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comments may be limited. Individuals
who plan to attend and need special
assistance, such as sign language
interpretation and other reasonable
accommodations, should contact the
BLM as provided above.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Notice of Public Meeting of the Central
California Resource Advisory Council
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act and the Federal Advisory
Committee Act of 1972, the U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) Central
California Resource Advisory Council
(RAC) will meet as indicated below.
DATES: A business meeting will be held
Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015, at the
Mendocino Hotel, 45080 Main St.,
Mendocino, CA, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Time for public comment is reserved
from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Following the
business meeting, the RAC will tour the
Campbell-Hawthorne Timber Company
property to begin preliminary
discussion of possible transfer of
portions of the property to BLM for offhighway vehicle use.
On Friday, Oct. 30, the RAC is
scheduled to leave the Mendocino Hotel
at 8 a.m. to tour the Point ArenaStornetta Unit of the California Coastal
National Monument. Members of the
public are welcome to attend the
meeting and tours.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
BLM Central California District Manager
Este Stifel, (916) 978–4626; or BLM
Public Affairs Officer David Christy,
(916) 941–3146.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 12member council advises the Secretary of
the Interior, through the BLM, on a
variety of planning and management
issues associated with public land
management in the Central California
District, which includes the Bishop,
Bakersfield, Central Coast, Ukiah and
Mother Lode Field Offices. At this
meeting, agenda topics will include a
field manager updates on resource
management issues including the
Berryessa-Snow Mountain National
Monument and wildfires. Additional
ongoing business will be discussed by
the council. All meetings are open to the
public. Members of the public may
present written comments to the
council. Each formal council meeting
will have time allocated for public
comments. Depending on the number of
persons wishing to speak, and the time
available, the time for individual

Dated: September 23, 2015.
Ruben Leal,
Associate District Manager.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Renewal of Approved Information
Collection; Control Number 1004–0025
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: 60-day notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) invites public
comments on its plans to seek renewal
of its authorization under the Paperwork
Reduction Act regarding applications
for fee title to Federal lands embraced
in hardrock mineral claims. The Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) has
assigned control number 1004–0025 to
this information collection.
DATES: Please submit comments on the
proposed information collection by
December 7, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be
submitted by mail, fax, or electronic
mail.
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: [email protected].
Please indicate ‘‘Attn: 1004–0025’’
regardless of the form of your
comments.
SUMMARY:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sonia Santillan, at 202–912–7123.
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 Ms.
Santillan.
OMB
regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, which
implement provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521,
require that interested members of the
public and affected agencies be given an
opportunity to comment on information
collection and recordkeeping activities

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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(see 5 CFR 1320.8 (d) and 1320.12(a)).
This notice identifies an information
collection that the BLM plans to submit
to OMB for approval. The Paperwork
Reduction Act provides that an agency
may not conduct or sponsor a collection
of information unless it displays a
currently valid OMB control number.
Until OMB approves a collection of
information, you are not obligated to
respond.
The BLM will request a 3-year term of
approval for this information collection
activity. Comments are invited on: (1)
The need for the collection of
information for the performance of the
functions of the agency; (2) the accuracy
of the agency’s burden estimates; (3)
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information collection; and
(4) ways to minimize the information
collection burden on respondents, such
as use of automated means of collection
of the information. A summary of the
public comments will accompany our
submission of the information collection
requests to OMB.
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 pertains to
this request:
Title: Mineral Patent Applications (43
CFR part 3860) and Adverse Claims,
Protests and Conflicts (43 CFR part
3870).
OMB Control Number: 1004–0025.
Summary: On its face, the Mining
Law (30 U.S.C. 29, 30, and 39)
authorizes a holder of an unpatented
claim for hardrock minerals to apply for
fee title (patent) to the Federal land (as
well as minerals) embraced in the claim.
Since 1994, a rider on the annual
appropriation bill for the Department of
the Interior has prevented the BLM from
processing mineral patent applications
unless the applications were
grandfathered under the initial
legislation. The most recent rider is at
Public Law 113–235, 128 Stat. 2443, at
Section 404. While grandfathered
applications are rare at present, the
approval to collect the information
continues to be necessary because of the
possibility that the moratorium will be
lifted.
Frequency of Collection: Once.
Form: Certificate of Title on Mining
Claims (Form 3860–2) and Application

