81 FR 8988 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments on the National Spatial Data Infrastructure-Cooperative Agreements Program (NSDI CAP)

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 35 (February 23, 2016)

Page Range		8988-8989
FR Document		2016-03680

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.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 35 (Tuesday, February 23, 2016)

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 35 (Tuesday, February 23, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8988-8989]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-03680]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

U.S. Geological Survey

[GX16EE000101000]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments on 
the National Spatial Data Infrastructure--Cooperative Agreements 
Program (NSDI CAP)

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

ACTION: Notice of a new information collection, National Spatial Data 
Infrastructure--Cooperative Agreements Program (NSDI CAP).

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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.

DATES: To ensure that your comments on this ICR are considered, OMB 
must receive them on or before March 24, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Please submit written comments on this information

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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: 
([email protected]); or by fax (202) 395-5806; and identify 
your submission with `OMB Control Number 1028--New National Spatial 
Data Infrastructure--Cooperative Agreements Program (NSDI CAP)'. 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--New: 
National Spatial Data Infrastructure--Cooperative Agreements Program 
(NSDI CAP) in all correspondence.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brigitta Urban-Mathieux, Federal 
Geographic Data Committee Office of the Secretariat, U.S. Geological 
Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Mail Stop 590, Reston, VA 20192 
(mail); 703-648-5175 (phone); or [email protected] (email). You may 
also find information about this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    Respondents are submitting proposals to acquire funding for 
projects to help build the infrastructure necessary for the geospatial 
data community to effectively discover, access, share, manage, and use 
digital geographic data. The National Spatial Data Infrastructure 
(NSDI) consists of the technologies, policies, organizations, and 
people necessary to promote cost-effective production, and the ready 
availability and greater utilization of geospatial data among a variety 
of sectors, disciplines, and communities. Specific NSDI areas of 
emphasis include: Metadata documentation, clearinghouse establishment, 
geospatial data framework development, standards implementation, and 
geographic information system (GIS) organizational coordination.
    We will issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) via Grants.gov. The 
incoming proposals will be reviewed and scored based on the responses 
to the questions in the RFP. No questions of a ``sensitive'' nature are 
asked. We intend to release the project abstracts and names of the 
primary investigators for awarded/funded projects only.

II. Data

    OMB Control Number: 1028--NEW.
    Title: National Spatial Data Infrastructure--Cooperative Agreements 
Program (NSDI CAP).
    Type of Request: Approval of new information collection.
    Respondent Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    Frequency of Collection: This is an annual offer.
    Description of Respondents: General public, State and Local 
governments, Tribal nations.
    Estimated Total Number of Annual Responses: 60.
    Estimated Time per Response: Application: 35 hours; Interim and 
Final reports: 5 hours each.
    Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 2,350 hours.
    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.
    Comments: On 08/07/2015, we published a Federal Register notice (80 
FR 47512) announcing that we would submit this ICR to OMB for approval 
and soliciting comments. The comment period closed on 10/06/2015. 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.

