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and future workforce. The job skills it 

will need are dispersed throughout its 

nine bureaus and include, among 

others, making visitors welcome to 

various facilities, such as parks and 

refuges, processing permits for a wide 

variety of uses of the public lands, 

collecting royalties for minerals 

extracted from the public lands, 

rounding-up and adopting-out wild 

horses and burros found in the west, 

protecting archeological and cultural 

resources of the public lands, and 

enforcing criminal laws of the United 

States. As a result of this broad 

spectrum of duties and services, the DOI 

touches the lives of most Americans. 

The people who deal with the DOI 

bring with them a wide variety of 

backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. 

A diverse workforce enables the DOI to 

provide a measure of understanding to 

its customers by relating to the diverse 

background of those customers. By 

including employees of all backgrounds, 

all DOI employees gain a measure of 

knowledge, background, experience, 

and comfort in serving all of the DOI’s 

customers. 

In order to determine if there are 

barriers in our recruitment and selection 

processes, DOI must track the 

demographic groups that apply for its 

jobs. The most effective and statistically 

valid method to make these 

determinations is information directly 

from applicants. The data collected is 

not provided to selecting officials and 

plays no part in the merit staffing or the 

selection processes. The data collected 

will be used in summary form to 

determine trends covering the 

demographic make-up of applicant 

pools and job selections within a given 

occupation or organizational group. The 

records of those applicants not selected 

are destroyed in accordance with DOI’s 

records management procedures. 

II. Data 

(1) Title: Applicant Background 

Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 1091–0001. 

Current Expiration Date: July 31, 

2012. 

Type of Review: Information 

Collection Renewal. 

Affected Entities: Applicants for DOI 

jobs. 

Estimated annual number of 

respondents: 13,433. 

Frequency of Response: One per job 

application. 

(2) Annual reporting and record 

keeping burden: Average reporting 

burden per application: 5 minutes. 

Total annual reporting: 1,119 hours. 

(3) Description of the need and use of 

the information: This information is 

required to obtain the source of 

recruitment, ethnicity, race, and 

disability data on job applicants to 

determine if the recruitment is 

effectively reaching all aspects of 

relevant labor pools and to determine if 

there are proportionate acceptance rates 

at various stages of the recruitment 

process. Response is optional. The 

information is used for evaluating 

recruitment only, and plays no part in 

the selection of who is hired. 

III. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the agency, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the proposed 

information collection; (c) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility and clarity 

of the information to be collected; and 

(d) ways to minimize the burden of the 

information collection on respondents, 

including through the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Burden means the total time, effort, or 

financial resources expended by persons 

to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or 

provide information to or for a federal 

agency. This includes the time needed 

to review instructions; to develop, 

acquire, install and utilize technology 

and systems for the purpose of 

collecting, validating and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information; to train 

personnel and to be able to respond to 

a collection of information, to search 

data sources, to complete and review 

the collection of information, and to 

transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. 

All written comments will be 

available for public inspection in the 

Main Interior Building, 1849 C Street 

NW., Washington, DC during normal 

business hours, excluding legal 

holidays. For an appointment to inspect 

comments, please contact Ophelia 

Anderson by telephone on (202) 219– 

0805, or by email at 

Ophelia_Anderson@ios.doi.gov. A valid 

picture identification is required for 

entry into the Department of the 

interior. 

Dated: April 5, 2012. 

Sharon Eller, 

Director, Office of Civil Rights, Office of the 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–RE–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R4–ES–2012–N027; 

FXES11130400000C2–123–FF04E00000] 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants; Notice of Availability of a 

Technical/Agency Draft Recovery Plan 

for Alabama Sturgeon 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability and 

request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife 

Service, announce the availability of the 

technical/agency draft recovery plan for 

the endangered Alabama Sturgeon. The 

draft recovery plan includes specific 

recovery objectives and criteria that 

would have to be met in order for us to 

downlist the species to be threatened 

under the Endangered Species Act of 

1973, as amended (Act). We request 

review and comment on this draft 

recovery plan from local, State, and 

Federal agencies, and the public. 

DATES: In order to be considered, 

comments on the draft recovery plan 

must be received on or before June 11, 

2012. 

ADDRESSES: If you wish to review this 

technical/agency draft recovery plan, 

you may obtain a copy by contacting Jeff 

Powell, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Alabama Field Office, 1208–B Main 

Street, Daphne, AL 36532; tel. (251) 

441–6630, or by visiting either the 

Service’s recovery plan Web site at 

http://endangered.fws.gov/recovery/ 

index.html#plans or the Daphne Field 

Office Web site at http://www.fws.gov/ 

daphne/. 

If you wish to comment, you may 

submit your comments by one of the 

following methods: 

• You may submit written comments 

and materials to Jeff Powell, at the above 

address. 

• You may hand-deliver written 

comments to our Alabama Field Office, 

at the above address, or fax them to 

(251) 441–6222. 

• You may send comments by email 

to jeff_powell@fws.gov. 

For additional information about 

submitting comments, see the ‘‘Request 

for Public Comments’’ section below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff 

Powell, at the above addresses or by 

telephone: (251) 441–5858. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Alabama sturgeon 

(Scaphirhyncus suttkusi) was listed as 

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an endangered species under the Act (16 

U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) on May 5, 2000 (65 

FR 26438). Its historic range 

encompassed all major rivers in the 

Mobile Basin, including the Alabama, 

Tombigbee, and Cahaba River systems, 

below the fall lines for each river. (Fall 

lines are changes in elevation (i.e., falls) 

that block navigation upstream by fish.) 

