institutions are required to fill four collection of information is necessary telephone (202) 205–2737. Copies of quarterly financial statements and one for the agency to perform its duties, non-confidential documents filed in annual progress report. including whether the information is connection with this investigation are or Description of Respondents: useful; (b) the accuracy of the agency’s will be available for inspection during Institutions that are expected to propose estimate of the burden of the proposed official business hours (8:45 a.m. to 5:15 collection of information; (c) how to p.m.) in the Office of the Secretary, U.S. sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES to serve as CSC host or partner institutions include State, local enhance the quality, usefulness, and International Trade Commission, 500 E government, and tribal entities, clarity of the information to be Street SW., Washington, DC 20436, including academic institutions. collected; and (d) how to minimize the telephone (202) 205–2000. 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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of revision of a currently approved information collection, (1028-0096).
DatesTo ensure that your comments on this ICR are considered, OMB must receive them on or before September 12, 2016.
ContactRobin O'Malley, National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Mail Stop 516, Reston, VA 20192 (mail); 703-648- 4086 (phone); or [email protected] (email). You may also find information about this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.
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