[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 13, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 1642]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-00501]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NRSS-BRD-20078; PPWONRADB1, PPMRSNR1Y.NM000]


Proposed Information Collection: Comment Request: NPS 
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) General Submission, 
Annual Review, Amendment, and Exhibitor Forms

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: We (National Park Service, NPS) will ask the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) to approve an information collection (IC) 
described below. This is a renewal for a collection currently 
consisting of four forms (General Submission, Annual Review, Amendment, 
and Exhibitor Submission) used by the Institutional Animal Care and use 
Committee (NPS IACUC/the Committee) to ensure compliance with the 
Animal Welfare Act (AWA), its regulations (AWAR) and standards, and the 
Interagency Research Animal Committee (IRAC) principles for projects 
involving the use of vertebrate animals in research, teaching, and/or 
exhibition. 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 IC. 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: To ensure that your comments on this IC are considered, we must 
receive them on or before March 14, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments on this IC to Phadrea Ponds, 
Information Collection Coordinator, National Park Service, 1201 
Oakridge Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80525 (mail); or [email protected] 
(email). Please reference Information Collection ``1024-0265 IACUC'' in 
the subject line.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Aaron Smith, NPS IACUC Administrator 
by mail at Biological Resource Division, 1201 Oakridge Dr, Suite 200, 
Fort Collins, CO, 80525 or [email protected] (email). You may also 
contact Tracy Thompson at [email protected] (email).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract

    All research, teaching, and exhibition projects involving 
vertebrate animals taking place on NPS territories must be approved by 
the NPS IACUC prior to their commencement. Principal Investigators (PI) 
are required to submit the completed General Submission, Annual 
Renewal, Amendment, or Exhibitor Submission as required for approval to 
the NPS IACUC Office.

II. Data

    OMB Number: 1024-0265.
    Title: NPS Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) 
General Submission, Annual Review, Amendment, and Exhibitor Forms.
    Type of Request: Renewal.
    Affected Public: Any researcher affiliated with an academic 
research institution; or state or federal agency.
    Respondent Obligation: Mandatory.
    Frequency of Collection: One-time, on occasion.
    Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 190.
    Annual Burden Hours: 570 hours. We expect to receive 190 annual 
responses. We estimate an average of 3 hours per response.
    Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-Hour Cost'' Burden: We 
have not identified any ``non-hour cost'' burdens associated with this 
collection of information.

III. Request for Comments

    We invite comments concerning this information collection on:
     The practical utility of the information being gathered;
     The accuracy of the burden for this collection of 
information;
     Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
     Ways to minimize the burden of the collection of 
information on respondents.
    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, 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 we will be to do so.

    Dated: January 7, 2016.
Madonna L. Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 2016-00501 Filed 1-12-16; 8:45 am]
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