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cannot guarantee that we will be able to
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Dated: November 6, 2008
Hope Grey,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
Fish and Wildlife Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R5-FHC-2008-N0330] [51320-13340000 L4]
Information Collection Sent to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for Approval; OMB Control
Number 1018-0127; Horseshoe Crab
Tagging Program
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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. This ICR is scheduled
to expire on December 31, 2008. 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 send comments on or
before January 9, 2009.
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
Number of annual
respondents
Activity
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FWS Form 3-2310 ...................................................................
FWS Form 3-2311 ...................................................................
Totals ................................................................................
*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.
Each agency determines the number of
tags it will apply.
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. That bird is
under a status review for listing under
the Endangered Species Act.
In 1998, the Atlantic States Marine
Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), a
management organization with
representatives from each State on the
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Hope Grey by mail or
e-mail (see ADDRESSES) or by
telephone at (703) 358–2482.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 1018-0127.
Title: Horseshoe Crab Tagging
Program.
Service Form Number(s): FWS Forms
3-2310 and 3-2311.
Type of Request: Extension of
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: 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.
1,500
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1,510
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.
Although restrictive measures have
been taken in recent years, populations
are not showing immediate increases.
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, 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:
(1) Organization name.
(2) Contact person name.
(3) Tag number.
(4) Sex of crab.
(5) Prosomal width.
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22203 (mail) or hope_grey@fws.gov (email).
Number of annual
responses
500
10
510
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Completion time
per response
10 minutes .......
73 hours* .........
.....................
Annual burden
hours
250
730
980
(6) Capture site, latitude, longitude,
waterbody, State, and date.
Members of the public who recover
tagged crabs provide the following
information using FWS Form 3-2310
(Horseshoe Crab Recapture Report):
(1) Tag number.
(2) Whether or not tag was removed.
(3) Whether or not the tag was circular
or square.
(4) Condition of crab.
(5) Date captured/found.
(6) Crab fate.
(7) Finder type.
(8) Capture method.
(9) Capture location.
(10) Reporter information.
(11) 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 he/she found or
captured.
Comments: On June 24, 2008, we
published in the Federal Register (73
FR 35705) a notice of our intent to
request that OMB renew this ICR. In that
notice, we solicited comments for 60
days, ending on August 25, 2008. We
received one comment. The commenter
did not address the necessity, clarity, or
accuracy of the information collection,
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but did oppose the use of horseshoe
crabs by biomedical companies and
proposed a ban on the use of horseshoe
crabs for any purpose. We have not
made any changes to our information
collection as a result of the comment.
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.
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 18, 2008
Hope Grey,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
Fish and Wildlife Service.
FR Doc. E8–29139 Filed 12–9–08; 08:45 am
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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[FWS-R9-MB-2008-N0325] [91200-123100AP-M4]
Information Collection Sent to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for Approval; OMB Control
Number 1018-0019; North American
Woodcock Singing Ground Survey
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AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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. This ICR is scheduled
to expire on December 31, 2008. We
may not conduct or sponsor and a
person is not required to respond to a
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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 send comments on or
before January 9, 2009.
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) or hope_grey@fws.gov (email).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Hope Grey by mail or
e-mail (see ADDRESSES) or by
telephone at (703) 358–2482.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB
Control Number: 1018-0019.
Title: North American Woodcock
Singing Ground Survey.
Service Form Number(s): 3-156.
Type of Request: Extension of
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: State, Provincial,
local, and tribal employees.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: Annually.
Estimated Annual Number of
Responses: 680.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1,206 hours. We believe 544
persons (80 percent of the respondents)
will enter data electronically, with an
average reporting burden of 1.8 hours
per respondent. For all other
respondents, we estimate the reporting
burden to be 1.67 hours per respondent.
Abstract: The Migratory Bird Treaty
Act (16 U.S.C. 703-712) and Fish and
Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742a 754j-2) designate the Department of the
Interior as the primary agency
responsible for:
(1) Wise management of migratory
bird populations frequenting the United
States, and
(2) Setting hunting regulations that
allow for the well-being of migratory
bird populations.
