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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
withhold your personal identifying

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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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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey
[GX16CC00G1S3000]

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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500, Norcross, GA 30095 (mail); 678–
924–6637 (phone); or msdalton@
usgs.gov (email). You may also find
information about this ICR at
www.reginfo.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract
The USGS is authorized under
SECURE Water Act Section 9508 to
assist state water resource agencies with
improving their water use data
collection activities. USGS has
implemented the Water Use Date and
Research program (WUDR), to work
with state water agencies in gathering
and analyzing their data, and assists this
effort via cooperative agreements.
WUDR will be used to improve the
collection and reporting of water-use
categories by state agencies, including
categories of water use that were
previously collected by the USGS
National Water Use Information
program but discontinued due to
limited resources. This collection will
also be used in reports to Congress on
water resources in the nation. Grant
funds will be announced and awarded
as part of a competitive process that will
be guided, annually, by a technical
committee whose members will include
representatives from the stakeholder
community as well as USGS. Water Use
Data and Research Program funds will
be coordinated with a single agency in
each State. Collaboration and
coordination with USGS personnel will
be required as part of the Grants
program. Data must be stored
electronically and made available at the
8-digit hydrologic-unit code (HUC–8)
and county level in formats appropriate
for existing USGS databases.
Additionally, methods used for data
collection (estimated values,
coefficients, etc.) and a description of
data quality assurance and control will
be required.

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II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028—NEW.
Title: USGS Water Use Data and
Research Program.
Type of Request: Approval of new
information collection.
Respondent Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
Frequency of Collection: Annually.
Description of Respondents: State
water-resource agencies that collect
water-use data.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: We expect 52 respondents to
read and complete the application. We
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Estimated Time per Response: We
estimate that it will take 40 hours to
prepare the proposal. This includes time
to complete the project narrative and to
provide any other relevant supporting
documents. We estimate that it will take
12 hours in total to prepare the midterm and final reports.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours:
2,260 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 OMB approves a
collection of information, you are not
obliged to respond.
Comments: On July 23, 2015, we
published a Federal Register notice (80
FR 43792) announcing that we would
submit this ICR to OMB for approval
and soliciting comments. The comment
period closed on September 21, 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
withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that it will be done.
Sonya Jones,
Program Coordinator, Water Availability and
Use Science Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLWY910000 L16100000 XX0000]

Notice of Public Meeting; Wyoming
Resource Advisory Council
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act of 1976 and the Federal Advisory
Committee Act of 1972, the U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) Wyoming
Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will
meet as indicated below.
DATES: The meeting is scheduled for,
Wednesday, March 9, 2016, from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m., and Thursday, March 10,
2016, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be
conducted at the BLM Rock Springs
Field Office, 280 Highway 191 North,
Rock Springs, Wyoming.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christian Venhuizen, Wyoming
Resource Advisory Council Coordinator,
Wyoming State Office, 5353
Yellowstone Road, Cheyenne, WY
82009; telephone 307–775–6103; email
[email protected]. Persons who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf
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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 10member RAC advises the Secretary of
the Interior on a variety of management
issues associated with public land
management in Wyoming. Planned
agenda topics for the March meeting
(see DATES) include discussions on fees
for the National Historic Trails
Interpretive Center and the Rock
Springs RMP revision and follow-up to
previous RAC meetings. On Thursday,
March 10, the meeting will begin with
a public comment period, at 8 a.m.
Depending on the number of persons
wishing to comment and time available,
the time for individual oral comments
may be limited. If there are no members
of the public interested in speaking, the
meeting will move promptly to the next
agenda item. The public may also
submit written comments to the RAC by
emailing [email protected], with the
subject line ‘‘RAC Public Comment’’ or
by submitting comments during the
SUMMARY:

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