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Southwest, and felt this would be an
excellent opportunity to utilize the
questionnaire. In order to do this, it
requested emergency approval of the
Indian Artist/Artisan Survey; OMB
approved the survey under OMB
Control Number 1085–0003. The IACB
is planning to extend the information
collection approval for the standard
three years and to add additional
surveys in other regions necessary to
establish a national baseline.
II. Data
(1) Title: Indian Artist/Artisan Survey.
OMB Control Number: 1085–0003.
Current Expiration Date: February 28,
2006.
Type of Review: Information
Collection Renewal.
Affected Entities: Businesses or other
for-profit entities; Tribes.
Estimated annual number of
respondents: 400.
Frequency of response: Annual.
(2) Annual reporting and record
keeping burden.
Total annual reporting per
respondent: 10 minutes.
Total annual reporting: 67 hours.
(3) Description of the need and use of
the information: This information is
required to generate baseline numbers
for our Strategic Plan, as well as other
statistics to be used for evaluating and
strengthening our Congressional
mandate.
The Department of the Interior invites
comments on:
(a) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the collection
and the validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
(c) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(d) Ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Burden means the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons
to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying
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Dated: December 9, 2005.
Meridith Z. Stanton,
Director, Indian Arts and Crafts Board.
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information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
All written comments will be
available for public inspection in Room
2058 of the Main Interior Building, 1849
C Street, NW., Washington, DC from 9
a.m. until 3 p.m., Monday through
Friday, excluding legal holidays. A
valid picture identification is required
for entry into the Department of the
Interior. the comments, with names and
addresses, will be available for public
view during regular business hours. If
you wish us to withhold your personal
information, you must prominently state
at the beginning of your comment what
personal information you want us to
withhold. We will honor your request to
the extent allowable by law.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid
Office of Management and Budget
control number.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
Proposed Agency Information
Collection With Applicant Background
Survey; Comment Request
Office of Civil Rights.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: In compliance with section
3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of
Civil Rights, Office of the Secretary,
Department of the Interior (DOI),
announces the proposed extension of a
public information collection and seeks
public comments on the provisions
thereof.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by February 14,
2006.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations on the proposed
information collection should be sent to
the Office of Civil Rights, Attn: Samuel
Bowser, Department of the Interior,
1849 C St., NW., Washington, DC 20240.
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Individuals providing comments should
reference OMB control #1091–0001,
Applicant Background Survey.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on this
proposed information collection or to
obtain a copy of the proposal and
associated collection instrument, please
write to the above address, or call
Samuel Bowser, (202) 208–5549. The
collection instrument is also available
on the Internet at: https://www.doi.gov/
diversity/doc/di_1935.pdf.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
DOI is below parity with the Relevant
Civilian Labor Force representation for
many mission critical occupations. The
Department’s Strategic Human Capital
Management Plan identifies the job
skills that will be needed in its current
and future workforce. The job skills it
will need are dispersed throughout its
eight bureaus and include, among
others, making visitors welcome to
various facilities, such as parks and
refuges, processing permits for a wide
variety of uses of the public lands,
collecting royalties for minerals
extracted from the public lands,
rounding-up and adopting-out wild
horses and burros found in the west,
protecting archeological and cultural
resources of the public lands, and
enforcing criminal laws of the United
States. As a result of this broad
spectrum of duties and services, the
Department touches the lives of most
Americans.
The people who deal with the
Department bring with them a wide
variety of backgrounds, cultures, and
experiences. A diverse workforce
enables the Department to provide a
measure of understanding to its
customers by relating to the diverse
background of those customers. By
including employees of all backgrounds,
all DOI employees gain a measure of
knowledge, background, experience,
and comfort in serving all of the
Department’s customers.
In order to determine if there are
barriers in our recruitment and selection
processes, DOI must track the
demographic groups that apply for its
jobs. There is no other statistically valid
method to make these determinations,
and no source of this information other
than directly from applicants. The data
collected is not provided to selecting
officials and plays no part in the merit
staffing or the selection processes. The
data collected will be used in summary
form to determine trends covering the
demographic make-up of applicant
pools and job selections within a given
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occupation or organizational group. The
records of those applicants not selected
are destroyed in accordance with DOI’s
records management procedures.
II. Data
(1) Title: Applicant Background
Survey.
