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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 27 / Tuesday, February 10, 2015 / Notices

Certain Post-Importation Preferential
Tariff Treatment Claims under Certain
FTAs: 78 FR 27984 (May 13, 2013).
• Modification of Two National
Customs Automation Program (NCAP)
Tests Concerning Automated
Commercial Environment (ACE)
Document Image System (DIS) and
Simplified Entry (SE): 78 FR 44142 (July
23, 2013).
• Modification of Two National
Customs Automation Program (NCAP)
Tests Concerning Automated
Commercial Environment (ACE)
Document Image System (DIS) and
Simplified Entry (SE); Correction: 78 FR
53466 (August 29, 2013).
• Modification of NCAP Test
Concerning Automated Commercial
Environment (ACE) Cargo Release
(formerly known as Simplified Entry):
78 FR 66039 (November 4, 2013).
• Post-Summary Corrections to Entry
Summaries Filed in ACE Pursuant to the
ESAR IV Test: Modifications and
Clarifications: 78 FR 69434 (November
19, 2013).
• National Customs Automation
Program (NCAP) Test Concerning the
Submission of Certain Data Required by
the Environmental Protection Agency
and the Food Safety and Inspection
Service Using the Partner Government
Agency Message Set Through the
Automated Commercial Environment
(ACE): 78 FR 75931 (December 13,
2013).
• Modification of National Customs
Automation Program (NCAP) Test
Concerning Automated Commercial
Environment (ACE) Cargo Release for
Ocean and Rail Carriers: 79 FR 6210
(February 3, 2014).
• Modification of National Customs
Automation Program (NCAP) Test
Concerning Automated Commercial
Environment (ACE) Cargo Release To
Allow Importers and Brokers To Certify
From ACE Entry Summary: 79 FR 24744
(May 1, 2014).
• Modification of National Customs
Automation Program (NCAP) Test
Concerning Automated Commercial
Environment (ACE) Cargo Release for
Truck Carriers: 79 FR 25142 (May 2,
2014).
• Modification of National Customs
Automation Program (NCAP) Test
Concerning Automated Commercial
Environment Document Image System:
79 FR 36083 (June 25, 2014).
Dated: February 5, 2015.
Sandra L. Bell,
Acting Assistant Commissioner, Office of
International Trade.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R5–FHC–2015–N033; FF05F24400–
FXFR13350500000]

Proposed Information Collection;
Horseshoe Crab Tagging Program
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:

We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service) 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. This
IC is scheduled to expire on May 31,
2015. 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 by April 13, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the
IC to the Information Collection
Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, MS BPHC, 5275
Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041–
3803 (mail); or [email protected]
(email). Please include ‘‘1018–0127’’ in
the subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this IC, contact Hope Grey at hope_
[email protected] (email) or 703–358–2482
(telephone).
SUMMARY:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract
Horseshoe crabs play a vital role
commercially, biomedically, and
ecologically along the Atlantic coast.
Horseshoe crabs are commercially
harvested and used as bait in eel and
conch fisheries. Biomedical companies
along the coast also collect and bleed
horseshoe crabs at their facilities.
Limulus Amoebocyte Lysate is derived
from crab blood, which has no synthetic
substitute, and is used by
pharmaceutical companies to test
sterility of products. Finally, migratory
shorebirds also depend on the eggs of
horseshoe crabs to refuel on their
migrations from South America to the
Arctic. One bird in particular, the red
knot, feeds primarily on horseshoe crab
eggs during its stopover. Effective

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January 12, 2015, this species was listed
as threatened under the Endangered
Species Act.
In 1998, the Atlantic States Marine
Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), a
management organization with
representatives from each State on the
Atlantic Coast, developed a horseshoe
crab management plan. The ASMFC
plan and its subsequent addenda
established mandatory State-by-State
harvest quotas, and created the 1,500square-mile Carl N. Shuster, Jr.,
Horseshoe Crab Sanctuary off the mouth
of Delaware Bay.
Restrictive measures have been taken
in recent years, but populations are
increasing slowly. Because horseshoe
crabs do not breed until they are 9 years
or older, it may take some time before
the population measurably increases.
Federal and State agencies, universities,
and biomedical companies participate
in a Horseshoe Crab Cooperative
Tagging Program. The Maryland Fishery
Resources Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, maintains the information that
we collect under this program and uses
it to evaluate migratory patterns,
survival, and abundance of horseshoe
crabs.
Agencies that tag and release the crabs
complete FWS Form 3–2311 (Horseshoe
Crab Tagging) and provide the Service
with:
• Organization name.
• Contact person name.
• Tag number.
• Sex of crab.
• Prosomal width.
• Capture site, latitude, longitude,
waterbody, State, and date.
Members of the public who recover
tagged crabs provide the following
information using FWS Form 3–2310
(Horseshoe Crab Recapture Report):
• Tag number.
• Whether or not tag was removed.
• Whether the tag was circular or
square.
• Condition of crab.
• Date captured/found.
• Crab fate.
• Finder type.
• Capture method.
• Capture location.
• Reporter information.
• Comments.
If the public participant who reports
the tagged crab requests information, we
send data pertaining to the tagging
program and tag and release information
on the horseshoe crab that was found or
captured.
I. Data
OMB Control Number: 1018–0127.
Title: Horseshoe Crab Tagging
Program.

