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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information please
contact Teresa Dean at (703) 648–4825
or e-mail at tdean@usgs.gov.
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I. Abstract
During FY10, the NGP of the USGS
will provide funding under the
American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act (ARRA) for the collection of
orthoimagery and elevation data. We
will accept applications from State,
local or tribal governments and
academic institutions to advance the
development of The National Map and
other national geospatial databases. This
effort will support our need to
supplement ongoing data collection
activities to respond to an increasing
demand for more accurate and current
elevation data and orthoimagery. To
submit a proposal, a completed project
narrative and application must be
submitted via Grants.gov. Grant
recipients must complete a final
technical report at the end of the project
period. All application instructions and
forms are available on the Internet
through Grants.gov (http://
www.grants.gov). Hard/paper
submissions and electronic copies
submitted via e-mail will not be
accepted under any circumstances. All
reports will be accepted electronically
via e-mail.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028–0092.
Title: National Map: Imagery and
Elevation Maps Grants Program.
Type of Request: Extension of
currently approved collection.
Respondent Obligation: Required to
receive benefits.
Frequency of Collection: Annually.
Description of Respondents: State,
Local and Tribal Governments, private
and non-profit firms, and academic
institutions.
Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 40 applications and 20 final
reports.
Estimated Annual Reporting and
Recordkeeping: ‘‘Hour’’ Burden: 2,680
hours. We expect to receive
approximately 40 applications. It will
take each applicant approximately 60
hours to complete the narrative and
present supporting documents. This
includes the time for project conception
and development, proposal writing,
reviewing, and submitting the proposal
application through Grants.gov (totaling
2,400 burden hours). We anticipate
awarding 20 grants per year. The award
recipients must submit quarterly and
final reports during the project. Within
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a report must be submitted summarizing
the previous quarter’s progress. The
quarterly report will take at least 1 hour
to prepare (totaling 80 burden hours). A
final report must be submitted within 90
calendar days of the end of the project
period. We estimate that approximately
10 hours will be used to complete the
final report (totaling 200 hours).
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: There are no ‘‘non-hour cost’’
burdens associated with this collection
of information.
III. Request for Comments
We are soliciting comments as to: (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the agency
to perform its duties, including whether
the information is useful; (b) the
accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information; (c) how to enhance the
quality, usefulness, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d) how
to minimize the burden on the
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Please note that the comments
submitted in response to this notice are
a matter of public record. Before
including your address, phone number,
e-mail 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 OMB in your
comment to withhold your personal
identifying information from public
review, we cannot guarantee that it will
be done. To comply with the public
process, we publish this Federal
Register notice announcing that we will
submit this ICR to OMB for approval.
The notice provided the required 60 day
public comment period.
Dated: December 23, 2009.
Julia Fields,
Deputy Director, National Geospatial
Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
30-Day Notice of Submission of Study
Package to Office of Management and
Budget; Opportunity for Public
Comment
AGENCY: Department of the Interior;
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ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
SUMMARY: Under provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and
36 CFR Part 51, Subpart C, regarding the
Solicitation, Selection and Award
Procedures, the National Park Service
invites comments on a currently
approved collection of information
(OMB Control # 1024–0125).
The OMB has up to 60 days to
approve or disapprove the requested
information collection, but may respond
after 30 days. Therefore, to ensure
maximum consideration, OMB should
receive public comments within 30 days
of the date on which this notice is
published in the Federal Register.
The National Park Service published
the 60-day Federal Register notice to
solicit comments on this proposed
information collection on August 6,
2009, on pages 39335–39336.
DATES: Public comments on the
proposed Information Collection
Request (ICR) will be accepted for 30
days from the date of publication in the
Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
directly to the Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior, (OMB
#1024–0125) Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, OMB by fax at 202/
395–5806, or by electronic mail at
OIRA_DOCKET@omb.eop.gov. Please
also send a copy of your comments to
Ms. Jo A. Pendry, Concession Program
Manager, National Park Service, 1849 C
Street, NW. (2410), Washington, DC
20240, or electronically to
jo_pendry@nps.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jo
A. Pendry, phone: 202–513–7156, fax:
202–371–6662, or at the address above.
You are entitled to a copy of the entire
ICR package free-of-charge.
There were no public comments
received as a result of publishing in the
Federal Register a 60-day Notice of
Intention to Request Clearance of
Information Collection for this survey.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Submission of Offers in
Response to Concession Opportunities.
OMB Control Number: 1024–0125.
Expiration Date of Approval: January
31, 2010.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
Description of Need: The regulations
at 36 CFR Part 51 primarily implement
Title IV of the National Parks Omnibus
Management Act of 1998 (Pub. L. 105–
391 or the Act), which provides new
legislative authority, policies and
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and administration of National Park
Service (NPS) concession contracts. The
regulations require the submission of
offers by parties interested in applying
for a NPS concession contract.
