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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R2–EA–2021–N172; 

FX.GO166009NAT21/212/FF02XNAL00; OMB 

Control Number 1018–New] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service External Affairs Tribal 

Contacts Database 

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 a new 

information collection in use without 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) approval. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before October 

12, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the 

information collection request (ICR) by 

mail 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 

OMB Control Number ‘‘1018–Tribal 

Contacts’’ 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 who are hearing 

or speech impaired may call the Federal 

Relay Service at 1–800–877–8339 for 

TTY assistance. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et 

seq.) and its implementing regulations 

at 5 CFR 1320, all information 

collections require approval under the 

PRA. We may not conduct or sponsor 

and you are not required to respond to 

a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

As part of our continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burdens, we invite the public and other 

Federal agencies 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. 

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. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this ICR. 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: In support of Executive 

Order 13175, ‘‘Consultation and 

Coordination With Indian Tribal 

Governments’’ (November 6, 2000), 

Presidential Memorandum ‘‘Tribal 

Consultation and Strengthening Nationto-Nation Relationships’’ (January 26, 

2021), and Secretarial Order 3335, 

‘‘Reaffirmation of the Federal Trust 

Responsibility to Federally Recognized 

Indian Tribes and Individual Indian 

Beneficiaries’’ (August 20, 2014), the 

Service strives to strengthen its 

government-to-government relationship 

with Indian Tribes through a 

commitment to consultation with and 

recognition of their right to selfgovernance and Tribal sovereignty. 

Coordination with and on the behalf of 

Tribes is some of the most important 

work the Service does. Within that 

work, the Service bears the large 

responsibility to ensure that it is 

consistently and accurately working on 

a government-to-government basis with 

each Tribe and its delegated program 

staff. 

An ongoing challenge in this 

endeavor is ensuring that Tribal contact 

information is accurate and up to date, 

because using outdated contact 

information when coordinating with 

Tribes serves to undermine the integrity 

of the Service’s Tribal trust 

responsibility. To help maintain the 

integrity in our outreach and 

collaborative work with Tribes, the 

Service’s Southwest (SW) Region Office 

of External Affairs (EA) has identified 

the need to have a regionally based 

contacts database for Tribes that can be 

expanded both nationally and to other 

regions in the future if such need should 

arise. In addition, the Service will 

solicit information from the Tribal 

contacts regarding their Tribal priorities 

and/or interests in relation to Service 

programs and periodic updates to those 

priorities and/or interests. 

The Service plans to solicit a contract 

opportunity for the development of a 

Tribal contacts database for the SW 

Region to facilitate improved 

collaboration with Tribes. This database 

would need to be accessible by Service 

staff and will be updated in real time 

with information from Tribal contacts. 

In addition, the database will contain a 

significant geospatial component to help 

ensure that the contacts data can easily 

be integrated with various geographic 

datasets representing content that is of 

mutual interest to the Tribes and the 

Service, such as areas in which an 

endangered species may exist within 

Tribal lands. 

Types of data collected from Tribal 

contacts to be maintained within the 

database include: 

General Tribe Information: 

• Official Tribe name (or other name, 

if different from Federally recognized 

Tribe name); 

• Tribal contact information, to 

include mailing address, phone number, 

and official website; 

• Relevant cultural information; 

• Tribal interest in FWS program; 

• Tribal priorities; and 

• Additional relevant notes. 

Tribal Contact Information: 

• Tribal contact/staff name(s); 

preferred salutation, job title, and 

contact information; 

• Type of contact (Tribal leader; 

Tribal historic preservation officer; 

person in a cultural, legal, grants, fiscal 

role, etc.); 

• Tribal department; 

• Type of work (as related to Servicerelated projects); 

• Specialization (e.g., eagles, Mexican 

wolves, etc.); and 

• Additional relevant notes. 


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Species of Interest: 

• Scientific name; and

• Common name.

State/Other Government Tribal

Liaisons: 

• Agency name and department;

• Contact information, to include

mailing address, phone number, and 

email address; 

• Specialization (e.g., eagles, Mexican

wolves, etc.); 

• Type of work (as related to Servicerelated projects); and 

• Additional relevant notes.

The Service will use the database to 

effectively and efficiently uphold its 

Federal Trust responsibility to Tribes 

through ensuring the integrity of the 

contact data needed to do so. Tribal 

leader information will be collected 

from the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a 

baseline but will be updated through 

our own working knowledge of changes/ 

needed revisions. Another purpose of 

this database is to better identify Service 

actions of interest to Federally 

recognized Tribes. 

Title of Collection: U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service External Affairs Tribal 

Contacts Database. 

OMB Control Number: 1018–New. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Existing collection in 

use without an OMB control number. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State 

and Tribal government representatives. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion 

for initial submission, and during 

subsequent updates to data. 

Total Estimated Annual Nonhour 

Burden Cost: None. 

Requirement 

Average 

number of 

annual 

respondents 

Average 

number of 

responses 

each 

Average 

number of 

annual 

responses* 

Average 

completion 

time per 

response 

Estimated 

Annual burden 

hours* 

Solicitation of General Tribe/Tribal Contact Information 

Government ......................................................................... 87 1 87 5 mins ............ 7

Updates to General Tribe/Tribal Contact Information 

Government ......................................................................... 8 1 8 5 mins ............ 1

Solicitation of Tribal Priorities and/or Interests in Relation to FWS Programs 

Government ......................................................................... 87 1 87 5 mins ............ 7

Updates to Tribal Priorities and/or Interests in Relation to FWS Programs 

Government ......................................................................... 8 1 8 5 mins ............ 1

Totals: ........................................................................... 190 ........................ 190 ........................ 16 

* Rounded.

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. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17097 Filed 8–10–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4333–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Geological Survey 

[GX21GC009PLFM00; OMB Control Number 

1028–0088] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; National Cooperative 

Geologic Mapping Program (EDMAP 

and STATEMAP) 

AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, 

the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are 

proposing to renew an information 

collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before October 

12, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments on 

this information collection request (ICR) 

by mail to Mr. Michael Marketti, 

National Cooperative Geologic Mapping 

Program, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 

Sunrise Valley Drive, Mail Stop 908, 

Reston, VA 20192, or email him at 

mmarketti@usgs.gov.gov. 

Please reference Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) Control 

Number 1028–0088 in the subject line of 

your comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Michael Marketti by 

email at mmarketti@usgs.gov, or by 

telephone at 703–648–6976. You may 

also view the ICR at http://

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

Individuals who are hearing or speech 

impaired may call the Federal Relay 

Service at 1–800–877–8339 for TTY 

assistance. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We, the 

USGS, in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

provide the general public and other 

Federal agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on 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. 

We are soliciting comments on the 

proposed ICR that is described below. 

We are especially interested in public 

comment addressing the following 

issues: (1) Is the collection necessary to 

the proper functions of the USGS; (2) 

will this information be processed and 

used in a timely manner; (3) is the 

estimate of burden accurate; (4) how 

might the USGS enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (5) how might the 


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