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Copies of available documents
submitted to OMB may be obtained
from Ms. Pollard.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Federal Register notice that solicited
public comment on the information
collection for a period of 60 days was
published on May 3, 2023 at 87 FR
27525.
This notice informs the public that
HUD is seeking approval from OMB for
the information collection described in
Section A.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection: Public
Housing Capital Fund Amendments to
the Annual Contributions Contract.
OMB Approval Number: New
Collection.
Type of Request: New.

Form Number: HUD–52840A.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: HUD
previously submitted this information
under collection OMB 2577–0075 which
included inventory removal information
as well as information on amendments
to the ACC. The reason for the move is
to keep similar types of information in
separate collections. In addition to
moving this information to a new
collection, the HUD–52190 Declaration
of Trust/Restrictive Covenants and the
Mixed Finance Amendment to the ACC
were moved to OMB 2577–0275—
Public/Private Partnerships for the
Mixed-Finance Development of Public
Housing Units. All other information
regarding inventory removals was
retained in OMB 2577–0075 which is
being renewed. PHAs are required to
Total
responses

ACC provisions/HUD form
1 ..................
2 ..................

Burden hours
per response

Total hours

Cost per hour

($) Total cost

10
2,770

10.8
3.9

108
10,803

$44.56
44.56

$4,812
481,382

38
75
123

2.6
1.3
5.2

99
98
640

44.56
44.56
44.56

3,905
3,865
25,242

6 ..................

Amend ACC for Capital Fund Finance ........................................
Amend ACC for Annual Capital Fund Formula Grant via form
HUD 52840–A.
Amend ACC for Emergency Capital Fund Grant ........................
Amend ACC Capital Fund for Safety and Security .....................
Amend ACC to Recapture Annual Capital Fund Formula Grant
via form HUD 52840–A.
Amend ACC for Energy Performance Contract ...........................

38

5.1

194

44.56

7,651

Totals ...

.......................................................................................................

3,067

........................

11,970

........................

533,352

3 ..................
4 ..................
5 ..................

B. Solicitation of Public Comment

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submit information to HUD in
connection with their grantee duties to
operate and maintain/modernize public
housing dwelling units and other real
property under the United States
Housing Act of 1937 (1937 Act) (42
U.S.C. 1437g). Section 9 of the 1937 Act
permits the Secretary of HUD to make
grants (i.e., annual contributions) to
public housing agencies (PHAs) to
achieve and maintain the low-income
character of public housing projects.
The Secretary is required to embody the
provisions for such annual
contributions in an agreement (i.e., the
ACC). Applicable regulations are 24
CFR part 905 for public housing
development and modernization.
Respondents: Public housing
agencies.

This notice is soliciting comments
from members of the public and affected
parties concerning the collection of
information described in Section A on
the following:
(1) Whether the proposed collection
of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) Ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond; including through
the use of appropriate automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
(5) ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
HUD encourages interested parties to
submit comments in response to these
questions.

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C. Authority
Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35.
Colette Pollard,
Chief Data Officer, Department Reports
Management Officer, Office of Policy
Development and Research.
[FR Doc. 2023–14970 Filed 7–13–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–HQ–ES–2023–N057; FF09E41000–
234–FXES111609C0000; OMB Control
Number 1018–0177]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget; Policy
Regarding Voluntary Prelisting
Conservation Actions
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(Service), are proposing to renew,

SUMMARY:

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without change, an information
collection.
Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before August
14, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of publication
of this notice at https://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function. Please
provide a copy of your comments to the
Service Information Collection
Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, MS: PRB (JAO/3W),
5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA
22041–3803 (mail); or by email to Info_
Coll@fws.gov. Please reference ‘‘1018–
0177’’ in the subject line of your
comments.
DATES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Madonna L. Baucum, Service
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, by email at Info_Coll@fws.gov,
or by telephone at (703) 358–2503.
Individuals in the United States who are
deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have
a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY,
TDD, or TeleBraille) to access

