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Estimated average number of
respondents: 4042 per year (Final
Survey: 4,000; Developmental work:
focus = 12, cognitive interview = 12,
pre-test calling = 20).
Estimated average number of
responses: 4042 per year.
Estimated average time burden per
respondent: 4 hours per respondent
(Final Survey: 15 minutes/respondent;
Developmental work: focus group = 90
minutes/respondent, cognitive
interview = 120 minutes/respondent,
pre-test calling = 15 minutes/
respondent).
Frequency of response: 1 time per
respondent.
Estimated total annual reporting
burden: 1047 hours per year.
Dated: July 25, 2007.
Leonard E. Stowe,
NPS, Information Collection Clearance
Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
30-Day Notice of Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget;
Opportunity for Public Comment
Department of the Interior,
National Park Service.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.

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AGENCY:

SUMMARY: Under provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 5
CFR Part 1320, Reporting and
Recordkeeping Requirements, the
National Park Service (NPS) invites
public comments on a proposed new
collection of information (OMB #1024–
XXXX).
DATES: Public comments on this
Information Collection Request (ICR)
will be accepted on or before September
27, 2007.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
directly to the Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior (OMB #1024–
XXXX), Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, OMB, by fax at 202/
395–6566, or by electronic mail at
[email protected]. Please also
send a copy of your comments to
Patricia A. Taylor, University of
Wyoming, Department of Sociology/
Dept. 3293; 1000 E. University Ave.,
Laramie, WY 82071; or via phone 307/
766–6870; or via e-mail at
[email protected].

Dr.
James Gramann, NPS Social Science

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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Program, 1201 ‘‘Eye’’ St., NW.,
Washington, DC 20005; or via phone
202/513–7189; or via e-mail at
[email protected]. You
are entitled to a copy of the entire ICR
package free-of-charge.
Comments Received on the 60-Day
FEDERAL REGISTER Notice: The NPS
published a 60-Day Notice to solicit
public comments on this ICR in the
Federal Register on December 6, 2006
(Vol. 71, No. 234, Page 70786–70787).
The comment period closed on February
5, 2007. After multiple notifications to
stakeholders requesting comments, the
NPS received five comments as a result
of the publication of this 60-Day Federal
Register Notice.
One respondent was concerned over
the number of surveys the NPS conducts
and the potential for bias in all surveys.
However, there is no duplication of
information with this study, as the
Comprehensive Survey of the American
Public is the only national survey that
focuses on issues of importance to the
NPS. Moreover, it is the only national
survey that contacts non-visitors to
National Park System units. In addition
to visitors, non-visitors comprise a
population of vital interest to the NPS.
Two of the respondents wanted to be
reassured that the results of the survey
would be communicated to them
directly (American Recreation Coalition
and National Parks Conservation
Association). One respondent suggested
a number of questions, which were, or
are now, part of the survey, with one
exception. America Outdoors suggested
a question on attitudes toward fees to
enter the park. This question is quite
‘‘layered’’ in that there are several
different kinds of fees (the annual parks
pass, the specific fee for one park,
additional access fees for special areas,
and passes for the disabled). Moreover,
the recent national survey for the
Departments of the Interior and
Agriculture for the Interagency America
the Beautiful Pass addressed these
issues only one year earlier. Therefore,
this question is not included in the 2007
NPS Comprehensive Survey. Finally,
the National Park Hospitality
Association was fundamentally
concerned with the ‘‘creation’’ of
resources such as soundscape, and
suggested that such questions be
removed from the survey. The General
Authorities Act of 1970 and the 1978
amendment to the Act known as the
Redwood amendment, as well as the
National Parks Omnibus Management
Act of 1998, contain the basis of the
NPS management policies on natural
resources, including soundscapes. The
soundscape management policy of the
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‘‘Management Policies 2006’’ of the
NPS, which states (NPS 2006:56) that
‘‘Using appropriate management
planning, superintendents will identify
what levels and types of unnatural
sound constitute acceptable impacts on
park natural soundscapes.’’ This survey
will assist in that planning process.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: 2007 National Park Service
Comprehensive Survey of the American
Public.
Bureau Form Number(s): None.
OMB Number: To be requested.
Expiration Date: To be requested.
Type of request: New Collection.
Description of Need: The NPS
conducted its last comprehensive
survey of the American public in 2000.
That survey provided valuable
information on patterns of use and
nonuse of parks and on the
demographic characteristics of visitors
and non-visitors that have been used to
inform NPS decision-making. However,
since 2000 many events and actions
have occurred with the potential to
affect the public’s knowledge, behavior,
and opinions regarding the NPS and the
National Park System. Examples include
the terrorist attacks of September 11,
2001, higher fuel prices, and several
catastrophic hurricanes and wildfires. In
addition, the U.S. population has aged
and become more racially and
ethnically diverse since the last
comprehensive survey.
Although the NPS and its research
partners regularly survey visitors to
selected National Park System units,
these separate surveys cannot be rolled
up into a description of visitors at the
national and regional levels, nor do they
describe the knowledge, attitudes, and
behaviors of non-visitors and former
visitors. Furthermore, individual park
visitor surveys are not able to show
trends in the knowledge, opinions, and
behavior of the U.S. population over
time. This information is essential to
informing many important planning and
management decisions of the NPS,
ranging from visitor services, fee policy,
and resource management actions to
civic engagement and visitors and nonvisitors over time can also provide a
perspective on how national and
regional populations are changing in
their knowledge of the National Park
System and in their use of parks,
including leisure travel patterns,
perceived service quality, and
constraints to park visitation.
The method of information collection
for the 2007 survey will be a nationwide
telephone survey of households
conducted using a random-digit-dial
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disproportionately stratified by the
seven NPS administrative regions
(including the states of Alaska and
Hawaii). In each of the seven regions,
500 completed interviews of about 15
minutes length will be obtained, for a
total of 3,500 completions. The data
collected from the comprehensive
survey will profile patterns in visitation
and non-visitation to the National Park
System. These findings will be
described in a national technical report
and in reports for each of the seven NPS
regions. Thematic reports on specific
policy and management issues included
in the survey will be produced, and a
summary reported tracking changes in
key variables between 2000 and 2007
will be written. In order to produce the
best survey possible, the NPS has been
and will continue to conduct
development work in the form of
pretesting, cognitive interviews, and
focus groups to inform survey design.
The increase in the popularity of cell
phones calls into question the adequacy
of conventional land-line sampling
frames from which households are
selected through random digit dialing
(RDD). Looking to the future, survey
methodology will need a mechanism to
sample additional cell users. In this
survey, an add-on of a cell phone user
sample will form a benchmark to
compare sampling differences with the
RDD results. The cell user sample will
be compared to the land-line sample,
looking at demographic characteristics
of respondents, park visitation rates,
and attitudinal variables. This
information is needed by NPS to
determine whether changes in measures
tacked over time represent actual shifts
in knowledge, attitudes, or behavior or
are instead artifacts of differences in
responses between cell-only households
and households with land-lines.
Comments are invited on: (1) The
practical utility of the information being
gathered; (2) the accuracy of the burden
hour estimate; (3) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4)
ways to minimize the burden to
respondents, including use of
automated information collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology. Before including your
address, phone number, e-mail 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
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review, we cannot guarantee that we
will be able to do so.
Frequency of collection: Once.
Description of Respondents: United
States residents.
Estimated average number of
respondents: 4044 respondents (Final
Survey: 4,000; Developmental Work:
focus group = 12, cognitive interview =
12, pre-test calling = 20).
Estimated average number of
responses: 4044 responses.
Estimated average time burden per
respondent: Final Survey: 15 minutes/
respondent; Developmental Work: focus
group = 90 minutes/respondent,
cognitive interview = 120 minutes/
respondent, pre-test calling = 15
minutes/respondent.
Frequency of response: 1 time per
respondent.
Estimated total annual reporting
burden: 1047 hours.
Dated: August 22, 2007.
Leonard E. Stowe,
NPS, Information Collection Clearance
Officer.
[FR Doc. 07–4205 Filed 8–27–07; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Emergency Approval of a
New Information Collection; 30-Day
Notice of Intent To Request an
Extension for the Collection of
Information; Interagency Access Pass
Application Process
National Park Service,
Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: Under provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 5
CFR Part 1320, Reporting and
Recordkeeping Requirements, the
National Park Service (NPS) has
requested and received emergency
approval on the collection of
information; Interagency Access Pass
Application Process (OMB #1024–0252).
The NPS invites public comments on
the extension of this currently approved
collection.
DATES: Public comments on this
Information Collection Request (ICR)
will be accepted on or before September
27, 2007.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
directly to the Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior (OMB #1024–
0252), Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, OMB, by fax at 202/
395–6566, or by electronic mail at

