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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 155 / Wednesday, August 12, 2015 / Notices
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of an extension of a
currently approved information
collection (1028–0085).
AGENCY:

To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), the U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS) is inviting comments on an
information collection request (ICR) that
we have sent to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. The ICR concerns
the paperwork requirements for the
National Land Remote Sensing
Education, Outreach and Research
Activity (NLRSEORA) and describes the
nature of the collection and the
estimated burden and cost. As required
by the 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. This Information
Collection is scheduled to expire on
September 30, 2015.
DATES: Submit written comments by
September 11, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Please submit written
comments on this information
collection directly to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Attention: Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior, via email:
(OIRA_SUBMISSION@omb.eop.gov); or
by fax (202) 395–5806; and identify your
submission with ‘Information Collection
1028–0085 National Land Remote
Sensing Education, Outreach and
Research Activity’ in all
correspondence. Please also forward a
copy of your comments and suggestions
on this information collection to the
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201
Sunrise Valley Drive MS 807, Reston,
VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648–7195 (fax);
or gs-info_collections@usgs.gov (email).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sarah Cook, Land Remote Sensing
Program, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201
Sunrise Valley Drive, Mail Stop 516,
Reston, VA 20192 (mail); 703–648–6136
(phone); or scook@usgs.gov (email). You
may also find information about this
ICR at www.reginfo.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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I. Abstract
The National Land Remote Sensing
Education, Outreach and Research
Activity (NLRSEORA) is an effort that
involves the development of a U.S.
National consortium in building the
capability to receive, process and
archive remotely sensed data for the
purpose of providing access to
university and State organizations in a
ready-to-use format; and to expand the
science of remote sensing through
education, research/applications
development and outreach in areas such
as environmental monitoring, climate
change research, natural resource
management and disaster analysis.
Respondents are submitting proposals to
acquire funding for a National (U.S.)
program to promote the uses of spacebased land remote sensing data and
technologies through education and
outreach at the State and local level and
through university-based and
collaborative research projects. The
information collected will ensure that
sufficient and relevant information is
available to evaluate and select a
proposal for funding. A panel of USGS
Land Remote Sensing Program managers
and scientists will review each proposal
to evaluate the technical merit,
requirements, and priorities identified
in the Program’s call for proposals.
This notice concerns the collection of
information that is sufficient and
relevant to evaluate and select proposals
for funding. We will protect information
from respondents considered
proprietary under the Freedom of
Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) and its
implementing regulations (43 CFR part
2), and under regulations at 30 CFR
250.197, ‘‘Data and information to be
made available to the public or for
limited inspection.’’ No questions of a
‘‘sensitive’’ nature are asked. We intend
to release the project abstracts and
primary investigators for awarded/
funded projects only.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028–0085.
Form Number: NA.
Title: National Land Remote Sensing
Education, Outreach and Research
Activity (NLRSEORA).
Type of Request: Extension.
Affected Public: Non-profit
organizations.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
receive benefits.
Frequency of Collection: Once per
year.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: Approximately 5
applications.
Estimated Time per Response: We
expect to receive approximately 5

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applications per year, taking each
applicant approximately 24 hours to
complete, totaling 120 burden hours.
We anticipate awarding one (1) grant
per year. The grantee will be required to
submit an interim Annual Progress
Report to the designated USGS Project
Officer within 90 days of the end of the
project period and a final report on or
before 90 working days after the
expiration of the agreement for a total of
48 hours.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 168
hours per year.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: There are no ‘‘non-hour cost’’
burdens associated with this ICR.
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.
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) ways 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 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 us in your comment to
withhold your personally identifiable
information from public view, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Timothy R. Newman,
Program Coordinator, Land Remote Sensing
Program, U.S. Geological Survey.
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