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Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 245 / Wednesday, December 21, 2011 / Notices

For a period until March 20, 2012, all
persons who wish to submit comments,
suggestions, or objections in connection
with the proposed withdrawal extension
may present their views in writing to
the BLM Oregon/Washington State
Director at the address indicated above.
Comments, including names and
street addresses of respondents, will be
available for public review at the
address indicated above during regular
business hours. Individual respondents
may request confidentiality. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, be advised 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 from public review your
personal identifying information, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Notice is hereby given that an
opportunity for a public meeting is
afforded in connection with the
proposed withdrawal extension. All
interested parties who desire a public
meeting for the purpose of being heard
on the proposed withdrawal extension
must submit a written request to the
BLM State Director at the address
indicated above by March 20, 2012.
Upon determination by the authorized
officer that a public meeting will be
held, a notice of the time and place will
be published in the Federal Register
and a local newspaper at least 30 days
before the scheduled date of the
meeting.
The application will be processed in
accordance with the regulations set
forth in 43 CFR 2310.4.
Authority: 43 CFR 2310.3–1.
Fred O’Ferrall,
Chief, Branch of Land, Mineral, and Energy
Resources.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Information
Collection for Community Harvest
Assessments for Alaskan National
Parks and Preserves
National Park Service, U.S.
Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
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To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), we (the National Park Service)
are notifying the public that we have
submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) an information
collection request (ICR) for a proposed
new collection. This notice provides the
public and other Federal agencies an
opportunity to comment on the
paperwork burden of this collection. To
comply with the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 and as a part of our
continuing efforts to reduce paperwork
and respondent burden, we invite the
general public and other federal
agencies to comment on this ICR. We
may not conduct or sponsor and a
person is not required to respond to a
collection unless it displays a currently
valid OMB control number.
DATES: To ensure that your comments
on this ICR are considered, please
submit them on or before January 20,
2012.
ADDRESSES: Please submit written
comments on this information
collection directly to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Attention: Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior via email to
[email protected] or fax at
(202) 395–5806; and identify your
submission as 1024–WRST. Please also
send a copy your comments to Phadrea
Ponds, Information Collections
Coordinator, National Park Service,
1201 Oakridge Drive, Fort Collins, CO
80525 (mail); or
[email protected] (email).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Barbara Cellarius, Ph.D., Wrangell-St.
Elias National Park and Preserve, P.O.
Box 439, Copper Center, AK 99573;
[email protected] (email). You
may access this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.
SUMMARY:

I. Abstract
The National Park Service (NPS) Act
of 1916, 38 Stat 535, 16 U.S.C. 1, et seq.,
requires that the NPS preserve national
parks for the use and enjoyment of
present and future generations. At the
field level, this means resource
preservation, public education, facility
maintenance and operation, and
physical developments that are
necessary for public use, health, and
safety.
National parks and preserves in
Alaska created or expanded in 1980
under the Alaska National Interest
Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA)
provide the opportunity for qualified
rural residents to harvest fish, wildlife,
and other subsistence resources. Section
812 of ANILCA states, ‘‘The Secretary

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[of the Interior], in cooperation with the
State and other appropriate Federal
agencies, shall undertake research on
fish and wildlife and subsistence uses
on the public lands.’’ To develop
resource management strategies for the
parklands, the NPS needs information
on harvest patterns among residents of
communities with subsistence
eligibility, resource distribution
systems, and the impact of the changing
rural economy on subsistence activities.
A survey will be used to estimate
subsistence harvests and to describe
community subsistence economies. This
project will survey residents of several
communities in Wrangell-St. Elias
National Park and Preserve and Gates of
the Arctic National Park and Preserve
on these topics. The surveyed
communities have been designated as
resident zone communities for the
respective park in recognition that many
residents of these communities have
customarily and traditionally engaged in
subsistence uses within a national park
or monument. The resulting information
will assist park managers in their
subsistence management
responsibilities and will also be of use
to local and regional advisory councils
in making recommendations and by the
State of Alaska and the Federal
Subsistence Board in making decisions
regarding the management of fish and
wildlife in the region.
II. Data
OMB Number: 1024–NEW.
Title: Community Harvest
Assessments for Alaskan National Parks
and Preserves.
Type of Request: NEW.
Affected Public: Individual
households eligible to engage in
subsistence hunting, fishing, trapping,
and gathering under NPS and Federal
Subsistence Program regulations in
Gates of the Arctic and Wrangell-St.
Elias National Parks and Preserves.
Respondent Obligation: Voluntary.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 302 interviews; 336 nonresponse survey.
Estimated Time and frequency of
Response: This is a one-time in-person
interview estimated to take 60 minutes
per respondent to complete. It is
estimated that each respondent will take
10 minutes to complete the initial
contact and a short non-response
survey.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 358 hours.
III. Request for Comments
On August 5, 2011 we published a
Federal Register notice (76 FR 47609)
announcing that we would submit this

