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extend the approval for this information 

collection for 3 years. 

Section 8 of the Endangered Species 

Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) authorizes 

the establishment of the Wildlife 

Without Borders—Critically Endangered 

Animals Conservation Fund to fund 

projects that conserve the world’s most 

endangered species. Critically 

endangered species are those that face 

an extremely high risk of extinction in 

the immediate future. The Division of 

International Conservation, Fish and 

Wildlife Service, administers this 

competitive grants program to provide 

funding for conservation actions that 

have a high likelihood of creating 

durable benefits to specific species 

facing immediate threat of extinction. 

Applicants submit proposals for 

funding in response to a Notice of 

Funding Availability that we publish on 

Grants.gov and the program web page. 

Applications consist of: 

(1) Cover page with basic project 

details (FWS Form 3-2338A). 

(2) Project summary and narrative. 

(3) Letter of appropriate government 

endorsement. 

(4) Brief curricula vitae for key project 

personnel. 

(5) Complete Standard Forms 424 and 

424b (non-domestic applicants do not 

submit the standard forms). 

Applications may also include, as 

appropriate, a copy of the organization’s 

Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement 

(NIRCA) and any additional 

documentation supporting the proposed 

project. 

All assistance awards under this 

program have a maximum reporting 

requirement of a: 

(1) Mid-term report (performance 

report and a financial status report) due 

within 30 days of the conclusion of the 

first half of the project period, and 

(2) Final report (performance and 

financial status report and copies of all 

deliverables, photographic 

documentation of the project and 

products resulting from the project) due 

within 90 days of the end of the 

performance period. 

II. Data 

OMB Control Number: 1018-0142. 

Title: Wildlife Without Borders— 

Critically Endangered Animals 

Conservation Fund Grant Program. 

Service Form Number(s): 3-2338A. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Domestic and 

nondomestic Federal, State, and local 

governments; nonprofit, 

nongovernmental organizations; public 

and private institutions of higher 

education; and any other organization or 

individual with demonstrated 

experience deemed necessary to carry 

out the proposed project. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: Annually. 

Activity Number of annual 

respondents 

Number of annual 

responses 

Completion time 

per response 

Annual burden 

hours 

Applications .............................................................................. 40 40 12 hours .......... 480 

Reports .................................................................................... 10 20 30 hours .......... 600 

Totals ................................................................................ 50 60 ..................... 1,080 

III. Request for Comments 

We invite comments concerning this 

IC 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. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this IC. 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 us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Dated: July 9, 2009 

Hope Grey, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, 

Fish and Wildlife Service. 

[FR Doc. E9–17072 Filed 7–16–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R9–MB–2009–N140] [91200–1232– 

BPPR–P2] 

Information Collection Sent to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for Approval; OMB Control 

Number 1018–0133; Control and 

Management of Resident Canada 

Geese 

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. OMB approval for this 

information collection is scheduled to 

expire on August 31, 2009. 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 send comments on or 

before August 17, 2009. 

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_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 (e-mail). 

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: 1018-0133. 

Title: Control and Management of 

Resident Canada Geese, 50 CFR 20.21, 

21.49, 21.50, 21.51, 21.52, and 21.61. 

Service Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

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Affected Public: State fish and 

wildlife agencies, tribes, and local 

governments; airports, landowners; and 

farms. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: Annually. 

Activity Number of annual 

respondents 

Number of annual 

responses 

Completion time 

per response 

Annual burden 

hours 

21.49 – Airport Control Order – Annual Report ...................... 110 110 1.5 hours ......... 166 

21.50 - Nest and Egg Depredation Order – Registration and 

Report.

2,000 4,000 .5 hours ........... 2,000 

21.51 – Agricultural Depredation Order – Recordkeeping ...... 600 600 .5 hours ........... 300 

21.51 – Agricultural Depredation Order – Annual Report ....... 30 30 8 hours ............ 240 

21.52 – Public Health Control Order – Annual Report ........... 35 35 1 hour .............. 35 

21.61 – Population Control Approval Request – Recordkeeping and Annual Report.30 30 24 hours .......... 720 

21.61 – Population Control Approval Request – Population 

Estimates.