Ivan DeLoatch,
Executive Director, Federal Geographic Data Committee, Core Science 
Systems.
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gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica development configuration was Public Comments
californica) as a result of permanent considered; however, because of the If you wish to comment on the permit
impacts to 2.92 acres (ac) of habitat the small size of the project site, further application, proposed HCP, and
species uses for breeding, feeding, and avoidance of impacts to coastal associated documents, you may submit
sheltering. The take would be incidental California gnatcatcher habitat could not comments by any of the methods noted
to the applicant’s activities associated be achieved. The Applicant also in the ADDRESSES section.
with the construction of the Cutri considered the No Action Alternative.
residential project in the City of Santee, Under the No Action Alternative, no Public Availability of Comments
California, and includes in-perpetuity incidental take of coastal California Before including your address, phone
preservation and management of 7.0 ac gnatcatcher habitat would occur, and no number, email address, or other
of coastal California gnatcatcher habitat. long-term protection and management personal identifying information in your
The Cutri residential project proposes would be afforded to the species. comment, you should be aware that
to construct a single-family residence on your entire comment—including your
a 9.9-acre parcel in the City of Santee. Our Preliminary Determination
personal identifying information—may
The project will permanently impact The Service has made a preliminary be made publicly available at any time.
2.92 ac of coastal California gnatcatcher determination that approval of the While you may ask us in your comment
occupied habitat as a result of clearing proposed HCP qualifies as a categorical to withhold your personal identifying
and grading activities. exclusion under NEPA, as provided by information from public review, we
To minimize take of coastal California the Department of the Interior Manual cannot guarantee that we will be able to
gnatcatcher by the Cutri residential (516 DM 2 Appendix 1 and 516 DM 6 do so.
development project and offset impacts Appendix 1) and as a ‘‘low-effect’’ plan
to its habitat, the applicant proposes to as defined by the Habitat Conservation Authority
mitigate for permanent impacts to 2.92 Planning Handbook (November 1996). We provide this notice under section
ac of occupied coastal California We base our determination that a HCP 10 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.)
gnatcatcher habitat through the qualifies as a low-effect plan on the and NEPA regulations (40 CFR 1506.6).).
dedication of 7.0 ac of coastal California following three criteria:
gnatcatcher habitat within an on-site (1) Implementation of the HCP would G. Mendel Stewart,
conservation easement and funding result in minor or negligible effects on Field Supervisor, Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife
long-term management to benefit the federally listed, proposed, and Office, Carlsbad, California.
species. The applicant’s proposed HCP candidate species and their habitats; [FR Doc. 2016–03717 Filed 2–22–16; 8:45 am]
also contains the following proposed (2) Implementation of the HCP would BILLING CODE 4333–15–P
measures to minimize the effects of result in minor or negligible effects on
construction activities on the coastal other environmental values or
California gnatcatcher: resources; and DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
• Clearing of habitat will not take (3) Impacts of the HCP, considered
place during the coastal California together with the impacts of other past, U.S. Geological Survey
gnatcatcher breeding season (defined as present, and reasonably foreseeable [GX16EE000101000]
February 15–August 31). In the event it similarly situated projects, would not
is not feasible to clear outside of the result, over time, in cumulative effects Agency Information Collection
breeding season, three pre-construction to environmental values or resources Activities: Request for Comments on
surveys for nesting birds will be that would be considered significant. the National Spatial Data
conducted within the week prior to Based upon this preliminary Infrastructure—Cooperative
initiating grading activities to ensure determination, we do not intend to Agreements Program (NSDI CAP)
construction activities do not occur prepare further NEPA documentation.
We will consider public comments in AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
within 300 feet of an active nest.
• A Service-approved biologist will making the final determination on Interior.
conduct a training session for the whether to prepare such additional ACTION: Notice of a new information
grading contractor and will be present documentation. collection, National Spatial Data
on site during the initial clearing and Infrastructure—Cooperative Agreements
Next Steps Program (NSDI CAP).
grubbing activities to ensure that
impacts are limited to the project We will evaluate the proposed HCP
and comments we receive to determine SUMMARY: We (the U.S. Geological
footprint. Survey) are notifying the public that we
whether the permit application meets
Proposed Action and Alternatives the requirements and issuance criteria have submitted to the Office of
The Proposed Action consists of the under section 10(a) of the Act (16 U.S.C. Management and Budget (OMB) the
issuance of an incidental take permit 1531 et seq.). We will also evaluate information collection request (ICR)
and implementation of the proposed whether issuance of a section 10(a)(1)(B) described below. To comply with the
HCP, which includes measures to avoid, incidental take permit would comply Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
minimize, and mitigate impacts to the with section 7 of the Act by conducting and as part of our continuing efforts to
coastal California gnatcatcher. If we an intra-Service consultation. We will reduce paperwork and respondent
approve the permit, take of coastal use the results of this consultation, in burden, we invite the general public and
other Federal agencies to take this
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California gnatcatcher would be combination with the above findings, in
authorized for the applicant’s activities our final analysis to determine whether opportunity to comment on this ICR.
associated with the construction of the or not to issue a permit. If the DATES: To ensure that your comments
Cutri residential development project. requirements and issuance criteria on this ICR are considered, OMB must
In the proposed HCP, the applicant under section 10(a) are met, we will receive them on or before March 24,
considers alternatives to the taking of issue the permit to the applicant for 2016.
coastal California gnatcatcher under the incidental take of coastal California ADDRESSES: Please submit written
proposed action. Alternative gnatcatcher. comments on this information

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Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		Notice of a new information collection, National Spatial Data Infrastructure--Cooperative Agreements Program (NSDI CAP).
Dates		To ensure that your comments on this ICR are considered, OMB must receive them on or before March 24, 2016.
Contact		Brigitta Urban-Mathieux, Federal Geographic Data Committee Office of the Secretariat, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Mail Stop 590, Reston, VA 20192 (mail); 703-648-5175 (phone); or [email protected] (email). You may also find information about this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.
FR Citation		81 FR 8988

81 FR 8988 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments on the National Spatial Data Infrastructure-Cooperative Agreements Program (NSDI CAP)

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORU.S. Geological Survey

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 35 (February 23, 2016)

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey