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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 21, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7155-7156]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01241]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Geological Survey

[GX20EG31DW50100; OMB Control Number 1028-0129]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Hydrography 
Addressing Tool

AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, 
the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is proposing to renew an information 
collection with revisions.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
February 20, 2025.

ADDRESSES: 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 request (ICR) by selecting ``Currently under 
Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. 
Please provide a copy of your comments by mail to U.S. Geological 
Survey, Information Collections Officer, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 
159, Reston, VA 20192: or by email to [email protected]. 
Please reference OMB Control Number 1028-0129 in the subject line of 
your comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Tinker by email at 
[email protected] or by telephone at 303-202-4476. 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-of-contact in the United States. 
You may also view the ICR at http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the PRA of 1995 (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.
    A Federal Register notice with a 60-day public comment period 
soliciting comments on this collection of information was published on 
October 1, 2024, 89 FR 79945. No comments were received.
    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 the agency might 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 personally identifiable information (PII) in your 
comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--including your 
PII--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us 
in your comment to withhold your PII from public review, we cannot 
guarantee that we will be able to do so.
    Abstract: This 30-day notice is a renewal, with revisions, for the 
Hydrography Addressing Tool (HydroAdd), a website developed by the USGS 
National Geospatial Program, National Geospatial Technical Operations 
Center (NGTOC).
    HydroAdd supports users by providing a mechanism for addressing (or 
referencing) diverse external datasets to the National Hydrography 
Dataset (NHD). For example, a user can utilize HydroAdd to reference 
the geographic locations of field observations of fish presence to the 
NHD. HydroAdd provides a framework for the

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management of addressed data and enables upstream and down-stream 
analyses within the context of the stream network. Any type of 
information can be addressed to the stream network, making this tool 
highly useful for a broad range of purposes that benefit the Nation.
    HydroAdd users are members of the public, and include State, local, 
private sector, academic, or other users with a basic knowledge of GIS. 
To use HydroAdd, users must first share their geospatial data as a 
hosted web feature service from ArcGIS Online. HydroAdd displays the 
user's data as a web feature service in the browser window. Users can 
then utilize HydroAdd to address their data to the NHD. Note that 
HydroAdd does not allow users to edit the NHD. Users are strictly 
limited to editing their own data.
    The information collection request is the user registration. Users 
must register at the HydroAdd website. When registering, users are 
required to fill out a profile with a username and email contact. This 
information is stored in the application database.
    Modifications to improve the HydroAdd tool are currently in 
development. The modifications were necessary (a) to allow HydroAdd to 
use the latest hydrography product from the USGS 3D Hydrography Program 
(3DHP); (b) to implement an open-source hosting service for user data 
(GeoServer), rather than ArcGIS Online; (c) to authenticate users with 
login.gov rather than ArcGIS.com or DOI; (d) to update some of the 
underlying logic to speed GIS processing, and (e) to update the name of 
the tool to HydroAdd3d. These modifications do not affect the 
information collection.
    Title of Collection: Hydrography Addressing Tool.
    OMB Control Number: 1028-0129.
    Form Number: NA.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents/Affected Public: 100.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 100.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 100.
    Estimated Completion Time per Response: 1 minute.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 1-2/3 hour.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Frequency of Collection: One time, or as needed if respondent 
business contact information changes.
    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 PRA of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et 
seq.).

Ray Postolovski,
Deputy Associate for Operations, National Geospatial Technical 
Operations Center.
[FR Doc. 2025-01241 Filed 1-17-25; 8:45 am]
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