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the Council within 30 days following
the meeting.
Meeting Minutes
Summary minutes of the Council and
Advisory Group meetings will be
maintained by the Council Coordinator
at the address under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT. Meeting notes
will be available by contacting the
Council Coordinator within 30 days
following the meeting. Personal copies
may be purchased for the cost of
duplication.
Jerome Ford,
Assistant Director, Migratory Birds.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey
[GX16BD009AV0100]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments
AGENCY:

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),

Interior.
Notice of a new information
collection: Assessment of Effects of
Climate on Waterfowl.

ACTION:

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.

SUMMARY:

To ensure that your comments
are considered, we must receive them
on or before December 29, 2015.

DATES:

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—Assessment of Effects of Climate
on Waterfowl’ in all correspondence.

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ADDRESSES:

Brad
Griffith, Leader, USGS, Alaska
Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research
Unit at (907) 474–5067 or ffdbg@
usgs.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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I. Abstract
The USGS National Climate Change
and Wildlife Science Center coordinates
the research activities of 8 Regional
Climate Science Centers. To increase
efficiency of investigations, the
relevance of research topics and the
effectiveness of research it is critical to
identify the types of information that are
most critical for the development of a
focused and integrated multi-regional
research program. This is particularly
true for wildlife species that migrate
(e.g., waterfowl) among regions in
which the direction and strength of
climate effects on wildlife populations
and their habitats are expected to be
quite variable. This collection seeks to
identify (1) the most important habitat
and harvest factors that affect waterfowl
population size on breeding, migratory
and winter ranges, (2) the demographic
traits (fecundity or survival) that are
affected by these factors, (3) the likely
direction and magnitude of climate
effects on the most important waterfowl
habitat and harvest factors that affect
waterfowl population size and (4) the
highest priority research needs on
breeding, migratory and wintering
ranges. We are collecting this
information with a questionnaire survey
of a sample of professional waterfowl
researchers and managers because
scientific papers that present this
information are not available. The
information we collect will identify the
most important research topics within
and among Regional Climate Science
Centers in regard to climate effects on
migratory waterfowl. We will (1)
summarize the results, (2) present them
at a workshop at a national scientific
meeting, (3) use this presentation to
facilitate further discussion among
professional waterfowl researchers and
managers who attend the workshop
regarding research priorities and (4)
publish the results of the survey and the
workshop discussion in a refereed
scientific publication. The only
Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
that we will collect will be the name
and employer (State, Federal or Nongovernmental Organization research or
management) of the respondents to the
survey. We will use these names to keep
track of which questionnaire recipients
have responded and to summarize the
proportional composition of the types of
employment of respondents. We will
mail paper forms to all respondents and
give them the option of filling out a web
form if they prefer. We will not
associate the names of recipients with
summarized responses. All paper form
responses received will be kept in a
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will be encrypted. After publication of
the summarized results we will remove
the name of respondents from both the
paper forms and web forms.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028—NEW.
Title: Assessment of Effects of Climate
on Waterfowl.
Type of Request: New information
collection.
Affected Public: Professional
waterfowl researchers and managers
that are employed by State or Federal
government agencies or Nongovernmental Organizations (NGO) such
as the Migratory Bird Joint Ventures.
Respondent’s Obligation: None,
participation is voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One time.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 100; Public NGO 20, State
and Local Govt. 20, Federal Govt. 60.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: 100.
Estimated Time per Response: 60
minutes.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 100.
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
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
withhold your personally identifiable
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cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
John Thompson,
Deputy Chief, U.S. Geological Survey,
Cooperative Research Units.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NRSS–SSB–19672;
PPWONRADE2, PMP00EI05.YP0000 (166)]

Information Collection Request Sent to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for Approval; Programmatic
Clearance for NPS-Sponsored Public
Surveys
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice; request for comments.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

