60-day Federal Register Notice (84 FR 60106)

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environmental action statement and
low-effect screening form, both of which
are also available for public review.
Project
The applicant requests a 20-year ITP
to take the covered species incidental to
the clearing of vegetation, grading,
construction of berms and access roads,
and the excavation and removal of sand
within a 314.56-acre (ac) parcel in
Sections 29, 30, and 32, Township 29S,
Range 28E, Polk County, Florida. The
applicant will take approximately
246.14 ac of occupied skink habitat, 250
ac of occupied indigo snake habitat, and
249.2 ac of occupied gopher tortoise
habitat within the parcel. The project
will be implemented in phases.
Prior to each phase, skink and gopher
tortoise surveys will be conducted along
with permitting and relocation, when
necessary, in accordance with Florida
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Commission guidelines. Gopher tortoise
guidelines also will be implemented as
applicable prior to each phase. The
applicant proposes to mitigate for take
of the skinks by purchasing credits in a
Service-approved conservation bank in
the amounts specified by the Service.
The applicant will mitigate for take of
the Eastern indigo snake by contributing
$180.00 to the Eastern Indigo Snake
Fund (Fund) for each ac of habitat
unoccupied by skinks as determined
through surveys for the species. The
snake also is expected to benefit from
the applicant’s purchase of conservation
bank credits for take of the skinks. The
applicant would be required to purchase
the required skink credits, contribute to
the Fund, and implement gopher
tortoise guidelines, as applicable, prior
to engaging in any phase of the project.
Public Availability of Comments
Before including your address, phone
number, email address, or other
personal identifying information in your
comment, be aware that your entire
comment—including your personal
identifying information—may be made
available to the public. While you may
request that we withhold your personal
identifying information, we cannot
guarantee that we will be able to do so.
Our Preliminary Determination
The Service has made a preliminary
determination that the applicant’s
project, including land clearing,
construction of berms and access roads,
excavation and removal of sand, and the
proposed mitigation measures, would
individually and cumulatively have a
minor or negligible effect on the covered
species and the environment. Therefore,
we have preliminarily concluded that

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the ITP for this project would qualify for
categorical exclusion and the HCP
would be low effect under our NEPA
regulations at 43 CFR 46.205 and
46.210. A low-effect HCP is one that
would result in
(1) Minor or negligible effects on
federally listed, proposed, and
candidate species and their habitats;
(2) Minor or negligible effects on other
environmental values or resources; and
(3) Impacts that, when considered
together with the impacts of other past,
present, and reasonably foreseeable
similarly situated projects, would not
over time result in significant
cumulative effects to environmental
values or resources.
Next Steps
The Service will evaluate the
application and the comments received
to determine whether to issue the
requested permit. We will also conduct
an intra-Service consultation pursuant
to section 7 of the ESA to evaluate the
effects of the proposed take. After
considering the above findings, we will
determine whether the permit issuance
criteria of section 10(a)(1)(B) of the ESA
have been met. If met, the Service will
issue ITP number TE16399D–0 to the
applicant.
Authority
The Service provides this notice
under section 10(c) (16 U.S.C. 1539(c))
of the ESA and NEPA regulation 40 CFR
1506.6.
Roxanna Hinzman,
Field Supervisor, South Florida Ecological
Services Office.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–HQ–MB–2019–N124; FF09M21200–
190–FXMB1231099BPP0; OMB Control
Number 1018–0167]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Eagle Take Permits and
Fees
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(Service, we), are proposing to reinstate
a previously approved information
collection with revisions.

SUMMARY:

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Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before January
6, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the
information collection request by mail
to the Service Information Collection
Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, MS: JAO/1N PRB/
PERMA, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls
Church, VA 22041–3803 (mail); or by
email to [email protected]. Please
reference OMB Control Number 1018–
0167 in the subject line of your
comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Madonna L. Baucum,
Service Information Collection
Clearance Officer, by email at Info_
[email protected], or by telephone at (703)
358–2503.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, we provide the
general public and other Federal
agencies with an opportunity to
comment on new, 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 Service; (2) will this
information be processed and used in a
timely manner; (3) is the estimate of
burden accurate; (4) how might the
Service enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (5) how might the Service
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 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.
DATES:

