[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 222 (Thursday, November 19, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59989-59990]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-27780]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey
Proposed Information Collection; Program Announcement for the
Establishment of DOI Regional Climate Change Response Centers, National
Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center
AGENCY: United States Geological Survey (USGS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: We (the U.S. Geological Survey) will ask the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection (IC)
described below. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
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 IC. 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.
DATES: You must submit comments on or before January 19, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Please submit comments on this information collection
directly to Phadrea Ponds, USGS Information Collection Clearance
Officer, 2150-C Center Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80525 (mail); (970)
226-9230 (fax); or [email protected] (e-mail). Please reference
Information Collection 1028-NEW, NCCSC in the subject line.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nadine Hartke by mail at U. S.
Geological Survey, MS 300 National Center, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive,
Reston, VA 20192, or by telephone at 703-648-4607.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The primary objective of the National Climate Change and Wildlife
Science Center (NCCWSC) will be to assist the Department of the
Interior (DOI) in establishing a network of geographically dispersed
DOI Regional Climate Response Centers (Centers), as described in the
Department of the Interior Secretarial Order 3289 (http://www.doi.gov/climatechange/index.html). These Centers will be co-located at
cooperating organizations at non-USGS facilities. The Centers will
include NCCWSC staff that report to a national USGS office, but will
involve other DOI or collaborating Bureaus. The goal of the NCCWSC and
the affiliated Regional Centers is to work in close partnership with
the climate change science; ecological or hydrological science; and
natural and cultural resource management communities to understand high
priority science needs for climate adaptation and to develop science
and information porducts that can help resource managers develop
strategies for responding to climate change.
The purpose of this information collection is to identify
institutions that are willing to host a Regional Center, and determine
if their science and partnership capabilities are sufficient to serve
as a host organization. Host organizations must be able to contribute
climate science and ecological capabilities that complement and enhance
USGS scientific and computational capacity, and those of other science
partners. Host science collaborations and experience with regional
national and cultural
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partnerships and communities will be a valuable and necessary component
of serving as a host. The information collected will be used to
establish DOI Regional Climate Change Response Centers through
Cooperative Agreements with the host institution.
The National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center will issue
a Program Announcement that will request interested host institutions
to submit proposals. Proposals will address the institution's current
climate change science program, its existing linkages with USGS and
other DOI bureaus, a description of linkages with potential Regional
Center partners, and institution organization capabilities and
contributions to serve as a host.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: None. This is a new collection.
Title: Establishment of DOI Regional Climate Change Response
Centers, National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center Program
Announcement.
Respondent Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: Annually.
Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 80. Respondents may include
institutions of higher education and other non-profit organizations.
Estimated Total Annual Responses: 80.
Estimated Time per Response: 20 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 1,600 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Hour'' Burden: We
estimate the public reporting will average 20 hours per response. This
includes time to develop a technical proposal, budget sheets, perform
internal proposal reviews, secure support letters, and submit the
proposal through Grants.gov.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-Hour Cost'':
There are no ``non-hour cost'' burdens associated with this collection
of information.
III. Request for Comments
To comply with the public consultation process, we publish this
Federal Register notice announcing that we will submit this ICR to OMB
for approval. This notice provides the required 60-day public comment
period. We invite comments concerning this ICR on: (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 on the proposed
collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, usefulness,
and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to
minimize the burden on the respondents, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of
public record. 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 publically 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: November 10, 2009.
Susan D. Haseltine,
Associate Director for Biology, U.S. Geological Survey.
[FR Doc. E9-27780 Filed 11-18-09; 8:45 am]
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