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Todd M. Richardson,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy
Development and Research.
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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–HQ–MB–2021–N193; FF09M20200
FGMB123109CITY0 (212); OMB Control
Number 1018–NEW]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Urban Bird Treaty
Program Requirements
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(Service), are proposing an existing
collection in use without an Office of
Management and Budget control
number.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before
November 26, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under Review—Open for
Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function. Please provide a copy
of your comments to the Service
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
MS: PRB (JAO/3W), 5275 Leesburg Pike,
Falls Church, VA 22041–3803 (mail); or
by email to Info_Coll@fws.gov. Please
reference ‘‘1018–UBT’’ in the subject
line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Madonna L. Baucum, Service
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, by email at Info_Coll@fws.gov,
or by telephone at (703) 358–2503.
Individuals who are hearing or speech
impaired may call the Federal Relay
Service at 1–800–877–8339 for TTY
assistance. You may also view the
information collection request (ICR) at
https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA, 44 U.S.C.
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3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), we
provide the general public and other
Federal agencies with an opportunity to
comment on new, proposed, revised,
and continuing collections of
information. This helps us assess the
impact of our information collection
requirements and minimize the public’s
reporting burden. It also helps the
public understand our information
collection requirements and provide the
requested data in the desired format.
On June 11, 2021, we published in the
Federal Register (86 FR 31336) a notice
of our intent to request that the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB)
approve this information collection. In
that notice, we solicited comments for
60 days, ending on August 10, 2021.
The Service shared the notice with
current and prospective UBT program
partners to encourage participation in
the public commenting process. We did
not receive any comments in response
to that notice.
As part of our continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent
burdens, we are again soliciting
comments from the public and other
Federal agencies on the proposed ICR
that is described below. We are
especially interested in public comment
addressing the following:
(1) Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether or not the
information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) How might the agency minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to
respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of response.
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 us in your comment to
withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
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Abstract: The Urban Bird Treaty
Program (UBT Program) is administered
through the Service’s Migratory Bird
Program, under the authority of the Fish
and Wildlife Coordination Act (16
U.S.C. 661–667e). The UBT Program
aims to support partnerships of public
and private organizations and
individuals working to conserve
migratory birds and their habitats in
urban areas for the benefit of these
species and the people that live in urban
areas. The UBT partners’ habitat
conservation activities help to ensure
that more natural areas, including
forests, grasslands, wetlands, and
meadows, are available in urban areas,
so that historically excluded and
underserved communities can have
improved access to green space and
opportunities to engage in habitat
restoration and community science as
well as bird-related recreation and
educational programs. These habitat
restoration activities, especially urban
forest conservation, also contribute to
climate resiliency by reducing the
amount of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere. Lights-out programs in
UBT cities help reduce energy costs and
greenhouse gas emissions by reducing
the use of electricity when people and
businesses turn off their lights between
dusk and dawn during the fall and
spring periods of bird migration in order
to reduce bird collisions with building
glass.
The Service designates Urban Bird
Treaty cities or municipalities through a
process in which applicants submit a
nomination package, including a letter
of intention and an implementation
plan, for approval by the Service’s
Migratory Bird Program. Within 3
months, the Service reviews the
package, makes any necessary
recommendations for changes, and then
decides to either approve or reject the
package. If rejected, the city can reapply
the following year. In most cases, when
the Service designates a new city
partner, the Service and the new city
partner hold a signing ceremony, during
which a representative from both the
Service and the city sign a nonbinding
document that states the importance of
conserving birds and their habitats to
the health and well-being of people that
live in and visit the city. To maintain
this city partner designation, the city
must submit information on the
activities it has carried out to meet the
goals of the UBT program, including
those related to bird habitat
conservation, bird hazard reduction,
and bird-related community education
and engagement. By helping make cities
healthier places for birds and people,
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the UBT Program contributes to the
Administration’s priorities of justice
and racial equity, climate resiliency,
and the President’s Executive Order
14008 to protect 30 percent of the
Nation’s land and 30 percent of its
ocean areas by 2030.
