82 FR 12428 - Information Collection: Southwestern Crown of the Continent Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 41 (March 3, 2017)
Forest Service
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 41 (March 3, 2017)
| Page Range | 12428-12429 | |
| FR Document | 2017-04153 |
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 41 (Friday, March 3, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 12428-12429] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-04153] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Forest Service Information Collection: Southwestern Crown of the Continent Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project 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 proposed new information collection, Southwestern Crown of the Continent Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project. DATES: Comments must be received in writing on or before May 2, 2017 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 Lindsay Buchanan, Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Coordinator, 1220 SW 3rd Ave., Portland, Oregon, 97204. Comments may also be submitted by email to: lindsaysbuchanan@fs.fed.us. The public may inspect comments received at 1220 SW 3rd Ave., Portland, Oregon 97204, during normal business hours. Visitors are encouraged to call ahead to 503-808-2810 to facilitate entry to the building. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lindsay Buchanan, 503-808-2810. Individuals who use telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339, twenty-four hours a day, every day of the year, including holidays. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: Southwestern Crown of the Continent Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project. OMB Number: 0596--NEW. Expiration Date of Approval: Not Applicable--new request. Type of Request: New. Abstract: The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) is a U.S. Forest Service (USFS) program started in 2010 to encourage collaborative groups of neighboring landowners, to work with the Forest Service to find common ground pertaining to forest restoration. Such collaborative neighboring landowners include State, local and Tribal government representatives, businesses, interest groups, and non-profit organizations. The Southwestern Crown Collaborative (SWCC) is one of 23 Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) projects across the nation currently. In the SWCC, partners work with the USFS to implement restoration work and multi- party monitoring of landscape restoration treatments across four counties and three National Forests in western Montana. The Forest Landscape Restoration Act (FLRA) of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 7303), which enabled the CFLRP, requires monitoring ``to assess the positive or negative [[Page 12429]] ecological, social, and economic effects of projects implementing a selected proposal for not less than 15 years after project implementation commences.'' This Information Collection Request (ICR) will help meet the SWCC's obligation for monitoring the social impacts on residents and stakeholders of activities conducted under the CFLRP. The scope of the ICR includes residents of communities within and adjacent to the SWCC landscape and collaborative participants. Gaining information from individuals who work or live in the geographic area of the SWCC provides valuable information to partners and land management decision makers. To ensure the USFS is informed about the opinions of participants of collaborative processes and public members living in or around the SWCC, the USFS seeks to obtain approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of an ICR to collect both qualitative and quantitative feedback from stakeholders on management decisions, forest restoration work, monitoring activities, and land management planning. The information will be collected through a census survey of participants of the Southwestern Crown Collaborative and a mail-in, on-line, and hard copy survey of residents of the Southwestern Crown of the Continent Landscape. Through the collection of this information, managers and planners will obtain valuable information to inform future decisions. USFS public affairs staff, social scientists, and economists may also use this information, and USFS, academic, and other researchers may use or cite the results or data collected in publications. Without the collection of this information, the USFS will be unable to determine whether it is meeting the requirements of the Forest Landscape Restoration Act, nor if they are fully incorporating partner and public input into forest project, implementation, monitoring and/or planning processes as required by law. Type of Respondents: Residents within the Southwestern Crown CFLRP landscape (4,429 occupied dwellings) and Southwestern Crown Collaborative participants (150 participants on email list). Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 750. Estimated Annual Number of Responses per Respondent: 1. Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours on Respondents: 386 hours. 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 for OMB approval. Dated: February 15, 2017. Jeanne Higgins, Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest System. [FR Doc. 2017-04153 Filed 3-2-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3411-15-P
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the collection of information unless it National Agricultural Statistics Service Forest Service is seeking comments
displays a currently valid OMB control Title: Confidentiality Pledge Revision. from all interested individuals and
number. OMB Control Number: 0535–0260. organizations on the proposed new
Summary of Collection: The revision information collection, Southwestern
National Agricultural Statistics Service
to the confidentiality pledge made by Crown of the Continent Collaborative
Title: Aquaculture Survey. NASS to all respondents on all data Forest Landscape Restoration Project.
OMB Control Number: 0535–0150. collection efforts under CIPSEA and DATES: Comments must be received in
Summary of Collection: The primary
Title 7, Chapter 55, Sec, 2276, was writing on or before May 2, 2017 to be
function of the National Agricultural
changed to incorporate provisions that assured of consideration. Comments
Statistics Service is to estimate
became law as a part of the received after that date will be
production and stocks of agricultural
Consolidated Appropriations Act for considered to the extent practicable.
food, fiber, and specialty commodities.
