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and focus groups in order to identify
questionnaire and procedural problems,
suggest solutions, and measure the
relative effectiveness of alternative
solutions.
Following standard OMB
requirements, FNS will submit a change
request to OMB for each data collection
activity undertaken under this generic
clearance. FNS will provide OMB with
the instruments and supporting
materials describing the research project
and specific pre-testing activities.
Affected Public: The respondents will
be identified at the time that each
change request is submitted to OMB.
Respondents will include State, Local
and Tribal Government; Individual/
Households; and/or Businesses.
Estimated
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respondents
Respondent
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responses
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average number
of hours per
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total hours
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Reporting Burden:
Pretesting Respondents (State, Local and Tribal Government; Individual/Households; and/or Businesses)
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Dated: September 6, 2018.
Brandon Lipps,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Notice of New Fee Sites; Federal Lands
Recreation Enhancement Act
Coronado National Forest,
USDA Forest Service, Tucson, Arizona.
ACTION: Notice of new fee sites.
AGENCY:
The Coronado National Forest
is proposing new recreation fees at 13
day use sites at $8 a day or $40 for an
annual pass, four campgrounds at $15 a
day, and six group camping sites and
one group picnic site at $50 a day, plus
$10 per vehicle per day. Fees are
assessed based on the level of amenities
and services provided, cost of
operations and maintenance, and
market assessment. Fee revenue would
be used for the continued operation and
maintenance as well as improvements to
the facilities within the recreation sites.
DATES: New fees would be implemented
no sooner than six months from
publication of this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joe
Winfield at (520) 388–8422 or by email
at CoronadoRecreation@fs.fed.us.
Information about the fee proposal
can also be found on the Coronado
National Forest website at: https://
www.fs.usda.gov/goto/coronado/
feereview.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement
Act (Title VII, P.L. 108–447) directs the
SUMMARY:
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Estimated Number of Respondents:
2,200.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
2,200.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.682.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 2,200.
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Secretary of Agriculture to publish a six
month advance notice in the Federal
Register whenever new recreation fee
areas are established. Currently, about
one-third of Coronado National Forest’s
developed recreation sites collect fees.
This notice is part of a comprehensive
fee proposal to restructure developed
recreation on the Coronado National
Forest. More information can be found
at: https://www.fs.usda.gov/goto/
coronado/feereview.
The new proposed fee sites are:
Day Use Sites: Bigelow Trailhead,
Brown Canyon Ranch and Trailhead,
Butterfly Trailhead, Carr Canyon Picnic
Area, Gordon Hirabayashi Interpretive
Site and trailhead, Herb Martyr
Trailhead, Parker Canyon Lake Fishing
and Boating Site (and nature trail), Pena
Blanca Lake Fishing and Boating Site,
Red Rock Picnic Area, Riggs Lake
Fishing and Boating Site, Rucker Forest
Camp Trailhead, Upper and Lower
Thumb Rock Picnic Area, Whipple
Picnic Area and Trailhead.
Campgrounds: Herb Martyr, Noon
Creek, Stockton Pass, Sycamore.
Group Sites: Columbine Visitor Center
Ramada, Gordon Hirabayashi Horse
Camp, Stockton Pass, Twilight, Upper
Arcadia, Treasure Park.
This new fee proposal will be
reviewed by the Bureau of Land
Management—Arizona Recreation
Resource Advisory Council prior to final
decision and implementation.
Dated: August 27, 2018.
Chris French,
Acting Deputy Chief, National Forest System.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Notice of New Fee Site; Federal Lands
Recreation Enhancement Act
Rogue River-Siskiyou National
Forest, Forest Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of new recreation fees.
AGENCY:
The Rogue River-Siskiyou
National Forest will be implementing
new fees at four cabin/lookout rentals,
six campgrounds, two group campsites,
and nine day use sites. Fees are assessed
based on the level of amenities and
services provided, cost of operation and
maintenance, market assessment, and
public comment. Fee receipts will be
used to improve customer services,
operate and maintain facilities and to
make needed improvements.
A complete list of the site fees can be
found at: https://www.fs.usda.gov/
detail/rogue-siskiyou/home/
?cid=FSEPRD571220.
SUMMARY:
Implementation of the new fees
will occur no sooner than 180 days from
date of publication in the Federal
Register.
