82_FR_43577 82 FR 43399 - Agency Information Collection: Comment Request

82 FR 43399 - Agency Information Collection: Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 178 (September 15, 2017)

Page Range43399-43400
FR Document2017-19575

We (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 of 1995 (PRA), and as a 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. As a Federal agency, we 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.

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 178 (Friday, September 15, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 178 (Friday, September 15, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43399-43400]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-19575]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

 Geological Survey

[GX17RB00FYXAA00]


Agency Information Collection: Comment Request

AGENCY: United States Geological Survey (USGS), Interior.

ACTION: Notice of a new information collection.

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SUMMARY: We (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 of 1995 (PRA), and as 
a 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. As a Federal agency, we 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.

DATES: To ensure that your comments are considered, we must receive 
them on or before November 14, 2017.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on this information collection to 
the Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 
[email protected] (email). Please reference `Information 
Collection 1028-New, Evaluating public values for water quality in the 
Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania' in all correspondence.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rudy Schuster at U.S. Geological 
Survey, 2150 Centre Avenue, Bldg. C, Fort Collins, CO 80525 (mail), or 
at (970) 226-9165 (phone). You may also find information about this ICR 
at www.reginfo.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract

    The USGS Social and Economic Analysis Branch is investigating 
public

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values for changes in water quality within the Susquehanna River Basin 
located in Pennsylvania. The Susquehanna River, with its streams and 
tributaries, is the largest river system lying entirely within the 
United States that drains into the Atlantic Ocean. Water from the 
Susquehanna River is used for drinking, manufacturing, agriculture, and 
power generation, and also provides habitat for fish and opportunities 
for outdoor recreation. Stormwater runoff and excess nutrients and 
sediment have increased algae, decreased fish health, and have resulted 
in closed beaches due to bacteria. As a result of these and other 
events, water managers in the Susquehanna River Basin are reviewing 
private citizens' river uses, perceptions, and the economic value of 
improved water quality. USGS economists will conduct an economic survey 
of private households in Pennsylvania to help local decision makers 
achieve this review. These values will be estimated via a mail survey 
instrument. The primary goal of conducting this valuation study is to 
improve the way in which communities frame the choice regarding the 
allocation of scarce resources and to clarify the trade-offs between 
alternative outcomes. No such prior analysis has been conducted in the 
Susquehanna River Basin.
    The information collection process will be conducted by scientists 
and staff in the Social and Economic Analysis Branch of the USGS, and 
partnering researchers in the Department of Agricultural and Resource 
Economics at Colorado State University. This information collection 
will be conducted through an online survey with an optional paper 
survey. Letters and postcards will be mailed to potential respondents 
to encourage participation in the survey. We will protect information 
from respondents considered proprietary under the Freedom of 
Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) and its implementing regulations (43 CFR 
part 2), and under regulations at 30 CFR 250.197, ``Data and 
information to be made available to the public or for limited 
inspection.'' Responses are voluntary. No questions of a ``sensitive'' 
nature are asked.

II. Data

    OMB Control Number: 1028-New.
    Form Number: NA.
    Title: Evaluating public values for water quality in the 
Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Affected Public: Private Citizens.
    Respondent's Obligation: None. Participation is voluntary.
    Frequency of Collection: One time only.
    Estimated Total Annual Responses: 2,500.
    Estimated Time per Response: 2 minutes to review instructions, 13 
minutes to complete survey.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 625 hours.
    Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-Hour Cost'' Burden: 
There are no ``non-hour cost'' burdens associated with this IC.
    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.

IV. Authority

    The authorities for this action are the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 
1251 et seq.) and the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.).