30 30 160 hours ........ 4,800 

Totals ................................................................................ 2,835 4,835 ..................... 8,261 

Abstract: The Migratory Bird Treaty 

Act prohibits the take, possession, 

import, export, transport, sale, purchase, 

or bartering of migratory birds or their 

parts except as permitted under the 

terms of a valid permit or as permitted 

by regulations. In 2006, we issued 

regulations establishing two 

depredation orders and three control 

orders that allow State and tribal 

wildlife agencies, private landowners, 

and airports to conduct resident Canada 

goose population management, 

including the take of birds. We monitor 

the data collected for activities under 

these orders and may rescind an order 

if monitoring indicates that activities are 

inconsistent with conservation of 

Canada geese. 

Control order for airports. 50 CFR 

21.49 allows managers at commercial, 

public, and private airports and military 

airfields and their employees or agents 

to implement management of resident 

Canada geese to resolve or prevent 

threats to public safety. An airport must 

be part of the National Plan of Integrated 

Airport Systems and have received 

Federal grant-in-aid assistance or be a 

military airfield under the jurisdiction, 

custody, or control of the Secretary of a 

military department. Each facility 

exercising the privileges of the order 

must submit an annual report with the 

date, numbers, and locations of birds, 

nests, and eggs taken. 

Depredation order for nests and eggs. 

50 CFR 21.50 allows private landowners 

and managers of public lands to destroy 

resident Canada goose nests and eggs on 

property under their jurisdiction 

provided they register annually on our 

website at https://epermits.fws.gov/ 

eRCGR. Registrants must provide basic 

information, such as name, address, 

phone number and email, and identify 

where the control work will occur and 

who will conduct it. Registrants must 

return to the website to report the 

number of nests with eggs they 

destroyed. 

Depredation order for agricultural 

facilities. 50 CFR 21.51 allows States 

and tribes, via their wildlife agency, to 

implement a program to allow 

landowners, operators, and tenants 

actively engaged in commercial 

agriculture to conduct damage 

management control when geese are 

committing depredations or to resolve 

or prevent other injury to agricultural 

interests. State and tribal wildlife 

agencies in the Atlantic, Central, and 

Mississippi Flyway portions of 41 States 

can implement the provisions of the 

order. Agricultural producers must 

maintain a log of the date and number 

of birds taken under this authorization. 

States and tribes exercising the 

privileges of the order must submit an 

annual report of the numbers of birds, 

nests, and eggs taken and the county 

where take occurred. 

Public health control order. 50 CFR 

21.52 authorizes States and tribes of the 

lower 48 States to conduct (via the State 

or tribal wildlife agency) resident 

Canada goose control and management 

activities when the geese pose a direct 

threat to human health. States and tribes 

operating under this order must submit 

an annual report summarizing activities, 

including the numbers of birds taken 

and the county where take occurred. 

Population control. 50 CFR 21.61 

establishes a managed take program to 

reduce and stabilize resident Canada 

goose populations when traditional and 

otherwise authorized management 

measures are not successful or feasible. 

A State or tribal wildlife agency in the 

Atlantic, Mississippi, or Central Flyway 

may request approval for this 

population control program. If 

approved, the State or tribe may use 

hunters to harvest resident Canada geese 

during the month of August. Requests 

for approval must include a discussion 

of the State’s or tribe’s efforts to address 

its injurious situations using other 

methods or a discussion of the reasons 

why the methods are not feasible. If the 

Service Director approves a request, the 

State or tribe must (1) keep annual 

records of activities carried out under 

the authority of the program, and (2) 

provide an annual summary, including 

number of individuals participating in 

the program and the number of resident 

Canada geese shot. Additionally, 

participating States and tribes must 

monitor the spring breeding population 

by providing an annual estimate of the 

breeding population and distribution of 

resident Canada geese in their State. 

Comments: On March 18, 2009, we 

published in the Federal Register (74 

FR 11597) a notice of our intent to 

request that OMB renew this 

information collection. In that notice, 

we solicited comments for 60 days, 

ending on May 18, 2009. We received 

one comment in response to that notice. 

The commenter opposed the killing of 

geese, but did not address the 

information collection requirements. We 

did not make any changes to the 

collection requirements. 

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, 

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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: June 26, 2009 

Hope Grey, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, 

Fish and Wildlife Service. 

FR Doc. E9–17070 Filed 7–16–09; 8:45 am 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 

and Enforcement 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection for 1029–0119 

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 

and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing 

its intention to request approval to 

continue the collection of information 

for 30 CFR 874.16—contractor 

eligibility, and the Abandoned Mine 

Land Contractor Information form. This 

information collection activity was 

previously approved by the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), and 

assigned clearance number 1029–0119. 

