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sponsoring the collection: No form 

number; U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services (USCIS). 

(4) Affected public who will be asked 

or required to respond, as well as a brief 

abstract: Primary: Individuals or 

households. As part of the Business 

Transformation initiative, USCIS is 

developing an automated Integrated 

Operating Environment (IOE). The IOE 

will use wizard technology and will 

allow e-filing. Wizard technology gives 

USCIS the ability to electronically 

interact with its customers by guiding 

them through the application process 

and assisting them to file complete and 

accurate benefit requests. 

(5) An estimate of the total number of 

respondents and the amount of time 

estimated for an average respondent to 

respond: 58,500 responses at an average 

of 2 hours and 15 minutes per response. 

(6) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

collection: 131,625 annual burden 

hours. 

The information collection request 

contains selected screen shots that 

demonstrate the look and feel of the 

automated IOE, and a decision tree to 

show the sequence of questions that the 

public will be asked by the wizard and 

the order in which the questions will be 

asked. For example, when the user 

answers the question ‘‘What is your First 

Name?’’ then he or she will be prompted 

with the question: ‘‘What is your Given 

Name?’’ If you need to review this 

information collection instrument, 

please visit the Web site at: http:// 

www.regulations.gov/. 

Dated: March 23, 2011. 

Sunday Aigbe, 

Chief, Regulatory Products Division, Office 

of the Executive Secretariat, U.S. Citizenship 

and Immigration Services, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R9–ES–2011–N067; 92220–1113– 

0000–C3] 

Information Collection Sent to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for Approval; Endangered and 

Threatened Wildlife, Experimental 

Populations 

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 27, 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 Service Information Collection 

Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, MS 2042–PDM, 4401 

North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 

22203 (mail), or INFOCOL@fws.gov (email). Please include 1018–0095 in the 

subject line of your comments. 

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: 1018–0095. 

Title: Endangered and Threatened 

Wildlife, Experimental Populations, 50 

CFR 17.84. 

Service Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Description of Respondents: 

Individuals and households, private 

sector, and State/local/Tribal 

governments. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 101. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Responses: 101. 

Completion Time per Response: 15 

minutes. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 27. 

Abstract: Section 10(j) of the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA), 

as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), 

authorizes the Secretary of the Interior 

to establish experimental populations of 

endangered or threatened species. 

Because individuals of experimental 

populations are categorically protected 

under the ESA, the information we 

collect is important for monitoring the 

success of reintroduction efforts and 

recovery efforts in general. This is a 

nonform collection. Information 

collection requirements for 

experimental populations of endangered 

and threatened species are in 50 CFR 

17.84. We collect three categories of 

information: 

(1) General take or removal. Relates to 

human-related mortality including 

unintentional taking incidental to 

otherwise lawful activities (e.g., 

highway mortalities); animal husbandry 

actions authorized to manage the 

population (e.g., translocation or 

providing aid to sick, injured, or 

orphaned individuals); take in defense 

of human life; take related to defense of 

property (if authorized); or take in the 

form of authorized harassment. 

(2) Depredation-related take. Involves 

take for management purposes where 

livestock depredation is documented, 

and may include authorized harassment 

or authorized lethal take of 

experimental animals in the act of 

attacking livestock. 

(3) Specimen collection, recovery, or 

reporting of dead individuals. This 

information documents incidental or 

authorized scientific collection. Most of 

the contacts with the public deal 

primarily with the reporting of sightings 

of experimental population animals or 

the inadvertent discovery of an injured 

or dead individual. 

The information that we collect 

includes: 

• Name, address, and phone number 

of reporting party. 

• Species involved. 

• Type of incident. 

• Take (quantity). 

• Location and time of the reported 

incident. 

• Description of the circumstances 

related to the incident. 

This information helps us to assess 

the effectiveness of control activities 

and to develop better means to reduce 

problems with livestock for those 

species where depredation is a problem. 

Service recovery specialists use the 

information to determine the success of 

reintroductions in relation to 

established recovery plan goals for the 

threatened and endangered species 

involved. 

Comments: On November 3, 2010, we 

published in the Federal Register (75 

FR 67761) 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 January 3, 2011. We 

received information from two 

commenters in response to this notice. 


