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ensuring that each backcountry user 

receives up-to-date information on 

backcountry sanitation procedures, food 

storage, wildlife activity, trail 

conditions, and weather projections so 

that concerns for visitor safety are met. 

The Backcountry Use Permit is an 

extension of the NPS statutory authority 

responsibility to protect the park areas 

it administers and to manage the public 

use thereof (16 U.S.C. Sections 1 and 3). 

NPS regulations codified in 36 CFR 

Parts 1 through 7, 12 and 13, are 

designed to implement statutory 

mandates that provide for resource 

protection and public enjoyment. The 

Backcountry Use Permit is the primary 

form used to provide access into NPS 

backcountry areas including those areas 

that require a reservation to enter where 

use limits are imposed in accordance 

with other NPS regulations. Such 

permitting enhances the ability of the 

NPS to education users on potential 

hazards, search and rescue efforts, and 

resource protection. 

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 made 

publicly 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. 

Frequency of collection: On occasion. 

Description of Respondents: 

Individuals wishing to use backcountry 

areas within national parks. 

Estimated average number of 

respondents: 285,000 per year. 

Estimated average number of 

responses: 285,000 per year. 

Estimated average time burden per 

respondent: 5 minutes per respondent. 

Frequency of response: 1 time per 

respondent. 

Estimated total annual reporting 

burden: 23,750 hours per year. 

Dated: June 18, 2007. 

Leonard E. Stowe, 

NPS, Information Collection Clearance 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 07–3094 Filed 6–22–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–53–M 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

30-Day Notice of Submission of Study 

Package to the Office of Management 

and Budget; 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 [44 

U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D)] and 5 CFR Part 

1320, Reporting and Record keeping 

Requirements, the National Park Service 

(NPS) invites public comments on a 

revision of a currently approved 

collection of information (OMB number 

1024–0236). 

DATES: Public comments on this 

Information Collection Request (ICR) 

will be accepted on or before July 25, 

2007. 

ADDRESSES: Youb may submit 

comments directly to the Desk Officer 

for the Department of the Interior (OMB 

number 1024–0236), Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

OMB, by fax at 202/395–6566 or by 

electronic mail at 

oira_docket@omb.eop.gov. Please also 

send a copy of your comments to Dr. 

John G. Dennis, Natural Resources (MIB 

3130), NPS, 1849 C Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20240, or electronically 

at WASO_NRSS_researchcoll@nps.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

John G. Dennis, Natural Resources (MIB 

3130), NPS, 1849 C Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20240; or via phone at 

202/513–7174; or via fax at 202/371–

2131, or via e-mail at 

WASO_NRSS_researchcoll@nps.gov. 

You are entitled to a copy of the entire 

ICR package free of charge. 

Comments Received on the 60-Day 

Federal Register Notice: The NPS 

published the 60-Day Federal Register 

Notice to solicit public comments on 

this ICR on March 8, 2007 (Vol. 72, 

pages 10553–10554). NPS also contacted 

by e-mail 3,588 non-Federal and Federal 

permittees and permit applicants who 

were active in calendar years 2006 and 

2007, posted on the RPRS Web site 

notice of the availability of this review 

opportunity, and sent an internal 

memorandum to the NPS Natural 

Resource Advisory Group to solicit 

comments from the members of that 

group. 

The NPS received 13 responses from 

the public in response to the 60-day 

Federal Register Notice and subsequent 

e-mail messages requesting comments. 

These responses provided a diversity of 

thoughts, including (1) The requested 

information and time needed to fill out 

the forms are reasonable; (2) the on-line 

application process is efficient and 

straightforward; (3) the forms and the 

ability to access on-line and report online make the application and 

compliance process very easy; (4) the 

park review and decision process is 

difficult and onerous; (5) too much 

documentation is required; (6) having 

each park make its own permit decision 

is unnecessarily piecemeal, arbitrary, 

and burdensome; and (7) it is difficult 

to figure out how to submit ‘‘things’’. 

Five respondents specifically addressed 

the education application and permit, 

saying that it would have benefits or 

offering ideas about what types of 

education activities should receive 

specific types of consideration, such as 

simplifying the application process, 

how to treat specimen collections, 

allowing for different treatment for 

different types of activities, offering the 

ability to change the program leader 

without reissuing a permit, and offering 

a fee waiver for permitted education 

activities. Several respondents 

discussed matters outside this request 

for review, including urging NPS to 

change its collections ownership 

procedure and requesting the NPS to 

issue permits on a Servicewide, rather 

than park basis. 

The NPS found that these comments 

did not indicate any clear reasons for 

changing any of the three forms, so the 

NPS will request to OMB that the three 

forms be renewed without change. The 

NPS plans to use the information 

contained in many of the comments 

when it develops new guidance material 

for the Science Education Permit 

Application, and revises existing 

guidance material for the Scientific 

Research and Collecting Permit 

Application. 

