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specifically to address their particular
activity (approved under OMB Control
No. 1018–0093). From information in
the application, we create a master file
or annual program file that contains all
the information necessary for us to make
the required legal acquisition and
nondetriment findings. The applicant
can then submit FWS Form 3–200–74 to
request authorization to carry out
multiple, identical activities over the
next 6 months. On FWS Form 3–200–
74, we request information only about
the number of additional documents the
applicant requires to carry out activities
approved under the previous
application process. By referencing
information in the master file or annual
program file, we can quickly issue
partially completed CITES documents
(with certain specific areas left blank for
completion by the applicant).
United States facilities, such as farms
and aquaculture operations, produce
several native U.S. taxa listed in CITES
Appendices II and III in closed and
semi-closed production systems. By
registering a production facility and
setting up a master file, we can expedite
issuance of export permits for that
facility. The registration is valid for 1
year. We use FWS Form 3–200–75
(Registration of a Production Facility for
Export of Certain Native Species
(CITES)) to collect information on
annual production levels, method of
producing specimens, source of the
parental and founder stock, and method
of transport for international trade. This
information allows us to issue
documents on a very short turnaround
time, and we do not need to collect
additional information prior to the
issuance of export documents.
Comments: On February 23, 2010, we
published in the Federal Register (75
FR 8102) a notice of our intent to
request that OMB renew this ICR. In that
notice, we solicited comments for 60
days, ending on April 26, 2010. We did
not receive any comments.
We again invite comments concerning
this information collection on:
• Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary, including
whether or not the information will
have practical utility;
• The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information;
• Ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• 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
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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: June 11, 2010.
Hope Grey,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
Fish and Wildlife Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R9–MB–2010–N127] [91200–1231–
00WH–M3]

Proposed Information Collection; OMB
Control Number 1018–0023; Migratory
Bird Surveys
AGENCY:

Fish and Wildlife Service,

Interior.
ACTION:

Notice; request for comments.

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 February
28, 2011. 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.

SUMMARY:

To ensure that we are able to
consider your comments on this IC, we
must receive them by August 17, 2010.

DATES:

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); or [email protected] (e-mail).

ADDRESSES:

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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I. 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) setting 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 the Migratory Bird Harvest
Program, State licensing authorities
collect the name and address
information needed to provide a sample
frame of all licensed migratory bird
hunters. Since Federal regulations
require that the States collect this
information, we are including the
associated burden in our approval
request to OMB.
The Migratory Bird Hunter Survey is
based on the Migratory Bird Harvest
Information Program, under which each
State annually provides a list of all
migratory bird hunters in the State. We
randomly select migratory bird hunters;
send them either a waterfowl
questionnaire, a dove and band-tailed
pigeon questionnaire, a woodcock
questionnaire, or a snipe, rail, gallinule
and coot questionnaire; and ask them to
report their harvest of those species. The
resulting estimates of harvest per hunter
are combined with the complete list of
migratory bird hunters to provide
estimates of the total harvest of those
species.
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 are
asked to complete and return a postcard
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 they harvest, or
a wing from each mourning dove,
woodcock, band-tailed pigeon, snipe,
rail, or gallinule they harvest. We use
the wings and tail feathers to identify
the species, sex, and age of the
harvested sample. We also ask

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respondents to report on the envelope
the date and location of harvest for each
bird. We combine the results of this
survey with the harvest estimates
obtained from the Migratory Bird
Hunter Survey to provide speciesspecific 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.
Number of annual
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II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1018-0023.
Title: Migratory Bird Surveys.
Service Form Number(s): 3-165, 3165A, 3-165B, 3-165C, 3-165D, 3-165E
and 3-2056J-N.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: States and migratory
game bird hunters.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: Annually or
on occasion.

Number of annual
responses

Completion time
per response

Annual burden
hours

Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program ...........................
Migratory Bird Hunter Survey ..................................................
Parts Collection Survey ...........................................................
Sandhill Crane Harvest Survey ...............................................

49
84,200
27,300
8,300

686
84,200
140,600
8,300

185 hours ........
4.3 minutes ......
4.5 minutes ......
3.5 minutes ......

126,910
6,034
10,545
484

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

119,849

233,786

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

143,973

III. Request for Comments

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

We invite comments concerning this
IC on:
• Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary, including
whether or not the information will
have practical utility;
• The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information;
• Ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• 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 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.

Fish and Wildlife Service

Dated: June 11, 2010.
Hope Grey,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Emergency Exemption: Issuance of
Permit for Endangered Species
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of emergency issuance of
permit for endangered species.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY:

The following permit was

issued.
Documents and other
information submitted for this
application are available for review,
subject to the requirements of the
Privacy Act and Freedom of Information
Act, by any party who submits a request
for a copy of such documents to: Brenda
Tapia, Division of Management
Authority, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, Room
212, Arlington, VA 22203; fax (703)
358–2280; or e-mail [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brenda Tapia, (703) 358–2104
(telephone); (703) 358–2280 (fax);
[email protected] (e-mail).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May
28, 2010, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service (Service) issued a permit (PRT–
14281A) to the Rare Species
Conservatory Foundation, Loxahatchee,
Florida, to import one captive-hatched
imperial parrot (Amazona imperialis)
for the purpose of enhancement of the
survival of the species. This action was
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authorized under Section 10(c) of the
Endangered Species Act of 1973, as
amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). The
Service determined that an emergency
affecting the health and life of the
imperial parrot existed, and that no
reasonable alternative was available to
the applicant for the following reasons:
The Rare Species Conservatory
Foundation requested a permit to
import the above-mentioned imperial
parrot chick captive-hatched on May 6,
2010, at the Dominican Government
Aviary (Parrot Conservation and
Research Centre), Botanical Gardens, in
Roseau, Dominica, for emergency and
ongoing health evaluation purposes.
This juvenile is the first of its species
hatched in captivity anywhere in the
world and was being parent-reared at
the aviary until it was abandoned by its
parents and subsequently rescued by the
Centre. This import is necessary to save
the bird’s life and provide intensive
veterinary and husbandry care not
available in Dominica.
Dated: June 11, 2010.
Brenda Tapia,
Program Analyst, Branch of Permits, Division
of Management Authority.
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