Recent collections of Alabama sturgeon 

have been restricted to the lower 

Alabama River, from below R.F. Henry 

Lock and Dam to the confluence of the 

Tombigbee River, and the lower Cahaba 

River near its confluence with the 

Alabama River; however, records are 

extremely rare. The last capture of an 

Alabama sturgeon was on April 3, 2007, 

by biologists at the Alabama Department 

of Conservation and Natural Resources 

(ADCNR). Critical habitat was 

designated for the species on June 2, 

2009 (74 FR 26488). The Alabama 

sturgeon is one of the rarest fish in the 

nation and may be close to extinction. 

Restoring an endangered or 

threatened animal or plant to the point 

where it is again a secure, selfsustaining member of its ecosystem is a 

primary goal of our endangered species 

program. To help guide the recovery 

effort, we prepare recovery plans for 

most listed species. Recovery plans 

describe actions considered necessary 

for conservation of the species, establish 

criteria for downlisting or delisting, and 

estimate time and cost for implementing 

recovery measures. 

The Act requires the development of 

recovery plans for listed species, unless 

such a plan would not promote the 

conservation of a particular species. 

Section 4(f) of the Act requires us to 

provide a public notice and an 

opportunity for public review and 

comment during recovery plan 

development. We will consider all 

information we receive during a public 

comment period prior to approval of 

each new or revised recovery plan. We 

and other Federal agencies will take 

these comments into account in the 

course of implementing approved 

recovery plans. 

Recovery Plan Components 

The objective of this plan is to 

provide a framework for the recovery of 

the Alabama sturgeon, so that protection 

under the Act is no longer necessary. 

Delisting is not currently foreseeable, 

due to extreme curtailment of range and 

extensive modification to the riverine 

habitats. Therefore, if finalized, this 

draft recovery plan would establish 

downlisting criteria for the Alabama 

sturgeon so that it may be reclassified as 

threatened. 

Downlisting of the Alabama sturgeon 

from endangered to threatened will be 

considered when: (1) A population 

consisting of approximately 500 

sexually mature Alabama sturgeon is 

shown to be surviving and naturally 

reproducing in the Alabama/Cahaba 

Rivers; (2) population studies show that 

the Alabama sturgeon population is 

naturally recruiting (consisting of 

multiple age classes) and sustainable 

over a period of 20 years (2–3 

generations), and no longer requires 

hatchery augmentation; and (3) an 

agreement is in place that ensures 

adequate flows are being delivered 

down the Alabama River to allow for 

successful development of sturgeon 

larvae, and that fish are able to move 

successfully both upstream and 

downstream at dams on the Alabama 

River. 

Request for Public Comments 

We request written comments on the 

draft recovery plan. We will consider all 

comments we receive by the date 

specified in DATES prior to final 

approval of the plan. 

Public Availability of Comments 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email 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. 

Authority 

The authority for this action is section 

4(f) of the Endangered Species Act, 16 

U.S.C. 1533 (f). 

Dated: February 1, 2012. 

Mark J. Musaus, 

Acting Regional Director, Southeast Region. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLAK930000 L16100000.DS0000.12XL] 

Notice of Correction to Notice of 

Availability of the Draft Integrated 

Activity Plan/Environmental Impact 

Statement for the National Petroleum 

Reserve-Alaska and Announcement of 

Public Subsistence-Related Hearings 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of correction. 

SUMMARY: On March 30, 2012, the 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 

published a Notice of Availability of the 

Draft Integrated Activity Plan (IAP)/ 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for the National Petroleum ReserveAlaska and Announcement of Public 

Subsistence-Related Hearings in the 

Federal Register (77 FR 19318). The 

BLM inadvertently stated that the 

comments on the Draft IAP/EIS must be 

received by May 31, 2012. The BLM will 

accept public comments on the Draft 

IAP/EIS until June 1, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim 

Ducker, BLM Alaska State Office, 907– 

271–3130. 

Ronald L. Dunton, 

Acting State Director. 

[FR Doc. 2012–8860 Filed 4–11–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–JA–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation No. 337–TA–807] 

Certain Digital Photo Frames and 

Image Display Devices and 

Components Thereof; Notice of 

Request for Written Submissions on 

Remedy, the Public Interest, and 

Bonding With Respect to Defaulting 

Respondent Aiptek International Inc. 

AGENCY: U.S. International Trade 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the U.S. International Trade 

Commission is requesting briefing on 

remedy, the public interest, and 

bonding with respect to relief against 

respondent Aiptek International Inc. 

(‘‘Aiptek’’) of Hsinchu, Taiwan, which 

was previously found in default in the 

above-captioned investigation. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Clint Gerdine, Esq., Office of the 

General Counsel, U.S. International 

Trade Commission, 500 E Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20436, telephone (202) 

708–2310. Copies of non-confidential 

documents filed in connection with this 

investigation are or will be available for 

inspection during official business 

hours (8:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.) in the 

Office of the Secretary, U.S. 

International Trade Commission, 500 E 

Street SW., Washington, DC 20436, 

telephone (202) 205–2000. General 

information concerning the Commission 

may also be obtained by accessing its 

Internet server at http://www.usitc.gov. 

The public record for this investigation 

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