60108 Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 216 / Thursday, November 7, 2019 / Notices 

We are soliciting comments on the 

proposed information collection request 

(ICR) that is described below. We are 

especially interested in public comment 

addressing the following issues: (1) Is 

the collection necessary to the proper 

functions of the Service; (2) will this 

information be processed and used in a 

timely manner; (3) is the estimate of 

burden accurate; (4) how might the 

Service enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (5) how might the Service 

minimize the burden of this collection 

on the respondents, including through 

the use of information technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this ICR. 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. 

Abstract: This information collection 

includes requirements associated with 

specified oil and gas industry activities 

and their incidental taking of polar 

bears, Pacific walruses, and northern sea 

otters in Alaska. The Marine Mammal 

Protection Act of 1972, as amended 

(MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), 

imposed, with certain exceptions, a 

moratorium on the taking of marine 

mammals. Section 101(a)(5)(A) of the 

MMPA directs the Secretary of the 

Interior to allow, upon request by 

citizens of the United States, the taking 

of small numbers of marine mammals 

incidental to specified activities (other 

than commercial fishing) if the 

Secretary makes certain findings and 

prescribes specific regulations that, 

among other things, establish 

permissible methods of taking. 

Applicants seeking to conduct 

activities must request a Letter of 

Authorization (LOA) for the specific 

activity and submit on-site monitoring 

reports and a final report of the activity 

to the Secretary. This is a nonform 

collection. Respondents must comply 

with the regulations at 50 CFR 18.27, 

which outline the procedures and 

requirements for submitting a request. 

Specific regulations governing 

authorized incidental take of marine 

mammals activities are contained in 50 

CFR 18, subparts J (Beaufort Sea) and K 

(Cook Inlet). These regulations provide 

the applicant with a detailed 

description of information that we need 

to evaluate the proposed activity and 

determine if it is appropriate to issue 

specific regulations and, subsequently, 

LOAs. 

We use the information to verify the 

findings required to issue incidental 

take regulations, to decide if we should 

issue an LOA, and (if an LOA is issued) 

what conditions should be included in 

the LOA. In addition, we analyze the 

information to determine impacts to 

polar bears, Pacific walruses, northern 

sea otters, and the availability of those 

marine mammals for subsistence 

purposes of Alaska Natives. 

Title of Collection: Incidental Take of 

Marine Mammals During Specified 

Activities, 50 CFR 18.27 and 50 CFR 18, 

Subparts J and K. 

OMB Control Number: 1018–0070. 

Form Number: None. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: Oil and 

gas industry companies. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

Obtain or Retain a Benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

Total Estimated Annual Nonhour 

Burden Cost: None. 

Type of action 

Number of 

annual 

respondents 

Number of 

responses 

each 

Total annual 

responses 

Average 

completion 

time (hours) 

Total annual 

burden hours 

Polar Bear Den Detection Report: 

Private Sector ............................................................... 4 1 4 50 200 

Incidental Take of Marine Mammals—Final Monitoring Report: 

Private Sector ............................................................... 20 1.25 25 10 250 

Incidental Take of Marine Mammals—Onsite Monitoring 

and Observation Reports: 

Private Sector ............................................................... 20 15 300 1.5 450 

Incidental Take of Marine Mammals—Application for Regulations: 1

Private Sector ............................................................... 20 0.1 2 150 300 

Incidental Take of Marine Mammals—LOA Requests: 

Private Sector ............................................................... 20 1.25 25 24 600 

Total ....................................................................... 84 ........................ 356 ........................ 1,800 

1Occurs once every 5 years. 

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. 

The authority for this action is the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

Dated: November 4, 2019. 

Madonna L. Baucum, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service. 

[FR Doc. 2019–24298 Filed 11–6–19; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4333–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Indian Gaming Commission 

Fee Rate and Fingerprint Fees 

AGENCY: National Indian Gaming 

Commission, DOI. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given, that 

the National Indian Gaming 

Commission has adopted its annual fee 

rates of 0.00% for tier 1 and 0.062% 

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(.00062) for tier 2, which remain the 

same as current fee rates. The tier 2 

annual fee rate maintains the lowest fee 

rate of the last nine years. These rates 

shall apply to all assessable gross 

revenues from each gaming operation 

under the jurisdiction of the 

Commission. If a tribe has a certificate 

of self-regulation, the fee rate on Class 

II revenues shall be 0.031% (.00031) 

which is one-half of the annual fee rate. 

