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rare, threatened, and endangered 

species. We agree with the commenter 

that use of existing information reduces 

the burden on respondents. The 

Guidelines encourage use of credible, 

publicly available information, 

including published studies, technical 

reports, databases, and information from 

agencies, local conservation 

organizations, and/or local experts. We 

also agree that burdens are reduced by 

siting projects in areas with least risk to 

wildlife and their habitats, and note that 

this is exactly what we hope to 

accomplish by working with developers 

to implement the Guidelines. 

Other Comments 

Several other comments were 

provided that were not pertinent to the 

questions asked in the notice. These 

comments addressed regulatory tools for 

migratory bird conservation, BGEPA 

programmatic permits for incidental 

take of eagles, suggestions for what 

types of mitigation methods should be 

acceptable as compensation for loss of 

protected species, enforcement actions 

by the Office of Law Enforcement 

against wind facilities compared with 

other energy technologies, splitting 

environmental study responsibilities 

among separate consultants, and 

stakeholder involvement in the 

development of adaptive management 

plans. One commenter also noted that 

the Service did not estimate the burden 

on the public to access the information 

collected via Freedom of Information 

Act requests, administrative appeals, 

and lawsuits. The Paperwork Reduction 

Act requires that we analyze the burden 

placed on those who submit information 

to us, not on the burden of others 

attempting to access that information. 

Request for Public Comments 

We again invite comments concerning 

this information collection on: 

• Whether or not the collection of 

information is necessary, including 

whether or not the information will 

have practical utility; 

• The accuracy of our estimate of the 

burden for this collection of 

information; 

• Ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• 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, 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 OMB in your comment to 

withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that it will be done. 

Dated: December 23, 2014. 

Tina A. Campbell, 

Chief, Division of Policy and Directives 

Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30481 Filed 12–29–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–HQ–NCTC–2014–N258; FF09X32000– 

FXGO16610900400–145] 

Information Collection Request Sent to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for Approval; Application for 

Training, National Conservation 

Training Center 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service) have sent an Information 

Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for 

review and approval. We summarize the 

ICR below and describe the nature of the 

collection and the estimated burden and 

cost. This information collection is 

scheduled to expire on December 31, 

2014. 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 January 29, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments and 

suggestions on this information 

collection to the Desk Officer for the 

Department of the Interior at OMB– 

OIRA at (202) 395–5806 (fax) or OIRA_

Submission@omb.eop.gov (email). 

Please provide a copy of your comments 

to the Service Information Collection 

Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, MS BPHC, 5275 

Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041– 

3803 (mail), or hope_grey@fws.gov 

(email). Please include ‘‘1018–0115’’ in 

the subject line of your comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Hope Grey at hope_

grey@fws.gov (email) or 703–358–2482 

(telephone). You may review the ICR 

online at http://www.reginfo.gov. Follow 

the instructions to review Department of 

the Interior collections under review by 

OMB. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Information Collection Request 

OMB Control Number: 1018–0115. 

Title: Application for Training, 

National Conservation Training Center. 

Service Form Number: 3–2193. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Description of Respondents: 

Individuals, businesses, organizations, 

and State, local, and tribal governments. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 500. 

Estimated Total Annual Responses: 

500. 

Estimated Time per Response: 10 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 84. 

Abstract: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service National Conservation Training 

Center (NCTC) in Shepherdstown, West 

Virginia, provides natural resource and 

other professional training for Service 

employees, employees of other Federal 

agencies, and other affiliations, 

including State agencies, private 

individuals, not-for-profit organizations, 

and university personnel. FWS Form 3– 

2193 (Training Application) is a quick 

and easy method for prospective 

students who are not from the 

Department of the Interior to request 

training. We encourage applicants to use 

FWS Form 3–2193 and to submit their 

requests electronically. However, we do 

not require applicants to complete both 

a training form required by their agency 

and FWS Form 3–2193. NCTC will 

accept a training request in any format 

as long as it identifies the name, 

address, and phone number of the 

applicant; sponsoring agency; class 

name; start date; and all required 

financial payment information. 

NCTC uses data from FWS Form 3– 

2193 to generate class rosters, class 

transcripts, and statistics, and as a 

budgeting tool for projecting training 

requirements. It is also used to track 

attendance, mandatory requirements, 

tuition, and invoicing for all NCTCsponsored courses both onsite and 

offsite. 

Comments Received and Our Responses 

Comments: On July 3, 2014, we 

published in the Federal Register (79 

FR 38055) a notice of our intent to 

request that OMB renew approval for 

this information collection. In that 

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notice, we solicited comments for 60 

days, ending on September 2, 2014. We 

received one comment. The comment 

was directed to the subject matter, 

validity, and necessity of the training 

and not to the information collection 

requirements. The commenter believes 

that employees should obtain training 

prior to employment and that further 

training is unnecessary. We have not 

made any changes to the collection in 

response to this comment. 

