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Survey 

name 

Number of 

respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Total number 

of responses 

Hours per 

response 

Total 

burden 

hours 

SAMHSA MFP Alumni Survey ............................................. 1,280 1 1,280 0.42 538 

Totals ............................................................................ 1,691 a ........................ 1,691 ........................ 711 

aThis is an unduplicated count of total respondents. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

Alicia Broadus, 

Public Health Advisor. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R7–ES–2023–N092; 

FXES111607MMTRP–245–FF07CAMM00; 

OMB Control Number 1018–0066] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget; Marine 

Mammal Marking, Tagging, and 

Reporting Certificates, and 

Registration of Certain Dead Marine 

Mammal Hard Parts 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, 

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

(Service), are proposing to renew an 

information collection without change. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before February 

1, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of publication 

of this notice at https://

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

Find this particular information 

collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function. Please 

provide a copy of your comments to the 

Service Information Collection 

Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, MS: PRB (JAO/3W), 

5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 

22041–3803 (mail); or by email to Info_

Coll@fws.gov. Please reference ‘‘1018– 

0066’’ in the subject line of your 

comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Madonna L. Baucum, 

Service Information Collection 

Clearance Officer, by email at Info_

Coll@fws.gov, or by telephone at (703) 

358–2503. Individuals in the United 

States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of 

hearing, or have a speech disability may 

dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to 

access telecommunications relay 

services. Individuals outside the United 

States should use the relay services 

offered within their country to make 

international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA, 44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), we 

provide the general public and other 

Federal agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on new, proposed, revised, 

and continuing collections of 

information. This helps us assess the 

impact of our information collection 

requirements and minimize the public’s 

reporting burden. It also helps the 

public understand our information 

collection requirements and provide the 

requested data in the desired format. 

On July 26, 2023, we published in the 

Federal Register (88 FR 48260) a notice 

of our intent to request that OMB 

approve this information collection. In 

that notice, we solicited comments for 

60 days, ending on September 25, 2023. 

In an effort to increase public awareness 

of, and participation in, our public 

commenting processes associated with 

information collection requests, the 

Service also published the Federal 

Register notice on Regulations.gov 

(Docket No. FWS–R7–ES–2023–0097) to 

provide the public with an additional 

method to submit comments (in 

addition to the typical U.S. mail 

submission methods). We received one 

anonymous comment in response to that 

notice which did not address the 

information collection requirements. No 

response to that comment is required. 

As part of our continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burdens, we are again soliciting 

comments from the public and other 

Federal agencies on the proposed ICR 

that is described below. We are 

especially interested in public comment 

addressing the following: 

(1) Whether or not the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether or not the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the 

burden for this collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(4) How might the agency minimize 

the burden of the collection of 

information on those who are to 

respond, including through the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of response. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. 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. 

Abstract: Under section 101(b) of the 

Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, 

as amended (MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361– 

1407), Alaska Natives residing in Alaska 

and dwelling on the coast of the North 

Pacific or Arctic Oceans may harvest 

polar bears, northern sea otters, and 

Pacific walruses for subsistence or 

handicraft purposes. Section 109(i) of 

the MMPA authorizes the Secretary of 

the Interior to prescribe marking, 

tagging, and reporting regulations 

applicable to the Alaska Native 

subsistence and handicraft take. 


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On behalf of the Secretary, we 

implemented regulations at 50 CFR 

18.23(f) for Alaska Natives harvesting 

polar bears, northern sea otters, and 

Pacific walruses. These regulations 

enable us to gather data on the Alaska 

Native subsistence and handicraft 

harvest and on the biology of polar 

bears, northern sea otters, and Pacific 

walruses in Alaska to determine what 

effect such take may be having on these 

populations. The regulations also 

provide us with a means of monitoring 

the disposition of the harvest to ensure 

that any commercial use of products 

created from these species meets the 

criteria set forth in section 101(b) of the 

MMPA. 