The UBT program benefits city
partners in many ways, including:
• Helps city partners achieve their
goals for making cities healthier places
for birds and people.
• Provides opportunities to share and
learn from other city partners’ tools,
tactics, successes, and challenges, to
advance city partners’ urban bird
conservation efforts.
• Strengthens the cohesion and
effectiveness of the partnerships by
coming together and working under the
banner of the UBT program.
• Gives city partners improved access
to funding through the National Fish
and Wildlife Foundation’s Five Star and
Urban Waters Restoration grant
program, as UBT cities receive priority
in this program.
• Helps partners garner additional
funds through other urban conservation
grant programs that have shared goals
and objectives.
• Achieve green building credits,
reduced energy costs, green space
requirements, environmental equity,
and other sustainability goals.
• Promotes the livability and
sustainability of partner cities by
spreading the word about the city’s UBT
Federal designation and all the benefits
of a green and bird-friendly city.
We collect the following information
from prospective and successful
applicants in conjunction with the UBT
Program:
• Nomination Letter—Prospective
applicants must submit a letter of
intention from the city’s partnership
that details its commitment to urban
bird conservation and community
engagement in bird-related education,
recreation, conservation, science, and
monitoring. Support and involvement
by the city government is required.
• Implementation Plan—The required
implementation plan should contain the
following (see the UBT Program
Guidebook—https://www.fws.gov/
migratorybirds/pdf/grants/UrbanBird
TreatyV3.pdf—for full descriptions of
requirements):
—Detailed description of the
importance of the city to migrating,
nesting, and overwintering birds; bird
habitats; human population size of the
city; and socioeconomic profile of the
human communities present and
those targeted for education and
engagement programs.
—Map of the geographic area that is
being nominated for designation.
—List of individuals and organizations,
and their contact information, that are
active in the partnership.
—The mission, goals, and objectives of
the partnership applying for
designation, organized by the three
UBT goal categories.
—Description of accomplishments (e.g.,
activities, products, outcomes) that
have been completed over the last 2–
3 years, the audiences and
communities reached/engaged
through those activities, and the
partner organizations that have
achieved them, organized by UBT
goal categories.
—Description of strategies, actions,
tools/products that are being planned
for the next 3–5 years under the UBT
designation, the objectives to be
accomplished, the audiences and
communities targeted for engagement,
and the partners who will complete
the work, organized by UBT goal
categories.
• Ad Hoc Reports—The Service will
also request information updates on
UBT city points of contact, activities
and events, and other information on an
ongoing basis for urban bird
conservation in the city, as needed by
the Service for storytelling, promotion,
and internal programmatic
communications, education, and
outreach.
Average
number of
annual
respondents
Requirement
Average
number of
responses
each
• Biennial Reporting—The Service
requires city partners to provide
biennial metrics as well as written and
photographic descriptions of activities
for each goal category. City partners are
required to submit this information to
maintain their city’s designation by
ensuring that they are actively working
to achieve the goals of the UBT Program.
We will use the information collected
for storytelling purposes to promote the
urban bird conservation work of city
partners, and to enable the Migratory
Bird Program to develop UBT Program
accomplishment reports and other
communications tools to share with the
public and the conservation community
at large. The reporting requirement
ensures that the UBT city designation is
meaningful and that city partners are
accountable for the efforts that they
agreed to undertake to earn their
designation. Additionally, we will use
the information to promote the UBT
program to other interested city partners
and the benefits of urban bird
conservation generally. For more
information, please see the UBT
Program Guidebook at the following
link: https://www.fws.gov/
migratorybirds/pdf/grants/UrbanBird
TreatyV3.pdf.
Title of Collection: Urban Bird Treaty
Designation, Updates, and Reporting
Requirements.
OMB Control Number: 1018–NEW.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Existing collection in
use without an OMB control number.
