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EMDP and the purposes for which 

Congress provides the appropriations. 

Once a tribe has been accepted into 

the EMDP, the tribe must also submit 

quarterly reports, which are one- or twopage documents summarizing events, 

accomplishments, problems and/or 

results in executing the project. Each 

report is due two weeks after the end of 

the fiscal quarter. 

The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

provides an opportunity for interested 

parties to comment on proposed 

information collection requests. IEED is 

proceeding with this public comment 

period as the first step in obtaining an 

information collection clearance from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB). Each clearance request contains 

(1) Type of review, (2) title, (3) summary 

of the collection, (4) respondents, (5) 

frequency of collection, (6) reporting 

and record keeping requirements. 

II. Request for Comments 

IEED requests your comments on this 

collection concerning: (a) The necessity 

of this information collection for the 

proper performance of the functions of 

the agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden (hours and cost) of the 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; (c) ways we could 

enhance the quality, utility and clarity 

of the information to be collected; and 

(d) ways we could minimize the burden 

of the collection of the information on 

the respondents, such as through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Please note that an agency may not 

sponsor or request, and an individual 

need not respond to, a collection of 

information unless it has a valid OMB 

Control Number. 

It is our policy to make all comments 

available to the public for review at the 

location listed in the ADDRESSES section. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, e-mail address or other 

personally identifiable information, be 

advised that your entire comment— 

including your personally identifiable 

information—may be made public at 

any time. While you may request that 

we withhold your personally 

identifiable information, we cannot 

guarantee that we will be able to do so. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 1076–0XXX. 

Type of Review: New. 

Title: Energy and Mineral 

Development Program Grant 

Solicitation. 

Brief Description of Collection: Indian 

tribes that would like to apply for an 

EMDP grant must submit an application 

that includes certain information. A 

complete application must contain a 

current, signed tribal resolution that 

provides sufficient information to 

authorize the project and comply with 

the terms of the grant; a proposal 

describing the planned activities and 

deliverable products; and a detailed 

budget estimate. IEED requires this 

information to ensure that it provides 

funding only to those projects that meet 

the goals of the EMDP and purposes for 

which Congress provides the 

appropriation. Upon acceptance of an 

application, a tribe must then submit 

one- to two-page quarterly progress 

reports summarizing events, 

accomplishments, problems and/or 

results in executing the project. 

Approximately 55 tribes apply each 

year, but IEED accepts approximately 18 

of those applications each year. 

Respondents: Indian tribes with trust 

or restricted land. 

Number of Respondents: 55 

applicants per year; 18 project 

participants each year. 

Estimated Time per Response: 40 

hours per application; 1.5 hours per 

progress report. 

Frequency of Response: Once per year 

for applications; 4 times per year for 

progress reports. 

Total Annual Burden to Respondents: 

2,308 hours (2,200 for applications and 

108 for progress reports). 

Dated: September 16, 2009. 

Alvin Foster, 

Acting Chief Information Officer—Indian 

Affairs. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–4M–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

U.S. Geological Survey 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Comment Request for the 

USGS Mine, Development, and Mineral 

Exploration Supplement 

AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of an extension of an 

information collection (1028–0060). 

SUMMARY: To comply with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), we are notifying the public that 

we have submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) an 

information collection request (ICR) for 

the extension of the currently approved 

paperwork requirements for the USGS 

Mine, Development, and Mineral 

Exploration Supplement. This 

collection consists of one form and this 

notice provides the public an 

opportunity to comment on the 

paperwork burden of this form. 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: You must submit comments on 

or before October 22, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Please submit written 

comments on this information 

collection directly to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) Office 

of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Desk Officer for the 

Department of the Interior via e-mail to 

OIRA_DOCKET@omb.eop.gov or fax at 

202–395–5806; and identify your 

submission as 1028–1060. Please also 

submit a copy of your written comments 

to Phadrea Ponds, USGS Information 

Collection Clearance Officer, 2150–C 

Centre Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80526– 

8118 (mail); 970–226–9230 (fax); or 

pponds@usgs.gov (e-mail). Use OMB 

Control Number 1028–0060 in the 

subject line. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Shonta E. Osborne at 703–648–7960 or 

by mail at U.S. Geological Survey, 985 

National Center, 12201 Sunrise Valley 

Drive, Reston, VA 20192. 

I. Supplementary Information 

Abstract: Respondents supply the U.S. 

Geological Survey with domestic 

production, exploration, and mine 

development data for nonfuel mineral 

commodities. The data obtained from 

this canvass are used by Government 

agencies, Congressional offices, 

educational institutions, research 

organizations, financial institutions, 

consulting firms, industry, and the 

public. They provide essential mining, 

exploration, and development 

information to make domestic ore 

resource analyses. Tabulations of 

volumetric data concerning domestic 

mining operations’ use of land can be 

used to compare the total volume of 

earth disturbed with the actual crude 

ore mined and the resulting marketable 

product. These data are an indicator of 

the future mining outlook. This 

information will be published as an 

Annual Report for use by Government 

agencies, industry, academia, and the 

general public. 

II. Data 

OMB Control Number: 1028–0060. 

Title: Mine, Development, and 

Mineral Exploration Supplement. 


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Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondent Obligation: Voluntary. 

