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Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 

Sunrise Valley Drive MS 807, Reston, 

VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648–7195 (fax); 

or gs-info_collections@usgs.gov (email). 

Please reference ‘OMB Information 

Collection 1028—NEW: The National 

Map Corps’ in all correspondence. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elizabeth McCartney at (573) 308–3696 

or emccartney@usgs.gov. You may also 

find information about this ICR at 

www.reginfo.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 

has historically sponsored volunteer 

data collection projects to enhance its 

topographic paper and digital map 

products, but these activities were 

suspended in 2006 due to budget 

concerns. Since then, new internet 

technologies have made it easy for 

citizens to georeference and share many 

different types of data via online 

mapping platforms and social 

networking sites. These data have been 

referred to as volunteered geographic 

information (VGI). As a result of these 

developments, the USGS has reinstated 

the volunteer data-collection program 

for The National Map (http://

nationalmap.gov). 

Using crowd-sourcing techniques, the 

USGS VGI project known as ‘‘The 

National Map Corps’’ encourages citizen 

volunteers to collect data about 

manmade structures in an effort to 

provide accurate and authoritative 

spatial map data for the USGS National 

Geospatial Program’s web-based The 

National Map. Citizens collect and/or 

improve structures data by adding new 

features, removing obsolete points, and 

correcting existing data using a webbased mapping platform. Points edited 

become part of the National Structures 

Database, and include schools, 

hospitals, post offices, police stations 

and other important public buildings. 

Through their participation, volunteers 

are able to make significant 

contributions to the USGS’s ability to 

provide the Nation with accurate 

mapping information. 

We estimate that some users will 

require a longer session to become 

acquainted with the interface on their 

first session. This may be as long as one 

hour to create an account and review 

the guidance document. Thereafter, 

users should be able to make edits to the 

database in about ten minutes per item 

being updated. 

II. Data 

OMB Control Number: 1028—NEW. 

Title: The National Map Corps. 

Type of Request: Approval of new 

information collection. 

Respondent Obligation: None 

(participation is voluntary). 

Frequency of Collection: Occasional. 

Description of Respondents: The 

general public. 

Estimated Total Number of Annual 

Responses: We estimate that 1,000 

people will participate in this volunteer 

initiative. If they make 75 updates to the 

Web site that would be 75,000 

responses. Counting the updates and the 

initial sign up, that would be 76,000 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: We 

estimate that it will take no more than 

60 minutes to create an account and join 

the community. Thereafter it should 

take no more than 10 minutes to edit a 

structure point on the Web page. 

Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 

13,500 hours. 

Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’ 

Burden: There are no ‘‘non-hour cost’’ 

burdens associated with this collection 

of information. 

Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA 

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

agency 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. Until the OMB approves a 

collection of information, you are not 

obliged to respond. 

Comments: On May 16, 2014 we 

published a Federal Register notice (79 

FR 28536) announcing that we would 

submit this ICR to OMB for approval 

and soliciting comments. The comment 

period closed on July 17, 2014. We 

received no comments. 

III. Request for Comments 

We again invite comments concerning 

this ICR as to: (a) Whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the agency to perform its duties, 

including whether the information is 

useful; (b) the accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information; (c) how to 

enhance the quality, usefulness, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) how to minimize the 

burden on the respondents, including 

the use of automated collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. 

Please note that comments submitted 

in response to this notice are a matter 

of public record. Before including your 

personal mailing address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personally identifiable information in 

your comment, you should be aware 

that your entire comment, including 

your personally identifiable 

information, may be made publicly 

available at any time. While you can ask 

the OMB in your comment to withhold 

your personal identifying information 

from public review, we cannot 

guarantee that it will be done. 

Kari J. Craun, 

Director, National Geospatial Technical 

Operations Center. 

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BILLING CODE 4311–AM–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLNML00000 L54400000.EU0000 

LVCLG13G5160 13XL5017AR] 

Application for Conveyance of 

Federally Owned Mineral Interests in 

Don ̃ a Ana County, NM 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of realty action. 

SUMMARY: On August 1, 2014, the City 

of Las Cruces (the City) submitted an 

application to the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) for the conveyance 

of the federally owned mineral interests 

in the 125-acre parcel of land described 

in this notice. 

DATES: Interested parties may submit 

written comments to the BLM at the 

address listed below on or before 

February 2, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Bureau of Land 

Management, Las Cruces District Office, 

1800 Marquess Street, Las Cruces, NM 

88005. Detailed information concerning 

this action is available for review at this 

address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Anthony Hom, Realty Specialist, at the 

address above, or by telephone at 575– 

525–4331, or email to ahom@blm.gov. 

Persons who use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) may call the 

Federal Information Relay Service 

(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to contact the 

above individual during business hours. 

The FIRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 

days a week, to leave a message or 

question with the above individual. You 

will receive a reply during normal 

business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM 

is processing the City’s application 

under section 209 of the Federal Land 

Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), 

43 U.S.C. 1719(b), to convey the 

federally owned mineral interests for 

125 acres of public land located in Don ̃ a 

Ana County, New Mexico, to the 

prospective surface owner, the City. In 

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a separate transaction, the City is also 

proposing to obtain a conveyance of the 

surface interest from the BLM. The City 

has been leasing 80 acres of this public 

land and using it as a landfill under the 

provisions of the Recreation and Public 

Purposes Act, as amended. The Notice 

of Realty Action for the surface-interest 

conveyance published in the Federal 

Register on November 12, 2014 (79 FR 

67186). The case file number is NMNM 

133158. 

