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p.m. weekdays in the Office of the Rules 

Docket Clerk, Office of General Counsel, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., 

Room 10276, Washington, DC 20410–

0500. Due to security measures at the 

HUD Headquarters building, please 

schedule an appointment to review the 

finding by calling the Regulations 

Division at 202–402–3055 (this is not a 

toll-free number). 

Dated: July 28, 2008. 

Roy A. Bernardi, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–18281 Filed 8–7–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council; 

Notice of Meeting 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, 

Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Interior, Office of the Secretary is 

announcing a public meeting of the 

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Public Advisory 

Committee. 

DATES: September 3, 2008, at 9 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 

Trustee Council Office, 441 West 5th 

Avenue, Suite 500, Anchorage, Alaska. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Douglas Mutter, Department of the 

Interior, Office of Environmental Policy 

and Compliance, 1689 ‘‘C’’ Street, Suite 

119, Anchorage, Alaska, 99501, (907) 

271–5011. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Public Advisory Committee was created 

by Paragraph V.A.4 of the Memorandum 

of Agreement and Consent Decree 

entered into by the United States of 

America and the State of Alaska on 

August 27, 1991, and approved by the 

United States District Court for the 

District of Alaska in settlement of 

United States of America v. State of 

Alaska, Civil Action No. A91–081 CV. 

The meeting agenda will include review 

of the draft fiscal year 2009 program 

development and implementation 

budget, and invitation; 2008 update to 

the Injured Resources and Services List; 

Integrated Herring Restoration Program; 

fiscal year 2008 projects requesting 

extensions; and personnel changes. 

Willie R. Taylor, 

Director, Office of Environmental Policy and 

Compliance. 

[FR Doc. E8–18341 Filed 8–7–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS-R7-R-2008-NO182] [70138-1263-0000- 

4A] 

Information Collection Sent to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for Approval; Alaska Guide 

Service Evaluation 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: We (Fish and Wildlife 

Service) have sent an Information 

Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for 

review and approval. The ICR, which is 

summarized below, describes the nature 

of the collection and the estimated 

burden and cost. 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: You must submit comments on 

or before September 8, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments and 

suggestions on this ICR to the Desk 

Officer for the Department of the 

Interior at OMB-OIRA at (202) 395-6566 

(fax) or OIRA_DOCKET@OMB.eop.gov 

(e-mail). Please provide a copy of your 

comments to Hope Grey, Information 

Collection Clearance Officer, Fish and 

Wildlife Service, MS 222-ARLSQ, 4401 

North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 

22203 (mail); (703) 358-2269 (fax); or 

hope_grey@fws.gov (e-mail). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Hope Grey by mail, fax, 

or e-mail (see ADDRESSES) or by 

telephone at (703) 358–2482. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: None. This is 

a new collection. 

Title: Alaska Guide Service 

Evaluation. 

Service Form Number(s): 3-2349. 

Type of Request: New collection. 

Affected Public: Clients of permitted 

commercial guide service providers. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Frequency of Collection: One time 

following use of commercial guide 

services. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 396. 

Estimated Total Annual Responses: 

396. 

Estimated Time Per Response: 15 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 99. 

Abstract: We are proposing to collect 

information to help us evaluate 

commercial guide services on our 

national wildlife refuges in the State of 

Alaska (State). The National Wildlife 

Refuge Administration Act of 1966, as 

amended (16 U.S.C. 668dd-ee), 

authorizes us to permit uses, including 

commercial visitor services, on national 

wildlife refuges when we find the 

activity to be compatible with the 

purposes for which the refuge was 

established. With the objective of 

making available a variety of quality 

visitor services for wildlife-dependent 

recreation on National Wildlife Refuge 

System lands, we issue permits for 

commercial guide services, including 

big game hunting, sport fishing, wildlife 

viewing, river trips, and other guided 

activities. We plan to use FWS Form 3- 

2349 (Alaska Guide Service Evaluation) 

as a method to: 

(1) Monitor the quality of services 

provided by commercial guides. 

(2) Gauge client satisfaction with the 

services. 

(3) Assess the impacts of the activity 

on refuge resources. 

The client is the best source of 

information on the quality of 

commercial guiding services. We plan to 

collect: 

(1) Client name. 

(2) Guide name(s). 

(3) Type of guided activity. 

(4) Dates and location of guided 

activity. 

(5) Information on the services 

received such as the client’s 

expectations, safety, environmental 

impacts, and client’s overall 

satisfaction. 

We will encourage respondents to 

provide any additional comments that 

they wish regarding the guide service or 

refuge experience, and ask whether or 

not they wish to be contacted for 

additional information. 

The above information, in 

combination with State-required guide 

activity reports and contacts with guides 

and clients in the field, will provide a 

comprehensive method for monitoring 

permitted commercial guide activities. 

A regular program of client evaluation 

will help refuge managers detect 

potential problems with guide services 

so that we can take corrective actions 

promptly. In addition, we will use this 

information during the competitive 

selection process for big game and sport 

fishing guides to evaluate an applicant’s 


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ability to provide a quality guiding 

service. 

