Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Approval; Wildlife and Sport Fish Grants and Cooperative Agreements, 33764-33765 [2012-13792]
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Council on decisions related to the
planning, evaluation, and conduct of
injury assessment, restoration, long-term
monitoring, and research activities
using funds obtained as part of the civil
settlement pursuant to the T/V Exxon
Valdez oil spill of 1989. Public
Advisory Committee members will be
selected to serve a 24-month term
beginning in October 2012.
DATES: All nominations should be
received on or before August 3, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Nominations should be sent
to Executive Director, Exxon Valdez Oil
Spill Trustee Council, 441 West 5th
Avenue, Suite 500, Anchorage, Alaska
99501–2340 or by email to PAC
Nominations, Executive Director, c/o
Cherri Womac,
cherri.womac@alaska.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Douglas Mutter, Designated Federal
Officer, Department of the Interior,
Office of Environmental Policy and
Compliance, 1689 ‘‘C’’ Street, Suite 119,
Anchorage, Alaska 99501, 907–271–
5011; or Cherri Womac, Exxon Valdez
Oil Spill Trustee Council, 441 West 5th
Avenue, Suite 500, Anchorage, Alaska
99501–2340, 907–278–8012 or 800–
478–7745. A copy of the charter for the
Public Advisory Committee is available
upon request.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Public Advisory Committee was created
by Paragraph V.A.4 of the Memorandum
of Agreement and Consent Decree
entered into by the United States of
America and the State of Alaska on
August 27, 1991, and approved by the
United States District Court for the
District of Alaska in settlement of
United States of America v. State of
Alaska, Civil Action No. A91–081 CV.
The Public Advisory Committee was
created to advise the Trustee Council on
matters relating to decisions on injury
assessment, restoration activities or
other use of natural resources damage
recoveries obtained by the governments.
The Trustee Council consists of
representatives of the State of Alaska
Attorney General; Commissioner of the
Alaska Department of Fish and Game;
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of Environmental Conservation; the
Secretary of the Interior; the Secretary of
Agriculture; and the Administrator of
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce. Appointment to the Public
Advisory Committee will be made by
the Secretary of the Interior with
unanimous approval of the Trustees.
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public at large and the following special
interests: Aquaculturist/mariculturist,
commercial fisher, commercial tourism
business person, recreation user,
conservationist/environmentalist,
Native landowner, sport hunter/fisher,
subsistence user, and scientist/
technologist.
Nominees need to submit the
following information to the Trustee
Council:
1. Nominee’s full legal name;
2. Nominee’s email address;
3. Nominee’s home mailing address;
4. Nominee’s home telephone
number;
5. Special interests the nominee
represents;
6. A resume or one-page synopsis of
the nominee’s:
a. Date of birth;
b. Education;
c. Affiliations;
d. Knowledge of the region, peoples
or principal economic and social
activities of the area affected by the
T/V Exxon Valdez oil spill;
d. expertise in public lands and
resource management, if any;
e. breadth of experience and
perspective and length of experience in
one or more of the special interests; and
7. Indicate if the person being
nominated has been contacted and
agrees to consider serving if selected.
Dated: June 4, 2012.
Willie R. Taylor,
Director, Office of Environmental Policy and
Compliance.
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Information Collection Request Sent to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for Approval; Wildlife and Sport
Fish Grants and Cooperative
Agreements
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:
We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service) have sent an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for
review and approval. We summarize the
ICR below and describe the nature of the
collection and the estimated burden and
cost. This information collection is
SUMMARY:
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scheduled to expire on August 31, 2012.
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 July 9, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments and
suggestions on this information
collection to the Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior at OMB–
OIRA at (202) 395–5806 (fax) or
OIRA_DOCKET@OMB.eop.gov (email).
