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from the 2018, 2019 and 2021 1-year
ACS tabulations.4
The additional metropolitan FMR
Areas that meet these requirements are
as follows:
Akron, OH MSA
Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC HUD
Metro FMR Area
Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX MSA
Birmingham-Hoover, AL HUD Metro FMR
Area
Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY MSA
Charleston-North Charleston, SC MSA
Chattanooga, TN-GA MSA
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN HUD Metro FMR Area
Cleveland-Elyria, OH MSA
Columbus, OH HUD Metro FMR Area
Dayton-Kettering, OH MSA
Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA HUD Metro
FMR Area
Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI HUD Metro FMR
Area
Fort Wayne, IN MSA
Greensboro-High Point, NC HUD Metro FMR
Area
Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA MSA
Indianapolis-Carmel, IN HUD Metro FMR
Area
Jersey City, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area
Kansas City, MO-KS HUD Metro FMR Area
Knoxville, TN HUD Metro FMR Area
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA HUD
Metro FMR Area
Louisville, KY-IN HUD Metro FMR Area
Memphis, TN-MS-AR HUD Metro FMR Area
Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL HUD Metro
FMR Area
Mobile, AL HUD Metro FMR Area
Montgomery, AL MSA
Nashville-Davidson—Murfreesboro—
Franklin, TN HUD Metro FMR Area
Oklahoma City, OK HUD Metro FMR Area
Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA HUD Metro
FMR Area
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL MSA
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA MSA
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ MSA
Raleigh, NC MSA
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA HUD
Metro FMR Area
Seattle-Bellevue, WA HUD Metro FMR Area
St. Louis, MO-IL HUD Metro FMR Area
Tucson, AZ MSA
Tulsa, OK HUD Metro FMR Area
Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VANC HUD Metro FMR Area
Wichita, KS HUD Metro FMR Area
Winston-Salem, NC HUD Metro FMR Area

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Consistent with the first cohort of
Small Area FMR designated areas and as
stated in 24 CFR 888.113(c)(4), these
designations are permanent.
IV. Additional Information
Since the first cohort of mandatory
Small Area FMR areas were required to
begin using Small Area FMRs in the
administration of the tenant-based
voucher programs in April of 2018, this
4 The calculation of the vacancy rate is defined in
the Final Rule, available at https://
www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmr2016f/
SAFMR-Final-Rule.pdf.

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notice fulfills HUD’s 5-year requirement
under the Small Area FMR final rule.
Setting the implementation date of this
notice as October 1, 2024, provides
sufficient time for PHAs operating in the
newly announced required areas to
acquire sufficient training and provides
time for further market analysis to
prepare to set their payments standards
using Small Area FMRs instead of
metropolitan area-wide FMRs. Finally,
setting an implementation date of
October 1, 2024, provides that PHAs
operating in this second cohort of
mandatory areas, under normal voucher
program operations, must have their
payment standards aligned with the
Small Area FMRs in their operating
areas by January 1, 2025. Should a PHA
operating in these 41 areas wish to begin
using Small Area FMRs in the
administration of their voucher
programs prior to October 1, 2024, they
will need to seek HUD permission
pursuant to an opt-in decision by a PHA
under 24 CFR 888.113(c)(3): ‘‘A PHA
administering an HCV program in a
metropolitan area not subject to the
application of Small Area FMRs may
opt to use Small Area FMRs by seeking
approval from HUD’s Office of Public
and Indian Housing (PIH) through
written request to PIH.’’ Until the
SAFMRs take effect for PHAs in the 41
metropolitan areas identified in this
Notice, any decision by a PHA to use
SAFMRs is an opt-in decision,
consistent with 24 CFR 88.113(c)(3) and
Section 5(b) of PIH Notice 2018–01.
If a PHA operating in one these 41
areas is unable to implement Small Area
FMRs within the timeframes provided
in this notice, they may petition HUD
for a temporary exemption as specified
in 24 CFR 888.113 (c)(4), which states
in part, ‘‘HUD may suspend a Small
Area FMR designation from a
metropolitan area, or may temporarily
exempt a PHA in a Small Area FMR
metropolitan area from use of Small
Aree FMRs, when HUD by notice make
a documented determination that such
action is warranted. Actions that may
serve as the basis of a suspension of
Small Area FMRs are: (i) A
Presidentially declared disaster area that
results in the loss of a substantial
number of housing units; (ii) A sudden
influx of displaced households needing
permanent housing; or (iii) Other events
as determined by the Secretary.’’ For
additional guidance, PHAs who want to
petition HUD for an exemption should
refer to section 9 of PIH Notice 2018–
01, available at https://www.hud.gov/

