Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, 6174-6175 [2010-2658]

Download as PDF 6174 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 25 / Monday, February 8, 2010 / Notices Administrative Assistant at (312) 353– 8311 or by e-mail: callen@usccr.gov. Hearing-impaired persons who will attend the meeting and require the services of a sign language interpreter should contact the Regional Office at least ten (10) working days before the scheduled date of the meeting. Records generated from this meeting may be inspected and reproduced at the Midwestern Regional Office, as they become available, both before and after the meeting. Persons interested in the work of this advisory committee are advised to go to the Commission’s Web site, https://www.usccr.gov, or to contact the Midwestern Regional Office at the above e-mail or street address. The meeting will be conducted pursuant to the provisions of the rules and regulations of the Commission and FACA. Dated in Washington, DC, February 2, 2010. Peter Minarik, Chief, Regional Programs Coordination Unit. [FR Doc. 2010–2608 Filed 2–5–10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6335–02–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE WReier-Aviles on DSKGBLS3C1PROD with NOTICES Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35). Agency: U.S. Census Bureau. Title: Government Employment Forms. OMB Control Number: 0607–0452. Form Number(s): E–1, E–2, E–3, E–4, E–5, E–6, E–7, E–9. Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection. Burden Hours: 13,985. Number of Respondents: 16,964. Average Hours per Response: 50 minutes. Needs and Uses: This information collection request covers the questionnaires needed to conduct the public employment program for the 2010 and 2011 Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll. The questionnaires for collecting the data are described below. There are eight survey forms used to collect data on government employment, pay, and hours. Since there are many different types and sizes of governments, each form is tailored to the unique characteristics of the type and size of VerDate Nov<24>2008 11:51 Feb 05, 2010 Jkt 220001 government or government agency to be surveyed. E–1 State agencies, excluding state colleges and universities E–2 State colleges and universities E–3 Dependent agencies of local governments Single function special district governments E–4 County governments, Municipal and township governments with populations of 1,000 or more E–5 Municipalities and Townships (A shortened version of the E–4 form for Municipalities and Townships with a population of < 1,000) E–6 Elementary and secondary school systems Local government operated institutions of higher education E–7 Multifunction dependent agencies and fire protection agencies Multifunction special district governments E–9 State police County Sheriff departments The type of employment and pay data collected by the public employment program in the 2010 and 2011 Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll are identical to data collected in recent annual surveys of government employment. By State, the 2010 and 2011 sample supports estimates of total local government employment and payrolls by type of government and government function. Statistics compiled from data gathered using these forms are used in several important Federal government programs. Economists at the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) use the statistics in two ways for developing the National Income and Product Accounts. First, the employment data are used in developing price deflators for the government sector components of the gross domestic product accounts. Second, the employment and payroll data are used in developing the government sector components for the national and sub-national personal income accounts and tables. The regional BEA program uses the Census of Governments and the Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll to derive state-level estimates of the employment and wages and salaries of students and their spouses who are employed by public institutions of higher education in which the students are enrolled. There is no other national or state source for information on student workers at state institutions of higher education. The employment data are used for two other data collection efforts currently conducted by the Census PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Bureau. The Medical Expenditures Panel Survey (MEPS) collects data for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on health plans offered to state and local government employees. The MEPS sample of public employees is drawn from the Census of Governments—Employment file. The Criminal Justice Employment and Expenditure Survey (CJEE) uses employment data to provide employee and payroll statistics on police protection and correctional activities. State and local government officials use these data to analyze and assess individual government labor force and wage levels. Both management and labor consult these data during wage and salary negotiations. Public interest groups of many types produce analyses of public sector activities using these data. User organizations representing state and local government include the Council of State Governments, National Conference of State Legislatures, Government Research Association, U.S. Conference of Mayors, National Association of Counties, National League of Cities, and the International City/County Management Association. A third category of users, having a more specific focus on government activities, includes organizations such as the Citizens Research Council of Michigan and the National Sheriffs Association. A variety of other organizations and individuals make use of these data. Notable research organizations include the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, The Brookings Institution, and the Rockefeller Institute of Government. The instructors, researchers, and students in schools of public administration, political science, management, and industrial relations as well as other members of the public also use these data. Affected Public: State, local or Tribal Government. Frequency: Annually. Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. Legal Authority: Title 13, Section 161, of the United States Code requires the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a census of governments every fifth year. Title 13, Section 182 of the United States Code allows the Secretary to conduct annual surveys in other years. OMB Desk Officer: Brian HarrisKojetin, (202) 395–7314. Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer, (202) 482–0266, Department of Commerce, Room 6625, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, E:\FR\FM\08FEN1.SGM 08FEN1 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 25 / Monday, February 8, 2010 / Notices DC 20230 (or via the Internet at dhynek@doc.gov). Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB Desk Officer either by fax (202–395– 7245) or e-mail (bharrisk@omb.eop.gov). Dated: February 2, 2010. Glenna Mickelson, Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer. [FR Doc. 2010–2658 Filed 2–5–10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–07–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration RIN 0648–XU06 Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement on the Effects of Oil and Gas Activities in the Arctic Ocean WReier-Aviles on DSKGBLS3C1PROD with NOTICES AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement; request for comments. SUMMARY: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announces its intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to analyze the environmental impacts of issuing Incidental Take Authorizations (ITAs) pursuant to the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) to the oil and gas industry for the taking of marine mammals incidental to offshore exploration activities (e.g., seismic surveys and exploratory drilling) in Federal and state waters of the U.S. Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off Alaska. DATES: All comments, written statements, and questions regarding the scoping process and preparation of the EIS must be received no later than April 9, 2010. ADDRESSES: Written comments and statements should be addressed to Mr. P. Michael Payne, Chief, Permits, Conservation and Education Division, Office of Protected Resources, NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20190–3225. The mailbox address for providing e-mail comments is arcticeis.comments@noaa.gov. Comments sent via e-mail, including all attachments, must not exceed a 10– megabyte file size. Comments and statements may also be submitted via VerDate Nov<24>2008 11:51 Feb 05, 2010 Jkt 220001 fax to (301) 713–0376. Information on this project can also be found on the Protected Resources webpage at: https:// www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/eis/ arctic.htm. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Payne, Office of Protected Resources, NMFS, (301) 713–2289 ext. 110. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background Sections 101 (a)(5)(A) and (D) of the MMPA (16 USC 1361 et seq.) direct the Secretary of Commerce to allow, upon request, the incidental, but not intentional taking of small numbers of marine mammals by U.S. citizens who engage in a specified activity (other than commercial fishing) within a specified geographical region if certain findings are made and either regulations are issued or, if the taking is limited to harassment, a notice of proposed authorization is provided to the public for review. The term ‘‘take’’ under the MMPA means ‘‘to harass, hunt, capture, kill or collect, or attempt to harass, hunt, capture, kill or collect.’’ Except with respect to certain activities not pertinent here, the MMPA defines ‘‘harassment’’ as ‘‘any act of pursuit, torment, or annoyance which (i) has the potential to injure a marine mammal or marine mammal stock in the wild [Level A harassment]; or (ii) has the potential to disturb a marine mammal or marine mammal stock in the wild by causing disruption of behavioral patterns, including, but not limited to, migration, breathing, nursing, breeding, feeding, or sheltering [Level B harassment].’’ Authorization for incidental takings shall be granted if NMFS finds that the taking will have a negligible impact on the species or stock(s), will not have an unmitigable adverse impact on the availability of the species or stock(s) for subsistence uses (where relevant), and if the permissible methods of taking and requirements pertaining to the mitigation, monitoring and reporting of such takings are set forth. NMFS has defined ‘‘negligible impact’’ in 50 CFR 216.103 as ’’...an impact resulting from the specified activity that cannot be reasonably expected to, and is not reasonably likely to, adversely affect the species or stock through effects on annual rates of recruitment or survival.’’ Summary of Previous National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Documents In 2006, the U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) prepared a Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) for the 2006 Arctic PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 6175 Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) seismic surveys. NMFS was a cooperating agency and adopted the Final PEA on June 28, 2006. Under this PEA, NMFS issued Incidental Harassment Authorizations under Section 101(a)(5)(D) of the MMPA to oil and gas companies for the taking of marine mammals incidental to seismic surveys in 2006. This PEA analyzed the effects of four concurrent seismic surveys in the Beaufort Sea and four concurrent seismic surveys in the Chukchi Sea. At that time, NMFS indicated that increased activity and new available science would result in a need to prepare an EIS for future authorizations. On April 6, 2007, NMFS and MMS published a Notice of Availability for a Draft Programmatic EIS (DPEIS) and a schedule of public hearings (72 FR 17117) to assess the impacts of MMS’ issuance of permits and authorizations under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) for the conduct of seismic surveys in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off Alaska and NMFS’ authorizations under the MMPA to incidentally harass marine mammals while conducting those surveys. The proposed scope and effects of the seismic survey activities analyzed in the DPEIS were based on the best available information at the time. Since then, new information (e.g., scientific study results, changes in projections of level of activity) has become available that alters the scope, range of possible alternatives, and analyses in the DPEIS. Therefore, MMS and NMFS filed a Notice of Withdrawal of the DPEIS on October 28, 2009 (74 FR 55539) and announced our decision to begin a new NEPA process. Objectives of the EIS This NOI announces NMFS’ intent, as lead agency, to prepare a new EIS to analyze the potential effects of both geophysical surveys and exploratory drilling, address cumulative effects over a longer time frame, consider a more reasonable range of alternatives consistent with our statutory mandates, and reanalyze the range of practicable mitigation and monitoring measures for protecting marine mammals and availability of marine mammals for subsistence uses. MMS will be a cooperating agency on this EIS. Specifically, this EIS would: (1) Assess the environmental impacts to the physical, biological, cultural, economic, and social resources from deep-penetration, two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) streamer and ocean bottom cable surveys (hereafter referred to as seismic surveys) E:\FR\FM\08FEN1.SGM 08FEN1