Please provide a copy of your comments
to the Service Information Collection
Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, MS 2042–PDM, 4401
North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA
22203 (mail), or INFOCOL@fws.gov
(email). Please include ‘‘1018–0109’’ in
the subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Hope Grey at
INFOCOL@fws.gov (email) or 703–358–
2482 (telephone). You may review the
ICR online at https://www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to review
Department of the Interior collections
under review by OMB.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 1018–0109.
Title: Wildlife and Sport Fish Grants
and Cooperative Agreements, 80, 81, 84,
85, and 86.
Service Form Number: None.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Description of Respondents: States;
the Commonwealths of Puerto Rico and
the Northern Mariana Islands; the
District of Columbia; the territories of
Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, and
American Samoa; federally-recognized
tribal governments; institutions of
higher education; and nongovernmental
organizations.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: We require
applications annually for new grants.
We require amendments on occasion
when key elements of a project change.
We require quarterly and final
performance reports in the National
Outreach and Communication Program
and annual and final performance
reports in the other programs. We may
require more frequent reports under the
conditions stated at 43 CFR 12.52 and
43 CFR 12.914.
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Number of
respondents
Activity
Number of
responses
Completion
time per
response
(in hours)
Total annual
burden hours
200
150
200
2,500
1,500
3,500
40
2
6
100,000
3,000
21,000
Totals ........................................................................................................
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Initial Application (project narrative) ................................................................
Revision of Award Terms (Amendment) .........................................................
Performance Reports .......................................................................................
550
7,500
........................
124,000
Abstract: The Wildlife and Sport Fish
Restoration Program (WSFR), U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, administers
financial assistance programs (see 77 FR
3489, January 24, 2012). We award most
financial assistance as grants, but
cooperative agreements are possible if
the Federal Government will be
substantially involved in carrying out
the project. You can find a description
of most programs in the Catalog of
Federal Domestic Assistance.
To apply for financial assistance
funds, you must submit an application
that describes in substantial detail
project locations, benefits, funding, and
other characteristics. Materials to assist
applicants in formulating project
proposals are available on Grants.gov.
We use the application to determine:
• Eligibility for the grant.
• Scale of resource values or relative
worth of the project.
• Effect of the project on
environmental and cultural resources.
• How well the proposed project will
meet the purposes of the program’s
establishing legislation.
Persons or entities receiving grants
must submit periodic performance
reports that contain information
necessary for us to track costs and
accomplishments.
Comments: On January 24, 2012, we
published in the Federal Register (77
FR 3489) 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 March 26, 2012. We
received one comment. The commenter
objected to the funding of these grants,
but did not address the information
collection requirements. We did not
make any changes to our requirements.
We again invite comments concerning
this information collection on:
• Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary, including
whether or not the information will
have practical utility;
• The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information;
• Ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and
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• 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, email 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.
DATES:
Dated: May 31, 2012.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy and Directives
Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
I. Abstract
This information collection
implements the requirements of the
Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1531
et seq.) (ESA). There are no
corresponding Service regulations for
the ESA’s post-delisting monitoring
requirement.
The bald eagle (Haliaeetus
leucocephalus) in the lower 48 States
was removed from the List of
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife
(delisted) on August 8, 2007 (72 FR
37346, July 9, 2007). Section 4(g) of the
ESA requires that all species that are
recovered and removed from the List of
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife be
monitored in cooperation with the
States for a period of not less than 5
years. The purpose of this requirement
is to detect any failure of a recovered
species to sustain itself without the
protections of the ESA. We work with
relevant Federal, State, and tribal
entities, and other species experts to
develop plans and procedures for
systematically monitoring recovered
wildlife and plants after a species is
delisted.
The bald eagle has a large geographic
distribution that includes a substantial
amount of non-Federal land. Although
the ESA requires that monitoring of
recovered species be conducted for not
less than 5 years, the life history of bald
eagles is such that it is appropriate to
monitor this species for a longer period
of time in order to meaningfully
evaluate whether or not the bald eagle
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AGENCY:
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION:
Notice; request for comments.
