[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 151 (Friday, August 5, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47609-47610]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-19834]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NRSS-0811-8097; 9865-PZS]


Information Collection Sent to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) for Approval; Community Harvest Assessments for Alaskan 
National Parks, Preserves, and Monuments

AGENCY: National Park Service (NPS), Interior.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: We (National Park Service) will ask the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) to approve the Information Collection Request (ICR) 
described below (OMB Control No. 1024-New). As required by the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and as part of our continuing efforts 
to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, we invite the general public 
and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on this 
ICR. 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: Public comments must be submitted on or before October 4, 2011.

ADDRESSES: Please send your comments to the ICR to Phadrea Ponds, 
Information Collections Coordinator, National Park Service, 1201 
Oakridge Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80525 (mail); or [email protected] (e-mail). Please reference Information Collection 1024-
NEW, Community Harvest Assessments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Cellarius, PhD, Wrangell-St. 
Elias National Park and Preserve, PO Box 439, Copper Center, AK 99573; 
[email protected] (e-mail); or 907-822-7236 (phone). You are 
entitled to a copy of the entire ICR package free-of-charge. You may 
access this ICR at http://www.reginfo.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB Number: 1024-New (This is a new 
collection.)
    Title: Community Harvest Assessments for Alaskan National Parks, 
Preserves, and Monuments.
    Service Form Number: None.

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    Type of Request: New.
    Description of Respondents: Individual households eligible to 
engage in subsistence hunting, fishing, trapping, and gathering under 
NPS and Federal Subsistence Program regulations in Gates of the Arctic 
and Wrangell-St. Elias National Parks and Preserves.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Frequency of Collection: One-time; on occasion.
    Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 354.
    Annual Burden Hours: 413 hours. We estimate the public reporting 
burden averages 10 minutes per initial contact and 60 minutes per 
completed survey.
    Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: None.
    Abstract: The National Park Service (NPS) Act of 1916, 38 Stat 535, 
16 U.S.C. 1, et seq., requires that the NPS preserve national parks for 
the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. At the field 
level, this means resource preservation, public education, facility 
maintenance and operation, and physical developments that are necessary 
for public use, health, and safety.
    National parks, preserves and monuments in Alaska created or 
expanded in 1980 under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation 
Act (ANILCA) provide the opportunity for qualified rural residents to 
harvest fish, wildlife, and other subsistence resources. Section 812 of 
ANILCA states, ``The Secretary [of the Interior], in cooperation with 
the State and other appropriate Federal agencies, shall undertake 
research on fish and wildlife and subsistence uses on the public 
lands.'' To develop resource management strategies for the parklands, 
the NPS needs information on harvest patterns among residents of 
communities with subsistence eligibility, resource distribution 
systems, and the impact of the changing rural economy on subsistence 
activities. A survey will be used to estimate subsistence harvests and 
to describe community subsistence economies. This project will survey 
residents of several communities in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park 
and Preserve and Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve on 
these topics. The surveyed communities have been designated as resident 
zone communities for the respective park in recognition that many 
residents of these communities have customarily and traditionally 
engaged in subsistence uses within a national park or monument. The 
resulting information will assist park managers in their subsistence 
management responsibilities and will also be of use to local and 
regional advisory councils in making recommendations and by the State 
of Alaska and the Federal Subsistence Board in making decisions 
regarding the management of fish and wildlife in the region.
    Comments: Comments are invited on: (1) The practical utility of the 
information being gathered; (2) the accuracy of the burden hour 
estimate; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and (4) ways to minimize the burden to 
respondents, including use of automated information techniques or other 
forms of information technology.
    Please note that the comments submitted in response to this notice 
are a matter of public record. We will include or summarize each 
comment in our request to OMB to approve this IC. Before including your 
address, phone number, e-mail 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: August 1, 2011.
Robert M. Gordon,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 2011-19834 Filed 8-4-11; 8:45 am]
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