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the public and affecting agencies
concerning the proposed collection of
information to: (1) Evaluate whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (2) evaluate the
accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information; (3) enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (4) minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond; including
through the use of appropriate
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
This Notice Also Lists the Following
Information
Title of Proposal: Multifamily
Housing Service Coordinator Program.
OMB Approval Number: 2502–0447.
Form Numbers: HUD–92456, HUD–
50080–SCMF, HUD–91186, SF–269–A,
SF–424, SF–424–Supp, HUD–2880, SF–
LLL, HUD–96010, HUD–91186–A.
Description of the Need for the
Information and Its Proposed Use:
Housing project owners/managers apply
for grants under the Housing Service
Coordinator Program. The requested
information will assist HUD in
evaluating grant applicants and to
determine how well grant funds meet
stated program goals and how well the
public was served.
Frequency of Submission: Quarterly,
Semi-annually, Annually.
Number of
respondents
Annual
responses
4300
4.837
Reporting Burden ..............................................................................
Total Estimated Burden Hours:
69,150.
Status: Extension of a currently
approved collection.
Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 35, as
amended.
Dated: April 28, 2010.
Leroy McKinney, Jr.,
Departmental Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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I. Abstract
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey
Proposed Information Collection;
Assessment of the Business
Requirements and Benefits of
Enhanced National Elevation Data
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AGENCY: United States Geological
Survey (USGS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
SUMMARY: We (U.S. Geological Survey)
will ask the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) to approve the
information collection (IC) described
below. To comply with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 and a part of our
continuing efforts to reduce paperwork
and respondent burden, we invite the
general public and other Federal
agencies to comment on this IC. We may
not conduct or sponsor and a person is
not required to respond to a collection
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number.
DATES: You must submit comment on or
before July 6, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments to the
IC to Phadrea Ponds, Information
Collections Clearance Officer, U.S.
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Geological Survey, 2150–C Center
Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80525 (mail);
(970) 226–9230 (fax); or
pponds@usgs.gov (e-mail). Please
reference Information Collection 1028–
NEW, LiDAR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Gregory Snyder by mail at U.S.
Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley
Drive, MS 517, Reston, VA 20192–0001,
or by telephone at 703–648–5169.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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USGS Geography supports some of
the most pressing resource management,
environmental and climate change
science issues faced by our Nation.
Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) is
the leading technology for collecting
highly-accurate three-dimensional
measurements of the Earth’s topography
and surface features such buildings,
bridges, coastlines, rivers, forests and
other landscape characteristics. These
data provide an unprecedented tool for
scientific understanding and informed
National decisions related to ecosystem
management, energy development,
natural resource conservation and
mitigating geologic and flood-related
hazards. The USGS now collects LiDAR
data to a limited extent and primarily
for upgrading bare-earth elevation data
for The National Map. This study seeks
to establish a baseline of national
business needs and associated benefits
for LiDAR to enhance the
responsiveness of USGS programs, and
to design an efficient future program
that balances requirements, benefits and
costs. The study advances coordinated
program development among the
numerous federal and state agencies that
increasingly rely on LiDAR to enable the
fulfillment of their missions. The study
is sponsored by the National Digital
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3.324
Burden hours
69,150
Elevation Program steering committee
and supported by several member
agencies.
The information collection process
will be guided by an interagency
management team led by USGS with
support from a professional services
contractor. The information collection
will be conducted using a standardized
template. We will protect information
from respondents considered
proprietary under the Freedom of
Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) and its
implementing regulations (43 CFR part
2), and under regulations at 30 CFR
250.197, ‘‘Data and information to be
made available to the public or for
limited inspection.’’ Responses are
voluntary. No questions of a ‘‘sensitive’’
nature are asked.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: None. This is
a new collection.
Title: Assessment of the Business
Requirements and Benefits of Enhanced
National Elevation Data.
Type of Request: New.
Affected Public: States, U.S.
Territories, Tribes and selected private
natural resource development
companies.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One time
only.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: Approximately 300
responses.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1,200.
