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Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 226 / Wednesday, November 23, 2011 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NRSS–1111–8897; 2350–
N003–NAZ]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Reinstatement
with Change of a Previously Approved
Collection; Visibility Valuation Survey:
Pilot Study
U.S. Department of the Interior,
National Park Service.

AGENCY:

Notice and request for
comments.

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. 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.

SUMMARY:

To ensure that your comments
on this ICR are considered, please
submit them on or before December 23,
2011.

DATES:

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 1024–0255. Please also
send a copy of your comments to
Phadrea Ponds, Information Collections
Coordinator, National Park Service,
1201 Oakridge Drive, Fort Collins, CO
80525 (mail); or
[email protected] (email).

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ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Susan Johnson, National Park Service
Air Resources Division, U.S. National
Park Service, 12795 W. Alameda
Parkway, P.O. Box 25287, Denver,
Colorado 80225 (mail);
[email protected] (email); or
(303) 987–6694 (telephone).

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I. Abstract

III. Request for Comments

The Clean Air Act (Sections 169A,
169B, and 110(a)(2)(j) charges the NPS
with an ‘‘affirmative responsibility to
protect air quality related values
(including visibility).’’ The NPS,
believes that the value of visibility
changes should be represented in costbenefit analyses performed regarding
state and federal efforts that may affect
visibility (including the Regional Haze
Rule, 40 CFR part 51). Updated
estimates of visibility benefits are
required because the studies conducted
in the 1970s and 1980s are not adequate
to provide a baseline of current
visibility conditions in national parks
and wilderness.
The NPS plans to conduct a
nationwide stated preference survey to
estimate the value of visibility changes
in national parks and wilderness areas.
Stated preference surveys are carefully
designed to elicit respondents’
willingness to pay for improvements in
environmental quality. A stated
preference survey will be required for
the general population as many U.S.
citizens may be willing to pay to
improve or maintain visibility at
national parks and wilderness areas,
however they may not use these areas.
Stated preference surveys are the only
methodology available to estimate these
non-use values.
Survey development and pre-testing
have already been conducted under a
previous ICR (OMB Control Number
1024–0255). The purpose of this
information collection is to conduct a
pilot study to test the survey instrument
and implementation procedures prior to
the full survey. After the pretest is
completed, the NPS will submit a
revised Information Collection Request
(ICR) to OMB for the full survey.

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.
Comments submitted in response to this
notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval. 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.

II. Data
OMB Number: 1024–0255.
Title: Visibility Valuation Survey Pilot
Study.
Type of Request: This is a
reinstatement of a previously approved
collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Respondent Obligation: Voluntary.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
900 mail and internet survey; 110 nonresponse survey.
Estimated Time and frequency of
Response: This is a one-time survey
estimated to take 20 minutes per
respondent to complete the mail or
internet survey and 5 minutes to
complete the non-response survey.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 309 hours.

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Dated: November 15, 2011.
Robert M. Gordon,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
National Park Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–PWR–PWRO–0927–8527; 2310–0057–
422]

Draft Environmental Impact Statement
for Protecting and Restoring Native
Ecosystems by Managing Non-Native
Ungulates, Hawaii Volcanoes National
Park, Hawaii
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice of Availability for Draft
Environmental Impact Statement for
Protecting and Restoring Native
Ecosystems by Managing Non-Native
Ungulates.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

The National Park Service
(NPS) announces the availability of the
Draft Environmental Impact Statement
(Draft EIS) for Protecting and Restoring
Native Ecosystems by Managing NonNative Ungulates, Hawaii Volcanoes
National Park, Hawaii. The park’s
current management plan for non-native
ungulate control was developed nearly
40 years ago. The new plan will provide
a park-wide framework to systematically
guide non-native ungulate management
activities over the next 15–20 years. The
Draft EIS presents five alternatives for
managing non-native ungulates in a
manner that supports long-term
ecosystem protection, supports natural
ecosystem recovery and provides
desirable conditions for active
ecosystem restoration, and supports

SUMMARY:

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