Frequency of Collection: Annually. 

Affected Public: Businesses that 

explore for and produce nonfuel 

minerals. 

Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 719. 

Annual Burden Hours: 539 hours. We 

expect to receive 719 annual responses. 

We estimate an average of 45 minutes 

per response. This includes the time for 

reviewing instructions, gathering and 

maintaining data, and completing and 

reviewing the information. 

Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’ 

Burden: We have not identified any 

‘‘non-hour cost’’ burdens associated 

with this collection of information. 

III. Request for Comments 

On May 27, 2009, we published a 

Federal Register notice (74 FR 25273) 

announcing that we would submit this 

ICR to OMB for approval and solicit 

comments. The comment period closed 

on July 27, 2009. We did not receive any 

comments in response to that notice. 

We again invite comments concerning 

this ICR on: (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) ways to minimize the 

burden on the respondents, including 

the use of automated collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. 

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 anytime. 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. 

USGS Information Collection 

Clearance Officer: Phadrea Ponds 970– 

226–9445. 

Dated: September 16, 2009. 

John H. DeYoung, Jr., 

Chief Scientist, Minerals Information Team. 

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BILLING CODE 4311–AM–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R1–ES–2009–N0096; 10120–1113– 

0000–C2] 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants; Revised Recovery Plan for 

the Laysan Duck (Anas laysanensis) 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of document availability; 

revised recovery plan. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, announce the 

availability of the Revised Recovery 

Plan for the Laysan Duck (Anas 

laysanensis). This species, found only 

on Laysan Island and Midway Atoll in 

the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, was 

federally listed as endangered in 1967. 

ADDRESSES: An electronic copy of the 

recovery plan is available at http:// 

endangered.fws.gov/recovery/ 

index.html#plans. The recovery plan is 

also available by request from the U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific 

Islands Fish and Wildlife Office, 300 

Ala Moana Boulevard, Room 3–122, Box 

50088, Honolulu, HI 96850 (phone: 808/ 

792–9400). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Holly Freifeld, Fish and Wildlife 

Biologist, at the above Pacific Islands 

Fish and Wildlife Office address and 

phone number. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Recovery of endangered or threatened 

animals and plants is a primary goal of 

the Endangered Species Act (Act) (16 

U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and our endangered 

species program. Recovery means 

improvement of the status of listed 

species to the point at which listing is 

no longer required under the criteria in 

section 4(a)(1) of the Act. 

The Act requires the development of 

recovery plans for endangered or 

threatened species unless such a plan 

would not promote the conservation of 

the species. Recovery plans help guide 

the recovery effort by describing actions 

considered necessary for the 

conservation of the species, and 

estimating time and cost for 

implementing the measures needed for 

recovery. We originally completed a 

recovery plan for the Laysan duck in 

1982, but the recommendations 

contained in that plan are outdated 

given the species’ current status. 

Section 4(f) of the Act requires that 

public notice and an opportunity for 

public review and comment be provided 

during recovery plan development. In 

fulfillment of this requirement, we made 

the Draft Revised Recovery Plan for the 

Laysan Duck (Anas laysanensis) 

available for public comment from 

November 4, 2004, to January 3, 2005 

(69 FR 64317; November 4, 2004). 

Information provided during the public 

comment period was considered in our 

preparation of this recovery plan, and is 

summarized in an appendix to the plan. 

We welcome continuing public 

comment on this recovery plan, and we 

will consider all substantive comments 

on an ongoing basis to inform the 

implementation of recovery activities 

and future updates to the recovery plan. 

The Laysan duck is endemic to the 

Hawaiian Islands, where subfossil 

remains of the species have been found 

throughout the archipelago. This species 

has been listed as an endangered species 

by the United States since the first 

Federal listing of endangered species in 

1967 (32 FR 4001; March 11, 1967). It 

is also listed as endangered by the State 

of Hawaii. Currently, the Laysan duck 

occurs in only two locations: the single 

remaining natural population on Laysan 

Island; and at Midway Atoll, where a 

population has become established 

through two translocations conducted in 

2004 and 2005. Laysan and Midway 

both are part of the National Wildlife 

Refuge System and the 

Papahanaumokuakea Marine National 

Monument. 

The Laysan duck was extirpated from 

the main Hawaiian Islands in 

prehistory, likely because of a 

combination of predation by introduced 

mammals and habitat loss and 

degradation. In recorded history, the 

Laysan duck occurred naturally on 

Laysan Island and on neighboring 

Lisianski. The species was lost from 

Lisianski during the 19th century, 

following the accidental introduction of 

mice and near-devegetation of the 

island. Similar habitat destruction took 

place on Laysan in the early 20th 

century, when rabbits were introduced 

to that island. The Laysan duck 

population dwindled to as few as a 

dozen individuals, and several other 

bird species endemic to the island 

became extinct. Although the duck 

population on Laysan eventually 

recovered to several hundred 

individuals, and the island is now 

substantially vegetated, the loss of some 

freshwater seeps and the slow infilling 

of the hypersaline lake in the island’s 

interior are enduring consequences of 

the island’s devegetation a century ago 

and continued erosion today. 

Forty-two fledged juvenile Laysan 

ducks were translocated to Midway 

Atoll during 2004 and 2005, following 


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