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planning and action at local, tribal,
State, regional and ecosystem-based
levels; develops recommendations for
international cooperation in addressing
invasive species; facilitates the
development of a coordinated network
to document, evaluate, and monitor
impacts from invasive species; and
facilitates establishment of an
information-sharing system on invasive
species that utilizes, to the greatest
extent practicable, the Internet.
The role of ISAC is to maintain an
intensive and regular dialogue regarding
the aforementioned issues. ISAC
provides advice in cooperation with
stakeholders and existing organizations
addressing invasive species. The ISAC
meets up to three (3) times per year.
Terms for many of the current
members of the ISAC will expire in June
2008. After consultation with the other
members of NISC, the Secretary of the
Interior will actively solicit new
nominees and appoint members to
ISAC. Prospective members of ISAC
should be knowledgeable in and
represent one or more of the following
communities of interests: weed science,
fisheries science, rangeland
management, forest science,
entomology, nematology, plant
pathology, veterinary medicine, the
broad range of farming or agricultural
practices, biodiversity issues, applicable
laws and regulations relevant to
invasive species policy, risk assessment,
biological control of invasive species,
public health/epidemiology, industry
activities, international affairs or trade,
tribal or State government interests,
environmental education, ecosystem
monitoring, natural resource database
design and Integration, and internetbased management of conservation
issues.
Prospective nominees should also
have practical experience in one or
more of the following areas:
representing sectors of the national
economy that are significantly
threatened by biological invasions (e.g.,
agriculture, fisheries, public utilities,
recreational users, tourism, etc.);
representing sectors of the national
economy whose routine operations may
pose risks of new or expanded
biological invasions (e.g., shipping,
forestry, horticulture, aquaculture, pet
trade, etc.); developing natural resource
management plans on regional or
ecosystem-level scales; addressing
invasive species issues, including
prevention, control and monitoring, in
multiple ecosystems and on multiple
scales; integrating science and the
human dimension in order to create
effective solutions to complex
conservation issues including
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education, outreach, and public
relations experts; coordinating diverse
groups of stakeholders to resolve
complex environmental issues and
conflicts; and complying with NEPA
and other Federal requirements for
public involvement in major
conservation plans. Members will be
selected in order to achieve a balanced
representation of viewpoints, so to
effectively address invasive species
issues under consideration. No member
may serve on the ISAC for more than
two (2) consecutive terms. All terms
will be limited to three (3) years in
length.
Members of the ISAC and its
subcommittees serve without pay.
However, while away from their homes
or regular places of business in the
performance of services of the ISAC,
members shall be allowed travel
expenses, including per diem in lieu of
subsistence, in the same manner as
persons employed intermittently in the
government service, as authorized by
section 5703 of Title 5, United States
Code.
Note: Employees of the Federal
Government are not eligible for nomination
or appointment to ISAC.
Submitting Nominations
Nominations should be typed and
must include each of the following:
1. A brief summary of no more than
two (2) pages explaining the nominee’s
suitability to serve on the ISAC.
2. A resume or curriculum vitae.
3. At least two (2) letters of reference.
Incomplete nominations (missing one
or more of the items described above)
will not be considered. Nominations
should be postmarked no later than
January 14, 2008, to Lori Williams,
Executive Director, National Invasive
Species Council (OS/NISC), Regular
Mail: 1849 C Street, NW., Washington,
DC 20240; Express Mail: 1201 Eye
Street, NW., 5th Floor, Washington, DC
20005.
The Secretary of the Interior, on
behalf of the other members of NISC, is
actively soliciting nominations of
qualified minorities, women, persons
with disabilities and members of low
income populations to ensure that
recommendations of the ISAC take into
account the needs of the diverse groups
served.
Dated: November 26, 2007.
Lori C. Williams,
Executive Director, National Invasive Species
Council.
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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; OMB Control
Number 1018–0023; Migratory Bird
Surveys
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: We (Fish and Wildlife
Service) have sent an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for
review and approval. The ICR, which is
summarized below, describes the nature
of the collection and the estimated
burden and cost. We are combining
three surveys in this ICR because the
surveys are interrelated and/or
dependent upon each other:
(1) Migratory Bird Hunter Surveys,
currently approved under OMB Control
No. 1018–0015, which expires February
28, 2008.
