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• Ozark big-eared bat (Corynorhinus
townsendii ingens)
• Winged mapleleaf (Quadrula fragosa)
Permit TE–837751
Applicant: Bureau of Reclamation,
Phoenix, Arizona.
Applicant requests an amendment to
a current permit for research and
recovery purposes to conduct presence/
absence surveys of Zuni bluehead
sucker (Catostomus discobolus yarrow)
within Arizona.

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Permit TE–048806
Applicant: U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service-Aransas National Wildlife
Refuge, Austwell, Texas.
Applicant requests a renewal to a
current permit for research and recovery
purposes to conduct the following
activities for whooping crane (Grus
americanus) nationwide: To conduct
presence/absence surveys; to process
and ship parts thereof; to raise, breed,
display, and administer health care to
captive birds at approved facilities; to
ship live wild-captured or captivereared whooping cranes and eggs to
various sites for research,
reintroductions, or rehabilitation or
treatment of sick or injured individuals,
or among captive sites for avicultural
management; to capture, provide health
care, put on tracking devices and/or
identification bands, and do health
screens, including blood collection; to
re-introduce captive whooping cranes
into central Florida, Louisiana,
Wisconsin, or other States where
whooping cranes have been designated
experimental/nonessential and carry out
research and monitoring associated with
those reintroductions; and to carry out
scientific research and management
directly related to whooping crane
recovery that is approved by the
USFWS’s Whooping Crane Coordinator.
Permit TE–821577
Applicant: Arizona Game and Fish
Department, Phoenix, Arizona.
Applicant requests a renewal to a
current permit for research and recovery
purposes to conduct presence/absence
surveys of the following species within
Arizona:
• Black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes)
• Bonytail (Gila elegans)
• California condor (Gymnogyps
californianus)
• Colorado pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus
lucius)
• Desert pupfish (Cyprinodon
macularius macularius)
• Gila chub (Gila intermedia)
• Gila topminnow (Poeciliopsis
occidentalis occidentalis)
• Hualapai Mexican vole (Microtus
montanus [=mexicanus] hualpaiensis)

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• Humpback chub (Gila cypha)
• Kanab ambersnail (Oxyloma haydeni
kanabensis)
• Lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris
yerbabuenae)
• Loach minnow (Tiaroga cobitis)
• Masked bobwhite (Colinus
virginianus ridgwayi)
• Mexican long-nosed bat
(Leptonycteris nivalis)
• Mount Graham red squirrel
(Tamiasciurus hudsonicus
grahamensis)
• Razorback sucker (Xyrauchen
texanus)
• Rio Sonoyta (Quitobaquito) pupfish
(Cyprinodon macularius eremus)
• Sonoran pronghorn (Antilocapra
americana sonoriensis)
• Sonoran tiger salamander
(Ambystoma tigrinum [=mavortium]
stebbinsi)
• Spikedace (Meda fulgida)
• Virgin River chub (Gila seminuda)
• Woundfin (Plagopterus argentissimus)
• Yaqui chub (Gila purpurea)
• Yaqui topminnow (Poeciliopsis
occidentalis sonoriensis)
• Yuma clapper rail (Rallus longirostris
yumanensis)
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA)
In compliance with NEPA (42 U.S.C.
4321 et seq.), we have made an initial
determination that the proposed
activities in these permits are
categorically excluded from the
requirement to prepare an
environmental assessment or
environmental impact statement (516
DM 6 Appendix 1, 1.4C(1)).
Public Availability of Comments
All comments and materials we
receive in response to this request will
be available for public inspection, by
appointment, during normal business
hours at the address listed in the
ADDRESSES section of this notice.
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.
Authority
We provide this notice under section
10 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.)

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Dated: March 10, 2014.
Joy E. Nicholopoulos,
Acting Regional Director, Southwest Region.
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BILLING CODE 4310–55–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLAK930000.L13100000.FF0000.241A;
OMB Control Number 1004–0196]

Renewal of Approved Information
Collection
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: 30-day notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) has submitted an
information collection request to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) to continue the collection of
information from participants in the oil
and gas leasing program within the
National Petroleum Reserve—Alaska
(NPRA). The Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) has assigned control
number 1004–0196 to this collection.
DATES: The OMB is required to respond
to this information collection request
within 60 days but may respond after 30
days. For maximum consideration
written comments should be received
on or before April 25, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly
to the Desk Officer for the Department
of the Interior (OMB #1004–0196),
Office of Management and Budget,
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, fax 202–395–5806, or by
electronic mail at oira_submission@
omb.eop.gov. Please provide a copy of
your comments to the BLM.
Mail: U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, 1849 C
Street NW., Room 2134LM, Attention:
Jean Sonneman, Washington, DC 20240.
Fax: to Jean Sonneman at 202–245–
0050.
Electronic mail: Jean_Sonneman@
blm.gov.
Please indicate ‘‘Attn: 1004–0196’’
regardless of the form of your
comments.
SUMMARY:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Wayne Svejnoha, 907–271–4407.
Persons who use a telecommunication
device for the deaf may call the Federal
Information Relay Service at 1–800–
877–8339, to leave a message for Mr.
Svejnoha. You may also review the
information collection request online at
http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain.

