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portions of the State under the regular CDBG
program and all of the other areas of the most
impacted counties not covered by the CDBG
entitlement communities getting a direct
grant. For example, the geography served by
Livingston County, South Carolina includes
one or more communities that cross over into
Richland County, South Carolina. Because
those communities participate with the
Livingston County CDBG program and not
the Richland County CDBG program, their
need is reflected in the award to Livingston
County. In addition, a number of
incorporated towns in Richland County are
served by the State CDBG program and the
data for those communities were factored
into the grant to the South Carolina State
government and not the grant to the Richland
County Urban County.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of a revision of a
currently approved information
collection (1028–0097).
AGENCY:

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. This collection is
scheduled to expire on October 31,
2016.

SUMMARY:

To ensure that your comments
are considered, we must receive them
on or before August 16, 2016.
ADDRESSES: 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
1028–0097, State Water Resources
Research Institute Program Annual
Application, National Competitive
Grants and Reporting’’ in all
correspondence.

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DATES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Earl

Greene, Chief, Office of External

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Research, U.S. Geological Survey, 5522
Research Park Drive, Baltimore, MD
21228 (mail); 443–498–5505 (phone);
[email protected] (email). You may
also find information about this ICR at
www.reginfo.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The Water Resources Research Act of
1984, as amended (42 U.S.C. 10301 et
seq.), authorizes a research institute
water resources or center in each of the
50 states, the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands,
Guam, the Federated States of
Micronesia, the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands, and
American Samoa. There are currently 54
such institutes, one in each state, the
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the
U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam. The
institute in Guam is a regional institute
serving Guam, the Federated States of
Micronesia, and the Commonwealth of
the Northern Mariana Islands. Each of
the 54 institutes submits an annual
application for an allotment grant,
national competitive grants, and
provides an annual report on its
activities under the grant. The State
Water Resources Research Institute
Program issues an annual call for
applications from the institutes to
support plans to promote research,
training, information dissemination, and
other activities meeting the needs of the
States and Nation. The State Water
Resources Research Institute Program
also issues an annual call for
competitive grants to focus on water
problems and issues of a regional or
interstate nature beyond those of
concern only to a single State. The U.S.
Geological Survey has been designated
as the administrator of the provisions of
the Act.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028–0097.
Form Number: NA.
Title: State Water Resources Research
Institute Program Annual Application,
National Competitive Grants and
Reporting.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: The state water
resources research institutes authorized
by the Water Resources Research Act of
1983, as amended, and listed at http://
water.usgs.gov/wrri/index.php.
Respondent’s Obligation: Necessary to
obtain benefits.
Frequency of Collection: Annually.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: We expect to receive 54
applications and award 54 grants per
year from State and local governments

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for the annual applications. We also
expect to receive 65 applications from
individuals and award 4 grants per year
for the national competitive grants.
Estimated Time per Response: 10,320
hours. This includes 100 hours per
government applicant to prepare and
submit the annual application; 40 hours
per individual applicant to prepare and
submit the national competitive grant
application and 40 hours (total) per
grantee to complete the annual reports.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours:
10,320.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: There are no ‘‘non-hour cost’’
burdens associated with this IC.
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
information from public view, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Earl A. Greene,
Chief, Office of External Research.
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