DATES: Comments on the proposed 

information collection must be received 

by September 15, 2009, to be assured of 

consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to 

John A. Trelease, Office of Surface 

Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, 

1951 Constitution Ave., NW., Room 

202–SIB, Washington, DC 20240. 

Comments may also be submitted 

electronically to jtrelease@osmre.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

receive a copy of the information 

collection request contact John A. 

Trelease, at (202) 208–2783. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB 

regulations at 5 CFR 1320, which 

implementing provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 

L. 104–13), require that interested 

members of the public and affected 

agencies have an opportunity to 

comment on information collection and 

recordkeeping activities [see 5 CFR 

1320.8 (d)]. This notice identifies 

information collection that OSM will be 

submitting to ONE for approval. This 

collection is contained in 30 CFR 874.16 

and the Abandoned Mine Land 

Contractor Information form. OSM will 

request a 3-year term of approval for 

each information collection activity. 

Comments are invited on: (1) The 

need for the collection of information 

for the performance of the functions of 

the agency; (2) the accuracy of the 

agency’s burden estimates; (3) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility and clarity 

of the information/collection; and (4) 

ways to minimize the information 

collection burden on respondents, such 

as use of automated means of collection 

of the information. A summary of the 

public comments will accompany 

OSM’s submission of the information 

collection request to OMB. 

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 us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

The following information is provided 

for the information collection: (1) Title 

of the information collection; (2) OMB 

control number; (3) summary of the 

information collection activity; and (4) 

frequency of collection, description of 

the respondents, estimated total annual 

responses, and the total annual 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

the collection of information. 

Title: 30 CFR 874.16—Contractor 

eligibility, and the AML Contractor 

Information form. 

OMB Control Number: 1029–0119. 

Summary: 30 CFR 874.16 requires 

that every successful bidder for an AML 

contract must be eligible under 30 CFR 

773.15(b)(1) at the time of contract 

award to receive a permit or conditional 

permit to conduct surface coal mining 

operations. Further, the regulation 

requires the eligibility to be confirmed 

by OSM’s automated AVS and the 

contractor must be eligible under the 

regulations implementing Section 510(c) 

of the Surface Mining Act to receive 

permits to conduct mining operations. 

The AML Contractor Information form 

provides a tool for OSM and the States/ 

Indian tribes to help them prevent 

persons with outstanding violations 

from conducting further mining or AML 

reclamation activities in the State. 

Bureau Form Number: None. 

Frequency of Collection: Once per 

contract. 

Description of Respondents: AML 

contract applicants and State and tribal 

regulatory authorities. 

Total Annual Responses: 337 bidders 

and 16 State responses. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 136. 

Dated: July 13, 2009. 

Alfred E. Whitehouse, 

Acting Chief, Division of Regulatory Support. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Final General Management Plan and 

Environmental Impact Statement, Fort 

Stanwix National Monument, NY 

AGENCY: National Park Service, 

Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of Final 

General Management Plan and 

Environmental Impact Statement, Fort 

Stanwix National Monument, New 

York. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 

U.S.C. 4332(2)(C), the National Park 

Service (NPS) announces the 

availability of a Final General 

Management Plan and Environmental 

Impact Statement (GMP/EIS) for Fort 

Stanwix National Monument, located in 

the city of Rome, New York. Consistent 

with National Park Service rules, 

regulations, and policies, and the park’s 

mission, the proposed federal action to 

establish a programmatic framework for 

park management in the form of a 

general management plan that is 

consistent with the purposes of the park 

as set forth in the park’s enabling 

legislation An Act to Provide for the 

Establishment of a National Monument 

on the Site of Fort Stanwix in the State 

of New York (Pub. L. 74–291). 

The Final GMP/EIS analyzes 

alternatives to guide the management 

and development of Fort Stanwix 

National Monument over the next 15 to 

20 years, consistent with the park’s 

mission and NPS policy and other laws 

and regulations. NPS regional planning 

staff and staff at Fort Stanwix NM 

collaborated in the development of the 

Final GMP/EIS. The main issues that the 

Final GMP/EIS has focused on include 

protection of cultural resources, visitor 

services, partnership opportunities, 

carrying capacity, and the park 

boundary. 

The Final GMP/EIS analyzes two 

alternatives to guide the management 

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