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Todd M. Richardson,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy
Development and Research.
[FR Doc. 2021–23401 Filed 10–26–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–HQ–MB–2021–N193; FF09M20200
FGMB123109CITY0 (212); OMB Control
Number 1018–NEW]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Urban Bird Treaty
Program Requirements
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 an existing
collection in use without an Office of
Management and Budget control
number.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before
November 26, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under Review—Open for
Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function. Please provide a copy
of your comments to the Service
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
MS: PRB (JAO/3W), 5275 Leesburg Pike,
Falls Church, VA 22041–3803 (mail); or
by email to [email protected]. Please
reference ‘‘1018–UBT’’ in the subject
line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 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. You may also view the
information collection request (ICR) at
http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA, 44 U.S.C.

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3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), 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.
On June 11, 2021, we published in the
Federal Register (86 FR 31336) a notice
of our intent to request that the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB)
approve this information collection. In
that notice, we solicited comments for
60 days, ending on August 10, 2021.
The Service shared the notice with
current and prospective UBT program
partners to encourage participation in
the public commenting process. We did
not receive any comments in response
to that notice.
As part of our continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent
burdens, we are again soliciting
comments from the public and other
Federal agencies on the proposed ICR
that is described below. 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. 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.

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Abstract: The Urban Bird Treaty
Program (UBT Program) is administered
through the Service’s Migratory Bird
Program, under the authority of the Fish
and Wildlife Coordination Act (16
U.S.C. 661–667e). The UBT Program
aims to support partnerships of public
and private organizations and
individuals working to conserve
migratory birds and their habitats in
urban areas for the benefit of these
species and the people that live in urban
areas. The UBT partners’ habitat
conservation activities help to ensure
that more natural areas, including
forests, grasslands, wetlands, and
meadows, are available in urban areas,
so that historically excluded and
underserved communities can have
improved access to green space and
opportunities to engage in habitat
restoration and community science as
well as bird-related recreation and
educational programs. These habitat
restoration activities, especially urban
forest conservation, also contribute to
climate resiliency by reducing the
amount of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere. Lights-out programs in
UBT cities help reduce energy costs and
greenhouse gas emissions by reducing
the use of electricity when people and
businesses turn off their lights between
dusk and dawn during the fall and
spring periods of bird migration in order
to reduce bird collisions with building
glass.
The Service designates Urban Bird
Treaty cities or municipalities through a
process in which applicants submit a
nomination package, including a letter
of intention and an implementation
plan, for approval by the Service’s
Migratory Bird Program. Within 3
months, the Service reviews the
package, makes any necessary
recommendations for changes, and then
decides to either approve or reject the
package. If rejected, the city can reapply
the following year. In most cases, when
the Service designates a new city
partner, the Service and the new city
partner hold a signing ceremony, during
which a representative from both the
Service and the city sign a nonbinding
document that states the importance of
conserving birds and their habitats to
the health and well-being of people that
live in and visit the city. To maintain
this city partner designation, the city
must submit information on the
activities it has carried out to meet the
goals of the UBT program, including
those related to bird habitat
conservation, bird hazard reduction,
and bird-related community education
and engagement. By helping make cities
healthier places for birds and people,

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the UBT Program contributes to the
Administration’s priorities of justice
and racial equity, climate resiliency,
and the President’s Executive Order
14008 to protect 30 percent of the
Nation’s land and 30 percent of its
ocean areas by 2030.
The UBT program benefits city
partners in many ways, including:
• Helps city partners achieve their
goals for making cities healthier places
for birds and people.
• Provides opportunities to share and
learn from other city partners’ tools,
tactics, successes, and challenges, to
advance city partners’ urban bird
conservation efforts.
• Strengthens the cohesion and
effectiveness of the partnerships by
coming together and working under the
banner of the UBT program.
• Gives city partners improved access
to funding through the National Fish
and Wildlife Foundation’s Five Star and
Urban Waters Restoration grant
program, as UBT cities receive priority
in this program.
• Helps partners garner additional
funds through other urban conservation
grant programs that have shared goals
and objectives.
• Achieve green building credits,
reduced energy costs, green space
requirements, environmental equity,
and other sustainability goals.
• Promotes the livability and
sustainability of partner cities by
spreading the word about the city’s UBT
Federal designation and all the benefits
of a green and bird-friendly city.
We collect the following information
from prospective and successful
applicants in conjunction with the UBT
Program:
• Nomination Letter—Prospective
applicants must submit a letter of
intention from the city’s partnership
that details its commitment to urban
bird conservation and community
engagement in bird-related education,
recreation, conservation, science, and
monitoring. Support and involvement
by the city government is required.

