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understand how governments manage 

their extractive sectors. The U.S. Open 

Government National Action Plan 

commits the U.S. to publish the first 

United States EITI report in 2015 and to 

achieve EITI compliance in 2016. An 

Independent Administrator produces 

the annual reports, which include 

parallel public disclosures by both the 

government and companies, of the 

payments that companies have made to 

the government on their oil, gas, and 

mining development. In order to 

produce the USEITI annual reports, the 

Independent Administrator will collect 

revenue information from extractive 

companies who meet payment 

thresholds. The requested information 

will include the amounts of royalties, 

rentals, and other payments related to 

mineral development that companies 

have made to the Federal Government. 

The Independent Administrator will not 

collect items of a sensitive nature such 

as proprietary data, Personally 

Identifiable Information, etc. EITI is a 

voluntary initiative, and companies are 

not required to provide the requested 

information. 

OMB Approval 

We will request OMB approval to 

collect this information. If the Secretary 

does not collect this information, the 

United States will not become an EITI 

Compliant Country, limiting the 

Secretary’s ability to provide more 

transparency in how the country’s 

natural resources are governed, 

including better transparency on our 

country’s revenue collection process. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Estimated Number and Description of 

Respondents: 76 extractive companies 

who meet annual revenue payment 

thresholds. 

Estimated Annual Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Hour’’ Burden for the 

76 extractive companies who meet 

annual revenue payment thresholds: 

5,776 hours. 

Estimated Annual Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-hour’’ Cost 

Burden: We have not identified a ‘‘nonhour’’ cost burden associated with the 

collection of information. 

We have not included in our 

estimates certain requirements 

performed in the normal course of 

business, considered as usual and 

customary. 

Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA 

(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) provides that 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. 

Comments: Before submitting an ICR 

to OMB, PRA Section 3506(c)(2)(A) 

requires each agency to ‘‘* * * provide 

60-day notice in the Federal Register 

* * * and otherwise consult with 

members of the public and affected 

agencies concerning each proposed 

collection of information * * *.’’ 

Agencies must specifically solicit 

comments to: (a) Evaluate whether the 

proposed collection of information is 

necessary for the agency to perform its 

duties, including whether the 

information is useful; (b) evaluate the 

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information; (c) enhance the quality, 

usefulness, and clarity of the 

information collected; and (d) minimize 

the burden on the respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

The PRA also requires agencies to 

estimate the total annual reporting 

‘‘non-hour cost’’ burden to respondents 

or recordkeepers resulting from the 

collection of information. If you have 

costs to generate, maintain, and disclose 

this information, you should comment 

and provide your total capital and 

startup cost components or annual 

operation, maintenance, and purchase 

of service components. You should 

describe the methods that you use to 

estimate (1) major cost factors, including 

system and technology acquisition, (2) 

expected useful life of capital 

equipment, (3) discount rate(s), and (4) 

the period over which you incur costs. 

Capital and startup costs include, 

among other items, computers and 

software that you purchase to prepare 

for collecting information and 

monitoring, sampling, and testing 

equipment, and record storage facilities. 

Generally, your estimates should not 

include equipment or services 

purchased: (i) Before October 1, 1995; 

(ii) to comply with requirements not 

associated with the information 

collection; (iii) for reasons other than to 

provide information or keep records for 

the Federal Government; or (iv) as part 

of customary and usual business, or 

private practices. 

We will summarize written responses 

to this notice and address them in our 

ICR submission for OMB approval, 

including appropriate adjustments to 

the estimated burden. We will provide 

a copy of the ICR to you, without 

charge, upon request. We also will post 

the ICR at http://www.onrr.gov/Laws_R_

D/FRNotices/FRInfColl.htm. 

Public Comment Policy: ONRR will 

post all comments, including names and 

addresses of respondents at http://

www.regulations.gov. Before including 

Personally Identifiable Information (PII), 

such as your address, phone number, 

email address, or other personal 

information in your comment(s), you 

should be aware that your entire 

comment (including PII) may be made 

available to the public at any time. 

While you may ask us, in your 

comment, to withhold PII from public 

view, we cannot guarantee that we will 

be able to do so. 

Dated: December 11, 2014. 

Kristen Sarri, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Policy, 

Management and Budget. 

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BILLING CODE 4335–30–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R2–ES–2014–N217; 

FXES11130200000–156–FF02ENEH00] 

Draft Environmental Assessment and 

Draft Habitat Conservation Plan; 

Anderson Tract; Proposed 

Development of 60.7 Acres in Bexar 

County, Texas 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: Under the Endangered 

Species Act of 1973, as amended, we, 

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

invite the public to comment on an 

incidental take permit application for 

take of the federally listed goldencheeked warbler, including a draft 

Habitat Conservation Plan and draft 

Environmental Assessment; the take 

would result from clearing and 

construction of a residential 

development on the 60.7-acre Anderson 

Tract in Bexar County, Texas. 

DATES: Comments: We will accept 

comments received or postmarked on or 

before February 17, 2015. Any 

comments that we receive after the 

closing date may not be considered in 

the final decisions on these actions. 

ADDRESSES: You may obtain copies of 

all documents and submit comments on 

the applicant’s incidental take permit 

application by one of the following 

methods. Please refer to the permit 

number (TE–29216B) when requesting 

documents or submitting comments. 

• U.S. Mail: U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, Division of Endangered 

Species—HCP Permits, P.O. Box 1306, 

Room 6034, Albuquerque, NM 87103. 

