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trapping, capturing, or collecting in
addition to hunting, shooting, harming,
wounding, or killing.
A recovery permit issued by us under
section 10(a)(1)(A) of the ESA
authorizes the permittee to conduct
activities with endangered or threatened
species for scientific purposes that
Application No.
TE29073D .............
TE33186D .............

Applicant

promote recovery or for enhancement of
propagation or survival of the species.
Our regulations implementing section
10(a)(1)(A) for these permits are found
at 50 CFR 17.22 for endangered wildlife
species, 50 CFR 17.32 for threatened
wildlife species, 50 CFR 17.62 for
Species

University of Maine,
Atlantic salmon (Salmo
Orono, ME.
salar).
Martha’s Vineyard
Roseate tern (Sterna
Land Bank Commisdougallii dougallii),
sion, Edgartown, MA.
Piping plover
(Charadrius
melodus).

Type of take

Maine ....................

Fish assemblage survey, monitor.
Research on impacts
of small Unmanned
Aircraft System flight
altitude on nesting
shorebirds.

Electrofish, capture,
harass, handle.
harass .........................

Massachusetts .....

Written comments we receive become
part of the administrative record
associated with this action. 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 request in your comment
that we withhold your personal
identifying information from public
review, we cannot guarantee that we
will be able to do so. Moreover, all
submissions from organizations or
businesses, and from individuals
identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses, will be
made available for public disclosure in
their entirety.

Geological Survey

Authority
Section 10(c) of the Endangered
Species Act of 1973, as amended (16
U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).
Martin Miller,
Chief, Division of Endangered Species,
Ecological Services, Northeast Region.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Earth Explorer User
Registration Service
U.S. Geological Survey,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we,
the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are
proposing to renew an information
collection.

SUMMARY:

Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before May 31,
2019.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the
information collection request (ICR) by
mail to the U.S. Geological Survey,
Information Collections Clearance
Officer, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS
159, Reston, VA 20192; or by email to
[email protected]. Please
reference OMB Control Number 1028–
0119 in the subject line of your
comments.
DATES:

To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Ryan Longhenry by
email at [email protected], or by
telephone at 605–591–6179.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, we provide the
general public and other Federal
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We invite local, State, and Federal
agencies; Tribes; and the public to
comment on the following applications.

Activity

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

If we decide to issue permits to any
of the applicants listed in this notice,
we will publish a notice in the Federal
Register.

Permit Applications Available for
Review and Comment

Location

Public Availability of Comments

Next Steps

endangered plant species, and 50 CFR
17.72 for threatened plant species.

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Permit action
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agencies with an opportunity to
comment on proposed, revised, and
continuing collections of information.
This helps us assess the impact of our
information collection requirements and
minimize the public’s reporting burden.
It also helps the public understand our
information collection requirements and
provide the requested data in the
desired format.
We are soliciting comments on the
proposed information collection request
(ICR) that is described below. We are
especially interested in public comment
addressing the following issues: (1) Is
the collection necessary to the proper
functions of the USGS; (2) will this
information be processed and used in a
timely manner; (3) is the estimate of
burden accurate; (4) how might the
USGS enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (5) how might the USGS
minimize the burden of this collection
on the respondents, including through
the use of information technology.
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 ICR. 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 may 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.

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Abstract: The USGS proposes to
collect general demographic information
about public users that download
products from the USGS using Earth
Explorer (EE) application. This
information is used to help address
reports to Congress, OMB and DOI
management with planning public uses
of Landsat and other remote sensing
data. The most common uses of these
data are used to justify the maintenance
and the free distribution of the USGS
land remote sensing data. EE also stores
information about users that download
source code products, Global
Visualization Viewer (GloVis) for
example. The information collected in
the database includes the names,
affiliations, addresses, email address
and telephone numbers of individuals.
The information is gathered to facilitate
the reporting of demographic data for
use of the EE Application. Demographic
data is also used to make decisions on
future functional requirements within
the system.
Earth Explorer is a Web application
that enables users to find, preview, and
download or order digital data
published by the U.S. Geological
Survey. There are more than 300 USGS
Datasets available from the site. To
download or order products from EE,
users must register with the EE system.
The information is stored on an
internal encrypted database. The data is
provided by the customer and utilized
to notify the customer of data ready for
download. If downloads are
unsuccessful, the customer is contacted
to provide updated information. In
addition, EE requires certain fields to be
completed such as name, address, city
and zip code before an account can be
established and an order can be
submitted.
EE does not derive new data and does
not create new data through aggregation.
Personal information is not used as
search criteria. Access to the
information uses the least privileged
access methodology. Authorized
individuals with specifically granted
access to the Privacy Act data can
retrieve only by account number or
order number Personal data is encrypted
while stored in the Database.
Title of Collection: Earth Explorer
User Registration Service.
OMB Control Number: 1028–0119.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: Private
individuals who have requested USGS
products from USGS/Earth Explorer
application are covered in this system.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Respondents: 84,000.

