[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 22 (Thursday, February 3, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5692-5693]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-2013]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service


Information Collection Renewal To Be Submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for Approval Under the Paperwork Reduction 
Act; State Certification of Expenditures, Public Law 106-408; OMB 
Control No. 1018-0117

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Fish and Wildlife Service (We) plans to submit the 
collection of information described below to OMB for renewal under the 
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The Wildlife and 
Sport Fish Restoration Programs Improvement Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-
408) requires that States certify annually in writing that their 
expenditures of Federal grant funds under the Federal Aid in Wildlife 
and Sport Fish Restoration Acts were in accordance with the appropriate 
Act.

DATES: You must submit comments on or before April 4, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Send your comments on this information collection to Hope

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Grey, Information Collection Clearance Officer, Fish and Wildlife 
Service, MS 222-ARLSQ, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203; 
[email protected] (email); or (703) 358-2269 (fax).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the information 
collection requirements, explanatory information, form, or related 
materials, contact Hope Grey at the above addresses or by telephone at 
703-358-2482.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, which 
implement provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 
3501 et seq.), require that interested members of the public and 
affected agencies have an opportunity to comment on information 
collection and recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)).
    We administer grant programs authorized by the Federal Aid in 
Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Acts. The Wildlife and Sport Fish 
Restoration Programs Improvement Act of 2000 requires that States 
certify annually in writing that their expenditures of these Federal 
grants funds were in accordance with the appropriate Act. We must 
forward these certifications to Congress annually by December 31. The 
OMB control number for this information collection is 1018-0117, and 
the OMB approval for this collection expires on May 31, 2005. We plan 
to send a request to OMB to renew its approval of this information 
collection for a 3-year term. 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.
    Title: State Certification of Expenditures, Public Law 106-408.
    OMB Control Number: 1018-0117.
    Form Number: FWS Form 3-2197a.
    Frequency of Collection: Annually.
    Description of Respondents: States, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
District of Columbia, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 
Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                                                  Total annual
                   Name                          Completion time per form          number of       Total annual
                                                                                   responses       burden hours
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State certification of spending (FWS Form   30 minutes........................              56               28
 3-2197a).
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    We invite comments on: (1) Whether or not the collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether or not the information will have 
practical utility; (2) the accuracy of the agency's estimates of burden 
of the collection of information; (3) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and, (4) ways 
to minimize the burden of collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, 
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms 
of information technology.

    Dated: January 21, 2005.
Hope Grey,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Fish and Wildlife Service.
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