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Frequency
of response
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300
1
300
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B. Solicitation of Public Comment
C. Authority
Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
chapter 35.
Colette Pollard,
Department Reports Management Officer,
Office of Policy Development and Research,
Chief Data Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–HQ–MB–2023–N093;
FXMB12310900WH0–245–FF09M26000;
OMB Control Number 1018–0023]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget; Migratory
Bird Surveys
AGENCY:
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
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Responses
per annum
Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
ACTION:
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
proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information;
(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 those
who are to respond; including through
the use of appropriate automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
(5) ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
HUD encourages interested parties to
submit comments in response to these
questions.
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burden
hour per
response
Estimated
number of
respondents
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In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(Service), are proposing to renew an
information collection, with changes.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before January
10, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of publication
of this notice at https://
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 ‘‘10180023’’ in the subject line of your
comments.
SUMMARY:
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 in the United States who are
deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have
a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY,
TDD, or TeleBraille) to access
telecommunications relay services.
Individuals outside the United States
should use the relay services offered
within their country to make
international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA; 44 U.S.C. 3501 et
seq.) and its implementing regulations
in the Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR) at 5 CFR 1320, all information
collections require approval under the
PRA. We may not conduct or sponsor
and you are not required to respond to
a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
On June 2, 2023, we published in the
Federal Register (88 FR 36328) a notice
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of our intent to request that OMB
approve this information collection. In
that notice, we solicited comments for
60 days, ending on August 1, 2023. In
an effort to increase public awareness
of, and participation in, our public
commenting processes associated with
information collection requests, the
Service also published the Federal
Register notice on Regulations.gov
(Docket No. FWS–HQ–MB–2023–0085)
to provide the public with an additional
method to submit comments (in
addition to the typical Info_Coll@
fws.gov email and U.S. mail submission
methods). We received four comments
in response to that notice which did not
address the information collection
requirements. No responses are required
to those comments.
As part of our continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent
burdens, we invite the public and other
Federal agencies 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.
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. We will include or
summarize each comment in our request
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to OMB to approve this information
collection request. 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 Migratory Bird Treaty
Act (16 U.S.C. 703–711) and the Fish
and Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C.
742d) designate the Department of the
Interior as the key agency responsible
for (1) the wise management of
migratory bird populations frequenting
the United States, and (2) the setting of
hunting regulations that allow
appropriate harvests that are within the
guidelines that will allow for those
populations’ well-being. These
responsibilities dictate that we gather
accurate data on various characteristics
of migratory bird harvest. Based on
information from harvest surveys, we
can adjust hunting regulations as
needed to optimize harvests at levels
that provide a maximum of hunting
recreation while keeping populations at
desired levels.
Under 50 CFR 20.20, migratory bird
hunters must register for the Migratory
Bird Harvest Information Program (HIP)
in each State in which they hunt each
year. State natural resource agencies
must send names and addresses of all
migratory bird hunters to the Service’s
Branch of Monitoring and Information
Management, Division of Migratory Bird
Management, on an annual basis.
The Migratory Bird Hunter Survey is
based on the Migratory Bird Harvest
Information Program. We randomly
select migratory bird hunters and ask
them to report their harvests. The
resulting estimates of harvest per hunter
are combined with the complete list of
migratory bird hunters to provide
estimates of the total harvest for the
species surveyed.
The Parts Collection Survey estimates
the species, sex, and age composition of
the harvest, and the geographic and
temporal distribution of the harvest.
Randomly selected successful hunters
who responded to the Migratory Bird
Hunter Survey the previous year, as
well as a sample of hunters who were
not surveyed the previous year, are
asked to complete and return a letter if
they are willing to participate in the
Parts Collection Survey. We provide
postage-paid envelopes to respondents
before the hunting season and ask them
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to send in a wing or the tail feathers
from each duck or goose that they
harvest, or a wing from each mourning
dove, woodcock, band-tailed pigeon, or
rail that they harvest. We use the wings
and tail feathers to identify the species,
sex, and age of the harvested sample.
We also ask respondents to report the
date and location of harvest for each
bird on the outside of the envelope. We
combine the results of this survey with
the harvest estimates obtained from the
Migratory Bird Hunter Survey to
provide species-specific national
harvest estimates.
The combined results of these surveys
enable us to evaluate the effects of
season length, season dates, and bag
limits on the harvest of each species,
and thus help us determine appropriate
hunting regulations.
The Sandhill Crane Harvest Survey is
an annual questionnaire survey of
people who obtained a sandhill crane
hunting permit. At the end of the
hunting season, we randomly select a
sample of permit holders and ask them
to report the date, location, and number
of birds harvested for each of their
sandhill crane hunts. Their responses
provide estimates of the temporal and
geographic distribution of the harvest as
well as the average harvest per hunter,
which, combined with the total number
of permits issued, enables us to estimate
the total harvest of sandhill cranes.
