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20410, if contesting the content of
records; or
(ii) The Departmental Privacy Appeals
Office, Office of General Counsel,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20410 for appeals of
initial denials.
RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:

14. F71A—Generic Debt Management
System (GDEBT)
15. A15—Geocoding Service Center
(GSC)
EXEMPTIONS FROM CERTAIN PROVISION OF THE
ACT:

None.
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Mortgagors, appraisers, mortgagee
staff underwriters, and HUD
employees—indirectly, immediate
sources are the following:
1. A43—Single Family Insurance
System (SFIS)
2. A43C—Single Family Insurance
Claims System (CLAIMS)
3. A80R—Single Family Premium
Collections System—Upfront (SFPCS–
U)
4. A80H—Single Family Mortgage
Asset Recovery Technology System
(SMART)
5. A80S—Single Family Acquired
Assets Management System (SAMS)
6. F17—Computerized Home
Underwriting Mortgage System
(CHUMS)
7. F42D—Single Family Default
Monitoring System (SFDMS)
8. F42—Consolidated Single Family
Statistical System (CSFSS)
9. F51—Institution Master File (IMF)
10. A80N—SF Mortgage Notes
Servicing (SFMNS/IFS)
11. F72—Title I Insurance and Claims
System (TIIS)
12. F12—Home Equity Conversion
Mortgages (HECM)
13. HMDA data from Federal Reserve
Board (FRB)

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R9–MB–2011–N197; 91200–1231–
9BPP–L2]

Information Collection Request Sent to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for Approval; Conservation
Order for Light Geese
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:

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

SUMMARY:

Annual number of
respondents

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Activity/requirement

conduct or sponsor this information
collection while it is pending at OMB.
DATES: You must submit comments on
or before November 28, 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] (email).
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 ‘‘1018–0103’’ in
the subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Hope Grey at
[email protected] (email) or (703) 358–
2482 (telephone). You may view the ICR
online at http://www.reginfo.gov. Follow
the instructions to view Department of
the Interior collections under review by
OMB.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 1018–0103.
Title: Conservation Order for Light
Geese, 50 CFR 21.60.
Service Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Description of Respondents: State and
tribal governments; individuals who
participate in the conservation order.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: Annually.

Total annual
responses

Completion
time per
response

Total annual
burden hours

States—collect information, maintain records, prepare annual report ............
Participants—provide information to States ....................................................

39
21,538

39
21,538

74 hours
10 minutes

2,886
3,590

Total ..........................................................................................................

21,577

21,577

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

6,476

Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden
Cost: $97,500, primarily for State
overhead costs (materials, printing,
postage, etc.).
Abstract: The number of light geese
(lesser snow, greater snow, and Ross’
geese) in the midcontinent region has
nearly quadrupled during the past
several decades, due to a decline in
adult mortality and an increase in
winter survival. We refer to these
species and subspecies as light geese
because of their light coloration, as
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their feeding activity, light geese have
become seriously injurious to their
habitat, as well as to habitat important
to other migratory birds. This poses a
serious threat to the short- and longterm health and status of some
migratory bird populations. We believe
that the number of light geese in the
midcontinent region has exceeded longterm sustainable levels for their arctic
and subarctic breeding habitats, and that
the populations must be reduced. Title
50 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
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management of overabundant light
geese.
Regulations at 50 CFR 21.60 authorize
States and tribes in the midcontinent
and Atlantic flyway regions to control
light geese within the United States
through the use of alternative regulatory
strategies. The conservation order
authorizes States and tribes to
implement population control measures
without having to obtain a Federal
permit, thus significantly reducing their
administrative burden. The
conservation order is a streamlined
process that affords an efficient and

