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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 16 / Tuesday, January 26, 2016 / Notices

Office at the address in the ADDRESSES
section.
Public Availability of Comments
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
We developed our recovery plan
under the authority of section 4(f) of the
Act, 16 U.S.C. 1533(f). We publish this
notice under section 4(f) of the
Endangered Species Act of 1973, as
amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).
Dated: January 14, 2016.
Alexandra Pitts,
Acting Regional Director, Pacific Southwest
Region, Sacramento, California.
[FR Doc. 2016–01131 Filed 1–25–16; 8:45 am]

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments on
the Alaska Beak Deformity
Observations
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of a new information
collection, Alaska Beak Deformity
Observations.
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
on this ICR are considered, OMB must
receive them on or before February 25,
2016.
ADDRESSES: Please submit written
comments on this information
collection directly to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), Office

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Colleen Handel, Alaska Science Center,
U.S. Geological Survey, 4210 University
Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508 (mail);
907–786–7181 (phone); or cmhandel@
usgs.gov (email). You may also find
information about this ICR at
www.reginfo.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

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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 ‘OMB Control Number
1028–NEW ‘Alaska Beak Deformity
Observations’. 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).
Please reference ‘OMB Information
Collection 1028–NEW: ‘Alaska Beak
Deformity Observations’ in all
correspondence.

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As part of the USGS Ecosystems
mission to assess the status and trends
of the Nation’s biological resources, the
Alaska Science Center Landbird
Program conducts research on avian
populations within Alaska. Beginning in
the late 1990s, an outbreak of beak
deformities in Black-capped Chickadees
emerged in southcentral Alaska. USGS
scientists launched a study to
understand the scope of this problem
and its effect on wild birds. Since that
time, researchers have gathered
important information about the
deformities but their cause still remains
unknown. Members of the public
provide observation reports of birds
with deformities from around Alaska
and other regions of North America.
These reports are very important in that
they allow researchers to determine the
geographical distribution and species
affected. Data collection over such a
large and remote area would not be
possible without the public’s assistance.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028–NEW.
Title: Alaska Beak Deformity
Observations.
Type of Request: Approval of new
information collection.
Respondent Obligation: Participation
is voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: Seasonally
variable, from zero to ten observations
as needed.

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Description of Respondents:
Individuals and Households.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: 250.
Estimated Time per Response: We
estimate that it will take approximately
5 minutes to read the instructions and
10 minutes to complete the response
form.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 63
hours.
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 14, 2015, we
published a Federal Register notice (80
FR 48909) announcing that we would
submit this ICR to OMB for approval
and soliciting comments. The comment
period closed on October 13, 2015. We
received no 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
in your comment to withhold your
personal identifying information from
public review, we cannot guarantee that
it will be done.
Mark Shasby,
Alaska Science Center Director.
[FR Doc. 2016–01430 Filed 1–25–16; 8:45 am]
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