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Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 216 / Thursday, November 7, 2019 / Notices
Abstract: Information collection
requirements associated with the
Federal fish and wildlife permit
applications and reports for both
migratory birds and eagles are currently
approved under a single OMB control
number, 1018–0022, ‘‘Federal Fish and
Wildlife Permit Applications and
Reports—Migratory Birds and Eagles; 50
CFR 10, 13, 21, 22.’’ With this
submission to OMB, we are proposing to
reinstate OMB Control Number 1018–
0167, ‘‘Eagle Take Permits and Fees, 50
CFR 22,’’ in order transfer the eagle
requirements back in to a separate
information collection. This transfer
will facilitate easier management of the
information collection requirements
associated with eagles. We are not
proposing any changes to the currently
approved eagle requirements. This
request will simply transfer the
information collection requirements
associated with eagles back in to their
original collection under OMB Control
Number 1018–0167.
The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection
Act (Eagle Act; 16 U.S.C. 668–668d)
prohibits take of bald eagles and golden
eagles except pursuant to Federal
regulations. The Eagle Act regulations at
title 50, part 22 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) define the ‘‘take’’ of
an eagle to include the following broad
range of actions: To ‘‘pursue, shoot,
shoot at, poison, wound, kill, capture,
trap, collect, destroy, molest, or
disturb.’’ The Eagle Act allows the
Secretary of the Interior to authorize
certain otherwise prohibited activities
through regulations.
All Service permit applications
associated with eagles are in the 3–200
and 3–202 series of forms, each tailored
to a specific activity based on the
requirements for specific types of
permits. For this reinstatement, we
combined Forms 3–200–10c and 3–200–
10d into one form (3–200–10c) to reduce
the number of application forms and
help streamline the application process.
Since both forms dealt with possession
for education purposes, and asked
virtually the same questions of the
applicant, there was no need to have
separate forms. We collect standard
identifier information for all permits.
The information that we collect on
applications and reports is the
minimum necessary for us to determine
if the applicant meets/continues to meet
issuance requirements for the particular
activity.
In addition to reinstating this
information collection, the Service will
request OMB approval to automate
certain eagle permit forms. The
Service’s new ‘‘ePermits’’ initiative is an
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that will allow the agency to move
towards a streamlined permitting
process to reduce public burden. Public
burden reduction is a priority for the
Service; the Assistant Secretary for Fish,
Wildlife, and Parks; and senior
leadership at the Department of the
Interior. The intent of the ePermits
initiative is to fully automate the
permitting process to improve the
customer experience and to reduce time
burden on respondents. This new
system will enhance the user experience
by allowing users to enter data from any
device that has internet access,
including personal computers, tablets,
and smartphones. It will also link the
permit applicant to the Pay.gov system
for payment of the associated permit
application fee.
We anticipate including the following
Service forms in the ePermits initiative:
FWS Forms 3–200–14, 3–200–15a, 3–
200–15b, 3–200–16, 3–200–18, 3–200–
69, 3–200–72, 3–200–77, 3–200–78, 3–
200–82, and 3–202–11 through 3–202–
16.
Title of Collection: Eagle Take Permits
and Fees, 50 CFR 22.
OMB Control Number: 1018–0167.
Form Number: FWS Forms 3–200–14,
3–200–15a, 3–200–15b, 3–200–16, 3–
200–18, 3–200–71, 3–200–72, 3–200–77,
3–200–78, 3–200–82, 3–202–11 through
3–202–16, and 3–2480.
Type of Review: Reinstatement of a
previously approved information
collection with revisions.
Respondents/Affected Public:
Individuals and businesses. We expect
the majority of applicants seeking longterm permits will be in the energy
production and electrical distribution
business.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Respondents: 11,273.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 11,520.
Estimated Completion Time per
Response: Varies from 15 minutes to
650 hours, depending on activity.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 258,996.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion
for applications; annually or on
occasion for reports.
Total Estimated Annual Nonhour
Burden Cost: $1,725,500 (primarily
associated with application processing
fees).
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.

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The authority for this action is the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
Dated: November 4, 2019.
Madonna L. Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R7–ES–2019–N121; FF07CAMM00–
178–FXES111607MRG01; OMB Control
Number 1018–0070]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Incidental Take of Marine
Mammals During Specified Activities
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(Service, we), are proposing to renew an
information collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before January
6, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the
information collection request by mail
to the Service Information Collection
Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, MS: PRB/PERMA
(JAO/1N), 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls
Church, VA 22041–3803 (mail); or by
email to [email protected]. Please
reference OMB Control Number 1018–
0070 in the subject line of your
comments.
SUMMARY:

To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Madonna L. Baucum,
Service Information Collection
Clearance Officer, by email at Info_
[email protected], or by telephone at (703)
358–2503.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, we provide the
general public and other Federal
agencies with an opportunity to
comment on new, 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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