[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 29 (Friday, February 11, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7992-7995]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-02984]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

February 8, 2022.
    The Department of Agriculture has submitted the following 
information collection requirement(s) to OMB for review and clearance 
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,

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Public Law 104-13. Comments are requested regarding: 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; the accuracy of the agency's estimate of burden 
including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; ways to 
enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to be 
collected; and ways to 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 and other forms of information technology.
    Comments regarding this information collection received by March 
14, 2022 will be considered. Written comments and recommendations for 
the proposed information collection should be submitted within 30 days 
of the publication of this notice on the following website 
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.
    An agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information 
unless the collection of information displays a currently valid OMB 
control number and the agency informs potential persons who are to 
respond to the collection of information that such persons are not 
required to respond to the collection of information unless it displays 
a currently valid OMB control number.

Forest Service

    Title: Forest Industries Data Collection System.
    OMB Control Number: 0596-0010.
    Summary of Collection: The Forest and Range Renewable Resources 
Planning Act of 1974 and the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources 
Research Act of 1978 require the Forest Service to evaluate trends in 
the use of roundwood (logs in whole or chipped form), to forecast 
anticipated levels of roundwood use and availability, and to analyze 
changes in the harvest of these resources from the United States' 
forests. This data collection effort has been conducted since the mid-
1970s, with various adjustments through time to accommodate new 
questions, sampling approaches, and/or data collection needs. Data 
collection is performed by Forest Service personnel and cooperators 
from State natural resource agencies and universities. Currently, the 
data collection gathers information from two groups: Primary wood 
industry and logging operations.
    Need and Use of the Information: This information collection will 
generate scientifically based, statistically reliable, up-to-date 
information about utilization of timber resources of the United States. 
Our testing efforts will allow us to improve the quality of data 
obtained. The results of these efforts contribute to the availability 
of reliable information on timber resource use, facilitating more 
complete and accurate assessments of forest resources at state, 
regional, and national levels.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-
profit institutions.
    Number of Respondents: 5,768.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion; Annually.
    Total Burden Hours: 2,062.

Forest Service

    Title: Airplane Pilot Qualifications and Approval Record, 
Helicopter Pilot Qualifications and Approval Record, Airplane Data 
Record, and Helicopter Data Record.
    OMB Control Number: 0596-0015.
    Summary of Collection: The Forest Service contracts with 
approximately 400 vendors a year for commercial aviation services 
utilized in resource protection and project management. In recent 
years, the total annual use of contract aircraft and pilots has 
exceeded 80,000 hours. In order to maintain an acceptable level of 
safety, preparedness, and cost-effectiveness in aviation operations, 
Forest Service contracts include rigorous qualifications for pilots and 
specific condition, equipment, and performance requirements for 
aircraft as aviation operations are conducted under extremely adverse 
conditions of weather, terrain, turbulence, smoke reduced visibility, 
minimally improved landing areas, and congested airspace around 
wildfires.
    Need and Use of the Information: Without the collected information, 
Forest Service Pilot and Aircraft Inspectors and Forest Service 
Contracting Officers cannot determine whether contracted pilots and 
aircraft meet detailed qualification, equipment, and condition 
requirements essential to safe and effective accomplishment of Forest 
Service-specified flying missions. Without a reasonable basis to 
determine pilot qualifications and aircraft capability, Forest Service 
employees would be exposed to hazardous conditions. Data collected 
documents approval of contract pilots and aircraft for specific Forest 
Service aviation special missions. Information will be collected and 
reviewed by Pilot and Aircraft Inspectors to determine whether aircraft 
and/or pilot(s) meet all agency requirements in accordance with Forest 
Service Handbook (FSH) 5709.16, chapter 10, sections 15 and 16. Forest 
Service pilot and aircraft inspectors maintain collected information in 
Forest Service regional and national offices. The Forest Service, at 
times, shares the information with the Department of the Interior, 
Office of Aviation Services, as each organization accepts contract 
inspections conducted by the other.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; State, 
Local or Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 2,135.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Annually.
    Total Burden Hours: 3,866.

