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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5831–N–15]
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Standardized Form for
Collecting Information Regarding Race
and Ethnic Data
Office of the Chief Information
Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
HUD has submitted the
proposed information collection
requirement described below to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review, in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act. The
purpose of this notice is to allow for an
additional 30 days of public comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: April 17,
2015.
SUMMARY:
Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments should refer to
the proposal by name and/or OMB
Control Number and should be sent to:
HUD Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Washington,
DC 20503; fax: 202–395–5806. Email:
OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anna Guido, Reports Management
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW., Washington, DC 20410; email at
Anna Guido@hud.gov or telephone 202–
402–5535. Persons with hearing or
speech impairments may access this
number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–
8339. This is not a toll-free number.
Copies of available documents
submitted to OMB may be obtained
from Ms. Guido.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice informs the public that HUD has
submitted to OMB a request for
approval of the information collection
described in Section A.
The Federal Register notice that
solicited public comment on the
information collection for a period of 60
days was published on December 2,
2014 at 79 FR 71443.
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ADDRESSES:
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection:
Standardized Form for Collecting
Information Regarding Race and Ethnic
Data.
OMB Approval Number: 2535–0113.
Type of Request: Reinstatement with
change of a previously approved
collection.
Form Numbers: HUD–27061.
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Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: HUD’s
standardized form for the Collection of
Race and Ethnic Data complies with
OMB’s revised standards for Federal
Agencies issued, October 30, 1997.
These standards apply to HUD Program
Office and partners that collect,
maintain, and report Federal Data on
race and ethnicity for program
administrative reporting.
Members of Affected Public:
Individuals or Households, Business or
other-for-profit, Not-for-profit
institutions, State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Estimation of the total number of
hours needed to prepare the information
collection including number of
responses, frequency of responses, and
hours of responses: This proposal will
result in no significant increase in the
current information collection burden.
An estimation of the total number of
hours needed to provide the information
for each grant application is 1 hour;
however, the burden will be assessed
against each individual grant program
submission under the Paperwork
Reduction Act; number of respondents
is an estimated 11,000; 60% of
responses will be quarterly and 40%
annually.
Status of the Proposed Information
Collection: Extension of a currently
approved collection.
Solicitation of Public Comment
This notice is soliciting comments
from members of the public and affected
parties concerning the collection of
information described in Section A on
the following:
(1) 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) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
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 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.
HUD encourages interested parties to
submit comment in response to these
questions.
Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35.
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Dated: March 11, 2015.
Anna Guido,
Department Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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Proposed Renewal of Information
Collection: OMB Control Number
1040–0001, DOI Programmatic
Clearance for Customer Satisfaction
Surveys
Department of the Interior.
Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we
(Department of the Interior, DOI) plan to
ask the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) to extend the approval
for the information collection (IC)
described below. This IC is scheduled to
expire June 30, 2015. We invite the
general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on this IC.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by May 18, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Mail or hand carry
comments to the Department of the
Interior; Office of Policy Analysis;
Attention: Don Bieniewicz; Mail Stop
3530; 1849 C Street NW., Washington,
DC 20240. If you wish to email
comments, the email address is:
Donald_Bieniewicz@ios.doi.gov.
Reference ‘‘DOI Programmatic Clearance
for Customer Satisfaction Surveys, OMB
Control Number: 1040–0001’’ in your
email subject line. Include your name
and return address in your email
message and mark your message for
return receipt.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request a copy of the information
collection request, any explanatory
information and related forms, see the
contact information provided in the
ADDRESSES section above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
I. Abstract
This notice is for renewal of
information collection.
The Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) regulations at 5 CFR part 1320,
which implement the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq., require that interested members
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of the public and affected agencies have
an opportunity to comment on
information collection and
recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR
1320.8(d)).
The Government Performance and
Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) (Pub. L.
103–62) requires agencies to ‘‘improve
Federal program effectiveness and
public accountability by promoting a
new focus on results, service quality,
and customer satisfaction.’’ Executive
Order 13571 on ‘‘Streamlining Service
Delivery and Improving Customer
Service’’ requires Federal agencies to
establish ‘‘mechanisms to solicit
customer feedback on Government
services.’’ To fulfill this responsibility,
DOI bureaus and offices must collect
data from their respective user groups to
better understand the needs and desires
of the public and to respond
accordingly.