Based on information from this survey,
we adjust hunting regulations as
needed.
In 2019, we implemented a new,
online platform for the Migratory Bird
Hunter Survey. The platform is
optimized for use on multiple devices
(computer, tablet, or phone; Android or
Apple OS). This online survey platform
walks a participant through the process
of entering their harvest for a single day
and asks for one piece of information at
a time, which reduces confusion and the
likelihood that the hunter will provide
incorrect information. The online
system improves data quality and
prevents errors (e.g., reporting harvest of
the wrong species, or in the wrong
State). We conducted the full paper
survey through 2022, in order to ensure
that data collected through the online
platform was sound, and to provide a
side-by-side comparison of harvest
estimates that could be used to calibrate
the old survey to the new one. This was
particularly important for maintaining a
continuous time series of harvest
estimates, despite changing
methodology. In the spring of 2024, we
will conduct the full survey using the
online application, but will provide a
paper survey by mail to those hunters
who request them.
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Proposed Revisions
Pilot Digital Photo Survey—We
propose to revise our Parts Collection
Survey over the next 3 years (2023–
2026) to replace or substantially
augment bird wings and tails collection
with photos of harvested birds, in order
to reduce survey costs and perceived
risk of disease transmission through the
handling of wild bird parts. Preliminary
assessments have indicated that photos
taken by hunters of harvested waterfowl
can be used to determine species, age,
and sex of birds, without requiring
examination of bird parts ‘‘in the hand.’’
We propose to conduct a 3-year pilot
study with the development of a mobile
application that can be used by hunters
to take photos of the birds they harvest
and upload them to our database, and a
web-based interface for expert biologists
to use to examine and identify birds
from photos. We propose to conduct the
pilot study with up to 600 hunters each
year, which allows us to (1) evaluate the
potential of using photo identification
for other species in the Parts Collection
survey, including doves, band-tailed
pigeons, woodcock and rails, (2) achieve
sample sizes sufficient to assess the
limitations of photo identification for all
waterfowl species, (3) develop methods
to enhance the quality of huntersupplied photos, and (4) amass an
annotated set of photos to provide to
researchers investigating the potential of
machine-learning based image
classification methods for automated
identification of species, age, and sex.
In addition, there is the potential for
introducing other biases in data
collection when transitioning to a photo
survey; to assess these biases and
provide uninterrupted information on
annual harvest, we intend to conduct
the full parts survey during this 3-year
period to provide a comparison of
results between the two surveys. If
photo identification proves difficult for
some species, we may continue a
limited sample of parts collection to
ensure harvest estimates can be
calculated.
Title of Collection: Migratory Bird
Information Program and Migratory Bird
Surveys, 50 CFR 20.20.
OMB Control Number: 1018–0023.
Form Number: Forms 3–165, 3–165A
through E, and 3–2056J through N.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: States
and migratory game bird hunters.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory
for HIP registration information;
voluntary for participation in the
surveys.
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Frequency of Collection: Annually for
States or on occasion for migratory bird
hunters.
Total Estimated Annual Nonhour
Burden Cost: None.
Number of
respondents
Collection type/form number
Average
number of
responses
each
Number of
annual
responses *
Average time
per
response
Total Annual
burden hours *
Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program (State Governments)
49
18
882
129 hours .......
113,778
Migratory Bird Hunter Survey (Individuals)
Form
Form
Form
Form
3–2056J .....................................................................
3–2056K .....................................................................
3–2056L .....................................................................
3–2056M ....................................................................
31,900
16,900
8,500
10,200
1
1
1
1
31,900
16,900
8,500
10,200
4
3
3
2
minutes
minutes
minutes
minutes
.......
.......
.......
.......
2,127
845
425
340
Subtotals .......................................................................
67,500
........................
67,500
........................
3,737
Parts Collection Survey—Online (Individuals)
Form
Form
Form
Form
Form
Form
3–165 .........................................................................
3–165A .......................................................................
3–165B .......................................................................
3–165C .......................................................................
3–165D .......................................................................
3–165E .......................................................................
4,700
770
3,540
260
770
750
22
5.5
1
1
1
1.5
103,400
4,235
3,540
260
770
1,125
5
5
1
1
1
5
minutes .......
minutes .......
minute .........
minute .........
minute .........
minutes .......
8,617
353
59
4
13
94
Subtotals .......................................................................
10,790
........................
113,330
........................
9,140
5,900
1.5 minutes ....
148
Sandhill Crane Harvest Survey (Individuals)
Form 3–2056N .....................................................................
5,900
1
Pilot Digital Photo Survey (Individuals)
Form 3–165 .........................................................................
Form 3–165A .......................................................................
Form 3–165B .......................................................................
Form 3–165C .......................................................................
Form 3–165D .......................................................................