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effective population reduction strategy,
rather than addressing the issue through
our permitting process. Furthermore,
this strategy precludes the use of more
drastic and costly direct populationreduction measures such as trapping
and culling geese. States and tribes
participating in the conservation order
must:
• Designate participants and inform
them of the requirements and
conditions of the conservation order.
Individual States and tribes determine
the method to designate participants
and how they will collect information
from participants.
• Keep records of activities carried
out under the authority of the
conservation order, including:
(1) Number of persons participating in
the conservation order;
(2) Number of days that people
participated in the conservation order;
(3) Number of persons who pursued
light geese with the aid of a shotgun
capable of holding more than three
shells;
(4) Number of persons who pursued
light geese with the aid of an electronic
call;
(5) Number of persons who pursued
light geese during the period one-half
hour after sunset;
(6) Total number of light geese shot
and retrieved during the conservation
order;
(7) Number of light geese taken with
the aid of an electronic call;
(8) Number of light geese taken with
the fourth, fifth, or sixth shotgun shell;
(9) Number of light geese taken during
the period one-half hour after sunset;
and
(10) Number of light geese shot, but
not retrieved.
• Submit an annual report
summarizing the activities conducted
under the conservation order on or
before September 15 of each year. Tribal
information can be incorporated in State
reports to reduce the number of reports
submitted.
Comments: On May 24, 2011, we
published in the Federal Register (76
FR 30188) 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 July 25, 2011. We
received five public comments,
including one from an individual who
was opposed to the population
reduction program, but did not
comment on the information collection
itself.
We received comments from the
Wyoming Game and Fish Department,
the Atlantic Flyway Council,
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Central Flyway Council. Flyway
Councils are comprised of all State
wildlife agencies within each respective
administrative Flyway. The State of
Wyoming and the three Flyway
Councils agreed that it was important to
estimate the number of citizens
participating in the conservation order,
as well as actual light goose harvest.
However, all commenters recommended
that variables related to methods of take
should be evaluated for their continued
usefulness and potentially discontinued
from the information collection. They
recommended that only information on
hunter numbers and light goose harvest
be collected. Commenters also stressed
that individual States use different
methodologies for obtaining information
and that simply adding estimates from
disparate methodologies leads to overall
estimates that are not as reliable as
would be liked. Commenters believed
the Service should take over
responsibility for data collection,
possibly through the Service’s Harvest
Information Program (HIP).
Response: Implementation of the light
goose conservation order required using
new methods of take that were
controversial because historically they
had been illegal during normal hunting
seasons. For that reason, we required
information be collected on the use of
such tools so that we could evaluate
their effectiveness. We agree that
information collected to date should be
fully evaluated and that the utility of
continued information collection for
those variables should be analyzed.
Discontinuation of information
collection on those variables would
require rulemaking to reduce the
number of specific requirements
outlined in 50 CFR 21.60. During
discussions with Flyway Councils
regarding initiation of the conservation
order, there were concerns about
whether or not a national collection
should be developed for the
conservation order. That approach was
not pursued due to the need to develop
a Federal permit. It was decided that
each State would conduct its own
collection. Although State harvest
estimates may not be fully comparable,
we believe that summation of such
estimates is warranted for general
monitoring purposes.
We are still awaiting a report from the
Arctic Goose Habitat Working Group of
the Arctic Goose Joint Venture to
determine the best method of collecting
data to provide the highest quality of
information in the most efficient way
possible. We feel it is important to wait
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comprised of many of our management
partners.
Our Harvest Information Program is
geared towards estimating harvest of
birds during regular hunting seasons
that end on or before March 10 each
year. Many States hold their light goose
conservation order (not a regular
hunting season) after March 10.
Therefore, if HIP were used to estimate
light goose conservation order harvest,
our annual HIP reports would be
delayed and could affect the normal
hunting regulations promulgation
process. The Service can only require
HIP registration for regular hunting
seasons. There is no current mechanism
for the Service to require HIP
registration for conservation order
participants.
We have not made any changes to the
information collection requirements at
this time. We will continue to work
with the States, Flyway Councils, and
the Arctic Goose Joint Venture to
determine the best method of collecting
data to provide the highest quality
information in the most efficient way
possible.
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
public record. Before including your
address, phone number, email 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: October 24, 2011.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy and Directives
Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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