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Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 245 / Wednesday, December 21, 2011 / Notices
ICR to OMB for approval and soliciting
comments. The comment period closed
on October 4 2011. We received one
comment expressing concern that
residents of other states, such as New
Jersey, did not have access to these
resources. Under the provisions of
ANILCA, only rural Alaska residents are
qualified to engage in subsistence in
Alaskan National Parks, Preserves and
Monuments, and this survey responds
directly to congressional direction to
collect information on subsistence uses
(ANILCA 812). The commenter also
states that it is not necessary to conduct
these surveys on an annual basis. We
agree and are not proposing to do so. It
has been 10+ years since these
communities were last surveyed, and
we feel that conducting surveys at an
interval of 5 to 10 years between surveys
of individual communities will provide
adequate information for management
while not unnecessarily burdening the
public.
Comments are invited on: (1) The
practical utility of the information being
gathered; (2) the accuracy of the burden
hour estimate; (3) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4)
ways to minimize the burden to
respondents, including use of
automated information techniques or
other forms of information technology.
All comments will become a matter of
public record. While you can ask us in
your comment to withhold personal
identifying information from public
review, we cannot guarantee that we
will be able to do so.
Dated: December 15, 2011.
Robert M. Gordon,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
National Park Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement
Notice of Proposed Information
Collection
Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments for 1029–0040.
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AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing
that the information collection request
for the requirements for permit
applications for special categories of

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mining has been submitted to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and renewed approval. This
information collection request describes
the nature of the information collection
and the expected burden and cost.
DATES: OMB has up to 60 days to
approve or disapprove the information
collections but may respond after 30
days. Therefore, public comments
should be submitted to OMB by January
20, 2012, in order to be assured of
consideration.
Submit comments to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Attention: Department of the
Interior Desk Officer, by telefax at (202)
395–5806 or via email to
[email protected]. Also,
please send a copy of your comments to
the Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement, 1951
Constitution Ave. NW., Room 203–SIB,
Washington, DC 20240, or electronically
to [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
receive a copy of the information
collection request contact John Trelease
at (202) 208–2783, or electronically at
[email protected]. You may also
review this collection on the Internet by
going to http://www.reginfo.gov
(Information Collection Review,
Currently Under Review, Agency is
Department of the Interior, DOI–
OSMRE).
ADDRESSES:

OMB
regulations at 5 CFR 1320, which
implement provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13),
require that interested members of the
public and affected agencies have an
opportunity to comment on information
collection and recordkeeping activities
[see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)]. OSM has
submitted a request to OMB to renew its
approval of the collection of information
contained in 30 CFR Part 785
Requirements for permits for special
categories of mining. OSM is requesting
a 3-year term of approval for this
information collection activity.
An agency 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. The OMB control
number for 30 CFR Part 785 is 1029–
0040. Responses are required to obtain
a benefit.
As required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), a
Federal Register notice soliciting
comments for this collection of
information was published on July 25,
2011 (76 FR 44357). No comments were

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received. This notice provides the
public with an additional 30 days in
which to comment on the following
information collection activity:
Title: 30 CFR Part 785–Requirements
for permits for special categories of
mining.
OMB Control Number: 1029–0040.
Summary: The information is being
collected to meet the requirements of
sections 507, 508, 510, 515, 701 and 711
of P.L. 95–87, which require applicants
for special types of mining activities to
provide descriptions, maps, plans and
data of the proposed activity. This
information will be used by the
regulatory authority in determining if
the applicant can meet the applicable
performance standards for the special
type of mining activity.
Bureau Form Number: None.
Frequency of Collection: Once.
Description of Respondents:
Applicants for coalmine permits and
state regulatory authorities.
Total Annual Responses: 252 permit
applicants and 252 state regulatory
authorities.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 22,573.
Total Annual Non-Wage Costs: $0.
Send comments on the need for the
collections of information for the
performance of the functions of the
agency; the accuracy of the agency’s
burden estimates; ways to enhance the
quality, utility and clarity of the
information collections; and ways to
minimize the information collection
burdens on respondents, such as use of
automated means of collections of the
information, to the offices listed in
ADDRESSES. Please refer to OMB control
number 1029–0040 in all
correspondence.
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 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: December 13, 2011.
Stephen M. Sheffield,
Acting Chief, Division of Regulatory Support.
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