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sponsoring the collection: No form
number; U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS).
(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Primary: Individuals or
households. As part of the Business
Transformation initiative, USCIS is
developing an automated Integrated
Operating Environment (IOE). The IOE
will use wizard technology and will
allow e-filing. Wizard technology gives
USCIS the ability to electronically
interact with its customers by guiding
them through the application process
and assisting them to file complete and
accurate benefit requests.
(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: 58,500 responses at an average
of 2 hours and 15 minutes per response.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: 131,625 annual burden
hours.
The information collection request
contains selected screen shots that
demonstrate the look and feel of the
automated IOE, and a decision tree to
show the sequence of questions that the
public will be asked by the wizard and
the order in which the questions will be
asked. For example, when the user
answers the question ‘‘What is your First
Name?’’ then he or she will be prompted
with the question: ‘‘What is your Given
Name?’’ If you need to review this
information collection instrument,
please visit the Web site at: http://
www.regulations.gov/.
Dated: March 23, 2011.
Sunday Aigbe,
Chief, Regulatory Products Division, Office
of the Executive Secretariat, U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
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Information Collection Sent to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for Approval; Endangered and
Threatened Wildlife, Experimental
Populations
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:

We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service) have sent an Information

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Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for
review and approval. We summarize the
ICR below and describe the nature of the
collection and the estimated burden and
cost. This information collection is
scheduled to expire on March 31, 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. However, under OMB
regulations, we may continue to
conduct or sponsor this information
collection while it is pending at OMB.
DATES: You must submit comments on
or before April 27, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments and
suggestions on this information
collection to the Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior at OMB–
OIRA at (202) 395–5806 (fax) or
[email protected] (e-mail).
Please provide a copy of your comments
to the Service Information Collection
Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, MS 2042–PDM, 4401
North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA
22203 (mail), or [email protected] (email). Please include 1018–0095 in the
subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Hope Grey at
[email protected] (e-mail) or 703–358–
2482 (telephone). You may review the
ICR online at http://www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to review
Department of the Interior collections
under review by OMB.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 1018–0095.
Title: Endangered and Threatened
Wildlife, Experimental Populations, 50
CFR 17.84.
Service Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Description of Respondents:
Individuals and households, private
sector, and State/local/Tribal
governments.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 101.
Estimated Annual Number of
Responses: 101.
Completion Time per Response: 15
minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 27.
Abstract: Section 10(j) of the
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA),
as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.),
authorizes the Secretary of the Interior
to establish experimental populations of
endangered or threatened species.
Because individuals of experimental
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under the ESA, the information we
collect is important for monitoring the
success of reintroduction efforts and
recovery efforts in general. This is a
nonform collection. Information
collection requirements for
experimental populations of endangered
and threatened species are in 50 CFR
17.84. We collect three categories of
information:
(1) General take or removal. Relates to
human-related mortality including
unintentional taking incidental to
otherwise lawful activities (e.g.,
highway mortalities); animal husbandry
actions authorized to manage the
population (e.g., translocation or
providing aid to sick, injured, or
orphaned individuals); take in defense
of human life; take related to defense of
property (if authorized); or take in the
form of authorized harassment.
(2) Depredation-related take. Involves
take for management purposes where
livestock depredation is documented,
and may include authorized harassment
or authorized lethal take of
experimental animals in the act of
attacking livestock.
(3) Specimen collection, recovery, or
reporting of dead individuals. This
information documents incidental or
authorized scientific collection. Most of
the contacts with the public deal
primarily with the reporting of sightings
of experimental population animals or
the inadvertent discovery of an injured
or dead individual.
The information that we collect
includes:
• Name, address, and phone number
of reporting party.
• Species involved.
• Type of incident.
• Take (quantity).
• Location and time of the reported
incident.
• Description of the circumstances
related to the incident.
This information helps us to assess
the effectiveness of control activities
and to develop better means to reduce
problems with livestock for those
species where depredation is a problem.
Service recovery specialists use the
information to determine the success of
reintroductions in relation to
established recovery plan goals for the
threatened and endangered species
involved.
Comments: On November 3, 2010, we
published in the Federal Register (75
FR 67761) a notice of our intent to
request that OMB renew approval for
this information collection. In that
notice, we solicited comments for 60
days, ending on January 3, 2011. We
received information from two
commenters in response to this notice.