Public comment for these new fee
proposals was completed on February
16, 2018. The Rogue-Umpqua Resource
Advisory Committee and/or the
Siskiyou Resource Advisory Board
reviewed and offered recommendations
on these new fees on April 4, 2018 and
April 25, 2018 respectively. The Region
6 Regional Forester decided to move
forward with these new fees on May 22,
2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brian White, Recreation, Engineering,
Lands, Heritage, and Minerals Staff
DATES:
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Officer at 541–618–2061 or email
brianwhite@fs.fed.us.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
New fees will be implemented at the
following sites:
Campgrounds:
Butler Bar, Eden Valley, Laird Lake,
Little Redwood, Oak Flat/Gravel Bar,
Sunshine Bar.
Depending on the site, the new
recreation fee will be $8 or $10 per
night.
Group Campsites:
Six Mile and Winchuck. Group
camping fees will be $50 per night.
Cabins/lookouts:
Ferris Ford Cabin, Store Gulch Guard
Station, and Squaw Peak Lookout.
Depending on the facility, the overnight
fee will be $65 to $125. The pricing
difference reflects variables such as the
number of people who can use the sites,
and whether electricity, running water
and other amenities are provided.
Day use areas/interpretive/picnic
sites:
Diver’s Hole, Foster Bar, Lobster
Creek, Quosatana, River Bench, Six
Mile, Store Gulch, Union Wayside,
Natural Bridge, and Rogue Gorge. These
day use sites will be $5 per day. The
Northwest Forest Pass and all America
the Beautiful—the National Parks and
Federal Recreational Lands passes will
be honored at these sites.
The Federal Recreation Lands
Enhancement Act (Title VII, Pub. L.
108–447) directed the Secretary of
Agriculture to publish a six month
advance notice in the Federal Register
whenever new recreation fee areas are
established.
Dated: September 6, 2018.
Chris French,
Acting Deputy Chief, National Forest System.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Information Collection; Understanding
Value Trade-Offs Regarding Fire
Hazard Reduction Programs in the
Wildland-Urban Interface
Forest Service, USDA.
Notice; request for comment.
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Forest Service is seeking comments
from all interested individuals and
organizations on the renewal of a
currently approved information
collection, Understanding Value Tradeoffs regarding Fire Hazard Reduction
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Programs in the Wildland-Urban
Interface (OMB # 0596–0189), with a
revision for the removal of in-depth
phone interviews and minor changes in
questionnaire.
DATES: Comments must be received in
writing on or before November 13, 2018
to be assured of consideration.
Comments received after that date will
be considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this
notice should be addressed to Jose´
Sa´nchez, USDA Forest Service, Pacific
Southwest Research Station, 4955
Canyon Crest Drive, Riverside,
California 92507. Comments may also
be submitted via facsimile to 951–680–
1501, or by email to jsanchez@fs.fed.us.
The public may inspect comments
received at the Pacific Southwest
Research Station, during normal
business hours. Visitors are encouraged
to call ahead to facilitate entry to the
building.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jose
Sa´nchez, by phone at 951–680–1560.
Individuals who use telecommunication
devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the
Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800–
877–8339 twenty-four hours a day,
every day of the year, including
holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Understanding Value Trade-offs
Regarding Fire Hazard Reduction
Programs in the Wildland-Urban
Interface.
OMB Number: 0596–0189.
Expiration Date of Approval:
November 30, 2018.
Type of Request: Renewal with
revision.
Abstract: Forest Service and
university researchers will collect
information from members of the public
via a brief phone questionnaire followed
by the respondent’s choice of a mail
questionnaire or an online questionnaire
to help forest and fire managers
understand value trade-offs regarding
fire hazard reduction programs in the
wildland-urban interface. Researchers
will evaluate the responses of Arizona,
Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas
residents to different scenarios related
to fire-hazard reduction programs,
determine how effective residents think
the programs are, and calculate how
much residents would be willing to pay
to implement the alternatives presented
to them. This information will help
researchers provide better information
to natural resource, forest, and fire
managers when they are contemplating
the type of fire-hazard reduction
program to implement to achieve
forestland management planning
objectives.