• Implementation Plan—The required
implementation plan should contain the
following (see the UBT Program
Guidebook—https://www.fws.gov/
migratorybirds/pdf/grants/UrbanBird
TreatyV3.pdf—for full descriptions of
requirements):
—Detailed description of the
importance of the city to migrating,
nesting, and overwintering birds; bird
habitats; human population size of the
city; and socioeconomic profile of the
human communities present and
those targeted for education and
engagement programs.
—Map of the geographic area that is
being nominated for designation.
—List of individuals and organizations,
and their contact information, that are
active in the partnership.
—The mission, goals, and objectives of
the partnership applying for
designation, organized by the three
UBT goal categories.
—Description of accomplishments (e.g.,
activities, products, outcomes) that
have been completed over the last 2–
3 years, the audiences and
communities reached/engaged
through those activities, and the
partner organizations that have
achieved them, organized by UBT
goal categories.
—Description of strategies, actions,
tools/products that are being planned
for the next 3–5 years under the UBT
designation, the objectives to be
accomplished, the audiences and
communities targeted for engagement,
and the partners who will complete
the work, organized by UBT goal
categories.
• Ad Hoc Reports—The Service will
also request information updates on
UBT city points of contact, activities
and events, and other information on an
ongoing basis for urban bird
conservation in the city, as needed by
the Service for storytelling, promotion,
and internal programmatic
communications, education, and
outreach.
Average
number of
annual
respondents

Requirement

Average
number of
responses
each

• Biennial Reporting—The Service
requires city partners to provide
biennial metrics as well as written and
photographic descriptions of activities
for each goal category. City partners are
required to submit this information to
maintain their city’s designation by
ensuring that they are actively working
to achieve the goals of the UBT Program.
We will use the information collected
for storytelling purposes to promote the
urban bird conservation work of city
partners, and to enable the Migratory
Bird Program to develop UBT Program
accomplishment reports and other
communications tools to share with the
public and the conservation community
at large. The reporting requirement
ensures that the UBT city designation is
meaningful and that city partners are
accountable for the efforts that they
agreed to undertake to earn their
designation. Additionally, we will use
the information to promote the UBT
program to other interested city partners
and the benefits of urban bird
conservation generally. For more
information, please see the UBT
Program Guidebook at the following
link: https://www.fws.gov/
migratorybirds/pdf/grants/UrbanBird
TreatyV3.pdf.
Title of Collection: Urban Bird Treaty
Designation, Updates, and Reporting
Requirements.
OMB Control Number: 1018–NEW.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Existing collection in
use without an OMB control number.
Respondents/Affected Public:
Nonprofits; colleges, universities, and
schools; museums, zoos, and aquaria;
local community groups; private
businesses; and municipal, State, and
Tribal governments involved in urban
bird conservation in UBT cities.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: One-time
submission of nomination letter; onetime submission of implementation
plan; on occasion for information
updates; and biennial reporting.
Average
completion
time per
response
hours)

Average
number of
annual
responses

Estimated
annual
burden
hours

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Nomination Letter
Private Sector ......................................................................
Government .........................................................................

2
1

1
1

2
1

4
4

8
4

2
1

40
20

80
20

Implementation Plan (Initial Submission)
Private Sector ......................................................................
Government .........................................................................

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Average
number of
annual
respondents

Requirement

Average
number of
responses
each

Average
completion
time per
response
hours)

Average
number of
annual
responses

Estimated
annual
burden
hours

Ad Hoc Reports
Private Sector ......................................................................
Government .........................................................................

19
3

4
4

76
12

3
3

228
36

Biennial Reporting
Private Sector ......................................................................
Government .........................................................................

9
2

1
1

9
2

80
80

720
160

Totals: ...........................................................................

39

........................

105

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1,256

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.).
Madonna Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 2021–23413 Filed 10–26–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–HQ–NCTC–2021–N197;
FXGO16610900600 (212) FF09X35000; OMB
Control Number 1018–0176]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Native Youth
Community Adaptation and Leadership
Congress
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 to revise a
currently approved information
collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before
November 26, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under Review—Open for

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Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function. Please provide a copy
of your comments to the Service
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
MS: PRB (JAO/3W), 5275 Leesburg Pike,
Falls Church, VA 22041–3803 (mail); or
by email to [email protected]. Please
reference ‘‘1018–0176’’ in the subject
line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 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. You may also view the
information collection request (ICR) at
http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA, 44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), 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.
On July 19, 2021, we published in the
Federal Register (86 FR 38111) a notice
of our intent to request that OMB
approve a revision to this information
collection. In that notice, we solicited
comments for 60 days, ending on
September 17, 2021. No comments were
received in response to that notice.
As part of our continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent
burdens, we are again soliciting
comments from the public and other
Federal agencies on the proposed ICR
that is described below. We are

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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. 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 Service offers eligible
Native American, Alaskan Native, and
Pacific Islander high school students the
opportunity to apply for the Native
Youth Community Adaptation and
Leadership Congress (Congress). The
mission of the Congress is to develop
future conservation leaders with the
skills, knowledge, and tools to address
environmental change and conservation
challenges to better serve their schools
and home communities. The Congress

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