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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of the Secretary

Final Report and Recommendations of

the Working Group on the Endangered

Species Act and Indian Water Rights

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability and

request for comments.

SUMMARY: The Department of the

Interior is making available to the public

and seeking comments on the Final

Report and Recommendations of the

Working Group on the Endangered

Species Act (ESA) and Indian Water

Rights. This Working Group of five

agency employees within the

Department was appointed in 1997 to

look at implementation of the ESA in

relation to the exercise of Indian water

rights in the West.

DATES: Comments on the Final Report

and Recommendations should be

submitted by October 4, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be

submitted to S. Elizabeth Birnbaum,

Special Assistant to the Solicitor, U.S.

Department of the Interior, 1849 C

Street, NW, Room 6352, Washington,

DC 20240.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: S.

Elizabeth Birnbaum at (202) 208–4423

or Timothy A. Vollmann at (505) 346–

2700.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 1997

the Secretary of the Interior asked the

Department’s Solicitor to put together a

Working Group, chaired by Southwest

Regional Solicitor Tim Vollmann, to

examine the issue of the

implementation of the ESA in relation

to the exercise of Indian water rights in

the West, and evaluate the process and

criteria for the development of

environmental baselines pursuant to

section 7 of the ESA and existing

regulations. The Working Group was

also asked to prepare a case study of this

issue in the upper Colorado River Basin.

Beginning in August 1999, a draft of the

Working Group’s Report and

Recommendations and the draft case

study were released to Indian tribes,

state officials, and members of the

public, and comments were solicited.

The Working Group has now completed

its Final Report and Recommendations

and submitted them to the Secretary.

The Department is seeking public

comment on this Final Report and

Recommendations. The case study on

the upper Colorado River Basin is an

appendix to the Report. A 90-day period

is established for the transmittal of

written comments to the above address.

No action will be taken to implement

any of the Recommendations of the

Working Group until all comments have

been received and analyzed.

Copies of the Final Report and

Recommendations are being mailed to

western Indian tribes, State Attorneys

General, and the heads of western State

water resource departments, in addition

to all persons who submitted written

comments on the Working Group’s draft

Report and Recommendations.

Additional copies may be requested

from S. Elizabeth Birnbaum, Special

Assistant to the Solicitor, U.S.

Department of the Interior, 1849 C

Street, NW, Room 6352, Washington,

DC 20240. These documents have also

been made available on the U.S.

Department of the Interior website at

http://www.doi.gov/feature/es_wr/

index1.html.

John D. Leshy,

Solicitor.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Information Collection To Be

Submitted to the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) for Approval Under

the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)

ACTION: Information Collection Renewal.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service (Service) plans to submit the

collection of information requirement

described below to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for

approval under the provisions of the

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). You

may obtain copies of the collection

requirement and related forms and

explanatory material by contacting the

Service’s Information Collection

Clearance Officer at the phone number

listed below. The Service is soliciting

comment and suggestions on the

requirement as described below.

DATES: Interested parties must submit

comments on or before September 5,

2000.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties should

send comments and suggestions on the

requirement to Rebecca A. Mullin,

Information Collection Clearance

Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,

4401 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 222,

Arlington, VA 22203, (703) 358–2278 or

Rebecca_Mullin@fws.gov E-mail.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jack

Hicks, (703) 358–1851, fax (703) 358–

1837, or Jack_Hicks@fws.gov E-mail.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title of Forms: Summary Information

for Ranking National Coastal Wetlands

Conservation Grant Program Proposals.

Description and Use: The Service

administers the National Coastal

Wetlands Conservation Grant program

authorized by the Coastal Wetlands

Planning, Protection and Restoration

Act. The Service uses the information

collected to evaluate proposals under

this program. This includes summarized

information on habitat, coastal barriers,

levels of conservation, watershed

management, threatened and/or

endangered species potentially

involved, benefits of the restoration

proposed, partners, cost sharing,

education/outreach impact, impact on

wildlife-oriented recreation and other

benefits and determining if the

estimated cost is reasonable.

Service Form Numbers: 3–2179

(Summary Information for Ranking

National Coastal Wetlands Conservation

Grant Program Proposals).

Supplementary Information: The

service plans to submit the following

information collection requirements to

OMB for review and approval under the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,

Public Law 104–13. Comments are

invited on (1) whether the 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

estimates of burden of the 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

collection of information on

respondents, including through the use

of appropriate automated, electronic,

mechanical, or other technological

collection techniques or other forms of

information technology.