(2) Parts Collection Survey, also
approved under OMB Control No. 1018–
0015.
(3) Sandhill Crane Harvest Survey,
currently approved under OMB Control
No. 1018–0023, which expires
November 30, 2007.
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 December 31, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments and
suggestions on this ICR to the Desk
Officer for the Department of the
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, VA
22203 (mail); (703) 358–2269 (fax); or
hope_grey@fws.gov (e-mail).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Hope Grey by mail, fax,
or e-mail (see ADDRESSES) or by
telephone at (703) 358–2482.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 1018–0023.
Title: Migratory Bird Surveys
Service Form Number(s): 3–165, 3–
165A, 3–165B, 3–165C, 3–165D, 3–165E
and 3–2056J-N.
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Type of Request: Revision of currently
approved collections.
Affected Public: States and migratory
game bird hunters.
Number of annual
respondents
Activity
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: On occasi
Number of annual
responses
Completion time
per response
Annual burden
hours
49
85,000
13,500
7,500
686
85,000
134,600
7,500
185 hours ........
4.3 minutes ......
4.7 minutes ......
5 minutes .........
126,910
6,100
10,436
625
Totals ................................................................................
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Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program ...........................
Migratory Bird Hunter Survey ..................................................
Parts Collection Survey ...........................................................
Sandhill Crane Harvest Survey ...............................................
106,049
227,786
.....................
144,071
Abstract: The Migratory Bird Treaty
Act (16 U.S.C. 703–711) and the Fish
and Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C.
742d) designate the Department of the
Interior as the key agency responsible
for (1) the wise management of
migratory bird populations frequenting
the United States, and (2) setting
hunting regulations that allow
appropriate harvests that are within the
guidelines that will allow for those
populations’ well-being. These
responsibilities dictate that we gather
accurate data on various characteristics
of migratory bird harvest. Based on
information from harvest surveys, we
can adjust hunting regulations as
needed to optimize harvests at levels
that provide a maximum of hunting
recreation while keeping populations at
desired levels.
Under the Migratory Bird Harvest
Program, State licensing authorities
collect the name and address
information needed to provide a sample
frame of all licensed migratory bird
hunters. Since Federal regulations
require that the States collect this
information, we are including the
associated burden in our approval
request to OMB.
The Migratory Bird Hunter Survey is
based on the Migratory Bird Harvest
Information Program, under which each
State annually provides a list of all
migratory bird hunters in the State. We
randomly select migratory bird hunters;
send them either a waterfowl
questionnaire, a dove and band-tailed
pigeon questionnaire, a woodcock
questionnaire, or a snipe, rail, gallinule
and coot questionnaire; and ask them to
report their harvest of those species. The
resulting estimates of harvest per hunter
are combined with the complete list of
migratory bird hunters to provide
estimates of the total harvest of those
species.
The Parts Collection Survey estimates
the species, sex, and age composition of
the harvest, and the geographic and
temporal distribution of the harvest.
Randomly selected successful hunters
who responded to the Migratory Bird
Hunter Survey the previous year are
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asked to complete and return a postcard
if they are willing to participate in the
Parts Collection Survey. We provide
postage-paid envelopes to respondents
before the hunting season and ask them
to send in a wing or the tail feathers
from each duck, goose, or coot they
harvest, or a wing from each woodcock,
band-tailed pigeon, snipe, rail, or
gallinule they harvest. We use the wings
and tail feathers to identify the species,
sex, and age of the harvested sample.
We also ask respondents to report on the
envelope the date and location of
harvest for each bird. We combine the
results of this survey with the harvest
estimates obtained from the Migratory
Bird Hunter Survey to provide speciesspecific national harvest estimates.
The combined results of these surveys
enable us to evaluate the effects of
season length, season dates, and bag
limits on the harvest of each species,
and thus help us determine appropriate
hunting regulations.
The Sandhill Crane Harvest Survey is
an annual questionnaire survey of
people who obtained a sandhill crane
hunting permit. At the end of the
hunting season, we randomly select a
sample of permit holders and ask them
to report the date, location, and number
of birds harvested for each of their
sandhill crane hunts. Their responses
provide estimates of the temporal and
geographic distribution of the harvest as
well as the average harvest per hunter,
which, combined with the total number
of permits issued, enables us to estimate
the total harvest of sandhill cranes.