Form 3–165E ................................................................
200
60
150
60
60
30
22
5.5
1
1
1
1.5
4,400
330
150
60
60
45
2
2
1
1
1
2
minutes .......
minutes .......
minute .........
minute .........
minute .........
minutes .......
147
11
3
1
1
2
Subtotals ...............................................................
560
........................
5,045
........................
165
Totals .....................................................................
84,799
........................
192,657
........................
126,968
* Rounded
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.
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Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Oil Shale Management
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is
proposing to renew an information
collection.
SUMMARY:
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Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before January
10, 2024.
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Sabry Hanna by email
at shanna@blm.gov, or by telephone at
(571) 458–6644. Individuals in the
United States who are deaf, deafblind,
hard of hearing, or have a speech
disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-HQ-MB-2023-N093; FXMB12310900WH0-245-FF09M26000; OMB Control
Number 1018-0023]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget; Migratory Bird Surveys
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 to renew an
information collection, with changes.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
January 10, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be submitted within 30 days of
publication of this notice at https://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-
0023'' 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 in the United States who are
deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability may dial
711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay
services. Individuals outside the United States should use the relay
services offered within their country to make international calls to
the point-of-contact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA; 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) and its implementing regulations in
the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) at 5 CFR 1320, all information
collections require approval under the PRA. We may not conduct or
sponsor and you are not required to respond to a collection of
information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
On June 2, 2023, we published in the Federal Register (88 FR 36328)
a notice of our intent to request that OMB approve this information
collection. In that notice, we solicited comments for 60 days, ending
on August 1, 2023. In an effort to increase public awareness of, and
participation in, our public commenting processes associated with
information collection requests, the Service also published the Federal
Register notice on Regulations.gov (Docket No. FWS-HQ-MB-2023-0085) to
provide the public with an additional method to submit comments (in
addition to the typical [email protected] email and U.S. mail
submission methods). We received four comments in response to that
notice which did not address the information collection requirements.
No responses are required to those comments.
As part of our continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent
burdens, we invite the public and other Federal agencies 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.
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. We will include or summarize each comment in our request
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to OMB to approve this information collection request. 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 Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703-711) and the
Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742d) designate the Department
of the Interior as the key agency responsible for (1) the wise
management of migratory bird populations frequenting the United States,
and (2) the setting of hunting regulations that allow appropriate
harvests that are within the guidelines that will allow for those
populations' well-being. These responsibilities dictate that we gather
accurate data on various characteristics of migratory bird harvest.
Based on information from harvest surveys, we can adjust hunting
regulations as needed to optimize harvests at levels that provide a
maximum of hunting recreation while keeping populations at desired
levels.
Under 50 CFR 20.20, migratory bird hunters must register for the
Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program (HIP) in each State in which
they hunt each year. State natural resource agencies must send names
and addresses of all migratory bird hunters to the Service's Branch of
Monitoring and Information Management, Division of Migratory Bird
Management, on an annual basis.
The Migratory Bird Hunter Survey is based on the Migratory Bird
Harvest Information Program. We randomly select migratory bird hunters
and ask them to report their harvests. The resulting estimates of
harvest per hunter are combined with the complete list of migratory
bird hunters to provide estimates of the total harvest for the species
surveyed.
The Parts Collection Survey estimates the species, sex, and age
composition of the harvest, and the geographic and temporal
distribution of the harvest. Randomly selected successful hunters who
responded to the Migratory Bird Hunter Survey the previous year, as
well as a sample of hunters who were not surveyed the previous year,
are asked to complete and return a letter if they are willing to
participate in the Parts Collection Survey. We provide postage-paid
envelopes to respondents before the hunting season and ask them to send
in a wing or the tail feathers from each duck or goose that they
harvest, or a wing from each mourning dove, woodcock, band-tailed
pigeon, or rail that they harvest. We use the wings and tail feathers
to identify the species, sex, and age of the harvested sample. We also
ask respondents to report the date and location of harvest for each
bird on the outside of the envelope. We combine the results of this
survey with the harvest estimates obtained from the Migratory Bird
Hunter Survey to provide species-specific national harvest estimates.
The combined results of these surveys enable us to evaluate the
effects of season length, season dates, and bag limits on the harvest
of each species, and thus help us determine appropriate hunting
regulations.
The Sandhill Crane Harvest Survey is an annual questionnaire survey
of people who obtained a sandhill crane hunting permit. At the end of
the hunting season, we randomly select a sample of permit holders and
ask them to report the date, location, and number of birds harvested
for each of their sandhill crane hunts. Their responses provide
estimates of the temporal and geographic distribution of the harvest as
well as the average harvest per hunter, which, combined with the total
number of permits issued, enables us to estimate the total harvest of
sandhill cranes. Based on information from this survey, we adjust
hunting regulations as needed.
