[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 163 (Tuesday, August 24, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46211-46212]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-21909]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


60-Day Notice of Intention To Request Clearance of Collection of 
Information; Opportunity for Public Comment

AGENCY: Department of the Interior, National Park Service.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 5 CFR Part 1320, 
Reporting and Record Keeping Requirements, the National Park Service 
(NPS) invites public comments on a proposed collection of information. 
NPS specifically requests comments on: (1) The need for the information 
being collected, including whether the information has practical 
utility; (2) the validity and accuracy of the reporting burden 
estimate; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and (4) ways to minimize the burden of the 
information collection on respondents, including the use of automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
    NPS requests comments on a proposed research and collecting permit 
and reporting system that will consolidate and streamline an existing 
array of information collection instruments used by applicants to apply 
to parks for research and collecting permits for natural or social 
science activities that require permits. NPS will use the information 
you submit to

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determine whether or not to make modifications to the proposed research 
and collecting permit and reporting system. Once NPS makes any 
modifications that it may decide to adopt, NPS plans to submit a 
proposed collection of information package to OMB with a request that 
OMB approve the package and assign an OMB clearance number to the two 
collection of information forms that are part of this system.
    You may obtain copies of the proposed application form, permit 
form, reporting form, and related guidance and explanatory material 
from the NPS website at: http://www.nature.nps.gov/ResearchPermit/. You 
also may obtain copies of the documents and additional information from 
the source identified below.

DATES: Public comments on the proposed ICR will be accepted on or 
before October 25, 1999.

SEND COMMENTS TO: John G. Dennis, Natural Resources, National Park 
Service, 1849 C Street NW., Room 3223-MIB, Washington, DC 20240. Voice: 
202-208-5193. Fax. 202-208-4620. Email: [email protected].
    If you wish to comment, you may submit your comments by any one of 
several methods. You may mail comments to the postal address given 
here. You may also comment via the Internet to the email address given 
here. Please submit Internet comments as an ASCII file avoiding the use 
of special characters and any form of encryption. Please also include 
``Attn: NPS Research and Collecting Permit and Reporting System'' and 
your name and return address in your Internet message. If you do not 
receive a confirmation from the system that we have received your 
Internet message, contact us directly at the phone number given here. 
Finally, you may hand-deliver comments to the address given here. Our 
practice is to make comments, including names and home addresses of 
respondents, available for public review during regular business hours. 
Individual respondents may request that we withhold their home address 
from the record, which we will honor to the extent allowable by law. 
There also may be circumstances in which we would withhold from the 
record a respondent's identity, as allowable by law. If you wish us to 
withhold your name and/or address, you must state this prominently at 
the beginning of your comment. However, we will not consider anonymous 
comments. We will make all submissions from organizations or 
businesses, and from individuals identifying themselves as 
representatives or officials of organizations or businesses, available 
for public inspection in their entirety.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John G. Dennis, Natural Resources, 
National Park Service, 1849 C Street NW, Room 3223-MIB, Washington, DC 
20240. Voice: 202-208-5193. Fax: 202-208-4620. Email: 
[email protected].

TO REQUEST PRINTED COPIES OF THE DOCUMENTS CONTACT: Tim Goddard, 
National Park Service, 1201 Oak Ridge Dr., Suite 250, Fort Collins, CO 
80525. Fax: 970-225-9965. Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: National Park Service Research and Collecting Permit System.
    Departmental Form Number: None.
    OMB Number: To be requested.
    Expiration date: To be requested.
    Type of request: New clearance.
    Description of need: The proposed information collection responds 
to the statutory requirement that NPS preserve park resources and 
regulate the use of units of the National Park System. The information 
proposed to be collected identifies: (1) People who seek to conduct 
natural or social science research and collecting activities in 
individual units of the National Park System, (2) what activities they 
wish to conduct, (3) where they wish to conduct the activities, (4) 
what kinds of results they expect to obtain from the activities they 
propose to conduct, and (5) once permitted, the actual results of their 
permitted activities. NPS will use the collected information for 
managing the use and preservation of park resources and for reporting 
the status of permitted research and collecting activities.
    Automated data collection: The proposed information collection and 
status reporting systems will be made available to applicants and the 
public through the NPS website. NPS proposes to use Internet automation 
to facilitate the permit application and progress reporting process.
    Description of Respondents: Representatives of: academic and other 
research institutions, Federal, state, or local agencies, research 
businesses; other scientific parties seeking an NPS research and 
collecting permit; permittees who submit the annual report of 
accomplishment that is one of the permit conditions.
    Estimated average number of respondents: 3,000 per year.
    Estimated average burden hours per response: 1 hour.
    Estimated annual reporting burden: 3,000 hours.
Leonard E. Stowe,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service, WAPC.
[FR Doc. 99-21909 Filed 8-23-99; 8:45 am]
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