[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 131 (Wednesday, July 9, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38946-38947]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-15987]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-EQD-SSD-16140; PPWONRADE2, PMP00EI05.YP0000]


Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request: Colorado River 
Total Value Survey

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice and 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. The National Park Service (NPS) is requesting approval 
for a new collection that will be used to provide information. This 
information collection will provide data for the economic analysis that 
may be used to evaluate future dam operation. To comply with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and as a part of our continuing efforts 
to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, we invite the general public 
and other Federal agencies to comment on this ICR. A Federal 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.

DATES: To ensure that your comments on this ICR are considered, OMB 
must receive them on or before August 8, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Please submit written comments on this information 
collection directly to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Office 
of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Desk Officer for the 
Department of the Interior, via email to [email protected] 
or fax at 202-395-5806; and identify your submission as 1024-COLORIV. 
Please also send a copy of your comments to Bret Meldrum, Chief, Social 
Science Program, National Park Service, 1201 Oakridge Drive, Fort 
Collins, CO 80525-5596 (mail); [email protected] (email); or 970-
267-7295 (phone) and Phadrea Ponds, Information Collection Coordinator, 
National Park Service, 1201 Oakridge Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80525 
(mail); or [email protected] (email). Please reference Information 
Collection 1024-COLORIV in the subject line.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. John Duffield, University of 
Montana, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Missoula, MT 5981; 
[email protected] (email); or: 406-721-2265 (phone). You may also 
access this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.

I. Abstract

    The National Park Service (NPS) Act of 1916, 38 Stat 535, 16 USC 1, 
et seq., requires that the NPS preserve national parks for the use and 
enjoyment of present and future generations. The proposed collection is 
needed to update the scientific information that was used in the 1996 
Record of Decision that the Department of the Interior used to inform 
their decisions on Dam operations. This information will be used to 
assist in the development of an operating plan for the Glen Canyon Dam 
in accordance with the Grand Canyon Protection Act to protect and 
improve the values for which the Grand Canyon National Park and Glen 
Canyon National Recreation Area were established. This notice will 
cover the development and pretesting of the final survey instrument.

II. Data

    OMB Control Number: None. This is a new collection.
    Title: Colorado River Total Value Survey.
    Type of Request: New.
    Affected Public: General public; individual households.
    Respondent Obligation: Voluntary.
    Frequency of Collection: One time.
    Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 2,140.
    Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 1,042 hours.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-Hour Cost'': 
None.

III. Request For Comments

    On September 23, 2013, we published a Federal Register notice (78 
FR 58344) announcing that we would submit this ICR to OMB for approval. 
Public comments were solicited for 60 days ending November 23, 2013. We 
received three requests to review the draft versions of the survey 
instruments. In response to the requests, we provided a summary of the 
study purpose and design and informed that additional materials would 
be available for review once the request is submitted to OMB.
    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

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     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: July 2, 2014.
Madonna L. Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 2014-15987 Filed 7-8-14; 8:45 am]
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