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Meeting Agenda: The meeting agenda 

will be: (1) Welcome and introduction 

of Council members; (2) Overview of 

prior meeting and action tracking; (3) 

Members’ round robin to share 

information and identify key issues to 

be addressed; (4) Wildland Fire 

Management Cohesive Strategy; (5) 

Wildland Fire Issues; (6) Council 

Members’ review and discussion of subcommittee activities; (7) Future Council 

activities; and (8) Public comments and 

closing remarks (from 10:30 to 11). 

Participation is open to the public. 

Public Input: All WFEC meetings are 

open to the public. Members of the 

public who wish to participate must 

notify Shari Shetler at 

Shari_Shetler@ios.doi.gov no later than 

the third Friday of the month preceding 

the meeting. Those who are not 

committee members and wish to present 

oral statements or obtain information 

should contact Shari Shetler via e-mail 

no later than the third Friday preceding 

the meeting. Depending on the number 

of persons wishing to comment and 

time available, the time for individual 

oral comments may be limited. 

Questions about the agenda or written 

comments may be e-mailed or submitted 

by U.S. Mail to: Department of the 

Interior, Office of the Secretary, Office 

of Wildland Fire, Attention: Shari 

Shetler, 300 E. Mallard Drive, Suite 170, 

Boise, Idaho 83706–6648. WFEC 

requests that written comments be 

received by the third Friday of the 

month preceeding the scheduled 

meeting. Attendance is open to the 

public, but limited space is available. 

Persons with a disability requiring 

special services, such as an interpreter 

for the hearing impaired, should contact 

Ms. Shetler at (202) 527–0133 at least 

seven calendar days prior to the 

meeting. 

Dated: March 3, 2011. 

Roy Johnson, 

Designated Federal Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2011–6590 Filed 3–18–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R7–FHC–2011–N057; 71490–1351– 

0000–L5] 

Information Collection Sent to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for Approval; OMB Control 

Number 1018–0066; Marine Mammal 

Marking, Tagging, and Reporting 

Certificates 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service) have sent an Information 

Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for 

review and approval. We summarize the 

ICR below and describe the nature of the 

collection and the estimated burden and 

cost. This information collection is 

scheduled to expire on March 31, 2011. 

We 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. However, under OMB 

regulations, we may continue to 

conduct or sponsor this information 

collection while it is pending at OMB. 

DATES: You must submit comments on 

or before April 20, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments and 

suggestions on this information 

collection to the Desk Officer for the 

Department of the Interior at OMB– 

OIRA at (202) 395–5806 (fax) or 

OIRA_DOCKET@OMB.eop.gov (e-mail). 

Please provide a copy of your comments 

to the Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

4401 North Fairfax Drive, MS 2042– 

PDM, Arlington, VA 22203 (mail), or 

INFOCOL@fws.gov (e-mail). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Hope Grey at 

INFOCOL@fws.gov (e-mail) or 703–358– 

2482 (telephone). You may review the 

ICR online at http://www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to review 

Department of the Interior collections 

under review by OMB. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 1018–0066. 

Title: Marine Mammal Marking, 

Tagging, and Reporting Certificates, 50 

CFR 18.23(f). 

Service Form Number(s): 3–2414, 3– 

2415, and 3–2416. 

Type of Request: Extension of 

currently approved collection. 

Description of Respondents: 

Individuals and households. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

Activity Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses 

Completion 

time per 

response 

Total annual 

burden hours 

3–2414 (polar bear) ............................................................................................ 25 25 15 minutes 6 

3–2415 (walrus) .................................................................................................. 620 620 15 minutes 155 

3–2416 (sea otter) ............................................................................................... 750 750 15 minutes 188 

Totals ........................................................................................................... 1,395 1,395 .................... 349 

Abstract: Under section 101(b) of the 

Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 

(MMPA), as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361– 

1407), Alaska Natives residing in Alaska 

and dwelling on the coast of the North 

Pacific or Arctic Oceans may harvest 

polar bears, northern sea otters, and 

Pacific walrus for subsistence or 

handicraft purposes. Section 109(i) of 

the MMPA authorizes the Secretary of 

the Interior to prescribe marking, 

tagging, and reporting regulations 

applicable to the Alaska Native 

subsistence and handicraft take. 

On behalf of the Secretary, we 

implemented regulations at 50 CFR 

18.23(f) for Alaska Natives harvesting 

polar bear, northern sea otter, and 

Pacific walrus. These regulations enable 

us to gather data on the Alaska Native 

subsistence and handicraft harvest and 

on the biology of polar bear, northern 

sea otter, and Pacific walrus in Alaska 

to determine what effect such take may 

be having on these populations. The 

regulations also provide us with a 

means of monitoring the disposition of 

the harvest to ensure that any 

commercial use of products created 

from these species meets the criteria set 

forth in section 101(b) of the MMPA. We 

use three forms to collect the 

information: FWS Form 3–2414 (Polar 

Bear Tagging Certificates), FWS Form 3– 

2415 (Walrus Tagging Certificates), and 

FWS Form 3–2416 (Sea Otter Tagging 

Certificates). These forms replace forms 

R7–50, R7–51, and R7–52. The 

information we collect includes, but is 

not limited to: 

• Date of kill. 

