### 70748 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 220 / Tuesday, November 15, 2011 / Notices

Number 1615–0026 in the subject box. Written comments and suggestions from the public and affected agencies should address one or more of the following four points:

(1) Evaluate 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;

(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the burden of the collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used;

(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and

(4) 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
responses.
Overview of This Information Collection

(1) Type of Information Collection: Extension of an existing information collection.

(2) Title of the Form/Collection: Immigrant Petition by Alien Entrepreneur.

(3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the Department of Homeland Security sponsoring the collection: Form I–526. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

(4) Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as well as a brief abstract: Primary: Businesses. This form is used by the USCIS to determine if an alien can enter the U.S. to engage in commercial enterprise.

(5) An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount of time estimated for an average respondent to respond: 3,742 responses at 1 hour and 15 minutes (1.25 hours) per response.

(6) An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated with the collection: 4,678 annual burden hours.

If you need a copy of the information collection instrument, please visit the Web site at: http://www.regulations.gov/

. We may also be contacted at: USCIS, Regulatory Products Division, 20 Massachusetts Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20529–2020, telephone number (202) 272–8377. Dated: November 9, 2011. Sunday Aigbe, Chief, Regulatory Products Division, Office of the Executive Secretariat, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2011–29493 Filed 11–14–11; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 9111–97–P**

**DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR**

**Bureau of Ocean Energy Management**

**Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), Central and Western Gulf of Mexico, Oil and**  **Gas Lease Sales for Years 2012–2017**

**AGENCY :**  Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Interior.

**ACTION :**  Call for Information and Nominations; Correction.

**SUMMARY :**  On March 15, 2011, BOEM (formerly the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement) published a notice in the Federal Register (76 FR 14040), entitled ‘‘Call for Information and Nominations.’’ This document describes a correction to the sale numbers that were identified in the Call. As previously published, the sale numbers contained an error that will prove to be misleading.
Section 2—Purpose of Call, Should Be Changed to the Following Sale Numbers

Lease sale, planning area Sale year

Sale 229, Western GOM .......... 2012 Sale 227, Central GOM ............ 2013 Sale 233, Western GOM .......... 2013 Sale 231, Central GOM ............ 2014 Sale 238, Western GOM .......... 2014 Sale 235, Central GOM ............ 2015 Sale 246, Western GOM .......... 2015 Sale 241, Central GOM ............ 2016 Sale 248, Western GOM .......... 2016 Sale 247, Central GOM ............ 2017

**DATES :**  This correction is effective immediately.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Mr. Carrol Williams, BOEM, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 70123–2394, telephone (504) 736–2803.

Dated: October 25, 2011. Tommy P. Beaudreau, Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
[FR Doc. 2011–29487 Filed 11–14–11; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR** 

**Fish and Wildlife Service**

**[FWS–R9–ES–2011–N236; FF09E50000– FXES11170900000–B3]** 

**Proposed Information Collection; Policy for Evaluation of Conservation**  **Efforts When Making Listing Decisions (PECE)** 

**AGENCY :**  Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

**ACTION :**  Notice; request for comments.

**SUMMARY :**  We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) will ask the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection (IC) described below. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and as part of our continuing efforts to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, we invite the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on this IC. This IC is scheduled to expire on May 31, 2012. We 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.

**DATES :**  To ensure that we are able to consider your comments on this IC, we must receive them by January 17, 2012.

**ADDRESSES :**  Send your comments on the IC to the Service Information Collection Clearance Officer, Fish and Wildlife Service, MS 2042–PDM, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203 (mail); or INFOCOL@fws.gov (email). Please include ‘‘1018–0119’’ in the subject line of your comments.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  To request additional information about this IC, contact Hope Grey at INFOCOL@fws.gov (email) or (703) 358– 2482 (telephone).

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :** 
I. Abstract

Section 4 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq. ) specifies the process by which we can list species as threatened or endangered. When we consider whether or not to list a species, the ESA requires us to take into account the efforts being made by any State or any political subdivision of a State to protect such species. We also take into account the efforts being made by other entities. States or other entities often formalize conservation efforts in conservation agreements, conservation plans, management plans, or similar documents. The conservation efforts recommended or called for in such documents could prevent some species