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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: November 7, 2011.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy and Directives
Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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TAMWG. The meeting will include
discussion of the following topics:
• Key questions for Restoration
Program guidance and assessment,
• Channel rehabilitation program
review and planning,
• Gravel augmentation program,
• Watersheds work program,
• TRRP budget update,
• Hatchery practices review,
• Fish marking,
• Executive Director’s report,
• Trinity Management Council
Chair’s report, and
• Designated Federal Officer topics.
Completion of the agenda is
dependent on the amount of time each
item takes. The meeting could end early
if the agenda has been completed.
Dated: November 8, 2011.
Randy A. Brown,
Deputy Field Supervisor, Arcata Fish and
Wildlife Office, Arcata, CA.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R8–FHC–2011–N237;
FXFR1334088TWG0W4]

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Trinity Adaptive Management Working
Group
AGENCY:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service,

Interior.
Notice of meeting.

Geological Survey

ACTION:

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The Trinity Adaptive
Management Working Group (TAMWG)
affords stakeholders the opportunity to
give policy, management, and technical
input concerning Trinity River
(California) restoration efforts to the
Trinity Management Council (TMC).
The TMC interprets and recommends
policy, coordinates and reviews
management actions, and provides
organizational budget oversight. This
notice announces a TAMWG meeting,
which is open to the public.
DATES: TAMWG will meet from 9:30
a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, December 9,
2011.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Trinity County Library, 351 Main
Street, Weaverville, CA 96093.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Meeting Information: Randy A. Brown,
TAMWG Designated Federal Officer,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1655
Heindon Road, Arcata, CA 95521;
telephone: (707) 822–7201. Trinity River
Restoration Program (TRRP)
Information: Robin Schrock, Executive
Director, Trinity River Restoration
Program, P.O. Box 1300, 1313 South
Main Street, Weaverville, CA 96093;
telephone: (530) 623–1800; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under
section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.), this
notice announces a meeting of the

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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Information
Collection; Economic Contribution of
Federal Investments in Restoration of
Degraded, Damaged, or Destroyed
Ecosystems
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments for
a new information collection.
AGENCY:

We (the U.S. Geological
Survey) 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. 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 on or before January
17, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
on this IC to Shari Baloch, Information
Collection Clearance Officer, U.S.
Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley
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Drive mail stop 807 (mail) or
[email protected] (email). Please
reference IC 1028–NEW (ECFIRA) in the
subject line.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Lynne Koontz, U.S. Geological Survey,
2150–C Centre Ave, Fort Collins, CO
80526 (mail); [email protected] (email);
or: (970) 226–9384 (phone).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Under the American Restoration and
Recovery Act (ARRA) (Pub. L. 111–5)
and via U.S. Department of the Interior
(DOI) and U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) management
agencies, restoration projects to mitigate
environmental damages and to improve
the health and resiliency of terrestrial,
freshwater and marine ecosystems are
currently in progress. Federal
investments in ecosystem restoration
and monitoring protect Federal trusts,
ensure public health and safety, and
preserve and enhance essential
ecosystem services; furthermore, these
investments create jobs. An emphasis on
quantifying the relationship between job
creation and investments in ecological
restoration is evident in the goals of the
ARRA, Agriculture Secretary Vilsack’s
emphasis on tying management actions
to rural jobs (Farm Service Agency
Office of Communications, 2010), and
Interior Secretary Salazar’s annual
report on the Department’s economic
contribution to the Nation’s economy
(Department of the Interior, 2009). The
need to better understand the
connection between restoring the health
and productivity of ecosystems and the
resulting economic benefits to local
communities is also illustrated in a
recent report by the President’s Council
of Advisors on Science and Technology,
which calls on the federal government
to better prioritize the approximately
$10 billion it spends each year on
ecological restoration and biodiversity
preservation. Though a few small,
localized studies have been carried out
to measure jobs created or supported by
investments in certain types of
ecosystem restoration, they are not
useful at a national scale due to regional
variations and variations in study
methods and objectives. Without data
on the proportion of restoration costs
typically spent on labor, equipment,
supplies and other expenditures, the
economic contribution generated by
federal investments in restoration
cannot be estimated.
The USGS plans to conduct a
nationwide telephone survey to elicit
expenditure pattern information from
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work for the DOI and the USDA. The
objective of this survey is to estimate the
economic job and income contribution
current and proposed restoration
activities generate in surrounding
communities. Collection of these data is
necessary to improve agency decision
making on individual restoration
projects, to prioritize spending across
restoration projects, and to meet internal
guidelines for credible economic
analysis. This notice will cover the
development and pretesting of the final
survey instrument.