• Electronically: fw2_hcp_permits@

fws.gov. 

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• In-Person: Copies of the draft EA 

and draft HCP are also available for 

public inspection and review at the 

following locations, by appointment and 

written request only, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.: 

Æ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 500 

Gold Avenue SW., Room 6034, 

Albuquerque, NM 87102. 

Æ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

10711 Burnet Road, Suite 200, Austin, 

TX 78758. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Adam Zerrenner, Field Supervisor, by 

U.S. mail at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, 10711 Burnet Road, Suite 200, 

Austin, TX 78758; or via telephone at 

(512) 490–0057. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the requirements of the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), 

we advise the public that: 

We have gathered the information 

necessary to determine impacts and 

formulate alternatives for the draft 

Environmental Assessment (dEA) 

related to potential issuance of an 

incidental take permit (ITP) to the 

Applicant. The Applicant has 

developed a draft Habitat Conservation 

Plan (dHCP) as part of the application 

for an ITP, which describes the 

measures the Applicant has agreed to 

take to minimize and mitigate the effects 

of incidental take of the golden-cheeked 

warbler (Setophaga [=Dendroica] 

chrysoparia; GCWA) to the maximum 

extent practicable pursuant to section 

10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered Species 

Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 

et seq.; Act). 

Anaqua Springs Ranch, Inc. 

(Applicant), has applied to the U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service (Service) for an ITP 

(TE–29216B) under section 10(a)(1)(B) 

of the Act. The proposed take would 

occur on the 60.7-acre Anderson Tract 

(Permit Area) in Bexar County, Texas, as 

a result of activities associated with the 

Applicant’s proposed clearing and 

construction of a residential 

development (Covered Activities). Such 

actions will require clearing of GCWA 

habitat. 

The dEA considers the direct, 

indirect, and cumulative effects of 

implementation of the dHCP, including 

the measures that will be implemented 

to minimize and mitigate, to the 

maximum extent practicable, the 

impacts of the incidental take of the 

covered species. 

Background 

In May 2013, the Applicant submitted 

an ITP application, dHCP, and dEA for 

proposed incidental take on 60.7 acres 

in Bexar County, Texas. The Service 

reviewed and edited the dEA and 

provided comments on the dHCP. 

Proposed Action 

The proposed action involves the 

issuance of an ITP by the Service for the 

Covered Activities in the Permit Area, 

pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(B) of the 

Act. The ITP would cover ‘‘take’’ of the 

Covered Species associated with the 

clearing and construction of a 

residential development within the 

Permit Area. 

To meet the requirements of a section 

10(a)(1)(B) ITP, the Applicant has 

developed and proposes to implement 

its dHCP, which describes the 

conservation measures the Applicant 

has agreed to undertake to minimize 

and mitigate for the impacts of the 

proposed incidental take of the Covered 

Species to the maximum extent 

practicable, and ensures that incidental 

take will not appreciably reduce the 

likelihood of the survival and recovery 

of these species in the wild. 

The Applicant proposes to mitigate 

with the purchase of 60.7 acres of high 

quality habitat, likely from a Serviceapproved conservation bank with the 

Anderson Tract in its service area. 

Alternatives 

Two alternatives to the proposed 

action we are considering as part of this 

process are: 

1. No Action: No ITP would be issued. 

Under a No Action alternative, the 

applicant would not request, and the 

Service would not issue, an ITP for 

development of the Anderson Tract, and 

therefore the Applicant would not 

implement the conservation measures 

described in the dHCP. 

2. Lower Mitigation: The Lower 

Mitigation alternative is similar to the 

Proposed Action in that the Service 

would issue an ITP for the proposed 

project. However, the HCP under this 

alternative would be modified to 

include the purchase of a lesser number 

of conservation credits for the GCWA. 

All other aspects of the proposed project 

and the HCP would remain the same. 

Public Availability of Comments 

Written comments we receive become 

part of the public record associated with 

this action. 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 request in your comment that 

we withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. We will not consider anonymous 

comments. All submissions from 

organizations or businesses, and from 

individuals identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, will be 

made available for public disclosure in 

their entirety. 

Authority 

We provide this notice under section 

10(c) of the Act and its implementing 

regulations (50 CFR 17.22 and 17.32) 

and NEPA and its implementing 

regulations (40 CFR 1506.6). 

Joy E. Nicholopoulos, 

Acting Regional Director, Southwest Region, 

Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Geological Survey 

[GX15EG50DW73200] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Request for Comments on 

The National Map Corps 

AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of a new information 

collection, The National Map Corps. 

SUMMARY: We (the U.S. Geological 

Survey) are notifying the public that we 

have submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) the 

information collection request (ICR) 

described below. To comply with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) 

and as part of our continuing efforts to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden, we invite the general public and 

other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on this ICR. 

DATES: To ensure that your comments 

on this ICR are considered, we must 

receive them on or before January 20, 

2015. 

ADDRESSES: Please submit written 

comments on this information 

collection directly to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), Office 

of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Desk Officer for the 

Department of the Interior, via email: 

(OIRA_SUBMISSION@omb.eop.gov); or 

by fax (202) 395–5806; and identify your 

submission with ‘OMB Control Number 

1028—NEW The National Map Corps’. 

Please also forward a copy of your 

comments and suggestions on this 

information collection to the 

Information Collection Clearance 

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