Respondents/Affected Public:
Nonprofits; colleges, universities, and
schools; museums, zoos, and aquaria;
local community groups; private
businesses; and municipal, State, and
Tribal governments involved in urban
bird conservation in UBT cities.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: One-time
submission of nomination letter; onetime submission of implementation
plan; on occasion for information
updates; and biennial reporting.
Average
completion
time per
response
hours)
Average
number of
annual
responses
Estimated
annual
burden
hours
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Nomination Letter
Private Sector ......................................................................
Government .........................................................................
2
1
1
1
2
1
4
4
8
4
2
1
40
20
80
20
Implementation Plan (Initial Submission)
Private Sector ......................................................................
Government .........................................................................
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Average
number of
annual
respondents
Requirement
Average
number of
responses
each
Average
completion
time per
response
hours)
Average
number of
annual
responses
Estimated
annual
burden
hours
Ad Hoc Reports
Private Sector ......................................................................
Government .........................................................................
19
3
4
4
76
12
3
3
228
36
Biennial Reporting
Private Sector ......................................................................
Government .........................................................................
9
2
1
1
9
2
80
80
720
160
Totals: ...........................................................................
39
........................
105
........................
1,256
An 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.
The authority for this action is the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
Madonna Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 2021–23413 Filed 10–26–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4333–15–P
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–HQ–NCTC–2021–N197;
FXGO16610900600 (212) FF09X35000; OMB
Control Number 1018–0176]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Native Youth
Community Adaptation and Leadership
Congress
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(Service), are proposing to revise a
currently approved information
collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before
November 26, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under Review—Open for
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Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function. Please provide a copy
of your comments to the Service
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
MS: PRB (JAO/3W), 5275 Leesburg Pike,
Falls Church, VA 22041–3803 (mail); or
by email to Info_Coll@fws.gov. Please
reference ‘‘1018–0176’’ in the subject
line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Madonna L. Baucum, Service
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, by email at Info_Coll@fws.gov,
or by telephone at (703) 358–2503.
Individuals who are hearing or speech
impaired may call the Federal Relay
Service at 1–800–877–8339 for TTY
assistance. You may also view the
information collection request (ICR) at
https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA, 44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), we
provide the general public and other
Federal agencies with an opportunity to
comment on new, proposed, revised,
and continuing collections of
information. This helps us assess the
impact of our information collection
requirements and minimize the public’s
reporting burden. It also helps the
public understand our information
collection requirements and provide the
requested data in the desired format.
On July 19, 2021, we published in the
Federal Register (86 FR 38111) a notice
of our intent to request that OMB
approve a revision to this information
collection. In that notice, we solicited
comments for 60 days, ending on
September 17, 2021. No comments were
received in response to that notice.
As part of our continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent
burdens, we are again soliciting
comments from the public and other
Federal agencies on the proposed ICR
that is described below. We are
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especially interested in public comment
addressing the following:
(1) Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether or not the
information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) How might the agency minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to
respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of response.
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 us in your comment to
withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Abstract: The Service offers eligible
Native American, Alaskan Native, and
Pacific Islander high school students the
opportunity to apply for the Native
Youth Community Adaptation and
Leadership Congress (Congress). The
mission of the Congress is to develop
future conservation leaders with the
skills, knowledge, and tools to address
environmental change and conservation
challenges to better serve their schools
and home communities. The Congress
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-HQ-MB-2021-N193; FF09M20200 FGMB123109CITY0 (212); OMB Control
Number 1018-NEW]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Urban Bird
Treaty Program Requirements
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are proposing an existing
collection in use without an Office of Management and Budget control
number.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
November 26, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function. Please provide a
copy of your comments to the Service Information Collection Clearance
Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, MS: PRB (JAO/3W), 5275
Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041-3803 (mail); or by email to
[email protected]. Please reference ``1018-UBT'' in the subject line of
your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Madonna L. Baucum, Service Information
Collection Clearance Officer, by email at [email protected], or by
telephone at (703) 358-2503. Individuals who are hearing or speech
impaired may call the Federal Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339 for TTY
assistance. You may also view the information collection request (ICR)
at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), we
provide the general public and other Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on new, proposed, revised, and continuing
collections of information. This helps us assess the impact of our
information collection requirements and minimize the public's reporting
burden. It also helps the public understand our information collection
requirements and provide the requested data in the desired format.
