60-Day Notice

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U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) of the Department of
Homeland Security will be submitting
the following information collection
request to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and approval
in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act: Biometric Identity. CBP
is proposing that this information
collection be extended with a change to
the burden hours but no change to the
information collected. This document is
published to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies.
DATES: Written comments should be
received on or before October 19, 2015
to be assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be
mailed to U.S. Customs and Border
Protection, Attn: Tracey Denning,
Regulations and Rulings, Office of
International Trade, 90 K Street NE.,
10th Floor, Washington, DC 20229–
1177.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information
should be directed to Tracey Denning,
U.S. Customs and Border Protection,
Regulations and Rulings, Office of
International Trade, 90 K Street NE.,
10th Floor, Washington, DC 20229–
1177, at 202–325–0265.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CBP
invites the general public and other
Federal agencies to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information
collections pursuant to the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13).
The comments should address: (a)
Whether the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimates of the burden of the
collection of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; (d)
ways to minimize the burden including
the use of automated collection
techniques or the use of other forms of
information technology; and (e) the
annual cost burden to respondents or
record keepers from the collection of
information (total capital/startup costs
and operations and maintenance costs).
The comments that are submitted will
be summarized and included in the CBP
request for OMB approval. All
comments will become a matter of
public record. In this document, CBP is
soliciting comments concerning the
following information collection:
Title: Biometric Identity.
OMB Number: 1651–0138.
Abstract: In order to enhance national
security, the Department of Homeland
Security developed a biometric based

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entry and exit system capable of
improving the information resources
available to immigration and border
management decision-makers. These
biometrics include: Digital fingerprint
scans, photographs, facial images and
iris images, or other biometric
identifiers. Biometrics are collected
from those aliens specified in 8 CFR
215.8 and 8 CFR 235.1(f). Non-exempt,
non-U.S. citizens will have their facial
and iris images captured upon entry to
and exit from the United States. The
information collected is used to provide
assurance of identity and determine
admissibility of those seeking entry into
the United States.
The federal statutes that mandate DHS
to create a biometric entry and exit
system include: Section 2(a) of the
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Data Management Improvement Act of
2000 (DMIA), Public Law 106–215, 114
Stat. 337 (2000); Section 205 of the Visa
Waiver Permanent Program Act of 2000,
Public Law 106–396, 114 Stat. 1637,
1641 (2000); Section 414 of the Uniting
and Strengthening America by
Providing Appropriate Tools Required
to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act
of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act), Public
Law 107–56, 115 Stat. 272, 353 (2001);
Section 302 of the Enhanced Border
Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of
2002 (Border Security Act), Public Law
107–173, 116 Stat. 543, 552, (2002);
Section 7208 of the Intelligence Reform
and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004
(IRTPA), Public Law 108–458, 118 Stat.
3638, 3817 (2004); and Section 711 of
the Implementing Recommendations of
the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007,
Public Law 110–52, 121 Stat. 266
(2007).
Current Actions: This submission is
being made to extend the expiration
date with a change to the burden hours
based on most recent estimates for the
annual number of responses. There are
no changes to the information being
collected.
Type of Review: Extension (with
change).
Affected Public: Individuals.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
113,200,000.
Estimated Time per Respondent:
.0097 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1,098,040.
Dated: August 12, 2015.
Tracey Denning,
Agency Clearance Officer, U.S. Customs and
Border Protection.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–HQ–MB–2015–N159; FF09M21200–
156– FXMB1231099BPP0]

Proposed Information Collection;
Control and Management of Resident
Canada Geese
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:

We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service) will ask the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) to
approve the information collection (IC)
described below. As required by 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 IC. This
IC is scheduled to expire on December
31, 2015. We may not conduct or
sponsor and a person is not required to
respond to a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number.
DATES: To ensure that we are able to
consider your comments on this IC, we
must receive them by October 19, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the
IC to the Information Collection
Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, MS BPHC, 5275
Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041–
3803 (mail); or [email protected]
(email). Please include ‘‘1018–0133’’ in
the subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this IC, contact Hope Grey at hope_
[email protected] (email) or 703–358–2482
(telephone).
SUMMARY:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract
The Migratory Bird Treaty Act
prohibits the take, possession, import,
export, transport, sale, purchase, or
bartering of migratory birds or their
parts except as permitted under the
terms of a valid permit or as permitted
by regulations. In 2006, we issued
regulations establishing two
depredation orders and three control
orders that allow State and tribal
wildlife agencies, private landowners,
and airports to conduct resident Canada
goose population management,
including the take of birds. We monitor
the data collected for activities under
these orders and may rescind an order
if monitoring indicates that activities are

