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B. 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 II.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.
Dated: August 21, 2015.
Colette Pollard,
Department Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015–21275 Filed 8–27–15; 8:45 am]
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No. 88–2503–OG (D.D.C.), HUD
publishes a Notice, on a weekly basis,
identifying unutilized, underutilized,
excess and surplus Federal buildings
and real property that HUD has
reviewed for suitability for use to assist
the homeless. Today’s Notice is for the
purpose of announcing that no
additional properties have been
determined suitable or unsuitable this
week.
Dated: August 20, 2015.
Brian P. Fitzmaurice,
Director, Division of Community Assistance,
Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs.
[FR Doc. 2015–21069 Filed 8–27–15; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey
[GX15RB00CMFCA00]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of a new information
collection: Use of Landsat satellite
imagery in water resource management
in the Western United States.
AGENCY:
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We (the 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 (PRA) 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.
DATES: To ensure that your comments
are considered, we must receive them
on or before October 27, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on this information collection to the
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201
Sunrise Valley Drive MS 807, Reston,
VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648–7197 (fax);
or gs-info_collections@usgs.gov (email).
Please reference ‘Information Collection
1028—NEW, Landsat satellite imagery
use in Western United States water
resource management’ in all
correspondence.
SUMMARY:
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5828–N–35]
Federal Property Suitable as Facilities
To Assist the Homeless
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Community Planning and
Development, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This Notice identifies
unutilized, underutilized, excess, and
surplus Federal property reviewed by
HUD for suitability for possible use to
assist the homeless.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Juanita Perry, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 Seventh
Street SW., Room 7262, Washington, DC
20410; telephone (202) 402–3970; TTY
number for the hearing- and speechimpaired (202) 708–2565, (these
telephone numbers are not toll-free), or
call the toll-free Title V information line
at 800–927–7588.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the December 12, 1988
court order in National Coalition for the
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Larisa Serbina, Economist, at (970) 222–
9073 or lserbina@usgs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Abstract
Water resources in the Western
United States (U.S.) are scarce and
recent droughts have only exacerbated
disputes over water usage. As such,
managing water resources effectively
and efficiently is important for both
private and public sector water users.
However, monitoring water use
comprehensively can be difficult using
only on-the-ground techniques, due to
the labor and time required for such
efforts. Recent case studies initiated by
the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS)
Land Remote Sensing (LRS) Program
have indicated that Landsat satellite
imagery plays an important role in
Western U.S. water resource
management. Landsat satellites are the
only satellites to continuously collect
the thermal imagery needed to measure
evapotranspiration and provide it to the
public at no cost. Evapotranspiration
derived from thermal imagery can be
used to objectively assess present and
past water use on the landscape. For
example, thermal data from Landsat
satellites has been used in court cases to
help settle water disputes. Landsat
satellites also provide a range of other
imagery which are used in water
resource management. For example, the
imagery can be used to identify different
types of vegetation, such as agricultural
crop types. There are unique
considerations users must address in
using Landsat imagery in water
resources applications. The newest
Landsat satellite, Landsat 8, launched in
2013, has two thermal spectral bands
whereas the Landsat 7 satellite has one
band. Thermal imagery from both
Landsats 7 and 8 is also collected at a
lower spatial resolution (60 meters and
100 meters, respectively) than the
multispectral imagery collected by these
satellites, though it is resampled to the
same 30-meter resolution as the rest of
the imagery.
While the handful of completed case
studies have indicated the importance
of Landsat imagery in water resource
management, a broader picture of the
use of the imagery by water resources
users is not available. This makes it
difficult for LRS to meet the needs of
these users both now and in the future.
Given the consistency in water rights
and the general scarcity of water in the
Western U.S. as compared to the rest of
the nation, we are proposing a survey
that will focus specifically on the users
who apply Landsat imagery in water
resources in this region. Questions will
be asked to determine the extent and
type of use of Landsat imagery in water
resource management projects, the
preferred characteristics (e.g., spatial
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resolution, frequency of image
collection) of Landsat imagery for use in
water resource management, and the
benefits and challenges of using Landsat
imagery in water resource management.
