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Dated: January 11, 2008. 

Lawrence Hale, 

Acting Director, National Communications 

System. 

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BILLING CODE 4410–10–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Arrival and Departure 

Record 

(Forms I–94 and I–94W) 

AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection, Department of Homeland 

Security. 

ACTION: 30-Day Notice and request for 

comments; Revision of an existing 

information collection: 1651–0111. 

SUMMARY: U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) of the Department of 

Homeland Security has submitted the 

following information collection request 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act: Arrival and Departure 

Record, Forms I–94 and I–94W. This is 

a revision of an existing collection of 

information. This document is 

published to obtain comments from the 

public and affected agencies. This 

proposed information collection was 

previously published in the Federal 

Register (72 FR 63622) on November 9, 

2007, allowing for a 60-day comment 

period. Seven public comments were 

received. CBP will respond to these 

comments. This notice allows for an 

additional 30 days for public comments. 

This process is conducted in accordance 

with 5 CFR 1320.10. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before March 5, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments on 

the proposed information collection to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget. Comments should be addressed 

to Nathan Lesser, Desk Officer, 

Department of Homeland Security/ 

Customs and Border Protection, and 

sent via electronic mail to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov or faxed 

to (202) 395–6974. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 

encourages the general public and 

affected Federal agencies to submit 

written comments and suggestions on 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collection requests pursuant to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 

L.104–13). Your comments should 

address one of the following four points: 

(1) Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency/component, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; 

(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agencies/components estimate of the 

burden of the proposed 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 

collections of information on those who 

are to respond, including 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. 

Title: Arrival and Departure Record. 

OMB Number: 1651–0111. 

Form Number: I–94 and I–94W. 

Abstract: These forms must be 

completed and signed by aliens arriving 

by commercial sea and air, who seek 

admission to the United States. These 

forms must be given to the CBP Officer 

at the U.S. port of entry. CBP proposes 

to revise this information collection by 

adding data fields for: e-mail address; 

phone number; passport issuance date; 

and passport expiration date to the I–94 

and I–94W. 

Current Actions: This submission is 

being submitted to revise the current 

information collection. 

Type of Review: Revision. 

Affected Public: Individuals. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

30,924,380. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 8 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 4,112,943. 

Estimated Total Annualized Cost on 

the Public: $247,385,705. 

If additional information is required 

contact: Tracey Denning, U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection, 1300 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Room 

3.2.C, Washington, DC 20229, at 202–

344–1429. 

Dated: January 24, 2008. 

Tracey Denning, 

Agency Clearance Officer, Information 

Services Branch. 

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BILLING CODE 9111–14–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R5–R–2008–N0021; 50130–1265–

0000–S3; ABC Code: S3] 

Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, 

Sussex, NJ 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability: draft 

comprehensive conservation plan and 

environmental assessment; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service), announce the 

availability for review of the Draft 

Comprehensive Conservation Plan 

(CCP) and Environmental Assessment 

(EA) for Wallkill River National Wildlife 

Refuge (NWR). The Service prepared the 

Draft CCP/EA in compliance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 and the National Wildlife Refuge 

System Administration Act of 1966, as 

amended by the National Wildlife 

Refuge System Improvement Act of 

1997. We request public comments. 

DATES: The Draft CCP/EA will be 

available for public review and 

comment until close of business on 

March 10, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: You may obtain copies of 

the Draft CCP/EA on CD–ROM or in 

print by writing to Beth Goldstein, 

Refuge Planner, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, 300 Westgate Center Drive, 

Hadley, Massachusetts 01035, or by 

electronic mail at 

northeastplanning@fws.gov. You may 

also view the draft plan on the Web at: 

http://www.fws.gov/northeast/planning/ 

Wallkill%20River/ccphome.html. We 

will host public meetings on 

Wednesday, Feb. 20 in Augusta, NJ and 

Thursday, Feb. 21 in Wantage, NJ We 

will post the details of each meeting 2 

weeks in advance, via our project 

mailing list, in local papers, and at the 

refuge. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

more information, or to get on the 

project mailing list, contact Beth 

Goldstein, Refuge Planner, at the 

address above, by telephone at 413–

253–8564, by fax at 413–253–8468, or 

by electronic mail at 

Beth_Goldstein@fws.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Wildlife Refuge System 

Administration Act of 1966, as amended 

by the National Wildlife Refuge System 

Improvement Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C. 