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A random sample of residents of
Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and
Texas will be contacted via randomdigit dialed telephone calls and asked to
participate in the research study. If they
are willing to participate in the study,
they will elect to receive an online or
paper questionnaire and will provide
the appropriate address. Though
different forms, these questionnaires
have the same set of questions. In this
initial call, we will also ask those
willing to participate a brief set of
questions to determine pre-existing
knowledge of fuels reduction
treatments. After completion of the mail
or online questionnaire, no further
contact with the participants will occur.
The in-depth phone interviews
approved in the prior version of this
information collection will be removed
from the protocol in this renewal.
Additionally, we anticipate adding
several questions to the questionnaire
on emerging issues, including how
scenic quality impacts resident support
for fire-hazard reduction programs.
A university research-survey center
will collect the information for the mail
and online questionnaires. A Forest
Service researcher and collaborators at a
cooperating university will analyze the
data collected. Researchers are
experienced in applied economic nonmarket valuation research and survey
research methods.
The Forest Service, Bureau of Land
Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs,
National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife
Service, as well as many state agencies
with fire protection responsibilities will
benefit from this information collection.
At present, many of these agencies with
fire protection responsibilities continue
an ambitious and costly fuels reduction
program for fire risk reduction and will
benefit from public opinion on which
treatments are most effective or
desirable.
Estimate of Annual Burden per
Respondent: 40 minutes.
Type of Respondents: Members of the
public.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 1,675.
Estimated Annual Number of
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 690 hours.
Comment is Invited:
Comment is invited on: (1) Whether
this collection of information is
necessary for the stated purposes and
the proper performance of the functions
of the Agency, including whether the
information will have practical or
scientific utility; (2) the accuracy of the
Agency’s estimate of the burden of the
collection of information, including the
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Notice of New Fee Site; Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act
AGENCY: Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, Forest Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of new recreation fees.
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SUMMARY: The Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest will be implementing
new fees at four cabin/lookout rentals, six campgrounds, two group
campsites, and nine day use sites. Fees are assessed based on the level
of amenities and services provided, cost of operation and maintenance,
market assessment, and public comment. Fee receipts will be used to
improve customer services, operate and maintain facilities and to make
needed improvements.
A complete list of the site fees can be found at: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/rogue-siskiyou/home/?cid=FSEPRD571220.
DATES: Implementation of the new fees will occur no sooner than 180
days from date of publication in the Federal Register.
Public comment for these new fee proposals was completed on
February 16, 2018. The Rogue-Umpqua Resource Advisory Committee and/or
the Siskiyou Resource Advisory Board reviewed and offered
recommendations on these new fees on April 4, 2018 and April 25, 2018
respectively. The Region 6 Regional Forester decided to move forward
with these new fees on May 22, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian White, Recreation, Engineering,
Lands, Heritage, and Minerals Staff
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Officer at 541-618-2061 or email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
New fees will be implemented at the following sites:
Campgrounds:
Butler Bar, Eden Valley, Laird Lake, Little Redwood, Oak Flat/
Gravel Bar, Sunshine Bar.
Depending on the site, the new recreation fee will be $8 or $10 per
night.
Group Campsites:
Six Mile and Winchuck. Group camping fees will be $50 per night.
Cabins/lookouts:
Ferris Ford Cabin, Store Gulch Guard Station, and Squaw Peak
Lookout. Depending on the facility, the overnight fee will be $65 to
$125. The pricing difference reflects variables such as the number of
people who can use the sites, and whether electricity, running water
and other amenities are provided.
Day use areas/interpretive/picnic sites:
Diver's Hole, Foster Bar, Lobster Creek, Quosatana, River Bench,
Six Mile, Store Gulch, Union Wayside, Natural Bridge, and Rogue Gorge.
These day use sites will be $5 per day. The Northwest Forest Pass and
all America the Beautiful--the National Parks and Federal Recreational
Lands passes will be honored at these sites.
The Federal Recreation Lands Enhancement Act (Title VII, Pub. L.
108-447) directed the Secretary of Agriculture to publish a six month
advance notice in the Federal Register whenever new recreation fee
areas are established.
Dated: September 6, 2018.
Chris French,
Acting Deputy Chief, National Forest System.
[FR Doc. 2018-19966 Filed 9-13-18; 8:45 am]
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