Request for Public Comments 

We again invite comments concerning 

this information collection on: 

• Whether or not the collection of 

information is necessary, including 

whether or not the information will 

have practical utility; 

• The accuracy of our estimate of the 

burden for this collection of 

information; 

• Ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• 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, 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 OMB in your comment to 

withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that it will be done. 

Dated: December 23, 2014. 

Tina A. Campbell, 

Chief, Division of Policy and Directives 

Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30480 Filed 12–29–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLNVW0300.L5110000.GN0000.

LVEMF1402860.14X MO 4500073913] 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Proposed Hycroft Mine Expansion 

Phase II, Humboldt and Pershing 

Counties, NV 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) of 1969, as amended, and the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM), Black Rock 

Field Office in Winnemucca, Nevada, 

intends to prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) to analyze the 

potential impacts of approving an 

expansion of the Hycroft Mine in 

Humboldt and Pershing Counties, 

Nevada. This notice announces the 

beginning of the scoping process to 

solicit public comments and identify 

issues to be considered in the EIS, and 

serves to initiate consultation, as 

required, under the National Historic 

Preservation Act. 

DATES: This notice initiates the public 

scoping process for the EIS. Comments 

may be submitted in writing until 

January 29, 2015. The date(s) and 

location(s) of any scoping meetings will 

be announced at least 15 days in 

advance through local media, 

newspapers and the BLM Web site at: 

http://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/

wfo.html. In order to be included in the 

Draft EIS, all comments must be 

received prior to the close of the 30-day 

scoping period or 15 days after the last 

public meeting, whichever is later. We 

will provide additional opportunities 

for public participation upon 

publication of the Draft EIS. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

related to the Hycroft Mine Phase II 

Expansion Project EIS/land use plan 

amendment by any of the following 

methods: 

• Web site: http://www.blm.gov/nv/st/ 

en/fo/wfo.html 

• Email: wfoweb@blm.gov 

• Fax: 775–623–1503 

• Mail: BLM Winnemucca District, 

Black Rock Field Office 5100 E. 

Winnemucca Blvd., Winnemucca, NV 

89445 

Documents pertinent to this proposal 

may be examined at the Black Rock 

Field Office. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ken 

Loda, Project Lead, telephone 775–623– 

1500; address BLM Winnemucca 

District, Black Rock Field Office, 5100 

E. Winnemucca Blvd., Winnemucca, NV 

89445; email wfoweb@blm.gov. Contact 

Mr. Loda to have your name added to 

our mailing list. 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 

normal 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 

applicant, Hycroft Resources and 

Development, Inc, (HRDI) has proposed 

an expansion of their operations at the 

existing Hycroft Mine, which is located 

approximately 55 miles west of 

Winnemucca, Nevada, in Humboldt and 

Pershing Counties. The mine is 

currently authorized to disturb 6,144 

acres (approximately 1,784 acres of 

private land and 4,360 acres of public 

land), and the BLM analyzed the 

impacts of that disturbance in an EIS in 

2012, and an Environmental Assessment 

for the mine plan modification in 2014. 

The expansion to HRDI’s operations 

presented would include: 

• Expanding the Plan boundary to the 

east; 

• Extending mining and processing 

activities until 2034; 

• Increasing the rate of process water 

pumping until 2034; 

• Constructing and operating the 

Northeast Tailings Storage Facility 

(TSF) and associated pipeline corridor 

and haul road; 

• Constructing and operating the 

North Heap Leach Facility (HLF) East 

expansion and associated solution 

ponds; 

• Constructing a new 65 to 80 mile 

345 kV power-line to the mine site; 

• Expanding the existing Brimstone 

pit and mine below the measured 

groundwater table, between 4,210 to 

2,860 feet above mean sea level; 

• Conducting active dewatering of the 

Brimstone pit through installation and 

operation of dewatering wells; 

• Conducting passive dewatering 

within the expanded pit footprint; 

• Expanding the South Waste Rock 

Facility (WRF); 

• Modifying the approved land use in 

the South Processing Complex area to 

allow the option of constructing the 

Southwest WRF in place of the complex 

if desired; 

• Modifying waste backfill plans with 

respect to the proposed mining plan; 

• Expanding haul and secondary 

roads around the pits, WRFs, HLFs, and 

TSF; 

• Constructing storm water diversion, 

installing culverts, and other storm 

water controls; 

• Constructing growth media 

stockpiles; and 

• Possible construction of a solar 

energy installation after closure and 

reclamation. 

Total surface disturbance related 

directly to the modified plan of 

operations would be 14,909 acres on 

public and private lands. Disturbance 

on public land will increase by 8,796 

acres, from 4,360 acres to 13,156 acres. 

Disturbance on private land would 

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