III. Request for Comments
We invite comments concerning this
IC on:
(1) Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary, including
whether or not the information will
have practical utility;
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(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.
Please note that the comments
submitted 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. To comply with the public
process, we hereby publish this Federal
Register notice announcing that we will
submit this IC to OMB for approval. The
notice provides the required 60-day
public comment period.
USGS Information Collection
Clearance Officer: Phadrea D. Ponds,
970–226–9445.
effective upon publication of this notice,
includes certain adjacent real property
situated in Newton County, Missouri
legally described as: Thirty acres
squarely off the South side of the
Southwest Quarter of the Southeast
Quarter (SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4) of Section 7,
Township 26 North, Range 31 West, 5th
P.M., Newton County, Missouri.
Dated: April 27, 2010.
Bruce K. Quirk,
Land Remote Sensing Program Coordinator.
SUMMARY: The MMS, in accordance with
regulations implementing the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),
announces the availability of an EA and
FONNSI for the Cape Wind Energy
Project proposed for Nantucket Sound,
offshore Massachusetts. On January 16,
2009, the MMS announced the release
of the Final Environmental Impact
Statement (FEIS) for the Cape Wind
Energy Project. The FEIS assessed the
physical, biological, and social/human
impacts of the proposed project and 13
alternatives, including a no-action
alternative (i.e., the project is not built),
and proposed mitigation.
The MMS prepared this EA to
determine whether MMS needs to
supplement the FEIS for the Cape Wind
Energy Project by examining whether
there are ‘‘substantial changes in the
proposed action that are relevant to
environmental concerns’’ or whether
‘‘there are significant new circumstances
or information relevant to
environmental concerns and bearing on
the proposed action or its impacts’’ that
either were not fully discussed or did
not exist at the time the FEIS was
prepared (40 CFR 1502.9). The MMS
reviewed information obtained from the
scientific/technical literature,
government reports and actions,
intergovernmental coordination and
communications, required
consultations, comments made during
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Boundary Revision at George
Washington Carver National
Monument
National Park Service, Interior.
Announcement of boundary
revision.
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
SUMMARY: This notice announces a
revision of the boundary of George
Washington Carver National Monument,
Newton County, Missouri, to include
adjacent land donated by the Carver
Birthplace Association. The boundary
revision is authorized by the Act of July
14, 1943, 57 Stat. 563, (16 U.S.C. 450aa).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James R. Heaney, Superintendent,
George Washington Carver National
Monument, 5646 Carver Road,
Diamond, Missouri 64840, or by
telephone: 417–325–4151.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
hereby provided that the boundaries of
George Washington Carver National
Monument are revised. This revision,
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Dated: April 21, 2010.
Ernest Quintana,
Regional Director, Midwest Region, National
Park Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Minerals Management Service
Environmental Assessment Prepared
for Proposed Cape Wind Energy
Project in Nantucket Sound, Offshore
Massachusetts
AGENCY: Minerals Management Service
(MMS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of an
Environmental Assessment (EA) and
Finding of No New Significant Impact
(FONNSI)
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the FEIS comment period, and
comments received during the 30-day
comment period after the initial
circulation of this EA on March 8, 2010.
This included the information discussed
in the January 13, 2010, MMS
Documentation of Section 106 Finding
of Adverse Effect (Revised Finding),
contained in the comments received
during the 30-day period offered after
the Revised Finding was circulated, and
the information contained in the April
2, 2010, comment by the Advisory
Council on Historic Preservation.
The MMS has determined that there
is no new information that would
necessitate a re-analysis of the range of
the alternatives or the kinds, levels, or
locations of the impacts of the Proposed
Action on socioeconomic conditions or
biologic, physical, or cultural resources.
The analyses, potential impacts, and
conclusions detailed in the FEIS remain
valid. Therefore, the MMS has
concluded that a supplemental EIS is
not required. The EA and FONNSI are
available at https://www.mms.gov/
offshore/RenewableEnergy/
CapeWind.htm.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James F. Bennett, Chief, Environmental
Assessment Branch, Minerals
Management Service, 381 Elden Street
MS–4042, Herndon, Virginia 20170.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
November 2001, Cape Wind Associates,
LLC, applied for a permit from the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
under the Rivers and Harbors Act of
1899 to construct a wind power facility
on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket
Sound, offshore Massachusetts.