We collect harvest information related 

to Alaska Native harvest to provide a 

chronology of the harvest in population 

modeling, determining which cohorts 

are being killed, determining the status 

of populations, and predicting 

population trends. We will use the 

collected information to gain insight 

into the distribution and relative 

abundance of the three species, the level 

and intensity of the harvest, and the 

harvest impacts on the species and their 

subpopulations. We use three Service 

forms to collect the following 

information from Alaska Natives as part 

of the harvest reporting requirement: 

A. Form 3–2414, ‘‘Polar Bear Tagging 

Certificates’’: Form 3–2414 collects the 

following information: 

• Date and location of tagging; 

• Hide and skull tag number; 

• Village hunted from (if different 

from tagging location); 

• Age class and sex; 

• Whether sex could be verified by 

tagger and, if yes, sex identification 

information; 

• Skull measurements (length, width, 

or not provided); 

• Whether cubs were present with 

sow and, if yes, how many cubs; 

• Bear condition (obese, average, 

skinny); 

• Specimens collected (tooth, hair, 

skin, liver, fat, muscle, skin/muscle, 

baculum/penis bone, or other); 

• Research marks/tags (collar, ear tag 

number, lip tattoo, or other); 

• Date and location of kill (to include 

latitude/longitude); 

• Whether it was a conflict or 

problem bear and whether it was taken 

in defense of life; 

• Additional remarks; and 

• Whether hunter is available for 

post-hunt interview and, if yes, phone 

number, with the following post-hunt 

interview questions for problem bear 

situations: 

a. Was there a food source/attractant 

that the bear was interested in? What 

was the attractant? 

b. Was there any attempt to haze the 

bear to get it to leave? 

c. Was it believed that the bear could 

be a threat to people? 

Note: We would only ask these typical 

post-hunt questions if the biologist 

needed information on a bear that was 

marked as a problem bear. There is no 

standardized questioning. 

B. Form 3–2415, ‘‘Walrus Tagging 

Certificates’’: Form 3–2415 collects the 

following information: 

• Date and location of tagging; 

• Village hunted from (if different 

than tagging location); 

• Marine Mammals Management 

Marking, Tagging, and Reporting 

Program (MTRP) tag number of plasticheaded wire tag used for left or right 

tusk; 

• Type of take for walrus (LK = live 

killed, BF = beach found)—This 

information increases the accuracy of 

the known mortality and harvest data by 

discriminating between a walrus killed 

for subsistence purposes or found dead 

and salvaged. Requiring all ivory that 

has been taken or collected (pursuant to 

the Alaska Native exemption) to be 

marked, tagged, and reported simplifies 

Service enforcement efforts. 

• Date and location killed/found; 

• Age and sex; 

• Walrus tusk length and 

circumference; 

• Number of walrus harvested 

without tusks; and 

• Additional remarks. 

C. Form 3–2416, ‘‘Sea Otter Tagging 

Certificates’’: Form 3–2416 collects the 

following information: 

• Date and location of tagging; 

• Hide and skull tag number; 

• FWS permit number; 

• Age class and sex; 

• Details identification information; 

• Specimens collected (tooth, muscle 

vial, whisker, carcass, or other); 

• Number of otters present in pod and 

number harvested from pod; 

• Date and location of kill (to include 

latitude and longitude); and 

• Additional remarks. 

We also require non-Native collectors 

to use Form 3–2406, ‘‘Non-Native 

Marine Mammal Certificates.’’ The 

collection of information via Form 3– 

2406 allows the Service to track 

individuals who register (within 30 

days) beach-found hard parts to 

determine whether the take of marine 

mammal hard parts is legal. We use the 

below listed information collected via 

Form 3–2406 to verify whether it is legal 

for the individual to retain them: 

• Date and location of tagging; 

• MTRP tag number of plastic-headed 

wire tag used for left or right tusk; 

• Date found; 

• Age and sex; 

• Tusk circumference at gum line and 

tusk length from gum line to tip along 

front side following the curve of the 

tusk; 

• Exact location of kill or find; 

• Tag number for skull (polar bear or 

sea otter) or other part; 

• Any information of interest about 

the beach-found hard part collected; 

• Other remarks; and 

• Name, address, phone number, and 

date of birth of the person who collected 

the hard part. 

You may request copies of all forms 

in this information collection by 

submitting a request to the Service 

Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, using one of the methods 

identified in the ADDRESSES section of 

this notice. 

Title of Collection: Marine Mammal 

Marking, Tagging, and Reporting 

Certificates, and Registration of Certain 

Dead Marine Mammal Hard Parts, 50 

CFR 18.23(f) and 18.26. 

OMB Control Number: 1018–0066. 

Form Number: Forms 3–2406, 3–2414, 

3–2415, and 3–2416. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals and households. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 370. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 2,030. 

Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: 15 minutes. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 508 (rounded). 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

Total Estimated Annual Nonhour 

Burden Cost: None. 

An agency 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 authority for this action is the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

Madonna Baucum, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service. 

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