Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Approval; Revealing Opportunities for Local-Level Stakeholder Engagement and Social Science Inquiry in Landscape Conservation Design, 71758-71759 [2016-25108]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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 A on
the following:
(1) Whether the proposed collection
of information is necessary for the
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(2) The accuracy of the agency’s
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(4) Ways to minimize the burden of
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Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–HQ–R–2016–N177;
FXRS126109HD000–167–FF09R23000]
Information Collection Request Sent to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for Approval; Revealing
Opportunities for Local-Level
Stakeholder Engagement and Social
Science Inquiry in Landscape
Conservation Design
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:
We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service) have sent an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for
review and approval. We summarize the
ICR below and describe the nature of the
collection and the estimated burden and
cost. 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: You must submit comments on
or before November 17, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments and
suggestions on this information
collection to the Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior at OMB–
OIRA at (202) 395–5806 (fax) or OIRA_
Submission@omb.eop.gov (email).
SUMMARY:
Number of
annual
responses
Activity
Please provide a copy of your comments
to the Service Information Collection
Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, MS BPHC, 5275
Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041–
3803 (mail), or tina_campbell@fws.gov
(email). Please include ‘‘1018–LCD’’ in
the subject line of your comments.
To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Tina Campbell at tina_
campbell@fws.gov (email) or 703–358–
2676 (telephone). You may review the
ICR online at https://www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to review
Department of the Interior information
collections under review by OMB.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request
OMB Control Number: 1018–XXXX.
Title: Revealing Opportunities for
Local-Level Stakeholder Engagement
and Social Science Inquiry in
Landscape Conservation Design.
Service Form Number: None.
Type of Request: Request for a new
OMB control number.
Description of Respondents:
Individuals, private sector, and State
and local governments.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One time.
Completion time per response
(10 minutes for initial contact +
60-minute interview)
Total annual
burden hours
(rounded)
70 minutes .......................................
70 minutes .......................................
70 minutes .......................................
6
41
58.3
90
..........................................................
105
Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden
Cost: None.
Abstract: We have entered into a
cooperative agreement with Cornell
University to study the role of local
stakeholder engagement and social data
integration in Landscape Conservation
Design (LCD) planning and
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implementation processes. Promoting
ecosystem-level conservation based on
LCD will rely on engaging local
stakeholders, i.e., local community
members and locally based interest
groups potentially impacted by
conservation actions, in conservation
design, planning, and implementation
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processes. To date, no systematic
assessment of local stakeholders’ role in
LCD has been conducted. Lacking such
assessment, questions remain as to
what, when, and where social data
(related to stakeholders’ values,
interests, and knowledge) and public
engagement (the direct participation of
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Complete Interview—Private Sector ..........................................................
Complete Interview—State, Local, and Tribal Governments ....................
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stakeholders in information sharing and
decision making) are most valuable in
LCD processes. Information gathered in
this study will provide essential, nonduplicative data and insights for
ongoing and future LCD efforts. In
addition to literature review and
participant observation, this study will
employ a multiple case study approach
focused on three LCD efforts. We will
conduct semi-structured interviews of
90 non-Federal LCD partners and local
stakeholders to ascertain how LCD
efforts have attempted to integrate social
information, how these efforts have
worked, and how they might be
improved under varying socialecological conditions.
Comments Received and Our Responses
On May 19, 2016, we published in the
Federal Register (81 FR 31654) a notice
of our intent to request that OMB
approve this information collection. In
that notice, we solicited comments for
60 days, ending on July 18, 2016. We
received two comments from the same
individual in response to that notice.
The commenter did not address the
information collection requirements.
Request for Public Comments
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.
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Submitting Comments
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 and us in your
comment to withhold your personal
identifying information from public
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review, we cannot guarantee that it will
be done.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and
Management Programs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLOR957000–L14400000–BJ0000–
16XL1109AF: HAG 16–0205]
Filing of Plats of Survey: Oregon/
Washington
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The plats of survey of the
following described lands are scheduled
to be officially filed in the Bureau of
Land Management, Oregon State Office,
Portland, Oregon, 30 days from the date
of this publication.
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the date of official filing, the filing will
be stayed pending consideration of the
protest. A plat will not be officially filed
until the day after all protests have been
dismissed or otherwise resolved. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personally
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personally identifying information—
may be made publicly available at any
time. While you can ask us in your
comment to withhold your personally
identifying information from public
review, we cannot guarantee that we
will be able to do so.
F. David Radford,
Acting Chief Cadastral Surveyor of Oregon/
Washington.
[FR Doc. 2016–25113 Filed 10–17–16; 8:45 am]
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SUMMARY:
Willamette Meridian
Oregon
T. 20 S., R. 5 W., accepted July 25, 2016
T. 34 S., R. 2 E., accepted August 9, 2016
Tps. 15 & 16 S., R. 11 E., accepted August
9, 2016
A copy of the plats may be
obtained from the Public Room at the
Bureau of Land Management, Oregon
State Office, 1220 SW. 3rd Avenue,
Portland, Oregon 97204, upon required
payment.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kyle
Hensley, (503) 808–6124, Branch of
Geographic Sciences, Bureau of Land
Management, 1220 SW. 3rd Avenue,
Portland, Oregon 97204. 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, 7 days a week, to leave a message
or question with the above individual.
