30-day Notice

Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 238 / Wednesday, December 10, 2008 / Notices
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R9-MB-2008-N0324] [91200-123100AP-M4]

Information Collection Sent to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for Approval; OMB Control
Number 1018-0010; Mourning Dove
Call Count Survey
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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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 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. However, under OMB
regulations, we may continue to
conduct or sponsor this information
collection while it is pending at OMB.
DATES: You must send comments on or
before January 9, 2009.
ADDRESSES: 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).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Hope Grey by mail or
e-mail (see ADDRESSES) or by
telephone at (703) 358–2482.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 1018-0010.
Title: Mourning Dove Call Count
Survey.
Service Form Number(s): 3-159.
Type of Request: Extension of
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: State, local, and tribal
employees.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: Annually.
Estimated Annual Number of
Responses: 912.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 3,314 hours. We believe 80
percent of the respondents will enter
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reporting burden of 3 hours and 40
minutes per respondent. For all others,
we estimate the reporting burden to be
3.5 hours per respondent.
Abstract: The Migratory Bird Treaty
Act (16 U.S.C. 703-712) and Fish and
Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742a 754j-2) designate the Department of the
Interior as the primary agency
responsible for:
(1) Wise management of migratory
bird populations frequenting the United
States, and
(2) Setting hunting regulations that
allow for the well-being of migratory
bird populations.
These responsibilities dictate that we
gather accurate data on various
characteristics of migratory bird
populations.
The Mourning Dove Call Count
Survey is an essential part of the
migratory bird management program.
The survey is a cooperative effort
between the Service and State wildlife
agencies and local and tribal biologists.
Each spring, State, Service, local, and
tribal biologists conduct the survey to
provide the necessary data to determine
the population status of the mourning
dove. If this survey were not conducted,
we would not be able to properly
determine the population status of
mourning doves prior to setting
regulations. The Service and the States
use the survey results to:
(1) Develop annual regulations for
hunting mourning doves,
(2) Plan and evaluate dove
management programs, and
(3) Provide specific information
necessary for dove research.
Comments: On July 24, 2008, we
published in the Federal Register (73
FR 43254) a notice of our intent to
request that OMB renew this ICR. In that
notice, we solicited comments for 60
days, ending on September 22, 2008. We
received one comment. The commenter
expressed opposition to hunting and to
the Government, but did not address the
information collection requirements. We
did not make any changes to our
information collection requirements.
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.

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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: November 26, 2008
Hope Grey,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
Fish and Wildlife Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R9–IA–2008–N0304; 96300–1671–
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Issuance of Permits
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of issuance of permits for
endangered species and marine
mammals.
SUMMARY: The following permits were
issued.
ADDRESSES: 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 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: Notice is
hereby given that on the dates below, as
authorized by the provisions of the
Endangered Species Act of 1973, as
amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), and/
or the Marine Mammal Protection Act of
1972, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et
seq.), the Fish and Wildlife Service
issued the requested permits subject to
certain conditions set forth therein. For
each permit for an endangered species,
the Service found that (1) the
application was filed in good faith, (2)
the granted permit would not operate to
the disadvantage of the endangered
species, and (3) the granted permit

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