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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. 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 OMB in your comment to
withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that it will be done.
Dated: February 24, 2014.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy and Directives
Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 2014–04339 Filed 2–27–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey
[GX14MN00COM0000]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments
United States Geological
Survey (USGS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of a new information
collection, iCoast—Did the Coast
Change?
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 (PRA) 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.
DATES: To ensure that your comments
are considered, we must receive them
on or before April 29, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on this information collection to the
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201
Sunrise Valley Drive MS 807, Reston,
VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648–7197 (fax);

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or [email protected] (email). Please
reference ‘Information Collection 1028–
NEW, iCoast—Did the Coast Change?’ in
all correspondence.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sophia B. Liu, Research Geographer, at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract
As part of its mission to document
coastal change, the USGS has been
taking aerial photographs of the coast
before and after each major storm for the
past 18 years to assess damages to the
natural landscape and the built
environment. A typical mission consists
of approximately 10,000 photographs.
The digital photo-archive maintained by
the USGS is a valuable environmental
record containing approximately
100,000 photographs taken before and
after 23 extreme storms along the Gulf
and Atlantic Coasts. At the same time,
the USGS has been developing
mathematical models that predict the
likely interactions between storm surge
and coastal features, such as beaches
and dunes, during extreme storms, with
the aim of predicting areas that are
vulnerable to storm damage. Currently
the photographs are not used to inform
the mathematical models. The models
are based primarily on pre-storm dune
height and predicted wave behavior.
If scientists could ‘‘ground truth’’
coastal damage by comparing before and
after photographs of the coast, the
predictive models might be improved. It
is not physically or economically
possible for USGS scientists to examine
all aerial photographs related to each
storm, however, and automation of this
process is also problematic. Image
analysis software is not yet
sophisticated enough to automatically
identify damages to the natural
landscape and the built environment
that are depicted in these photographs;
human perception and local knowledge
are required. ‘iCoast—Did the Coast
Change?’ (hereafter referred to as
‘iCoast’) is a USGS research project to
construct a web-based application that
will allow citizen volunteers to compare
these before and after photographs of
the coast and identify changes that
result from extreme storms through a
process known as ‘crowdsourcing’
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Crowdsourcing). In concept, this
application will be similar to those of
other citizen science image comparison
and classification projects such as the
Citizen Science Alliance’s Cyclone
Center project, (see
www.cyclonecenter.org), which asks

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people to classify types of cyclones by
comparing satellite images.
There are two distinct purposes to
‘iCoast’:
• To allow USGS scientists to ‘ground
truth’ or validate their predictive storm
surge models. These mathematical
models, which are widely used in the
emergency management community for
locating areas of potential vulnerability
to incoming storms, are currently based
solely on pre-storm beach morphology
as determined by high-resolution
elevation data, and predicted wave
behavior derived from parameters of the
approaching storm. The on-the-ground
post-storm observations provided by
citizens using ‘iCoast’ will allow
scientists to determine the accuracy of
the models for future applications, and
• To serve as a repository of images
that enables citizens to become more
aware of their vulnerability to coastal
change and to participate in the
advancement of coastal science.
The application consists of sets of
before-and-after photographs from each
storm with accompanying educational
material about coastal hazards. Since
the photographs of a given area were
taken on different dates following
slightly different flight paths, the
geographic orientation of before and
after images may differ slightly. Often
there will be more than one image
covering approximately the same
geographic area and showing the same
coastal features. Participants are asked
to identify which post-storm image best
covers the same geographic area and
shows the same natural and man-made
features as the image taken after the
storm. After the best match between
before-and-after aerial photographs is
established, participants will classify
post-storm coastal damage using simple
one-or-two word descriptive tags. This
type of tagging is similar to that used in
commercial photo-sharing Web sites
such as Flickr (www.flickr.com). Each
participant will classify photographs of
their choice. They may classify as many
photographs as they wish in as many
sessions as they choose.
In order for a citizen to participate in
classifying the photographs, the
following information must be collected
by this application:
(1) Participants will login to the
‘iCoast’ application using externally
issued credentials via the Federally
approved ‘‘Open Identity Exchange’’
(www.openid.net) method. This Federal
Government program benefits users by
accelerating their sign up, reducing the
frustration of maintaining multiple
passwords, allowing them to control
their own identity, and minimizing
password security risks. User

