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ACTION:
Notice; request for comments.
We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service) have sent an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for
review and approval. We summarize the
ICR below and describe the nature of the
collection and the estimated burden and
cost. This information collection is
scheduled to expire on May 31, 2015.
We may not conduct or sponsor and a
person is not required to respond to a
collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number. However, under OMB
regulations, we may continue to
conduct or sponsor this information
collection while it is pending at OMB.
SUMMARY:
You must submit comments on
or before June 18, 2015.
DATES:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[FWS–R5–FHC–2015–N092; FF05F24400–
FXFR13350500000]
Information Collection Request Sent to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for Approval; Horseshoe Crab
Tagging Program
AGENCY:
Send your comments and
suggestions on this information
collection to the Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior at OMB–
OIRA at (202) 395–5806 (fax) or OIRA_
Submission@omb.eop.gov (email).
Please provide a copy of your comments
to the Service Information Collection
Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, MS BPHC, 5275
Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041–
3803 (mail), or hope_grey@fws.gov
ADDRESSES:
Fish and Wildlife Service
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
Number of
annual
respondents
Activity
(email). Please include ‘‘1018–0127’’ in
the subject line of your comments.
To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Hope Grey at hope_
grey@fws.gov (email) or 703–358–2482
(telephone). You may review the ICR
online at https://www.reginfo.gov. Follow
the instructions to review Department of
the Interior collections under review by
OMB.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request
OMB Control Number: 1018–0127.
Title: Horseshoe Crab Tagging
Program.
Service Form Number(s): 3–2310 and
3–2311.
Type of Request: Extension of
currently approved collection.
Description of Respondents: Tagging
agencies include Federal and State
agencies, universities, and biomedical
companies. Members of the general
public provide recapture information.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion
when horseshoe crabs are tagged and
when horseshoe crabs are found or
captured.
Number of
annual
responses
Completion
time per
response
Annual burden
hours
FWS Form 3–2310 .............................................................................................
FWS Form 3–2311 .............................................................................................
1,160
18
2,750
18
10 minutes ..
95 hours * ....
458
1,710
Totals ..........................................................................................................
1,178
2,768
.....................
2,168
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* Average time required per response is dependent on the number of tags applied by an agency in 1 year. Agencies tag between 25 and 9,000
horseshoe crabs annually, taking between 2 to 5 minutes per crab to tag, record, and report data. Each agency determines the number of tags it
will apply.
Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden
Cost: None.
Abstract: Horseshoe crabs play a vital
role commercially, biomedically, and
ecologically along the Atlantic coast.
Horseshoe crabs are commercially
harvested and used as bait in eel and
conch fisheries. Biomedical companies
along the coast also collect and bleed
horseshoe crabs at their facilities.
Limulus Amoebocyte Lysate is derived
from crab blood, which has no synthetic
substitute, and is used by
pharmaceutical companies to test
sterility of products. Finally, migratory
shorebirds also depend on the eggs of
horseshoe crabs to refuel on their
migrations from South America to the
Arctic. One bird in particular, the red
knot, feeds primarily on horseshoe crab
eggs during its stopover. Effective
January 12, 2015, the red knot was listed
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as threatened under the Endangered
Species Act.
In 1998, the Atlantic States Marine
Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), a
management organization with
representatives from each State on the
Atlantic Coast, developed a horseshoe
crab management plan. The ASMFC
plan and its subsequent addenda
established mandatory State-by-State
harvest quotas, and created the 1,500square-mile Carl N. Shuster, Jr.,
Horseshoe Crab Sanctuary off the mouth
of Delaware Bay.
Restrictive measures have been taken
in recent years, but populations are
increasing slowly. Because horseshoe
crabs do not breed until they are 9 years
or older, it may take some time before
the population measurably increases.
Federal and State agencies, universities,
and biomedical companies participate
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in a Horseshoe Crab Cooperative
Tagging Program. The Maryland Fishery
Resources Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, maintains the information that
we collect under this program and uses
it to evaluate migratory patterns,
survival, and abundance of horseshoe
crabs.
Agencies that tag and release the crabs
complete FWS Form 3–2311 (Horseshoe
Crab Tagging) and provide the Service
with:
• Organization name.
• Contact person name.
• Tag number.
