[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 216 (Friday, November 7, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66390-66391]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-26513]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R2-ES-2014-N235; FRES480102200B0-XXX-FF02ENEH00]
Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for Approval; Survey of Residents' Attitudes on Jaguar
Conservation
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 December 8, 2014.
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 BPHC, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041-3803,
(mail), or hope_grey@fws.gov (email). Please include ``1018-Resident''
in the subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information
about this ICR, contact Hope Grey at hope_grey@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:
Information Collection Request
OMB Control Number: 1018-XXXX. This is a new collection.
Title: Survey of Residents' Attitudes on Jaguar Conservation.
Service Form Number: None.
Type of Request: Request for a new OMB control number.
Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 225.
Description of Respondents: Individuals, land-based business
owners/operators; government agency personnel; local wildlife
associations; and conservation or recreation organizations.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One time.
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Completion
Number of time per Total annual
Activity responses response burden hours
(minutes)
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Initial contact................................................. 225 3 11
Complete Jaguar Survey.......................................... 200 15 50
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Totals...................................................... 425 .............. 61
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Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: None.
Abstract: This survey is designed to elicit information about the
public's perspectives on attitudes towards and beliefs about jaguars in
the Northwestern Recovery Unit (southern Arizona and southwestern New
Mexico). We plan to survey 200 residents, land-based business owners/
operators, related government agency personnel, and local wildlife
association and/or conservation organization members in the
Northwestern Recovery Unit. The survey will gather information on
people's current level of knowledge about jaguar ecology and status,
people's attitudes towards jaguars, and the social barriers and
opportunities to jaguar conservation in this region. The surveys will
consist of in-person interviews. This information will aid us in
identifying groups that might be interested in being involved or
staying informed about jaguar conservation and highlighting groups with
particular concerns that might be addressed in forthcoming policies or
programs. We will use information gained from this survey to formulate
future jaguar conservation strategies, as well as to create educational
and outreach materials for jaguar recovery.
Comments Received and Our Responses
On December 17, 2013, we published in the Federal Register (78 FR
76315) a notice of our intent to request that OMB approve this
information collection. In that notice, we solicited comments for 60
days, ending on February 18, 2014. We received the following comments:
Comment: The commenter requested that surveys be collected from
residents of Hidalgo County, New Mexico, as well as from residents of
Cochise, Pima, and Santa Cruz Counties of Arizona, and that the number
of interviews conducted with residents of each of the four counties in
the Northwestern Recovery Unit be proportional to the counties'
population.
Response: We will survey residents in Hidalgo County, New Mexico.
The contractor will make every effort to distribute the 200 surveys so
that each county's residents are adequately represented.
Comment: One comment requested that the survey include farmers and
ranchers in Hidalgo County, New Mexico.
Response: The method of interviewing residents will mean that
farmers and ranchers will likely be included among the rural residents
surveyed. The category of small farmers/ranchers will be targeted
purposely, as a stakeholder category. Small-acreage land users are
often not included in data collection that targets ranchers and other
agricultural producers. A concurrent information collection will
include ranchers and farmers in the Northwestern Recovery Unit. Thus,
they will not be included in this survey to avoid duplication of
effort.
Comment: One commenter requested to be included as a survey
respondent.
Response: We will include the commenter's agency as a respondent in
the related government agency personnel survey stakeholder category.
Comment: One commenter requested a copy of the survey instrument
and the results of surveys once completed.
Response: We will send a copy of the survey instrument and the
final report, which will include information on the data collected,
analysis methods, results, and conclusions. The final report will be
available after May 2015.
Request for Public Comments
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;
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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: November 4, 2014.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy and Directives Management, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 2014-26513 Filed 11-6-14; 8:45 am]
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