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The Service’s selected alternative is
reflected in the final CCP.
The selected alternative focuses on
continued participation in the
interagency coaster brook trout
restoration program in Whittlesey Creek.
The quantity and quality of coldwater
stream, forest, and coastal wetland
habitat for native fish, migratory birds,
and other wildlife will increase.
Floodplain and watershed hydrology
will better emulate natural seasonal and
long-term variability. Service
participation in the Northern Great
Lakes Visitor Center (NGLVC)
partnership will continue. Refuge staff
will participate in NGLVC programs that
align with the NWRS mission and
Refuge purposes. A detailed description
of objectives and actions included in
this selected alternative is found in
chapter 4 of the final CCP.
Charles M. Wooley,
Acting Regional Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey
[GX16EN05ESB0500]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of a new information
collection, Are literature searches
finding your publications?
AGENCY:
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 February 19, 2016.
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, Are literature searches
finding your publications? in all
correspondence.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Abigail Lynch, Research Fish Biologist,
at (703) 648–4097 or ajlynch@usgs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Inland fisheries are especially
vulnerable to the impacts of climate
change at a global scale; although inland
fish are vital to ecosystem health and
function and provide invaluable
ecosystem services to communities
worldwide, much research remains to
be done. Researchers have been
projecting and documenting impacts of
climate change on fisheries since the
1980s; thus, there is a large body of
literature available online. Traditional
search engines provide large outputs of
studies and reports that must be
individually screened for relevance
when searching for climate change
effects on fisheries. This large output
could result in the exclusion of some
studies in analyses of the effects of
climate change on inland fisheries. Our
goal is to compare traditional literature
search methods with using a network of
fisheries professionals to identify
relevant climate change and fisheries
studies to determine if both methods
yield similar or dissimilar results.
We plan to query research scientists
belonging to major professional fisheries
societies via electronic correspondence
and request a list of their already
published references to include in the
collection. We are specifically looking
for published studies addressing
projected and documented effects of
climate change on fisheries. The
information will be used to generate a
scientific manuscript. The only Personal
Identifiable Information we will collect
is the scientist’s name. Our information
collection request directly aligns to the
mission of the USGS National Climate
Change and Wildlife Science Center
(NCCWSC). One of NCCWSC’s goals is
to deliver products, information, and
tools to scientists and stakeholders on
climate change and wildlife science,
and the resulting manuscript aligns with
these goals.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028–NEW.
Title: Are literature searches finding
your publications?
Type of Request: New information
collection.
Affected Public: English-speaking
research scientists.
Respondent’s Obligation: None.
Participation is strictly voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One time.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 100. Respondents will be
made up of mostly academics (i.e.,
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university professors). Some will have
federal affiliations.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: 100.
Estimated Time per Response: 5
minutes per response.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 8.3
hours.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: None.
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.
Shawn Carter,
Senior Scientist, National Climate Change
and Wildlife Science Center.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[ Geological Survey
[GX16EN05ESB0500]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of a new information
collection, Climate Change Effects on
Wildlife Virtual Library
AGENCY:
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
SUMMARY:
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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 February 19, 2016.
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, [Climate Change Effects on
Wildlife Virtual Library] in all
correspondence.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Abigail Lynch, Research Fish Biologist,
at (703) 648–4097 or ajlynch@usgs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Wildlife is an essential recreational,
commercial, and cultural resource to
communities worldwide, while also
being vital to ecosystem health and
function. For our purposes, the term
wildlife encompasses mammals, fish,
amphibians, reptiles and birds. As
climate change and other anthropogenic
activities continue to threaten wildlife
at a global scale, continued research and
increased understanding of the effects of
climate change on organisms is
imperative for future wildlife
management and conservation.
Researchers have been studying and
speculating on the effects of climate
change on wildlife for decades; thus,
there is a large body of climate change
and wildlife literature available.
Traditional search engines provide large
outputs of studies and reports that must
be individually screened for relevance
when searching for climate change
effects on specific taxonomic groups.
This large output can be burdensome
and could result in the exclusion of
some studies in analyses. Our goal is to
streamline this process for researchers
and the public by having a virtual
collection of studies highlighting
climate change effects (both projected
and documented) on wildlife at a global
scale. This collection would provide
researchers with quicker and easier
access to get the information they need
in less time and with less effort.
