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collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number. However, under OMB
regulations, we may continue to
conduct or sponsor this information
collection while it is pending at OMB.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R9-MB-2008-N0255] [91100-3740GRNT 7C]

Information Collection Sent to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for Approval; OMB Control
Number 1018-0100; North American
Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA)
Grant Programs
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: We (Fish and Wildlife
Service) have sent an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for
review and approval. The ICR, which is
summarized below, describes the nature
of the collection and the estimated
burden and cost. This ICR is scheduled
to expire on September 30, 2008. We
may not conduct or sponsor and a
person is not required to respond to a

You must submit comments on
or before October 27, 2008.

DATES:

Send your comments and
suggestions on this ICR to the Desk
Officer for the Department of the
Interior at OMB-OIRA at (202) 395-6566
(fax) or [email protected]
(e-mail). Please provide a copy of your
comments to Hope Grey, Information
Collection Clearance Officer, Fish and
Wildlife Service, MS 222-ARLSQ, 4401
North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA
22203 (mail), or [email protected] (email).

ADDRESSES:

To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Hope Grey by mail or
e-mail (see ADDRESSES) or by
telephone at (703) 358–2482.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Number of annual
respondents

Activity

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Small Grants – Applications ....................................................
Small Grants – Reports ...........................................................
U.S. Standard Grants – Applications ......................................
Canadian and Mexican Standard Grants – Applications ........
Standard Grants – Reports .....................................................
Totals ................................................................................

Abstract: The North American
Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP)
is a tripartite agreement among Canada,
Mexico, and the United States to
enhance, restore, and protect habitat to
benefit waterfowl and other wetlandsassociated wildlife. Because the
NAWMP did not include a mechanism
to provide for broadly based and
sustained financial support for wetland
conservation activities, Congress passed
the North American Wetlands
Conservation Act in 1989. The NAWCA
promotes, through partnerships between
the private and public sectors, long-term
conservation of North American
wetland ecosystems and the waterfowl
and other migratory birds, fish, and
wildlife that depend upon such habitat.
In addition to providing for a
continuing and stable funding base,
NAWCA establishes an administrative
body, the North American Wetlands
Conservation Council. It is made up of
a State representative from each of the
four flyways, three representatives from
nonprofit wetlands conservation
organizations, the Secretary of the Board
of the National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation, and the Director of the Fish
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OMB Control Number: 1018-0100.
Title: North American Wetlands
Conservation Act (NAWCA) Grant
Programs.
Service Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Extension of
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Households and
individuals; businesses and other forprofit organizations; educational
organizations; not-for-profit institutions;
and Federal, State, local and/or tribal
governments.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
The Small Grants Program has one
project proposal period per year and the
Standard Grants Program has two per
year. Annual reports are due 90 days
after the anniversary date of the grant
agreement. Final reports are due 90 days
after the end of the project period. The
project period is 2 years.

Number of annual
responses
70
88
60
54
201
473

recommends funding of select wetlands
conservation project proposals to the
Migratory Bird Conservation
Commission.
There is a Standard and a Small
Grants Program. Both are competitive
grants programs and require that grant
requests be matched by partner
contributions at no less than a 1-to-1
ratio. Funds from U.S. Federal sources
may contribute to a project, but are not
eligible as match.
The Standard Grants Program
supports projects in Canada, the United
States, and Mexico that involve longterm protection, restoration, and/or
enhancement of wetlands and
associated uplands habitats. In Mexico,
partners may also conduct projects
involving technical training,
environmental education and outreach,
organizational infrastructure
development, and sustainable-use
studies.
The Small Grants Program operates
only in the United States. It supports the
same type of projects and adheres to the
same selection criteria and
administrative guidelines as the U.S.
Standard Grants Program. However,
project activities are usually smaller in

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Completion time
per response
59 hours ..........
32 hours ..........
325 hours ........
80 hours ..........
35 hours ..........
.....................

Annual burden
hours
4,130
2,816
19,500
4,320
7,035
37,801

scope and involve fewer project dollars.
Grant requests may not exceed $75,000,
and funding priority is given to grantees
or partners new to the NAWCA Grants
Program.
We publish notices of funding
availability on the Grants.gov website
(http://www.grants.gov) as well as in
the Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance. To compete for grant funds,
partnerships submit applications that
describe in substantial detail project
locations, project resources, future
benefits, and other characteristics that
meet the standards established by the
Council and the requirements of
NAWCA. Materials that describe the
program and assist applicants in
formulating project proposals for
Council consideration are available on
our website at http://www.fws.gov/
birdhabitat/Grants/NAWCA. Persons
who do not have access to the Internet
may obtain instructional materials by
mail. We have not made any major
changes in the scope and general nature
of the instructions since the OMB first
approved the information collection in
1999.
Comments: On June 24, 2008, we
published in the Federal Register (73 FR

