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• 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.
Dated: September 21, 2011.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy and Directives
Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 2011–24634 Filed 9–23–11; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R5–FHC–2011–N191; 51320–1334–
0000–L4]

Proposed Information Collection;
Horseshoe Crab Tagging Program
AGENCY:

Fish and Wildlife Service,

Interior.
Notice; request for comments.

ACTION:

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 March 31,
2012. We may not conduct or sponsor

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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 November 25,
2011.
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 ‘‘1018–0127’’ in the
subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this IC, contact Hope Grey at
[email protected] (e-mail) or 703–358–
2482 (telephone).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ADDRESSES:

I. Abstract
Horseshoe crabs play a vital role
commercially, biomedically, and
ecologically along the Atlantic coast.
Horseshoe crabs are commercially
harvested and used as bait in eel and
conch fisheries. Biomedical companies
along the coast also collect and bleed
horseshoe crabs at their facilities.
Limulus Amoebocyte Lysate is derived
from crab blood, which has no synthetic
substitute, and is used by
pharmaceutical companies to test
sterility of products. Finally, migratory
shorebirds also depend on the eggs of
horseshoe crabs to refuel on their
migrations from South America to the
Arctic. One bird in particular, the red
knot, feeds primarily on horseshoe crab
eggs during its stopover. That bird is
currently listed as a candidate for
protection under the Endangered
Species Act.
In 1998, the Atlantic States Marine
Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), a
management organization with
representatives from each State on the
Atlantic Coast, developed a horseshoe
crab management plan. The ASMFC
plan and its subsequent addenda
established mandatory State-by-State
harvest quotas, and created the 1,500
square mile Carl N. Shuster, Jr.
Horseshoe Crab Sanctuary off the mouth
of Delaware Bay.
Although restrictive measures have
been taken in recent years, populations
are increasing slowly. Because
horseshoe crabs do not breed until they
are 9 years or older, it may take some

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time before the population measurably
increases. Federal and State agencies,
universities, and biomedical companies
participate in a Horseshoe Crab
Cooperative Tagging Program. The
Maryland Fishery Resources Office, Fish
and Wildlife Service, maintains the
information that we collect under this
program and uses it to evaluate
migratory patterns, survival, and
abundance of horseshoe crabs.
Agencies that tag and release the crabs
complete FWS Form 3–2311 (Horseshoe
Crab Tagging) and provide the Service
with:
• Organization name.
• Contact person name.
• Tag number.
• Sex of crab.
• Prosomal width.
• Capture site, latitude, longitude,
waterbody, State, and date.
Members of the public who recover
tagged crabs provide the following
information using FWS Form 3–2310
(Horseshoe Crab Recapture Report):
• Tag number.
• Whether or not tag was removed.
• Whether or not the tag was circular
or square.
• Condition of crab.
• Date captured/found.
• Crab fate.
• Finder type.
• Capture method.
• Capture location.
• Reporter information.
• Comments.
If the public participant who reports
the tagged crab requests information, we
send data pertaining to the tagging
program and tag and release information
on the horseshoe crab he/she found or
captured.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1018–0127.
Title: Horseshoe Crab Tagging
Program.
Service Form Number(s): FWS Forms
3–2310 and 3–2311.
Type of Request: Extension of
currently approved collection.
Description of Respondents: Tagging
agencies include Federal and State
agencies, universities, and biomedical
companies. Members of the general
public provide recapture information.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
When horseshoe crabs are tagged and
when horseshoe crabs are found or
captured.

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Number of
annual
respondents

Activity

Number of
annual
responses

Completion time per response

Annual burden
hours

FWS Form 3–2310 ...................................
FWS Form 3–2311 ...................................

950
18

2,250
18

5 minutes ..................................................
95 hours* ..................................................

188
1,710

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

968

2,268

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

1,898

* Average

time required per response is dependent on the number of tags applied by an agency in 1 year. Agencies tag between 25 and 9,000
horseshoe crabs annually, taking between 2 to 5 minutes per crab to tag, record, and report data. Each agency determines the number of tags it
will apply.

III. Comments
We 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. We will include or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this IC. 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: September 21, 2011.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy and Directives
Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 2011–24639 Filed 9–23–11; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

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Drakes Bay Oyster Company SpecialUse Permit, Draft Environmental
Impact Statement, Point Reyes
National Seashore, CA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice of availability.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

The National Park Service
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environmental impact statement to
consider the Drakes Bay Oyster
Company Special-use permit in Drakes
Estero, Point Reyes National Seashore,
California.
We, the National Park Service,
will accept all comments on the draft
environmental impact statement that are
submitted or postmarked no later than
60 days after the date the Environmental
Protection Agency publishes its notice
of filing of the DEIS in the Federal
Register. We intend to hold public
meetings in several San Francisco Bay
Area locations during the public review
period. We will announce details
regarding the exact times and locations
of these meetings on the Point Reyes
National Seashore Web site, at http://
parkplanning.nps.gov/pore (click on the
Drakes Bay Oyster Company Special-use
permit EIS link), and through local and
regional media at least 15 days in
advance of the meetings.
ADDRESSES: Information will be
available for public review and
comment online at http://
parkplanning.nps.gov/pore (click on the
Drakes Bay Oyster Company Special-use
permit EIS link) and in the office of the
Superintendent, Point Reyes National
Seashore, 1 Bear Valley Road, Point
Reyes Station, CA 94956, (415) 464–
5162.
Submit comments on the draft
environmental impact statement by any
one of the following methods:
• Internet: We encourage you to
comment via the Internet at NPS Web
site in the ADDRESSES section.
• Mail: Mail comments to Point Reyes
National Seashore, ATTN: DBOC SUP
DEIS, 1 Bear Valley Road, Point Reyes
Station, CA 94956.
• Hand delivery: Deliver comments to
the Office of the Superintendent at Point
Reyes National Seashore, 1 Bear Valley
Road, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956.
• Other written: We will accept
written comments at the public
meetings.
We will not accept comments by fax,
e-mail, or in any other way than those
specified above. We will not accept bulk
comments in any format (hard copy or
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electronic) submitted on behalf of
others.
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Melanie Gunn, Outreach Coordinator,
Point Reyes National Seashore, 1 Bear
Valley Road, Point Reyes Station, CA
94956, (415) 464–5131. More
information regarding this EIS is also
available at http://www.nps.gov/pore/
parkmgmt/planning_dboc_sup.htm.
Under
Section 124 of Public Law 111–88, the
Secretary has the authority to issue a
special-use permit (SUP) for 10 years to
Drakes Bay Oyster Company (DBOC) for
its shellfish operation, which consists of
commercial production, harvesting,
processing, and sale of shellfish at Point
Reyes National Seashore. The existing
reservation of use and occupancy (RUO)
and associated SUP held by the
Company will expire on November 30,
2012, and the Company has requested a
new permit.
Although the Secretary’s authority
under Section 124 is ‘‘notwithstanding
any other provision of law,’’ it has been
determined that it would help inform
the decision-making process to prepare
an EIS and otherwise follow National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
procedures. The purpose of the
document is to use the NEPA process on
behalf of the Secretary to engage the
public and evaluate the effects of
issuing a SUP for the commercial
shellfish operation. The results of the
NEPA process will be used to inform the
decision of whether a new SUP should
be issued to Drakes Bay Oyster
Company for 10 years.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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