[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 152 (Friday, August 7, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47512-47513]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-19384]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Geological Survey

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Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments: 
National Spatial Data Infrastructure Cooperative Agreements Program 
(NSDI CAP)

AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Interior.

ACTION: Notice of a new information collection.

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SUMMARY: We (the U.S. Geological Survey) will ask the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection (IC) 
described below. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) 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 IC.

DATES: To ensure that your comments are considered, we must receive 
them on or before October 6, 2015.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on this information collection to 
the Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 807, Reston, VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648-
7197 (fax); or [email protected] (email). Please reference 
`Information Collection 1028--NEW, NSDI CAP in all correspondence.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brigitta Urban-Mathieux, Federal 
Geographic Data Committee Office of the Secretariat, U.S. Geological 
Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Mail Stop 590, Reston, VA 20192 
(mail); 703-648-5175 (phone); or [email protected] (email). You may 
also find information about this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    Respondents are submitting proposals to acquire funding for 
projects to help build the infrastructure necessary for the geospatial 
data community to effectively discover, access, share, manage, and use 
digital geographic data. The National Spatial Data Infrastructure 
(NSDI) consists of the technologies, policies, organizations, and 
people necessary to promote cost-effective production, and the ready 
availability and greater utilization of geospatial data among a variety 
of sectors, disciplines, and communities. Specific NSDI areas of 
emphasis include: Metadata

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documentation, clearinghouse establishment, geospatial data framework 
development, standards implementation, and geographic information 
system (GIS) organizational coordination.
    We will issue a request for proposal (RFP) via Grant.gov. The 
incoming proposals will be reviewed and scored based on the responses 
to the questions in the RFP. Responses are voluntary. No questions of a 
``sensitive'' nature are asked. We will protect information from 
respondents considered proprietary under the Freedom of Information Act 
(5 U.S.C. 552) and it's implementing regulations (43 CFR part 2), and 
under regulations at 30 CFR 250.197, ``Data and information to be made 
available to the public or for limited inspection.'' We intend to 
release the project abstracts and primary investigators for awarded/
funded projects only.

II. Data

    OMB Control Number: 1028--NEW.
    Form Number: NA
    Title: National Spatial Data Infrastructure Cooperative Agreements 
Program (NSDI CAP).
    Type of Request: New information collection.
    Affected Public: Private Sector; State, Local, and Tribal 
governments; Academia, and Non-profit organizations.
    Respondent's Obligation: None. Participation is voluntary.
    Frequency of Collection: This is an annual offer.
    Estimated Total Number of Annual Responses: 60
    Estimated Time per Response: 25 hours
    Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 1,500 hours.
    Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-Hour Cost'' Burden: 
None.
    Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) 
provides that an agency may not conduct or sponsor and you are not 
required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a 
currently valid OMB control number and current expiration date.

III. Request for Comments

    We are soliciting comments as to: (a) Whether the proposed 
collection of information is necessary for the agency to perform its 
duties, including whether the information is useful; (b) the accuracy 
of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of 
information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, usefulness, and clarity 
of the information to be collected; and (d) how to minimize the burden 
on the respondents, including the use of automated collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology. Please note that 
the comments submitted in response to this notice are a matter of 
public record. Before including your personal mailing address, phone 
number, email address, or other personally identifiable information in 
your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment, including 
your personally identifiable information, may be made publicly 
available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold 
your personally identifiable information from public view, we cannot 
guarantee that we will be able to do so.

Ivan DeLoatch,
Executive Director, Federal Geographic Data Committee, Core Science 
Systems.
[FR Doc. 2015-19384 Filed 8-6-15; 8:45 am]
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