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Fish and Wildlife Service
[Docket No. FWS–HQ–IA–2017–0062;
FXIA16710900000–156–FF09A30000]

Foreign Endangered Species and
Marine Mammals Issuance of Permits
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of issuance of permits.
AGENCY:

We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (Service), have issued
the following permits to conduct certain
activities with endangered species,
marine mammals, or both. We issue
these permits under the Endangered
Species Act (ESA) and the Marine
Mammal Protection Act (MMPA).

SUMMARY:

Permit number

Documents and other
information submitted with these
applications are available for review,
subject to the requirements of the
Privacy Act and Freedom of Information
Act, by any party who submits a written
request for a copy of such documents to
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
Division of Management Authority,
Branch of Permits, MS: IA, 5275
Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041;
fax (703) 358–2281. To locate the
Federal Register notice that announced
our receipt of the application for each
permit listed in this document, go to
www.regulations.gov and search on the
permit number provided in the tables in
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Joyce Russell, (703) 358–2023
ADDRESSES:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Applicant

(telephone); (703) 358–2281 (fax); or
[email protected] (email).
On the
dates below, as authorized by the
provisions of the ESA, as amended (16
U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), and/or the Marine
Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), as
amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), we
issued requested permits subject to
certain conditions set forth therein. For
each permit for an endangered species,
we found that (1) the application was
filed in good faith, (2) the granted
permit would not operate to the
disadvantage of the endangered species,
and (3) the granted permit would be
consistent with the purposes and policy
set forth in section 2 of the ESA.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Receipt of application Federal Register notice

Permit issuance
date

Endangered Species
22685C .............

Feld Entertainment, Inc .............................................

82 FR 28349; June 21, 2017 ....................................

24212C .............
14503C .............
15849C .............

University of Alaska Fairbanks ..................................
The University of Alabama at Birmingham ...............
The University of Alabama at Birmingham ...............

82 FR 25616; June 2, 2017 ......................................
82 FR 31347; July 6, 2017 .......................................
82 FR 31347; July 6, 2017 .......................................

August 14,
2017.
August 3, 2017.
August 8, 2017.
August 8, 2017.

Marine Mammals
29633C .............

Off Spring Films ........................................................

82 FR 31347; July 6, 2017 .......................................

Availability of Documents

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Documents and other information
submitted with these applications are
available for review, subject to the
requirements of the Privacy Act and
Freedom of Information Act, by any
party who submits a written request for
a copy of such documents to: U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, Division of
Management Authority, Branch of
Permits, MS: IA, 5275 Leesburg Pike,
Falls Church, VA 22041; fax (703) 358–
2281.

U.S. Geological Survey

Authority: We issue this notice under the
authority of the ESA, as amended (16 U.S.C.
1531 et seq.), and the MMPA, as amended (16
U.S.C. 1361 et seq.).
Joyce Russell,
Government Information Specialist, Branch
of Permits, Division of Management
Authority.
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Agency Information Collection;
Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; iCoast—Did the Coast
Change?
United States Geological
Survey (USGS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
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), we are notifying the public that
we will submit to OMB a new
information collection (IC) for review
and approval. This notice provides the
public an opportunity to comment on
the paperwork burden of this collection.
This collection is scheduled to expire
on September 30, 2017.

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You must submit comment on or
before October 23, 2017.

DATES:

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
1028–0109 iCoast—Did the Coast
Change? Please also forward a copy of
your comments and suggestions on this
information collection to the
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, gs-info_
[email protected] (email). Please
reference ‘OMB Information Collection
1028–0109 iCoast—Did the Coast
Change? in all correspondence.