668dd et seq.), requires the Service to 

develop a CCP for each refuge. The 

purpose of developing a CCP is to 


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provide refuge managers with a 15-year 

strategy for achieving refuge purposes 

and contributing to the mission of the 

National Wildlife Refuge System 

(NWRS), in conformance with the sound 

principles of fish and wildlife science, 

natural resources conservation, legal 

mandates, and Service policies. In 

addition to outlining broad management 

direction on conserving wildlife and 

habitats, CCPs identify compatible 

wildlife-dependent recreational 

opportunities available to the public, 

including opportunities for hunting, 

fishing, wildlife observation and 

photography, and environmental 

interpretation and education. The 

Service will review and update each 

CCP at least once every 15 years. 

Congress established the Wallkill 

River Refuge by law on November 16, 

1990 (Section 107 of H.R. 3338; Pub. L. 

101–593) with the following purposes: 

(1) To preserve and enhance the refuge’s 

lands and waters in a manner that will 

conserve the natural diversity of fish, 

wildlife, plants, and their habitats for 

present and future generations, (2) to 

conserve and enhance populations of 

fish, wildlife, and plants within the 

refuge, including populations of black 

ducks and other waterfowl, raptors, 

passerines, and marsh and water birds, 

(3) to protect and enhance the water 

quality of aquatic habitats within the 

refuge, (4) to fulfill international treaty 

obligation of the United States with 

respect to fish and wildlife and their 

habitats, and (5) to provide 

opportunities for compatible scientific 

research, environmental education, and 

fish- and wildlife-oriented recreation 

(104 Stat. 2955). 

The refuge encompasses 

approximately 5,000 acres, stretching 

from Sussex County, New Jersey to 

Orange County, New York. It is located 

along a 9-mile stretch of the Wallkill 

River, and lies in a rolling valley within 

the Appalachian Ridge and Valley 

physiographic province. The region’s 

major wetlands are former glacial lake 

bottoms, and the lake’s organic muck 

soils support extensive bottomland 

hardwood forests, wet meadows, and 

farm fields. Since establishing the 

refuge, we have focused primarily on 

conserving, restoring, and enhancing the 

natural diversity of fish, wildlife, plants 

and their habitats along the Wallkill 

River. Management activities include 

restoring wetlands, creating moist soil 

management units, maintaining 

grasslands and providing wildlifedependent recreational opportunities. 

The Draft CCP/EA evaluates three 

alternatives that address nine major 

issues identified during the planning 

process. Several sources generated those 

issues, including the public, State or 

Federal agencies, other Service 

programs, and our planning team. The 

Draft CCP/EA describes those issues in 

detail. Highlights of the alternatives 

follow. 

Alternative A (Current Management): 

This alternative is the ‘‘No Action’’

alternative required by the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 

U.S.C. 4321–4347, as amended). 

Alternative A defines our current 

management activities, including those 

planned, funded, or under way, and 

serves as the baseline against which to 

compare the other two action 

alternatives. It would maintain our 

present levels of approved refuge 

staffing and the biological and visitor 

programs. Our biological program 

would continue to use a variety of 

habitat management tools to maintain 

the refuge’s scrub-shrub habitats, nonforested wetlands, grasslands and 

forested communities. We would 

continue efforts to protect the federallythreatened bog turtle by managing 

occupied sites on refuge-owned lands 

and attempting to acquire occupied sites 

within the current acquisition 

boundary. We would continue to offer 

hunt programs for deer, spring and fall 

turkey, woodcock, resident Canada 

geese, waterfowl and other migratory 

birds according to New Jersey State 

seasons. We would maintain current 

access sites for fishing and boating, and 

current trails for wildlife observation 

and photography. We would continue to 

offer limited environmental education 

and interpretation programs, as staffing 

and funding allows. Finally, we would 

continue to pursue the acquisition from 

willing sellers of the remaining 2,021 

acres of important wildlife habitat that 

lies within our currently approved 

acquisition boundary. 