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of 
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 
U.S.C. chapter 35).
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: Government Employment Forms.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0452.
    Form Number(s): E-1, E-2, E-3, E-4, E-5, E-6, E-7, E-9.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Burden Hours: 13,985.
    Number of Respondents: 16,964.
    Average Hours per Response: 50 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: This information collection request covers the 
questionnaires needed to conduct the public employment program for the 
2010 and 2011 Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll.
    The questionnaires for collecting the data are described below. 
There are eight survey forms used to collect data on government 
employment, pay, and hours. Since there are many different types and 
sizes of governments, each form is tailored to the unique 
characteristics of the type and size of government or government agency 
to be surveyed.

E-1 State agencies, excluding state colleges and universities
E-2 State colleges and universities
E-3 Dependent agencies of local governments
    Single function special district governments
E-4 County governments, Municipal and township governments with 
populations of 1,000 or more
E-5 Municipalities and Townships (A shortened version of the E-4 form 
for Municipalities and Townships with a population of < 1,000)
E-6 Elementary and secondary school systems
    Local government operated institutions of higher education
E-7 Multifunction dependent agencies and fire protection agencies
    Multifunction special district governments
E-9 State police
    County Sheriff departments

    The type of employment and pay data collected by the public 
employment program in the 2010 and 2011 Annual Survey of Public 
Employment & Payroll are identical to data collected in recent annual 
surveys of government employment. By State, the 2010 and 2011 sample 
supports estimates of total local government employment and payrolls by 
type of government and government function.
    Statistics compiled from data gathered using these forms are used 
in several important Federal government programs. Economists at the 
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) use the statistics in two ways for 
developing the National Income and Product Accounts. First, the 
employment data are used in developing price deflators for the 
government sector components of the gross domestic product accounts. 
Second, the employment and payroll data are used in developing the 
government sector components for the national and sub-national personal 
income accounts and tables.
    The regional BEA program uses the Census of Governments and the 
Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll to derive state-level 
estimates of the employment and wages and salaries of students and 
their spouses who are employed by public institutions of higher 
education in which the students are enrolled. There is no other 
national or state source for information on student workers at state 
institutions of higher education.
    The employment data are used for two other data collection efforts 
currently conducted by the Census Bureau. The Medical Expenditures 
Panel Survey (MEPS) collects data for the Department of Health and 
Human Services (HHS) on health plans offered to state and local 
government employees. The MEPS sample of public employees is drawn from 
the Census of Governments--Employment file. The Criminal Justice 
Employment and Expenditure Survey (CJEE) uses employment data to 
provide employee and payroll statistics on police protection and 
correctional activities.
    State and local government officials use these data to analyze and 
assess individual government labor force and wage levels. Both 
management and labor consult these data during wage and salary 
negotiations.
    Public interest groups of many types produce analyses of public 
sector activities using these data. User organizations representing 
state and local government include the Council of State Governments, 
National Conference of State Legislatures, Government Research 
Association, U.S. Conference of Mayors, National Association of 
Counties, National League of Cities, and the International City/County 
Management Association. A third category of users, having a more 
specific focus on government activities, includes organizations such as 
the Citizens Research Council of Michigan and the National Sheriffs 
Association.
    A variety of other organizations and individuals make use of these 
data. Notable research organizations include the Manhattan Institute 
for Policy Research, The Brookings Institution, and the Rockefeller 
Institute of Government. The instructors, researchers, and students in 
schools of public administration, political science, management, and 
industrial relations as well as other members of the public also use 
these data.
    Affected Public: State, local or Tribal Government.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13, Section 161, of the United States Code 
requires the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a census of governments 
every fifth year. Title 13, Section 182 of the United States Code 
allows the Secretary to conduct annual surveys in other years.
    OMB Desk Officer: Brian Harris-Kojetin, (202) 395-7314.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce, Room 6625, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,

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DC 20230 (or via the Internet at dhynek@doc.gov).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB Desk Officer either by fax (202-395-7245) 
or e-mail (bharrisk@omb.eop.gov).

    Dated: February 2, 2010.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-2658 Filed 2-5-10; 8:45 am]
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