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[email protected]. Please also
send a copy of your comments to
Brandon Flint, NPS, WASO Recreation
Fee Program Office, 1849 C St., NW.,
(2608), Washington, DC 20240; or by email at [email protected], or by fax
at 202/371–2401.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brandon Flint, NPS, WASO Recreation
Fee Program Office, 1849 C St., NW.,
(2608) Washington, DC 20240; phone:
202/513–7096; e-mail:
[email protected], or by fax at 202/
371–2401.
Comments Received on the 60-Day
Federal Register Notice: The NPS
published the 60-Day Federal Register
Notice to solicit comments on this ICR
on May 25, 2007 (Vol. 72, pages 29351–
29352). The comment period ended on
July 24, 2007. There were no public
comments received as a result of
publishing this notice.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: The Interagency Access Pass
Application Process.
Bureau Form Number: None.
OMB Number: 1024–0252.
Expiration Date: 10/31/2007.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
Description of Need: The currently
approved information collection
responds to The Federal Lands
Recreation Enhancement Act (FLREA)
which requires the Secretary of
Agriculture, and the Secretary of the
Interior, to make the America the
Beautiful—The National Parks and
Federal Recreational Lands Pass
available, for free, to any United States
citizen or person domiciled in the
United States who has been medically
determined to be permanently disabled
for purposes of section 7(20)(B)(i) of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C.
705(20)(B)(i)). The Act further requires
that the applicant provide adequate
proof of the disability and such
citizenship or residency. The Act
specifies that the Pass shall be valid for
the lifetime of the pass holder. The
America the Beautiful—The National
Parks and Federal Recreational Lands
Access Pass (Interagency Access Pass)
was created to meet the requirements of
the FLREA. An Interagency Access Pass
is a free, lifetime permit that is issued
without charge by the Bureau of Land
Management, Bureau of Reclamation,
United States Fish and Wildlife Service,
United States Forest Service, and the
National Park Service to citizens or
persons who are domiciled (permanent
residents) in the United States,
regardless of age, and who have a
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