The results will be aggregated to provide
a more holistic assessment of the use of
Landsat in water resource management
in the Western U.S., including
characterizations of use by sector (i.e.,
private, government, academic, nonprofit) and geographic region (i.e.,
ecoregions, states). The overall goal of
the survey is to provide a more
complete understanding of Landsat use
in water resource management in the
Western U.S. in order to assist LRS in
meeting the needs of these users. The
survey will be conducted entirely
online. As no comprehensive list of
water resources managers, researchers,
and professionals who use Landsat is
available, a list of email addresses will
be compiled through a robust online
search followed by snowball sampling
during survey administration. To
protect the confidentiality and privacy
of survey respondents, email addresses
will not be associated with the data
collected on the survey and all analyses
will be conducted and reported on in
aggregate. All files containing email
addresses will be password-protected
and encrypted, housed on secure USGS
servers, and only accessible to the
research team. No PII will be collected
on the survey itself.
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II. Data
David Hamilton,
Fort Collins Science Center Director.
[FR Doc. 2015–21353 Filed 8–27–15; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
OMB Control Number: 1028—NEW.
Title: Use of Landsat satellite imagery
in water resource management in the
Western United States.
Type of Request: New information
collection.
Affected Public: Private sector, state
government, local government, nongovernmental organizations.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One time.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 1,000.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: 1,000.
Estimated Time per Response: 10
minutes.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 167
hours.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: None.
Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA
(44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an
agency 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 and current expiration date.
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III. Request for Comments
We are soliciting comments as to: (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the agency
to perform its duties, including whether
the information is useful; (b) the
accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, usefulness, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d) how
to minimize the burden on the
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 personal mailing
address, phone number, email address,
or other personally identifiable
information in your comment, you
should be aware that your entire
comment, including your personally
identifiable information, may be made
publicly available at any time. While
you can ask us in your comment to
withhold your personally identifiable
information from public view, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
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Bureau of Indian Affairs
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Tribal Education Department Grant
Program
Bureau of Indian Education,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability and
request for proposals.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of Indian
Education (BIE) announces the
availability of grants to tribes and their
tribal education departments (TEDs) for
projects defined under 25 U.S.C. 2020.
This notice invites tribes with BIEfunded schools on or near Indian lands
to submit grant proposals.
DATES: Grant proposals must be received
by September 21, 2015, at 4:00 p.m.
Eastern Time. BIE will hold pre-grant
proposal training sessions. See
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for
more information.
ADDRESSES: Complete details on
requirements for proposals and the
evaluation and selection process can be
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found on the BIE Web site at this
address: www.bie.edu. Submit grant
proposals to: Bureau of Indian
Education, Attn: Wendy Greyeyes, 1849
C Street NW., MS–4657–MIB,
Washington, DC 20240. Email
submissions will be accepted at this
address: wendy.greyeyes@bie.edu. Email
submissions are limited to attachments
compatible with Microsoft Office Word
2007 or later and/or files with a .pdf file
extension. Emailed submissions must
not exceed 3MB total in size. See the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this notice for directions on email
submissions.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Wendy Greyeyes, Bureau of Indian
Education, Office of the BIE Director,
(202) 208–5810; wendy.greyeyes@
bie.edu.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Secretary of the Interior, through the
BIE, is soliciting grant proposals from
federally recognized tribes and their
TEDs for projects defined by 25 U.S.C.
2020. These funds will assist tribes in
the development and operation of TEDs
for the purpose of planning and
coordinating all educational programs of
the tribe. These funds will support the
development of TEDs to improve
educational outcomes for students and
improve efficiencies and effectiveness
in the operation of BIE-funded schools.
Grant awards are subject to the
availability of funds as appropriated by
Congress.
Under 25 U.S.C. 2020, funds will
support the program goals for the
following areas that promote tribal
education capacity building:
1. To provide for the development
and enforcement of tribal educational
codes, including tribal educational
policies and tribal standards applicable
to curriculum, personnel, students,
facilities, and support programs;
2. To facilitate tribal control in all
matters relating to the education of
Indian children on reservations (and on
former Indian reservations in
Oklahoma);
3. To provide for the development of
coordinated educational programs
(including all preschool, elementary,
secondary, and higher or vocational
educational programs funded by tribal,
Federal, or other sources) on
reservations (and on former Indian
reservations in Oklahoma) by
encouraging tribal administrative
support of all Bureau-funded
educational programs as well as
encouraging tribal cooperation and
coordination with entities carrying out
all educational programs receiving
financial support from other Federal
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[FR Doc No: 2015-21353]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey
[GX15RB00CMFCA00]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments
AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of a new information collection: Use of Landsat
satellite imagery in water resource management in the Western United
States.