    Dated: May 3, 2017.
 Sharon Taylor,
Fort Collins Science Center Director.
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Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 178 / Friday, September 15, 2017 / Notices 43399 will be posted, without change, to the immigration benefit such as a temporary (7) An estimate of the total public Federal eRulemaking Portal at http:// travel document, parole authorization, burden (in cost) associated with the www.regulations.gov, and will include temporary extension of a I–90, or collection: The estimated total annual any personal information you provide. temporary I–551 stamp in a passport or cost burden associated with this Therefore, submitting this information on a Form I–94 evidencing lawful collection of information is $0. makes it public. You may wish to permanent residence. Respondents will Dated: September 11, 2017. consider limiting the amount of be required to have their photograph Samantha Deshommes, personal information that you provide and fingerprints taken at the USCIS Chief, Regulatory Coordination Division, in any voluntary submission you make District/Field Office to be inputted into Office of Policy and Strategy, U.S. Citizenship to DHS. DHS may withhold information the Customer Profile Management and Immigration Services, Department of provided in comments from public System-IDENTity Verification Tool Homeland Security. viewing that it determines may impact (CPMS–IVT). The only U.S. citizen [FR Doc. 2017–19587 Filed 9–14–17; 8:45 am] the privacy of an individual or is respondents subject to enrollment in BILLING CODE 9111–97–P offensive. For additional information, CPMS–IVT are petitioners filing orphan please read the Privacy Act notice that or adoption petitions (Forms I–600/ is available via the link in the footer of 600A) and U.S. citizen petitioners of family-based petitions required to DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR http://www.regulations.gov. Written comments and suggestions appear at an ASC for biometric capture Geological Survey from the public and affected agencies for purposes of complying with the should address one or more of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and [GX17RB00FYXAA00] following four points: Safety Act of 1996, Public Law 109–248. (1) Evaluate whether the proposed Use of CPMS–IVT will apply for in- Agency Information Collection: collection of information is necessary person appearances at a USCIS District/ Comment Request for the proper performance of the Field Office related to the following AGENCY: United States Geological functions of the agency, including applications, petitions, or requests: Survey (USGS), Interior. whether the information will have I–90 (1615–0082): Application to ACTION: Notice of a new information practical utility; Replace Permanent Resident Card collection. (2) Evaluate the accuracy of the I–130 (1615–00120): Petition for Alien agency’s estimate of the burden of the Relative SUMMARY: We (U.S. Geological Survey) proposed collection of information, I–131 (1615–0013): Application for will ask the Office of Management and including the validity of the Travel Document Budget (OMB) to approve the methodology and assumptions used; I–485 (1615–0023): Application to information collection (IC) described (3) Enhance the quality, utility, and Register Permanent Residence or below. As required by the Paperwork clarity of the information to be Adjust Status Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), and as a collected; and I–600 (1615–0028): Petition to Classify part of our continuing efforts to reduce (4) Minimize the burden of the Orphan as an Immediate Relative paperwork and respondent burden, we collection of information on those who I–600A (1615–0028): Application for invite the general public and other are to respond, including through the Advance Processing of Orphan Federal agencies to take this use of appropriate automated, Petition opportunity to comment on this IC. As electronic, mechanical, or other I–687 (1615–0090): Application for a Federal agency, we may not conduct technological collection techniques or Status as a Temporary Resident or sponsor and you are not required to other forms of information technology, Under Section 245A of the respond to, a collection of information e.g., permitting electronic submission of Immigration and Nationality Act unless it displays a currently valid OMB responses. I–698 (1615–0035): Application to control number. Adjust Status from Temporary to Overview of This Information DATES: To ensure that your comments Permanent Resident (Under Section Collection 245A of Pub. L. 99–603) are considered, we must receive them I–751 (1615–0038): Petition to Remove on or before November 14, 2017. (1) Type of Information Collection: the Conditions of Residence ADDRESSES: You may submit comments Extension, Without Change, of a I–821D (1615–0124): Consideration of on this information collection to the Currently Approved Collection. Deferred Action for Childhood Information Collection Clearance (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Arrivals Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, gs-info_ Customer Profile Management System- I–829 (1615–0045): Petition by collections@usgs.gov (email). Please IDENTity Verification Tool (CPMS– Entrepreneur to Remove Conditions reference ‘Information Collection 1028– IVT). (3) Agency form number, if any, and N–400 (1615–0052): Application for New, Evaluating public values for water the applicable component of the DHS Naturalization quality in the Susquehanna River in sponsoring the collection: M–1061; (5) An estimate of the total number of Pennsylvania’ in all correspondence. USCIS. respondents and the amount of time FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: (4) Affected public who will be asked estimated for an average respondent to Rudy Schuster at U.S. Geological or required to respond, as well as a brief respond: The estimated total number of Survey, 2150 Centre Avenue, Bldg. C, abstract: respondents for the information Fort Collins, CO 80525 (mail), or at Primary: Individuals or households. collection M–1061 is 1,644,385 and the (970) 226–9165 (phone). You may also mstockstill on DSK30JT082PROD with NOTICES Respondents subject to this information estimated hour burden per response is find information about this ICR at collection are all individuals who are .083 hours. www.reginfo.gov. appearing at a USCIS District/Field (6) An estimate of the total public SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Office for a required interview in burden (in hours) associated with the connection with their request for an collection: The total estimated annual I. 