Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 45 / Thursday, March 8, 2007 / Notices 10553 

Dated: January 16, 2007. 

Lucy Querques Denett, 

Associate Director for Minerals, Revenue 

Management. 

[FR Doc. E7–4150 Filed 3–7–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

60-Day Notice of Intention To Request 

Clearance of Collection of Information; 

Opportunity for Public Comment 

AGENCY: Department of the Interior, 

National Park Service. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: Under provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 5 

CFR part 1320, Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Requirements, the 

National Park Service (NPS) invites 

public comments on an extension of a 

currently approved collection of 

information (OMB No. 1024–0236). 

DATES: Public comments on the 

proposed Information Collection 

Request (ICR) will be accepted on or 

before May 7, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Send Comments To: Dr. 

John G. Dennis, Natural Resources 

(Room 1160), NPS, 1201 Eye Street, 

NW., Washington, DC 20005; Phone: 

202/513–7174; fax: 202/371–2131; email 

WASO_NRSS_researchcoll@nps.gov. 

Also, please send a copy of your 

comments to Leonard Stowe, 

Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, NPS, 1849 C St., NW (2605), 

Washington, DC 20240, or by e-mail at 

Leonard_Stowe@nps.gov. All responses 

to this notice will be summarized and 

included in the request for the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval. All comments will become a 

matter of public record. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bill 

Commins, NPS, Natural Resources 

(Room 25), 1201 Eye St., NW., 

Washington, DC 20005. Phone 202/513–

7166; Fax: 202/317–2131; E-mail: 

bill_commins@nps.gov. You may obtain 

additional information about the 

application and annual reporting forms 

and existing guidance and explanatory 

material from the NPS Research Permit 

and Reporting System Web site at: 

http://science.nature.nps.gov/research. 

You are entitled to a copy of the entire 

ICR package free of charge. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Research Permit and Reporting 

System Collection of Information 

Package: Application for a Scientific 

Research and Collecting Permit: 

Application for a Science Education 

Permit; Investigator’s Annual Report. 

Bureau Form Number(s): Application 

for a Scientific Research and Collecting 

Permit: 10–741a; Application for a 

Science Education Permit: 10–741b; 

Investigator’s Annual Report: 10–226. 

OMB Number: 1024–0236. 

Expiration Date: 6/30/2007. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

previously approved information 

collection. 

Description of Need: The currently 

approved information collection 

responds to the statutory requirement 

that NPS preserve park resources and 

regulate the use of units of the National 

park System. The information currently 

collected identifies: (1) Names and 

business contact information for people 

who seek a permit to conduct natural or 

social science research and collection 

activities in individual units of the 

National Park System, (2) what activities 

they wish to conduct, (3) where they 

wish to conduct the activities, (4) 

whether or not they wish to collect 

specimens as part of the activities they 

propose to conduct, and (5) for 

applicants who have received a permit, 

annual summaries of the actual results 

of their permitted activities. NPS uses 

the collected information for managing 

the use and preservation of park 

resources and for reporting the status of 

permitted research and collecting 

activities. NPS is considering proposing 

to develop the Internet software for, and 

implement, the Application for a 

Science Education Permit that OMB 

reviewed and approved in 2004. NPS is 

proposing to leave the current 

Application for a Scientific Research 

and Collecting Permit and the 

Investigator’s Annual Report collection 

of information forms largely unchanged 

unless responses to this request for 

comments identify areas in the two 

collections of information that warrant 

change. 

In response to suggestions for changes 

identified prior to and during the review 

of this information collection package in 

2004, NPS added entries to obtain more 

specific information about project scope 

and status, including expected total 

time span of the project, specific 

identification of project personnel who 

will be working in the park, status of 

processing of collected specimens, 

planned schedules for the field work 

phases of the project, and expected end 

date for the project. NPS also split the 

Application into two versions to 

improve the ability to use the Internet 

to process applications for both 

scientific research and collecting and 

scientific education activities, but has 

not yet modified the Internet software to 

implement the science education 

component. NPS changed the scientific 

research and collecting application to 

improve the clarity of information 

provided to, and obtained from, 

respondents who request use of a nonNPS repository regarding the duty the 

respondents have for securing 

acceptance by the proposed non-NPS 

repository of becoming responsible for 

collections authorized in the permit. 

NPS changed the Investigator’s Annual 

Report to reduce the complexity of the 

form by assigning responsibility to NPS, 

not the respondent, for determining the 

appropriate activity code for each 

permitted project. NPS also designed 

the Investigator’s Annual Report to 

accommodate in a single form progress 

reports from both science research and 

collecting and science education 

permittees. 

At this time, NPS is not proposing to 

make any changes to any of these three 

collections of information. NPS is 

considering updating some of the 

guidance documents and specifically is 

considering creating a separate guidance 

document regarding science education 

activities. NPS specifically requests 

comments on the clarity and utility of 

the guidance documents and on desired 

content of a separate guidance 

document for the science education 

activities. NPS also is considering 

whether to create a new component of 

this collection of information package 

specifically to offer users of the Internet 

site an opportunity to provide 

comments online regarding the usability 

of the Internet site and working 

relationships with parks in which 

permittees conduct science activities. 

