[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 163 (Tuesday, August 24, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46211-46212]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-21909]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
60-Day Notice of Intention To Request Clearance of Collection of
Information; Opportunity for Public Comment
AGENCY: Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 5 CFR Part 1320,
Reporting and Record Keeping Requirements, the National Park Service
(NPS) invites public comments on a proposed collection of information.
NPS specifically requests comments on: (1) The need for the information
being collected, including whether the information has practical
utility; (2) the validity and accuracy of the reporting burden
estimate; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4) ways to minimize the burden of the
information collection on respondents, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
NPS requests comments on a proposed research and collecting permit
and reporting system that will consolidate and streamline an existing
array of information collection instruments used by applicants to apply
to parks for research and collecting permits for natural or social
science activities that require permits. NPS will use the information
you submit to
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determine whether or not to make modifications to the proposed research
and collecting permit and reporting system. Once NPS makes any
modifications that it may decide to adopt, NPS plans to submit a
proposed collection of information package to OMB with a request that
OMB approve the package and assign an OMB clearance number to the two
collection of information forms that are part of this system.
You may obtain copies of the proposed application form, permit
form, reporting form, and related guidance and explanatory material
from the NPS website at: http://www.nature.nps.gov/ResearchPermit/. You
also may obtain copies of the documents and additional information from
the source identified below.
DATES: Public comments on the proposed ICR will be accepted on or
before October 25, 1999.
SEND COMMENTS TO: John G. Dennis, Natural Resources, National Park
Service, 1849 C Street NW., Room 3223-MIB, Washington, DC 20240. Voice:
202-208-5193. Fax. 202-208-4620. Email: researchcoll@nps.gov.
If you wish to comment, you may submit your comments by any one of
several methods. You may mail comments to the postal address given
here. You may also comment via the Internet to the email address given
here. Please submit Internet comments as an ASCII file avoiding the use
of special characters and any form of encryption. Please also include
``Attn: NPS Research and Collecting Permit and Reporting System'' and
your name and return address in your Internet message. If you do not
receive a confirmation from the system that we have received your
Internet message, contact us directly at the phone number given here.
Finally, you may hand-deliver comments to the address given here. Our
practice is to make comments, including names and home addresses of
respondents, available for public review during regular business hours.
Individual respondents may request that we withhold their home address
from the record, which we will honor to the extent allowable by law.
There also may be circumstances in which we would withhold from the
record a respondent's identity, as allowable by law. If you wish us to
withhold your name and/or address, you must state this prominently at
the beginning of your comment. However, we will not consider anonymous
comments. We will make all submissions from organizations or
businesses, and from individuals identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of organizations or businesses, available
for public inspection in their entirety.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John G. Dennis, Natural Resources,
National Park Service, 1849 C Street NW, Room 3223-MIB, Washington, DC
20240. Voice: 202-208-5193. Fax: 202-208-4620. Email:
researchcoll@nps.gov.
TO REQUEST PRINTED COPIES OF THE DOCUMENTS CONTACT: Tim Goddard,
National Park Service, 1201 Oak Ridge Dr., Suite 250, Fort Collins, CO
80525. Fax: 970-225-9965. Email: tim__goddard@nps.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: National Park Service Research and Collecting Permit System.
Departmental Form Number: None.
OMB Number: To be requested.
Expiration date: To be requested.
Type of request: New clearance.
Description of need: The proposed information collection responds
to the statutory requirement that NPS preserve park resources and
regulate the use of units of the National Park System. The information
proposed to be collected identifies: (1) People who seek to conduct
natural or social science research and collecting activities in
individual units of the National Park System, (2) what activities they
wish to conduct, (3) where they wish to conduct the activities, (4)
what kinds of results they expect to obtain from the activities they
propose to conduct, and (5) once permitted, the actual results of their
permitted activities. NPS will use the collected information for
managing the use and preservation of park resources and for reporting
the status of permitted research and collecting activities.
Automated data collection: The proposed information collection and
status reporting systems will be made available to applicants and the
public through the NPS website. NPS proposes to use Internet automation
to facilitate the permit application and progress reporting process.
Description of Respondents: Representatives of: academic and other
research institutions, Federal, state, or local agencies, research
businesses; other scientific parties seeking an NPS research and
collecting permit; permittees who submit the annual report of
accomplishment that is one of the permit conditions.
Estimated average number of respondents: 3,000 per year.
Estimated average burden hours per response: 1 hour.
Estimated annual reporting burden: 3,000 hours.
Leonard E. Stowe,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service, WAPC.
[FR Doc. 99-21909 Filed 8-23-99; 8:45 am]
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