The proposed renewal covers all of
the organizational units and bureaus in
DOI. Bureaus and offices will
voluntarily obtain information from
their customers and stakeholders. No
one survey will cover all the topic areas;
rather, these topic areas serve as a guide
within which the agencies will develop
questions. Topic areas include:
(1) Communication/information/
education. Questions will focus on
customer satisfaction with aspects of
communication/information/products/
education offered. Respondents may be
asked for feedback regarding the
following attributes of the services
provided:
(a) Timeliness.
(b) Consistency.
(c) Ease of Use and Usefulness.
(d) Ease of Information Access.
(e) Helpfulness and Effectiveness.
(f) Quality.
(g) Value for fee paid for information/
product/service.
(h) Level of engagement in
communications process (i.e., whether
respondent feels he/she was asked for
input and whether or not that input was
considered).
(2) Disability accessibility. This area
will focus on customer satisfaction data
related to disability access to DOI
buildings, facilities, trails, etc.
(3) Management practices. This area
covers questions relating to how well
customers are satisfied with DOI
management practices and processes,
what improvements they might make to
specific processes, and whether or not
they feel specific issues were addressed
and reconciled in a timely, courteous,
and responsive manner.
(4) Resource management. We will
ask customers and partners to provide
satisfaction data related to DOI’s ability
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to protect, conserve, provide access to,
and preserve natural resources that we
manage.
(5) Rules, regulations, policies. This
area focuses on obtaining feedback from
customers regarding fairness, adequacy,
and consistency in enforcing rules,
regulations, and policies for which DOI
is responsible. It will also help us
understand public awareness of rules
and regulations and whether or not they
are explained in a clear and
understandable manner.
(6) Service delivery. We will seek
feedback from customers regarding the
manner in which DOI delivers services.
Attributes will range from the courtesy
of staff to timeliness of service delivery
and staff knowledge of the services
being delivered.
(7) Technical assistance. Questions
developed within this topic area will
focus on obtaining customer feedback
regarding attributes of technical
assistance, including timeliness, quality,
usefulness, and the skill level of staff
providing this assistance.
(8) Program-specific. Questions for
this area will reflect the specific details
of a program that pertain to its customer
respondents. The questions will address
very specific and/or technical issues
related to the program. The questions
will be geared toward gaining a better
understanding about how to provide
specific products and services and the
public’s attitude toward their
usefulness.
(9) General demographics. Some
general demographics may be used to
augment satisfaction questions so that
we can better understand the customer
and improve how we serve that
customer. We may ask customers how
many times they have used a service,
visited a facility within a specific
timeframe, their ethnic group, or their
race.
II. Data
(1) Title: DOI Programmatic Clearance
for Customer Satisfaction Surveys.
OMB Control Number: 1040–0001.
Current Expiration Date: June 30,
2015.
Type of Review: Information
Collection Renewal.
Affected Entities: DOI customers. We
define customers as anyone who uses
DOI resources, products, or services.
This includes internal customers
(anyone within DOI) as well as external
customers (e.g., the American public,
representatives of the private sector,
academia, and other government
agencies). Depending upon their role in
specific situations and interactions,
citizens and DOI stakeholders and
partners may also be considered
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customers. We define stakeholders to
mean groups or individuals who have
an expressed interest in and who seek
to influence the present and future state
of DOI’s resources, products, and
services. Partners are those groups,
individuals, and agencies who are
formally engaged in helping DOI
accomplish its mission.
Estimated annual number of
respondents: 120,000. We estimate
approximately 60,000 respondents will
submit DOI customer satisfaction
surveys and 60,000 will submit
comment cards.
Frequency of responses: On occasion.
(2) Annual reporting and
recordkeeping burden:
Total time per response: 15 minutes
for a customer survey; 3 minutes for a
comment card.
Total number of estimated responses:
120,000.
Total annual reporting: 18,000 hours.
(3) Description of the need and use of
the information: We use customer
satisfaction surveys to help us fulfill our
responsibilities to provide excellence in
government by proactively consulting
with those we serve. This programmatic
clearance provides an expedited
approval process for DOI bureaus and
offices to conduct customer research
through external surveys such as
questionnaires and comment cards. We
anticipate that the information obtained
could lead to reallocation of resources,
revisions in certain agency processes
and policies, development of guidance
related to customer services, and
improvement in the way we serve the
American public.