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The first commenter objected to the
authorization of depredation-related
take. We note the concerns raised by
this individual, but the comment did
not address issues surrounding the
proposed collection of information or
the cost and hour burden estimates.
The second commenter provided the
following comments:
Comment: The estimated burden for
collection of information is severely
underestimated. The commenter agreed
that the actual reporting time is
probably only 15 minutes per
respondent, but stated that gathering
data necessary to compile the reported
information requires far more time, and
may require a field investigation or
followup phone call to verify the report.
Response: We believe our estimates
are within reason because they
represent the average amount of time it
will take to provide the requested
information via making a telephone call
or sending a facsimile. This ICR covers
multiple experimental populations,
multiple species (which may have more
than one experimental population),
multiple types of activities, multiple
geographic locations across the United
States, and multiple Service Regions.
We estimate that the time required to
provide the notification will vary
substantially from 1 to 45 minutes. We
acknowledge that it may take some
respondents, such as State fish and
wildlife agencies, longer than others to
gather and compile the data prior to
notifying us. State fish and wildlife
agencies may provide information to us
on multiple species, experimental
populations, and incidents in a single
notification (thereby requiring more
than 15 minutes for them to provide us
with the information). In contrast to
State fish and wildlife agencies, the
general public usually provides
information on a single species,
experimental population, and incident
in one notification (thereby requiring
substantially less than 15 minutes for
them to provide us with the
information). Given the variety of
potential situations requiring
notification, as well as the variety of
potential respondents, we believe 15
minutes per response is a reasonable
estimate of the average burden.
Comment: General sighting reports do
not appear to be included in the three
categories of information collection.
Response: General sightings are
included in the description of the
information collection for specimen
collection.
Comment: The Service should design
a standard data input form and
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adjustments in the form for each
population as needed.
Response: We collect the information
by means of telephone calls or
facsimiles from the public. The actual
details of the information we collect are
unique to each species and
experimental population, based on the
specific information needed for that
species and experimental population.
The types of incidents that must be
reported also vary by species. For
example, under our wolf experimental
populations, livestock depredation
under a permit must be reported within
24 hours. We do not ask for this same
information under our whooping crane
experimental populations because
whooping cranes are not predators, and,
therefore, depredation permits are not
needed. This ICR covers multiple
experimental populations, multiple
species (which may have more than one
experimental population), multiple
types of activities, multiple geographic
locations across the United States, and
multiple Service Regions. Given these
complexities and variability in the
detail of the information needed, it is
not feasible to develop a standard data
input form for each experimental
population.
Comment: Sharing the data in
summary form would increase the
utility of the data.
Response: State wildlife agencies are
our primary conservation partners, and
we routinely share data with them (and
vice versa), including the data gathered
under this information collection.
Comment: Reporting take (quantity)
could be burdensome for species that
produce large numbers of young at a
time (e.g., fish, amphibians, and
butterflies). The commenter suggests
standardizing the reporting of take
(quantity) as a way to reduce the
reporting burden for these species.
Response: We will coordinate with
our Regional Offices and respondents to
see if we can simplify and standardize
the reporting of take (quantity) for
species with large numbers of young.
We have not made any changes to our
information collection requirements as a
result of the above 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
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• 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: March 22, 2011.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy and Directives
Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Proposed Information Collection;
Monitoring Recovered Species After
Delisting—American Peregrine Falcon
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:

We (U.S. 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 July 31,
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.
DATES: To ensure that we are able to
consider your comments on this IC, we
must receive them by May 27, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the
IC to the Service Information Collection
Clearance Officer, Fish and Wildlife
Service, MS 2042–PDM, 4401 North
Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203
(mail); or [email protected] (e-mail).
Please include 1018–0101 in the subject
line of your comments.
SUMMARY:

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