Based on information from this survey,
we adjust hunting regulations as needed
to optimize harvest at levels that
provide a maximum of hunting
recreation while keeping the population
at the desired level.
We are also seeking approval to add
a mourning dove wing collection to the
Parts Collection Survey on an
experimental basis. We will use the
wings to identify the age of each sample,
thereby providing estimates of annual
mourning dove productivity at the
management unit level. Those estimates
of annual productivity are needed to
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improve the mourning dove population
models that we have developed for each
management unit. We will compare the
results and costs of our experimental
mail survey with results and costs of
mourning dove wing collection methods
that are currently employed by some,
but not all, States that have dove
hunting seasons. If mourning dove
productivity estimates are similar for
the two methods, we would propose to
adopt the more cost-effective method on
a national scale.
Comments: On March 16, 2007, we
published in the Federal Register (72 FR
12628) 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 May 16, 2007. We received
one comment. The commenter did not
address the information collection
requirements, but did protest the entire
migratory bird hunting regulations
process, surveys and monitoring
programs, and the killing of all
migratory birds. Our long-term
objectives continue to include providing
opportunities to harvest portions of
certain migratory game bird populations
and limit harvest to levels compatible
with each population’s ability to
maintain healthy, viable numbers. Our
harvest surveys are an integral part of
our monitoring programs, which
provide the information that we need to
ensure harvest levels are commensurate
with current status of migratory game
bird populations and long-term
population goals.
We again invite comments concerning
this information collection on:
(1) whether or not the collection of
information is necessary, including
whether or not the information will
have practical utility;
(2) the accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information;
(3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on
respondents.
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Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. Before including your
address, phone number, e-mail 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: November 14, 2007
Hope Grey,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
Fish and Wildlife Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
Sport Fishing and Boating Partnership
Council
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of teleconference.
AGENCY:
We, the Fish and Wildlife
Service (Service), announce a public
teleconference of the Sport Fishing and
Boating Partnership Council (Council).
DATES: We will hold the teleconference
on Monday, December 17, 2007, 2–4
p.m. (Eastern time). If you wish to listen
to the teleconference proceedings,
submit written material for the Council
to consider, or give a 2-minute
presentation during the teleconference,
notify Douglas Hobbs by Friday,
December 7, 2007. If you wish to submit
a written statement for Council
consideration during the teleconference,
we must receive it no later than
December 13, 2007. See instructions
under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Douglas Hobbs, Council Coordinator,
4401 N. Fairfax Dr., Mailstop 3103–
AEA, Arlington, VA 22203; (703) 358–
2336 (phone); (703) 358–2548 (fax), or
doug_hobbs@fws.gov (e-mail).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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SUMMARY:
Background
In accordance with the requirements
of the Federal Advisory Committee Act,
5 U.S.C. App., we give notice that the
Council will hold a teleconference on
Monday, December 17, 2007, from 2 to
4 p.m.
The Council was formed in January
1993 to advise the Secretary of the
Interior, through the Director of the U.S.
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Fish and Wildlife Service, on nationally
significant recreational fishing, boating,
and aquatic resource conservation
issues. The Council represents the
interests of the public and private
sectors of the sport fishing, boating, and
conservation communities and is
organized to enhance partnerships
among industry, constituency groups,
and government. The 18-member
Council, appointed by the Secretary of
the Interior, includes the Service
Director and the president of the
Association of Fish and Wildlife
Agencies, who both serve in ex officio
capacities. Other Council members are
directors from State agencies
responsible for managing recreational
fish and wildlife resources and
individuals who represent the interests
of saltwater and freshwater recreational
fishing, recreational boating, the
recreational fishing and boating
industries, recreational fisheries
resource conservation, Native American
tribes, aquatic resource outreach and
education, and tourism. Background
information on the Council is available
at https://www.fws.gov/sfbpc.
The Council will convene to: (1)
Approve recommendations to the
Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service
for funding Fiscal Year 2008 Boating
Infrastructure Grant proposals; and (2)
to consider other Council business. We
will post the final agenda on the
Internet at https://www.fws.gov/sfbpc.
Procedures for Public Input
Format Requirements for Oral and
Written Commenters
Whether you wish to comment orally
or in written form, you must provide us
with written copies of your comments.