You will receive a reply during normal
business hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A person
or party who wishes to protest against
this survey must file a written notice
with the Oregon State Director, Bureau
of Land Management, stating that they
wish to protest. A statement of reasons
for a protest may be filed with the notice
of protest and must be filed with the
Oregon State Director within thirty days
after the protest is filed. If a protest
against the survey is received prior to
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Notice of Public Meeting: Resource
Advisory Council (RAC) to the Boise
District, Bureau of Land Management,
U.S. Department of the Interior
Bureau of Land Management,
U.S. Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act (FLPMA) and the Federal Advisory
Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) Boise District
Resource Advisory Council (RAC), will
hold a meeting as indicated below.
DATES: The meeting will be held
November 9, 2016, at the Boise District
Office, 3948 Development Avenue,
Boise, Idaho 83705 beginning at 9:00
a.m. and adjourning by 4:00 p.m.
Members of the public are invited to
attend. A public comment period will
be held from 11:00 a.m. to 11:10 a.m.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Seth
Flanigan, Public Affairs Specialist and
RAC Coordinator, BLM Boise District,
3948 Development Ave., Boise, Idaho
83705, telephone (208) 384–3393.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 15member Council advises the Secretary
of the Interior, through the BLM, on a
variety of planning and management
issues associated with public land
management in southwestern Idaho.
During the November meeting the Boise
District RAC will receive updates on
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-HQ-R-2016-N177; FXRS126109HD000-167-FF09R23000]
Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for Approval; Revealing Opportunities for Local-Level
Stakeholder Engagement and Social Science Inquiry in Landscape
Conservation Design
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) have sent an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for review and approval. We summarize
the ICR below and describe the nature of the collection and the
estimated burden and cost. 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: You must submit comments on or before November 17, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments and suggestions on this information
collection to the Desk Officer for the Department of the Interior at
OMB-OIRA at (202) 395-5806 (fax) or OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov
(email). Please provide a copy of your comments to the Service
Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, MS BPHC, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041-3803
(mail), or tina_campbell@fws.gov (email). Please include ``1018-LCD''
in the subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information
about this ICR, contact Tina Campbell at tina_campbell@fws.gov (email)
or 703-358-2676 (telephone). You may review the ICR online at https://www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to review Department of the
Interior information collections under review by OMB.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request
OMB Control Number: 1018-XXXX.
Title: Revealing Opportunities for Local-Level Stakeholder
Engagement and Social Science Inquiry in Landscape Conservation Design.
Service Form Number: None.
Type of Request: Request for a new OMB control number.
Description of Respondents: Individuals, private sector, and State
and local governments.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One time.
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Number of Completion time per response Total annual
Activity annual (10 minutes for initial contact burden hours
responses + 60-minute interview) (rounded)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Complete Interview--Individuals............... 5 70 minutes...................... 6
Complete Interview--Private Sector............ 35 70 minutes...................... 41
Complete Interview--State, Local, and Tribal 50 70 minutes...................... 58.3
Governments.
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Total..................................... 90 ................................ 105
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Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: None.
Abstract: We have entered into a cooperative agreement with Cornell
University to study the role of local stakeholder engagement and social
data integration in Landscape Conservation Design (LCD) planning and
implementation processes. Promoting ecosystem-level conservation based
on LCD will rely on engaging local stakeholders, i.e., local community
members and locally based interest groups potentially impacted by
conservation actions, in conservation design, planning, and
implementation processes. To date, no systematic assessment of local
stakeholders' role in LCD has been conducted. Lacking such assessment,
questions remain as to what, when, and where social data (related to
stakeholders' values, interests, and knowledge) and public engagement
(the direct participation of
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stakeholders in information sharing and decision making) are most
valuable in LCD processes. Information gathered in this study will
provide essential, non-duplicative data and insights for ongoing and
future LCD efforts. In addition to literature review and participant
observation, this study will employ a multiple case study approach
focused on three LCD efforts. We will conduct semi-structured
interviews of 90 non-Federal LCD partners and local stakeholders to
ascertain how LCD efforts have attempted to integrate social
information, how these efforts have worked, and how they might be
improved under varying social-ecological conditions.
Comments Received and Our Responses
On May 19, 2016, we published in the Federal Register (81 FR 31654)
a notice of our intent to request that OMB approve this information
collection. In that notice, we solicited comments for 60 days, ending
on July 18, 2016. We received two comments from the same individual in
response to that notice. The commenter did not address the information
collection requirements.
Request for Public Comments
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.
Submitting Comments
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 and us in your comment to withhold your personal
identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that it
will be done.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and Management Programs, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 2016-25108 Filed 10-17-16; 8:45 am]
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