The parcel of land referred to in this 

notice consists of 125 acres of land 

situated in Don ̃ a Ana County, and is 

described as follows: 

New Mexico Principal Meridian, New 

Mexico 

T. 23 S., R. 2 E., 

SEC. 11, W1⁄2NW1⁄4NW1⁄4NW1⁄4NE1⁄4, 

W1⁄2SW1⁄4NW1⁄4NW1⁄4NE1⁄4, N1⁄2NW1⁄4, 

N1⁄2SW1⁄4NW1⁄4, NW1⁄4SW1⁄4SW1⁄4NW1⁄4, 

N1⁄2SE1⁄4NW1⁄4. 

The area described contains 125 acres. 

Under certain conditions, Section 209(b) 

of FLPMA, 43 U.S.C. 1719(b) authorizes 

the sale and conveyance of the federally 

owned mineral interest in land to the 

surface owner when the surface interest 

is not federally owned. The objective is 

to allow consolidation of the surface 

and mineral interests when either one of 

the following conditions exist: (1) There 

are no known mineral values in the 

land; or (2) Where continued Federal 

ownership of the mineral interests 

interferes with or precludes appropriate 

non-mineral development and such 

development is a more beneficial use of 

the land than mineral development. 

The lands were segregated from 

operation of the public land laws, 

including the general mining law, 

subject to valid existing rights, when the 

BLM published the Notice of Realty 

Action pertaining to the application for 

conveyance of the land for landfill use 

under the Recreation and Public 

Purposes Act. The application is being 

processed to determine if either one of 

the two specific FLPMA section 209 

conditions exists and, if so, to otherwise 

comply with the procedural 

requirements of 43 CFR part 2720 and 

Section 209 of the FLPMA. The 

segregative effect of the previously 

published Notice of Realty Action shall 

terminate: (1) Upon issuance of a patent 

or other document of conveyance as to 

such mineral interests; (2) Upon final 

rejection of the application; or (3) Two 

years (August 1, 2016) after the date of 

filing of the application, whichever 

occurs first. 

Comments: Your comments are 

invited. Please submit all comments in 

writing to Anthony Hom at the address 

listed above. 

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. 

Authority: 43 CFR 2720.1–1(b). 

Aden L. Seidlitz, 

Associate State Director. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–FB–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

[LLOR930000.L51010000.ER0000. 

LVRWH09H0320.14XL5017AP; HAG14– 

0178] 

Notice of Availability of the Jordan 

Cove Energy and Pacific Connector 

Gas Pipeline Projects Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

the Draft Associated Land 

Management Plan Amendments 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior; Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA), as amended; the Federal 

Land Policy and Management Act of 

1976, as amended; and the National 

Forest Management Act of 1976, as 

amended (NFMA), the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest 

Service (USFS) have participated as 

Cooperating Agencies with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 

in the preparation of the Jordan Cove 

Energy and Pacific Connector Pipeline 

(PCGP) Projects Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS). The Draft EIS 

addresses the impacts of these projects, 

the associated draft Land Management 

Plan (LMP) amendments of the BLM 

and the USFS, and the application to 

the BLM for a Right-of-Way Grant 

sought by Pacific Connector Gas 

Pipeline LP for the PCGP project. With 

this agency-specific Notice of 

Availability, the BLM and the USFS are 

announcing the opening of the FERC 

comment period. 

DATES: To ensure that comments will be 

considered, the FERC must receive 

written comments on the draft Jordan 

Cove Energy and PCGP Projects Draft 

EIS within 90 days following the date 

the Environmental Protection Agency 

published its Notice of Availability 

(NOA) in the Federal Register, which 

occurred on November 17, 2014. The 

FERC will announce future meetings or 

hearings and any other public 

involvement activities at least 15 days 

in advance through public notices, 

media releases, and/or mailings. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

related to the Jordan Cove Energy and 

PCGP Projects Draft EIS by any of the 

following methods: 

Web site: www.ferc.gov under the 

Documents and Filings link. The 

eComment tool is limited to text-only 

comments on the project. The eFiling 

tool allows users to submit files in a 

variety of formats. First-time users of 

eFiling must first create an account 

using eRegister. 

Mail: Kimberley D. Bose, Secretary, 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE., Room 1A, 

Washington, DC 20426 

Your comments must reference the 

FERC Docket number(s) (Jordan Cove 

Energy Project, L.P., Docket No. CP13– 

483–000 and/or Pacific Connector Gas 

Pipeline Project, L.P., Docket No. CP13– 

492–000) to be correctly attributed to 

this specific project. 

Copies of the Jordan Cove Energy and 

PCGP Projects Draft EIS are available for 

inspection in the BLM district offices 

and the offices of the Forest Supervisors 

listed under SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Additional information about the 

projects is available from the FERC’s 

Office of External Affairs at 866–208– 

FERC (3372), or on the FERC Web site 

(www.ferc.gov). On the FERC Web site, 

go to Documents and Filings and click 

on the eLibrary link. Then click on 

‘‘General Search’’ and enter the docket 

number, excluding the last three digits 

in the field (i.e., CP13–492). For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support at FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, 

or toll free at 866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

contact 202–502–8659. The eLibrary 

link also provides access to the texts of 

formal documents issues by the FERC 

such as orders, notices, and 

rulemakings. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This NOA 

is specific to the BLM and the USFS and 

provides notice that these agencies have 

participated as cooperating agencies 

with FERC in the preparation of the 

Jordan Cove Energy and PCGP Projects 

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