[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 207 (Thursday, October 25, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65203-65204]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-26261]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R9-ES-2012-N245; FXES111309WLLF0D2-123-FF09E30000]
Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for Approval; Wolf-Livestock Demonstration Project
Grant Program
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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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. 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 November 26, 2012.
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 2042-PDM, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203
(mail), or INFOCOL@fws.gov (email). Please include ``1018-WLDPGP'' in
the subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information
about this ICR, contact Hope Grey at INFOCOL@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:
OMB Control Number: 1018-XXXX. This is a new collection.
Title: Wolf-Livestock Demonstration Project Grant Program.
Service Form Number: None.
Type of Request: Request for a new OMB control number.
Description of Respondents: States and Indian tribes.
Number of Respondents: 22.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
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Completion
Activity Number of time per Total annual
responses response burden hours
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Applications.................................................... 22 8 hours 176
Reports and Recordkeeping....................................... 20 14 hours 280
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Totals...................................................... 42 .............. 456
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Abstract: Subtitle C of Title VI of the Omnibus Public Land
Management Act of 2009 (Act) (Pub. L. 111-11) authorizes the Secretary
of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a Wolf-
Livestock Demonstration Project Grant Program (WLDPGP) to:
Assist livestock producers in undertaking proactive,
nonlethal activities to reduce the risk of livestock loss due to
predation by wolves; and
Compensate livestock producers for livestock losses due to
such predation.
The Act directs that the program be established as a grant program
to provide funding to States and tribes, that the Federal cost-share
not exceed 50 percent, and that funds be expended equally between the
two purposes. The Act included an authorization of appropriations up to
$1 million each fiscal year for 5 years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service Endangered Species Program will allocate the funding as
competitively awarded grants to States and tribes with a prior history
of wolf depredation. States with delisted wolf populations are eligible
for funding, provided that they meet the eligibility criteria contained
in Public Law 111-11.
The following additional criteria apply to all WLDPGP grants and
must be satisfied for a project to receive WLDPGP funding:
A proposal cannot include U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
full-time equivalent (FTE) costs.
A proposal cannot seek funding for projects that serve to
satisfy regulatory requirements of the Endangered Species Act (ESA)
including complying with a biological opinion under section 7 or
fulfilling commitments of a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) under
section 10, or for projects that serve to satisfy other Federal
regulatory requirements (e.g., mitigation for Federal permits).
State administrative costs must be assumed by the State or
included in the proposal in accordance with Federal requirements.
We will publish notices of funding availability on the Grants.gov
Web site at http://www.grants.gov as well as in the Catalog of Federal
Domestic Assistance at http://cfda.gov. To compete for grant funds,
eligible States and tribes must submit an application that describes in
substantial detail project locations, project resources, future
benefits, and other characteristics that meet the Wolf-Livestock
Demonstration Project Grant Program purposes as listed above. In
accordance with the Act, States and tribes that receive a grant must:
Maintain files of all claims received under programs
funded by the grant, including supporting documentation; and
Submit an annual report that includes a summary of claims
and expenditures under the program during the year and a description of
any action taken on the claims.
Materials that describe the program and assist applicants in
formulating project proposals will be available on our Web site at
www.fws.gov/grants. Persons who do not have access to the Internet may
obtain instructional materials by mail.
Comments: On April 2, 2012, we published in the Federal Register
(77 FR 19682) a notice of our intent to request that OMB approve this
information collection. In that notice, we solicited comments for 60
days, ending on June 1, 2012. We received one comment in response to
that notice. The commenter objected to this grant program, but did not
address the information collection requirements. We did not make any
changes to the requirements.
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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: October 18, 2012.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy and Directives Management, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 2012-26261 Filed 10-24-12; 8:45 am]
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