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for Survey on Mining Claim (Form
3860–5).
Description of Respondents: Owners
of unpatented mining claims and mill
sites upon the public lands, and of
reserved mineral lands of the United
States, National Forests, and National
Parks.
Estimated Annual Responses: 10
responses.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 496
hours.
Jean Sonneman,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
Bureau of Land Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
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Announcement of Requirements and
Registration for a Prize Competition
Seeking Methods or Devices That can
Quantify Drift Invertebrates in River
and Estuary Systems
Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Bureau of Reclamation,
in collaboration with other federal
agencies (National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration-National
Marine Fisheries Service, U.S.
Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, and U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers) is announcing a prize
competition for seeking a way to
economically detect, count, and identify
zooplankton and drift invertebrates in
river and estuary systems. Problems
identified that prevent the simple
transfer of oceanographic techniques to
rivers and streams are higher water
velocities, turbidity, higher surface/
depth ratio, and costs (time and money).
DATES: Listed below are the specific
dates pertaining to this prize
competition:
1. Submission period begins on
October 7, 2015.
2. Submission period ends on
November 16, 2015.
3. Judging period ends on January 15,
2016.
4. Winners announced by January 29,
2016.
ADDRESSES: The Quantifying Drift
Invertebrates in River and Estuary
Systems Prize Competition will be
posted on the following crowd-sourcing
platforms where Solvers can register for
this prize competition:

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1. The Water Pavilion located at the
InnoCentive Challenge Center: https://
www.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/
browse.
2. U.S. Federal Government Challenge
Platform: www.Challenge.gov.
3. The Nature Open Innovation
Pavilion at http://www.nature.com/
openinnovation/index.html.
4. The Scientific American Citizen
Science Center at http://
www.scientificamerican.com/citizenscience/.
InnoCentive, Inc. is administering this
challenge under a challenge support
services contract with the Bureau of
Reclamation. These Web sites will redirect the Solver community to the
InnoCentive Challenge Center as the
administrator for this prize competition.
Additional details for this prize
competition, including the Challenge
Agreement specific for this prize
competition, can be accessed through
any of these prize competition web
addresses. The Challenge Agreement
contains more details of the prize
competition rules and terms that Solvers
must agree with to be eligible to
compete.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Challenge Manager: Dr. David Raff
Science Advisor, Bureau of
Reclamation, (202) 513–0516, draff@
usbr.gov; or Mr. Chuck Hennig, (303)
445–2134, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Bureau of Reclamation is announcing
this prize competition in compliance
with 15 U.S. Code 3719, Prize
Competitions. Habitat restoration,
improvement, and creation in rivers,
streams, and estuaries are key elements
for the recovery of salmon, trout, and
other critical fish species in the United
States. Millions of dollars are spent
annually on activities such as
manipulating flow regimes, adding
structural elements such as wood or
rock, reconnecting rivers with their
floodplains, and restoring wetlands. A
critical aspect in evaluating the
effectiveness of these habitat
manipulations is understanding how
they influence the food resources
available to critical fish species targeted
for recovery and protection. Yet despite
its importance, quantification of food
resources has proven difficult.
A solution is being pursued through
a prize competition because the Bureau
of Reclamation and the collaborating
Federal agencies want to seek
innovative solutions from those beyond
the usual sources of potential solvers
and experts that commonly work in the
fish recovery management domain. We
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somebody, somewhere may know a
better way to quantify the availability of
food sources for threatened and
endangered fish. The prize competition
approach enables us to reach new
sources of potential solvers to discover
other technologies that could be
adopted for this purpose; or generate
new solutions that would not likely be
accomplished by standard contractual
methods.
Challenge Summary: Accurate food
counts, such as zooplankton and drift
invertebrates, are instrumental in fish
habitat evaluation and restoration in our
rivers and streams. Although technology
has been developed for automated
detection and identification of
zooplankton and drift invertebrates in
oceanographic settings, they have not
been developed for the unique
environmental conditions in rivers and
estuaries. High flow rates and turbidity
cause problems with automated visual
systems used today. The main obstacle
in estuaries is turbidity while the main
obstacle in river systems is flow
velocity. In addition, the horizontal
nature of rivers invokes problems not
encountered in deep ocean waters (e.g.,
sunlight effects at the surface of water
and the mixing of food sources
throughout the water column in rivers
due to turbulence as opposed to more
stratified food webs in ocean waters).
We would like to identify devices/
methods that can detect, count, and
identify zooplankton and drift
invertebrates in an economical way in
rivers and estuary systems. There is
potential for future collaboration with
the Seeker in developing and testing
winning solutions.
This is a Theoretical Challenge that
requires only a written proposal to be
submitted. The Challenge award will be
contingent upon theoretical evaluation
of the proposal by the Bureau of
Reclamation (Seeker). The Seeker has a
total prize pool budget of $30,000 to pay
the top three submission(s) that meet or
exceed the criteria below, an award of
$10,000 each. No awards are guaranteed
unless they meet or exceed the criteria,
and more than one award is not
guaranteed. If only a single submission
meets or exceeds the criteria, the prize
award may be as high as $15,000.
To receive an award, the Solvers will
not have to transfer their exclusive
intellectual property rights to the
Seeker. Instead, they will grant to the
Seeker a non-exclusive license to
practice their solutions.
The Seeker believes there might be a
potential for future collaboration with
awarded Solver(s), although such
collaboration is not guaranteed. The
Seeker may also encourage Solver(s) to

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