On June 11, 2021, we published in the Federal Register (86 FR
31336) a notice of our intent to request that the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) approve this information collection. In that notice,
we solicited comments for 60 days, ending on August 10, 2021. The
Service shared the notice with current and prospective UBT program
partners to encourage participation in the public commenting process.
We did not receive any comments in response to that notice.
As part of our continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent
burdens, we are again soliciting comments from the public and other
Federal agencies on the proposed ICR that is described below. We are
especially interested in public comment addressing the following:
(1) Whether or not the collection of information is necessary for
the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including
whether or not the information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the burden for this collection
of information, including the validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
(4) How might the agency minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g.,
permitting electronic submission of response.
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 us in your comment to withhold your personal
identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we
will be able to do so.
Abstract: The Urban Bird Treaty Program (UBT Program) is
administered through the Service's Migratory Bird Program, under the
authority of the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (16 U.S.C. 661-
667e). The UBT Program aims to support partnerships of public and
private organizations and individuals working to conserve migratory
birds and their habitats in urban areas for the benefit of these
species and the people that live in urban areas. The UBT partners'
habitat conservation activities help to ensure that more natural areas,
including forests, grasslands, wetlands, and meadows, are available in
urban areas, so that historically excluded and underserved communities
can have improved access to green space and opportunities to engage in
habitat restoration and community science as well as bird-related
recreation and educational programs. These habitat restoration
activities, especially urban forest conservation, also contribute to
climate resiliency by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere. Lights-out programs in UBT cities help reduce energy costs
and greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the use of electricity when
people and businesses turn off their lights between dusk and dawn
during the fall and spring periods of bird migration in order to reduce
bird collisions with building glass.
The Service designates Urban Bird Treaty cities or municipalities
through a process in which applicants submit a nomination package,
including a letter of intention and an implementation plan, for
approval by the Service's Migratory Bird Program. Within 3 months, the
Service reviews the package, makes any necessary recommendations for
changes, and then decides to either approve or reject the package. If
rejected, the city can reapply the following year. In most cases, when
the Service designates a new city partner, the Service and the new city
partner hold a signing ceremony, during which a representative from
both the Service and the city sign a nonbinding document that states
the importance of conserving birds and their habitats to the health and
well-being of people that live in and visit the city. To maintain this
city partner designation, the city must submit information on the
activities it has carried out to meet the goals of the UBT program,
including those related to bird habitat conservation, bird hazard
reduction, and bird-related community education and engagement. By
helping make cities healthier places for birds and people,
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the UBT Program contributes to the Administration's priorities of
justice and racial equity, climate resiliency, and the President's
Executive Order 14008 to protect 30 percent of the Nation's land and 30
percent of its ocean areas by 2030.
The UBT program benefits city partners in many ways, including:
Helps city partners achieve their goals for making cities
healthier places for birds and people.
Provides opportunities to share and learn from other city
partners' tools, tactics, successes, and challenges, to advance city
partners' urban bird conservation efforts.
Strengthens the cohesion and effectiveness of the
partnerships by coming together and working under the banner of the UBT
program.
Gives city partners improved access to funding through the
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Five Star and Urban Waters
Restoration grant program, as UBT cities receive priority in this
program.
Helps partners garner additional funds through other urban
conservation grant programs that have shared goals and objectives.
Achieve green building credits, reduced energy costs,
green space requirements, environmental equity, and other
sustainability goals.