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Service Form Number(s): 3–2310 and
3–2311.
Type of Request: Extension of
currently approved collection.

Description of Respondents: Tagging
agencies include Federal and State
agencies, universities, and biomedical
companies. Members of the general
public provide recapture information.
Number of
annual
respondents

Activity

Number of
annual
responses

7491

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion
when horseshoe crabs are tagged and
when horseshoe crabs are found or
captured.
Completion time per response

Annual burden
hours

FWS Form 3–2310 ..........................................................
FWS Form 3–2311 ..........................................................

1,160
18

2,750
18

5 minutes .......................................
95 hours* .......................................

229
1,710

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

1,178

2,768

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

1,939

* Average time required per response is dependent on the number of tags applied by an agency in 1 year. Agencies tag between 25 and 9,000
horseshoe crabs annually, taking between 2 to 5 minutes per crab to tag, record, and report data. Each agency determines the number of tags it
will apply.

Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden
Cost: None.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service

III. Comments

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We invite comments concerning this
information collection on:
• Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary, including
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. 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.
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.
Dated: February 4, 2015.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and
Management Programs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service.
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John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier
Resources System; Collier County, FL;
Availability of Draft Maps and Request
for Comments
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability; request
for comments.
AGENCY:

We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (Service), announce the
availability of three John H. Chafee
Coastal Barrier Resources System
(CBRS) draft revised maps for public
review and comment. The draft maps,
all dated November 10, 2014, are for
three existing CBRS units and two
proposed new CBRS units located in
Collier County, Florida.
DATES: To ensure consideration, we
must receive your written comments by
March 27, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Mail or hand-deliver
(during normal business hours)
comments to Katie Niemi, Coastal
Barriers Coordinator, Division of Budget
and Technical Support, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, 5275 Leesburg Pike,
MS: ES, Falls Church, VA 22041, or
send comments by electronic mail
(email) to [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Katie Niemi, Coastal Barriers
Coordinator, (703) 358–2071
(telephone); or [email protected] (email).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

Background
Coastal barriers are typically
elongated, narrow landforms located at
the interface of land and sea, and are
inherently dynamic ecosystems. Coastal
barriers provide important habitat for
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mainland’s first line of defense against
the impacts of severe storms. With the
passage of the Coastal Barrier Resources
Act (CBRA) in 1982 (Pub. L. 97–348),
Congress recognized that certain actions
and programs of the Federal
Government have historically
subsidized and encouraged
development on coastal barriers, where
severe storms are much more likely to
occur, and the result has been the loss
of natural resources; threats to human
life, health, and property; and the
expenditure of millions of tax dollars
each year.
The CBRA established the CBRS,
which comprised 186 geographic units
encompassing approximately 453,000
acres of undeveloped lands and
associated aquatic habitat along the
Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts. The
CBRS was expanded by the Coastal
Barrier Improvement Act of 1990 (Pub.
L. 101–591) to include additional areas
along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
coasts, as well as areas along the coasts
of the Great Lakes, the U.S. Virgin
Islands, and Puerto Rico. The CBRS now
comprises a total of 856 geographic
units, encompassing approximately 3.2
million acres of relatively undeveloped
coastal barrier lands and associated
aquatic habitat. These areas are depicted
on a series of maps entitled ‘‘John H.
Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources
System.’’
Most new Federal expenditures and
financial assistance that would have the
effect of encouraging development are
prohibited within the CBRS. However,
development can still occur within the
CBRS, provided that private developers
or other non-Federal parties bear the full
cost, rather than the American
taxpayers.
The CBRS includes two types of units,
System units and Otherwise Protected
Areas (OPAs). System units generally
comprise private lands that were
relatively undeveloped at the time of
their designation within the CBRS. Most

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