Alternative B (the Service-preferred 

alternative): This alternative represents 

the combination of actions we believe 

most effectively achieves the purposes 

and goals of the refuge and addresses 

the major issues. It builds on the 

programs identified under current 

management. We would conduct field 

surveys of all suitable bog turtle sites on 

refuge-owned lands and we would 

develop a site management and 

monitoring plan for occupied and 

potential sites. We would hire a 

contractor to conduct surveys of Indiana 

bats (federally listed as endangered) and 

we would determine the feasibility of 

re-establishing dwarf wedgemussel 

(federally listed as endangered) 

populations on Service-owned lands. 

We would take a more proactive 

approach to restoring wetlands and 

establish a 100-meter forested riparian 

corridor along either side of the Wallkill 

River where it traverses the refuge. We 

would establish three grassland focus 

areas on the refuge and let other small 

fields revert to scrub-shrub habitat. 

We would open the refuge to bear 

hunting according to State seasons and 

provide at least one additional fishing 

access site in the current refuge 

boundary. We would increase access to 

Service-owned lands within the current 

refuge by opening at least two new trails 

and extending an existing trail. We 

would also develop new interpretive 

materials and work with partners to 

expand the refuge’s environmental 

education programs. 

Alternative B proposes to expand the 

current approved refuge boundary by 

9,550 acres through a combination of 

fee-simple and easement acquisition 

from willing sellers. The proposed 

expansion boundary includes four focus 

areas, including the 7,079-acre 

Papakating Creek Focus Area, which 

encompasses a 15-mile tributary of the 

Wallkill River. All four focus areas have 

tremendous wetland resource values, 

and together they form a key corridor 

connection between preserved habitats 

on the Kittatinny Ridge to the west and 

the Hudson Highlands to the east. 

Finally, they would fully complement 

and enhance the Federal, State and 

private conservation partnerships 

actively involved in protecting this 

unique ecosystem. 

Alternative C: This alternative 

proposes to establish and maintain the 

ecological integrity of natural 

communities on the refuge and 

surrounding landscape without specific 

emphasis or concern for any particular 

species or species groups. Under this 

alternative, refuge lands would be 

restored to their historic condition as 

they existed in the Wallkill River Valley 

during the late 1600s. At this time, the 

area was thought to consist of a forested 

matrix dominated by floodplain forest. 

A bottomland hardwood forest 

component would be established on 

more than 70 percent of the current 

refuge. Sites prone to continuous 

flooding would likely be sustained as 

emergent marsh and shrublands. 

Upland sites would likely revert to a 

mixed mid-Atlantic hardwood forest 

association. We would also restore, to 

the extent practicable, the natural 

hydrologic regimen of the Wallkill River 

and its tributaries by removing manmade impediments to natural flow, such 

as the freshwater impoundments in 

place to benefit waterfowl. 

Under Alternative C, we would allow 

hunting for deer and resident Canada 

geese only. Otherwise, public use 

within the current refuge boundary 


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would remain the same as Alternative 

A. 

Alternative C proposes a 7,609-acre 

boundary expansion that includes two 

of the four focus areas proposed in 

Alternative B. These focus areas were 

chosen because they offer the greatest 

potential for restoring the natural 

hydrologic regimen of the Wallkill River 

system. As in Alternative B, those 

expansion lands consist of high-quality, 

important wildlife habitat; occur in an 

amount and distribution that provide us 

the management flexibility to achieve 

refuge habitat goals and objectives; and 

fully complement and enhance the land 

management of adjacent conservation 

partners. 

