1024-0022 60-day FR Notice

Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 137 / Monday, July 19, 2010 / Notices
Dated: July 13, 2010.
Leroy McKinney, Jr.,
Departmental Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
60-Day Notice of Intention To Request
Clearance of Collection of Information;
Opportunity for Public Comment

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AGENCY: National Park Service,
Department of Interior.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 5
CFR part 1320, Reporting and Record
Keeping Requirements, the National
Park Service (NPS) invites public
comments on an extension of a
currently approved information
collection Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) #1024–0022.
DATES: Public comments on this
Information Collection Request (ICR)
will be accepted on or before September
17, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to: Garry
Oye, National Park Service, Department
of the Interior 1201 Eye Street NW.
(Room 1004), Washington DC 20005;
fax: 202–371–6623 or by e-mail at Garry
_Oye@nps.gov. All responses to this
notice will be summarized and included
in the request for the OMB approval. All
comments will become a matter of
public record.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Garry Oye, National Park Service,
Department of the Interior, Chief of
Wilderness Stewardship Division by email at Garry_Oye@nps.gov or by phone:
202–513–7090.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Backcountry Use Permit (36
CFR 1.5, 1.6, and 2.10).
Form: Backcountry Use Permit, 10–
404A.
OMB Control Number: 1024–0022.
Expiration Date: 11/30/2010.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved collection of
information.
Description of Need: In 1976, the NPS
initiated a backcountry registration
system in accordance with the
regulations found at 36 CFR 1.5, 1.6 and
2.10. The objective of the use permit
system is to provide users access to
backcountry areas of national parks with
continuing opportunities for solitude,

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while enhancing resource protection
and providing a means of disseminating
public safety messages regarding the
backcountry travel.
NPS backcountry program managers,
by designating access routes and
overnight camping locations, can
redistribute campers in response to user
impact, high fire danger, flood or wind
hazard, bear activity or other situations
that may temporarily close a portion of
the backcountry. The NPS may also use
the permit system as a means of
ensuring that each backcountry user
receives up-to-date information on
backcountry sanitation procedures, food
storage, wildlife activity, trail
conditions and weather projections so
that concerns for visitor safety are met.
The Backcountry Use Permit is an
extension of the NPS statutory authority
responsibility to protect the park areas
it administers and to manage the public
use thereof (16 U.S.C. 1 and 3). NPS
regulations codified in 36 CFR parts 1
through 7, 12 and 13 are designated to
implement statutory mandates that
provide for resource protection and
pubic enjoyment. The Backcountry Use
Permit is the primary form used to
provide access into NPS backcountry
areas including those areas that require
a reservation to enter where use limits
are imposed in accordance with other
NPS regulations. Such permitting
enhances the ability to the NPS to
education users on potential hazards,
search and rescue efforts, and resource
protection.
Description of Respondents:
Individuals wishing to use backcountry
areas within national parks.
Estimated Average Number of
Responses: 285,000 annually.
Frequency of Response: 1 per
respondent.
Estimated Average Time Burden per
Respondent: 5 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Reporting
Burden: 23,750 hours.
Comments are Invited on: (1) The
practical utility of the information being
gathered; (2) the accuracy of the burden
hour estimate; (3) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information being collected; and (4)
ways to minimize the burden to
respondents, including use of
automated information collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology. 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 us in your comment to

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withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Dated: July 13, 2010.
Cartina Miller,
NPS, Information Collection Clearance
Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R5–R–2010–N103; 50133–1265–
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Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge,
Morris County, NJ
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a
comprehensive conservation plan and
environmental assessment;
announcement of public scoping and
request for comments.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service (Service) is gathering the
information needed to prepare a
comprehensive conservation plan (CCP)
and associated environmental
assessment (EA) for Great Swamp
National Wildlife Refuge (NWR). We
publish this notice in compliance with
our policy of advising other agencies
and the public of our intentions to
conduct detailed planning on refuges
and obtain suggestions and information
about the scope of issues to consider in
the planning process.
DATES: We will hold two public scoping
open house meetings on July 28, 2010,
at the Chatham Township meeting hall.
The open houses will be held from 1
p.m. to 3:30 p.m. with a presentation by
refuge staff at 1:30 p.m., and from 6 p.m.
to 8:30 p.m. with a presentation at 6:30
p.m. The meetings will be announced
through our Web site (http://www.fws.
gov/northeast/planning) and a
newsletter for our mailing list, and
through personal contacts. See the
Addresses section for information about
where to submit your comments. To
ensure our consideration of your written
comments regarding the scope of the
refuge management plan, you should
submit them within 30 days of the
publication of this notice.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments or
requests for more information on the
planning process by any of the
following methods:
Electronic mail: northeastplanning@
fws.gov. Include ‘‘Great Swamp NWR’’ in
the subject line of the message.

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