82_FR_3359 82 FR 3352 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments

82 FR 3352 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 7 (January 11, 2017)

Page Range3352-3352
FR Document2017-00444

We (the U.S. Geological Survey) will ask the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection (IC) described below. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) 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.

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 7 (Wednesday, January 11, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 11, 2017)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-00444]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

U.S. Geological Survey

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Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments

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

ACTION: Notice of a new information collection, Ecosystems Program 
Stakeholder Satisfaction Survey.

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SUMMARY: We (the U.S. Geological Survey) will ask the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection (IC) 
described below. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) 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.

DATES: To ensure that your comments are considered, we must receive 
them on or before March 13, 2017.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 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-
7197 (fax); or [email protected] (email). Please reference 
`Information Collection 1028--NEW, Ecosystems Program Stakeholder 
Satisfaction Survey' in all correspondence.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Linn Kwan, Senior Program Officer, 
Tel. 703.648.4494 or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract

    The survey will be sent to USGS Ecosystems Mission Area 
stakeholders/partners to provide respondents the opportunity to share 
their comments, insights and satisfaction of USGS Ecosystems research 
products, training, and technical assistance. The survey results will 
be compiled and reported in three new performance measures that are 
being proposed for FY2018-2022. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. 
The respondents' identities will only be known if they chose to share 
that information in the response.

II. Data

    OMB Control Number: 1028--NEW.
    Title: Ecosystems Program Stakeholder Satisfaction Survey.
    Type of Request: New information collection.
    Affected Public: USGS partners at other DOI bureaus, Federal and 
State agencies, Tribes and Non-governmental Organizations.
    Respondent's Obligation: None, participation is voluntary.
    Frequency of Collection: Information will be collected once at the 
end of each fiscal year.
    Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 150
    Estimated Total Number of Annual Responses: 120
    Estimated Time per Response: 10 minutes or less to complete the 
survey.
    Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-Hour Cost'' Burden: 
None.
    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 and current expiration date.

III. Request for Comments

    We are soliciting comments 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) ways 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 the 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 in your 
comment to withhold your personally identifiable information from 
public view, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.

John Thompson,
Deputy Chief, CRU.
[FR Doc. 2017-00444 Filed 1-10-17; 8:45 am]
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3352 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 7 / Wednesday, January 11, 2017 / Notices Dated: January 6, 2017. II. Data DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Tina A. Campbell, OMB Control Number: 1028—NEW. Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and National Indian Gaming Commission Title: Ecosystems Program Management Programs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Stakeholder Satisfaction Survey. Protocol for Categorical Exclusions Type of Request: New information Supplementing the Council on [FR Doc. 2017–00462 Filed 1–10–17; 8:45 am] collection. Environmental Quality Regulations BILLING CODE 4333–15–P Affected Public: USGS partners at Implementing the Procedural other DOI bureaus, Federal and State Provisions of the National DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR agencies, Tribes and Non-governmental Environmental Policy Act for Certain Organizations. National Indian Gaming Commission U.S. Geological Survey Respondent’s Obligation: None, Actions and Activities participation is voluntary. [GX170A030AD0100] The National Indian Gaming Frequency of Collection: Information AGENCY: Agency Information Collection will be collected once at the end of each Commission, Department of the Interior. Activities: Request for Comments fiscal year. ACTION: Notice of proposed action and Estimated Annual Number of request for comments. AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Respondents: 150 Interior. Estimated Total Number of Annual SUMMARY: The National Indian Gaming ACTION: Notice of a new information Responses: 120 Commission (NIGC or ‘‘the collection, Ecosystems Program Estimated Time per Response: 10 Commission’’) is amending its protocol Stakeholder Satisfaction Survey. minutes or less to complete the survey. for categorical exclusions under the Estimated Reporting and National Environmental Policy Act of SUMMARY: We (the U.S. Geological Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’ Survey) will ask the Office of 1969 (NEPA), as amended, Executive Burden: None. Order 11514, as amended, and Council Management and Budget (OMB) to Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA on Environmental Quality (CEQ) approve the information collection (IC) (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an regulations for implementing the described below. As required by the agency may not conduct or sponsor and procedural provisions of NEPA (40 CFR Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of you are not required to respond to a parts 1500–1508) for certain NIGC 1995, and as part of our continuing collection of information unless it actions. efforts to reduce paperwork and displays a currently valid OMB control respondent burden, we invite the DATES: Comments and related material number and current expiration date. general public and other Federal must be post marked no later than 60 agencies to take this opportunity to III. Request for Comments days after publication of this notice. comment on this IC. We are soliciting comments as to: (a) ADDRESSES: Please submit your DATES: To ensure that your comments Whether the proposed collection of comments by only one of the following are considered, we must receive them information is necessary for the agency means: (1) By mail to: NIGC Attn: on or before March 13, 2017. to perform its duties, including whether Andrew Mendoza, Staff Attorney, C/O ADDRESSES: You may submit comments the information is useful; (b) the Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street on this information collection to the accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the NW., Mailstop #1621, Washington, DC Information Collection Clearance burden of the proposed collection of 20240; (2) by facsimile to: (202) 632– Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 information; (c) ways to enhance the 7066; (3) by email to: andrew_ Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 807, Reston, quality, usefulness, and clarity of the mendoza@nigc.gov. VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648–7197 (fax); information to be collected; and (d) how or gs-info_collections@usgs.gov (email). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: to minimize the burden on the Andrew Mendoza, Staff Attorney at the Please reference ‘Information Collection respondents, including the use of 1028—NEW, Ecosystems Program National Indian Gaming Commission: automated collection techniques or 202–632–7003 (not a toll-free number). Stakeholder Satisfaction Survey’ in all other forms of information technology. correspondence. Please note that the comments SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Linn submitted in response to this notice are I. Comments Invited Kwan, Senior Program Officer, Tel. a matter of public record. Before 703.648.4494 or Email-lkwan@usgs.gov. including your personal mailing The NIGC encourages interested SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: address, phone number, email address, persons to submit written comments. or other personally identifiable Persons submitting information I. Abstract information in your comment, you concerning the Protocol should include The survey will be sent to USGS should be aware that your entire their name, address, and other Ecosystems Mission Area stakeholders/ comment, including your personally appropriate contact information. You partners to provide respondents the identifiable information, may be made may submit your information by one of opportunity to share their comments, publicly available at any time. While the means listed under ADDRESSES. If insights and satisfaction of USGS you can ask us in your comment to you submit information by mail or hand Ecosystems research products, training, withhold your personally identifiable delivery, submit them in an unbound format, no larger than 81⁄2 by 11 inches, sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES and technical assistance. The survey information from public view, we results will be compiled and reported in cannot guarantee that we will be able to suitable for copying and electronic three new performance measures that do so. filing. If you submit information by mail are being proposed for FY2018–2022. and would like to know it was received, The survey is voluntary and John Thompson, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed anonymous. The respondents’ identities Deputy Chief, CRU. postcard or envelope. The NIGC will will only be known if they chose to [FR Doc. 2017–00444 Filed 1–10–17; 8:45 am] consider all comments received during share that information in the response. 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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of a new information collection, Ecosystems Program Stakeholder Satisfaction Survey.
DatesTo ensure that your comments are considered, we must receive them on or before March 13, 2017.
ContactLinn Kwan, Senior Program Officer, Tel. 703.648.4494 or [email protected]
FR Citation82 FR 3352 
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