Based on growth in use of this 

collection of information system over 

the past six years, NPS is proposing to 

request an increase in the burden hour 

budget. At the onset of the system, NPS 

estimated that there would be 

approximately 3,000 applications and 

3,000 Investigator’s Annual Reports 

submitted each year. The average 

numbers reported for 2004 and 2005 

permitted activities, which are the latest 

two years with complete information for 

numbers of active permits and 

submitted Investigator’s Annual 

Reports, show 4,472 studies per year 

under permit, 5,046 active permits per 

year, and 3,657 Investigator’s Annual 

Reports. Experience with using this 

system shows that, for a variety of 

reasons related to both applicants and 

parks, a number of studies apply for and 

obtain more than one permit per year for 

the same study while other studies 

receive permits that are active for more 

than one year at a time. These situations 


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lead to the result that there are more 

active permits in a year than there are 

active studies. 

Comments are invited on: (1) The 

practical utility of the information being 

gathered; (2) the validity and accuracy 

of the reporting burden hour estimate; 

(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (4) ways to minimize the 

burden to respondents, including use of 

automated information collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. 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 

public 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. 

Automated Data Collection: The 

information collection and status 

reporting system for which the renewal 

of three components of a single 

collection of information package is 

being proposed in this notice currently 

is available to applicants, permittees, 

and the public through the NPS 

Research Permit and Reporting System 

Web site (http://science.nature.nps.gov/ 

research). In addition to considering the 

renewal of the three information 

collection forms without changes, NPS 

is considering what development of 

modifications to the Internet site, if any, 

are needed to increase the effectiveness 

and efficiency of this automation system 

to facilitate the permit application and 

progress reporting process. If NPS were 

to adopt a component by which users 

could provide comments to NPS, NPS 

would make that component available 

online through the Internet site. 

Description of Respondents: 

Representatives of: Academic and other 

research institutions, Federal, state, or 

local agencies, research businesses; 

other scientific parties seeking an NPS 

research and collecting or science 

education permit; permittees who 

submit the annual report of 

accomplishment that is one of the 

permit conditions. 

Estimated Average Number of 

Respondents: NPS estimates the average 

number of respondents to be 6,500 by 

2010. 

Estimated Average Number of 

Responses: NPS estimates an average 

number of 13,000 responses by 2010. 

Estimated Average Burden Hours Per 

Two-Part Response: 1,625 hours per 

year total for responding to both parts of 

this collection of information was the 

estimate in 2004. NPS does not expect 

this burden hour estimate to change, 

even if the proposed opportunity for 

permit system users to offer comments 

to NPS is adopted, because returning 

users are expected to be able to spend 

less time on the two existing parts and 

the goal for the collection of information 

for the comments is to make that 

collection of information short and 

focused. 

Frequency of Response: 2 times per 

respondent per year—once to submit the 

application and once to submit the 

Investigator’s Annual Report. A small 

number of respondents is expected to 

submit a third response, should the 

proposed collection of information for 

comments be added to the system. 

Estimated Annual Reporting Burden: 

NPS estimates the estimated annual 

reporting burden will be 10,560 hours 

by the year 2010. 

Dated: February 7, 2007. 

Leonard E. Stowe, 

NPS, Information Collection Clearance 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 07–1079 Filed 3–7–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–EJ–M 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

60-Day Notice of Intention To Request 

Clearance of Collection of Information; 

Opportunity for Public Comment 

AGENCY: Department of the Interior, 

National Park Service. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: Under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 and 5 CFR Part 

1320, Reporting and Record Keeping 

Requirements, the National Park Service 

(NPS) invites public comments on an 

extension of a currently approved 

collection of information (OMB No. 

1024–0021). 

DATES: Public comments on the 

proposed Information Collection 

Request (ICR) will be accepted on or 

before May 7, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Richard Merryman, 

National Capital Region, 1100 Ohio Dr., 

Rm. 128, SW., Washington, DC 20242. 

Phone: 202–619–7225, Fax: 202–401–

2430. Also, you may send comments to 

Leonard Stowe, NPS Information 

Collection Clearance Officer, 1849 C St., 

NW. (2605), Washington, DC 20240, or 

by e-mail at Leonard_Stowe@nps.gov. 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approval. All comments 

will become a matter of public record. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Richard Merryman, National Capital 

Region, 1100 Ohio Dr., Rm. 128, SW., 

Washington, DC 20242, via phone at 

202/619–7225, or via fax at 202/401–

2430, or via e-mail at 

Rick_Merryman@nps.gov. You are 

entitled to a copy of the entire ICR 

package free of charge. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: National Capital Region 

Application for Public Gathering, 36 

CFR 7.96(g). 

Departmental Form Number: None. 

OMB Number: 1024–0021. 

Expiration Date: 06/30/07. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Description of Need: The information 

collection responds to the statutory 

requirement that the NPS preserve park 

resources and regulate the use of units 

of the National Park System. The 

information to be collected identifies: 

(1) Those individuals and/or 

organizations that wish to conduct a 

public gathering on NPS property in the 

National Capital Region, (2) the logistics 

of a proposed demonstration or special 

event that aid the NPS in regulating 

activities to insure that they are 

consistent with the NPS mission, (3) 

potential civil disobedience and traffic 

control issues for the assignment of 

United States Park Police personnel, 

and (4) circumstances which may 

warrant a bond to be assigned to the 

event for the purpose of covering 

potential cost to repair damage caused 

by the event. 

Comments are invited on: (1) The 

practical utility of the information being 

gathered; (2) the accuracy of the burden 

hour estimate; (3) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (4) 

ways to minimize the burden to 

respondents, including use of 

automated information collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. 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 

publicly available at any time. While 

you can ask in your comment to 

withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee we will be able to do 

so. 

Description of Respondents: 

Respondents are those individuals or 

organizations that wish to conduct a 


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