Information Collection; Generic Information Collection Clearance for Large-Scale Collaborative Landscape Restoration Projects, 49492-49493 [2014-19428]
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Kevin Shea,
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Information Collection; Generic
Information Collection Clearance for
Large-Scale Collaborative Landscape
Restoration Projects
ACTION:
Notice; request for comment.
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Forest Service is seeking comments
from all interested individuals and
organizations on the proposed new
information collection, Generic
Information Collection Clearance for
Large-Scale Collaborative Landscape
Restoration Projects.
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SUMMARY:
Participating Agencies
The following Federal land
management agencies are included:
• Department of Agriculture: Forest
Service, lead agency;
• Department of the Interior: Bureau of
Land Management
DATES: Comments must be received in
writing on or before October 20, 2014 to
be assured of consideration. Comments
received after that date will be
considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this
notice should be addressed to Sandy
Mack, Southwestern Crown
Collaborative Liaison Officer, Fort
Missoula 24, Missoula, MT 59804.
Comments also may be submitted by
email to: spmack@fs.fed.us.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice may be made available to the
public through relevant Web sites and
upon request. For this reason, please do
not include in your comments
information of a confidential nature,
such as sensitive personal information
or proprietary information. If you send
an email comment, your email address
will be automatically captured and
included as part of the comment that is
placed in the public docket and made
available on the Internet. Please note
that responses to this public comment
request containing any routine notice
about the confidentiality of the
communication will be treated as public
comments that may be made available to
the public notwithstanding the
inclusion of the routine notice.
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The public may inspect the draft
supporting statement and/or comments
received at Fort Missoula 24, Missoula,
MT, during normal business hours.
Visitors are encouraged to call ahead to
406–544–4592 to facilitate entry to the
building. The public may request an
electronic copy of the draft supporting
statement and/or any comments
received be sent via return email.
Requests should be emailed to spmack@
fs.fed.us.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sandy Mack, 406–544–4592.
Individuals who use telecommunication
devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the
Federal Information Relay Service
(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339, twenty-four
hours a day, every day of the year,
including holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Generic Information Collection
Clearance for Large-Scale Landscape
Restoration Collaborative Projects.
OMB Number: 0596—NEW.
Type of Request: New.
Abstract:. In response to two recent
Federal Actions, it has become
necessary to request a Generic
Information Collection Request (ICR) in
order to collect information from
stakeholders who are either involved
with or live or work in and around,
large-scale collaborative landscape
restoration projects.
Large-scale collaborative landscape
restoration projects are projects where
interested parties, such as neighboring
land owners, State, local, and Tribal
governments, businesses, and nonprofit
organizations work with a Federal
government agency to find common
ground pertaining to geographically
extensive land management, often
across multiple jurisdictions. Examples
of a large-scale collaborative project
include, but are not limited to, projects
performed under the authority of the
Forest Landscape Restoration Act of
2009 and during the development of
Land Management Plans. An example of
a Forest Landscape Restoration Act
project is the Southwestern Crown
Collaborative (SWCC), which is one of
the 23 current Collaborative Forest
Landscape Restoration (CFLR) projects
across the nation. In the SWCC
collaborators and other partners work
with the Forest Service to implement
restoration work and multi-party
monitoring of the landscape restoration
treatments across four counties and
three National Forests.
The Forest Landscape Restoration Act
(FLRA) of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 7303), which
enabled the Collaborative Landscape
Restoration program, requires the USDA
Forest Service (USFS) to monitor socio-
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economic impacts of collaborative
restoration activities within the project
site. The purpose of contacting
stakeholders is to get their input and
feedback on the land management
practices and the associated socioeconomic impacts.
Development of Land Management
Plans (LMP) pursuant to the National
Forest Management Act of 1976 and the
2012 Planning Rule (36 CFR Part 219)
requires a transparent, collaborative,
and informed planning process. The
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and
the USFS collaboration on large-scale
projects also extends beyond CFLR and
Management Plans. Gaining information
from individuals who work or live in
the geographic area of collaborative
large-scale projects provides valuable
information to partners and land
management decision makers.
To ensure the Agency is informed
about the opinions of participants of
collaborative processes and public
members living in or around large-scale
collaborative projects, the Forest Service
and the BLM seek to obtain OMB
approval of a generic clearance to
collect both qualitative and quantitative
feedback from stakeholders of largescale landscape restoration projects,
monitoring activities, and land
management planning.
Information will be collected from
stakeholders of large-scale Federal
landscape projects, such as State, local,
and Tribal government representatives,
community leaders, non-profit
organizations, interest groups,
collaborators, partners, residents, local
businesses, and any other concerned
parties.
The information will be collected
through a variety of ways, including but
not limited to:
• Census surveys of partners/
participants of a collaborative project.
• Mail-in, on-line, and hard copy in
person surveys.
• Stakeholder interviews.
