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II. Background
To help us carry out our conservation
responsibilities for affected species, and
in consideration of section 10(a)(1)(A) of
the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as
amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), and
the Marine Mammal Protection Act of
1972, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et
seq.), along with Executive Order 13576,
‘‘Delivering an Efficient, Effective, and
Accountable Government,’’ and the
President’s Memorandum for the Heads
of Executive Departments and Agencies
of January 21, 2009—Transparency and
Open Government (74 FR 4685; January
26, 2009), which call on all Federal
agencies to promote openness and
transparency in Government by
disclosing information to the public, we
invite public comment on these permit
applications before final action is taken.
Under the MMPA, you may request a
hearing on any MMPA application
received. If you request a hearing, give
specific reasons why a hearing would be
appropriate. The holding of such a
hearing is at the discretion of the
Service Director.
III. Permit Applications
A. Endangered Species
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Applicant: Omar Gonzalez, Valley
Center, CA; PRT–85788B
The applicant requests a captive-bred
wildlife registration under 50 CFR
17.21(g) for the following species to
enhance species propagation or
survival: yellow-crested cockatoo
(Cacatua sulphurea), citron-crested
cockatoo (Cacatua sulphurea
citrinocristata), Cuban amazon
(Amazona leucocephala), golden conure
(Guaruba guarouba), great green macaw
(Ara ambiguus), military macaw (Ara
militaris), and blue-throated macaw
(Ara glaucogularis). This notification
covers activities to be conducted by the
applicant over a 5-year period.
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B. Endangered Marine Mammals and
Marine Mammals
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Applicant: Laura Graham, Guelph,
Ontario, Canada; PRT–90060B
The applicant requests a permit for
take of captive-bred polar bears (Ursus
maritimus) for the purpose of scientific
research. This notification covers
activities to be conducted by the
applicant over a 3-year period.
Concurrent with publishing this
notice in the Federal Register, we are
forwarding copies of the above
applications to the Marine Mammal
Commission and the Committee of
Scientific Advisors for their review.
Brenda Tapia,
Program Analyst/Data Administrator, Branch
of Permits, Division of Management
Authority.
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The applicant requests reissuance of
their permit for scientific research with
two captive-born giant pandas
(Ailuropoda melanoleuca) and their offspring currently held under loan
agreement with the Government of
China and under provision of the
USFWS Giant Panda Policy. The
proposed research will cover all aspects
of behavior, reproductive physiology,
genetics, nutrition, and animal health
and is a continuation of activities
currently in progress. This notice covers
activities conducted over a period of 5years.
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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
1028–0107, Economic Contribution of
Federal Investments in Restoration of
Degraded, Damaged, or Destroyed
Ecosystems’ in all correspondence.
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Atlanta Fulton County Zoo, Inc.,
Atlanta, GA; PRT–008519
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Applicant: Bryan Moyer, Albrightsville,
PA; PRT–99217B
The applicant requests a permit to
import a sport-hunted trophy of one
male bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus
pygargus) culled from a captive herd
maintained under the management
program of the Republic of South Africa,
for the purpose of enhancement of the
survival of the species.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey
[GX13SB00C2G9100]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of a renewal of a
currently approved information
collection (1028–0107).
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. This collection is
scheduled to expire on November 30,
2016.
DATES: To ensure that your comments
are considered, we must receive them
on or before August 30, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on this information collection to the
SUMMARY:
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Catherine Cullinane Thomas, Fort
Collins Science Center, U.S. Geological
Survey, 2150 Centre Ave., Fort Collins,
CO 80526 (mail); 970–226–9164
(phone); or ccullinanethomas@usgs.gov
(email). You may also find information
about this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Federal investments in ecosystem
restoration projects protect Federal
trusts, ensure public health and safety,
and preserve and enhance essential
ecosystem services. These investments
also generate business activity and
create jobs. The Economic Impacts of
Ecosystem Restoration project aims to
increase the availability of information
on the costs and activities associated
with ecosystem restoration, and to gauge
the economic effects of these
investments to local economies. The
project is comprised of a series of case
studies that quantify the economic
impacts of restoration projects. The case
studies include examples of
collaboratively funded and managed
projects to restore a wide range of
degraded, damaged, or destroyed
ecosystems. In addition to providing
improved information on the economic
impacts of restoration, these case
studies highlight DOI restoration efforts
and tell personalized stories about each
project and the communities that are
positively affected by restoration
activities. Project methods include the
collection of primary expenditure data
and economic input/output modeling.