• Sex of crab.
• Prosomal width.
• Capture site, latitude, longitude,
waterbody, State, and date.
Members of the public who recover
tagged crabs provide the following
information using the online submission
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form (https://www.fws.gov/crabtag/) or
via a toll-free telephone number:
• Tag number.
• Whether or not tag was removed.
• Condition of crab.
• Date captured/found.
• Crab fate.
• Finder type.
• Capture method.
• Capture location.
• Reporter information.
• Comments.
If the public participant who reports the
tagged crab requests information, we
send data pertaining to the tagging
program and tag and release information
on the horseshoe crab that was found or
captured.
Comments Received and Our Responses
Comments: On February 10, 2015, we
published in the Federal Register (80
FR 7490) a notice of our intent to
request that OMB renew approval for
this information collection. In that
notice, we solicited comments for 60
days, ending on April 13, 2015. We did
not receive any comments.
Request for Public Comments
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We again invite comments concerning
this information collection on:
• Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary, including
whether or not the information will
have practical utility;
• The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information;
• Ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. Before including your
address, phone number, email address,
or other personal identifying
information in your comment, you
should be aware that your entire
comment, including your personal
identifying information, may be made
publicly available at any time. While
you can ask OMB in your comment to
withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that it will be done.
Dated: May 13, 2015.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and
Management Programs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FW–R5–NCTC–2015–N093; FF09X35000–
156–FXGO16610900600]
Proposed Information Collection;
National Initiative To Understand and
Connect Americans and Nature
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:
We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service) 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 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. We
may not conduct or sponsor and a
person is not required to respond to a
collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
DATES: To ensure that we are able to
consider your comments on this IC, we
must receive them by July 20, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the
IC to the Information Collection
Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, MS BPHC, 5275
Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041–
3803 (mail); or hope_grey@fws.gov
(email). Please include ‘‘1018–New’’ in
the subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this IC, contact Hope Grey at hope_
grey@fws.gov (email) or 703–358–2482
(telephone).
SUMMARY:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Nature and the outdoors have always
been an important part of the fabric of
American life. But, there are major
questions about the present and future
role of nature and the outdoors in our
increasingly diverse, technologically
oriented, and rapidly changing society.
For our programs to remain relevant to
American life today and tomorrow, we
must be aware of public sentiment
toward the part nature plays in the
quality of our lifestyles.
It is for these reasons that we plan to
use a quantitative survey to collect:
Information on the attitudes that the
public maintains towards the natural
environment; the effects of contact with
nature on participants’ health and
quality of life; the extent of contact with
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nature and obstacles to greater contact
with nature; general knowledge of
nature and wildlife; concerns toward
selected environmental issues; and
socio-demographic variables. Results
will help improve the design and
delivery of new or existing programs
aimed at engaging the public in naturerelated activities (e.g., outreach and
educational programming at national
wildlife refuges and national fish
hatcheries).
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1018–New.
Title: National Initiative to
Understand and Connect Americans and
Nature.
Service Form Number: None.
Type of Request: Request for a new
OMB control number.
Description of Respondents:
Individuals.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One time.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
8,950.
Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 8,950.
Completion Time per Response: 20
minutes.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours:
2,983.
Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden
Cost: None.
III. Comments
We invite comments concerning this
information collection on:
• Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary, including
whether or not the information will
have practical utility;
• The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information;
• Ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this IC. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment, including your
personal identifying information, may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R5-FHC-2015-N092; FF05F24400-FXFR13350500000]
Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for Approval; Horseshoe Crab Tagging Program
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) have sent an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for review and approval. We summarize
the ICR below and describe the nature of the collection and the
estimated burden and cost. This information collection is scheduled to
expire on May 31, 2015. We may not conduct or sponsor and a person is
not required to respond to a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control number. However, under OMB
regulations, we may continue to conduct or sponsor this information
collection while it is pending at OMB.
DATES: You must submit comments on or before June 18, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments and suggestions on this information
collection to the Desk Officer for the Department of the Interior at
OMB-OIRA at (202) 395-5806 (fax) or OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov
(email). Please provide a copy of your comments to the Service
Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, MS BPHC, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041-3803
(mail), or hope_grey@fws.gov (email). Please include ``1018-0127'' in
the subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information
about this ICR, contact Hope Grey at hope_grey@fws.gov (email) or 703-
358-2482 (telephone). You may review the ICR online at https://www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to review Department of the
Interior collections under review by OMB.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request
OMB Control Number: 1018-0127.
