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and local firefighting agencies. The FS
works cooperatively with State and
local fire fighting agencies to support
their fire suppression efforts. FS will
collect information using form FS 3100–
8, Annual Wildfire Summary Report.
Need and Use of the Information: FS
will collect information using form FS–
3100–8 to determine if the Cooperative
Fire Program funds, provided to the
State and local fire fighting agencies
have been used by State and local
agencies to improve their fire
suppression capabilities. The
information collected includes the
numbers of fires and acres burned on
State and private land by cause, such as
lightning, campfires, smoking, debris
burning, arson, equipment, railroads,
children and miscellaneous activities.
Information about the importance of the
State and Private Cooperative Fire
Program will be shared with the pubic.
The form also collects information on
numbers of fires and acres burned by
size classes. FS would be unable to
assess the effectiveness of the State and
Private Forestry Cooperative Fire
Program if the information provided on
FS–3100–8, were not collected.
Description of Respondents: State,
Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 56.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 28.
Levi S. Harrell,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Information Collection: Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act Financial
Assistance to Facilities That Purchase
and Process Byproducts for
Ecosystem Restoration (CFDA 10.725)
Wood Products Infrastructure
Assistance (WPIA)
Forest Service, Agriculture
(USDA).
ACTION: Notice; request for comment.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Forest Service is seeking comments
from all interested individuals and
organizations on the extension with no
revision of a currently approved
information collection, Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act Financial
Assistance to Facilities that Purchase
and Process Byproducts for Ecosystem
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Restoration (CFDA 10.725) Wood
Products Infrastructure Assistance
(WPIA).
DATES: Comments must be received in
writing on or before February 21, 2023
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 the
contact listed under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice may be made available to the
public through relevant websites and
upon request. For this reason, please do
not include in your comments
information of a confidential nature,
such as sensitive personal information
or proprietary information. If you send
an email comment, your email address
will be automatically captured and
included as part of the comment that is
placed in the public docket and made
available on the internet. Please note
that responses to this public comment
request containing any routine notice
about the confidentiality of the
communication will be treated as public
comments that may be made available to
the public notwithstanding the
inclusion of the routine notice.
The public may inspect the draft
supporting statement and/or comments
received at Superior National Forest
Supervisor’s Office, 8901 Grand Ave.
Place, Duluth, MN 55808 during normal
business hours. Visitors are encouraged
to call ahead to 218–626–4300 to
facilitate entry to the building. The
public may request an electronic copy of
the draft supporting statement and/or
any comments received be sent via
return email. Requests should be
emailed to the contact listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brian Brashaw, Cooperative Forestry,
Wood Innovations, 608–334–5819.
Individuals who use telecommunication
devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the
Federal Information Relay Service
(FIRS) at 800–877–8339 twenty-four
hours a day, every day of the year,
including holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Infrastructure Investment and
Jobs Act Financial Assistance to
Facilities that Purchase and Process
Byproducts for Ecosystem Restoration
(CFDA 10.725) Wood Products
Infrastructure Assistance (WPIA).
OMB Number: 0596–0254.
Expiration Date of Approval: 05/31/
2023.
Type of Request: Extension with no
revision of a currently approved
information collection.
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Abstract: The grants and agreements
awarded under this announcement will
support the Bipartisan Infrastructure
Law (BIL), 2021. Section 40804(b)3
directs the USDA Forest Service Forest
Service to provide financial assistance
to an entity seeking to establish, reopen,
expand, or improve a sawmill or other
wood processing facility in close
proximity to a unit of federal or Indian
land that has been identified as high or
very high priority for ecological
restoration. Eligible applicants are forprofit entities; state, local governments;
Indian Tribes; school districts;
community, not-for-profit organizations;
institutions of higher education; and
special purpose districts (e.g., public
utilities districts, fire districts,
conservation districts, and ports). The
need and process to collect information
from applicants is detailed in 2 CFR part
200 and Forest Service Handbook
1509.11, Chapter 20, which prescribes
administrative requirements and
processes applicable to all Forest
Service domestic Federal Financial
Assistance awards. In particular,
collection of information is necessary to
assist in accelerating the pace and scale
of ecosystem restoration on federal and
Indian lands. Information collected will
be reviewed by Forest Service staff to
evaluate eligibility and proposed
activities of the applicant.
Affected Public: Individuals and
Households, the Private Sector
(Businesses and Non-Profit
Organizations, and/or State, Local or
Tribal Government.
Estimate of Burden per Response: 8.25
hours.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 78.