Actual NPS and researcher use of the 

Internet-based system over the past 

three years has yielded few complaints 

and has earned a number of kudos. This 

use also has yielded suggestions from 

both respondents and government 

employees for making the information 

collection forms or software more 

efficient or more usable. These 

suggestions have been accumulated and 

some have been incorporated through 

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improvements. Such receipt of, and 

action on, user suggestions, constitutes 

ongoing consultation with people 

(applicants and permittees) from whom 

information is being collected and by 

whom collected information is being 

applied (NPS personnel and users of the 

Investigator’s Annual Report site). 

Should OMB approve the collection of 

information forms submitted in this 

extension request, additional software 

changes will be made to incorporate 

fully the improvements contained in 

these forms. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Research Permit and Reporting 

System Applications and Reports (36 

CFR 2.1 and 2.5). 

Bureau Form Number(s): 10–741a, 

10–741b, and 10–226. 

OMB Number: 1024–0236. 

Expiration Date: June 30, 2007. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection of 

information. 

Description of Need: The NPS 

regulates scientific research and 

collecting studies and science education 

activities inside park boundaries under 

regulations codified at 36 CFR Part 2, 

Section 2.5. The NPS issued these 

regulations pursuant to authority under 

the NPS Organic Act of 1916 as 

amended (16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.). The NPS 

administers these regulations to provide 

for scientific research and collecting and 

scientific education uses of parks while 

also protecting park resources and other 

park uses from adverse impacts that 

could occur if inappropriate scientific 

research and collecting studies or 

science education activities were to be 

conducted within park boundaries. 

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 

includes: (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 requesting that OMB 

approve the current Application for a 

Scientific Research and Collecting 

Permit, Application for a Science 

Education Permit, and Investigator’s 

Annual Report collection of information 

forms unchanged. The obligation to 

respond to this collection is required to 

manage the conduct of scientific 

research and collecting within national 

parks. 

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. All comments will become 

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 us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Description of Respondents: 

Individual scientific investigators or 

science educators from other 

governmental agencies, universities and 

colleges, schools, research 

organizations, science education 

organizations who apply for a permit, 

and any members of this group who 

receive a permit; and as a result, must 

submit the required annual report of 

accomplishment. 

Estimated average number of 

respondents: 6,500 per year. 

Estimated average number of 

responses: 13,000 per year. 

Estimated average time burden per 

respondent: 6000 responses for Form 

10–741a: 1 hour; 500 responses for Form 

10–741b: 1 hour, 6500 responses for 

Form 10–226: 37.5 minutes. Therefore, 

the total average time burden per 

respondent is 1.625 hours. 

Frequency of response: 2 per 

respondent. 

Estimated total annual reporting 

burden: 10,563 hours. 

Dated: June 20, 2007. 

Leonard E. Stowe, 

NPS, Information Collection Clearance 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 07–3095 Filed 6–22–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–EJ–M 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

National Register of Historic Places; 

Notification of Pending Nominations 

and Related Actions 

Nominations for the following 

properties being considered for listing 

or related actions in the National 

Register were received by the National 

Park Service before June 9, 2007. 

Pursuant to § 60.13 of 36 CFR Part 60 

written comments concerning the 

significance of these properties under 

the National Register criteria for 

evaluation may be forwarded by United 

States Postal Service, to the National 

Register of Historic Places, National 

Park Service, 1849 C St., NW., 2280, 

Washington, DC 20240; by all other 

carriers, National Register of Historic 

Places, National Park Service, 1201 Eye 

St. NW., 8th floor, Washington, DC 

20005; or by fax, 202–371–6447. Written 

or faxed comments should be submitted 

by July 10, 2007. 

J. Paul Loether, 

Chief, National Register of Historic Places/ 

National Historic Landmarks Program. 

CALIFORNIA 

Tuolumne County 

Tuolumne County Courthouse (Boundary 

Increase), Bounded by N Washington St., 

W Yaney Ave., N Green St. & W Jackson 

St., Sonora, 07000695 

COLORADO 

Larimer County 

East Longs Peak Trail—Longs Peak Trail—

Keyhole Route—Shelf Trail, (Rocky 

Mountain National Park MPS) W of CO 7, 

Allenspark, 07000740 

Morgan County 

Rankin Presbyterian Church, 420 Clayton St., 

Brush, 07000696 

CONNECTICUT 

Hartford County 

Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, 69 Main 

St., New Britain, 07000697 

FLORIDA 

Highlands County 

Archbold Biological Station at Red Hill, 123 

Main Dr., Venus, 07000698 

GEORGIA 

Muscogee County 

Columbus Manufacturing Company, 3201 1st 

Av., Columbus, 07000699 

Walker County 

Chickamauga Historic District, Roughly 

centered on Cove Rd. and bounded by 

Crescent, Pearl, & 6th Sts. and the Central 

of Georgia RR, Chickamauga, 07000700 


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