In 2019, we implemented a new, online platform for the Migratory
Bird Hunter Survey. The platform is optimized for use on multiple
devices (computer, tablet, or phone; Android or Apple OS). This online
survey platform walks a participant through the process of entering
their harvest for a single day and asks for one piece of information at
a time, which reduces confusion and the likelihood that the hunter will
provide incorrect information. The online system improves data quality
and prevents errors (e.g., reporting harvest of the wrong species, or
in the wrong State). We conducted the full paper survey through 2022,
in order to ensure that data collected through the online platform was
sound, and to provide a side-by-side comparison of harvest estimates
that could be used to calibrate the old survey to the new one. This was
particularly important for maintaining a continuous time series of
harvest estimates, despite changing methodology. In the spring of 2024,
we will conduct the full survey using the online application, but will
provide a paper survey by mail to those hunters who request them.
Proposed Revisions
Pilot Digital Photo Survey--We propose to revise our Parts
Collection Survey over the next 3 years (2023-2026) to replace or
substantially augment bird wings and tails collection with photos of
harvested birds, in order to reduce survey costs and perceived risk of
disease transmission through the handling of wild bird parts.
Preliminary assessments have indicated that photos taken by hunters of
harvested waterfowl can be used to determine species, age, and sex of
birds, without requiring examination of bird parts ``in the hand.''
We propose to conduct a 3-year pilot study with the development of
a mobile application that can be used by hunters to take photos of the
birds they harvest and upload them to our database, and a web-based
interface for expert biologists to use to examine and identify birds
from photos. We propose to conduct the pilot study with up to 600
hunters each year, which allows us to (1) evaluate the potential of
using photo identification for other species in the Parts Collection
survey, including doves, band-tailed pigeons, woodcock and rails, (2)
achieve sample sizes sufficient to assess the limitations of photo
identification for all waterfowl species, (3) develop methods to
enhance the quality of hunter-supplied photos, and (4) amass an
annotated set of photos to provide to researchers investigating the
potential of machine-learning based image classification methods for
automated identification of species, age, and sex.
In addition, there is the potential for introducing other biases in
data collection when transitioning to a photo survey; to assess these
biases and provide uninterrupted information on annual harvest, we
intend to conduct the full parts survey during this 3-year period to
provide a comparison of results between the two surveys. If photo
identification proves difficult for some species, we may continue a
limited sample of parts collection to ensure harvest estimates can be
calculated.
Title of Collection: Migratory Bird Information Program and
Migratory Bird Surveys, 50 CFR 20.20.
OMB Control Number: 1018-0023.
Form Number: Forms 3-165, 3-165A through E, and 3-2056J through N.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: States and migratory game bird
hunters.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory for HIP registration
information; voluntary for participation in the surveys.
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Frequency of Collection: Annually for States or on occasion for
migratory bird hunters.
Total Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: None.
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Average
Number of number of Number of Average time per Total Annual
Collection type/form number respondents responses annual response burden hours *
each responses *
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Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program (State Governments)
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49 18 882 129 hours......... 113,778
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Migratory Bird Hunter Survey (Individuals)
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Form 3-2056J................ 31,900 1 31,900 4 minutes......... 2,127
Form 3-2056K................ 16,900 1 16,900 3 minutes......... 845
Form 3-2056L................ 8,500 1 8,500 3 minutes......... 425
Form 3-2056M................ 10,200 1 10,200 2 minutes......... 340
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Subtotals............... 67,500 .............. 67,500 .................. 3,737
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Parts Collection Survey--Online (Individuals)
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Form 3-165.................. 4,700 22 103,400 5 minutes......... 8,617
Form 3-165A................. 770 5.5 4,235 5 minutes......... 353
Form 3-165B................. 3,540 1 3,540 1 minute.......... 59
Form 3-165C................. 260 1 260 1 minute.......... 4
Form 3-165D................. 770 1 770 1 minute.......... 13
Form 3-165E................. 750 1.5 1,125 5 minutes......... 94
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Subtotals............... 10,790 .............. 113,330 .................. 9,140
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Sandhill Crane Harvest Survey (Individuals)
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Form 3-2056N................ 5,900 1 5,900 1.5 minutes....... 148
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Pilot Digital Photo Survey (Individuals)
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Form 3-165.................. 200 22 4,400 2 minutes......... 147
Form 3-165A................. 60 5.5 330 2 minutes......... 11
Form 3-165B................. 150 1 150 1 minute.......... 3
Form 3-165C................. 60 1 60 1 minute.......... 1
Form 3-165D................. 60 1 60 1 minute.......... 1
Form 3-165E............. 30 1.5 45 2 minutes......... 2
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Subtotals........... 560 .............. 5,045 .................. 165
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Totals.............. 84,799 .............. 192,657 .................. 126,968
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* Rounded
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. 2023-27119 Filed 12-8-23; 8:45 am]
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