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SUMMARY: We (the 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 (PRA) 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.
DATES: To ensure that your comments are considered, we must receive
them on or before October 27, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on this information collection to
the Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Geological Survey,
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 807, Reston, VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648-
7197 (fax); or gs-info_collections@usgs.gov (email). Please reference
`Information Collection 1028--NEW, Landsat satellite imagery use in
Western United States water resource management' in all correspondence.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larisa Serbina, Economist, at (970)
222-9073 or lserbina@usgs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Water resources in the Western United States (U.S.) are scarce and
recent droughts have only exacerbated disputes over water usage. As
such, managing water resources effectively and efficiently is important
for both private and public sector water users. However, monitoring
water use comprehensively can be difficult using only on-the-ground
techniques, due to the labor and time required for such efforts. Recent
case studies initiated by the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Land
Remote Sensing (LRS) Program have indicated that Landsat satellite
imagery plays an important role in Western U.S. water resource
management. Landsat satellites are the only satellites to continuously
collect the thermal imagery needed to measure evapotranspiration and
provide it to the public at no cost. Evapotranspiration derived from
thermal imagery can be used to objectively assess present and past
water use on the landscape. For example, thermal data from Landsat
satellites has been used in court cases to help settle water disputes.
Landsat satellites also provide a range of other imagery which are used
in water resource management. For example, the imagery can be used to
identify different types of vegetation, such as agricultural crop
types. There are unique considerations users must address in using
Landsat imagery in water resources applications. The newest Landsat
satellite, Landsat 8, launched in 2013, has two thermal spectral bands
whereas the Landsat 7 satellite has one band. Thermal imagery from both
Landsats 7 and 8 is also collected at a lower spatial resolution (60
meters and 100 meters, respectively) than the multispectral imagery
collected by these satellites, though it is resampled to the same 30-
meter resolution as the rest of the imagery.
While the handful of completed case studies have indicated the
importance of Landsat imagery in water resource management, a broader
picture of the use of the imagery by water resources users is not
available. This makes it difficult for LRS to meet the needs of these
users both now and in the future.
Given the consistency in water rights and the general scarcity of
water in the Western U.S. as compared to the rest of the nation, we are
proposing a survey that will focus specifically on the users who apply
Landsat imagery in water resources in this region. Questions will be
asked to determine the extent and type of use of Landsat imagery in
water resource management projects, the preferred characteristics
(e.g., spatial
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resolution, frequency of image collection) of Landsat imagery for use
in water resource management, and the benefits and challenges of using
Landsat imagery in water resource management. The results will be
aggregated to provide a more holistic assessment of the use of Landsat
in water resource management in the Western U.S., including
characterizations of use by sector (i.e., private, government,
academic, non-profit) and geographic region (i.e., ecoregions, states).
The overall goal of the survey is to provide a more complete
understanding of Landsat use in water resource management in the
Western U.S. in order to assist LRS in meeting the needs of these
users. The survey will be conducted entirely online. As no
comprehensive list of water resources managers, researchers, and
professionals who use Landsat is available, a list of email addresses
will be compiled through a robust online search followed by snowball
sampling during survey administration. To protect the confidentiality
and privacy of survey respondents, email addresses will not be
associated with the data collected on the survey and all analyses will
be conducted and reported on in aggregate. All files containing email
addresses will be password-protected and encrypted, housed on secure
USGS servers, and only accessible to the research team. No PII will be
collected on the survey itself.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028--NEW.
Title: Use of Landsat satellite imagery in water resource
management in the Western United States.
Type of Request: New information collection.
Affected Public: Private sector, state government, local
government, non-governmental organizations.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One time.
Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 1,000.
Estimated Total Number of Annual Responses: 1,000.
Estimated Time per Response: 10 minutes.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 167 hours.
Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-Hour Cost'' Burden:
None.
Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.)
provides that an agency 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 and current expiration date.
III. Request for Comments
We are soliciting comments as to: (a) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for the agency to perform its
duties, including whether the information is useful; (b) the accuracy
of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, usefulness, and clarity
of the information to be collected; and (d) how to minimize the burden
on the 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 personal mailing
address, phone number, email address, or other personally identifiable
information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire
comment, including your personally identifiable information, may be
made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your
comment to withhold your personally identifiable information from
public view, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
David Hamilton,
Fort Collins Science Center Director.
[FR Doc. 2015-21353 Filed 8-27-15; 8:45 am]
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