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Town of Vanceboro ..................................................................................
Town of Wesley ........................................................................................
Town of Whiting ........................................................................................
Town of Whitneyville ................................................................................
Township of Brookton ...............................................................................
Township of Edmunds ..............................................................................
Township of Lambert Lake .......................................................................
Township of Trescott ................................................................................

Town Office, 101 High Street, Vanceboro, ME 04491.
Town Office, 2 Whining Pines Drive, Wesley, ME 04686.
Town Office, 169 U.S. Route 1, Whiting, ME 04691.
Town Office, 42 South Main Street, Whitneyville, ME 04654.
Land Use Planning Commission, 106 Hogan Road, Suite 8,
ME 04401.
Land Use Planning Commission, 106 Hogan Road, Suite 8,
ME 04401.
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ME 04401.
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ME 04401.

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Unincorporated Areas of Dunn County .................................................... Dunn County Courthouse, 205 Owens Street, Manning, ND 58642.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey
[G15AC00486]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments on
the Assessment of Effects of Climate
on Waterfowl
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of a new information
collection, Assessment of Effects of
Climate on Waterfowl.
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 September 9,
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 ASSESSMENT OF

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EFFECTS OF CLIMATE ON
WATERFOWL’. 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 [email protected] (email).
Please reference ‘OMB Information
Collection 1028—NEW: ASSESSMENT
OF EFFECTS OF CLIMATE ON
WATERFOWL’ in all correspondence.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brad
Griffith, Leader, USGS, Alaska
Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research
Unit at (907) 474–5067 or
[email protected].
You may also find information about
this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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
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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.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028–NEW.
Title: ASSESSMENT OF EFFECTS OF
CLIMATE ON WATERFOWL.
Type of Request: Approval of new
information collection.
Respondent Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One time.
Description of Respondents:
Professional waterfowl researchers and
managers that are employed by State or
Federal government agencies or Private
organizations such as Ducks Unlimited.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: 250; Private 125, State and
Local Govt. 125.
Estimated Time per Response: We
estimate that it will take 20 minutes per
person to complete the questionnaire for
a single waterfowl species and that
approximately half of the respondents

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will take an additional 10 minutes to
complete the survey for a second
species.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 106
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. Until the OMB approves a
collection of information, you are not
obliged to respond.
Comments: On 10/30/2015, we
published a Federal Register notice (80
FR 66931) announcing that we would
submit this ICR to OMB for approval
and soliciting comments. The comment
period closed on 12/29/2015. USGS
received one public comment regarding
the general hardship of birdlife and a
statement that no information needed to
be collected because the information
was already collected by every state.
This latter statement was not correct as
we found when we queried five
professional waterfowl biologists asking
whether any similar surveys to ours
were being, or had been, conducted and
all said they knew of none and that our
survey work would be useful.
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
withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that it will be done.

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Legal Authority: Migratory Bird Treaty
Act of 1918 (MBTA), codified at 16 U.S.C.
703–712.
John Thompson,
Deputy Chief, U.S. Geological Survey,
Cooperative Research Units.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLCAD06000.L51010000. ER0000.15X
LVRWB15B5410]

Notice of Availability of the Final
Environmental Impact Statement for
the West of Devers Upgrade Project,
Riverside and San Bernardino
Counties, CA
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended, the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) has prepared a
Final Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) for the West of Devers Upgrade
Project and by this notice is announcing
its availability.
DATES: The BLM will not issue a final
decision on the proposal for a minimum
of 30 days after the date that the
Environmental Protection Agency
publishes its Notice of Availability in
the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Final EIS for
the Project are available for public
inspection at the BLM Palm SpringsSouth Coast Field Office, 1201 Bird
Center Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262,
and to the BLM California Desert
District Office, 22835 Calle San Juan De
Los Lagos, Moreno Valley, CA 92553.
Interested persons may also review the
Final EIS on the Internet at http://
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/palmsprings/
transmission/WestOfDeversProject.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Frank McMenimen, Project Manager,
telephone 760–833–7150; address 1201
Bird Center Drive, Palm Springs, CA
92262; email [email protected] or
[email protected].
Persons who use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD) may call the
Federal Information Relay Service
(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to contact the
above individual during normal
business hours. The FIRS is available 24
hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a
message or question with the above
individual. You will receive a reply
during normal business hours.
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Southern
California Edison (SCE) proposes to
upgrade and adjust the routes of the
following existing 220 kV transmission
lines within SCE’s existing West of
Devers right-of-way corridor in
incorporated and unincorporated areas
of Riverside and San Bernardino
counties: Devers-El Casco, El Casco-San
Bernardino, Devers-San Bernardino,
Devers-Vista No. 1 and No. 2, EtiwandaSan Bernardino, and San BernardinoVista.
Of the overall 48-mile length of the
transmission corridor, about 6 miles
would cross Trust Lands (Reservation)
of the Morongo Band of Mission
Indians, and about 1 mile is on BLMadministered public lands. The BLM
lands are located east of the City of
Banning and west of the City of Desert
Hot Springs in Riverside County,
California. In addition to the
transmission line improvements,
substation equipment at Devers, El
Casco, Etiwanda, San Bernardino,
Timoteo and Tennessee and Vista
Substations would be upgraded to
accommodate the project changes to
transmission and subtransmission
systems. Construction of the Project
would facilitate the full deliverability of
new renewable energy generation
resources now being developed in
eastern Riverside County, including the
BLM’s Riverside East Solar Energy
Zone, into the Los Angeles area.
As a result, the Project would
facilitate progress towards meeting
California’s Renewable Portfolio
Standard goals, which now require
utilities to produce 50 percent of their
electricity sales from renewable energy
sources by 2030, as well as President
Obama’s Climate Action Plan, which
directs the Department of the Interior to
approve at least 20,000 megawatts of
renewable energy capacity on public
lands by 2020. Utility-scale solar energy
development in eastern Riverside
County plays an important role in
meeting California’s renewable energy
goals, allowing for immediate and
sizeable deployment, driving costs
down and taking advantage of the
State’s best renewable energy resources.
Additionally, these upgrades are
required to comply with transmission
reliability standards and will support
integration of small scale electricity
generation.
In addition to the Proposed Action,
the Final EIS considers three project
alternatives and a No Action
Alternative, as well as connected
actions enabled by the project. The first
alternative, the Tower Relocation
Alternative, moves some proposed
towers away from residences. The

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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