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The 15member council advises the Secretary of
the Interior through the BLM on a
variety of planning and management
issues associated with public land
management in Montana. At these
meetings, topics will include: Miles City
and Billings Field Office manager
updates, subcommittee briefings, work
sessions and other issues that the
council may raise. All meetings are
open to the public and the public may
present written comments to the
council. Each formal RAC meeting will
also have time allocated for hearing
public comments. Depending on the
number of persons wishing to comment
and time available, the time for
individual oral comments may be
limited. Individuals who plan to attend
and need special assistance, such as
sign language interpretation, tour
transportation or other reasonable
accommodations should contact the
BLM as provided above.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Dated: November 2, 2012.
Diane Friez,
Eastern Montana—Dakotas District Manager.
[FR Doc. 2012–28644 Filed 11–26–12; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4310–DN–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NRSS–EQD–11735;
PPPWSAMOR6 PPMRSNR1Z.Y00000]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Assessment Tools for ParkBased Youth Education and
Employment Experience Programs at
Santa Monica Mountains National
Recreation Area
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice and request for
comments.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

SUMMARY:

(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.
DATES: To ensure that your comments
on this ICR are considered, please
submit them on or before December 27,
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–SAMO. 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:
[email protected] (email); or by
mail at Santa Monica Mountains
National Recreation Area, 401 W.
Hillcrest Drive; Thousand Oaks, CA
91360. You may also access this ICR at
www.reginfo.gov.
I. Abstract
The Santa Monica Mountains
National Recreation Area (SAMO) has
three programs that provide continuous
education and employment experience
opportunities for students in the
vicinity of the park. We use a series of
surveys to objectively evaluate the short
and long-term success of these
environmental education programs.
Areas of interest include: (1)
Understanding and concern for natural
and cultural resource conservation and
stewardship and resulting behavior
EcoHelpers

Teachers ..........................................................................................................
Students ...........................................................................................................

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Hours: 408 hours. We estimate an

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II. Data
OMB Number: 1024–NEW.
Title: Assessment Tools for ParkBased Youth Education and
Employment Experience Programs at
Santa Monica Mountains National
Recreation Area.
Type of Request: This is a new
collection.
Affected Public: General Public;
College students, school aged children
(elementary and high school), and
teachers.
Respondent Obligation: Voluntary.
Estimated Annual Number of
Responses: We expect to receive a total
of 1,224 annual responses (1,204
students and 20 teachers).
SHRUBS

12
720

SAMO Youth
program

8
384

Total

0
100

20
1,204

minutes to complete the survey
instrument).

EcoHelpers

SHRUBS

SAMO Youth
program

Total

135

240

33

408

Annual Burden Hours ......................................................................................

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changes both inside and outside parks;
(2) Awareness and feelings toward the
National Park Service; (3) Recreational
interests and activities; (4) Influences on
family and friends’ attitudes and
behaviors; (5) Education and career
choices; and (6) Usefulness of work
experience.
The SHRUB program provides
education and in-depth involvement for
students and their families in grade
school. The EcoHelpers program
provides one-day service learning
programs to high schools students. The
SAMO Youth program provides
progressive integrated work experience
for high school and college students.
While SAMO has many observational
and anecdotal indications of success, no
formal tools have been developed to
evaluate these programs. The goal of
this collection is to provide
scientifically sound and reliable
measures of outcomes for the three
youth education and employment
experience programs at SAMO. This
assessment will be used to build the
capacity of park youth program
managers to help the park achieve its
goal of continual program improvement
and expanded documentation of
program impact.

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Estimated Time and Frequency of
Response: The EcoHelper, SHRUBS and
SAMO students will be required to take
two surveys (a pre-and post-visit
survey); the teachers and SAMO Alumni
participants will respond to one survey.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: We have not identified any
‘‘non-hour cost’’ burdens associated
with this collection of information.
Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA
(44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an
agency may not conduct or sponsor a
collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
III. Request for Comments
On January 30, 2012, we published a
Federal Register notice (77 FR 4577)
announcing that we would submit this
ICR to OMB for approval and soliciting
comments. The comment period closed
on March 30, 2012. We did not receive
any comments.
Comments are again 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: November 14, 2012.
Madonna L. Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 2012–28748 Filed 11–26–12; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4312–EH–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NRSS–EQD–11735;
PPPWSAMOR6 PPMRSNR1Z.Y00000]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Assessment Tools for ParkBased Youth Education and
Employment Experience Programs at
Santa Monica Mountains National
Recreation Area
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice and request for
comments.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

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.
DATES: To ensure that your comments
on this ICR are considered, please
submit them on or before December 27,
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–SAMO. 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:
[email protected] (email); or by
mail at Santa Monica Mountains
National Recreation Area, 401 W.
Hillcrest Drive; Thousand Oaks, CA
91360. You may also access this ICR at
www.reginfo.gov.
SUMMARY:

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I. Abstract
The Santa Monica Mountains
National Recreation Area (SAMO) has
three programs that provide continuous
education and employment experience
EcoHelpers
Teachers ..........................................................................................................
Students ...........................................................................................................

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opportunities for students in the
vicinity of the park. We use a series of
surveys to objectively evaluate the short
and long-term success of these
environmental education programs.
Areas of interest include: (1)
Understanding and concern for natural
and cultural resource conservation and
stewardship and resulting behavior
changes both inside and outside parks;
(2) Awareness and feelings toward the
National Park Service; (3) Recreational
interests and activities; (4) Influences on
family and friends’ attitudes and
behaviors; (5) Education and career
choices; and (6) Usefulness of work
experience.
The SHRUB program provides
education and in-depth involvement for
students and their families in grade
school. The EcoHelpers program
provides one-day service learning
programs to high schools students. The
SAMO Youth program provides
progressive integrated work experience
for high school and college students.
While SAMO has many observational
and anecdotal indications of success, no
formal tools have been developed to
evaluate these programs. The goal of
this collection is to provide
scientifically sound and reliable
measures of outcomes for the three
youth education and employment
experience programs at SAMO. This
assessment will be used to build the
capacity of park youth program
managers to help the park achieve its
goal of continual program improvement
and expanded documentation of
program impact.
II. Data
OMB Number: 1024–NEW.
Title: Assessment Tools for ParkBased Youth Education and
Employment Experience Programs at
Santa Monica Mountains National
Recreation Area.
Type of Request: This is a new
collection.
Affected Public: General Public;
College students, school aged children
(elementary and high school), and
teachers.
Respondent Obligation: Voluntary.
Estimated Annual Number of
Responses: We expect to receive a total
of 1,224 annual responses (1,204
students and 20 teachers).
SHRUBS

12
720

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8
384

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SAMO Youth
program
0
100

Total
20
1,204