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gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica
californica) as a result of permanent
impacts to 2.92 acres (ac) of habitat the
species uses for breeding, feeding, and
sheltering. The take would be incidental
to the applicant’s activities associated
with the construction of the Cutri
residential project in the City of Santee,
California, and includes in-perpetuity
preservation and management of 7.0 ac
of coastal California gnatcatcher habitat.
The Cutri residential project proposes
to construct a single-family residence on
a 9.9-acre parcel in the City of Santee.
The project will permanently impact
2.92 ac of coastal California gnatcatcher
occupied habitat as a result of clearing
and grading activities.
To minimize take of coastal California
gnatcatcher by the Cutri residential
development project and offset impacts
to its habitat, the applicant proposes to
mitigate for permanent impacts to 2.92
ac of occupied coastal California
gnatcatcher habitat through the
dedication of 7.0 ac of coastal California
gnatcatcher habitat within an on-site
conservation easement and funding
long-term management to benefit the
species. The applicant’s proposed HCP
also contains the following proposed
measures to minimize the effects of
construction activities on the coastal
California gnatcatcher:
• Clearing of habitat will not take
place during the coastal California
gnatcatcher breeding season (defined as
February 15–August 31). In the event it
is not feasible to clear outside of the
breeding season, three pre-construction
surveys for nesting birds will be
conducted within the week prior to
initiating grading activities to ensure
construction activities do not occur
within 300 feet of an active nest.
• A Service-approved biologist will
conduct a training session for the
grading contractor and will be present
on site during the initial clearing and
grubbing activities to ensure that
impacts are limited to the project
footprint.
Proposed Action and Alternatives
The Proposed Action consists of the
issuance of an incidental take permit
and implementation of the proposed
HCP, which includes measures to avoid,
minimize, and mitigate impacts to the
coastal California gnatcatcher. If we
approve the permit, take of coastal
California gnatcatcher would be
authorized for the applicant’s activities
associated with the construction of the
Cutri residential development project.
In the proposed HCP, the applicant
considers alternatives to the taking of
coastal California gnatcatcher under the
proposed action. Alternative

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development configuration was
considered; however, because of the
small size of the project site, further
avoidance of impacts to coastal
California gnatcatcher habitat could not
be achieved. The Applicant also
considered the No Action Alternative.
Under the No Action Alternative, no
incidental take of coastal California
gnatcatcher habitat would occur, and no
long-term protection and management
would be afforded to the species.
Our Preliminary Determination
The Service has made a preliminary
determination that approval of the
proposed HCP qualifies as a categorical
exclusion under NEPA, as provided by
the Department of the Interior Manual
(516 DM 2 Appendix 1 and 516 DM 6
Appendix 1) and as a ‘‘low-effect’’ plan
as defined by the Habitat Conservation
Planning Handbook (November 1996).
We base our determination that a HCP
qualifies as a low-effect plan on the
following three criteria:
(1) Implementation of the HCP would
result in minor or negligible effects on
federally listed, proposed, and
candidate species and their habitats;
(2) Implementation of the HCP would
result in minor or negligible effects on
other environmental values or
resources; and
(3) Impacts of the HCP, considered
together with the impacts of other past,
present, and reasonably foreseeable
similarly situated projects, would not
result, over time, in cumulative effects
to environmental values or resources
that would be considered significant.
Based upon this preliminary
determination, we do not intend to
prepare further NEPA documentation.
We will consider public comments in
making the final determination on
whether to prepare such additional
documentation.
Next Steps
We will evaluate the proposed HCP
and comments we receive to determine
whether the permit application meets
the requirements and issuance criteria
under section 10(a) of the Act (16 U.S.C.
1531 et seq.). We will also evaluate
whether issuance of a section 10(a)(1)(B)
incidental take permit would comply
with section 7 of the Act by conducting
an intra-Service consultation. We will
use the results of this consultation, in
combination with the above findings, in
our final analysis to determine whether
or not to issue a permit. If the
requirements and issuance criteria
under section 10(a) are met, we will
issue the permit to the applicant for
incidental take of coastal California
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Public Comments
If you wish to comment on the permit
application, proposed HCP, and
associated documents, you may submit
comments by any of the methods noted
in the ADDRESSES section.
Public Availability of Comments
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 may 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.)
and NEPA regulations (40 CFR 1506.6).).
G. Mendel Stewart,
Field Supervisor, Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife
Office, Carlsbad, California.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey
[GX16EE000101000]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments on
the National Spatial Data
Infrastructure—Cooperative
Agreements Program (NSDI CAP)
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of a new information
collection, National Spatial Data
Infrastructure—Cooperative Agreements
Program (NSDI CAP).
AGENCY:

