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301–497–5843 (phone); or kpardieck@
usgs.gov (email). You may also find
information about this ICR at
www.reginfo.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract
Respondents supply the U.S.
Geological Survey with avian
population data for more than 600 North
American bird species. The raw survey
data, resulting population trend
estimates, and relative abundance
estimates will be made available via the
Internet and through special
publications, for use by Government
agencies, industry, education programs,
and the general public. We will protect
information from respondents
considered proprietary under the
Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C.
552) and its implementing regulations
(43 CFR part 2), and under regulations
at 30 CFR 250.197, ‘‘Data and
information to be made available to the
public or for limited inspection.’’
Responses are voluntary. No questions
of a ‘‘sensitive’’ nature are asked.

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II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028–0079.
Form Number: Various (12 forms).
Title: NORTH AMERICAN BREEDING
BIRD SURVEY.
Type of Request: Extension without
change of a currently approved
collection.
Respondent Obligation: None.
Frequency of Collection: Annually.
Description of Respondents: General
public skilled in bird identification.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: 2,650.
Estimated Time per Response: We
estimate that it will take 11 hour(s) per
response.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours:
29,150.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: The non-hour costs are based
upon Federal Personal Vehicle Mileage
costs at an average rate of $57.50 per
response. This includes an approximate
100-mile round trip for data collection.
The total for 2,650 responses is
$152,375.
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
displays a currently valid OMB control
number. Until the OMB approves a
collection of information, you are not
obliged to respond.
Comments: On April 3, 2015, we
published a Federal Register notice (80

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FR 18253) announcing that we would
submit this ICR to OMB for approval
and soliciting comments. The comment
period closed on June 2, 2015. We
received one comment from the public;
however, the comment was not directly
related to this project. It was a rejection
of all government data collection.
III. Request for Comments
We again invite comments concerning
this ICR 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) how 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 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
the OMB in your comment to withhold
your personal identifying information
from public review, we cannot
guarantee that it will be done.
Mark Wimer,
Deputy Director, USGS Patuxent Wildlife
Research Center.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey
[GX15EN05ESB0500]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of a revision of a
currently approved information
collection (1028–096).
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

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respondent burden, we invite the
general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on this IC. This collection is
scheduled to expire on 8/31/2016.
DATES: To ensure that your comments
are considered, we must receive them
on or before November 2, 2015.
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);
or [email protected] (email).
Please reference ‘Information Collection
1028–0096, NATIONAL CLIMATE
CHANGE AND WILDLIFE SCIENCE
CENTER AND DEPARTMENT OF THE
INTERIOR CLIMATE SCIENCE
CENTERS (NCCWSC/CSC)’ in all
correspondence.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robin O’Malley, National Climate
Change and Wildlife Science Center,
U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise
Valley Drive, Mail Stop 516, Reston, VA
20192 (mail); 703–648–4086 (phone); or
[email protected] (email). You may
also find information about this ICR at
www.reginfo.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The U.S. Geological Survey National
Climate Change and Wildlife Science
Center (NCCWSC, https://
nccwsc.usgs.gov) was established to
provide scientific information on
climate impacts and adaptation for use
in decision making by managers of fish,
wildlife and their ecosystems. Under
Secretarial Order 3289, https://
www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/
migrated/whatwedo/climate/cop15/
upload/SecOrder3289.pdf, NCCWSC
established and manages a network of
eight Department of the Interior Climate
Science Centers (CSC; https://
www.doi.gov/csc/). These centers
provide regional expertise and decision
support for managers of natural and
cultural resources from federal, state,
tribal and other sectors. CSCs are
collaborative efforts between USGS and
institutions or consortia of institutions
that provide scientific expertise,
academic training, scientific liaison, and
other functions associated with the CSC
mission.
NCCWSC collects two types of
information from the public as part of
this enterprise. The first consists of
proposals from institutions or consortia
that wish to serve as hosts and partners
in the operation of CSCs. USGS uses the
information from these proposals in the
selection of institutions or consortia to