We plan to query research scientists
belonging to professional societies and
list servers via electronic
correspondence and request a list of
their already published references to
include in the collection. We are
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specifically looking for published
studies addressing projected and
documented effects of climate change
on wildlife. None of the information
contains personal identifiable
information. We plan to store all this
information in a virtual bibliography
that can be updated by a USGS point of
contact as more studies are published
and included in the database.
Furthermore, some of this information
may be used to generate external reports
(i.e., scientific manuscripts), used in
research data input, and in statistical
analysis. Our information collection
request directly aligns to the mission of
the USGS National Climate Change and
Wildlife Science Center (NCCWSC). One
of NCCWSC’s goals is to deliver
products, information, and tools to
scientists and stakeholders on climate
change and wildlife science, and this
collection would do just that.
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.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028–NEW.
Title: Climate Change Effects on
Wildlife Virtual Library.
Type of Request: New information
collection.
Affected Public: English-speaking
wildlife research scientists.
Respondent’s Obligation: None.
Participation is strictly voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One time to
occasionally. Scientists have the option
to submit papers one time after the
initial request and then periodically as
they publish additional relevant papers.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 500. Breakdown:
Approximately 350 will be from
academic institutions and 150 will be
from state or federal agencies.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: 500.
Estimated Time per Response: 5
minutes per response.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 41.7
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.
Shawn Carter,
Senior Scientist.
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
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[ Geological Survey
[GX16EN05ESB0500]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments
AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of a new information collection, Climate Change Effects
on Wildlife Virtual Library
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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
[[Page 79355]]
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 February 19, 2016.
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, [Climate Change Effects on Wildlife
Virtual Library] in all correspondence.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Abigail Lynch, Research Fish
Biologist, at (703) 648-4097 or ajlynch@usgs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Wildlife is an essential recreational, commercial, and cultural
resource to communities worldwide, while also being vital to ecosystem
health and function. For our purposes, the term wildlife encompasses
mammals, fish, amphibians, reptiles and birds. As climate change and
other anthropogenic activities continue to threaten wildlife at a
global scale, continued research and increased understanding of the
effects of climate change on organisms is imperative for future
wildlife management and conservation. Researchers have been studying
and speculating on the effects of climate change on wildlife for
decades; thus, there is a large body of climate change and wildlife
literature available. Traditional search engines provide large outputs
of studies and reports that must be individually screened for relevance
when searching for climate change effects on specific taxonomic groups.
This large output can be burdensome and could result in the exclusion
of some studies in analyses. Our goal is to streamline this process for
researchers and the public by having a virtual collection of studies
highlighting climate change effects (both projected and documented) on
wildlife at a global scale. This collection would provide researchers
with quicker and easier access to get the information they need in less
time and with less effort.
We plan to query research scientists belonging to professional
societies and list servers via electronic correspondence and request a
list of their already published references to include in the
collection. We are specifically looking for published studies
addressing projected and documented effects of climate change on
wildlife. None of the information contains personal identifiable
information. We plan to store all this information in a virtual
bibliography that can be updated by a USGS point of contact as more
studies are published and included in the database. Furthermore, some
of this information may be used to generate external reports (i.e.,
scientific manuscripts), used in research data input, and in
statistical analysis. Our information collection request directly
aligns to the mission of the USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife
Science Center (NCCWSC). One of NCCWSC's goals is to deliver products,
information, and tools to scientists and stakeholders on climate change
and wildlife science, and this collection would do just that.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028-NEW.
Title: Climate Change Effects on Wildlife Virtual Library.
Type of Request: New information collection.
Affected Public: English-speaking wildlife research scientists.
Respondent's Obligation: None. Participation is strictly voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One time to occasionally. Scientists have
the option to submit papers one time after the initial request and then
periodically as they publish additional relevant papers.
Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 500. Breakdown:
Approximately 350 will be from academic institutions and 150 will be
from state or federal agencies.
Estimated Total Number of Annual Responses: 500.
Estimated Time per Response: 5 minutes per response.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 41.7 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.
Shawn Carter,
Senior Scientist.
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