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(2) Under what circumstances do you
think they should be controlled and
eradicated?
(3) Are there additional criteria for
evaluating methods for rodent and
mongoose control and eradication that
we have not considered?
(4) Should the criteria for evaluating
methods for rodent and mongoose
control and eradication be modified in
any way?
(5) How would you balance these
criteria when evaluating the methods?
(6) What recommendations or
suggestions would you make regarding
the methods that are proposed for
evaluation?
(7) Are there any other methods for
rodent and mongoose control that
should be included? If so, please
describe them in sufficient detail so that
they can be evaluated.
(8) Should any of the identified
alternatives be modified?
(9) Are there any other alternatives
that should be considered? If so, please
describe them in sufficient detail so that
they can be evaluated.
(10) Are there issues not included in
the list above that should be addressed?
(11) The process of determining the
significance of impacts to resources is
unique to each resource, and is based
upon the context and intensity of the
impacts. The context refers to the setting
of where the proposed action may
occur, the affected areas or locations,
the resource affected, and the proposed
action’s short and long-term effects. The
intensity refers to the severity of the
impact. The evaluation of significance
will rely upon information received
during scoping, and may be modified as
information is revealed through the
analyses. Are there resources for which
you can identify criteria that should be
used to begin to determine the
significance of the impacts to these
resources? Please include your thoughts
on the context and intensity of the
effects.
You may request to be added to the
Service and DOFAW contact list for
distribution of any related public
documents. Information on the PDEIS is
also available on the Web at http://
www.fws.gov/pacificislands/. Special
mailings, newspaper articles, and other
media announcements will inform
interested and affected persons,
agencies, and organizations of the
opportunities for meaningful
involvement and engagement
throughout the planning process for the
proposed IPM approach, including
notices of public scoping meetings and
notices of availability of the draft and
final PEIS. This notice will be provided
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Native Hawaiian and other potentially
interested organizations, groups, and
individuals for review and comment.
Public Availability of Comments
All comments and materials we
receive, as well as supporting
documentation we use in preparing the
draft PEIS, will become part of the
public record and will be available for
public inspection by appointment,
during regular business hours, at the
Service’s Pacific Islands Fish and
Wildlife Office (see ADDRESSES). 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 us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Authority
The environmental review of this
project will be conducted in accordance
with the requirements of the NEPA of
1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et
seq.), Council on Environmental Quality
Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500–1508),
other applicable Federal laws and
regulations, and applicable policies and
procedures of the Service. This notice is
being furnished in accordance with 40
CFR 1501.7 of the NEPA regulations to
obtain suggestions and information from
other agencies and the public on the
scope of issues and alternatives to be
addressed in the PDEIS.
Richard R. Hannan,
Deputy Regional Director, Pacific Region, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, Oregon.

period. In doing so, the Committee will
obtain input from Federal, state, tribal,
local government, nongovernmental
organizations, private sector entities,
and academic institutions.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Robin O’Malley, Designated Federal
Officer, Policy and Partnership
Coordinator, National Climate Change
and Wildlife Science Center, U.S.
Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley
Drive, Mail Stop 400, Reston, Virginia
20192, romalley@usgs.gov, (703) 648–
4086.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Established in May 2013, the Advisory
Committee on Climate Change and
Natural Resource Science advises the
Secretary of the Interior on the
establishment and operations of the U.S.
Geological Survey National Climate
Change and Wildlife Science Center and
the Department of the Interior Climate
Science Centers. Members represent
Federal, state, tribal, local governments,
nongovernmental organizations, private
sector entities, and academic
institutions.
Certification Statement: I hereby
certify that the renewal of the Advisory
Committee on Climate Change and
Natural Resource Science is necessary
and in the public interest in connection
with the performance of the
responsibilities of the Department of the
Interior under section 2 of the
Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1950 (64
Stat. 1262), as amended, and the
Consolidated Appropriations Act of
2008, Public Law 110–161.
Dated: June 17, 2015.
Sally Jewell,
Secretary of the Interior.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
United States Geological Survey

U.S. Geological Survey
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments

Advisory Committee on Climate
Change and Natural Resource Science

AGENCY:

