[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 75 (Friday, April 18, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19124-19125]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-10025]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
Information Collection Request Submitted for Reinstatement
Approval
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces that the Fish and Wildlife Service
(Service) has submitted a proposal for the collection of information
described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
reinstatement approval under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. Copies of the information collection requirement, related
forms, and explanatory material may be obtained by containing the
Service's Information Collection Clearance Officer at the phone number
listed below. The Service is soliciting comments and suggestions on the
requirements as described below.
DATES: Comments should be submitted on or before May 19, 1997.
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ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs; Office of Management and Budget; Attention: Desk
Officer for the Department of the Interior; Washington, DC 20240; and a
copy of the comments should be sent to the Information Collection
Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (MS 224 ARL SQ), 1849
C Street, NW., Washington, DC 20240.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Phyllis H. Cook, Information Collection Clearance Officer, 703/358-
1943; 703/358-2269 (fax).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 26, 1996, the Service published
in the Federal Register (61 FR 2470), a proposed rule which amended the
test protocol for nontoxic shot approval procedures for shot and shot
coatings. The principal purpose of this proposed rule making is to
update and amend the current nontoxic shot approval procedures by
establishing a 3-tiered approval process. Shot approval will be
considered at each tier with the testing procedures becoming more
demanding. An environmentally benign shot could be granted approval at
the first tier. This process is designed to include both candidate shot
and shot coating.
Comments were not solicited on the information collection
requirements contained in the proposed rule cited above. The Service is
now soliciting comments on the proposed information collection
requirements prior to the issuance of the final rule amending the
nontoxic shot approval procedures. The public is invited to comment on:
(1) Whether the collection of information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility (2) the accuracy of the
agency's estimate of the burden of the collection of information; (3)
ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to
be collected; and, (4) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents on the requirements as outlined below.
Title: Text Protocol for Nontoxic Approval Procedures for Shot and
Shot Coatings.
OMB Approval Number: 1018-0067.
Description and Use: As of January 1991, lead shot was banned for
hunting waterfowl and coots in the United States. Steel shot was the
only nontoxic alternative available. Since then, the Service has
encouraged manufacturers to develop other alternatives that the hunting
public may use. In approving a candidate material as nontoxic for
hunting waterfowl and coots, the Service must first ensure that the
secondary exposure (ingestion of spent shot or its components) are not
a hazard to migratory birds and the environment. In order to make this
decision, the Service requires that applicant to submit information
collected about the toxicity of their candidate material to migratory
birds and the environment. This data provides the bulk of the
application.
The information from scientific literature, risk assessment
analysis, and toxicity studies, will be gathered and packaged by the
applicant (company producing and/or marketing the shot or shot
coating). The Service will utilize the information about the candidate
material to approve or deny a designation as nontoxic for hunting
waterfowl and coots.
Frequency of collection: On occasion.
Description of respondents: Business or other for-profit; not-for-
profit institutions.
Estimated completion time: The Service estimates it will take 3,200
hours for an applicant to submit the requested information.
Annual responses: 1.
Annual burden hours: 3,200.
Dated: March 21, 1997.
Carolyn A. Bohan,
Assistant Director, Refuges and Wildlife.
[FR Doc. 97-10025 Filed 4-17-97; 8:45 am]
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