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Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: Approximately 84,000 on an
annual basis.
Estimated Completion Time per
Response: We estimate that it will take
2 minutes per response to submit the
requested information.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 2,800.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: The
information is collected at the time of
registration and is only updated by the
individual.
Total Estimated Annual Non-hour
Burden Cost: None.
An agency 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.
The authorities for this action are the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501, et seq.).
Christopher Loria,
USGS EROS Center Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
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HEARTH Act Approval of Minnesota
Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota, Fond du
Lac Band Leasing Ordinance
Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

On March 6, 2019, the Bureau
of Indian Affairs (BIA) approved the
Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota,
Fond du Lac Band leasing ordinance
under the Helping Expedite and
Advance Responsible Tribal
Homeownership Act of 2012 (HEARTH
Act). With this approval, the Tribe is
authorized to enter into leases for
agricultural, residential, business, wind
and solar, wind energy evaluation, and
other authorized purposes without
further BIA approval.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Sharlene Round Face, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, Division of Real Estate Services,
MS–4642–MIB, 1849 C Street NW,
Washington, DC 20240, at (202) 208–
3615.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

I. Summary of the HEARTH Act
The HEARTH Act makes a voluntary,
alternative land leasing process

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available to Tribes, by amending the
Indian Long-Term Leasing Act of 1955,
25 U.S.C. 415. The HEARTH Act
authorizes Tribes to negotiate and enter
into agricultural and business leases of
Tribal trust lands with a primary term
of 25 years, and up to two renewal terms
of 25 years each, without the approval
of the Secretary of the Interior
(Secretary). The HEARTH Act also
authorizes Tribes to enter into leases for
residential, recreational, religious or
educational purposes for a primary term
of up to 75 years without the approval
of the Secretary. Participating Tribes
develop Tribal leasing regulations,
including an environmental review
process, and then must obtain the
Secretary’s approval of those regulations
prior to entering into leases. The
HEARTH Act requires the Secretary to
approve Tribal regulations if the Tribal
regulations are consistent with the
Department of the Interior’s
(Department) leasing regulations at 25
CFR part 162 and provide for an
environmental review process that
meets requirements set forth in the
HEARTH Act. This notice announces
that the Secretary, through the Assistant
Secretary—Indian Affairs, has approved
the Tribal regulations for the Minnesota
Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota, Fond du
Lac Band.
II. Federal Preemption of State and
Local Taxes
The Department’s regulations
governing the surface leasing of trust
and restricted Indian lands specify that,
subject to applicable Federal law,
permanent improvements on leased
land, leasehold or possessory interests,
and activities under the lease are not
subject to State and local taxation and
may be subject to taxation by the Indian
Tribe with jurisdiction. See 25 CFR
162.017. As explained further in the
preamble to the final regulations, the
Federal government has a strong interest
in promoting economic development,
self-determination, and Tribal
sovereignty. 77 FR 72,440, 72,447–48
(December 5, 2012). The principles
supporting the Federal preemption of
State law in the field of Indian leasing
and the taxation of lease-related
interests and activities applies with
equal force to leases entered into under
Tribal leasing regulations approved by
the Federal government pursuant to the
HEARTH Act.
Section 5 of the Indian Reorganization
Act, 25 U.S.C. 5108, preempts State and
local taxation of permanent
improvements on trust land.
Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis
Reservation v. Thurston County, 724
F.3d 1153, 1157 (9th Cir. 2013) (citing

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