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Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
This grants program has one project

proposal submission per year. Annual
reports are due 90 days after the
anniversary date of the grant agreement.
Number of annual
respondents

Activity

Final reports are due 90 days after the
end of the project period. The project
period is up to 2 years.

Number of annual
responses

Completion time
per response

Annual burden
hours

Grant Applications ...................................................................
Reports ....................................................................................

160
60

160
60

70 hours ..........
30 hours ..........

11,200
1,800

Totals ................................................................................

220

220

.....................

13,000

III. Request for Comments
We invite comments concerning this
IC 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. We will include and/or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this IC. 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 comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Dated: June 11, 2008
Hope Grey,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Proposed Information Collection; OMB
Control Number 1018-0127; Horseshoe
Crab Tagging Program
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: We (Fish and Wildlife
Service) will ask the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) to
approve the information collection (IC)
described below. As required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and
as part of our continuing efforts to
reduce paperwork and respondent
burden, we invite the general public and
other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on this IC. This
IC is scheduled to expire on December
31, 2008. We 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.
DATES: You must submit comments on
or before August 25, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the
IC to Hope Grey, Information Collection
Clearance Officer, Fish and Wildlife
Service, MS 222–ARLSQ, 4401 North
Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203
(mail); [email protected] (e-mail); or
(703) 358–2269 (fax).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Hope Grey by mail, fax,
or e-mail (see ADDRESSES) or by
telephone at (703) 358–2482.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Horseshoe crabs are among the
world’s oldest creatures. People have
used this evolutionary survivor for
centuries. Horseshoe crabs play an
important role in the ecology of the
coastal ecosystem, and, over time, have
provided opportunities for commercial,
recreational, medical, scientific, and
educational uses.
In 1998, the Atlantic States Marine
Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), a
management organization with
representatives from each State on the
Atlantic Coast, developed a horseshoe
crab management plan. The ASMFC
plan and its subsequent addenda
established mandatory State-by-State
harvest quotas, and created the 1,500
square mile Carl N. Shuster, Jr.
Horseshoe Crab Sanctuary off the mouth
of Delaware Bay. Fishermen use active
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to conserve bait that have successfully
reduced commercial horseshoe crab
landings in recent years. Conch and eel
fishermen have been using bait bags in
their traps so they can use a portion of
one crab per trap, compared to using a
whole crab in each trap. The bait bags
have reduced the demand for bait by 50
to 75 percent.
Although restrictive measures have
been taken in recent years, populations
are not showing immediate increases.
Because horseshoe crabs do not breed
until they reach 9 years or older, it may
take some time before the population
measurably increases. A Horseshoe Crab
Cooperative Tagging Program was
established to monitor this species.
Cooperating Federal and State agencies,
universities, and biomedical companies
tag and release horseshoe crabs.
Agencies that tag and release the crabs
complete the Horseshoe Crab Tagging
Release Form (FWS Form 3-2311) and
provide the Service with:
(1) Organization name.
(2) Contact person name.
(3) Tag number.
(4) Sex of crab.
(5) Prosomal width.
(6) Capture site, latitude, longitude,
waterbody, State, and date.
Through public participants who
recover tagged crabs, we collect the
following information using FWS Form
3-2310 (Horseshoe Crab Recapture
Report):
(1) Tag number.
(2) Whether or not tag was removed.
(3) Whether or not the tag was circular
or square.
(4) Condition of crab.
(5) Date captured/found.
(6) Crab fate.
(7) Finder type.
(8) Capture method.
(9) Capture location.
(10) Reporter information.
(11) Comments.
If the public participant who reports
the tagged crab requests information, we
send data pertaining to the tagging
program, and tag and release
information on the horseshoe crab he/
she found or captured. The information

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that we collect is stored at the Maryland
Fishery Resources Office, Fish and
Wildlife Service, and used to evaluate
migratory patterns, survival, and
abundance of horseshoe crabs.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1018-0127.

Title: Horseshoe Crab Tagging
Program.
Service Form Number(s): FWS Forms
3-2310 and 3-2311.
Type of Request: Extension of
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Tagging agencies
include Federal and State agencies,
Number of annual
respondents

Activity

Number of annual
responses

Completion time
per response

Annual burden
hours

FWS Form 3-2310 ...................................................................
FWS Form 3-2311 ...................................................................

500
10

1,500
10

10 minutes .......
73 hours* .........

250
730

Totals ................................................................................

510

1,510

.....................

980

*Average time required per response
is dependent on the number of tags
applied by an agency in 1 year.
Agencies tag between 25 and 9,000
horseshoe crabs annually, taking
between 2 to 5 minutes per crab to tag.
Each agency determines the number of
tags it will apply.
III. Request for Comments
We invite comments concerning this
IC 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. We will include and/or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this IC. 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 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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universities, and biomedical companies.
Members of the general public provide
recapture information.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
When horseshoe crabs are tagged and
when horseshoe crabs are found or
captured.

Dated: May 29, 2008
Hope Grey,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
Fish and Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. E8–14228 Filed 6–23–08; 8:45 am]

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Pathfinder National Wildlife Refuge,
Alcova, WY; Correction

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

AGENCY:

Fish and Wildlife Service,

Interior.
Notice of availability: Draft
comprehensive conservation plan and
environmental assessment; request for
comment; correction.

ACTION:

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, recently published a
notice in error requesting comments on
a draft Comprehensive Conservation
Plan (CCP) and associated
Environmental Assessment (EA) that are
not yet available for comment. We will
republish a notice and request for
comment when these documents
become available.

Toni
Griffin, [email protected] or (303)
236–4378, or John Esperance,
[email protected] or (303) 236–
4369.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

On June
16, 2008, we published a Federal
Register notice (73 FR 34034) in error.
The notice announced the availability
for public review and comment of a
draft CCP and EA, which would
describe how we intend to manage
Pathfinder National Wildlife Refuge for
the next 15 years. Because the draft CCP
and EA are not yet available for
comment, we announce now that we
will republish a notice and request for
comment when the draft CCP and EA
become available. We will accept
comments at that time.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Fish and Wildlife Service
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Receipt of Applications for Permit
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications
for permit.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: The public is invited to
comment on the following applications
to conduct certain activities with
endangered species and marine
mammals.

Written data, comments or
requests must be received by July 24,
2008.

DATES:

Documents and other
information submitted with these
applications are available for review,
subject to the requirements of the
Privacy Act and Freedom of Information
Act, by any party who submits a written
request for a copy of such documents
within 30 days of the date of publication
of this notice to: U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, Division of Management
Authority, 4401 North Fairfax Drive,
Room 212, Arlington, Virginia 22203;
fax 703/358–2281.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Division of Management Authority,
telephone 703/358–2104.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ADDRESSES:

Endangered Species
The public is invited to comment on
the following applications for a permit
to conduct certain activities with

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