Following the passage of the Energy
Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) and
associated amendments to the Outer
Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA),
the Department of the Interior was given
statutory authority to issue leases,
easements, and rights-of-way for
renewable energy projects on the Outer
Continental Shelf (OCS). Accordingly,
Cape Wind Associates, LLC, submitted
an application to the MMS in 2005 to
construct, operate, and eventually
decommission an offshore wind power
facility on Horseshoe Shoal in
Nantucket Sound.
The project calls for 130, 3.6
megawatt (MW) wind turbine
generators, each with a maximum blade
height of 440 feet, to be arranged in a
grid pattern in 25 square miles of
Nantucket Sound, offshore Cape Cod,
Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket
Island. With a maximum electric output
of 468 MW and an average anticipated
output of 182 MW, the facility is
projected to generate up to three-
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey
Proposed Information Collection; Assessment of the Business
Requirements and Benefits of Enhanced National Elevation Data
AGENCY: United States Geological Survey (USGS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: We (U.S. Geological Survey) will ask the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection (IC) described
below. To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and a part of
our continuing efforts to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, we
invite the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on this
IC. We may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to
respond to a collection unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number.
DATES: You must submit comment on or before July 6, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments to the IC to Phadrea Ponds, Information
Collections Clearance Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 2150-C Center
Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80525 (mail); (970) 226-9230 (fax); or
pponds@usgs.gov (e-mail). Please reference Information Collection 1028-
NEW, LiDAR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gregory Snyder by mail at U.S.
Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 517, Reston, VA
20192-0001, or by telephone at 703-648-5169.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
USGS Geography supports some of the most pressing resource
management, environmental and climate change science issues faced by
our Nation. Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) is the leading
technology for collecting highly-accurate three-dimensional
measurements of the Earth's topography and surface features such
buildings, bridges, coastlines, rivers, forests and other landscape
characteristics. These data provide an unprecedented tool for
scientific understanding and informed National decisions related to
ecosystem management, energy development, natural resource conservation
and mitigating geologic and flood-related hazards. The USGS now
collects LiDAR data to a limited extent and primarily for upgrading
bare-earth elevation data for The National Map. This study seeks to
establish a baseline of national business needs and associated benefits
for LiDAR to enhance the responsiveness of USGS programs, and to design
an efficient future program that balances requirements, benefits and
costs. The study advances coordinated program development among the
numerous federal and state agencies that increasingly rely on LiDAR to
enable the fulfillment of their missions. The study is sponsored by the
National Digital Elevation Program steering committee and supported by
several member agencies.
The information collection process will be guided by an interagency
management team led by USGS with support from a professional services
contractor. The information collection will be conducted using a
standardized template. We will protect information from respondents
considered proprietary under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C.
552) and its implementing regulations (43 CFR part 2), and under
regulations at 30 CFR 250.197, ``Data and information to be made
available to the public or for limited inspection.'' Responses are
voluntary. No questions of a ``sensitive'' nature are asked.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: None. This is a new collection.
Title: Assessment of the Business Requirements and Benefits of
Enhanced National Elevation Data.
Type of Request: New.
Affected Public: States, U.S. Territories, Tribes and selected
private natural resource development companies.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One time only.
Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: Approximately 300
responses.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,200.
III. Request for Comments
We invite comments concerning this IC on:
(1) Whether or not the collection of information is necessary,
including whether or not the information will have practical utility;
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(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.
Please note that the comments submitted 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. To comply with the public process, we
hereby publish this Federal Register notice announcing that we will
submit this IC to OMB for approval. The notice provides the required
60-day public comment period.
USGS Information Collection Clearance Officer: Phadrea D. Ponds,
970-226-9445.
Dated: April 27, 2010.
Bruce K. Quirk,
Land Remote Sensing Program Coordinator.
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