ADDRESSES:

[GX16MN00F1F1000]

SUMMARY:

August 10,
2017.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Laura Thompson, National Climate
Change and Wildlife Science Center,
U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise
Valley Drive, Mail Stop 400, Reston, VA
20192 (mail); 703–648–4083 (phone); or
[email protected] (email). You may
also find information about this ICR at

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www.reginfo.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION:
Title: iCoast—Did the coast change?
I. Abstract
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
and its collaborators (including the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, and university researchers)
conduct sustained investigations of
coastal hazards associated with major
hurricane landfall. USGS hurricane
research and response activities include
collection of storm-surge water levels,
aerial photography, and laser altimetry
(lidar) surveys of pre- and post-storm
beach conditions. These efforts
document the nature, magnitude, and
variability of costal changes such as
beach erosion, overwash deposition,
island breaching, and destruction of
infrastructure. Predictive models and
assessments of severe storm impacts are
developed and evaluated, and
probabilistic assessments are distributed
to the public, local, State, and Federal
agencies. The assessments and
observations provide information
needed to understand, prepare for, and
respond to coastal disasters. These
ongoing analyses are authorized by 42
U.S.C. 5201 et seq., The Disaster Relief
Act of 1974, Section 202(a).
In support of this research, the USGS
has been taking oblique aerial
photographs of the coast before and after
each major storm since 1996 and has
amassed a database of over 190,000
photographs of the Gulf and Atlantic
Coasts. Computers cannot yet
automatically analyze these data
because classifying this photography
requires understanding the diversity of
forms that even this small set of primary
features (shore, beach, dune, marsh,
built environment) can represent.
Human intelligence is needed, and
USGS does not have the personnel or
the capacity for this. These oblique
aerial photographs are currently used
for broad overviews of damage, and
selected photo pairs have been shared
on the Internet with the public after
storms. The intense interest by the
public in the pre- and post-storm USGS
photographic pairs, and the increasing
use of citizen science and
crowdsourcing by Federal Government
agencies suggests that a significant
segment of the public might volunteer to
serve as our ‘‘eyes on the coast.’’ The
iCoast—Did the Coast Change? Web site
(hereafter referred to as iCoast) posts a
suite of pre- and post-storm photographs
from a major storm, and citizen
scientists can compare photographs and
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predefined tags, or by appending
comments. Citizen scientists also
identify coastal landforms, determine
the storm impacts to coastal
infrastructure and landforms, and
indicate other changes, including
response and recovery efforts. These
data can be used by USGS scientists to
ground truth and fine-tune their models
of coastal change. These mathematical
models predict the likely interaction
between coastal features such as
beaches and dunes and storm surge.
They are based on pre-storm dune
height, measured by lidar, and predicted
wave behavior based on data from the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration. They are not based on
ground truth observations. A body of
citizen observations will allow for more
accurate predictions of vulnerability.
These model predictions are typically
shared with Federal, State, and local
authorities both before and after storms.
The project will also result in greater
citizen awareness of the probabilities for
coastal change, and will be a resource
for teachers and students pursuing
science, technology, engineering and
math (STEM).
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028–0109.
Form Number: None.
Title: iCoast—Did the Coast Change?
Type of Request: Renewal of existing
information collection.
Affected Public: Coastal scientists,
coastal managers, marine science
students, emergency managers, citizens/
residents of coastal communities.
Respondent’s Obligation:
Participation is voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: Occasional.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: 64,211 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 3
minutes.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours:
3,211 hours.
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.
Comments: On July 6, 2017, we
published a Federal Register notice (82
FR 31347) announcing that we would
submit this ICR to OMB for approval
and soliciting comments. The comment
period closed on September 5, 2017. We
received no comments.

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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 we will be able to
do so.
IV. Authority
The authorities for this action are
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
Christopher Reich,
Deputy Center Director, USGS St Petersburg
Coastal and Marine Science Center.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0024038:
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]

Notice of Inventory Completion:
Robbins Museum of Archaeology,
Middleborough, MA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

The Robbins Museum of
Archaeology has completed an
inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects, in
consultation with the appropriate
Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations, and has determined that
there is a cultural affiliation between the
human remains and associated funerary
objects and present-day Indian tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal

SUMMARY:

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