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The first commenter objected to the 

authorization of depredation-related 

take. We note the concerns raised by 

this individual, but the comment did 

not address issues surrounding the 

proposed collection of information or 

the cost and hour burden estimates. 

The second commenter provided the 

following comments: 

Comment: The estimated burden for 

collection of information is severely 

underestimated. The commenter agreed 

that the actual reporting time is 

probably only 15 minutes per 

respondent, but stated that gathering 

data necessary to compile the reported 

information requires far more time, and 

may require a field investigation or 

followup phone call to verify the report. 

Response: We believe our estimates 

are within reason because they 

represent the average amount of time it 

will take to provide the requested 

information via making a telephone call 

or sending a facsimile. This ICR covers 

multiple experimental populations, 

multiple species (which may have more 

than one experimental population), 

multiple types of activities, multiple 

geographic locations across the United 

States, and multiple Service Regions. 

We estimate that the time required to 

provide the notification will vary 

substantially from 1 to 45 minutes. We 

acknowledge that it may take some 

respondents, such as State fish and 

wildlife agencies, longer than others to 

gather and compile the data prior to 

notifying us. State fish and wildlife 

agencies may provide information to us 

on multiple species, experimental 

populations, and incidents in a single 

notification (thereby requiring more 

than 15 minutes for them to provide us 

with the information). In contrast to 

State fish and wildlife agencies, the 

general public usually provides 

information on a single species, 

experimental population, and incident 

in one notification (thereby requiring 

substantially less than 15 minutes for 

them to provide us with the 

information). Given the variety of 

potential situations requiring 

notification, as well as the variety of 

potential respondents, we believe 15 

minutes per response is a reasonable 

estimate of the average burden. 

Comment: General sighting reports do 

not appear to be included in the three 

categories of information collection. 

Response: General sightings are 

included in the description of the 

information collection for specimen 

collection. 

Comment: The Service should design 

a standard data input form and 

evaluation descriptors for the reporting 

of visual information, allowing for 

adjustments in the form for each 

population as needed. 

Response: We collect the information 

by means of telephone calls or 

facsimiles from the public. The actual 

details of the information we collect are 

unique to each species and 

experimental population, based on the 

specific information needed for that 

species and experimental population. 

The types of incidents that must be 

reported also vary by species. For 

example, under our wolf experimental 

populations, livestock depredation 

under a permit must be reported within 

24 hours. We do not ask for this same 

information under our whooping crane 

experimental populations because 

whooping cranes are not predators, and, 

therefore, depredation permits are not 

needed. This ICR covers multiple 

experimental populations, multiple 

species (which may have more than one 

experimental population), multiple 

types of activities, multiple geographic 

locations across the United States, and 

multiple Service Regions. Given these 

complexities and variability in the 

detail of the information needed, it is 

not feasible to develop a standard data 

input form for each experimental 

population. 

Comment: Sharing the data in 

summary form would increase the 

utility of the data. 

Response: State wildlife agencies are 

our primary conservation partners, and 

we routinely share data with them (and 

vice versa), including the data gathered 

under this information collection. 

Comment: Reporting take (quantity) 

could be burdensome for species that 

produce large numbers of young at a 

time (e.g., fish, amphibians, and 

butterflies). The commenter suggests 

standardizing the reporting of take 

(quantity) as a way to reduce the 

reporting burden for these species. 

Response: We will coordinate with 

our Regional Offices and respondents to 

see if we can simplify and standardize 

the reporting of take (quantity) for 

species with large numbers of young. 

We have not made any changes to our 

information collection requirements as a 

result of the above comments. 

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 22, 2011. 

Tina A. Campbell, 

Chief, Division of Policy and Directives 

Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R1–MB–2011–NXXX; 10154–1231– 

0000–D3] 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Monitoring Recovered Species After 

Delisting—American Peregrine Falcon 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service) will ask the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) to 

approve the information collection (IC) 

described below. As required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act 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. This 

IC is scheduled to expire on July 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. 

DATES: To ensure that we are able to 

consider your comments on this IC, we 

must receive them by May 27, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the 

IC to the Service Information Collection 

Clearance Officer, Fish and Wildlife 

Service, MS 2042–PDM, 4401 North 

Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203 

(mail); or INFOCOL@fws.gov (e-mail). 

Please include 1018–0101 in the subject 

line of your comments. 


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