OMB Control Number: 1091–0001.
Current Expiration Date: March 31,
2006.
Type of Review: Information
Collection Renewal.
Affected Entities: Applicants for DOI
jobs.
Estimated annual number of
respondents: 668,905.
Frequency of response: once per job
application.
(2) Annual reporting and record
keeping burden.
Average reporting burden per
application: 5 minutes.
Total annual reporting: 55,746 hours.
(3) Description of the need and use of
the information: This information is
required to obtain the source of
recruitment, ethnicity, race, and
disability data on job applicants to
determine if the recruitment is
effectively reaching all aspects of
relevant labor pools and to determine if
there are proportionate acceptance rates
at various stages of the recruitment
process. Response is optional. The
information is used for evaluating
recruitment only, and plays no part in
the selection of who is hired.
III. Request for Comments
Request for Comments: Comments are
invited on: (a) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
agency, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden of the proposed
information collection; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility and clarity
of the information to be collected; and
(d) ways to minimize the burden of the
information collection on respondents,
including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Burden means the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons
to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
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a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
All written comments will be
available for public inspection in the
Main Interior Building, 1849 C Street,
NW., Washington, DC from 9 a.m. until
3 p.m., Monday through Friday,
excluding legal holidays. For an
appointment to inspect comments,
please contact Samuel Bowser by
telephone on (202) 208–5549, or by email at Samuel_S_Bowser@ios.doi.gov.
A valid picture identification is required
for entry into the Department of the
Interior. If you wish us to withhold your
personal information, you must
prominently state at the beginning of
your comment what personal
information you want us to withhold.
We will honor your request to the extent
allowable by law.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid
Office of Management and Budget
control number.
Dated: December 12, 2005.
Samuel Bowser,
Assistant Director for Workforce Diversity,
Department of the Interior.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
Information Collection Sent to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for Approval Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act; 1018–0119;
Policy for Evaluation of Conservation
Efforts When Making Listing Decisions
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: We (Fish and Wildlife
Service, Service) have sent a request to
OMB to renew approval for the
collection of information associated
with our Policy for Evaluation of
Conservation Efforts When Making
Listing Decisions (PECE). We use the
information that we collect as part of the
basis for identifying conservation efforts
that can contribute to a decision not to
list a species under the Endangered
Species Act (ESA) or to list a species as
threatened rather than endangered.
DATES: You must submit comments on
or before January 17, 2006.
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Send your comments and
suggestions on this information
collection renewal to the Desk Officer
for the Department of Interior at OMB–
OIRA at (202) 395–6566 (fax) or
OIRA_DOCKET@OMB.eop.gov (e-mail).
Please provide a copy of your comments
to Hope Grey, Information Collection
Clearance Officer, Fish and Wildlife
Service, MS 222–ARLSQ, 4401 North
Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22203
(mail); (703) 358–2269 (fax);
hope_grey@fws.gov (e-mail).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request a copy of the proposed
information collection requirement,
related forms, or explanatory material,
contact Hope Grey at the addresses
above or by phone at (703) 358–2482.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB
regulations at 5 CFR 1320, which
implement provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), require that interested members
of the public and affected agencies have
an opportunity to comment on
information collection and
recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR
1320.8(d)). Currently, we have approval
to collect this information under OMB
Control Number 1018–0119, which
expires on December 31, 2005. We are
asking OMB to renew approval for a 3year term. OMB has up to 60 days to
approve or disapprove our request;
however, OMB may respond as early as
30 days after our submittal. To ensure
consideration, send your comments to
OMB by the date listed in the DATES
section. 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.
On August 15, 2005, we published in
the Federal Register (70 FR 47845) a
notice of our intent to request renewal
of this information collection authority
from OMB. In that notice, we solicited
public comments for 60 days, ending on
October 14, 2005. We did not receive
any comments.