Estimated Annual Number of
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 643.50 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 validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (3)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (4) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including the use of
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology.
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All comments received in response to
this notice, including names and
addresses when provided, will be a
matter of public record. Comments will
be summarized and included in the
submission request toward Office of
Management and Budget approval.
Jaelith Hall-Rivera,
Deputy Chief, State & Private Forestry.
[FR Doc. 2022–27845 Filed 12–21–22; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Information Collection; National
Woodland Owner Survey
Forest Service, USDA.
Notice; request for comment.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Forest Service is seeking comments
from all interested individuals and
organizations on the revision of the
National Woodland Owner Survey
information collection.
DATES: Comments must be received in
writing on or before February 21, 2023
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 Brett
Butler, USDA Forest Service, 160
Holdsworth Way, Amherst, MA 01003.
Comments also may be submitted by
email to: brett.butler2@usda.gov.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice may be made available to the
public through relevant websites and
upon request. For this reason, please do
not include in your comments
information of a confidential nature,
such as sensitive personal information
or proprietary information. If you send
an email comment, your email address
will be automatically captured and
included as part of the comment that is
placed in the public docket and made
available on the internet. Please note
that responses to this public comment
request containing any routine notice
about the confidentiality of the
communication will be treated as public
comments that may be made available to
the public notwithstanding the
inclusion of the routine notice.
The public may inspect the draft
supporting statement and/or comments
received at 160 Holdsworth Way, Room
201, Amherst, MA 01003 during normal
business hours. Visitors are encouraged
to call ahead to 413–545–1387 to
facilitate entry to the building. The
public may request an electronic copy of
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the draft supporting statement and/or
any comments received be sent via
return email. Requests should be
emailed to brett.butler2@usda.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brett Butler, Northern Research Station,
413–545–1387. Individuals who use
telecommunication devices for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Information
Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339
twenty-four hours a day, every day of
the year, including holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: National Woodland Owner
Survey.
OMB Number: 0596–0078.
Type of Request: Revision.
Abstract: There are an estimated 704
million acres of forestland across the
United States, excluding interior Alaska.
Of this forestland, over half is owned by
millions of corporations, families,
individuals, and other private groups
with the remaining managed by over a
thousand different federal, state, and
local government agencies and tribal
organizations. Understanding the
attitudes and behaviors of the owners
and managers of the forestland is critical
for understanding the current and future
state of the nation’s forests. The Forest
Service conducts the National
Woodland Owner Survey (NWOS) to
increase our understanding of:
• Who owns and manages the
forestland of the United States;
• Why they own/manage it;
• How they have used it; and
• How they intend to use it.
This information is used by policy
analysts, foresters, educators, and
researchers to facilitate the planning
and implementation of forest policies
and programs and provides landowners,
managers, and the public a better
understanding of the social context of
forests.
The Forest Service’s direction and
authority to conduct the NWOS is from
the Forest and Range Land Renewable
Resources Planning Act of 1974 and the
Forest and Range Land Renewable
Resources Act of 1978. These acts assign
responsibility for the inventory and
assessment of forest and related
renewable resources to the Forest
Service. Additionally, the importance of
an ownership survey in this inventory
and assessment process is highlighted in
the 2014 Farm Bill, the Agricultural
Research, Extension, and Education
Reform Act of 1998, and the
recommendations of the Second Blue
Ribbon Panel on the Forest Inventory
and Analysis program (FIA).
Previous iterations of the NWOS were
conducted in 1978, 1993, 2002–2006,
2011–2013, 2017–2018, and 2019–2023.
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Approval for the current iteration of the
NWOS expires on March 31, 2025. Data
collection for the next iteration is slated
for 2024–2028. In order to implement
changes and expansions made in the
survey instruments for the entire cycle,
we are seeking approval of this revision
in time for the start of the cycle in 2024.
If this revision is approved, the NWOS
will be permitted to complete the first
three years of the 2024–2028 cycle and
will submit a renewal for completing
the final two years of data collection at
the appropriate time.
Changes proposed for this revision
include minor survey answer choice
formatting changes on all survey
modules, a simplified large corporate
ownership survey, a new small
corporate ownership survey, a new
tribal module, additional science
modules, and additional question
choices on the state form. Information
will be collected related to:
• The characteristics of the land
holdings;
• Attitudes and perceptions of the
owners and managers;
• Resource uses and management
activities; and
• Where applicable, landowner
demographics.