Fiscal Year 2016. Congress included the ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this
Congress has mandated the collection of
Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act notice should be addressed to Lindsay
basic data for aquaculture and provides
of 2015 (H.R. 2029, Division N, Title II, Buchanan, Collaborative Forest
funding for these surveys. Public Law
Subtitle B, Sec.223). This Act permits Landscape Restoration Program
96–362 was passed to increase the
and requires the Secretary of Homeland Coordinator, 1220 SW 3rd Ave.,
overall effectiveness and productivity of
Security to provide federal civilian Portland, Oregon, 97204. Comments
federal aquaculture programs by
agencies’ information technology may also be submitted by email to:
improving coordination and
systems with cybersecurity protection lindsaysbuchanan@fs.fed.us. The public
communication among Federal agencies
for their Internet traffic. The technology may inspect comments received at 1220
involved in those programs.
currently used is ‘‘Einstein 3A’’ and it SW 3rd Ave., Portland, Oregon 97204,
Aquaculture is an alternative method to
searches Internet traffic in and out of during normal business hours. Visitors
produce a high protein, low fat product
federal civilian agencies in real time for are encouraged to call ahead to 503–
demanded by the consumer.
malware signatures. 808–2810 to facilitate entry to the
Aquiculture surveys provide Need and Use of the Information:
information on trout and catfish building.
CIPSEA; Title 7, Chapter 55, Section
inventory, acreage and sales as well as FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
2276; and similar confidentiality
catfish processed. Lindsay Buchanan, 503–808–2810.
pledges promise that respondents’ data
Need and Use of the Information: The Individuals who use telecommunication
will be seen only by statistical agency
survey results are useful in analyzing devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the
personnel or their sworn agents. With
changing trends in the number of Federal Information Relay Service
the passage of the Federal Cybersecurity
commercial operations and production (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339, twenty-four
Enhancement Act of 2015, it is possible
levels by State. The information hours a day, every day of the year,
that Department of Homeland Security
collected is used to demonstrate the including holidays.
personnel could see some portion of
growing importance of aquaculture to SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
those confidential data in the course of
officials of Federal and State Title: Southwestern Crown of the
examining the suspicious Internet
government agencies who manage and Continent Collaborative Forest
packets identified by the Einstein 3A
direct policy over programs in Landscape Restoration Project.
technology. NASS needs to revise their
agriculture and natural resources. The OMB Number: 0596—NEW.
confidentiality pledge to reflect this Expiration Date of Approval: Not
type of information collected and
process change. Without this change the Applicable—new request.
reported provides extension educators
availability of NASS data could be Type of Request: New.
and research scientists with data that
significantly impacted. Abstract: The Collaborative Forest
indicates important areas that require Description of Respondents: Business
special educational and/or research Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP)
or other for-profit; Individuals or is a U.S. Forest Service (USFS) program
efforts, such as causes for loss of fish households.
and pond inventories of fish of various started in 2010 to encourage
Number of Respondents: 1. collaborative groups of neighboring
sizes. The data gathered from the Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
various reports provide information to landowners, to work with the Forest
Annually.
establish contract levels for fishing Service to find common ground
Total Burden Hours: 1.
programs and to evaluate prospective pertaining to forest restoration. Such
loans to growers and processors. Charlene Parker, collaborative neighboring landowners
This is a request for the three-year Departmental Information Collection include State, local and Tribal
renewal of this information collection. Clearance Officer. government representatives, businesses,
In addition to the national Catfish and [FR Doc. 2017–04159 Filed 3–2–17; 8:45 am] interest groups, and non-profit
Trout Production Surveys, NASS is BILLING CODE 3410–20–P organizations. The Southwestern Crown
requesting approval to conduct three Collaborative (SWCC) is one of 23
state-specific aquaculture surveys to be Collaborative Forest Landscape
conducted under reimbursable DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Restoration (CFLR) projects across the
agreements in Florida, Hawaii, and nation currently. In the SWCC, partners
Pennsylvania. Also, NASS will Forest Service work with the USFS to implement
discontinue the Catfish Feed Deliveries restoration work and multi-party
Information Collection: Southwestern monitoring of landscape restoration
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Report and the Catfish Processing Crown of the Continent Collaborative
Report. treatments across four counties and
Forest Landscape Restoration Project three National Forests in western
Description of Respondents: Farms;
Business or other for-profit. AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. Montana.
Number of Respondents: 3,655. ACTION: Notice; request for comment. The Forest Landscape Restoration Act
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: (FLRA) of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 7303), which
Monthly; Semi-annually; Annually. SUMMARY: In accordance with the enabled the CFLRP, requires monitoring
Total Burden Hours: 1,030. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the ‘‘to assess the positive or negative
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ecological, social, and economic effects necessary for the stated purposes and Third Floor, Southwest Wing, Yates
of projects implementing a selected the proper performance of the functions Building, 201 14th Street SW.,
proposal for not less than 15 years after of the Agency, including whether the Washington, DC. Visitors are
project implementation commences.’’ information will have practical or encouraged to call ahead at (202) 205–
This Information Collection Request scientific utility; (2) the accuracy of the 1496 to facilitate entry into the building.
