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Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 105 / Monday, June 1, 2020 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R3–FAC–2020–N013; FF03F43100–
XXXF1611NR; OMB Control Number 1018–
New]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Sea Lamprey Control
Program
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), are proposing a new
information collection in use without
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before July 31,
2020.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the
information collection request (ICR) by
mail to the Service Information
Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, MS: PRB/PERMA,
5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA
22041–3803 (mail); or by email to Info_
[email protected]. Please reference OMB
Control Number ‘‘1018–Sea Lampreys’’
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 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,
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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.
Abstract: The Sea Lamprey Control
Program is administered and funded by
the Great Lakes Fishery Commission
(GLFC) and implemented by two control
agents, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service and Fisheries and Oceans
Canada, who often partner on larger
projects. The sea lamprey (Petromyzon
marinus), a parasitic fish species native
to the Atlantic Ocean, parasitizes other
fish species by sucking their blood and
other bodily fluids. Having survived
through at least four major extinction
events, the species has remained largely
unchanged for more than 340 million
years. The sea lamprey differs from
many other fishes, in that it does not
have jaws or other bony structures, but
instead has a skeleton made of cartilage.
Sea lampreys prey on most species of
large Great Lakes fish such as lake trout,
salmon, lake sturgeon, whitefish,
burbot, walleye, and catfish.
In the 1800s, sea lampreys invaded
the Great Lakes system via manmade
locks and shipping canals. Their
aggressive behavior and appetite for fish
blood wreaked havoc on native fish
populations, decimating an already
vulnerable lake trout fishery. The first
recorded observation of a sea lamprey in
the Great Lakes was in 1835 in Lake
Ontario. For a time, Niagara Falls served
as a natural barrier, confining sea
lampreys to Lake Ontario and
preventing them from entering the
remaining four Great Lakes. However, in
the early 1900s, modifications were
made to the Welland Canal, which
bypasses Niagara Falls and provides a
shipping connection between Lakes
Ontario and Erie. These modifications
allowed sea lampreys access to the rest
of the Great Lakes system. Within a
short time, sea lampreys spread
throughout the system: Into Lake Erie by
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1936 and 1937, and Lake Superior by
1938. Sea lampreys were able to thrive
once they invaded the Great Lakes
because of the availability of excellent
spawning and larval habitat, an
abundance of host fish, a lack of
predators, and their high reproductive
potential—a single female can produce
as many as 100,000 eggs.
Service staff at the Marquette and
Ludington biological stations fulfill U.S.
obligations under the 1954 Convention
on Great Lakes Fisheries between the
United States and Canada and the Great
Lakes Fishery Act of 1956. The Service
works with State, Tribal, and other
Federal agencies to monitor progress
towards fish community objectives for
sea lampreys in each of the Great Lakes,
and also to develop and implement
actions to achieve these objectives.
Activities are closely coordinated with
State, Tribal, and other Federal and
provincial management agencies,
nongovernmental organizations, private
landowners, and the public. Our
primary goal is to conduct ecologically
sound and publicly acceptable
integrated sea lamprey control.
The Sea Lamprey Control Program
(SLCP) maintains an internal database.
In existence for more than 20 years, it
contains information critical to the
delivery and evaluation of an integrated
control program to manage invasive sea
lamprey populations in the five Great
Lakes. The storage of data in this
database not only documents the history
of the SLCP since inception in 1953, but
it also provides data to steer assessment
and control of invasive sea lamprey
populations in the Great Lakes in
partnership with the GLFC. We provide
annual population data to Federal and
State regulatory agencies to inform
critical evaluations used to issue
permits to allow sea lamprey control
actions. The SLCP database maintains
the points of contact for landowners to
request landowner permission to access
their land for treatment. The Service
collects basic contact information for
the landowner (name, home address,
phone number, cell phone number, and
email address), along with whether they
allow access to their land, methods of
transportation allowed over the land,
and whether the landowner irrigates the
land.
Title of Collection: Sea Lamprey
Control Program.
OMB Control Number: 1018–New.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Existing collection of
information in use without an OMB
Control Number.
Respondents/Affected Public:
Individuals, private sector, and State/
local/Tribal governments.

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Total Estimated Number of Annual
Respondents: 600.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 400.
Estimated Completion Time per
Response: 15 Minutes.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 150 hours.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: Annually.
Total Estimated Annual Nonhour
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 authority for this action is the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
Dated: May 27, 2020.
Madonna Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 2020–11671 Filed 5–29–20; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–HQ–R–2019–N036;
FXRS12630900000/FF09R81000; OMB
Control Number 1018–New]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service Concessions
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), will request Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval of an existing collection in use
without an OMB control number.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before July 31,
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), 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls
Church, VA 22041–3803 (mail); or by
email to [email protected]. Please
reference OMB Control Number 1018–
Concessions in the subject line of your
comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this information collection request,

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contact Madonna L. Baucum, Service
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, by email at [email protected],
or by telephone at (703) 358–2503.
Individuals who are hearing or speech
impaired may call the Federal Relay
Service at 1–800–877–8339 for TTY
assistance.
In
accordance with the PRA and its
implementing regulations at 5 CFR
1320.8(d)(1), all information collections
require approval under the PRA. We
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.
As part of our continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent
burdens, we invite the public and other
Federal agencies 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 especially interested in public
comment addressing the following:
(1) Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether or not the
information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) How might the agency minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to
respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of response.
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 information
collection request. 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

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information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Abstract: The Secretary of the Interior
is authorized to ensure that we provide
opportunities within the Service for
compatible wildlife-dependent
recreational uses across the National
Wildlife Refuge System (System).
Furthermore, the Secretary is authorized
to award concessions contracts under
the following Acts:
• The National Wildlife Refuge
System Administration Act of 1966
(Administration Act, 16 U.S.C. 668dd–
668ee), as amended by the National
Wildlife Refuge System Improvement
Act of 1997, authorizes the Secretary of
the Interior to negotiate and award
contracts and issue regulations to carry
out the Act.
• The Refuge Recreation Act of 1962
(16 U.S.C.–460k–460k–3) allows the use
of refuges for public recreation when
such use is not inconsistent with or
does not interfere with the primary
purpose(s) of the refuge.
• The Refuge Revenue Sharing Act
(16 U.S.C. 715s) authorizes the Secretary
to grant privileges and collect revenues
from leases for public accommodations
or facilities established for the System.
Specifically, the Administration Act
provides that, with respect to the Refuge
System, it is the policy of the United
States that—
a. Each refuge shall be managed to
fulfill the mission of the System, as well
as the specific purposes for which that
refuge was established;
b. Compatible wildlife-dependent
recreation is a legitimate and
appropriate general public use of the
System, directly related to the mission
of the System and the purposes of many
refuges, and which generally fosters
refuge management and through which
the American public can develop an
appreciation for fish and wildlife;
c. Compatible wildlife-dependent
recreational uses are the priority general
public uses of the System and shall
receive priority consideration in refuge
planning and management; and
d. When the Secretary determines that
a proposed wildlife-dependent
recreational use is a compatible use
within a refuge, that activity should be
facilitated, subject to such restrictions or
regulations as may be necessary,
reasonable, and appropriate.
The Administration Act also provides
that, in administering the Refuge
System, the Secretary shall—
a. Recognize compatible wildlifedependent recreational uses as the
priority general public uses of the
System, through which the American

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