We (the U.S. Geological
Survey) are notifying the public that we
have submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) the
information collection request (ICR)
described below. To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
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 ICR.
DATES: To ensure that your comments
on this ICR are considered, OMB must
receive them on or before March 24,
2016.
ADDRESSES: Please submit written
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collection directly to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Attention: Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior, via email:
([email protected]); or
by fax (202) 395–5806; and identify your
submission with ‘OMB Control Number
1028—New National Spatial Data
Infrastructure—Cooperative Agreements
Program (NSDI CAP)’. Please also
forward a copy of your comments and
suggestions 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)
648–7195 (fax); or gs-info_collections@
usgs.gov (email). Please reference ‘OMB
Information Collection 1028—New:
National Spatial Data Infrastructure—
Cooperative Agreements Program (NSDI
CAP) in all correspondence.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brigitta Urban-Mathieux, Federal
Geographic Data Committee Office of
the Secretariat, U.S. Geological Survey,
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Mail Stop
590, Reston, VA 20192 (mail); 703–648–
5175 (phone); or [email protected]
(email). You may also find information
about this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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I. Abstract
Respondents are submitting proposals
to acquire funding for projects to help
build the infrastructure necessary for
the geospatial data community to
effectively discover, access, share,
manage, and use digital geographic data.
The National Spatial Data Infrastructure
(NSDI) consists of the technologies,
policies, organizations, and people
necessary to promote cost-effective
production, and the ready availability
and greater utilization of geospatial data
among a variety of sectors, disciplines,
and communities. Specific NSDI areas
of emphasis include: Metadata
documentation, clearinghouse
establishment, geospatial data
framework development, standards
implementation, and geographic
information system (GIS) organizational
coordination.
We will issue a Request for Proposal
(RFP) via Grants.gov. The incoming
proposals will be reviewed and scored
based on the responses to the questions
in the RFP. No questions of a
‘‘sensitive’’ nature are asked. We intend
to release the project abstracts and
names of the primary investigators for
awarded/funded projects only.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028—NEW.

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Title: National Spatial Data
Infrastructure—Cooperative Agreements
Program (NSDI CAP).
Type of Request: Approval of new
information collection.
Respondent Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
Frequency of Collection: This is an
annual offer.
Description of Respondents: General
public, State and Local governments,
Tribal nations.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: 60.
Estimated Time per Response:
Application: 35 hours; Interim and Final
reports: 5 hours each.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours:
2,350 hours.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: There are no ‘‘non-hour cost’’
burdens associated with this collection
of information.
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.
Comments: On 08/07/2015, we
published a Federal Register notice (80
FR 47512) announcing that we would
submit this ICR to OMB for approval
and soliciting comments. The comment
period closed on 10/06/2015. We
received no comments.
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
us and the OMB in your comment to
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information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that it will be done.
Ivan DeLoatch,
Executive Director, Federal Geographic Data
Committee, Core Science Systems.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments on
the USGS Water Use Data and
Research Program
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of a new information
collection, USGS Water Use Data and
Research Program.
AGENCY:

We (the U.S. Geological
Survey) are notifying the public that we
have submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) the
information collection request (ICR)
described below. To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
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 ICR.
DATES: To ensure that your comments
on this ICR are considered, OMB must
receive them on or before March 24,
2016.
ADDRESSES: Please submit written
comments on this information
collection directly to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Attention: Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior, via email:
([email protected]); or
by fax (202) 395–5806; and identify your
submission with ‘OMB Control Number
1028–NEW USGS Water Use Data and
Research Program’. Please also forward
a copy of your comments and
suggestions 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)
648–7195 (fax); or gs-info_collections@
usgs.gov (email). Please reference ‘OMB
Information Collection 1028–NEW:
USGS Water Use Data and Research
Program’ in all correspondence.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Melinda Dalton, Water Availability and
Use Science Program, U.S. Geological
Survey, 1770 Corporate Drive, Suite
SUMMARY:

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