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Number 1615–0026 in the subject box.
Written comments and suggestions from
the public and affected agencies should
address one or more of the following
four points:
(1) Evaluate whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques, or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.

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Overview of This Information
Collection
(1) Type of Information Collection:
Extension of an existing information
collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection:
Immigrant Petition by Alien
Entrepreneur.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the
Department of Homeland Security
sponsoring the collection: Form I–526.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services.
(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Primary: Businesses. This form
is used by the USCIS to determine if an
alien can enter the U.S. to engage in
commercial enterprise.
(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: 3,742 responses at 1 hour and
15 minutes (1.25 hours) per response.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: 4,678 annual burden hours.
If you need a copy of the information
collection instrument, please visit the
Web site at: http://www.regulations.gov/
.
We may also be contacted at: USCIS,
Regulatory Products Division, 20
Massachusetts Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20529–2020, telephone
number (202) 272–8377.

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Dated: November 9, 2011.
Sunday Aigbe,
Chief, Regulatory Products Division, Office
of the Executive Secretariat, U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

[FR Doc. 2011–29493 Filed 11–14–11; 8:45 am]

Proposed Information Collection;
Policy for Evaluation of Conservation
Efforts When Making Listing Decisions
(PECE)

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Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), Central
and Western Gulf of Mexico, Oil and
Gas Lease Sales for Years 2012–2017
Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management (BOEM), Interior.

AGENCY:

Call for Information and
Nominations; Correction.

ACTION:

On March 15, 2011, BOEM
(formerly the Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management, Regulation and
Enforcement) published a notice in the
Federal Register (76 FR 14040), entitled
‘‘Call for Information and
Nominations.’’ This document describes
a correction to the sale numbers that
were identified in the Call. As
previously published, the sale numbers
contained an error that will prove to be
misleading.

SUMMARY:

Section 2—Purpose of Call, Should Be
Changed to the Following Sale Numbers

Sale
Sale
Sale
Sale
Sale
Sale
Sale
Sale
Sale
Sale

229,
227,
233,
231,
238,
235,
246,
241,
248,
247,

Sale year

Western GOM ..........
Central GOM ............
Western GOM ..........
Central GOM ............
Western GOM ..........
Central GOM ............
Western GOM ..........
Central GOM ............
Western GOM ..........
Central GOM ............

2012
2013
2013
2014
2014
2015
2015
2016
2016
2017

This correction is effective
immediately.

DATES:

Mr.
Carrol Williams, BOEM, Gulf of Mexico
OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood Park
Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana
70123–2394, telephone (504) 736–2803.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dated: October 25, 2011.
Tommy P. Beaudreau,
Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management.
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Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Lease sale, planning area

Fish and Wildlife Service

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 May 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.
DATES: To ensure that we are able to
consider your comments on this IC, we
must receive them by January 17, 2012.
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] (email).
Please include ‘‘1018–0119’’ in the
subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this IC, contact Hope Grey at
[email protected] (email) or (703) 358–
2482 (telephone).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

I. Abstract
Section 4 of the Endangered Species
Act (ESA) (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.)
specifies the process by which we can
list species as threatened or endangered.
When we consider whether or not to list
a species, the ESA requires us to take
into account the efforts being made by
any State or any political subdivision of
a State to protect such species. We also
take into account the efforts being made
by other entities. States or other entities
often formalize conservation efforts in
conservation agreements, conservation
plans, management plans, or similar
documents. The conservation efforts
recommended or called for in such
documents could prevent some species

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from becoming so imperiled that they
meet the definition of a threatened or
endangered species under the ESA.
The Policy for Evaluation of
Conservation Efforts When Making
Listing Decisions (PECE) (68 FR 15100)
encourages the development of
conservation agreements/plans and
provides certainty about the standard
that an individual conservation effort
must meet for us to consider whether it
contributes to forming a basis for
making a decision about the listing of a
species. PECE applies to ‘‘formalized
conservation efforts’’ that have not been
implemented or have been implemented
but have not yet demonstrated if they

are effective at the time of a listing
decision.
Under PECE, formalized conservation
efforts are defined as conservation
efforts (specific actions, activities, or
programs designed to eliminate or
reduce threats or otherwise improve the
status of a species) identified in a
conservation agreement, conservation
plan, management plan, or similar
document. The development of such
agreements/plans is voluntary. There is
no requirement that the individual
conservation efforts included in such
documents be designed to meet the
standard in PECE.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1018–0119.
Number of
respondents

Activity

Completion
time per
response
(hours)

Number of
responses

Total annual
burden hours

Original Agreement ..........................................................................................
Monitoring ........................................................................................................
Reporting .........................................................................................................

4
7
7

4
7
7

2,000
600
120

8,000
4,200
840

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

18

18

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

13,040

III. Comments

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Title: Policy for Evaluation of
Conservation Efforts When Making
Listing Decisions (PECE).
Service Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Extension of
currently approved collection.
Description of Respondents: Primarily
State, local, or tribal governments.
However, individuals, businesses, and
not-for-profit organizations could
develop agreements/plans or may agree
to implement certain conservation
efforts identified in a State agreement/
plan.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.

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.

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Dated: November 7, 2011.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy and Directives
Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Information Collection Request Sent to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for Approval; Migratory Birds
and Wetlands Conservation Grant
Programs
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 December 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

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conduct or sponsor this information
collection while it is pending at OMB.
DATES: You must submit comments on
or before December 15, 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 ‘‘1018–0100’’ 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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 1018–0100.
Title: Migratory Birds and Wetlands
Conservation Grant Programs.
Service Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Description of Respondents: Domestic
and foreign individuals, businesses and
other for-profit organizations;

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