Agency Information Collection Activities: Application for Training, National Conservation Training Center, 30885-30886 [2017-13911]

Agencies

• Fish and Wildlife Service
• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 126 (Monday, July 3, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30885-30886]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-13911]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[FWS-HQ-NCTC-2017-N086; FF09X32000-178-FXGO16610900400; OMB Control 
Number 1018-0115]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Application for 
Training, National Conservation Training Center

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 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. This IC is 
scheduled to expire on February 28, 2018. 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 September 1, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the IC 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 
Info_Coll@fws.gov (email). Please include ``1018-0115'' in the subject 
line of your comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Service Information Collection 
Clearance Officer, at Info_Coll@fws.gov (email) or (703) 358-2503 
(telephone).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract

    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Conservation Training 
Center (NCTC) in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, provides natural 
resource and other professional training for Service employees, 
employees of other Federal agencies, and other affiliations, including 
State agencies, private individuals, not-for-profit organizations, and 
university personnel. FWS Form 3-2193 (Training Application) is a quick 
and easy method for prospective students who are not from the 
Department of the Interior to request training. We encourage applicants 
to use FWS Form 3-2193 and to submit their requests electronically. 
However, we do not require applicants to complete both a training form 
required by their agency and FWS Form 3-2193. NCTC will accept any 
single training request as long as each submission identifies the name, 
address, and phone number of the applicant, sponsoring agency, class 
name, start date, and all required financial payment information.
    NCTC uses data from the form to generate class rosters, class 
transcripts, and statistics, and as a budgeting tool for projecting 
training requirements. It is also used to track attendance, mandatory 
requirements, tuition, and invoicing for all NCTC-sponsored courses 
both onsite and offsite.

II. Data

    OMB Control Number: 1018-0115.
    Title: Application for Training, National Conservation Training 
Center.
    Service Form Number: FWS Form 3-2193.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Description of Respondents: Persons who wish to participate in 
training given at or sponsored by the National Conservation Training 
Center (NCTC).

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    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion when applying for training at 
NCTC.
    Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 250.
    Estimated Total Annual Responses: 250.
    Estimated Time per Response: 10 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 42.
    Estimated Annual Non-hour 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.

IV. Authorities

    The authorities for this action are the Government Employees 
Training Act (5 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.); Title VI of the Civil Rights Act 
of 1964, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2000d-2000d-7); Executive Order 11348 
(``Providing for the further training of Government employees''), as 
amended by Executive Order 12107 (``Relating to the Civil Service 
Commission and labor-management in the Federal Service'') (see 5 CFR 
410, subpart C, ``Establishing and Implementing Training Programs''); 
and the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).

    Dated: June 27, 2017.
Madonna L. Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service.
[FR Doc. 2017-13911 Filed 6-30-17; 8:45 am]
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