Promotes the livability and sustainability of partner
cities by spreading the word about the city's UBT Federal designation
and all the benefits of a green and bird-friendly city.
We collect the following information from prospective and
successful applicants in conjunction with the UBT Program:
Nomination Letter--Prospective applicants must submit a
letter of intention from the city's partnership that details its
commitment to urban bird conservation and community engagement in bird-
related education, recreation, conservation, science, and monitoring.
Support and involvement by the city government is required.
Implementation Plan--The required implementation plan
should contain the following (see the UBT Program Guidebook--https://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/pdf/grants/UrbanBirdTreatyV3.pdf--for full
descriptions of requirements):
--Detailed description of the importance of the city to migrating,
nesting, and overwintering birds; bird habitats; human population size
of the city; and socioeconomic profile of the human communities present
and those targeted for education and engagement programs.
--Map of the geographic area that is being nominated for designation.
--List of individuals and organizations, and their contact information,
that are active in the partnership.
--The mission, goals, and objectives of the partnership applying for
designation, organized by the three UBT goal categories.
--Description of accomplishments (e.g., activities, products, outcomes)
that have been completed over the last 2-3 years, the audiences and
communities reached/engaged through those activities, and the partner
organizations that have achieved them, organized by UBT goal
categories.
--Description of strategies, actions, tools/products that are being
planned for the next 3-5 years under the UBT designation, the
objectives to be accomplished, the audiences and communities targeted
for engagement, and the partners who will complete the work, organized
by UBT goal categories.
Ad Hoc Reports--The Service will also request information
updates on UBT city points of contact, activities and events, and other
information on an ongoing basis for urban bird conservation in the
city, as needed by the Service for storytelling, promotion, and
internal programmatic communications, education, and outreach.
Biennial Reporting--The Service requires city partners to
provide biennial metrics as well as written and photographic
descriptions of activities for each goal category. City partners are
required to submit this information to maintain their city's
designation by ensuring that they are actively working to achieve the
goals of the UBT Program.
We will use the information collected for storytelling purposes to
promote the urban bird conservation work of city partners, and to
enable the Migratory Bird Program to develop UBT Program accomplishment
reports and other communications tools to share with the public and the
conservation community at large. The reporting requirement ensures that
the UBT city designation is meaningful and that city partners are
accountable for the efforts that they agreed to undertake to earn their
designation. Additionally, we will use the information to promote the
UBT program to other interested city partners and the benefits of urban
bird conservation generally. For more information, please see the UBT
Program Guidebook at the following link: https://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/pdf/grants/UrbanBirdTreatyV3.pdf.
Title of Collection: Urban Bird Treaty Designation, Updates, and
Reporting Requirements.
OMB Control Number: 1018-NEW.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Existing collection in use without an OMB control
number.
Respondents/Affected Public: Nonprofits; colleges, universities,
and schools; museums, zoos, and aquaria; local community groups;
private businesses; and municipal, State, and Tribal governments
involved in urban bird conservation in UBT cities.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: One-time submission of nomination letter;
one-time submission of implementation plan; on occasion for information
updates; and biennial reporting.
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Average
Average number Average number Average number completion Estimated
Requirement of annual of responses of annual time per annual burden
respondents each responses response hours
hours)
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Nomination Letter
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Private Sector.................. 2 1 2 4 8
Government...................... 1 1 1 4 4
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Implementation Plan (Initial Submission)
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Private Sector.................. 2 1 2 40 80
Government...................... 1 1 1 20 20
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Ad Hoc Reports
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Private Sector.................. 19 4 76 3 228
Government...................... 3 4 12 3 36
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Biennial Reporting
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Private Sector.................. 9 1 9 80 720
Government...................... 2 1 2 80 160
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Totals:..................... 39 .............. 105 .............. 1,256
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An 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.
The authority for this action is the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
Madonna Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service.
[FR Doc. 2021-23413 Filed 10-26-21; 8:45 am]
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