These responsibilities dictate that we
gather accurate data on various
characteristics of migratory bird
populations.
The North American Woodcock
Singing Ground Survey is an essential
part of the migratory bird management
program. State, Federal, Provincial,
local, and tribal conservation agencies
conduct the survey annually to provide
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the data necessary to determine the
population status of the woodcock. In
addition, the information is vital in
assessing the relative changes in the
geographic distribution of the
woodcock. We use the information
primarily to develop recommendations
for hunting regulations. Without
information on the population’s status,
we might promulgate hunting
regulations that (1) are not sufficiently
restrictive, which could cause harm to
the woodcock population, or (2) are too
restrictive, which would unduly restrict
recreational opportunities afforded by
woodcock hunting. The Service, State
conservation agencies, university
associates, and other interested parties
use the data for various research and
management projects.
Comments: On July 24, 2008, we
published in the Federal Register (73
FR 43254) a notice of our intent to
request that OMB renew this ICR. In that
notice, we solicited comments for 60
days, ending on September 22, 2008. We
received one comment. The commenter
expressed opposition to hunting and to
the Government, but did not address the
information collection requirements. We
did not make any changes to our
information collection requirements.
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.
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 26, 2008
Hope Grey,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
Fish and Wildlife Service.
FR Doc. E8–29140 Filed 12–9–08; 8:45 am
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R5-FHC-2008-N0330] [51320-1334-0000 L4]
Information Collection Sent to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for Approval; OMB Control Number 1018-0127; Horseshoe Crab
Tagging Program
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. This ICR is scheduled to expire on December
31, 2008. 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 send comments on or before January 9, 2009.
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) or hope_grey@fws.gov (e-mail).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information
about this ICR, contact Hope Grey by mail or e-mail (see ADDRESSES) or
by telephone at (703) 358-2482.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 1018-0127.
Title: Horseshoe Crab Tagging Program.
Service Form Number(s): FWS Forms 3-2310 and 3-2311.
Type of Request: Extension of currently approved collection.
Affected Public: 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 annual Number of annual Completion time per Annual burden
Activity respondents responses response hours
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FWS Form 3-2310................. 500 1,500 10 minutes......... 250
FWS Form 3-2311................. 10 10 73 hours*.......... 730
Totals...................... 510 1,510 ................... 980
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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. Each agency determines the number of tags it will apply.
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. That bird is under a status review for listing
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.
Although restrictive measures have been taken in recent years,
populations are not showing immediate increases. 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, 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:
(1) Organization name.
(2) Contact person name.
(3) Tag number.
(4) Sex of crab.
(5) Prosomal width.
(6) Capture site, latitude, longitude, waterbody, State, and date.
Members of the public who recover tagged crabs provide the
following information using FWS Form 3-2310 (Horseshoe Crab Recapture
Report):
(1) Tag number.
(2) Whether or not tag was removed.
(3) Whether or not the tag was circular or square.
(4) Condition of crab.
(5) Date captured/found.
(6) Crab fate.
(7) Finder type.
(8) Capture method.
(9) Capture location.
(10) Reporter information.
(11) 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 he/she found or captured.
Comments: On June 24, 2008, we published in the Federal Register
(73 FR 35705) a notice of our intent to request that OMB renew this
ICR. In that notice, we solicited comments for 60 days, ending on
August 25, 2008. We received one comment. The commenter did not address
the necessity, clarity, or accuracy of the information collection,
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but did oppose the use of horseshoe crabs by biomedical companies and
proposed a ban on the use of horseshoe crabs for any purpose. We have
not made any changes to our information collection as a result of the
comment.
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.
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 18, 2008
Hope Grey,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Fish and Wildlife Service.
FR Doc. E8-29139 Filed 12-9-08; 08:45 am
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