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Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 168 / Wednesday, August 29, 2012 / Notices
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R4–R–2012–N212;
FXRS126104000004A–123–FF04R08000]

Information Collection Request Sent to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for Approval; National Wildlife
Refuge Visitor Check-In Permit and
Use Report
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:

We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service) have sent an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for
review and approval. We summarize the
ICR below and describe the nature of the
collection and the estimated burden and
cost. We 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.
DATES: You must submit comments on
or before September 28, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments and
suggestions on this information
collection to the Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior at OMB–
OIRA at (202) 395–5806 (fax) or
OIRA_DOCKET@OMB.eop.gov (email).
Please provide a copy of your comments
to the Service Information Collection
Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, MS 2042–PDM, 4401
North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA
22203 (mail), or INFOCOL@fws.gov
(email). Please include ‘‘1018–XXXX’’
in the subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Hope Grey at
INFOCOL@fws.gov (email) or 703–358–
2482 (telephone). You may review the
ICR online at http://www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to review
Department of the Interior collections
under review by OMB.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 1018–XXXX.
Title: National Wildlife Refuge Visitor
Check-In Permit and Use Report.
Service Form Number: 3–2405.
Type of Request: Request for a new
OMB control number.
Description of Respondents: Visitors
to national wildlife refuges.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 650,000.
Estimated Annual Number of
Responses: 650,000.

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Estimated Completion Time per
Response: 5 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 54,167.
Abstract: The National Wildlife
Refuge System Administration Act of
1966 (16 U.S.C. 668dd–668ee), as
amended by the National Wildlife
Refuge System Improvement Act of
1997, and the Refuge Recreation Act of
1962 (16 U.S.C. 460k–460k–4) govern
the administration and uses of national
wildlife refuges and wetland
management districts. We are
authorized to permit public uses on
lands of the National Wildlife Refuge
System, including hunting, fishing,
wildlife observation, wildlife
photography, and environmental
education and interpretation, and other
visitor uses when we find that the
activities are compatible and
appropriate with the purpose or
purposes for which the refuges were
established.
We need to collect information on
hunters and anglers and other visitors in
order to protect refuge resources and
administer and evaluate the success of
visitor programs. Because of high
demand and limited resources, we often
provide visitor opportunities by permit,
based on dates, locations, or type of
public use. We may not allow all
opportunities on all refuges and harvest
information differs for each refuge. We
are proposing to use a new form (FWS
Form 3–2405) to collect this
information. Not all refuges will use the
form and some refuges may collect the
information in a nonform format. We
propose to collect:
• Information on the visitor (name,
address, and contact information). This
information is used to identify the
visitor or driver/passengers of a vehicle
while on the refuge. Having this
information readily available is critical
in a search and rescue situation. We will
not maintain or record this information.
• Whether or not hunters/anglers
were successful (number and type of
harvest/caught).
• Purpose of visit (hunting, fishing,
wildlife observation, wildlife
photography, auto touring, birding,
hiking, boating/canoeing, visitor center,
special event, environmental education
class, volunteering, other recreation).
• Date of visit.
This information will be a vital tool
in meeting refuge objectives and
maintaining quality visitor experiences.
The above information will help us:
• Administer and monitor visitor
programs and facilities on refuges.
• Distribute visitor permits to ensure
safety of visitors.
• Ensure a quality visitor experience.

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• Minimize resource disturbance,
manage healthy game populations, and
ensure the protection of fish and
wildlife species.
• Assist in Statewide wildlife
management and enforcement and
develop reliable estimates of the number
of all game fish and wildlife.
• Determine facility and program
needs and budgets.
Comments: On May 6, 2010, we
published in the Federal Register (75
FR 24964) a notice of our intent to
request that OMB approve this
information collection. In that notice,
we solicited public comments for 60
days, ending July 6, 2010. We received
one comment in response to this notice.
The commenter expressed displeasure
with the fact that this card is being used
to count ‘‘wildlife murderers,’’ which
this person believes is not a good use of
the taxpayer’s dollars. The commenter
did not address the information
collection requirements, and we did not
make any changes to the requirements.
We again invite comments concerning
this information collection on:
• Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary, including
whether or not the information will
have practical utility;
• The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information;
• Ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents.
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 OMB in your comment to
withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that it will be done.
Dated: August 21, 2012.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy and Directives
Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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