Results from the first phase of case
studies are available online at https://
www.fort.usgs.gov/economic-impactsrestoration and in a USGS report titled
‘Estimating the economic impacts of
ecosystem restoration—methods and
case studies’. The report provides a
detailed description of the methods
used to estimate economic impacts of
case study projects and also provides
suggestions, lessons learned, and tradeoffs between potential analysis methods.
This second phase of case studies aims
to refine the survey methods and fill in
some data gaps on specific types of
restoration activities.
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II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028–0107.
Form Number: NA.
Title: Economic Contribution of
Federal Investments in Restoration of
Degraded, Damaged, or Destroyed
Ecosystems.
Type of Request: Renewal of existing
information collection.
Affected Public: DOI restoration
project managers and contractors
working on selected case study
restoration projects.
Respondent’s Obligation: None.
Participation is voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One time
only.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: We expect to do up to 10
case studies per year. This will result in
approximately 10 responses by project
managers and approximately 30
responses by contractors, for a total of
40 responses per year. Most of the
project managers are expected to be
Federal employees.
Estimated Time per Response:
Restoration project managers will
complete a project summary survey and
an expenditure survey, and will work
with the USGS to coordinate contact
with project contractors. It is expected
that it will take project managers up to
4 hours to complete this activity. Project
contractors will complete an
expenditure survey. It is expected that
it will take contractors no more than 1
hour to complete this activity.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours:
Total estimated annual burden for this
collection is no more than 70 hours per
year.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: There are no ‘‘non-hour cost’’
burdens associated with this IC.
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.
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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.
William Lellis,
Acting Associate Director, Ecosystems.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLCON04000 L16100000.DT0000–16X]
Notice of Availability of the Proposed
Resource Management Plan
Amendment and Final Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Roan Plateau Planning Area,
Colorado
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) of 1969, as amended, and the
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) has prepared
a Proposed Resource Management Plan
(RMP) Amendment and Final
Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) for the Roan Plateau
planning area and by this notice
announces its availability.
DATES: BLM planning regulations state
that any person who meets the
conditions identified in the regulations
may protest the BLM’s Proposed RMP
Amendment/Final Supplemental EIS. A
person who meets the conditions and
files a protest must file the protest
within 30 days of the date that the
Environmental Protection Agency
publishes its Notice of Availability in
the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Roan Plateau
Proposed RMP Amendment/Final
Supplemental EIS have been sent to
affected Federal, State and local
government agencies and to other
stakeholders. Copies of the Proposed
RMP Amendment/Final Supplemental
SUMMARY:
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EIS are also available for public
inspection at the Colorado River Valley
Field Office, 2300 River Frontage Road,
Silt, CO 81652. Interested persons may
also review the Proposed RMP
Amendment/Final Supplemental EIS on
the Internet at www.blm.gov/co/st/en/
BLM_Programs/land_use_planning/
rmp/roan_plateau.html.
All protests must be in writing and
mailed to one of the following
addresses:
Regular Mail: BLM Director (210),
Attention: Protest Coordinator, P.O. Box
71383, Washington, DC 20024–1383.