Title: Horseshoe Crab Tagging Program.
Service Form Number(s): 3-2310 and 3-2311.
Type of Request: Extension of currently approved collection.
Description of Respondents: Tagging agencies include Federal and
State agencies, universities, and biomedical companies. Members of the
general public provide recapture information.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion when horseshoe crabs are
tagged and when horseshoe crabs are found or captured.
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Number of Number of
Activity annual annual Completion time per Annual burden
respondents responses response hours
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FWS Form 3-2310...................... 1,160 2,750 10 minutes............... 458
FWS Form 3-2311...................... 18 18 95 hours *............... 1,710
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Totals........................... 1,178 2,768 ......................... 2,168
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* Average time required per response is dependent on the number of tags applied by an agency in 1 year. Agencies
tag between 25 and 9,000 horseshoe crabs annually, taking between 2 to 5 minutes per crab to tag, record, and
report data. Each agency determines the number of tags it will apply.
Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: None.
Abstract: Horseshoe crabs play a vital role commercially,
biomedically, and ecologically along the Atlantic coast. Horseshoe
crabs are commercially harvested and used as bait in eel and conch
fisheries. Biomedical companies along the coast also collect and bleed
horseshoe crabs at their facilities. Limulus Amoebocyte Lysate is
derived from crab blood, which has no synthetic substitute, and is used
by pharmaceutical companies to test sterility of products. Finally,
migratory shorebirds also depend on the eggs of horseshoe crabs to
refuel on their migrations from South America to the Arctic. One bird
in particular, the red knot, feeds primarily on horseshoe crab eggs
during its stopover. Effective January 12, 2015, the red knot was
listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
In 1998, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), a
management organization with representatives from each State on the
Atlantic Coast, developed a horseshoe crab management plan. The ASMFC
plan and its subsequent addenda established mandatory State-by-State
harvest quotas, and created the 1,500-square-mile Carl N. Shuster, Jr.,
Horseshoe Crab Sanctuary off the mouth of Delaware Bay.
Restrictive measures have been taken in recent years, but
populations are increasing slowly. Because horseshoe crabs do not breed
until they are 9 years or older, it may take some time before the
population measurably increases. Federal and State agencies,
universities, and biomedical companies participate in a Horseshoe Crab
Cooperative Tagging Program. The Maryland Fishery Resources Office,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, maintains the information that we
collect under this program and uses it to evaluate migratory patterns,
survival, and abundance of horseshoe crabs.
Agencies that tag and release the crabs complete FWS Form 3-2311
(Horseshoe Crab Tagging) and provide the Service with:
Organization name.
Contact person name.
Tag number.
Sex of crab.
Prosomal width.
Capture site, latitude, longitude, waterbody, State, and
date.
Members of the public who recover tagged crabs provide the
following information using the online submission
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form (https://www.fws.gov/crabtag/) or via a toll-free telephone number:
Tag number.
Whether or not tag was removed.
Condition of crab.
Date captured/found.
Crab fate.
Finder type.
Capture method.
Capture location.
Reporter information.
Comments.
If the public participant who reports the tagged crab requests
information, we send data pertaining to the tagging program and tag and
release information on the horseshoe crab that was found or captured.
Comments Received and Our Responses
Comments: On February 10, 2015, we published in the Federal
Register (80 FR 7490) a notice of our intent to request that OMB renew
approval for this information collection. In that notice, we solicited
comments for 60 days, ending on April 13, 2015. We did not receive any
comments.
Request for Public Comments
We again invite comments concerning this information collection on:
Whether or not the collection of information is necessary,
including whether or not the information will have practical utility;
The accuracy of our estimate of the burden for this
collection of information;
Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
Ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents.
Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of
public record. Before including your address, phone number, email
address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you
should be aware that your entire comment, including your personal
identifying information, may be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask OMB in your comment to withhold your personal
identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that it
will be done.
Dated: May 13, 2015.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and Management Programs, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 2015-12048 Filed 5-18-15; 8:45 am]
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