Separate survey instruments are being
developed for different target
populations, including family forest
ownerships, corporate and other private
forest ownerships, private forest
ownerships on selected U.S. affiliated
protectorates and territories, residential
urban landowners, tribal lands, and
public lands. For the families and
individuals, the dominant ownership
group of forestland owners, a subset of
ownerships will be sent survey
instruments addressing the following
topics, in addition to the core questions
from the base survey instrument:
• Afforestation
• Agroforestry
• Carbon
• Climate change
• Cross-boundary cooperation
• Decision making
• Energy (solar/wind)
• Heirs’ properties
• Invasive species
• Land transfer
• Landowner values
• Sense of place
• Timber
• Wellbeing
• Wildfire
The NWOS provides widely cited
benchmarks for the number, extent, and
characteristics of owners of forestland in
the United States. These results have
been used to assess the sustainability of
forest resources at national, regional,
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[FR Doc No: 2022-27845]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Information Collection: Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
Financial Assistance to Facilities That Purchase and Process Byproducts
for Ecosystem Restoration (CFDA 10.725) Wood Products Infrastructure
Assistance (WPIA)
AGENCY: Forest Service, Agriculture (USDA).
ACTION: Notice; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Forest Service is seeking comments from all interested individuals and
organizations on the extension with no revision of a currently approved
information collection, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
Financial Assistance to Facilities that Purchase and Process Byproducts
for Ecosystem Restoration (CFDA 10.725) Wood Products Infrastructure
Assistance (WPIA).
DATES: Comments must be received in writing on or before February 21,
2023 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 the
contact listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Comments submitted in response to this notice may be made available
to the public through relevant websites and upon request. For this
reason, please do not include in your comments information of a
confidential nature, such as sensitive personal information or
proprietary information. If you send an email comment, your email
address will be automatically captured and included as part of the
comment that is placed in the public docket and made available on the
internet. Please note that responses to this public comment request
containing any routine notice about the confidentiality of the
communication will be treated as public comments that may be made
available to the public notwithstanding the inclusion of the routine
notice.
The public may inspect the draft supporting statement and/or
comments received at Superior National Forest Supervisor's Office, 8901
Grand Ave. Place, Duluth, MN 55808 during normal business hours.
Visitors are encouraged to call ahead to 218-626-4300 to facilitate
entry to the building. The public may request an electronic copy of the
draft supporting statement and/or any comments received be sent via
return email. Requests should be emailed to the contact listed under
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian Brashaw, Cooperative Forestry,
Wood Innovations, 608-334-5819. Individuals who use telecommunication
devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay
Service (FIRS) at 800-877-8339 twenty-four hours a day, every day of
the year, including holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Financial Assistance
to Facilities that Purchase and Process Byproducts for Ecosystem
Restoration (CFDA 10.725) Wood Products Infrastructure Assistance
(WPIA).
OMB Number: 0596-0254.
Expiration Date of Approval: 05/31/2023.
Type of Request: Extension with no revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Abstract: The grants and agreements awarded under this announcement
will support the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), 2021. Section
40804(b)3 directs the USDA Forest Service Forest Service to provide
financial assistance to an entity seeking to establish, reopen, expand,
or improve a sawmill or other wood processing facility in close
proximity to a unit of federal or Indian land that has been identified
as high or very high priority for ecological restoration. Eligible
applicants are for-profit entities; state, local governments; Indian
Tribes; school districts; community, not-for-profit organizations;
institutions of higher education; and special purpose districts (e.g.,
public utilities districts, fire districts, conservation districts, and
ports). The need and process to collect information from applicants is
detailed in 2 CFR part 200 and Forest Service Handbook 1509.11, Chapter
20, which prescribes administrative requirements and processes
applicable to all Forest Service domestic Federal Financial Assistance
awards. In particular, collection of information is necessary to assist
in accelerating the pace and scale of ecosystem restoration on federal
and Indian lands. Information collected will be reviewed by Forest
Service staff to evaluate eligibility and proposed activities of the
applicant.
Affected Public: Individuals and Households, the Private Sector
(Businesses and Non-Profit Organizations, and/or State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Estimate of Burden per Response: 8.25 hours.
Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 78.
Estimated Annual Number of Responses per Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 643.50 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 validity of the methodology and assumptions
used; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on respondents, including the use of
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information technology.
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All comments received in response to this notice, including names
and addresses when provided, will be a matter of public record.
Comments will be summarized and included in the submission request
toward Office of Management and Budget approval.
Jaelith Hall-Rivera,
Deputy Chief, State & Private Forestry.
[FR Doc. 2022-27845 Filed 12-21-22; 8:45 am]
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