Overnight Delivery: BLM Director
(210), Attention: Protest Coordinator, 20
M Street SE., Room 2134LM,
Washington, DC 20003.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Greg
Larson, Project Manager; telephone
(970) 876–9048; see Colorado River
Valley Field Office address above; email
glarson@blm.gov. Persons who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Information
Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339
to contact the above individual during
normal business hours. The FIRS is
available 24 hours a day, seven days a
week, to leave a message or question
with the above individual. You will
receive a reply during normal business
hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM
prepared the Roan Plateau Proposed
RMP Amendment/Final Supplemental
EIS to evaluate a range of management
decisions for resources, resource uses,
and special designations in the planning
area. The Proposed RMP/Final
Supplemental EIS also responds to a
June 22, 2012, ruling by the United
States District Court for the District of
Colorado remanding the 2007 Roan
Plateau Record of Decision. The Court
set aside the 2007 Roan Plateau RMP
Amendment and remanded the matter
to the BLM for further action in
accordance with the Court’s decision. In
particular, the Court found that the
Final EIS was deficient insofar as it
failed to adequately address the: (i)
‘‘Community Alternative’’ that various
local governments, environmental
organizations and individual members
of the public recommended during the
planning process leading up to the 2007
plan amendment; (ii) Cumulative airquality impacts of the RMP Amendment
decision in conjunction with
anticipated oil and gas development on
private lands outside the Roan Plateau
planning area; and (iii) Issue of potential
ozone impacts from proposed oil and
gas development. Based on the Court’s
ruling and new information available
since the BLM developed the Final EIS,
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[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 127 (Friday, July 1, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43224-43225]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-15657]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey
[GX13SB00C2G9100]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments
AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of a renewal of a currently approved information
collection (1028-0107).
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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. This
collection is scheduled to expire on November 30, 2016.
DATES: To ensure that your comments are considered, we must receive
them on or before August 30, 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 1028-0107, Economic Contribution of Federal
Investments in Restoration of Degraded, Damaged, or Destroyed
Ecosystems' in all correspondence.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Catherine Cullinane Thomas, Fort
Collins Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 2150 Centre Ave., Fort
Collins, CO 80526 (mail); 970-226-9164 (phone); or
ccullinanethomas@usgs.gov (email). You may also find information about
this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Federal investments in ecosystem restoration projects protect
Federal trusts, ensure public health and safety, and preserve and
enhance essential ecosystem services. These investments also generate
business activity and create jobs. The Economic Impacts of Ecosystem
Restoration project aims to increase the availability of information on
the costs and activities associated with ecosystem restoration, and to
gauge the economic effects of these investments to local economies. The
project is comprised of a series of case studies that quantify the
economic impacts of restoration projects. The case studies include
examples of collaboratively funded and managed projects to restore a
wide range of degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems. In addition
to providing improved information on the economic impacts of
restoration, these case studies highlight DOI restoration efforts and
tell personalized stories about each project and the communities that
are positively affected by restoration activities. Project methods
include the collection of primary expenditure data and economic input/
output modeling. Results from the first phase of case studies are
available online at https://www.fort.usgs.gov/economic-impacts-restoration and in a USGS report titled `Estimating the economic
impacts of ecosystem restoration--methods and case studies'. The report
provides a detailed description of the methods used to estimate
economic impacts of case study projects and also provides suggestions,
lessons learned, and trade-offs between potential analysis methods.
This second phase of case studies aims to refine the survey methods and
fill in some data gaps on specific types of restoration activities.
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II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028-0107.
Form Number: NA.
Title: Economic Contribution of Federal Investments in Restoration
of Degraded, Damaged, or Destroyed Ecosystems.
Type of Request: Renewal of existing information collection.
Affected Public: DOI restoration project managers and contractors
working on selected case study restoration projects.
Respondent's Obligation: None. Participation is voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One time only.
Estimated Total Number of Annual Responses: We expect to do up to
10 case studies per year. This will result in approximately 10
responses by project managers and approximately 30 responses by
contractors, for a total of 40 responses per year. Most of the project
managers are expected to be Federal employees.
Estimated Time per Response: Restoration project managers will
complete a project summary survey and an expenditure survey, and will
work with the USGS to coordinate contact with project contractors. It
is expected that it will take project managers up to 4 hours to
complete this activity. Project contractors will complete an
expenditure survey. It is expected that it will take contractors no
more than 1 hour to complete this activity.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: Total estimated annual burden for
this collection is no more than 70 hours per year.
Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-Hour Cost'' Burden:
There are no ``non-hour cost'' burdens associated with this IC.
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.
William Lellis,
Acting Associate Director, Ecosystems.
[FR Doc. 2016-15657 Filed 6-30-16; 8:45 am]
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