• Stakeholder comment cards/
complaint forms.
• Small discussion groups.
• Focus groups.
• Cognitive laboratory studies, such
as those used to refine survey questions
or assess usability of a Web site.
• Qualitative stakeholder surveys.
• Quantitative stakeholder surveys.
• In-person observation testing (for
example, Web site or software usability
tests).
• Targeted requests for information.
• Telephonic and in-person
interviews.
• Other innovative communication
strategies designed to facilitate
voluntary provision of information by
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the public with minimal burden that
may be approved by OMB.
Results from information gathered
pursuant to this Generic ICR will assist
program managers in evaluating the
positive and negative social and
economic effects of collaborative project
implementation. Results will also
inform the adaptive management
process required by the FLRA; results of
these efforts will assist USFS and BLM
forest planners in meeting the
collaborative and public input
requirement of the 2012 Forest Planning
Rule. Through the collection of this
information, managers and planners
will obtain valuable information to
inform future decisions. Agency public
affairs staff, social scientists, and
economists may also use this
information, and Agency, academic, and
other researchers may use or cite the
results or data collected in publications.
Without the collection of this
information, the USFS and/or the BLM
will be unable to determine whether it
is meeting the requirements of the
Forest Landscape Restoration Act, nor if
they are fully incorporating partner and
public input into forest project,
implementation, monitoring and/or
planning processes as required by law.
Type of Respondents: Stakeholders of
large-scale landscape restoration
projects, such as neighboring land
owners, State, local, and Tribal
government representatives, businesses,
interest groups, and nonprofit
organizations.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 48,000.
Estimated Annual Number of
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Burden hours
on Respondents: 38,000 hours.
Comment is Invited:
Comment is invited on: (1) Whether
this collection of information is
necessary for the stated purposes and
the proper performance of the functions
of the Agency, including whether the
information will have practical or
scientific utility; (2) the accuracy of the
Agency’s estimate of the burden of the
collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; (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, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology.
All comments received in response to
this notice, including names and
addresses when provided, will be a
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matter of public record. Comments will
be summarized and included in the
submission request toward Office of
Management and Budget approval.
Dated: August 12, 2014.
Gregory C. Smith,
Acting Associate Deputy Chief, National
Forest System.
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Wednesday, September 8–10, 2014 at
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• Technical Programs Committee
• Planning and Evaluation Committee
• Election Assistance Commission
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fragrances for the comfort of other
participants (see www.access-board.gov/
the-board/policies/fragrance-freeenvironment for more information).
David M. Capozzi,
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ADDRESSES: Meetings will be held at the
Access Board Conference Room, 1331 F
Street NW., Suite 800, Washington, DC
20004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information regarding the
meetings, please contact David Capozzi,
Executive Director, (202) 272–0010
(voice); (202) 272–0054 (TTY).
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Board meeting scheduled on the
afternoon of Wednesday, September 10,
2014, the Access Board will consider
the following agenda items:
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Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
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carbon steel standard pipe and tube
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through April 30, 2014.
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International Trade Administration,
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Street and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202)
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Information Collection; Generic Information Collection Clearance
for Large-Scale Collaborative Landscape Restoration Projects
ACTION: Notice; request for comment.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Forest Service is seeking comments from all interested individuals and
organizations on the proposed new information collection, Generic
Information Collection Clearance for Large-Scale Collaborative
Landscape Restoration Projects.
Participating Agencies
The following Federal land management agencies are included:
Department of Agriculture: Forest Service, lead agency;
Department of the Interior: Bureau of Land Management
DATES: Comments must be received in writing on or before October 20,
2014 to be assured of consideration. Comments received after that date
will be considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this notice should be addressed to Sandy
Mack, Southwestern Crown Collaborative Liaison Officer, Fort Missoula
24, Missoula, MT 59804. Comments also may be submitted by email to:
spmack@fs.fed.us.
Comments submitted in response to this notice may be made available
to the public through relevant Web sites and upon request. For this
reason, please do not include in your comments information of a
confidential nature, such as sensitive personal information or
proprietary information. If you send an email comment, your email
address will be automatically captured and included as part of the
comment that is placed in the public docket and made available on the
Internet. Please note that responses to this public comment request
containing any routine notice about the confidentiality of the
communication will be treated as public comments that may be made
available to the public notwithstanding the inclusion of the routine
notice.
The public may inspect the draft supporting statement and/or
comments received at Fort Missoula 24, Missoula, MT, during normal
business hours. Visitors are encouraged to call ahead to 406-544-4592
to facilitate entry to the building. The public may request an
electronic copy of the draft supporting statement and/or any comments
received be sent via return email. Requests should be emailed to
spmack@fs.fed.us.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandy Mack, 406-544-4592. Individuals
who use telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the
Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339, twenty-four
hours a day, every day of the year, including holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Generic Information Collection Clearance for Large-Scale
Landscape Restoration Collaborative Projects.