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telecommunications relay services.
Individuals outside the United States
should use the relay services offered
within their country to make
international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 and 5 CFR
1320.8(d)(1), we provide the general
public and other Federal agencies with
an opportunity to comment on new,
proposed, revised, and continuing
collections of information. This helps us
assess the impact of our information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. It also
helps the public understand our
information collection requirements and
provide the requested data in the
desired format.
On April 3, 2023, we published in the
Federal Register (88 FR 19663) a notice
of our intent to request that OMB
approve this information collection. In
that notice, we solicited comments for
60 days, ending on June 2, 2023. In an
effort to increase public awareness of,
and participation in, our public
commenting processes associated with
information collection requests, the
Service also published the Federal
Register notice on Regulations.gov
(Docket No. FWS–HQ–ES–2023–0050)
to provide the public with an additional
method to submit comments (in
addition to the typical Info_Coll@
fws.gov email and U.S. mail submission
methods). We received the following
comments in response to that notice:
Comment 1: Email comment from B.
Ker received April 3, 2023. The
commenter did not address the
information collection requirements.
Agency Response to Comment 1: No
response is required.
Comment 2: Electronic comment
received via Regulations.gov (FWS–HQ–
ES–2023–0050–0002) from Richard
Spotts on June 2, 2023. The commenter
stated that voluntary conservation
efforts were important but should not
supersede or weaken FWS statutory and
regulatory requirements. The
commenter also stated that bolder
conservation actions are urgently
needed but did not address the
information collection requirements.
Agency Response to Comment 2:
While we agree that voluntary
conservation actions should not weaken
our statutory and regulatory
requirements, the comment does not
directly respond to the need for the
information collection or our estimate of
burden hours. Therefore, we took no
action in response to this comment.
As part of our continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent

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burdens, we are again soliciting
comments from the public and other
Federal agencies on the proposed ICR
that is described below. We are
especially interested in public comment
addressing the following:
(1) Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether or not the
information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) How might the agency minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to
respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of response.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. Before including your
address, phone number, email address,
or other personal identifying
information in your comment, you
should be aware that your that your
entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be 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.
Abstract: The Service is charged with
implementing the Endangered Species
Act of 1973, as amended (Act; 16 U.S.C.
1531 et seq.). The goal of the Act is to
provide a means to conserve the
ecosystems upon which listed species
depend and a program for listed species
conservation. Through our Candidate
Conservation program, we encourage
the public to take conservation actions
for species prior to them being listed
under the Act. Doing so may result in
precluding the need to list a species,
may result in listing a species as
threatened instead of endangered, or, if
a species becomes listed, may provide
the basis for its recovery and eventual
removal from the protections of the Act.
This policy provides incentives to
landowners, government agencies, and
others to carry out voluntary
conservation actions for unlisted
species. It allows the use of any benefits
to the species from voluntary
conservation actions undertaken prior to
listing under the Act—by the person
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parties—to mitigate or offset the
detrimental effects of other actions
undertaken after listing. The policy
requires participating States to track the
voluntary conservation actions and
provide this information to us on an
annual basis. We require this
information in order to provide the
entities that have taken the conservation
actions with proper credit that can later
be used to mitigate for any detrimental
actions they take after the species is
listed.
We plan to collect the following
information:
• Description of the prelisting
conservation action being taken.
• Location of the action (does not
include a specific address).
• Name of the entity taking the action
and their contact information (email
address only).
• Frequency of the action (ongoing for
X years, or one-time implementation)
and an indication if the action is
included in a State Wildlife Action
Plan.
• Any transfer to a third party of the
mitigation or compensatory measure
rights.
Each State that chooses to participate
will collect this information from
landowners, businesses and
organizations, and Tribal, Federal, and
local governments that wish to receive
credit for voluntary prelisting
conservation actions. States may collect
this information via an Access database,
Excel spreadsheet, or other database of
their choosing and submit the
information to the Fish and Wildlife
Service (via email) annually. States will
use this information to calculate the
number of credits that the entity taking
the conservation action will receive and
will keep track of the credits and notify
the entity of how much credit they have
earned. The States will report the
number of credits to the Service, and we
will determine how many credits are
needed by the entity to mitigate or offset
the detrimental effects of other actions
they take after the species is listed
(assuming it is listed).
Additionally, on February 9, 2023, the
Service published a proposed rule (RIN
1018–BF99; 88 FR 8380) to clarify the
appropriate use of enhancement of
survival permits and incidental take
permits; clarify our authority to issue
these permits for non-listed species
without also including a listed species;
simplify the requirements for
enhancement of survival permits by
combining safe harbor agreements and
candidate conservation agreements with
assurances into one agreement type, and
include portions of our five-point
policies for safe harbor agreements,

