Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Approval; Community Harvest Assessments for Alaskan National Parks, Preserves, and Monuments, 52458-52459 [2016-18727]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
• National Park Service

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 152 (Monday, August 8, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52458-52459]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-18727]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NRSS-EQD-SSB-21662; PPAKGAARC6 PPMPRLE1Z.LS0000 (166)]


Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for Approval; Community Harvest Assessments for 
Alaskan National Parks, Preserves, and Monuments

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: We (National Park Service, NPS) are asking the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the Information Collection 
Request (ICR) described below. The National Park Service (NPS) is 
requesting approval of a previously approved collection that will be 
used to survey subsistence hunters in Alaska. As required by the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and as a part of our continuing efforts 
to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, we invite the general public 
and other federal agencies to comment on this ICR. We may not conduct 
or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of 
information unless it displays a currently valid OMB Control Number.

DATES: To ensure that your comments on this ICR are considered, OMB 
must receive them on or before September 7, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Please direct all written comments on this ICR directly to 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Desk Officer for the Department of the 
Interior, to OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov (email) or 202-395-5806 (fax); 
and identify your submission as 1024-0262 AKHARVEST Please also send a 
copy of your comments to Phadrea Ponds, Information Collection 
Coordinator, National Park Service, 1201 Oakridge Drive, Fort Collins, 
CO 80525 (mail); or phadrea_ponds@nps.gov (email). Please reference 
Information Collection 1024-0262 AKHARVEST in the subject line.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marcy Okada, Subsistence Coordinator; 
Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve and Yukon-Charley Rivers 
National Preserve, 4175 Geist Road, Fairbanks, Alaska 99709. Please 
reference Information Collection Request 1024-0262 AKHARVEST in the 
subject line. You may also access this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.

I. Abstract

    The NPS is requesting to reinstate a previously approved collection 
(OMB Control Number: 1024-0262) needed to survey Alaska residents who 
customarily and traditionally engage in subsistence uses within a 
national park, preserve, or monument. In 2012, a survey was conducted 
in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve (WRST) and Gates of 
the Arctic National Park and Preserve (GAAR) to understand the effects 
of subsistence harvesting. This collection intended to collect 
information in additional Alaskan National Parks, Preserves, and 
Monuments.
    Under the provisions of The Alaska National Interest Lands 
Conservation Act (ANILCA), subsistence harvests by local rural 
residents are considered to be the priority consumptive use of park 
resources. This collection will continue to gather information on 
subsistence harvest patterns and the impact of rural economy from 
resident zone communities associated with the following parks, 
preserves, and monuments: 1) Aniakchak National Monument (ANIA), 2) 
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve (BELA), 3) Cape Krusenstern 
National Monument (CAKR), 4) Gates of the Arctic National Park and 
Preserve (GAAR), 5) Kobuk Valley National Park (KOVA), 6) Noatak 
National Preserve (NOAT), 7) Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and 
Preserve (WRST) and 8) Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve (YUCH).
    The information from this collection will be used by the NPS, the 
Federal Subsistence Board, the State of Alaska, and local/regional 
advisory councils in making recommendations and making decisions 
regarding seasons and harvest limits of fish, wildlife, and plants in 
the region which communities have customarily and traditionally used.

II. Data

    OMB Control Number: 1024-0262.
    Title: Community Harvest Assessments for Alaskan National Parks, 
Preserves, and Monuments.
    Type of Request: Reinstatement.
    Affected Public: General public; individual households.
    Respondent Obligation: Voluntary.
    Frequency of Collection: One time.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 2,414.
    Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 1,353 hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-Hour Cost'': 
None.

III. Request for Comments

    On August 18, 2015, we published a Federal Register notice (80 FR 
50026)

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announcing that we would submit this ICR to OMB for approval. Public 
comments were solicited for 60 days ending October 19, 2015. We did not 
receive any comments in response to that notice.
    We again invite comments concerning this information collection on:
     Whether or not the collection of information is necessary, 
including whether or not the information will have practical utility;
     The accuracy of our estimate of the burden for this 
collection of information;
     Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
     Ways to minimize the burden of the collection of 
information on respondents.
    A Federal 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 OMB control number. Comments that you submit in 
response to this notice are a matter of public record. Before including 
your address, phone number, email address, or other personal 
identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your 
entire comment, including your personal identifying information, may be 
made publicly available at any time. While you can ask OMB in your 
comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public 
review, we cannot guarantee that it will be done.

Madonna L. Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 2016-18727 Filed 8-5-16; 8:45 am]
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