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Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 24 / Friday, February 4, 2011 / Notices
Migratory Bird Management. Major
implementation elements include, but
are not limited to, BLM development of
a migratory bird strategic conservation
plan and the FWS completion of raptor
conservation measures.
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA)
NEPA will be complied with as the
MOU is implemented.
Robert V. Abbey,
Director, Bureau of Land Management.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Bruce Peacock, Chief, Social Science
Division, Natural Resource Program
Center, National Park Service, 1201
Oakridge Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80525–
5596, or via e-mail at
Bruce_Peacock@nps.gov or via phone at
970–267–2106.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NRSS–1210–6465; 2330–RYY]

Proposed Information Collection;
National Park Service Natural Quiet
Valuation
National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The National Park Service
(NPS) will ask the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) to approve the
Information Collection (IC) for a pretest
and a subsequent survey of the general
public concerning the use and non-use
value of natural quiet in national parks.
Under the provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 and a part of our
continuing efforts to reduce paperwork
and respondent burden, we invite the
general public and other Federal
agencies to comment on this IC. We may
not conduct or sponsor and a person is
not required to respond to a collection
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number.
DATES: Public comments will be
accepted on the proposed Information
Collection (IC) on or before April 5,
2011.
ADDRESSES: Send Comments concerning
this IC to: Catherine Taylor, Volpe
National Transportation Systems Center,
Economics and Industry Analysis
Division (RVT–21), 55 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA 02142; via e-mail at
Catherine.Taylor@dot.gov or via phone
at 617–494–2380. Also, you may send
comments to: Dr. Bruce Peacock, Chief,
Social Science Division, Natural
Resource Program Center, National Park
Service, 1201 Oakridge Drive, Fort
Collins, CO 80525–5596, via e-mail at
Bruce_Peacock@nps.gov or via phone at
970–267–2106. All responses to this
Notice will be summarized and
included in the proposed Information
Collection Request (ICR) for the Office

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

AGENCY:

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of Management and Budget (OMB)
approval. Please note that all comments
will become a matter of public record.
To Request a Draft of Proposed
Collection of Information, Contact:
Catherine Taylor, Volpe National
Transportation Systems Center,
Economics and Industry Analysis
Division (RVT–21), 55 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA 02142; or via e-mail at
Catherine.Taylor@dot.gov or via phone
at 617–494–2380.

The National Park Service (NPS) Act
of 1916, 38 Stat 535, 16 U.S.C. 1, et seq.,
requires that the NPS preserve national
parks for the use and enjoyment of
present and future generations. In
keeping with this mission, the NPS
must be sensitive to human activity in
parks that can impact the natural
landscape. An area of growing concern
has been the increasing presence of
human-caused sounds at the national
parks, including sounds from road
vehicles, aircraft, and construction and
mining equipment. These humancaused sounds can affect both human
visitors and wildlife that live in the
park.
Due to adverse impacts of humancaused sounds, the NPS is developing
sound management policies at a number
of national parks. To better inform the
development of such practices, the NPS
seeks to understand the ‘‘use’’ and ‘‘nonuse’’ values the general public (visitors
and non-visitors) hold for preserving
natural quiet at national parks.
This information collection will
consist of pre-tests and a final survey
instrument that will be used to derive
estimates of the use and non-use value
of natural quiet to the public. The pretest will involve a series of focus groups
for the purpose of developing and
refining the questions to be used in the
survey. Following the focus groups, the
revised survey will then be pre-tested
among a small group of respondents for
final feedback and refinement. The final
survey will be administered to the park
visitors to estimate their use value and
to the general public to estimate their
non-use value of natural quiet in a
national park.

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II. Data
OMB Control Number: None. This is
a new collection.
Title: Quantifying the Non-use Value
of Natural Quiet at National Parks to the
General Public.
Type of Request: New.
Respondent Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of response: One-time per
respondent.
Description of Respondents: General
public; visitors and non-visitors.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,140.
Visitor

General
public

Pretest ......................
Survey .......................

52
500

88
500

Total Number of Respondents ..............

552

588

Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 534.
Visitor

General
public

Pretest ......................
Survey .......................

132
167

68
167

Total Hours ...............

299

235

III. Request for Comments
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 to be collected; and (4)
ways to minimize the burden to
respondents, including use of
automated information techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments that you submit 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; please 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 personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Dated: January 31, 2011.
Robert Gordon,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
National Park Service.
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