U.S. Geological Survey,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Charter Renewal.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
requirements of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. Appendix 2,
notice is hereby given that the Charter
for the Advisory Committee on Climate
Change and Natural Resource Science is
renewed for an additional two-year

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U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of a new information
collection: Assessing Public Views of
Waterfowl-Related Topics to Inform the
North American Waterfowl Management
Plan.
We (the U.S. Geological
Survey) will ask the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) to
approve the information collection (IC)
described below. As required by the

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Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
1995, 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 IC.
DATES: To ensure that your comments
are considered, we must receive them
on or before August 31, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
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) 648–7197 (fax);
or gs-info_collections@usgs.gov (email).
Please reference ‘Information Collection
1028–NEW, Assessing Public Views of
Waterfowl-Related Topics to Inform the
North American Waterfowl Management
Plan’ in all correspondence.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Holly Miller, Social Scientist, at (970)
226–9133 or millerh@usgs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The North American Waterfowl
Management Plan (NAWMP) is an
international agreement signed by the
United States Secretary of the Interior,
the Canadian Minister of the
Environment, and the Mexican
Secretary of the Environment and
Natural Resources. NAWMP lays out a
strategy to restore waterfowl
populations in North America through
habitat protection, restoration, and
enhancement. The 2012 revised goals of
NAWMP focused for the first time on
people as well as waterfowl and their
habitats. Specifically, the plan states
that ‘‘The needs and desires of people
[as they relate to waterfowl] must be
clearly understood and explicitly
addressed’’ and calls for more human
dimensions research with waterfowl
hunters, viewers, and the general
public. The plan recognizes the
interconnectedness of waterfowl, their
habitat, and stakeholders. Without
human dimensions information,
NAWMP objectives may not reflect
stakeholder and societal values, and
management and policy decisions may
lead to actions that could be either
irrelevant or counter to stakeholder and
societal expectations.
To meet the goals set forth in the 2012
NAWMP revision, the NAWMP Human
Dimensions Working Group has asked
the USGS to conduct a mail survey to
assess the general public’s awareness
and perceptions of waterfowl and
wetlands, as well as measure
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obtain information on nature-related
issues, and demographics.
Demographics collected on the survey
will include voluntarily provided
personally identifiable information (PII)
such as gender, education, income, and
race/ethnicity. Additionally, a
representative sample of names and
mailing addresses from the general
public will be purchased from a survey
sampling company which uses
publically available information to
construct sample lists.
To protect the confidentiality and
privacy of survey respondents, the
voluntarily provided PII from the survey
will not be associated with any
respondent’s name or mailing address at
any time and will only be analyzed and
reported in aggregate. All files
containing PII will be passwordprotected, housed on secure USGS
servers, and only accessible to the
research team.
PII collected on the survey will be
used to understand if any segments of
the American public hold differing
views on waterfowl and waterfowlrelated topics. For example, there may
be differences in awareness and
perceptions of waterfowl and wetlands
or in participation in recreational
activities between men and women.
This will enable waterfowl managers
and policymakers to better understand
and be more responsive to the varied
stakeholders they are serving. The data
from the survey will be aggregated and
statistically analyzed and the results
will be published in publically available
USGS reports.
The USGS Ecosystems Mission Area
is conducting this effort as it aligns with
their mission to ‘‘work with others to
provide the scientific understanding
and technologies needed to support the
sound management and conservation of
our Nation’s biological resources.’’
Specifically, the Ecosystems Mission
Area ‘‘enters into partnerships with
scientific collaborators to produce highquality scientific information and
partnerships with the users of scientific
information to ensure this information’s
relevance and application to real
problems.’’

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Frequency of Collection: One time
only.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 1,200.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: 1,200.
Estimated Time per Response: 20
minutes.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 400.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: None.
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 and current expiration date.
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.
Dated: May 24, 2015.
David Hamilton,
Fort Collins Science Center Director.
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II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028–NEW.
Title: Assessing Public Views of
Waterfowl-Related Topics to Inform the
North American Waterfowl Management
Plan.
Type of Request: New information
collection.
Affected Public: General public.
Respondent’s Obligation: None.
Participation is voluntary.

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