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35703) a notice of our intent to request
that OMB renew this ICR. In that notice,
we solicited comments for 60 days,
ending on August 25, 2008. We received
one comment. The comment expressed
opposition to the NAWCA grants
program, but did not address the
information collection requirements. We
did not make any changes to our
information collection requirements as a
result of this comment.
We again invite comments concerning
this information collection on:
(1) Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary, including
whether or not the information will
have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this 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
respondents.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. 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 OMB in your comment to
withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that it will be done.
Dated: September 4, 2008
Hope Grey,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
Fish and Wildlife Service.
FR Doc. E8–22470 Filed 9–23–08; 8:45 am

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[F–19154–13, F–19154–14, F–19154–45,
F–19154–56, F–19154–61, F–19154–73,
F–19154–84; AK–964–1410–KC–P]

Alaska Native Claims Selection
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of decision approving
lands for conveyance.
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AGENCY:

SUMMARY: As required by 43 CFR
2650.7(d), notice is hereby given that an
appealable decision approving the
surface and subsurface estates in certain
lands for conveyance pursuant to the
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
will be issued to NANA Regional

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Kateel River Meridian, Alaska
T. 13 N., R. 5 W., Secs. 1 to 36, inclusive.
Containing approximately 9,042 acres.
T. 12 N., R. 6 W.,
Secs. 5, 6, 7, and 8;
Sec. 13; Secs. 17 to 21, inclusive; Secs. 24
to 36, inclusive.
Containing approximately 7,922 acres.
T. 13 N., R. 7 W.,
Secs. 1 to 17, inclusive;
Secs. 20 to 25, inclusive;
Secs. 27, 28, and 29;
Secs. 33 to 36, inclusive.
Containing approximately 9,023 acres.
T. 14 N., R. 8 W.,
Secs. 1 to 18, inclusive;
Secs. 24, 25, and 36.
Containing approximately 7,336 acres.
T. 16 N., R. 8 W.,
Secs. 2 to 10, inclusive;
Sec. 13;
Secs. 15 to 20, inclusive;
Secs. 24 to 27, inclusive;
Secs. 30 and 31;
Secs. 33 to 36, inclusive.
Containing approximately 16,240 acres.
T. 17 N., R. 9 W.,
Secs. 1 to 36, inclusive.
Containing approximately 19,870 acres.
T. 20 N., R. 10 W.,
Secs. 1 to 36, inclusive.
Containing approximately 20,613 acres.
Aggregating approximately 90,046 acres.

Notice of the decision will also be
published four times in the Arctic
Sounder.
The time limits for filing an
appeal are:
1. Any party claiming a property
interest which is adversely affected by
the decision shall have until October 27,
2008 to file an appeal.
2. Parties receiving service of the
decision by certified mail shall have 30
days from the date of receipt to file an
appeal.
Parties who do not file an appeal in
accordance with the requirements of 43
CFR Part 4, Subpart E, shall be deemed
to have waived their rights.
ADDRESSES: A copy of the decision may
be obtained from: Bureau of Land
Management, Alaska State Office, 222
West Seventh Avenue, #13, Anchorage,
Alaska 99513–7504.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The
Bureau of Land Management by phone
at 907–271–5960, or by e-mail at
[email protected]. Persons
who use a telecommunication device
(TTD) may call the Federal Information
Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–
8330, 24 hours a day, seven days a
DATES:

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Corporation, Inc. The lands are near
Kiana, Noorvik, and Selawik, Alaska,
and are located in:

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week, to contact the Bureau of Land
Management.
Hillary Woods,
Land Law Examiner, Land Transfer
Adjudication I.
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BILLING CODE 4310–JA–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[WY–100–08–1310–NB]

Call for Nominations To Fill Two
Vacancies on the Pinedale Anticline
Working Group (PAWG)
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Call for nominations for
membership on the Pinedale Anticline
Working Group (PAWG).
AGENCY:

All nominations should be
postmarked no later than 30 days from
date of publication of this notice in the
Federal Register. Final appointments
will be made by the Secretary of the
Interior.
ADDRESSES: Nominations should be sent
to Mr. David Crowley, Pinedale
Anticline Working Group Coordinator,
Bureau of Land Management, Pinedale
Field Office, 1625 West Pine Street, P.O.
Box 768, Pinedale, Wyoming 82941, or
via e-mail to [email protected].
SUMMARY: On June 25, 2008, the
Secretary of the Interior renewed the
Charter for the PAWG and Task Groups.
There are currently two vacancies on
the PAWG for which nominations are
being solicited: A representative of (1)
Sublette County Government, and (2)
the oil and gas operators. Section 309 of
FLPMA directs the Secretary to select 10
to 15 member citizen-based advisory
councils that are consistent with the
requirements of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (FACA). Individuals or
groups who wish to submit a
nomination or are interested in
becoming a member of the PAWG
should submit the specified information
within 30 days of this Notice.
Nomination forms may be found at
http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/
field_offices/Pinedale/pawg.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
David Crowley, Pinedale Anticline
Working Group Coordinator, Bureau of
Land Management, Pinedale Field
Office, 1625 West Pine Street, P.O. Box
768, Pinedale, Wyoming 82941,
telephone (307) 367–5323.
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Pinedale Anticline Working Group
DATES:

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