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serve as hosts and partners. Agreements
are for set periods of time (generally five
years); thus, when the agreement for a
specific CSC is nearing its termination
date, USGS will solicit proposals and
determine whether to enter another
agreement with the same institution/
consortium or with another institution/
consortium.
USGS also currently collects
information from institutions that serve
as hosts for CSCs. This information
includes quarterly financial statements
(Standard Form 425) and annual
progress reports. These reports address
both the overarching agreement to host
the CSC and individual research
projects funded under that overarching
agreement. In the future, USGS may
enter into agreements with partner
institutions in a consortium, in addition
to the ‘‘host,’’ as is current practice. If
such agreements are executed, USGS
will request information from both the
host and partner institutions. This
information is used to evaluate the
performance of the institutions/
consortia with respect to the
agreements.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028–0096.
Form Number: Standard form 425.
Other information not collected in a
form.
Title: NATIONAL CLIMATE
CHANGE AND WILDLIFE SCIENCE
CENTER AND DEPARTMENT OF THE
INTERIOR CLIMATE SCIENCE
CENTERS (NCCWSC/CSC).
Type of Request: Revisions to a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Institutions that are
eligible to propose to serve as CSC host
or partner institutions include Federal,
state, not-for-profit, local government,
and tribal entities, including academic
institutions. Existing host institutions
are academic institutions.
Respondent’s Obligation: None,
participation is voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: Proposals for
new CSC host/partner agreements are
collected approximately every five years
for any individual CSC. However,
because CSCs were not all established in
one year, and agreement terms may be
extended to address specific
circumstances, such proposals may be
requested during any year. Information
is collected from institutions with
whom USGS has an agreement to serve
as a CSC host or partner and for
individual research projects funded
under these agreements on a quarterly
and annual basis.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: USGS expects to request
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in any year, and to receive an average
of five proposals per CSC-request, for a
total of fifteen proposals in any single
year. USGS expects to enter into
agreements with a minimum of eight
CSC host institutions, and as many as
fifteen additional CSC partner
institutions. Thus USGS would request
quarterly and annual information
addressing host and partner agreements
from an estimated twenty-three
institutions. In addition, USGS expects
approximately forty requests per year
addressing specific research projects
funded under these hosting agreements.
Estimated Time per Response: Each
proposal for CSC hosting is expected to
take 200 hours to complete. The time
required to complete quarterly and
annual reports for any specific host/
partner or research project agreement is
expected to total twenty hours per
agreement (not per report).
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: A
maximum of 4260 hours.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: There are no ‘‘non-hour cost’’
burdens associated with this IC.
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
displays a currently 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
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cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Shawn Carter,
Acting Chief, National Climate Change and
Wildlife Science Center.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
[156A2100DD/AAKC001030/
A0A501010.999900.253G]

Renewal of Agency Information
Collection for the Bureau of Indian
Education Tribal Education
Department Grant Program; Request
for Comments
Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of request for comments.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is seeking
comments on the renewal of Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval for the collection of
information for the Tribal Education
Department Grant Program, authorized
by OMB Control Number 1076–0185.
The information collection will expire
November 30, 2015.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
November 2, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on the information collection to Ms.
Wendy Greyeyes, Bureau of Indian
Education, Office of the BIE Director,
1849 C Street NW., MS–4657–MIB,
Washington, DC 20240; email
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Wendy Greyeyes, (202) 208–5810.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

I. Abstract
The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE)
is seeking renewal of the approval for
information collection conducted under
25 U.S.C. 2020, for the solicitation of
grant proposals from Federallyrecognized tribes and their Tribal
Education Departments (TEDs) that will
fund program goals to promote tribal
education capacity building to include:
• Development and enforcement of
tribal educational codes, including
tribal education policies and tribal
standards applicable to curriculum,
personnel, students, facilities, and
support programs;
• Facilitate tribal control in all
matters relating to the education of
Indian children on reservations (and on

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