NPS has submitted a request to OMB
to renew approval of the collection of
information in 36 CFR Part 51, Subpart
C, regarding Solicitation, Selection, and
Award Procedures. NPS is requesting a
3-year term of approval for this
information collection activity.
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 OMB control
number for this collection of
information is 1024–0125, and is
identified in 36 CFR Section 51.104.
Estimate of Burden: Approximately
480 hours per response for large
operations. Approximately 240 hours
per response for small operations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
Approximately 160 for small operations.
Approximately 80 for large operations.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: One.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 38,400 hours for small
operations. 38,400 hours for large
operations. 76,800 Total.
Send comments on (1) The accuracy
of the agency’s burden estimates; (2)
ways to minimize the burden, including
the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology; (3) or any other aspect of
this collection to the Office of
Management and Budget at the
following address. Please refer to OMB
control number 1024–0125 in all
correspondence.
Our practice is to make comments,
including names and home addresses of
respondents, available for public review
during regular business hours.
Individual respondents may request that
we withhold their home address from
the record, which we will honor to the
extent allowable by law. There also may
be circumstances in which we would
withhold from the record a respondent’s
identity, as allowable by law. If you
wish us to withhold your name and/or
address, you must state this
prominently at the beginning of your
comment. However, we will not
consider anonymous comments. We
will make all submissions from
organizations or businesses, and from
individuals identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses, available
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Dated: December 16, 2009.
Cartina A. Miller,
NPS Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Washington Administrative Program
Center.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R9–FHC–2009–N233; 40120–1113–
4044–D2–FY10]

Marine Mammal Protection Act; Stock
Assessment Report
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability of final
2009 revised marine mammal stock
assessment reports for two stocks of
West Indian manatee; response to
comments.
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972,
as amended (MMPA), and its
implementing regulations, we, the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service (Service),
announce that we have revised our
stock assessment report (SAR) for each
of the two West Indian manatee stocks
in the southeastern United States: The
Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus
latirostris) stock and the Puerto Rico
stock of Antillean manatee (Trichechus
manatus manatus), including
incorporation of public comments. We
now make these two final 2009 revised
SARs available to the public.
ADDRESSES: To obtain the SARs for
either or both of the West Indian
manatee subspecies, see Document
Availability under SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
West Indian Manatee in Florida: Jim
Valade, (904) 731–3116 (telephone) or
Jim_Valade@fws.gov (e-mail). West
Indian Manatee in Puerto Rico: Marelisa
Rivera, (787) 851–7297 (telephone) or
Marelisa_Rivera@fws.gov (e-mail).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background
Under the MMPA (16 U.S.C. 1361 et
seq.) and its implementing regulations
in the Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR) at 50 CFR part 18, we regulate the
taking, transportation, purchasing,
selling, offering for sale, exporting, and
importing of marine mammals. One of
the MMPA’s goals is to ensure that
stocks of marine mammals occurring in
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mortality and serious injury that is
likely to cause the stock to be reduced
below its optimum sustainable
population level (OSP). OSP is defined
as ‘‘the number of animals which will
result in the maximum productivity of
the population or the species, keeping
in mind the carrying capacity of the
habitat and the health of the ecosystem
of which they form a constituent
element.’’
To help accomplish the goal of
maintaining marine mammal stocks at
their OSPs, section 117 of the MMPA
requires us and the National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) to prepare a
SAR for each marine mammal stock that
occurs in waters under U.S. jurisdiction.
A SAR must be based on the best
scientific information available;
therefore, we prepare it in consultation
with established regional scientific
review groups. Each SAR must include:
(1) A description of the stock and its
geographic range; (2) a minimum
population estimate, maximum net
productivity rate, and current
population trend; (3) an estimate of
human-caused mortality and serious
injury; (4) a description of commercial
fishery interactions; (5) a categorization
of the status of the stock; and (6) an
estimate of the potential biological
removal (PBR) level. The PBR is defined
as ‘‘the maximum number of animals,
not including natural mortalities, that
may be removed from a marine mammal
stock while allowing that stock to reach
or maintain its OSP.’’ The PBR is the
product of the minimum population
estimate of the stock (Nmin); one-half the
maximum theoretical or estimated net
productivity rate of the stock at a small
population size (Rmax); and a recovery
factor (Fr) of between 0.1 and 1.0, which
is intended to compensate for
uncertainty and unknown estimation
errors.
Section 117 of the MMPA also
requires us and NMFS to review the
SARs (a) at least annually for stocks that
are specified as strategic stocks; (b) at
least annually for stocks for which
significant new information is available;
and (c) at least once every 3 years for all
other stocks.
A strategic stock is defined in the
MMPA as a marine mammal stock (a)
for which the level of direct humancaused mortality exceeds the PBR; (b)
which, based on the best available
scientific information, is declining and
is likely to be listed as a threatened
species under the Endangered Species
Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531
et seq.; ESA), within the foreseeable
future; or (c) which is listed as a
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