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inconsistent with conservation of
Canada geese.
Control order for airports. 50 CFR
21.49 allows managers at commercial,
public, and private airports and military
airfields and their employees or agents
to implement management of resident
Canada geese to resolve or prevent
threats to public safety. An airport must
be part of the National Plan of Integrated
Airport Systems and have received
Federal grant-in-aid assistance or be a
military airfield under the jurisdiction,
custody, or control of the Secretary of a
military department. Each facility
exercising the privileges of the order
must submit an annual report with the
date, numbers, and locations of birds,
nests, and eggs taken.
Depredation order for nests and eggs.
50 CFR 21.50 allows private landowners
and managers of public lands to destroy
resident Canada goose nests and eggs on
property under their jurisdiction,
provided they register annually on our
Web site at https://epermits.fws.gov/
eRCGR. Registrants must provide basic
information, such as name, address,
phone number, and email, and identify
where the control work will occur and
who will conduct it. Registrants must
return to the Web site to report the
number of nests with eggs they
destroyed.
Depredation order for agricultural
facilities. 50 CFR 21.51 allows States
and tribes, via their wildlife agencies, to
implement programs to allow
landowners, operators, and tenants
actively engaged in commercial
agriculture to conduct damage
management control when geese are

committing depredations or to resolve
or prevent other injury to agricultural
interests. State and tribal wildlife
agencies in the Atlantic, Central, and
Mississippi Flyway portions of 41 States
may implement the provisions of the
order. Each implementing agricultural
producer must maintain a log of the date
and number of birds taken under this
authorization. Each State and tribe
exercising the privileges of the order
must submit an annual report of the
numbers of birds, nests, and eggs taken,
and the county or counties where take
occurred.
Public health control order. 50 CFR
21.52 authorizes States and tribes of the
lower 48 States to conduct (via the State
or tribal wildlife agency) resident
Canada goose control and management
activities when the geese pose a direct
threat to human health. States and tribes
operating under this order must submit
an annual report summarizing activities,
including the numbers of birds taken
and the county where take occurred.
Population control. 50 CFR 21.61
establishes a managed take program to
reduce and stabilize resident Canada
goose populations when traditional and
otherwise authorized management
measures are not successful or feasible.
A State or tribal wildlife agency in the
Atlantic, Mississippi, or Central Flyway
may request approval for this
population control program. If
approved, the State or tribe may use
hunters to harvest resident Canada geese
during the month of August. Requests
for approval must include a discussion
of the State’s or tribe’s efforts to address
its injurious situations using other
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methods, or a discussion of the reasons
why the methods are not feasible. If the
Service Director approves a request, the
State or tribe must (1) keep annual
records of activities carried out under
the authority of the program, and (2)
provide an annual summary, including
number of individuals participating in
the program and the number of resident
Canada geese shot. Additionally,
participating States and tribes must
monitor the spring breeding population
by providing an annual estimate of the
breeding population and distribution of
resident Canada geese in their State.
Regulations at 50 CFR 21.49, 21.50,
21.51, and 21.52 require that persons or
entities operating under the depredation
and control orders must immediately
report the take of any species protected
under the Endangered Species Act
(ESA). This information ensures that the
incidental take limits authorized under
Section 7 of the ESA are not exceeded.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1018–0133.
Title: Control and Management of
Resident Canada Geese, 50 CFR 20.21,
21.49, 21.50, 21.51, 21.52, and 21.61.
Service Form Number: None.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Description of Respondents: State fish
and wildlife agencies, tribes, and local
governments; airports; landowners; and
farms.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: Annually.
Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden
Cost: None.
Completion
time per
response

Number of
responses

Total annual
burden hours *

21.49—Airport Control Order—Annual Report ................................
21.50—Nest and Egg Depredation Order—Initial Registration .......
21.50—Nest and Egg Depredation Order—Renew Registration ....
21.50—Nest and Egg Depredation Order—Annual Report .............
21.51—Agricultural Depredation Order—Recordkeeping ................
21.51—Agricultural Depredation Order—Annual Report .................
21.52—Public Health Control Order—Annual Report .....................
21.49, 21.50, 21.51, and 21.52—Report Take of Endangered Species.
21.61—Population Control Approval Request—Recordkeeping
and Annual Report.
21.61—Population Control Approval Request—Population Estimates.

50
1,000
3,000
4,000
600
20
20
2

50
1,000
3,000
4,000
600
20
20
2

1.5 hours .....
30 minutes ..
15 minutes ..
15 minutes ..
30 minutes ..
8 hours ........
1 hour ..........
15 minutes ..

76
500
751
1,000
300
160
20
1

8

8

24 hours ......

192

8

8

160 hours ....

1,280

Totals ........................................................................................

8,708

8,708

.....................

4,280

* Rounded.