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II. Data
OMB Number: 1028–New.
Title: Economic Contribution of
Federal Investments in Restoration of
Degraded, Damaged, or Destroyed
Ecosystems.
Type of Request: This is a new
collection.
Affected Public: DOI and USDA
restoration contractors registered on the
Federal Procurement Data System.
Respondent Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One time
only.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Respondents: 7,500.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
6,000.
Estimated Time per Response: 15
minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1,500 hours.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: We have not identified any
‘‘non-hour cost’’ burdens associated
with this collection of information.
III. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether
or not the collection of information is
necessary, including the practical utility
of the information being gathered; (2)
the accuracy of the burden hour
estimate for this collection of
information; (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.
Please note that the comments
submitted 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.

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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: October 20, 2011.
Ione Taylor,
Associate Director, Energy and Minerals, and
Environmental Health Programs.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Deadline for Submitting Completed
Applications To Begin Participation in
the Tribal Self-Governance Program in
Fiscal Year 2013 or Calendar Year 2013
Office of Self-Governance,
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Application Deadline.
AGENCY:

In this notice, the Office of
Self-Governance (OSG) establishes a
March 1, 2012, deadline for Indian
tribes/consortia to submit completed
applications to begin participation in
the tribal self-governance program in
fiscal year 2013 or calendar year 2013.
DATES: Completed application packages
must be received by the Director, Office
of Self-Governance, by March 1, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Application packages for
inclusion in the applicant pool should
be sent to Sharee M. Freeman, Director,
Office of Self-Governance, Department
of the Interior, Mail Stop 355–G–SIB,
1951 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20240.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Kenneth D. Reinfeld, Office of SelfGovernance, Telephone (202) 208–5734.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994
(Pub. L. 103–413), as amended by the
Fiscal Year 1997 Omnibus
Appropriations Bill (Pub. L. 104–208),
the Director, Office of Self-Governance
may select up to 50 additional
participating tribes/consortia per year
for the tribal self-governance program,
and negotiate and enter into a written
funding agreement with each
participating tribe. The Act mandates
that the Secretary submit copies of the
funding agreements at least 90 days
before the proposed effective date to the
appropriate committees of the Congress
and to the other tribes that are served by
the same Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
agency as the tribe that is a party to the
funding agreement. Initial negotiations
with a tribe/consortium located in a
region and/or agency which has not
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previously been involved with selfgovernance negotiations, will take
approximately 2 months from start to
finish. Agreements for an October 1 to
September 30 funding year need to be
signed and submitted by July 1.
Agreements for a January 1 to December
31 funding year need to be signed and
submitted by October 1.
Purpose of Notice
The regulations at 25 CFR 1000.10 to
1000.31 will be used to govern the
application and selection process for
tribes/consortia to begin their
participation in the tribal selfgovernance program in fiscal year 2013
and calendar year 2013. Applicants
should be guided by the requirements in
these subparts in preparing their
applications. Copies of these subparts
may be obtained from the information
contact person identified in this notice.
Tribes/consortia wishing to be
considered for participation in the tribal
self-governance program in fiscal year
2013 or calendar year 2013 must
respond to this notice, except for those
tribes/consortia which are: (1) Currently
involved in negotiations with the
Department; or (2) one of the 105 tribal
entities with signed agreements.
Information Collection
This information collection is
authorized by OMB Control Number
1076–0143, Tribal Self-Governance
Program, which expires November 30,
2012.
Dated: November 1, 2011.
Donald E. Laverdure,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—Indian
Affairs.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[CACA 51793, LLCA9300000, L54100000]

Notice of Realty Action: Conveyance of
Federally Owned Mineral Interests in
Kern County, CA
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of realty action.
AGENCY:

The surface owner, George
Sullivan, filed an application on April
5, 2010 for the conveyance of the
federally-owned mineral interests of a
10.98 acre tract of land in Kern County,
California. Publication of this notice
temporarily segregates the mineral
interests in the land covered by the
application from appropriation under

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