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Solomon J. Greene,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Policy Development and Research.
Dominique Blom,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public
and Indian Housing.
[FR Doc. 2023–23685 Filed 10–23–23; 4:15 pm]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey
[GX24NN00TH3L700, OMB Control Number
1028–NEW]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Central Flyway Online
Goose Harvest Assessment
U.S. Geological Survey,
Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), the U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS) is proposing a new information
collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before
December 26, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments on
this information collection request (ICR)
by mail to USGS, Information
Collections Clearance Officer, 12201
Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 159, Reston,
VA 20192; or by email to gs-info_
[email protected]. Please reference
OMB Control Number 1028–NEW
Central Flyway Goose Harvest
Assessment in the subject line of your
comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Jay VonBank by email
at [email protected], or by telephone
at (701) 368–0177. Individuals in the
United States who are deaf, deafblind,
hard of hearing, or have a speech
disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or
TeleBraille) to access
telecommunications relay services.
Individuals outside the United States
should use the relay services offered
within their country to make
international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the PRA (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), all
information collections require
approval. We may not conduct or
sponsor, nor are you required to
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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 the agency might 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 personally identifiable
information (PII) in your comment, you
should be aware that your entire
comment—including your PII—may be
made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment
to withhold your PII from public review,
we cannot guarantee that we will be
able to do so.
Abstract: To estimate the species and
age composition of U.S. goose harvest,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(FWS) annually conducts two separate
surveys from a sample of hunters in
each flyway: a Parts Collection Survey
(PCS) used to identify age and species
of goose and the Migratory Bird Harvest
Survey (i.e., Diary Survey) to estimate
the total number of geese harvested.
Data from each survey are then
combined post hoc to estimate speciesand age-specific harvests. Harvest data
are then incorporated into models to
estimate population abundance for
many goose species. These monitoring
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harvest and subsequent population size,
but FWS managers have identified
several potential biases that need to be
addressed. Information provided by
hunters via the PCS may introduce
potential biases. Due to liberalization in
bag limits and hunting-season lengths,
as well as PCS participation fatigue,
some participants only submit a subset
of daily harvested waterfowl or do not
request additional envelopes to
continue participation once the initial
supply of envelopes is exhausted (i.e.,
completeness bias). Thus, huntercollected samples for the PCS are likely
temporally biased toward early in the
hunting season (e.g., hunters quit
participating during the hunting season,
or they only submit as many samples as
the initial envelopes provided allow,
with a decreasing number of hunters
requesting additional envelopes).
Therefore, fewer parts are submitted
later in the season, resulting in a
temporal harvest bias in addition to a
quantity- and completeness bias. Our
proposed study aims to integrate both
surveys into one easily accessible,
robust data collection platform that
reduces the burden on hunters and is
expected to increase participation. In an
effort to develop and evaluate an
additional survey to the PCS and Diary
Survey that may help to alleviate the
concerns outlined above, we propose
the development of an online/mobile
application survey platform to allow
goose harvest reporting of species and
age directly from hunters without the
need to participate in two surveys or to
collect and mail parts. We propose a
short-term study within Central Flyway
states on the design, implementation,
comparability, and efficacy of an online
survey methodology. This study will
determine if such a survey is feasible to
accurately estimate future goose
harvests and reduce the identified
biases, costs, burden, and time involved
in the current PCS and Diary surveys.
Understanding biases and assumptions
in current harvest survey protocols has
direct management implications as
many goose harvest strategies are
predicated on harvest and population
estimates. Developing alternative
methods to address these biases are
necessary to ensure accurate, reliable,
and increasingly precise estimates of
harvest and abundance. Furthering our
understanding of assumptions related to
current practices and surveys will aid in
improving the management process for
North American goose populations.
Title of Collection: Central Flyway
online goose harvest assessment.
OMB Control Number: 1028–NEW.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: New.

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Respondents/Affected Public: General
Public.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Respondents: 3,552.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 4 per respondent (total of
14,208 annual responses).
Estimated Completion Time per
Response: 2 minutes.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 474 hours.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: Frequency
Once annually.
Total Estimated Annual Non-hour
Burden Cost: None.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, nor is a person required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number.
The authority for this action is the
PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
Robert A Gleason,
Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center,
Center Director, Midcontinent Region, USGS.
[FR Doc. 2023–23533 Filed 10–24–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
[24XD4523WS/DWSN00000.000000/
DS61500000/DP.61501]

Notice of Public Meeting of the
Invasive Species Advisory Committee
National Invasive Species
Council, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:

Pursuant to the provisions of
the Federal Advisory Committee Act,
notice is hereby given that a meeting of
the Invasive Species Advisory
Committee (ISAC) will meet as
indicated below.
DATES: The Invasive Species Advisory
Committee will convene in-person on
Monday, November 13, 2023, 9:00 a.m.–
5:00 p.m. (ET); Tuesday, November 14,
2023, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. (ET); and,
Wednesday, November 15, 2023; 9:00
a.m.–1:00 p.m. (ET). The general session
proceedings will also be streamed
virtually via Zoom webinar. NOTE:
Virtual access to the general session
portions of the meeting will be in
‘‘listen only’’ mode. Registration is
required at: https://forms.office.com/g/
5TwFXSkEpf.
SUMMARY:

U.S. Department of the
Interior, 1849 C Street NW, Washington,
DC 20240. Meeting will be held in the
North Penthouse. All registered inperson attendees must pass through

ADDRESSES:

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