We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service) will ask the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) to
approve the information collection (IC)
described below. As required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and
as part of our continuing efforts to
reduce paperwork and respondent
burden, we invite the general public and
other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on this IC. This
IC is scheduled to expire on November
30, 2012. 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.
SUMMARY:
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To ensure that we are able to
consider your comments on this IC, we
must receive them by August 6, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the
IC to the Service Information Collection
Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, MS 2042–PDM, 4401
North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA
22203 (mail); or INFOCOL@fws.gov
(email). Please include ‘‘1018–0143’’ in
the subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this IC, contact Hope Grey at
INFOCOL@fws.gov (email) or 703–358–
2482 (telephone).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R9-WSR-2012-N137; FVWF941009000007B-XXX-FF09W11000/
FVWF51100900000-XXX-FF09W11000]
Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for Approval; Wildlife and Sport Fish Grants and
Cooperative Agreements
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) have sent an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for review and approval. We summarize
the ICR below and describe the nature of the collection and the
estimated burden and cost. This information collection is scheduled to
expire on August 31, 2012. 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 July 9, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments and suggestions on this information
collection to the Desk Officer for the Department of the Interior at
OMB-OIRA at (202) 395-5806 (fax) or OIRA_DOCKET@OMB.eop.gov (email).
Please provide a copy of your comments to the Service Information
Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, MS 2042-
PDM, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203 (mail), or
INFOCOL@fws.gov (email). Please include ``1018-0109'' in the subject
line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information
about this ICR, contact Hope Grey at INFOCOL@fws.gov (email) or 703-
358-2482 (telephone). You may review the ICR online at https://www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to review Department of the
Interior collections under review by OMB.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 1018-0109.
Title: Wildlife and Sport Fish Grants and Cooperative Agreements,
80, 81, 84, 85, and 86.
Service Form Number: None.
Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Description of Respondents: States; the Commonwealths of Puerto
Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands; the District of Columbia; the
territories of Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa;
federally-recognized tribal governments; institutions of higher
education; and nongovernmental organizations.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: We require applications annually for new
grants. We require amendments on occasion when key elements of a
project change. We require quarterly and final performance reports in
the National Outreach and Communication Program and annual and final
performance reports in the other programs. We may require more frequent
reports under the conditions stated at 43 CFR 12.52 and 43 CFR 12.914.
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Completion
Number of Number of time per Total annual
Activity respondents responses response (in burden hours
hours)
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Initial Application (project narrative)......... 200 2,500 40 100,000
Revision of Award Terms (Amendment)............. 150 1,500 2 3,000
Performance Reports............................. 200 3,500 6 21,000
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Totals...................................... 550 7,500 .............. 124,000
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Abstract: The Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program (WSFR),
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, administers financial assistance
programs (see 77 FR 3489, January 24, 2012). We award most financial
assistance as grants, but cooperative agreements are possible if the
Federal Government will be substantially involved in carrying out the
project. You can find a description of most programs in the Catalog of
Federal Domestic Assistance.
To apply for financial assistance funds, you must submit an
application that describes in substantial detail project locations,
benefits, funding, and other characteristics. Materials to assist
applicants in formulating project proposals are available on
Grants.gov. We use the application to determine:
Eligibility for the grant.
Scale of resource values or relative worth of the project.
Effect of the project on environmental and cultural
resources.
How well the proposed project will meet the purposes of
the program's establishing legislation.
Persons or entities receiving grants must submit periodic
performance reports that contain information necessary for us to track
costs and accomplishments.
Comments: On January 24, 2012, we published in the Federal Register
(77 FR 3489) 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 March 26, 2012. We received one comment. The
commenter objected to the funding of these grants, but did not address
the information collection requirements. We did not make any changes to
our requirements.
We again invite comments concerning this information collection on:
Whether or not the collection of information is necessary,
including whether or not the information will have practical utility;
The accuracy of our estimate of the burden for this
collection of information;
Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
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, email
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: May 31, 2012.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy and Directives Management, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service.
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