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part of the agreement/plan and
implemented regularly. These plans
should include monitoring, according to
protocols developed collaboratively by
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(USFWS), North Carolina Department of
Agriculture and Consumer Services
(NCDACS), North Carolina Division of
Parks and Recreation (NCDPR), and The
Nature Conservancy (TNC) and other
interested parties; the monitoring
should occur annually at each protected
site. Each site should contain an A or B
ranked occurrence. For downlisting to
be considered, we would like to have at
least 7 of the 10 protected sites to be Aranked occurrences. The remaining
three sites can be either A or B ranked
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Criteria for Delisting
Carex lutea will be considered for
removal from the List of Endangered
and Threatened Species (delisting)
when all of the following criteria are
met:
1. There are 15 protected sites in the
wild that are distributed across the
range of the species. [Note: Recovery
sites will be considered permanently
protected when they are placed under a
conservation easement or other binding
land agreement and a management
agreement, and are ranked as an A or B
population by the NCNHP.]
2. On each of the 15 Carex lutea sites,
for at least 5 years, any non-native plant
species that have the potential to
displace Carex lutea are maintained at
or below 10 percent of total number of
species and at or below 10 percent cover
(volume).
3. All 15 Carex lutea sites
demonstrate stable or increasing
population trends for 10 consecutive
years.
4. Habitat management plans are
actively being implemented for all
protected sites and are showing
evidence that actions are proving
effective for this plant.
5. A prescribed fire regime is being
conducted at all sites to mimic
historical frequency and timing (which
will be determined through recovery
actions in this plan). The definition of
‘‘protected’’ is the same as in the criteria
for downlisting. For delisting to be
considered, at least 10 of the 15
protected sites should be A ranked
occurrences. The remaining five sites
can be either A or B ranked occurrences.
Next Steps
As reclassification and recovery
criteria are met, the status of the species
will be reviewed, and it will be
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removal from the Federal List of
Endangered and Threatened Plants.
Authority
The authority for this action is section
4(f) of the Endangered Species Act, 16
U.S.C. 1533(f).
Dated: April 23, 2014.
Cynthia K. Dohner,
Regional Director, Southeast Region, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey
[GX14N05ESB0500]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments on
the Registry of Climate Change
Vulnerability Assessments
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of a new information
collection, Registry of Climate Change
Vulnerability Assessments.
AGENCY:

We (the U.S. Geological
Survey) are notifying the public that we
have submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) the
information collection request (ICR)
described below. To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
and as part of our continuing efforts to
reduce paperwork and respondent
burden, we invite the general public and
other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on this ICR.
DATES: To ensure that your comments
are considered, the OMB must receive
them on or before June 20, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Please submit your written
comments on this information
collection directly to the Office of
Management and Budget, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Attention: Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior, at OIRA_
SUBMISSION@omb.eop.gov (email); or
(202) 395–5806 (fax). Please also
forward a copy of your comments to the
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 807
National Center, 12201 Sunrise Valley
Drive, Reston, VA 20192 (mail); 703–
648–7195 (fax); or gs-info_collections@
usgs.gov (email). Reference
‘‘Information Collection 1028–NEW:
Registry of Climate Change
Vulnerability Assessments’’ in all
correspondence.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robin O’Malley, National Climate
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Change and Wildlife Science Center,
U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise
Valley Drive, Mail Stop 400, Reston, VA
20192 (mail); 703–648–4086 (phone); or
romalley@usgs.gov (email). You may
also find information about this ICR at
www.reginfo.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The USGS proposes to collect
information on existing assessments of
the vulnerability of various natural
resources and societal assets to climate
change (hereafter VA or ‘‘vulnerability
assessments’’). This information will
include the organization conducting the
study, study location, topical focus of
the assessment, methodology and
supporting data used, and point of
contact information. Because many
governmental and nongovernmental
parties are conducting such
assessments, and because their
conclusions, methodologies, and related
data assets may be of interest or utility
to others contemplating such
assessments, the USGS will make the
information collected available on the
Web in the form of a simple registrytype database. Users, including the
general public, scientists, resource
management agencies, and others will
be able to search the database by various
keywords of interest.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028–NEW.
Title: Registry of Climate Change
Vulnerability Assessments.
Type of Request: Approval of new
information collection.
Respondent Obligation: None
(participation is voluntary).
Frequency of Collection: This
information will be collected initially
and reviewed at least annually. All
listed Registry projects will be contacted
and requested to update their
information; Federal agencies
participating in the Registry will
conduct ‘‘data calls’’ according to
agency practice to identify new agency
projects, and external partners will be
reminded via Web posting and
community-of-practice networking that
new projects may be added to the
Registry. Additional entries may be
added at any time, as information
becomes available.
Description of Respondents: Federal
agencies, state, tribal and
nongovernmental partners, individual
scientists, and others involved in the
conduct of climate change vulnerability
assessments.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: Approximately 1,360
responses (i.e., additions to the registry)

