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Date

Location

Thursday, April 12–Friday, April 13, 2012 ...............................

Miccosukee Resort and Gaming, 500 SW 177th Ave., Miami, FL 33194, (866)
599–6674.
When booking use: ‘‘Bureau of Indian Affairs’’.
Radisson Fort McDowell Resort Hotel, 10438 N. Fort McDowell Road, Scottsdale/Fountain Hill, AZ 85264, (480) 789–5300.
When booking use: ‘‘Bureau of Indian Affairs Streamline Consultation’’.
Northern Quest Resort & Casino, 100 N. Hayford Road, Airway Heights, WA
99001, (509) 481–6166.
Holiday Inn Rapid City-Rushmore Plaza, 505 N. 5th Street, Rapid City, SD
57701, (605) 348–4000.
Choctaw Casino Resort, 4216 S. Hwy 69/75, Durant, OK 74701, (580) 931–
8340.
Thunder Valley Casino Resort, 1200 Athens Avenue, Lincoln, CA 95648, (877)
468–8777.
When booking use: ‘‘120516BURE’’.

Thursday, April 19–Friday, April 20, 2012 ...............................
Thursday, April 26–Friday, April 27, 2012 ...............................
Thursday, May 3–Friday, May 4, 2012 ....................................
Thursday, May 10–Friday, May 11, 2012 ................................
Thursday, May 17–Friday, May 18, 2012 ................................

The agenda for each of the sessions
will be as follows (all times are local):
Day 1 Agenda
8 a.m.–10 a.m. ...............................................
10 a.m.–12:30 p.m. ........................................
12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m. .....................................
1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m. .......................................
2:30 p.m.–5 p.m. ............................................

Administrative Organizational Assessment Draft Report .....................................................
BIA Streamlining Plan ..........................................................................................................
Lunch (on your own) ............................................................................................................
BIA Streamlining Plan (continued) .......................................................................................
BIE Streamlining Plan ..........................................................................................................

AS–IA
BIA
BIA
BIE

Day 2 Agenda

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8 a.m.–12 p.m. ...............................................

A brief description of each of the
topics is provided below. Further
information is available at: http://
www.indianaffairs.gov/WhoWeAre/AS–
IA/Consultation/index.htm.
The Administrative Organizational
Assessment Draft Report—The AS–IA is
seeking input on the results of the
Administrative Organizational
Assessment Draft Report. The
Assessment was conducted by an
impartial third-party contractor, the
Bronner Group, LLC, to evaluate the
administrative support structures for
BIA and BIE. The Draft Report includes
a number of recommendations in the
following functional areas: budget and
financial management; acquisition and
contract management; property
management and building maintenance;
human resources; safety management;
and communications. More information
on the Draft Report is available at:
http://www.indianaffairs.gov/
WhoWeAre/AS–IA/Consultation/
index.htm.
The BIA Streamlining Plan—The BIA
is seeking tribal input on ways to
streamline its organization to meet
budgetary constraints and increase
efficiency in the delivery of services to
tribes and Indian beneficiaries. The BIA
is particularly interested in tribes’
perspectives on consolidation of agency

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Johnson-O’Malley Student Count Update ............................................................................
Draft SF–424B Assurance Statement—Non-construction Programs.

or field offices with minimal staffing
and/or services, and consolidation of
regional office programs or services
where efficiencies may be achieved.
The BIE Streamlining Plan—The BIE
is seeking tribal input on ways to
streamline its organization to meet
imminent budgetary constraints and to
improve the quality of education
provided to students served by BIEfunded schools.
The Johnson-O’Malley Student Count
Update—The BIE is seeking tribal input
on updating its count of students
eligible for Johnson-O’Malley Program
funding. As part of the Fiscal Year 2012
appropriations, Congress directed the
BIE, in consultation with tribes and the
U.S. Department of Education, to update
its count of students eligible for the
Johnson-O’Malley Program funding, and
to report the results to Congress.
The Draft SF–424B Assurance
Statement—Non-Construction
Programs—The BIE is seeking tribal
input on revision of provisions of the
SF–424B Assurance Statement for
Public Law 100–297 Tribally Controlled
Grant Schools. The assurance statement
accompanies the transfer of funds from
the BIE to tribally controlled grant
schools. The BIE is particularly
interested in tribes’ perspectives on
adding the following to the assurance

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statement: ‘‘Will comply with all
applicable statutory and regulatory
requirements of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act (ESEA), also
known as the No Child Left Behind
(NCLB) Act of 2001, and Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).’’
Dated: March 6, 2012.
Larry Echo Hawk,
Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2012–5870 Filed 3–9–12; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R5–FHC–2012–N045;
FXFR13340500000L4–123–FF05F24400]

Information Collection Request Sent to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for Approval; Horseshoe Crab
Tagging Program
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

SUMMARY:

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collection and the estimated burden and
cost. This information collection is
scheduled to expire on March 31, 2012.
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 11, 2012.
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 ‘‘1018–0127’’ 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 review the
ICR online at http://www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to review
Department of the Interior collections
under review by OMB.
Number of
annual
respondents

Activity

Number of
annual
responses

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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.
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

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

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* 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.