• Sex of the animal. 

• Kill location. 

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• Age of the animal (i.e., adult, 

subadult, cub, or pup). 

• Form of transportation used to 

make the kill of polar bears. 

• Amount of time (i.e., hours/days 

hunted) spent hunting polar bears. 

• Type of take (live-killed or beachfound) for walrus. 

• Number of otters present in and 

number of otters harvested from pod. 

• Condition of the bear and whether 

or not polar bear cubs were present. 

• Name of the hunter or possessor of 

the specified parts at the time of 

marking, tagging, and reporting. 

Comments: On October 18, 2010, we 

published in the Federal Register (75 

FR 63850) a notice of our intent to 

request that OMB renew approval for 

this information collection. In that 

notice, we solicited comments for 60 

days, ending on December 17, 2010. We 

received two comments. The Marine 

Mammal Commission submitted a letter 

of support for the data collection as 

proposed. A second comment opposed 

this information collection as unworthy 

of continued support and a burden to 

general taxpayers. In this comment, 

subsistence marine mammal hunters 

were misidentified as fishermen. We 

note the concerns raised by this 

individual; however, the harvest of 

marine mammals by certain Alaska 

Natives for certain purposes is 

specifically exempted from otherwise 

prohibited activities by section 101(b) of 

the Marine Mammal Protection Act 

(MMPA) of 1972, as amended (16 U.S.C. 

1361 et seq.). A Marking, Tagging and 

Reporting Program is also specifically 

mandated by this same Act. We did not 

make any changes to our information 

collection. 

We again invite comments concerning 

this information collection on: 

• Whether or not the collection of 

information is necessary, including 

whether or not the information will 

have practical utility; 

• The accuracy of our estimate of the 

burden for this collection of 

information; 

• Ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• Ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on 

respondents. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. Before including your 

address, phone number, e-mail 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 OMB in your comment to 

withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that it will be done. 

Dated: March 14, 2011. 

Tina A. Campbell, 

Chief, Division of Policy and Directives 

Management, Fish and Wildlife Service. 

[FR Doc. 2011–6533 Filed 3–18–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R9–FHC–2011–N047; 94140–1341– 

0000–N5] 

Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Aquatic Nuisance 

Species (ANS) Task Force. The meeting 

is open to the public. The meeting 

topics are identified in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section. 

DATES: The ANS Task Force will meet 

from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 

May 4; and Thursday May 5; and from 

8 a.m. to noon on Friday, May 6, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: The ANS Task Force 

meeting will take place at the Hilton 

Little Rock Medical Center, 925 South 

University Avenue, Little Rock, AR 

72204 (501–664–5020). You may inspect 

minutes of the meeting at the office of 

the Chief, Division of Fisheries and 

Aquatic Resource Conservation, U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service, 4401 North 

Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203, 

during regular business hours, Monday 

through Friday. You may also view the 

minutes on the ANS Task Force Web 

site at: http://anstaskforce.gov/ 

meetings.php. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Susan Mangin, Executive Secretary, 

ANS Task Force, at (703) 358–2466, or 

by e-mail at Susan_Mangin@fws.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. 

App.), this notice announces meetings 

of the ANS Task Force. The ANS Task 

Force was established by the 

Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance 

Prevention and Control Act of 1990 

(Pub. L. 106–580, as amended). 

Topics that the ANS Task Force plans 

to cover during the meeting include: 

• Asian carp. 

• Lionfish. 

• New Zealand mud snails. 

• Recreational guidelines. 

The agenda and other related meeting 

information are on the ANS Task Force 

Web site at: http://anstaskforce.gov/ 

meetings.php. 

Dated: March 14, 2011. 

Jeffrey Underwood, 

Acting Assistant Director—Fisheries and 

Habitat Conservation. 

[FR Doc. 2011–6508 Filed 3–18–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

Information Collection for IDEIA Part B 

and C Child Count; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Submission to the 

Office of Management and Budget. 

SUMMARY: As required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act, the Bureau of Indian 

Education (BIE), U.S. Department of the 

Interior (Interior) is submitting a 

proposed information collection related 

to the Individuals with Disabilities 

Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review. The IDEIA provides 

that the Secretary of the Interior will 

allocate funding for the coordination of 

assistance for special education and 

related services for American Indian 

children 0 to 5 years of age with 

disabilities on reservations served by 

elementary schools for Indian children 

that are operated or funded by the 

Department of the Interior (‘‘Bureaufunded schools’’). The BIE allocates this 

funding to Tribes and Tribal 

organizations. In support of this 

allocation, the BIE collects information 

on the number of American Indian 

children 0 to 5 years of age with 

disabilities on reservations served by 

Bureau-funded schools. This notice 

requests comments on that information 

collection. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

April 20, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

on the information collection to the 

Desk Officer for the Department of the 

Interior at the Office of Management and 

Budget, by facsimile to (202) 395–5806 

or you may send an e-mail to: 

OIRA_DOCKET@ omb.eop.gov. Please 

send a copy of your comments to Brandi 

A. Sweet, Program Analyst, U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Indian Education, 1849 C Street, NW., 

MS–3609–MIB, Washington, DC 20240, 

or via facsimile (202) 208–3312; or via 

e-mail to Brandi.Sweet@bie.edu. 

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