Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 187 / Thursday, September 25, 2008 / Notices 55523 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS-R9-MB-2008-N0255] [91100-3740- 

GRNT 7C] 

Information Collection Sent to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for Approval; OMB Control 

Number 1018-0100; North American 

Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) 

Grant Programs 

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. This ICR is scheduled 

to expire on September 30, 2008. 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. However, under OMB 

regulations, we may continue to 

conduct or sponsor this information 

collection while it is pending at OMB. 

DATES: You must submit comments on 

or before October 27, 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: 1018-0100. 

Title: North American Wetlands 

Conservation Act (NAWCA) Grant 

Programs. 

Service Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Extension of 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Households and 

individuals; businesses and other forprofit organizations; educational 

organizations; not-for-profit institutions; 

and Federal, State, local and/or tribal 

governments. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

The Small Grants Program has one 

project proposal period per year and the 

Standard Grants Program has two per 

year. Annual reports are due 90 days 

after the anniversary date of the grant 

agreement. Final reports are due 90 days 

after the end of the project period. The 

project period is 2 years. 

Activity Number of annual 

respondents 

Number of annual 

responses 

Completion time 

per response 

Annual burden 

hours 

Small Grants – Applications .................................................... 70 70 59 hours .......... 4,130 

Small Grants – Reports ........................................................... 88 88 32 hours .......... 2,816 

U.S. Standard Grants – Applications ...................................... 60 60 325 hours ........ 19,500 

Canadian and Mexican Standard Grants – Applications ........ 54 54 80 hours .......... 4,320 

Standard Grants – Reports ..................................................... 201 201 35 hours .......... 7,035 

Totals ................................................................................ 473 473 ..................... 37,801 

Abstract: The North American 

Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP) 

is a tripartite agreement among Canada, 

Mexico, and the United States to 

enhance, restore, and protect habitat to 

benefit waterfowl and other wetlandsassociated wildlife. Because the 

NAWMP did not include a mechanism 

to provide for broadly based and 

sustained financial support for wetland 

conservation activities, Congress passed 

the North American Wetlands 

Conservation Act in 1989. The NAWCA 

promotes, through partnerships between 

the private and public sectors, long-term 

conservation of North American 

wetland ecosystems and the waterfowl 

and other migratory birds, fish, and 

wildlife that depend upon such habitat. 

In addition to providing for a 

continuing and stable funding base, 

NAWCA establishes an administrative 

body, the North American Wetlands 

Conservation Council. It is made up of 

a State representative from each of the 

four flyways, three representatives from 

nonprofit wetlands conservation 

organizations, the Secretary of the Board 

of the National Fish and Wildlife 

Foundation, and the Director of the Fish 

and Wildlife Service. The Council 

recommends funding of select wetlands 

conservation project proposals to the 

Migratory Bird Conservation 

Commission. 

There is a Standard and a Small 

Grants Program. Both are competitive 

grants programs and require that grant 

requests be matched by partner 

contributions at no less than a 1-to-1 

ratio. Funds from U.S. Federal sources 

may contribute to a project, but are not 

eligible as match. 

The Standard Grants Program 

supports projects in Canada, the United 

States, and Mexico that involve longterm protection, restoration, and/or 

enhancement of wetlands and 

associated uplands habitats. In Mexico, 

partners may also conduct projects 

involving technical training, 

environmental education and outreach, 

organizational infrastructure 

development, and sustainable-use 

studies. 

The Small Grants Program operates 

only in the United States. It supports the 

same type of projects and adheres to the 

same selection criteria and 

administrative guidelines as the U.S. 

Standard Grants Program. However, 

project activities are usually smaller in 

scope and involve fewer project dollars. 

Grant requests may not exceed $75,000, 

and funding priority is given to grantees 

or partners new to the NAWCA Grants 

Program. 

We publish notices of funding 

availability on the Grants.gov website 

(http://www.grants.gov) as well as in 

the Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance. To compete for grant funds, 

partnerships submit applications that 

describe in substantial detail project 

locations, project resources, future 

benefits, and other characteristics that 

meet the standards established by the 

Council and the requirements of 

NAWCA. Materials that describe the 

program and assist applicants in 

formulating project proposals for 

Council consideration are available on 

our website at http://www.fws.gov/ 

birdhabitat/Grants/NAWCA. Persons 

who do not have access to the Internet 

may obtain instructional materials by 

mail. We have not made any major 

changes in the scope and general nature 

of the instructions since the OMB first 

approved the information collection in 

1999. 

Comments: On June 24, 2008, we 

published in the Federal Register (73 FR 

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55524 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 187 / Thursday, September 25, 2008 / Notices 

35703) a notice of our intent to request 

that OMB renew this ICR. In that notice, 

we solicited comments for 60 days, 

ending on August 25, 2008. We received 

one comment. The comment expressed 

opposition to the NAWCA grants 

program, but did not address the 

information collection requirements. 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: September 4, 2008 

Hope Grey, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, 

Fish and Wildlife Service. 