Frequency: Generally annually.

Description of Respondents: States,

the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana

Islands, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and

American Samoa.

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Completion Time and Annual

Response and Burden Estimate:

Form name Completion time

per form Annual response Annual burden

Summary Information for Ranking National Coastal Wetlands Conservation

Grant Program Proposals.

1⁄2 hour .................. 35 Forms ............... 171⁄2 Hours.

While the summary form is five pages

long, the 1⁄2 hour estimated burden is

accurate. Agencies applying for grants

will have all of the information readily

available in the proposals they have

prepared.

Dated: June 15, 2000.

Rebecca Mullin,

Service Information Collection Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Extension of Approved Information

Collection, OMB Number 1018–0093,

on Permit Applications

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service is announcing its intention to

request renewal of its existing approval

to collect certain information from

applicants who wish to obtain a permit

to conduct activities under a number of

wildlife conservation laws, treaties and

regulations. We will submit the

collection of information listed below to

the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for approval under the

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction

Act of 1995. If you wish to obtain copies

of the proposed information collection

requirement, related forms, and

explanatory material, contact the

Collection Clearance Officer at the

address listed below.

DATES: You must submit comments on

or before September 5, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Send your comments and

suggestions on specific requirements to

the Collection Clearance Officer, U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service, MS 222–

ARLSQ; 4401 N. Fairfax Drive,

Arlington, VA 22203.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To

request a copy of the information

collection request, explanatory

information and related forms, contact

Rebecca A. Mullin, Collection Clearance

Officer at 703–358–2287, or

electronically to rmullin@fws.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB

regulations at 5 CFR 1320, which

implement provisions of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13),

require that interested members of the

public and affected agencies have an

opportunity to comment on information

collection and recordkeeping activities

[see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)]. We plan to

submit a request to OMB to renew its

approval of the collection of information

for the Service’s license/permit

application form number 3–200–19

through 3–200–25 and 3–200–27

through 3–200–53. We are requesting a

3-year term of approval for this

information collection activity. We modified the format of the first

page of the application form so that the

information fields on the form

correspond to the data fields in our

Service-wide permits issuance and

tracking computer system. We also

modified the format and content of the

supplemental page(s) of the application

forms for clarity and to be less

burdensome to complete. We invite comments concerning this

renewal on: (1) Whether the 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 burden, (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. The information

collections in this program are part of a

system of record covered by the Privacy

Act [5 U.S.C. 552 (a)].

The information on the application

and the attachments will be used by the

Service to review permit applications

and allow the Service to make an

assessment according to criteria

established in various Federal wildlife

conservation laws, treaties and

regulations, on the issuance,

suspension, revocation or denial of

permits.

Federal agencies 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 OMB control

number for this collection of

information is 1018–0093.

The information collection

requirements in this submission

implement the regulatory requirements

of the Endangered Species Act (16

U.S.C. 1539), the Migratory Bird Treaty

Act (15 U.S.C. 704), the Lacey Act (18

U.S.C. 42–44), the Bald and Golden

Eagle Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 668), the

Convention on International Trade in

Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and

Flora (CITES), (27 UST 108), the Marine

Mammal Protection Act (16 U.S.C.

1361–1407), and Wild Bird

Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4901–

4916), and are contained in Service

regulations in Chapter I, Subchapter B

of Title 50 Code of Federal Regulations

(CFR). Common permit application and

record keeping requirements have been

consolidated in 50 CFR 13, and unique

requirements of the various statutes in

the applicable part as described in the

table.

Permit No. Activity

Total

number of

respondents

Estimated

time

(in hours)

Total annual

burden

hours

Regulation

3–200–19 ..... Import of Sport-Hunted Trophies of Southern

African Leopard, African Elephant, and

Namibian Southern White Rhinoceros.

1,000 1 .333 333 50 CFR 17.40(e), 17.40(f),

23.11, 23.12 and 23.15.

3–200–20 ..... Import of Sport-Hunted Trophies (Appendix I

of CITES and/or ESA).

30 1 30 50 CFR 17.21, 17.22, 17.31,

17.32, 23.11, 23.12 and

23.15.

3–200–21 ..... Import of Sport-Hunted Trophies of Argali .... 50 4 .750 37.5 50 CFR 17.31, 17.32 and

17.40(j).

3–200–22 ..... Import of Sport-Hunted Bontebok Trophies .. 60 .333 20 50 CFR 17.21 and 17.22.