III. Request for Comments
The Department invites comments on:
(a) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agencies, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the collection
of information and the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(d) Ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology.
‘‘Burden’’ means the total time, effort,
and financial resources expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose, or provide information to or
for a Federal agency. This includes the
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time needed to review instructions; to
develop, acquire, install, and use
technology and systems for the purposes
of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, and to complete and
review the collection of information;
and to transmit or otherwise disclose
the information.
All written comments, with names
and addresses, will be available for
public inspection. If you wish us to
withhold your personal information,
you must prominently state at the
beginning of your comment what
personal information you want us to
withhold. We will honor your request to
the extent allowable by law. If you wish
to view any comments received, you
may do so by scheduling an
appointment with the Department of the
Interior; Office of Policy Analysis as
indicated in the ADDRESSES section
above. A valid picture identification is
required for entry into the Department
of the Interior.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid
Office of Management and Budget
control number.
Dated: March 12, 2015.
Benjamin Simon,
Assistant Director, Office of Policy Analysis,
U.S. Department of the Interior.
exceptions, the Endangered Species Act
(Act) prohibits activities with
endangered and threatened species
unless a Federal permit allows such
activity. The Act also requires that we
invite public comment before issuing
recovery permits to conduct certain
activities with endangered species.
Comments on these permit
applications must be received on or
before April 17, 2015.
DATES:
Written data or comments
should be submitted to the Endangered
Species Program Manager, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, Region 8, 2800 Cottage
Way, Room W–2606, Sacramento, CA
95825 (telephone: 916–414–6464; fax:
916–414–6486). Please refer to the
respective permit number for each
application when submitting comments.
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Daniel Marquez, Fish and Wildlife
Biologist; see ADDRESSES (telephone:
760–431–9440; fax: 760–431–9624).
The
following applicants have applied for
scientific research permits to conduct
certain activities with endangered
species under section 10(a)(1)(A) of the
Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). We seek
review and comment from local, State,
and Federal agencies and the public on
the following permit requests.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Applicants
Permit No. TE–59536B
Applicant: Eric Drake, Sacramento,
California
Fish and Wildlife Service
The applicant requests a permit to
take (harass by survey, capture, handle,
and release) the California tiger
salamander (Santa Barbara County
Distinct Population Segment (DPS) and
Sonoma County DPS) (Ambystoma
californiense) in conjunction with
survey activities throughout the range of
the species in California for the purpose
of enhancing the species’ survival.
[FWS–R8–ES–2015–N050];
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Endangered Species Recovery Permit
Applications
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AGENCY:
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
Notice of receipt of permit
applications; request for comment.
ACTION:
We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, invite the public to
comment on the following applications
to conduct certain activities with
endangered species. With some
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Permit No. TE–59587B
Applicant: California Department of
Water Resources, Sacramento, California
The applicant requests a permit to
remove/reduce to possession the
Oenothera deltoides subsp. howellii
(Antioch Dunes evening-primrose) and
Erysimum capitatum subsp. angustatum
(Contra Costa wallflower) in
conjunction with restoration activities
throughout the range of the species in
California for the purpose of enhancing
the species’ survival.
Permit No. TE–59592B
Applicant: Angela Johnson, Wauconda,
California
The applicant requests a permit to
take (locate and monitor nests) the least
Bell’s vireo (Vireo bellii pusillus), and
take (harass by survey, locate, and
monitor nests) the southwestern willow
flycatcher (Empidonax traillii extimus)
in conjunction with survey and
population monitoring throughout the
range of the species in California,
Nevada, Oregon, and Arizona, for the
purpose of enhancing the species’
survival.
Permit No. TE–833230
Applicant: Robert Aramayo, Albany,
California
The applicant requests a permit to
take (capture, collect, and collect
vouchers) the Conservancy fairy shrimp
(Branchinecta conservatio), longhorn
fairy shrimp (Branchinecta
longiantenna), San Diego fairy shrimp
(Branchinecta sandiegonensis),
Riverside fairy shrimp (Streptocephalus
woottoni), and vernal pool tadpole
shrimp (Lepidurus packardi) in
conjunction with survey activities
throughout the range of the species in
California for the purpose of enhancing
the species’ survival.