All written statements must be supplied
to the Council Coordinator in both of
the following formats:
• One hard copy with original
signature, and
• One electronic copy via e-mail
(acceptable file format: Adobe Acrobat
PDF, WordPerfect, MS Word, MS
PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in IBM–
PC/Windows 98/2000/XP format).
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teleconference. In addition, if you are
selected to make a 2-minute
presentation, you must provide hard
and electronic copies of your
presentation to the Council Coordinator
by Thursday, December 13, 2007.
Additional live questions from the
public will not be considered during the
teleconference.
Submitting Written Information for the
Council To Consider
Speakers who wish to expand upon
their oral statements or those who had
wished to speak but could not be
accommodated on the agenda are
invited to submit written statements to
the Council. Interested members of the
public may submit relevant written
information for the Council to consider
during the public teleconference. We
must receive all written statements by
Thursday, December 13, 2007, so that
we can make the information available
to the Council for their consideration
prior to the teleconference.
Council Minutes
The Council Coordinator will
maintain the teleconference’s summary
minutes, which will be available for
public inspection at the location under
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
during regular business hours within 30
days after the teleconference. You may
purchase personal copies for the cost of
duplication.
Dated: November 20, 2007.
Geoffrey L. Haskett,
Acting Director.
[FR Doc. E7–23345 Filed 11–29–07; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[CO–800–1430–ES; COC–71969]
Notice of Realty Action: Recreation
and Public Purposes (R&PP) Act
Classification; Colorado
Giving a 2-Minute Oral Presentation
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
Individuals or groups may request to
give an oral presentation during the
Council teleconference. Oral
presentations will be limited to 2
minutes per speaker, with no more than
half an hour total for all speakers.
Interested parties must contact Douglas
Hobbs, Council Coordinator, in writing
(preferably via e-mail; see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT), by Friday,
December 7, 2007, to be placed on the
public speaker list for this
SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) has examined and
found suitable for classification for lease
and subsequent conveyance under the
provision of the Recreation and Public
Purposes (R&PP) Act, as amended, 43
U.S.C. 869 et seq., and under sec. 7 of
the Taylor Grazing Act, 43 U.S.C. 315f,
and E.O. 6910, eighty acres of land in
Archuleta County, Colorado. Archuleta
County proposes to use the land for
public recreation purposes.
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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; OMB Control Number 1018-0023; Migratory Bird
Surveys
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: We (Fish and Wildlife Service) have sent an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for review and approval. The ICR, which
is summarized below, describes the nature of the collection and the
estimated burden and cost. We are combining three surveys in this ICR
because the surveys are interrelated and/or dependent upon each other:
(1) Migratory Bird Hunter Surveys, currently approved under OMB
Control No. 1018-0015, which expires February 28, 2008.
(2) Parts Collection Survey, also approved under OMB Control No.
1018-0015.
(3) Sandhill Crane Harvest Survey, currently approved under OMB
Control No. 1018-0023, which expires November 30, 2007.
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 December 31, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments and suggestions on this ICR to the Desk
Officer for the Department of the 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, VA 22203 (mail); (703) 358-2269 (fax); or hope_
grey@fws.gov (e-mail).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information
about this ICR, contact Hope Grey by mail, fax, or e-mail (see
ADDRESSES) or by telephone at (703) 358-2482.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 1018-0023.
Title: Migratory Bird Surveys
Service Form Number(s): 3-165, 3-165A, 3-165B, 3-165C, 3-165D, 3-
165E and 3-2056J-N.
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Type of Request: Revision of currently approved collections.
Affected Public: States and migratory game bird hunters.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: On occasi
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Number of annual Number of annual Completion time per Annual burden
Activity respondents responses response hours
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Migratory Bird Harvest 49 686 185 hours.......... 126,910
Information Program.
Migratory Bird Hunter Survey.... 85,000 85,000 4.3 minutes........ 6,100
Parts Collection Survey......... 13,500 134,600 4.7 minutes........ 10,436
Sandhill Crane Harvest Survey... 7,500 7,500 5 minutes.......... 625
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Totals...................... 106,049 227,786 ................... 144,071
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Abstract: The Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703-711) and the
Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742d) designate the Department
of the Interior as the key agency responsible for (1) the wise
management of migratory bird populations frequenting the United States,
and (2) setting hunting regulations that allow appropriate harvests
that are within the guidelines that will allow for those populations'
well-being. These responsibilities dictate that we gather accurate data
on various characteristics of migratory bird harvest. Based on
information from harvest surveys, we can adjust hunting regulations as
needed to optimize harvests at levels that provide a maximum of hunting
recreation while keeping populations at desired levels.