OMB Number: 0596--NEW.
Type of Request: New.
Abstract:. In response to two recent Federal Actions, it has become
necessary to request a Generic Information Collection Request (ICR) in
order to collect information from stakeholders who are either involved
with or live or work in and around, large-scale collaborative landscape
restoration projects.
Large-scale collaborative landscape restoration projects are
projects where interested parties, such as neighboring land owners,
State, local, and Tribal governments, businesses, and nonprofit
organizations work with a Federal government agency to find common
ground pertaining to geographically extensive land management, often
across multiple jurisdictions. Examples of a large-scale collaborative
project include, but are not limited to, projects performed under the
authority of the Forest Landscape Restoration Act of 2009 and during
the development of Land Management Plans. An example of a Forest
Landscape Restoration Act project is the Southwestern Crown
Collaborative (SWCC), which is one of the 23 current Collaborative
Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) projects across the nation. In the
SWCC collaborators and other partners work with the Forest Service to
implement restoration work and multi-party monitoring of the landscape
restoration treatments across four counties and three National Forests.
The Forest Landscape Restoration Act (FLRA) of 2009 (16 U.S.C.
7303), which enabled the Collaborative Landscape Restoration program,
requires the USDA Forest Service (USFS) to monitor socio-economic
impacts of collaborative restoration activities within the project
site. The purpose of contacting stakeholders is to get their input and
feedback on the land management practices and the associated socio-
economic impacts.
Development of Land Management Plans (LMP) pursuant to the National
Forest Management Act of 1976 and the 2012 Planning Rule (36 CFR Part
219) requires a transparent, collaborative, and informed planning
process. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the USFS collaboration
on large-scale projects also extends beyond CFLR and Management Plans.
Gaining information from individuals who work or live in the geographic
area of collaborative large-scale projects provides valuable
information to partners and land management decision makers.
To ensure the Agency is informed about the opinions of participants
of collaborative processes and public members living in or around
large-scale collaborative projects, the Forest Service and the BLM seek
to obtain OMB approval of a generic clearance to collect both
qualitative and quantitative feedback from stakeholders of large-scale
landscape restoration projects, monitoring activities, and land
management planning.
Information will be collected from stakeholders of large-scale
Federal landscape projects, such as State, local, and Tribal government
representatives, community leaders, non-profit organizations, interest
groups, collaborators, partners, residents, local businesses, and any
other concerned parties.
The information will be collected through a variety of ways,
including but not limited to:
Census surveys of partners/participants of a collaborative
project.
Mail-in, on-line, and hard copy in person surveys.
Stakeholder interviews.
Stakeholder comment cards/complaint forms.
Small discussion groups.
Focus groups.
Cognitive laboratory studies, such as those used to refine
survey questions or assess usability of a Web site.
Qualitative stakeholder surveys.
Quantitative stakeholder surveys.
In-person observation testing (for example, Web site or
software usability tests).
Targeted requests for information.
Telephonic and in-person interviews.
Other innovative communication strategies designed to
facilitate voluntary provision of information by
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the public with minimal burden that may be approved by OMB.
Results from information gathered pursuant to this Generic ICR will
assist program managers in evaluating the positive and negative social
and economic effects of collaborative project implementation. Results
will also inform the adaptive management process required by the FLRA;
results of these efforts will assist USFS and BLM forest planners in
meeting the collaborative and public input requirement of the 2012
Forest Planning Rule. Through the collection of this information,
managers and planners will obtain valuable information to inform future
decisions. Agency public affairs staff, social scientists, and
economists may also use this information, and Agency, academic, and
other researchers may use or cite the results or data collected in
publications.
Without the collection of this information, the USFS and/or the BLM
will be unable to determine whether it is meeting the requirements of
the Forest Landscape Restoration Act, nor if they are fully
incorporating partner and public input into forest project,
implementation, monitoring and/or planning processes as required by
law.
Type of Respondents: Stakeholders of large-scale landscape
restoration projects, such as neighboring land owners, State, local,
and Tribal government representatives, businesses, interest groups, and
nonprofit organizations.
Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 48,000.
Estimated Annual Number of Responses per Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Burden hours on Respondents: 38,000 hours.
Comment is Invited:
Comment is invited on: (1) Whether this collection of information
is necessary for the stated purposes and the proper performance of the
functions of the Agency, including whether the information will have
practical or scientific utility; (2) the accuracy of the Agency's
estimate of the burden of the collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (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, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection techniques or other forms of information
technology.
All comments received in response to this notice, including names
and addresses when provided, will be a matter of public record.
Comments will be summarized and included in the submission request
toward Office of Management and Budget approval.
Dated: August 12, 2014.
Gregory C. Smith,
Acting Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest System.
[FR Doc. 2014-19428 Filed 8-20-14; 8:45 am]
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