Permit No. TE–30659A
Applicant: Andrew Krause, Lebec,
California
The applicant requests a permit to
take (harass by survey, capture, handle,
and release) the giant kangaroo rat
(Dipodomys ingens) and Tipton
kangaroo rat (Dipodomys nitratoides
nitratoides) in conjunction with survey
activities throughout the range of the
species in California for the purpose of
enhancing the species’ survival.
Applicant: Creekside Center for Earth
Observation, Menlo Park, California
The applicant requests a permit to
take (harass by survey, collect, and
translocate) the mission blue butterfly
(Icaricia icarioides missionensis) in
conjunction with surveys and
reintroduction programs throughout the
range of the species in California for the
purpose of enhancing the species
survival.
Permit No. TE–817397
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Applicant: John Storrer, Santa Barbara,
California
The applicant requests a permit
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
[156D0102DM DLSN00000.000000 DS61200000 DX61201]
Proposed Renewal of Information Collection: OMB Control Number
1040-0001, DOI Programmatic Clearance for Customer Satisfaction Surveys
AGENCY: Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we
(Department of the Interior, DOI) plan to ask the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) to extend the approval for the information collection
(IC) described below. This IC is scheduled to expire June 30, 2015. We
invite the general public and other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on this IC.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by May 18,
2015.
ADDRESSES: Mail or hand carry comments to the Department of the
Interior; Office of Policy Analysis; Attention: Don Bieniewicz; Mail
Stop 3530; 1849 C Street NW., Washington, DC 20240. If you wish to
email comments, the email address is: Donald_Bieniewicz@ios.doi.gov.
Reference ``DOI Programmatic Clearance for Customer Satisfaction
Surveys, OMB Control Number: 1040-0001'' in your email subject line.
Include your name and return address in your email message and mark
your message for return receipt.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the information
collection request, any explanatory information and related forms, see
the contact information provided in the ADDRESSES section above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
This notice is for renewal of information collection.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regulations at 5 CFR part
1320, which implement the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq., require that interested members
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of the public and affected agencies have an opportunity to comment on
information collection and recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR
1320.8(d)).
The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) (Pub. L.
103-62) requires agencies to ``improve Federal program effectiveness
and public accountability by promoting a new focus on results, service
quality, and customer satisfaction.'' Executive Order 13571 on
``Streamlining Service Delivery and Improving Customer Service''
requires Federal agencies to establish ``mechanisms to solicit customer
feedback on Government services.'' To fulfill this responsibility, DOI
bureaus and offices must collect data from their respective user groups
to better understand the needs and desires of the public and to respond
accordingly.
The proposed renewal covers all of the organizational units and
bureaus in DOI. Bureaus and offices will voluntarily obtain information
from their customers and stakeholders. No one survey will cover all the
topic areas; rather, these topic areas serve as a guide within which
the agencies will develop questions. Topic areas include:
(1) Communication/information/education. Questions will focus on
customer satisfaction with aspects of communication/information/
products/education offered. Respondents may be asked for feedback
regarding the following attributes of the services provided:
(a) Timeliness.
(b) Consistency.
(c) Ease of Use and Usefulness.
(d) Ease of Information Access.
(e) Helpfulness and Effectiveness.
(f) Quality.
(g) Value for fee paid for information/product/service.
(h) Level of engagement in communications process (i.e., whether
respondent feels he/she was asked for input and whether or not that
input was considered).
(2) Disability accessibility. This area will focus on customer
satisfaction data related to disability access to DOI buildings,
facilities, trails, etc.
(3) Management practices. This area covers questions relating to
how well customers are satisfied with DOI management practices and
processes, what improvements they might make to specific processes, and
whether or not they feel specific issues were addressed and reconciled
in a timely, courteous, and responsive manner.
(4) Resource management. We will ask customers and partners to
provide satisfaction data related to DOI's ability to protect,
conserve, provide access to, and preserve natural resources that we
manage.