We will provide the evaluation form 

to clients by one of several methods: 

(1) The refuge may mail the form to 

the clients. 

(2) On websites of refuges where 

guide services are permitted. 

(3) Upon request. 

Comments: On January 22, 2008, we 

published in the Federal Register (73 FR 

3752) a notice of our intent to request 

that OMB approve this information 

collection. In that notice, we solicited 

comments for 60 days, ending on March 

24, 2008. We received one comment, 

which did not address issues 

surrounding the proposed collection of 

information. The commenter objected to 

the issuing of permits for guided 

hunting services on national wildlife 

refuges. We did not make any changes 

to our information collection 

requirements as a result of this 

comment. 

We again invite comments concerning 

this information collection on: 

(1) whether or not the collection of 

information is necessary, including 

whether or not the information will 

have practical utility; 

(2) the accuracy of our estimate of the 

burden for this collection of 

information; 

(3) ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(4) ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on 

respondents. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. Before including your 

address, phone number, e-mail 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 OMB in your comment to 

withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that it will be done. 

Dated: June 23, 2008 

Hope Grey, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, 

Fish and Wildlife Service. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–55–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS-R9-R-2008-NO181] [93261-1261-0000- 

5A] 

Information Collection Sent to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for Approval; Hunting and 

Fishing Application Forms and Activity 

Reports for National Wildlife Refuges 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: We (Fish and Wildlife 

Service) have sent an Information 

Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for 

review and approval. The ICR, which is 

summarized below, describes the nature 

of the collection and the estimated 

burden and cost. 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: You must send comments on or 

before September 8, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments and 

suggestions on this ICR to the Desk 

Officer for the Department of the 

Interior at OMB-OIRA at (202) 395-6566 

(fax) or OIRA_DOCKET@OMB.eop.gov 

(e-mail). Please provide a copy of your 

comments to Hope Grey, Information 

Collection Clearance Officer, Fish and 

Wildlife Service, MS 222-ARLSQ, 4401 

North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 

22203 (mail) or hope_grey@fws.gov (email). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Hope Grey by mail or 

e-mail (see ADDRESSES) or by 

telephone at (703) 358–2482. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: None. This is 

a new collection. 

Title: Hunting and Fishing 

Application Forms and Activity Reports 

for National Wildlife Refuges, 50 CFR 

25.41, 25.43, 25.51, 26.32, 26.33, 27.42, 

30.11, 31.15, 32.1 to 32.72. 

Service Form Number(s): FWS Forms 

3-2354, 3-2355, 3-2356, 3-2357,3-2358, 

3-2359, 3-2360, 3-2361, 3-2362. 

Type of Request: New collection. 

Affected Public: Individuals and 

households. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

For applications, usually once per year 

at beginning of hunting season. For 

activity reports, once at conclusion of 

hunting/fishing experience. 

Nonhour Cost Burden: We estimate 

the annual nonhour cost burden to be 

$60,000 for hunting application fees at 

some refuges. 

Activity Number of annual 

respondents 

Number of annual 

responses 

Completion time 

per response 

Annual burden 

hours 

FWS Form 3-2354 (Quota Deer Hunt Application) ................. 175,000 175,000 30 minutes ....... 87,500 

FWS Form 3-2355 (Waterfowl Lottery Application) ................ 90,000 90,000 30 minutes ....... 45,000 

FWS Form 3-2356 (Big Game Hunt Application) .................... 2,500 2,500 30 minutes ....... 1,250 

FWS Form 3-2357 (Migratory Bird Hunt Application) ............. 5,000 5,000 30 minutes ....... 2,500 

FWS Form 3-2358 (Fishing/Shrimping/Crabbing Application) 2,500 2,500 30 minutes ....... 1,250 

FWS Form 3-2359 (Big Game Harvest Report) ...................... 85,000 85,000 15 minutes ....... 21,250 

FWS Form 3-2360 (Fishing Report) ........................................ 400,000 400,000 15 minutes ....... 100,000 

FWS Form 3-2361 (Migratory Bird Hunt Report ..................... 30,000 30,000 15 minutes ....... 7,500 

FWS Form 3-2362 (Upland/Small Game/Furbearer Report) .. 25,000 25,000 15 minutes ....... 6,250 

Totals ................................................................................ 815,000 815,000 ..................... 272,500 

Abstract: The National Wildlife 

Refuge System Administration Act of 

1966 (16 U.S.C. 668dd-668ee), as 

amended (Administration Act), and the 

Refuge Recreation Act of 1962 (16 

U.S.C. 460k-460k-4) (Recreation Act) 

govern the administration and uses of 

national wildlife refuges and wetland 

management districts. The 

Administration Act consolidated all the 

different refuge areas into a single 

Refuge System. It also authorizes us to 

permit public uses, including hunting 

and fishing, on lands of the Refuge 

System when we find that the activity 

is compatible and appropriate with the 

purpose for which the refuge was 

established. The Recreation Act allows 

the use of refuges for public recreation 

when the use is not inconsistent or does 


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