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Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 58 / Wednesday, March 26, 2014 / Notices
The
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501–3521) and OMB regulations at 5
CFR part 1320 provide that an agency
may not conduct or sponsor a collection
of information unless it displays a
currently valid OMB control number.
Until the OMB approves a collection of
information, you are not obligated to
respond. In order to obtain and renew
an OMB control number, Federal
agencies are required to seek public
comment on information collection and
recordkeeping activities. (see 5 CFR
1320.8(d) and 1320.12(a)).
As required at 5 CFR 1320.8(d), the
BLM published a 60-day notice in the
Federal Register on November 18, 2013
(78 FR 69125), and the comment period
closed on January 17, 2014. The BLM
received no comments.
The BLM requests comments on the
following subjects:
1. Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
functioning of the BLM, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
2. The accuracy of the BLM’s estimate
of the burden of collecting the

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
3. The quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected; and
4. How to minimize the information
collection burden on those who are to
respond, including the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other forms of
information technology.
Please send comments to the
addresses listed under ADDRESSES.
Please refer to OMB Control Number
1004–0196 in your correspondence.
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.
The following information is provided
for the information collection:
Title: Oil and Gas Leasing: National
Petroleum Reserve—Alaska.
OMB Control Number: 1004–0196.

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Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
SUMMARY: This control number applies
to the National Petroleum Reserve—
Alaska (NPRA). In accordance with the
Naval Petroleum Reserve Production
Act (42 U.S.C. 6501–6508) and
regulations at 43 CFR part 3130, the
BLM may authorize participation in an
NPRA unit agreement. Participants in
such an agreement are required to
comply with routine data submissions
that are used to document drilling and
production and ensure compliance with
the unit agreement, lease terms,
regulations, Onshore Oil and Gas
Orders, Notices to Lessees, lease
stipulations, or conditions of approval.
In addition, participants in such an
agreement may apply for reduction of
royalty, suspension of operations or
production, or a subsurface storage
agreement.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 220.
Estimated Annual Responses: 21.
Estimated Annual Non-hour Burden
Cost: None.
The estimated burdens are itemized in
the following table:
B.
Number of
responses

A.
Type of response

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C.
Time per
response

D.
Total time
(column B ×
column C)

Royalty reduction (43 CFR 3133.4) ................................................................................................
Suspension of operations (43 CFR 3135.3) ...................................................................................
Notification of operations (43 CFR 3135.6) ....................................................................................
Unit designation (43 CFR 3137.21 and 3137.23) ..........................................................................
Notification of unit approval (43 CFR 3137.25) ..............................................................................
Certification for modification (43 CFR 3137.52) .............................................................................
Acceptable bonding (43 CFR 3137.60) ..........................................................................................
Change of unit operator (43 CFR 3137.61) ...................................................................................
Certification of unit obligation (43 CFR 3137.70) ...........................................................................
Certification of continuing development (43 CFR 3137.71) ...........................................................
Productivity for a participating area (43 CFR 3137.84) .................................................................
Unleased tracts (43 CFR 3137.87) ................................................................................................
Notification of productivity (43 CFR 3137.88) ................................................................................
Notification of productivity for non-unit well (43 CFR 3137.91) .....................................................
Production information (43 CFR 3137.92) .....................................................................................
Lease extension (43 CFR 3137.111) .............................................................................................
Inability to conduct operations activities (43 CFR 3137.112) ........................................................
Unit termination (43 CFR 3137.130) ..............................................................................................
Impact mitigation (43 CFR 3137.135) ............................................................................................
Storage agreement (43 CFR 3138.11) ...........................................................................................

1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

16 hours .......
4 hours .........
15 minutes ...
80 hours .......
1 hour ...........
4 hours .........
30 minutes ...
45 minutes ...
2 hours .........
2 hours .........
12 hours .......
3 hours .........
30 minutes ...
30 minutes ...
1 hour ...........
3 hours .........
2 hours .........
1 hour ...........
4 hours .........
80 hours .......

16 hours.
4 hours.
30 minutes.
80 hours.
1 hour.
4 hours.
30 minutes.
45 minutes.
2 hours.
2 hours.
12 hours.
3 hours.
30 minutes.
30 minutes.
1 hour.
3 hours.
2 hours.
1 hour.
4 hours.
80 hours.

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

21

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

220 hours.

Jean Sonneman,
Bureau of Land Management, Information
Collection Clearance Officer.
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