[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 201 (Tuesday, October 18, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71758-71759]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-25108]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[FWS-HQ-R-2016-N177; FXRS126109HD000-167-FF09R23000]


Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for Approval; Revealing Opportunities for Local-Level 
Stakeholder Engagement and Social Science Inquiry in Landscape 
Conservation Design

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) have sent an Information 
Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for review and approval. We summarize 
the ICR below and describe the nature of the collection and the 
estimated burden and cost. 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: You must submit comments on or before November 17, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Send your comments and suggestions on this information 
collection to the Desk Officer for the Department of the Interior at 
OMB-OIRA at (202) 395-5806 (fax) or [email protected] 
(email). Please provide a copy of your comments to the Service 
Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service, MS BPHC, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041-3803 
(mail), or [email protected] (email). Please include ``1018-LCD'' 
in the subject line of your comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information 
about this ICR, contact Tina Campbell at [email protected] (email) 
or 703-358-2676 (telephone). You may review the ICR online at http://www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to review Department of the 
Interior information collections under review by OMB.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Information Collection Request

    OMB Control Number: 1018-XXXX.
    Title: Revealing Opportunities for Local-Level Stakeholder 
Engagement and Social Science Inquiry in Landscape Conservation Design.
    Service Form Number: None.
    Type of Request: Request for a new OMB control number.
    Description of Respondents: Individuals, private sector, and State 
and local governments.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Frequency of Collection: One time.

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                                                   Number of      Completion time per response     Total annual
                   Activity                         annual       (10 minutes for initial contact   burden hours
                                                   responses         +  60-minute interview)         (rounded)
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Complete Interview--Individuals...............               5  70 minutes......................               6
Complete Interview--Private Sector............              35  70 minutes......................              41
Complete Interview--State, Local, and Tribal                50  70 minutes......................            58.3
 Governments.
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    Total.....................................              90  ................................             105
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    Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: None.
    Abstract: We have entered into a cooperative agreement with Cornell 
University to study the role of local stakeholder engagement and social 
data integration in Landscape Conservation Design (LCD) planning and 
implementation processes. Promoting ecosystem-level conservation based 
on LCD will rely on engaging local stakeholders, i.e., local community 
members and locally based interest groups potentially impacted by 
conservation actions, in conservation design, planning, and 
implementation processes. To date, no systematic assessment of local 
stakeholders' role in LCD has been conducted. Lacking such assessment, 
questions remain as to what, when, and where social data (related to 
stakeholders' values, interests, and knowledge) and public engagement 
(the direct participation of

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stakeholders in information sharing and decision making) are most 
valuable in LCD processes. Information gathered in this study will 
provide essential, non-duplicative data and insights for ongoing and 
future LCD efforts. In addition to literature review and participant 
observation, this study will employ a multiple case study approach 
focused on three LCD efforts. We will conduct semi-structured 
interviews of 90 non-Federal LCD partners and local stakeholders to 
ascertain how LCD efforts have attempted to integrate social 
information, how these efforts have worked, and how they might be 
improved under varying social-ecological conditions.

Comments Received and Our Responses

    On May 19, 2016, we published in the Federal Register (81 FR 31654) 
a notice of our intent to request that OMB approve this information 
collection. In that notice, we solicited comments for 60 days, ending 
on July 18, 2016. We received two comments from the same individual in 
response to that notice. The commenter did not address the information 
collection requirements.

Request for Public Comments

    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
     Ways to minimize the burden of the collection of 
information on respondents.

Submitting Comments

    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 and us in your comment to withhold your personal 
identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that it 
will be done.

Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and Management Programs, U.S. 
Fish and Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 2016-25108 Filed 10-17-16; 8:45 am]
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