Section 4 of the ESA specifies the
process by which we can list species as
threatened or endangered. When we
consider whether or not to list a species,
the ESA requires us to take into account
the efforts being made by any State or
any political subdivision of a State to
protect such species. We also take into
account the efforts being made by other
entities. States or other entities often
formalize conservation efforts in
conservation agreements, conservation
plans, management plans, or similar
documents. The conservation efforts
recommended or called for in such
documents could prevent some species
ADDRESSES:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
Proposed Agency Information Collection With Applicant Background
Survey; Comment Request
AGENCY: Office of Civil Rights.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of Civil Rights, Office of the
Secretary, Department of the Interior (DOI), announces the proposed
extension of a public information collection and seeks public comments
on the provisions thereof.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by February
14, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations on the proposed
information collection should be sent to the Office of Civil Rights,
Attn: Samuel Bowser, Department of the Interior, 1849 C St., NW.,
Washington, DC 20240. Individuals providing comments should reference
OMB control 1091-0001, Applicant Background Survey.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on this
proposed information collection or to obtain a copy of the proposal and
associated collection instrument, please write to the above address, or
call Samuel Bowser, (202) 208-5549. The collection instrument is also
available on the Internet at: https://www.doi.gov/diversity/doc/di_1935.pdf.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
DOI is below parity with the Relevant Civilian Labor Force
representation for many mission critical occupations. The Department's
Strategic Human Capital Management Plan identifies the job skills that
will be needed in its current and future workforce. The job skills it
will need are dispersed throughout its eight bureaus and include, among
others, making visitors welcome to various facilities, such as parks
and refuges, processing permits for a wide variety of uses of the
public lands, collecting royalties for minerals extracted from the
public lands, rounding-up and adopting-out wild horses and burros found
in the west, protecting archeological and cultural resources of the
public lands, and enforcing criminal laws of the United States. As a
result of this broad spectrum of duties and services, the Department
touches the lives of most Americans.
The people who deal with the Department bring with them a wide
variety of backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. A diverse workforce
enables the Department to provide a measure of understanding to its
customers by relating to the diverse background of those customers. By
including employees of all backgrounds, all DOI employees gain a
measure of knowledge, background, experience, and comfort in serving
all of the Department's customers.
In order to determine if there are barriers in our recruitment and
selection processes, DOI must track the demographic groups that apply
for its jobs. There is no other statistically valid method to make
these determinations, and no source of this information other than
directly from applicants. The data collected is not provided to
selecting officials and plays no part in the merit staffing or the
selection processes. The data collected will be used in summary form to
determine trends covering the demographic make-up of applicant pools
and job selections within a given
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occupation or organizational group. The records of those applicants not
selected are destroyed in accordance with DOI's records management
procedures.
II. Data
(1) Title: Applicant Background Survey.
OMB Control Number: 1091-0001.
Current Expiration Date: March 31, 2006.
Type of Review: Information Collection Renewal.
Affected Entities: Applicants for DOI jobs.
Estimated annual number of respondents: 668,905.
Frequency of response: once per job application.
(2) Annual reporting and record keeping burden.
Average reporting burden per application: 5 minutes.
Total annual reporting: 55,746 hours.
(3) Description of the need and use of the information: This
information is required to obtain the source of recruitment, ethnicity,
race, and disability data on job applicants to determine if the
recruitment is effectively reaching all aspects of relevant labor pools
and to determine if there are proportionate acceptance rates at various
stages of the recruitment process. Response is optional. The
information is used for evaluating recruitment only, and plays no part
in the selection of who is hired.
III. Request for Comments
Request for Comments: Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the
proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper
performance of the agency, including whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the
burden of the proposed information collection; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and
(d) ways to minimize the burden of the information collection on
respondents, including through the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information technology.
Burden means the total time, effort, or financial resources
expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide
information to or for a federal agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize
technology and systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and
verifying information, processing and maintaining information, and
disclosing and providing information; to train personnel and to be able
to respond to a collection of information, to search data sources, to
complete and review the collection of information; and to transmit or
otherwise disclose the information.
All written comments will be available for public inspection in the
Main Interior Building, 1849 C Street, NW., Washington, DC from 9 a.m.
until 3 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. For an
appointment to inspect comments, please contact Samuel Bowser by
telephone on (202) 208-5549, or by e-mail at Samuel_S_Bowser@ios.doi.gov. A valid picture identification is required for
entry into the Department of the Interior. If you wish us to withhold
your personal information, you must prominently state at the beginning
of your comment what personal information you want us to withhold. We
will honor your request to the extent allowable by law.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required
to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a
currently valid Office of Management and Budget control number.
Dated: December 12, 2005.
Samuel Bowser,
Assistant Director for Workforce Diversity, Department of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 05-24106 Filed 12-15-05; 8:45 am]
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