Forest Service

    Title: Understanding Value Trade-Offs Regarding Fire Hazard 
Reduction Programs in the Wildland-Urban Interface.
    OMB Control Number: 0596-0189.
    Summary of Collection: The Healthy Forests Restoration Act (Pub. L. 
108-148), improves the ability of the Secretary of Agriculture and the 
Secretary of the Interior to plan and conduct hazardous fuels reduction 
projects on National Forest System and Bureau of Land Management Lands. 
The Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian 
Affairs, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and many 
State agencies with fire protection responsibilities have undertaken a 
very ambitious and expensive forest fuels reduction program. The Forest 
Service (FS) and university researchers will contact recipients of a 
phone/mail questionnaire to help forest and fire managers understand 
value trade-offs regarding fire hazard reduction programs in the 
wildland-urban interface.
    Need and Use of the Information: Forest Service and university 
researchers will collect information from members of the public via a 
brief phone questionnaire followed by the respondent's choice of a mail 
questionnaire or an online questionnaire to help forest and fire 
managers understand value trade-offs regarding fire hazard reduction 
programs in the wildland-urban interface. Researchers will evaluate the 
responses of Florida, New Mexico, Oregon, and Texas residents to 
different scenarios related to fire-hazard reduction programs, 
determine how effective residents think the programs are, and calculate 
how much residents would be willing to pay to implement the 
alternatives presented

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to them. This information will help researchers provide better 
information to natural resource, forest, and fire managers when they 
are contemplating the type of fire-hazard reduction program to 
implement to achieve forestland management planning objectives.
    Description of Respondents: Individuals or households.
    Number of Respondents: 1,675.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Once.
    Total Burden Hours: 271.

Forest Service

    Title: Environmental Justice and the Urban Forest in Atlanta, GA.
    OMB Control Number: 0596-0237.
    Summary of Collection: Environmental justice is defined by the 
Environmental Protection Agency as the ``fair treatment and meaningful 
involvement of all people. . .with respect to the development, 
implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and 
policies.'' This information collection addresses environmental justice 
in urban settings. Cities are often (though not always) places of 
particular concern for environmental justice inquires due to the 
greater concentration of environmental pollutants and human 
populations. The following statutes and regulations are relevant to 
this request for information collection: Executive Order 12898, 
Memorandum of Understanding on Environmental Justice and Executive 
Order 12898, National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (Pub. L. 91-
190), the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub. L. 88-352).
    Need and Use of the Information: The study provides an integrated 
approach to assessing residents' relationship to the urban forest. The 
collection addresses environmental justice from the perspective of 
urban trees; and how this resource may contribute to environmental 
justice in a given community or neighborhood. The agency will use this 
information to determine whether their programs, policies, and 
activities have disproportionately high and adverse human health or 
environmental effects on minority populations and low-income 
populations. If the information is not collected, efforts at the 
federal level to evaluate environmental justice will remain limited to 
methodologies that reproduce incomplete assessments of environmental 
justice.
    Description of Respondents: Individuals or households.
    Number of Respondents: 232.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Other (one time).
    Total Burden Hours:

Forest Service

    Title: Pesticide-Use Proposal (PUP) Form.
    OMB Control Number: 0596-0241.
    Summary of Collection: The Forest Service (FS) is authorized under 
the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, as amended (7 
U.S.C. 136, and 40 CFR 171; the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 
1978 (16 U.S.C. 2101) as amended by the Food, Agriculture, 
Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 1421), and 36 CFR 219; 
and the National Environmental Policy Act 42 CFR 4321), and 36 CFR 220 
to collect information on proposed use of pesticides on lands 
administered by FS to safe guard natural resources and human health.
    Need and Use of the Information: FS will use form FS-2100-2 to 
collect pesticide project information from entities for application of 
pesticides upon FS administered lands within rights-of-way easements, 
permitted lands, and under similar circumstances. Categories of 
information requested are descriptive of type, amount, and location of 
applications, as well as identification of qualifying credentials of 
those performing the work. Proposals will be evaluated by FS pesticide 
use coordinators and other administrative personnel to safeguard human 
health and ecological protection consistent with FS land use management 
programs. Without the ability to collect the details of proposed 
projects from outside parties, the FS would not be able to make 
appropriately informed decisions concerning land stewardship and 
necessary ecological and human health safeguards.
    Description of Respondents: Individuals and households, Businesses 
and Organizations, and State, Local and Tribal Governments.
    Number of Respondents: 200.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: One time.
    Total Burden Hours: 400.