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are expected in the initial data
collection phase (first year), including
approximately 1200 from Federal
organizations, 110 from state, local and
tribal institutions, and 50 from private
entities (nongovernmental organization,
academic, commercial). In subsequent
years, annual additions to the registry
are expected to be 100 or fewer from all
sources.
Estimated Time per Response: We
estimate that it will take one hour per
person to document a single assessment
project for inclusion in the registry. In
future years, reviewing project
information to ensure currency or
identifying new projects is expected to
require de minimis effort.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 160
for non-Federal entities in year one and
less than 50 in each subsequent year.
The requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act regarding estimation of
annual burden hours do not apply to
information collections from Federal
agencies and are not addressed here.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: There are no ‘‘non-hour cost’’
burdens associated with this collection
of information.
Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA
(44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an
agency may not conduct or sponsor and
you are not required to respond to a
collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number. Until the OMB approves a
collection of information, you are not
obliged to respond.
Comments: On August 21, 2013, we
published a Federal Register notice (78
FR 162) announcing that we would
submit this ICR to OMB for approval
and soliciting comments. The comment
period closed on October 21, 2013. We
received two comments in response to
that notice, each emphasizing support
for the project. Specifically, the
comments suggested that development
of a registry would be necessary for
cataloguing existing assessments and
that such a registry will increase
understanding of the nation’s progress
towards determining climate change
impacts and provide insights for
adaptation planning. Additionally, one
commenter felt the registry will be
useful for comparing assessment
methods from different disciplines (e.g.,
ecosystems, infrastructure) and
potentially reveal unrecognized
connections or causal relationships
between climate change and societal or
natural resource vulnerabilities (e.g.,
ecosystem shifts and changes in vectorborne and zoonotic disease incidence).
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all disciplines assessing vulnerability
and implementing adaptation actions,
including the public health and health
care delivery services sectors. Our
initial intent was to ensure that the
registry would be available to all parties
interested in questions of vulnerability
and adaptation. We have, therefore,
expanded the focus of the registry to
explicitly include the health sectors
cited in the received comments.
III. Request for Comments
We again invite comments concerning
this ICR 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 comments submitted
in response to this notice are a matter
of public record. Before including your
personal mailing address, phone
number, email address, or other
personally identifiable information in
your comment, you should be aware
that your entire comment, including
your personally identifiable
information, may be made publicly
available at any time. While you can ask
the OMB in your comment to withhold
your personally identifiable information
from public review, we cannot
guarantee that it will be done.
Robin I. O’Malley,
Policy and Partnership Coordinator, National
Climate, Change and Wildlife Science Center,
US Geological Survey.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Steens Mountain Advisory Council;
Meeting
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Public Meetings.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act and the Federal Advisory
Committee Act of 1972, and the U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of

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Land Management (BLM), the Steens
Mountain Advisory Council (SMAC)
will meet as indicated below:
DATES: June 12–13, 2014 in Frenchglen,
Oregon; July 17–18, 2014 in Burns or
Frenchglen, Oregon; and November 13–
14, 2014 in Bend, Oregon. Meetings may
be canceled or rescheduled on short
notice due to lack of Council business
or emergency situations (wildfire, etc.).
Meeting agendas and details will be
available online at www.blm.gov/or/rac/
steens-rac-minutes.php about two
weeks prior to each session. Meeting
times and the duration scheduled for
public comment periods may be
extended or altered when the authorized
representative considers it necessary to
accommodate necessary business and
all who seek to be heard regarding
matters before the SMAC.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tara
Martinak, Public Affairs Specialist, BLM
Burns District Office, 28910 Highway 20
West, Hines, Oregon 97738, (541) 573–
4519, or email tmartina@blm.gov.
Persons who use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD) may call the
Federal Information Relay Service
(FIRS) at 1 (800) 877–8339 to contact the
above individual during normal
business hours. The FIRS is available 24
hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a
message or question with the above
individual. You will receive a reply
during normal business hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
SMAC was initiated August 14, 2001,
pursuant to the Steens Mountain
Cooperative Management and Protection
Act (CMPA) of 2000 (Pub. L. 106–399).
The SMAC provides representative
counsel and advice to the BLM
regarding new and unique approaches
to management of the land within the
bounds of the Steens Mountain CMPA;
recommending cooperative programs
and incentives for landscape
management that meet human needs,
and the maintenance and improvement
of the ecological and economic integrity
of the area. A public comment period
will be available each day of each
meeting, excluding sessions that are
entirely in the field for tour purposes.
The public is welcome to attend all
sessions, including field tours. Unless
otherwise approved by the SMAC Chair,
the public comment period will last no
longer than 30 minutes, and each
speaker may address the SMAC for a
maximum of five minutes.
Before including your address, phone
number, email address, or other
personal identifying information in your
comments, please be aware that your
entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may

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