Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Information Collection; Evaluating the Effectiveness of Yellowstone National Park Bear Safety Information, 48167 [2012-19711]

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• Geological Survey
• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 156 (Monday, August 13, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 48167]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-19711]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Geological Survey

[GR12RB00CMFRM00]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Information 
Collection; Evaluating the Effectiveness of Yellowstone National Park 
Bear Safety Information

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. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), and as 
a 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. As a federal agency, we may not 
conduct or sponsor, and you are not required to respond to, a 
collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB 
control number.

DATES: To ensure your comments on this IC are considered, we must 
receive them on or before October 12, 2012.

ADDRESSES: Send your comments to the IC to the USGS Information 
Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 807 National 
Center, Reston, VA 20192 (mail); or smbaloch@usgs.gov (email). Please 
reference Information Collection 1028-New: Yellowstone Bears.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leslie Richardson at U.S. Geological 
Survey, 2150 Centre Avenue, Bldg. C, Fort Collins, CO 80525 (mail), or 
at (970) 226-9181 (phone).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    In 2011, two fatalities were caused by grizzly bears in Yellowstone 
National Park (YNP); the first bear-caused fatalities to occur within 
park boundaries in 25 years. As a result of these events, park managers 
are reviewing the effectiveness of bear safety messaging and its 
message delivery media to backcountry visitors. USGS social scientists 
and a NPS bear management biologist will use their combined expertise 
to conduct a social survey of backcountry visitors to YNP to help park 
managers achieve this review. The survey will identify the 
effectiveness of various bear safety information and education 
messages; the results will be used to direct future bear safety 
information and education efforts in YNP. No such prior analysis has 
been conducted in YNP.

II. Data

    OMB Control Number: 1028-NEW.
    Title: Evaluating the effectiveness of Yellowstone National Park 
bear safety information.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Frequency of Collection: One time only.
    Estimated Number and Description of Respondents: 1500 backcountry 
visitors to YNP.
    Estimated Total Annual Responses: 1500.
    Estimated Time per Response: 30 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 750.

III. Request for Comments

    We 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, including the use of 
automated collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.
    Please note that the comments submitted 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 us in your comment to withhold your 
personal identifying information from public review, we cannot 
guarantee we will be able to do so.

     Dated: August 7, 2012.
 David J. Newman,
Federal Register Liasion.
[FR Doc. 2012-19711 Filed 8-10-12; 8:45 am]
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