Forest Service

    Title: Post-Hurricane Research and Assessment of Agriculture, 
Forestry, and Rural Communities in the U.S. Caribbean.
    OMB Control Number: 0596-0246.
    Summary of Collection: The Public Lands Corps (PLC) is a work and 
education program involving the nation's land management agencies, 
conservation and service corps, and environmental organizations that 
contribute to the rehabilitation, restoration, and repair of public 
lands resources and infrastructure. PLC provides opportunities for 
community and national service, work experience, and training to young 
people who are unemployed or underemployed. The law authorizing this 
program is 16 U.S.C. 1721-1726, Chapter 37--Public Lands Corps and 
Resources Assistants Program (Public Lands Corps Healthy Forest 
Restoration Act of 2005 [Pub. L. 109-154]) as amended in 1993, 
hereafter referred to as ``the Act.''
    Need and Use of the Information: This information collection 
request establishes policies and procedures for the implementation of 
the Public Lands Corps Participant Tracking Sheet to ensure uniform 
collection of information regarding tracking and monitoring participant 
engagement to determine the completion of requirements for non-
competitive hiring eligibility as defined in the Act. Data collected 
through the Public Lands Corps Participant Tracking Sheet will allow 
the Forest Service (FS) and other Federal Land Management Agencies who 
sponsor PLC programs to support collaborating partners who manage 
eligible participants and their participation in PLC projects. If the 
FS is unable to collect data regarding PLC participants, it and other 
Federal Land Management Agencies would be unable to participate in a 
legally mandated program as outlined in the Act.
    Description of Respondents: Non-profit Organizations and Non-
Federal Government entities.
    Number of Respondents: 400.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting; Quarterly.
    Total Burden Hours: 131.

Forest Service

    Title: Public Lands Corps Participant Tracking Sheet.
    OMB Control Number: 0596-0247.
    Summary of Collection: The Public Lands Corps (PLC) is a work and 
education program involving the nation's land management agencies, 
conservation and service corps, and environmental organizations that 
contribute to the rehabilitation, restoration, and repair of public 
lands resources and infrastructure. PLC provides opportunities for 
community and national service, work experience, and training to young 
people who are unemployed or underemployed. The law authorizing this 
program is 16 U.S.C. 1721-1726, Chapter 37--Public Lands Corps and 
Resources Assistants Program (Public Lands Corps Healthy Forest 
Restoration Act of 2005 [Pub. L. 109-154]) as amended in 1993, 
hereafter referred to as ``the Act.''
    Need and Use of the Information: This information collection 
request

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establishes policies and procedures for the implementation of the 
Public Lands Corps Participant Tracking Sheet to ensure uniform 
collection of information regarding tracking and monitoring participant 
engagement to determine the completion of requirements for non-
competitive hiring eligibility as defined in the Act. Data collected 
through the Public Lands Corps Participant Tracking Sheet will allow 
the Forest Service (FS) and other Federal Land Management Agencies who 
sponsor PLC programs to support collaborating partners who manage 
eligible participants and their participation in PLC projects. If the 
FS is unable to collect data regarding PLC participants, it and other 
Federal Land Management Agencies would be unable to participate in a 
legally mandated program as outlined in the Act.
    Description of Respondents: Non-profit Organizations and Non-
Federal Government entities.
    Number of Respondents: 500.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting; Semi-annually.
    Total Burden Hours: 290.

Levi S. Harrell,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-02984 Filed 2-10-22; 8:45 am]
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