(ICR) will help meet the SWCC’s Agency’s estimate of the burden of the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carl
obligation for monitoring the social collection of information, including the Maass, Forest Management Staff, at
impacts on residents and stakeholders validity of the methodology and (970) 295–5961. Individuals who use
of activities conducted under the assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance telecommunication devices for the deaf
CFLRP. The scope of the ICR includes the quality, utility, and clarity of the (TDD) may call the Federal Relay
residents of communities within and information to be collected; and (4) Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339, 24
adjacent to the SWCC landscape and ways to minimize the burden of the hours a day, every day of the year,
collaborative participants. collection of information on including holidays.
Gaining information from individuals respondents, including the use of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
who work or live in the geographic area automated, electronic, mechanical, or Title: Advertised Timber for Sale.
of the SWCC provides valuable other technological collection OMB Number: 0596–0066.
information to partners and land techniques or other forms of information Expiration Date of Approval: July 31,
management decision makers. To ensure technology. 2017.
the USFS is informed about the All comments received in response to Type of Request: Extension with
opinions of participants of collaborative this notice, including names and Revision.
processes and public members living in addresses when provided, will be a Abstract: Pursuant to statutory
or around the SWCC, the USFS seeks to matter of public record. Comments will requirements at 16 U.S.C. 472a, unless
obtain approval by the Office of be summarized and included in the extraordinary conditions exist as
Management and Budget (OMB) of an submission request for OMB approval. defined by regulation, the Secretary of
ICR to collect both qualitative and Agriculture must (1) advertise sales of
Dated: February 15, 2017.
quantitative feedback from stakeholders all National Forest System timber or
Jeanne Higgins, forest products exceeding $10,000 in
on management decisions, forest
Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest appraised value; (2) select bidding
restoration work, monitoring activities,
System. methods that ensure open and fair
and land management planning. The
[FR Doc. 2017–04153 Filed 3–2–17; 8:45 am] competition; (3) select bidding methods
information will be collected through a
census survey of participants of the BILLING CODE 3411–15–P that ensure that the Federal Government
Southwestern Crown Collaborative and receives not less than appraised value of
a mail-in, on-line, and hard copy survey the timber or forest product; and (4)
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE monitor bidding patterns for evidence of
of residents of the Southwestern Crown
of the Continent Landscape. Through unlawful bidding practices.
Forest Service Pursuant to the Forest Service Small
the collection of this information,
managers and planners will obtain Information Collection; Advertised Business Timber Sale Set-Aside
valuable information to inform future Timber for Sale Program, developed in cooperation with
decisions. USFS public affairs staff, the Small Business Administration,
social scientists, and economists may AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. Forest Service regulations at Title 36 of
also use this information, and USFS, ACTION: Notice; request for comment. the Code of Federal Regulations,
academic, and other researchers may § 223.84 require that the Forest Service
SUMMARY: In accordance with the bid form used by potential timber sale
use or cite the results or data collected Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
in publications. bidders include provisions for small
Forest Service is seeking comments business concerns. The data collected
Without the collection of this from all interested individuals and
information, the USFS will be unable to will be used by the agency to ensure
organizations on the revision with that National Forest System timber will
determine whether it is meeting the changes of the currently approved
requirements of the Forest Landscape be sold at not less than appraised value,
information collection 0596–0066, that bidders will meet specific criteria
Restoration Act, nor if they are fully Advertised Timber for Sale.
incorporating partner and public input when submitting a bid, and that anti-
DATES: Comments must be received in trust violations will not occur during
into forest project, implementation,
writing on or before May 2, 2017 to be the bidding process.
monitoring and/or planning processes
assured of consideration. Comments The tax identification number of each
as required by law.
Type of Respondents: Residents received after that date will be bidder is entered into an automated bid
within the Southwestern Crown CFLRP considered to the extent practicable. monitoring system, which is used to
landscape (4,429 occupied dwellings) ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this determine if speculative bidding or
and Southwestern Crown Collaborative notice should be addressed to Director, unlawful bidding practices are
participants (150 participants on email Forest Management, 1400 Independence occurring and is required to process
list). Avenue SW., Mail Stop 1103, electronic payments to the purchaser.
Estimated Annual Number of Washington, DC 20250–0003. Respondents will be bidders on
Respondents: 750. Comments also may be submitted via National Forest System timber sales.
facsimile to (202) 205–1045 or by email Forest Service sale officers will mail bid
mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES
Estimated Annual Number of
Responses per Respondent: 1. to: bid_forms@fs.fed.us. forms to potential bidders, and bidders
Estimated Total Annual Burden All comments, including names and will return the completed forms, dated
Hours on Respondents: 386 hours. addresses when provided, are placed in and signed, to the Forest Service sale
the record and are available for public officer.
Comment Is Invited inspection and copying. The public may The data gathered in this information
Comment is invited on: (1) Whether inspect comments received at the Office collection are not available from other
this collection of information is of the Director, Forest Management, sources.
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| Dates | Comments must be received in writing on or before May 2, 2017 to be assured of consideration. Comments received after that date will be considered to the extent practicable. | |
| Contact | Lindsay Buchanan, 503-808-2810. Individuals who use telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339, twenty-four hours a day, every day of the year, including holidays. | |
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