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43400 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 178 / Friday, September 15, 2017 / Notices values for changes in water quality Frequency of Collection: One time DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR within the Susquehanna River Basin only. located in Pennsylvania. The Office of the Secretary Estimated Total Annual Responses: Susquehanna River, with its streams 2,500. [17XD4523WS\DS10100000\DWSN00000. and tributaries, is the largest river 000000\DP10020] system lying entirely within the United Estimated Time per Response: 2 States that drains into the Atlantic minutes to review instructions, 13 Statement of Findings: Aamodt Ocean. Water from the Susquehanna minutes to complete survey. Litigation Settlement Act River is used for drinking, Estimated Total Annual Burden manufacturing, agriculture, and power AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Interior. Hours: 625 hours. generation, and also provides habitat for ACTION: Notice. fish and opportunities for outdoor Estimated Reporting and recreation. Stormwater runoff and Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’ SUMMARY: The Secretary of the Interior excess nutrients and sediment have Burden: There are no ‘‘non-hour cost’’ (Secretary) is publishing this notice in increased algae, decreased fish health, burdens associated with this IC. accordance with the Aamodt Litigation and have resulted in closed beaches due Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA Settlement Act (Settlement Act). to bacteria. As a result of these and (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an Congress enacted the Settlement Act as other events, water managers in the agency may not conduct or sponsor and Title VI of the Claims Resolution Act of Susquehanna River Basin are reviewing you are not required to respond to a 2010. The publication of this notice private citizens’ river uses, perceptions, causes the Settlement Agreement collection of information unless it and the economic value of improved executed in accordance with the displays a currently valid OMB control water quality. USGS economists will Settlement Act to remain applicable and number and current expiration date. causes certain waivers and releases of conduct an economic survey of private households in Pennsylvania to help III. Request for Comments claims executed pursuant to the local decision makers achieve this Settlement Act to become applicable. review. These values will be estimated We are soliciting comments as to: (a) DATES: This notice is applicable via a mail survey instrument. The Whether the proposed collection of September 15, 2017. primary goal of conducting this information is necessary for the agency FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: valuation study is to improve the way to perform its duties, including whether Address all comments and requests for in which communities frame the choice the information is useful; (b) the additional information to Christopher regarding the allocation of scarce accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the Banet, Chair, Aamodt Settlement resources and to clarify the trade-offs burden of the proposed collection of Implementation Team, Department of between alternative outcomes. No such information; (c) ways to enhance the the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, prior analysis has been conducted in the quality, usefulness, and clarity of the Southwest Regional Office, 1001 Indian Susquehanna River Basin. information to be collected; and (d) how School Road NW., Albuquerque, NM The information collection process to minimize the burden on the 87104 (503) 563–3403, will be conducted by scientists and staff respondents, including the use of christopher.banet@bia.gov. in the Social and Economic Analysis automated collection techniques or SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Branch of the USGS, and partnering other forms of information technology. Settlement Act was enacted to resolve researchers in the Department of water rights claims of the Pueblos of Please note that the comments Agricultural and Resource Economics at Pojoaque, Nambé, Tesuque, and San submitted in response to this notice are Colorado State University. This Ildefonso (Pueblos) in the Pojoaque information collection will be a matter of public record. Before including your personal mailing River Basin—including the Rio Nambé, conducted through an online survey Rio Pojoaque, and Rio Tesuque stream with an optional paper survey. Letters address, phone number, email address, or other personally identifiable systems and interrelated groundwater and postcards will be mailed to systems—in the State of New Mexico potential respondents to encourage information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire subject to an adjudication in the U.S. participation in the survey. We will District Court (Court) in State of New protect information from respondents comment, including your personally identifiable information, may be made Mexico ex rel. State Engineer v. considered proprietary under the Aamodt, No. 6:66–CV–6639 (D.N.M. Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. publicly available at any time. While filed 1966). The Settlement Parties 552) and its implementing regulations you can ask us in your comment to include the four Pueblos; the County of (43 CFR part 2), and under regulations withhold your personally identifiable Santa Fe; the City of Santa Fe; various at 30 CFR 250.197, ‘‘Data and information from public view, we individuals and entities; the State of information to be made available to the cannot guarantee that we will be able to New Mexico (State); and the United public or for limited inspection.’’ do so. States (Settlement Parties). Responses are voluntary. No questions The Settlement Act and underlying of a ‘‘sensitive’’ nature are asked. IV. Authority agreements quantify and define the II. Data The authorities for this action are the Pueblos’ water rights, including surface Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) and groundwater within the Pojoaque OMB Control Number: 1028–New. and the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 River Basin as well as additional water mstockstill on DSK30JT082PROD with NOTICES Form Number: NA. Title: Evaluating public values for U.S.C. 300f et seq.). to be supplied via contract from the water quality in the Susquehanna River Dated: May 3, 2017. Bureau of Reclamation’s San Juan- in Pennsylvania. Chama Project, and also recognizes Sharon Taylor, Type of Request: New collection. certain non-Pueblo water entitlements Affected Public: Private Citizens. Fort Collins Science Center Director. and allocations, including for local Respondent’s Obligation: None. [FR Doc. 2017–19575 Filed 9–14–17; 8:45 am] governments and water districts. The Participation is voluntary. 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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 a new information collection.
DatesTo ensure that your comments are considered, we must receive them on or before November 14, 2017.
ContactRudy Schuster at U.S. Geological Survey, 2150 Centre Avenue, Bldg. C, Fort Collins, CO 80525 (mail), or at (970) 226-9165 (phone). You may also find information about this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.
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