FR Doc. E8–22470 Filed 9–23–08; 8:45 am 

BILLING CODE 4310-55-S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[F–19154–13, F–19154–14, F–19154–45, 

F–19154–56, F–19154–61, F–19154–73, 

F–19154–84; AK–964–1410–KC–P] 

Alaska Native Claims Selection 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of decision approving 

lands for conveyance. 

SUMMARY: As required by 43 CFR 

2650.7(d), notice is hereby given that an 

appealable decision approving the 

surface and subsurface estates in certain 

lands for conveyance pursuant to the 

Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act 

will be issued to NANA Regional 

Corporation, Inc. The lands are near 

Kiana, Noorvik, and Selawik, Alaska, 

and are located in: 

Kateel River Meridian, Alaska 

T. 13 N., R. 5 W., Secs. 1 to 36, inclusive. 

Containing approximately 9,042 acres. 

T. 12 N., R. 6 W., 

Secs. 5, 6, 7, and 8; 

Sec. 13; Secs. 17 to 21, inclusive; Secs. 24 

to 36, inclusive. 

Containing approximately 7,922 acres. 

T. 13 N., R. 7 W., 

Secs. 1 to 17, inclusive; 

Secs. 20 to 25, inclusive; 

Secs. 27, 28, and 29; 

Secs. 33 to 36, inclusive. 

Containing approximately 9,023 acres. 

T. 14 N., R. 8 W., 

Secs. 1 to 18, inclusive; 

Secs. 24, 25, and 36. 

Containing approximately 7,336 acres. 

T. 16 N., R. 8 W., 

Secs. 2 to 10, inclusive; 

Sec. 13; 

Secs. 15 to 20, inclusive; 

Secs. 24 to 27, inclusive; 

Secs. 30 and 31; 

Secs. 33 to 36, inclusive. 

Containing approximately 16,240 acres. 

T. 17 N., R. 9 W., 

Secs. 1 to 36, inclusive. 

Containing approximately 19,870 acres. 

T. 20 N., R. 10 W., 

Secs. 1 to 36, inclusive. 

Containing approximately 20,613 acres. 

Aggregating approximately 90,046 acres. 

Notice of the decision will also be 

published four times in the Arctic 

Sounder. 

DATES: The time limits for filing an 

appeal are: 

1. Any party claiming a property 

interest which is adversely affected by 

the decision shall have until October 27, 

2008 to file an appeal. 

2. Parties receiving service of the 

decision by certified mail shall have 30 

days from the date of receipt to file an 

appeal. 

Parties who do not file an appeal in 

accordance with the requirements of 43 

CFR Part 4, Subpart E, shall be deemed 

to have waived their rights. 

ADDRESSES: A copy of the decision may 

be obtained from: Bureau of Land 

Management, Alaska State Office, 222 

West Seventh Avenue, #13, Anchorage, 

Alaska 99513–7504. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Bureau of Land Management by phone 

at 907–271–5960, or by e-mail at 

ak.blm.conveyance@ak.blm.gov. Persons 

who use a telecommunication device 

(TTD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877– 

8330, 24 hours a day, seven days a 

week, to contact the Bureau of Land 

Management. 

Hillary Woods, 

Land Law Examiner, Land Transfer 

Adjudication I. 

[FR Doc. E8–22545 Filed 9–24–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–JA–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[WY–100–08–1310–NB] 

Call for Nominations To Fill Two 

Vacancies on the Pinedale Anticline 

Working Group (PAWG) 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Call for nominations for 

membership on the Pinedale Anticline 

Working Group (PAWG). 

DATES: All nominations should be 

postmarked no later than 30 days from 

date of publication of this notice in the 

Federal Register. Final appointments 

will be made by the Secretary of the 

Interior. 

ADDRESSES: Nominations should be sent 

to Mr. David Crowley, Pinedale 

Anticline Working Group Coordinator, 

Bureau of Land Management, Pinedale 

Field Office, 1625 West Pine Street, P.O. 

Box 768, Pinedale, Wyoming 82941, or 

via e-mail to dave_crowley@blm.gov. 

SUMMARY: On June 25, 2008, the 

Secretary of the Interior renewed the 

Charter for the PAWG and Task Groups. 

There are currently two vacancies on 

the PAWG for which nominations are 

being solicited: A representative of (1) 

Sublette County Government, and (2) 

the oil and gas operators. Section 309 of 

FLPMA directs the Secretary to select 10 

to 15 member citizen-based advisory 

councils that are consistent with the 

requirements of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA). Individuals or 

groups who wish to submit a 

nomination or are interested in 

becoming a member of the PAWG 

should submit the specified information 

within 30 days of this Notice. 

Nomination forms may be found at 

http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/ 

field_offices/Pinedale/pawg.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

David Crowley, Pinedale Anticline 

Working Group Coordinator, Bureau of 

Land Management, Pinedale Field 

Office, 1625 West Pine Street, P.O. Box 

768, Pinedale, Wyoming 82941, 

telephone (307) 367–5323. 

dave_crowley@blm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Pinedale Anticline Working Group 

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