We (National Park Service,
NPS) have sent an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for
review and approval. We summarize the
ICR below and describe the nature of the
collection and the estimated burden and
cost. The National Park Service (NPS)
sponsors public surveys to provide park
managers with information needed for
park planning, management, operations
and evaluation of performance related to
protecting park resources and meeting
the needs of the public. In consultation
with the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) and the Department of
the Interior (DOI), the NPS has
developed a Programmatic Clearance
Process for NPS-sponsored public
surveys. It significantly streamlines the
information collection review process.
To comply with 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 ICR.
DATES: You must submit comments on
or before November 30, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments and
suggestions on this information
collection to the Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior at OMB—
OIRA at (202) 395–5806 (fax) or
[email protected] (email)
and identify your submission as 1024–
0224. Please also send a copy of your
comments to Phadrea Ponds,
Information Collections Coordinator,
National Park Service, 1201 Oakridge
Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80525 (mail); or
[email protected] (email). Please
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0224—Programmatic Clearance Renewal
in the subject line.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
[email protected] (email); or 970–
267–7295 (phone) and Phadrea Ponds,
Information Collection Coordinator,
National Park Service, 1201 Oakridge
Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80525 (mail); or
[email protected] (email). Please
reference Information Collection 1024–
0224 Programmatic Clearance Renewal
in the subject line. You may also access
this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The Programmatic Clearance for NPSSponsored Public Surveys applies to
surveys designed to furnish usable
information to NPS managers and
planners concerning park visitors,
visitor services, potential park visitors,
and residents of communities near
parks. This information is intended to
provide NPS managers with data that
can be used to improve the quality and
utility of agency programs, services, and
planning efforts. Questions asked under
the programmatic review process must
show a clear tie to NPS management
and planning needs. The programmatic
review may only be used for noncontroversial surveys that are unlikely
to attract or include topics of significant
public interest in the programmatic
review process.
To qualify for the NPS generic
programmatic review process, all
information collections must be directly
tied to an area managed by the NPS or
research that will benefit NPS
management efforts. All collections
must be reviewed by the NPS and
approved by OMB before the survey can
be initiated.

Annual
responses
Other .........................................

2,500

Total ......................................

41,500

Estimated Completion Time per
Response: 15 minutes per mail back
survey; 3 minutes per non response
survey, 30 minutes per telephone
survey; 60 minutes per focus group/
interview 60 minutes; Other 15 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 11,283 hours.
Estimated Annual Non-hour Burden
Cost: There are no non-hour burden
costs associated with this collection.

III. Comments
On May 29, 2015, a 60-day Federal
Register notice (80 FR 30720) was
published announcing this information
collection. Public comments were
solicited for 60 days ending July 28,
2015. We received one public comment
in response to that notice. The
commenter did not support the renewal
of the collection and stated that ‘‘once
every 5 years is often enough to take
these surveys.’’ In response to this
comment, NPS contends that this
renewal is not a single annual survey;
rather it facilitates a set of independent
surveys administered at multiples sites
for a variety of NPS management needs.
This process simplifies and streamlines
the information collection requests to
OMB in a manner that allows the NPS
to submit more requests per year than
we would through the regular
submission route. Surveys are reviewed
and approved in an expeditious manner
allowing data collection to occur more
frequently and in a timely manner—
more specifically during the visitation
season of interest. In the 16 years of the
II. Data
programmatic approval on average, 40
new surveys have been approved each
OMB Control Number: 1024–0224.
year in support of NPS management and
Title: Programmatic Clearance for
planning. This is nearly five times as
NPS-Sponsored Public Surveys.
Type of Request: Revision of a
many as we would expect going through
currently approved collection.
the regular submission route.
Description of Respondents:
We again invite comments concerning
Individual households and general
this information collection request on:
• Whether or not the collection of
public.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
information is necessary, including
Frequency of Collection: Occasionally, whether or not the information will
one time.
have practical utility;
Estimated Annual Number of
• The accuracy of our estimate of the
Responses: 41,500.
burden for this collection of
information;
Annual
• Ways to enhance the quality, utility,
responses
and clarity of the information to be
On-site surveys .........................
20,000 collected; and
• Ways to minimize the burden of the
Mail-back surveys .....................
10,000
All non-response surveys .........
6,500 collection of information on
Telephone surveys ...................
1,000 respondents.
Comments that you submit in
Focus Groups/In person interviews .....................................
1,500 response to this notice are a matter of

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