[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 50, Volume 6]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 50CFR20.20]



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                    TITLE 50--WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES

 

 CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE 

                          INTERIOR (CONTINUED)

 

PART 20_MIGRATORY BIRD HUNTING--Table of Contents

 

                            Subpart C_Taking

 

Sec.  20.20  Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program.





    (a) Information collection requirements. The collections of 

information contained in Sec.  20.20 have been approved by the Office of 

Management and Budget under 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. and assigned 

clearance number 1018-0015. 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 information will 

be used to provide a sampling frame for the national Migratory Bird 

Harvest Survey. Response is required from licensed hunters to obtain the 

benefit of hunting migratory game birds. Public reporting burden for 

this information is estimated to average 2 minutes per response for 

3,300,000 respondents, including the time for reviewing instructions, 

searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data 

needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Thus 

the total annual reporting and record-keeping burden for this collection 

is estimated to be 112,000 hours. Send comments regarding this burden 

estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, 

including suggestions for reducing the burden, to the Service 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, ms-224 ARLSQ, Fish and 

Wildlife Service, Washington, DC 20240, or the Office of Management and 

Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project 1018-0015, Washington, DC 20503.

    (b) General provisions. Each person hunting migratory game birds in 

any State except Hawaii must have identified himself or herself as a 

migratory bird hunter and given his or her name, address, and date of 

birth to the respective State hunting licensing authority and must have 

on his or her person evidence, provided by that State, of compliance 

with this requirement.

    (c) Tribal exemptions. Nothing in paragraph (b) of this section 

shall apply to tribal members on Federal Indian Reservations or to 

tribal members hunting on ceded lands.

    (d) State exemptions. Nothing in paragraph (b) of this section shall 

apply to those hunters who are exempt from State-licensing requirements 

in the State in which they are hunting.

    (e) State responsibilities. The State hunting licensing authority 

will ask each licensed migratory bird hunter in the respective State to 

report approximately how many ducks, geese, doves, and woodcock he or 

she bagged the previous year, whether he or she hunted coots, snipe, 

rails, and/or gallinules the previous year, and, in States that have 

band-tailed pigeon hunting seasons, whether he or she intends to hunt 

band-tailed pigeons during the current year.



[58 FR 15098, Mar. 19, 1993, as amended at 59 FR 53336, Oct. 21, 1994; 

61 FR 46352, Aug. 30, 1996; 62 FR 45708, Aug. 28, 1997; 63 FR 46401, 

Sept. 1, 1998]



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