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credentials will be managed and
authenticated by Google, an Identity
Provider approved by the Federal
Government. During the login process
participants will be redirected to a
Google owned and operated login page.
Following successful authentication of
Id and password, participants are asked
by Google to confirm agreement to their
Google email address being shared with
‘iCoast’. Users have the option to
decline this and halt the login process
with no information shared to ‘iCoast’.
If a participant accepts the sharing of
their email address then the USGS will
store the address within the ‘iCoast’
database. ‘iCoast’ is never supplied nor
does it request a participant’s password
directly. Storing of the participant’s
email address by ‘iCoast’ is necessary to
permit the pairing of Google login
credentials with their ‘iCoast’ profile.
The USGS will encrypt all stored
participant email addresses. No other
information or Google account access is
shared by Google to ‘iCoast’ and nothing
is shared from ‘iCoast’ to Google at any
time.
(2) Level of expertise: At initial log in
to ‘iCoast’, the participant will be asked
to indicate what type of ‘crowd’ or
group he or she belongs to by picking
from a pre-determined list (e.g. coastal
scientist, coastal planner, coastal
resident, general public etc.). The
participant may also optionally
contribute his or her professional
affiliation in an open text box, but this
is not required. Professional affiliation
may provide additional information to
the scientists to more fully assess the
accuracy of a participant’s
classifications. Provision of level of
expertise alone will not allow an
individual to be personally identified.
(3) Keyword tagging: After comparing
pre-and post-storm aerial photographs,
participants can select predefined
keyword tags OR they can submit their
own in a free-form text field. The
keyword tags will help the USGS
determine classification accuracy, and
confirm or refute pre-storm predictions
of coastal inundation and damage
derived from the mathematical storm
surge models.
This application will have many
benefits. It will serve the cause of open
government and open data, in that these
images will be available to the public in
an easily accessible online format for
the first time. It will enhance the
science of coastal change and allow for
more accurate storm surge predictions,
benefitting emergency managers and
coastal planners. It will also familiarize
coastal communities with coastal
processes and increase their awareness
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anticipate that this application will be
used by educators to further science,
technology, engineering and
mathematics (STEM) education;
outreach to educators is planned.
OMB Control Number: 1028–NEW.
Title: iCoast—Did the Coast Change?
Type of Request: New information
collection.
Affected Public: Coastal scientists,
coastal managers, marine science
students, emergency managers, citizens/
residents of coastal communities.
Respondent’s Obligation: None.
Participation is voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: Occasional.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 1000.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: 2500.
Estimated Time per Response: 30
minutes.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours:
1250.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: None.
Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA
(44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an
agency may not conduct or sponsor and
you are not required to respond to a
collection of information unless it is
approved by the OMB and displays a
valid OMB control number and current
expiration date.
III. Request for Comments
We are soliciting comments as to: (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the agency
to perform its duties, including whether
the information is useful; (b) the
accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, usefulness, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d) how
to minimize the burden on the
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Please note that the comments
submitted in response to this notice are
a matter of public record. Before
including your personal mailing
address, phone number, email address,
or other personally identifiable
information in your comment, you
should be aware that your entire
comment, including your personally
identifiable information, may be made
publicly available at any time. While
you can ask us in your comment to
withhold your personally identifiable
information from public view, we

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cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Richard Z. Poore,
Center Director, USGS Coastal and Marine
Science Center.
[FR Doc. 2014–04392 Filed 2–27–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indians Affairs
[AAK4004200/A0R5C4040.999900/
134A2100DD]

Proclaiming Certain Lands, White
Horse Golf Course Property, as an
Addition to the Port Madison Indian
Reservation for the Suquamish Tribe
Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Reservation
Proclamation.
AGENCY:

This notice informs the public
that the Assistant Secretary—Indian
Affairs proclaimed approximately
283.17 acres, more or less, as an
addition to the Port Madison
Reservation for the Suquamish Indian
Tribe.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Matthew C. Kirkland, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, Division of Real Estate Services,
MS–4642–MIB, 1849 C Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20240, telephone (202)
208–3615.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
Notice is published in the exercise of
authority delegated by the Secretary of
the Interior to the Assistant Secretary—
Indian Affairs by part 209 of the
Departmental Manual.
A proclamation was issued according
to the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 986;
25 U.S.C. 467) for the land described
below. The land was proclaimed to be
an addition to the Port Madison
Reservation of the Suquamish Indian
Tribe of Washington, for the exclusive
use of Indians entitled by enrollment or
tribal membership to reside at such
reservation.
SUMMARY:

Willamette Meridian
Kitsap County, Washington
Legal description of the trust property
including +/¥ 283.17 acres is:
Vacated tracts E, F, G, I and J and
portions of vacated Tracts D, H and P of
the Plat of White Horse, recorded under
Auditor’s file Number 200502020210 in
Volume 31 of Plats, Page 139 through
157, inclusive, records of Kitsap County,
Washington; being within Section 3 of
Township 26 North, Range 2 East of the
Willamette Meridian in Kitsap County,

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