The National Indian Gaming 

Commission has also adopted its 

fingerprint processing fee of $22 per 

card effective November 1, 2019. These 

new fee represent a $4 increase from the 

current fingerprint processing fee of $18 

per card which have been in effect since 

10/1/2016. The increase for this year’s 

fingerprint fee is a result of bolstering 

information security systems and 

additional measures necessary to ensure 

compliance with Federal Bureau of 

Investigation requirements. The annual 

fee rates and fingerprint fee being 

adopted here are effective November 1, 

2019, and will remain in effect until the 

Commission adopts new rates and fee. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Yvonne Lee, National Indian Gaming 

Commission, 1849 C Street NW, Mail 

Stop #1621, Washington, DC 20240; 

telephone (202) 632–7003; fax (202) 

632–7066. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) 

established the National Indian Gaming 

Commission, which is charged with 

regulating gaming on Indian lands. 

Commission regulations (25 CFR 514) 

provide for a system of fee assessment 

and payment that is self-administered 

by gaming operations. Pursuant to those 

regulations, the Commission is required 

to adopt and communicate assessment 

rates and the gaming operations are 

required to apply those rates to their 

revenues, compute the fees to be paid, 

report the revenues, and remit the fees 

to the Commission. All gaming 

operations within the jurisdiction of the 

Commission are required to selfadminister the provisions of these 

regulations, and report and pay any fees 

that are due to the Commission. 

Pursuant to 25 CFR 514, the 

Commission must also review regularly 

the costs involved in processing 

fingerprint cards and set a fee based on 

fees charged by the Federal Bureau of 

Investigation and costs incurred by the 

Commission. Commission costs include 

Commission personnel, supplies, 

equipment costs, and postage to submit 

the results to the requesting tribe. 

Dated: November 1, 2019. 

Kathryn C. Isom-Clause, 

Vice Chair. 

Dated: November 1, 2019. 

E. Sequoyah Simermeyer, 

Associate Commissioner. 

[FR Doc. 2019–24266 Filed 11–6–19; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7565–01–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[USITC SE–19–039] 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

Agency Holding the Meeting: United 

States International Trade Commission. 

TIME AND DATE: November 14, 2019 at 

11:00 a.m. 

PLACE: Room 101, 500 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20436, Telephone: 

(202) 205–2000. 

STATUS: Open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

1. Agendas for future meetings: None. 

2. Minutes. 

3. Ratification List. 

4. Vote on Inv. Nos. 731–TA–1438 

and 1440 (Final) (Acetone from 

Singapore and Spain). The Commission 

is currently scheduled to complete and 

file its determinations and views of the 

Commission by November 29, 2019. 

5. Outstanding action jackets: None. 

The Commission is holding the 

meeting under the Government in the 

Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552(b). In 

accordance with Commission policy, 

subject matter listed above, not disposed 

of at the scheduled meeting, may be 

carried over to the agenda of the 

following meeting. 

By order of the Commission: 

Issued: November 4, 2019. 

William Bishop, 

Supervisory Hearings and Information 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2019–24377 Filed 11–5–19; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[USITC SE–19–040] 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

Agency Holding the Meeting: United 

States International Trade Commission. 

TIME AND DATE: November 15, 2019 at 

11:00 a.m. 

PLACE: Room 101, 500 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20436, Telephone: 

(202) 205–2000. 

STATUS: Open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

1. Agendas for future meetings: None. 

2. Minutes. 

3. Ratification List. 

4. Vote on Inv. No. 731–TA–1444 

(Final) (Carbon and Alloy Steel 

Threaded Rod from Thailand). The 

Commission is currently scheduled to 

complete and file its determination and 

views of the Commission by December 

5, 2019. 

5. Outstanding action jackets: None. 

The Commission is holding the 

meeting under the Government in the 

Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552(b). In 

accordance with Commission policy, 

subject matter listed above, not disposed 

of at the scheduled meeting, may be 

carried over to the agenda of the 

following meeting. 

By order of the Commission: 

Issued: November 4, 2019. 

William Bishop, 

Supervisory Hearings and Information 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2019–24379 Filed 11–5–19; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

[OMB Number 1122–0031] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed eCollection 

eComments Requested; Extension of a 

Currently Approved Collection 

AGENCY: Office on Violence Against 

Women, Department of Justice. 

ACTION: 30-Day notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Justice, 

Office on Violence Against Women 

(OVW) will be submitting the following 

information collection request to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. The proposed 

information collection was previously 

published in the Federal Register 

allowing for a 60 day comment period. 

DATES: Comments are encouraged and 

will be accepted for 30 days until 

December 9, 2019. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Written comments and/or suggestion 

regarding the items contained in this 

notice, especially the estimated public 

burden and associated response time, 

should be directed to Cathy Poston, 

Office on Violence Against Women, at 

202–514–5430 or Catherine.poston@

usdoj.gov. Written comments and/or 

suggestions can also be sent to the 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Office of Information and Regulatory