III. Comments
We invite comments concerning this
information collection on:
• Whether or not the collection of
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have practical utility;
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• Ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this IC. 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.
Dated: August 13, 2015.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and
Management Programs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R5–NWRS–2015–0036; BAC–4311–
K9–S3]

Silvio O. Conte National Fish and
Wildlife Refuge; Draft Comprehensive
Conservation Plan and Environmental
Impact Statement
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability; request
for comments.
AGENCY:

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (Service), announce the
availability of a draft comprehensive
conservation plan (CCP) and
environmental impact statement (EIS)
for Silvio O. Conte National Fish and
Wildlife Refuge (Conte NFWR) for
public review and comment. In this
draft CCP/EIS, we describe how we
propose to manage Conte NFWR over
the next 15 years.
DATES: To ensure consideration, we
must receive your written comments by
November 16, 2015. We will hold
informal public information meetings
during the comment period to provide
information and answer questions on
the draft plan. We will also hold four
public hearings during the comment
period to take oral comments. In
addition, we will use special mailings,
newspaper articles, internet postings,
and other media announcements to
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inform people of opportunities to
provide comments.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments or
requests for more information by any
one of the following methods:
• Electronically via the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at
www.regulations.gov. In the ‘‘Search’’
box, commenters will enter the docket
number (FWS–R5–NWRS–2015–0036)
for this project. Comments can be
submitted by clicking on ‘‘Comment
Now!’’ Attachments can be made to the
electronic comment form.
• By hard copy via U.S. mail or handdelivery to: Public Comments
Processing, Attn: FWS–R5–NWRS–
2015–0036; U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service; MS BPHC; 5275 Leesburg Pike,
Falls Church, VA 22041–3803.
• Via oral public testimony at one of
the four public hearings that will be
scheduled.
All comments will be posted to
http://www.regulations.gov and will be
available for public viewing. This
generally means that any personal
information you provide us will be
posted with the comment.
You will find the draft CCP/EIS, as
well as information about the planning
process and a summary of the CCP, on
the planning Web site at http://
www.fws.gov/refuge/Silvio_O_Conte/
what_we_do/conservation.html. To view
comments on the CCP/EIS from the
Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), or for information on EPA’s role
in the EIS process, see EPA’s Role in the
EIS Process under SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
Nancy McGarigal, Planning Team
Leader, phone: 413–253–8562; Email:
[email protected]. Please
include ‘‘Conte Refuge Draft CCP/EIS’’
in the subject line of the message.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Introduction
With this notice, we continue the CCP
process for Conte NFWR, which we
began by publishing a notice of intent in
the Federal Register (71 FR 62006) on
October 20, 2006. For more information
about the initial process and the history
of this refuge, please see that notice. In
addition, EPA is publishing a notice
announcing the availability of the draft
CCP/EIS, as required under Section 309
of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et
seq.). The publication of EPA’s notice of
availability is the official start of the
minimum requirement for a 45-day
public comment period. We have
chosen to distribute this draft CCP/EIS
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EPA’s Role in the EIS Process
The EPA is charged under Section 309
of the Clean Air Act to review all
Federal agencies’ EISs and to comment
on the adequacy and the acceptability of
the environmental impacts of proposed
actions in the EISs.
EPA also serves as the repository (EIS
database) for EISs prepared by Federal
agencies and provides notice of their
availability in the Federal Register. The
EIS database provides information about
EISs prepared by Federal agencies, as
well as EPA’s comments concerning the
EISs. All EISs are filed with EPA, which
publishes a notice of availability on
Fridays in the Federal Register. For
more information, see http://
www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/
eisdata.html. You may search for EPA
comments on EISs, along with EISs
themselves, at https://
cdxnodengn.epa.gov/cdx-enepa-public/
action/eis/search.
Background
The National Wildlife Refuge System
Administration Act of 1966,
(Administration Act), as amended by
the National Wildlife Refuge System
Improvement Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C.
668dd–668ee), requires us to develop a
CCP for each national wildlife refuge.
The purpose of a CCP is to provide
refuge managers with a 15-year strategy
for achieving refuge purposes and
contributing toward the mission of the
National Wildlife Refuge System
(NWRS), consistent with sound
principles of fish and wildlife
management, conservation, legal
mandates, and Service policies. In
addition to outlining broad management
direction on conserving wildlife and
their habitats, CCPs identify wildlifedependent recreational opportunities
available to the public, including
opportunities for hunting, fishing,
wildlife observation and photography,
and environmental education and
interpretation. We will review and
update the CCP at least every 15 years
in accordance with the Administration
Act.
Each unit of the NWRS was
established for specific purposes. We
use these purposes as the foundation for
developing and prioritizing the
management goals and objectives for
each refuge within the NWRS mission,
and to determine how the public can
use each refuge. The planning process is
a way for us and the public to evaluate
management goals and objectives that
will ensure the best possible approach
to wildlife, plant, and habitat
conservation, while providing for
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