We plan to announce the availability 

of our Draft CCP/EA in the Federal 

Register for a 30-day public review and 

comment period. After we evaluate and 

respond to public comments on the 

draft document, we will prepare a final 

CCP for review by our Regional Director. 

We will simultaneously submit the 

Land Protection Plan, outlining our 

expansion proposal, to the Director for 

his review. The Regional Director will 

evaluate the final CCP for agency 

compliance requirements, and to 

determine whether it will achieve refuge 

purposes and help fulfill the Refuge 

System mission. If he approves that 

document, and the Director concurs 

with the Land Protection Plan, the 

decision will be documented in a 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI). We can begin implementation 

of the final CCP as soon as our Regional 

Director issues the FONSI. 

Dated: September 26, 2007. 

Thomas J. Healy, 

Acting Regional Director, Northeast Region, 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Hadley, 

Massachusetts. 

Editorial Note: This document was 

received at the Office of the Federal Register 

on January 30, 2008. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of renewal of a current 

approved information collection. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces that 

the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act is soliciting comments on 

the Financial Assistance and Social 

Service program application forms in 

order to renew the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

clearance. This information collection 

request is cleared under OMB control 

number 1076–0017 and expires on July 

31, 2008. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before April 4, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments or 

suggestion should be sent directly to 

Evangeline M. Campbell, Office of 

Indian Services, Bureau of Indian 

Affairs, Department of Interior, 1849 C 

Street, NW., MS–4513–MIB, 

Washington, DC 20240. Facsimile 

number (202) 208–2648. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Evangeline M. Campbell, 202–513–

7623. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The information collected is 

necessary to be in compliance with 25 

CFR part 20 and 25 U.S.C. 13. The 

information is used to make 

determinations of eligibility for the 

BIA’s social service (financial 

assistance) programs: General 

Assistance, Child Welfare Assistance, 

Miscellaneous Assistance, and services 

only (no cash assistance). 

The information is also used to insure 

uniformity of services, and assure the 

maintenance of current and accurate 

records for clear audit facilitating data. 

All information collected is retained in 

an individual case record and used for 

case management/case planning 

purposes. The BIA does not require an 

individual to maintain a record. 

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. 

II. Request for Comments 

The Department of the Interior invites 

comments on: 

(a) Whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the BIA, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; 

(b) The accuracy of the BIA estimate 

of the burden (including hours and cost) 

of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(d) 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 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Burden means the total time, or 

financial resources expended by persons 

to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or 

provide information to or for a Federal 

agency. This includes the time needed 

to review instructions; to develop, 

acquire, install and utilize technology 

and systems for the purpose of 

collection, validating, and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information, to search 

data sources to complete and review the 

collection of information; and to 

transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. 

Please note that all comments 

received will be available for public 

review two weeks after publication in 

the Federal Register. Before including 

your address, phone number, e-mail 

address, or other personal identifying 

information in your comment, be 

advised 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 from 

public review your personal identifying 

information, we cannot guarantee that 

we will be able to do so. 

It is our policy to make all comments 

available to the public for review at the 

location listed in the ADDRESSES section, 

during the hours of 7 a.m.–4 p.m., EST 

Monday through Friday except for legal 

holidays. All comments from 

organizations or representatives will be 

available for review. We may withhold 

comments from review for other 

reasons. 

III. Data 

Title of the collection of information: 

Bureau of Indian Affairs, Financial 

Assistance and Social Service Programs, 

25 CFR part 20. 

OMB Control Number: 1076–0017. 

Expiration Date: July 31, 2008. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. The 

information is submitted to obtain or 

retain benefits and for case 

management/case planning purposes. 

Affected Entities: Individual members 

of Indian tribes who are living on or 

near a tribal service area. 

Frequency of responses: One 

application per year. 

Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 200,000 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 50,000 hours. 


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