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candidate conservation agreements with
assurances, and habitat conservation
plans in the regulations to reduce
uncertainty. We also propose to make
technical and administrative revisions
to the regulations.
The goal of the rule is to reduce the
time it takes for applicants to prepare
and develop the required supporting
documents, thus accelerating
conservation implementation. The
proposed regulatory changes are
intended to reduce costs and time
associated with negotiating and
developing the required documents to
support the applications. We anticipate
that these improvements will encourage
more individuals and companies to

engage in these voluntary programs,
thereby generating greater conservation
results overall.
When the Service finalizes this rule,
anticipated in late 2023, candidate
conservation agreements with
assurances (CCAAs) and safe harbor
agreements will no longer be in place,
and will be combined into one
agreement type––conservation benefit
agreements (CBAs). We will update the
Policy Regarding Voluntary Prelisting
Conservation Actions to replace all
references to CCAAs with references to
CBAs (for non-listed species). We do not
anticipate this update to the policy to
impact currently approved information
collections.
Average
number of
responses
each

Annual
number of
respondents

Information collection requirement

Title of Collection: Policy Regarding
Voluntary Prelisting Conservation
Actions.
OMB Control Number: 1018–0177.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: State
governments.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion
for new submissions, ongoing for
recordkeeping requirements, and
annually for reporting requirements.
Total Estimated Annual Nonhour
Burden Cost: None.
Average
completion
time per
response
(hours)

Annual
number of
responses

Estimated
annual burden
hours *

State-Developed Voluntary Conservation Action Program
Development of Conservation Strategy ...............................
Amendments to Conservation Strategy ...............................
Credit Agreement/Transfer of Credits ..................................
Annual Reports ....................................................................
State Recordkeeping Requirements ....................................
State Reports—Voluntary Prelisting Conservation Actions
Taken Under Program ......................................................
Site-Level Agreements .........................................................
Formal Agreements .............................................................
Monitoring Reports ...............................................................
Site-Level Reports ...............................................................
Management Plans ..............................................................

1
1
1
3
3
3

1
1
1
1
1
1

1
1
1
3
3
3

320
200
16
80
20
240

320
200
16
240
60
720

3
1
1
3
3
1

1
1
1
1
1
1

3
1
1
3
3
1

.25
100
4
24
24
120

1
100
4
72
72
120

Totals ............................................................................

24

........................

24

........................

1,925

* Rounded.

An agency may not conduct or
sponsor and a person is not required to
respond to a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number.
The authority for this action is the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
Madonna Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
[234A2100DD/AAKC001030/
A0A501010.999900]

Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

This notice publishes the
approval of the Tribal-State Gaming
Compact for Regulation of Class III
Gaming between the Federated Indians
of Graton Rancheria, California and
State of California (Compact) governing
class III gaming for the Federated
Indians of Graton Rancheria (Tribe) in
the State of California (State).
DATES: The compact takes effect on July
14, 2023.

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Under
Section 11 of the Indian Gaming
Regulatory Act (IGRA), Public Law 100–
497, 25 U.S.C. 2710 et seq., the
Secretary of the Interior shall publish in
the Federal Register notice of approved
Tribal-State compacts for the purpose of
engaging in Class III gaming activities
on Indian lands. As required by 25 CFR
293.4, all compacts and amendments are
subject to review and approval by the
Secretary. The Compact permits the
Tribe to conduct class III gaming
permitted in the State, including gaming
devices, any banking or percentage card
games, any devices authorized under
state law to the California State Lottery,
and off-track wagering on horse races.
The Tribe is permitted to operate two
gaming facilities on the Tribe’s Indian
lands, provided one of the gaming
facilities has a primary purpose other

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Indian Gaming; Approval of TribalState Class III Gaming Compacts in the
State of California (Federated Indians
of Graton Rancheria, California & State
of California)

SUMMARY:

Ms.
Paula L. Hart, Director, Office of Indian
Gaming, Office of the Assistant
Secretary—Indian Affairs, Washington,
DC 20240, (202) 219–4066.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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