(5) Rules, regulations, policies. This area focuses on obtaining
feedback from customers regarding fairness, adequacy, and consistency
in enforcing rules, regulations, and policies for which DOI is
responsible. It will also help us understand public awareness of rules
and regulations and whether or not they are explained in a clear and
understandable manner.
(6) Service delivery. We will seek feedback from customers
regarding the manner in which DOI delivers services. Attributes will
range from the courtesy of staff to timeliness of service delivery and
staff knowledge of the services being delivered.
(7) Technical assistance. Questions developed within this topic
area will focus on obtaining customer feedback regarding attributes of
technical assistance, including timeliness, quality, usefulness, and
the skill level of staff providing this assistance.
(8) Program-specific. Questions for this area will reflect the
specific details of a program that pertain to its customer respondents.
The questions will address very specific and/or technical issues
related to the program. The questions will be geared toward gaining a
better understanding about how to provide specific products and
services and the public's attitude toward their usefulness.
(9) General demographics. Some general demographics may be used to
augment satisfaction questions so that we can better understand the
customer and improve how we serve that customer. We may ask customers
how many times they have used a service, visited a facility within a
specific timeframe, their ethnic group, or their race.
II. Data
(1) Title: DOI Programmatic Clearance for Customer Satisfaction
Surveys.
OMB Control Number: 1040-0001.
Current Expiration Date: June 30, 2015.
Type of Review: Information Collection Renewal.
Affected Entities: DOI customers. We define customers as anyone who
uses DOI resources, products, or services. This includes internal
customers (anyone within DOI) as well as external customers (e.g., the
American public, representatives of the private sector, academia, and
other government agencies). Depending upon their role in specific
situations and interactions, citizens and DOI stakeholders and partners
may also be considered customers. We define stakeholders to mean groups
or individuals who have an expressed interest in and who seek to
influence the present and future state of DOI's resources, products,
and services. Partners are those groups, individuals, and agencies who
are formally engaged in helping DOI accomplish its mission.
Estimated annual number of respondents: 120,000. We estimate
approximately 60,000 respondents will submit DOI customer satisfaction
surveys and 60,000 will submit comment cards.
Frequency of responses: On occasion.
(2) Annual reporting and recordkeeping burden:
Total time per response: 15 minutes for a customer survey; 3
minutes for a comment card.
Total number of estimated responses: 120,000.
Total annual reporting: 18,000 hours.
(3) Description of the need and use of the information: We use
customer satisfaction surveys to help us fulfill our responsibilities
to provide excellence in government by proactively consulting with
those we serve. This programmatic clearance provides an expedited
approval process for DOI bureaus and offices to conduct customer
research through external surveys such as questionnaires and comment
cards. We anticipate that the information obtained could lead to
reallocation of resources, revisions in certain agency processes and
policies, development of guidance related to customer services, and
improvement in the way we serve the American public.
III. Request for Comments
The Department invites comments on:
(a) Whether the collection of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of the agencies, including whether
the information will have practical utility;
(b) The accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
collection of information and the validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
(c) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
(d) Ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
respondents, including through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other collection techniques or other forms
of information technology.
``Burden'' means the total time, effort, and financial resources
expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide
information to or for a Federal agency. This includes the
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time needed to review instructions; to develop, acquire, install, and
use technology and systems for the purposes of collecting, validating,
and verifying information, processing and maintaining information, and
disclosing and providing information; to train personnel and to be able
to respond to a collection of information, to search data sources, and
to complete and review the collection of information; and to transmit
or otherwise disclose the information.
All written comments, with names and addresses, will be available
for public inspection. If you wish us to withhold your personal
information, you must prominently state at the beginning of your
comment what personal information you want us to withhold. We will
honor your request to the extent allowable by law. If you wish to view
any comments received, you may do so by scheduling an appointment with
the Department of the Interior; Office of Policy Analysis as indicated
in the ADDRESSES section above. A valid picture identification is
required for entry into the Department of the Interior.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for OMB approval of this information
collection; they also will become a matter of public record.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required
to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a
currently valid Office of Management and Budget control number.
Dated: March 12, 2015.
Benjamin Simon,
Assistant Director, Office of Policy Analysis, U.S. Department of the
Interior.
[FR Doc. 2015-06229 Filed 3-17-15; 8:45 am]
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