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 1,500square-mile Carl N. Shuster, Jr.,
Horseshoe Crab Sanctuary off the mouth
of Delaware Bay.
Although restrictive measures have
been taken in recent years, populations
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horseshoe crabs do not breed until they
are 9 years or older, it may take some
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.

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• 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 that was found or
captured.
Comments: On September 26, 2011,
we published in the Federal Register
(76 FR 59422) a notice of our intent to
ask OMB to renew approval for this
information collection. In that notice,
we solicited comments for 60 days,
ending on November 25, 2011. We
received comments from 10 individuals/
organizations.
Commenter 1 appreciated the
opportunity to tag horseshoe crabs and
suggested that public outreach is an
important component of the program
and that increased public outreach
would be useful.
Commenter 2 said that the public
outreach component has been very
useful and the tagging program has
benefited horseshoe crab management
and increased public awareness of
management issues.
Commenter 3 said that both the
scientific merit and public outreach
components of the program have been
very useful. The tagging program has
benefited horseshoe crab management
and increased public awareness of
management issues.
Commenter 4 discussed the scientific
merit of the tagging program and said

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that it has been very useful. The tagging
program has benefited horseshoe crab
management and has had impacts on
management of associated shorebird
species whose population levels are of
concern. The commenter had concerns
on the effort of tag recoveries, and
suggested that we provide higher
incentives to commercial fishermen to
report crab tags, increase efforts on
spawning beaches to recover tags,
record time searching for tags to
determine catch-per-unit-effort, that
online reporting can be done in a batch
system, and that we increase efforts to
collect tag data from commercial
fishermen. While we recognize that all
of these suggestions would make a
stronger program with more significant
scientific data, some come with
substantial cost. At this time we do not
have any additional funds to provide
increased incentives to fishermen,
increase tag recovery efforts on beaches
(done by our cooperators at this time),
or increase efforts to solicit tag data
from commercial fishermen. Through
our cooperators in the future, we can
attempt to get an estimate of catch-perunit-effort and we will discuss this issue
with the Atlantic States Marine
Fisheries Commission to determine if
those data would be useful. We will also
explore providing a batch-type data
entry program on our Web site to report
recaptured tags. We will explore
collecting catch-per-unit-effort and
online batch reporting in the future.
Commenter 5 was supportive of the
information collection, and commented
that the scientific data provided by the
program has been very useful for
horseshoe crab management.
Information was collected efficiently
and the burden estimates were accurate.
Commenter 6 opposed the use of
horseshoe crabs by biomedical
companies and proposed a ban on the
use of horseshoe crabs for any purpose.
Commenter 7 said that the tagging
program is not necessary and the data
generated by the program is not useful.
The commenter also opposed the
commercial harvest of horseshoe crabs
and the use of horseshoe crabs by
biomedical companies. The commenter
proposed a ban on the use of horseshoe
crabs for any purpose.
Commenter 8 discussed the scientific
merit of the tagging program and said
that it has been very useful for
horseshoe crab management purposes.
The commenter suggested that the Fish
and Wildlife Service increase efforts in
resighting tagged crabs outside the
Delaware Bay area. While we recognize
that increasing effort for resighting
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cost associated with increasing that
effort. At this time, we do not have any
additional funds to increase tag recovery
efforts on beaches (done by our
cooperators at this time). We will
encourage our cooperators to increase
efforts in tag recovery outside the
Delaware Bay area. The commenter also
suggested we develop an application for
smart phones in addition to the online
reporting system that we currently offer.
We will explore the development of an
app for smart phones to provide another
method for tag reporting.
Commenter 9 discussed the scientific
merit of the tagging program and said
that it has been very useful to horseshoe
crab and shorebird management (whose
population levels are of concern). The
commenter suggested that we increase
efforts on spawning beaches of
Maryland and Virginia to recover tags,
record time searching for tags to
determine catch-per-unit-effort, and use
formal models to determine survival of
bled crabs from the Lysate industry. As
with previous comments, we will
encourage our cooperators to increase
tag recovery efforts on the Maryland and
Virginia beaches; however, without
increased funding, we will not be able
to increase tag recovery efforts without
the assistance of cooperators. Some
formal studies are being done by our
cooperators using the Service tagging
program to evaluate impacts of both
tagging and of the Lysate bleeding
programs. We will continue to support
the tagging programs that are evaluating
crab survival. The commenter also
suggested that we should facilitate batch
reporting of crabs on the phone and to
encourage tag reporting by commercial
fishermen. At this time we do not have
any additional funds to provide
increased incentives to fishermen,
increase tag recovery efforts on beaches
(done by our cooperators at this time),
or increase efforts to solicit tag data
from commercial fishermen. We will
work with our cooperators to attempt to
get better distribution of tag recovery
efforts.
Commenter 10 provided comments
similar in nature to Commenters 4 and
9.
We did not make any changes to our
information collection requirements
based on 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
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• 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: March 6, 2012.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy and Directives
Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 2012–5879 Filed 3–9–12; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R9–MB–2012–N0059; FF09M21200–
123–FXMB1231099BPP0L2]

Information Collection Request Sent to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for Approval; Approval
Procedures for Nontoxic Shot and
Shot Coatings
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 April 30, 2012.
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 11, 2012.
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).
SUMMARY:

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