Under the Migratory Bird Harvest Program, State licensing
authorities collect the name and address information needed to provide
a sample frame of all licensed migratory bird hunters. Since Federal
regulations require that the States collect this information, we are
including the associated burden in our approval request to OMB.
The Migratory Bird Hunter Survey is based on the Migratory Bird
Harvest Information Program, under which each State annually provides a
list of all migratory bird hunters in the State. We randomly select
migratory bird hunters; send them either a waterfowl questionnaire, a
dove and band-tailed pigeon questionnaire, a woodcock questionnaire, or
a snipe, rail, gallinule and coot questionnaire; and ask them to report
their harvest of those species. The resulting estimates of harvest per
hunter are combined with the complete list of migratory bird hunters to
provide estimates of the total harvest of those species.
The Parts Collection Survey estimates the species, sex, and age
composition of the harvest, and the geographic and temporal
distribution of the harvest. Randomly selected successful hunters who
responded to the Migratory Bird Hunter Survey the previous year are
asked to complete and return a postcard if they are willing to
participate in the Parts Collection Survey. We provide postage-paid
envelopes to respondents before the hunting season and ask them to send
in a wing or the tail feathers from each duck, goose, or coot they
harvest, or a wing from each woodcock, band-tailed pigeon, snipe, rail,
or gallinule they harvest. We use the wings and tail feathers to
identify the species, sex, and age of the harvested sample. We also ask
respondents to report on the envelope the date and location of harvest
for each bird. We combine the results of this survey with the harvest
estimates obtained from the Migratory Bird Hunter Survey to provide
species-specific national harvest estimates.
The combined results of these surveys enable us to evaluate the
effects of season length, season dates, and bag limits on the harvest
of each species, and thus help us determine appropriate hunting
regulations.
The Sandhill Crane Harvest Survey is an annual questionnaire survey
of people who obtained a sandhill crane hunting permit. At the end of
the hunting season, we randomly select a sample of permit holders and
ask them to report the date, location, and number of birds harvested
for each of their sandhill crane hunts. Their responses provide
estimates of the temporal and geographic distribution of the harvest as
well as the average harvest per hunter, which, combined with the total
number of permits issued, enables us to estimate the total harvest of
sandhill cranes. Based on information from this survey, we adjust
hunting regulations as needed to optimize harvest at levels that
provide a maximum of hunting recreation while keeping the population at
the desired level.
We are also seeking approval to add a mourning dove wing collection
to the Parts Collection Survey on an experimental basis. We will use
the wings to identify the age of each sample, thereby providing
estimates of annual mourning dove productivity at the management unit
level. Those estimates of annual productivity are needed to improve the
mourning dove population models that we have developed for each
management unit. We will compare the results and costs of our
experimental mail survey with results and costs of mourning dove wing
collection methods that are currently employed by some, but not all,
States that have dove hunting seasons. If mourning dove productivity
estimates are similar for the two methods, we would propose to adopt
the more cost-effective method on a national scale.
Comments: On March 16, 2007, we published in the Federal Register
(72 FR 12628) 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 May 16, 2007. We received one comment. The
commenter did not address the information collection requirements, but
did protest the entire migratory bird hunting regulations process,
surveys and monitoring programs, and the killing of all migratory
birds. Our long-term objectives continue to include providing
opportunities to harvest portions of certain migratory game bird
populations and limit harvest to levels compatible with each
population's ability to maintain healthy, viable numbers. Our harvest
surveys are an integral part of our monitoring programs, which provide
the information that we need to ensure harvest levels are commensurate
with current status of migratory game bird populations and long-term
population goals.
We again invite comments concerning this information collection on:
(1) whether or not the collection of information is necessary,
including whether or not the information will have practical utility;
(2) the accuracy of our estimate of the burden for this collection
of information;
(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
(4) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
respondents.
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Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of
public record. Before including your address, phone number, e-mail
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: November 14, 2007
Hope Grey,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Fish and Wildlife Service.
FR Doc. E7-23197 Filed 11-29-07;8:45am
BILLING CODE 4310-55-S
