Notice2023-20832
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget; Sea Lamprey Control Program
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Published
September 26, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentFish and Wildlife Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are proposing to renew an information collection, without change.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 185 (Tuesday, September 26, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66046-66048]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-20832]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R3-FAC-2023-N078; FF03F43100-XXXF1611NR; OMB Control Number 1018-
0179]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget; Sea Lamprey Control Program
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are proposing to renew an
information collection, without change.
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DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
October 26, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be submitted within 30 days of
publication of this notice at <a href="https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular information collection by selecting
``Currently under Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the
search function. Please provide a copy of your comments to the Service
Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, MS: PRB (JAO/3W), 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041-
3803 (mail); or by email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#8fc6e1e9e0d0cce0e3e3cfe9f8fca1e8e0f9"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c68fa8a0a99985a9aaaa86a0b1b5e8a1a9b0">[email protected]</span></a>. Please reference ``1018-
0179'' in the subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Madonna L. Baucum, Service Information
Collection Clearance Officer, by email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#125b7c747d4d517d7e7e527465613c757d64"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="eba2858d84b4a8848787ab8d9c98c58c849d">[email protected]</span></a>, or by
telephone at (703) 358-2503. Individuals in the United States who are
deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability may dial
711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay
services. Individuals outside the United States should use the relay
services offered within their country to make international calls to
the point-of-contact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), we
provide the general public and other Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on new, proposed, revised, and continuing
collections of information. This helps us assess the impact of our
information collection requirements and minimize the public's reporting
burden. It also helps the public understand our information collection
requirements and provide the requested data in the desired format.
On June 26, 2023, we published in the Federal Register (88 FR
41414) a notice of our intent to request that OMB approve this
information collection. In that notice, we solicited comments for 60
days, ending on August 25, 2023. In an effort to increase public
awareness of, and participation in, our public commenting processes
associated with information collection requests, the Service also
published the Federal Register notice on <a href="http://Regulations.gov">Regulations.gov</a> (Docket No.
FWS-R3-FAC-2023-0096) to provide the public with an additional method
to submit comments (in addition to the typical <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d29bbcb4bd8d91bdbebe92b4a5a1fcb5bda4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="93dafdf5fcccd0fcffffd3f5e4e0bdf4fce5">[email protected]</span></a> email
and U.S. mail submission methods). We received one comment in response
to that notice which did not address the information collection
requirements. No response to that comment is required.
As part of our continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent
burdens, we are again soliciting comments from the public and other
Federal agencies on the proposed ICR that is described below. We are
especially interested in public comment addressing the following:
(1) Whether or not the collection of information is necessary for
the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including
whether or not the information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the burden for this collection
of information, including the validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
(4) How might the agency minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g.,
permitting electronic submission of response.
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 us in your comment to withhold your personal
identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we
will be able to do so.
Abstract: Service staff at the Service's Marquette and Ludington
biological stations fulfill U.S. obligations under the Convention on
Great Lakes Fisheries Between the United States of America and Canada,
Washington, 1954, and the Great Lakes Fishery Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C.
931 et seq.). The Service works with State, Tribal, and other Federal
agencies to monitor progress towards fish community objectives for sea
lampreys in each of the Great Lakes, and also to develop and implement
actions to achieve these objectives. Activities are closely coordinated
with those of State, Tribal, and other Federal and provincial
management agencies, nongovernmental organizations, private landowners,
and the public. Our primary goal is to conduct ecologically sound and
publicly acceptable integrated sea lamprey control.
The Sea Lamprey Control Program is administered and funded by the
Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC) and implemented by two control
agents, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Fisheries and Oceans
Canada, who often partner on larger projects. The sea lamprey
(Petromyzon marinus), a parasitic fish species native to the Atlantic
Ocean, parasitizes other fish species by sucking their blood and other
bodily fluids. Having survived through at least four major extinction
events, the species has remained largely unchanged for more than 340
million years. The sea lamprey differs from many other fishes, in that
it does not have jaws or other bony structures, but instead has a
skeleton made of cartilage. Sea lampreys prey on most species of large
Great Lakes fish such as lake trout, salmon, lake sturgeon, whitefish,
burbot, walleye, and catfish.
In the 1800s, sea lampreys invaded the Great Lakes system via locks
and shipping canals. Their aggressive behavior and appetite for fish
blood wreaked havoc on native fish populations, decimating an already
vulnerable lake trout fishery. The first recorded observation of a sea
lamprey in the Great Lakes was in 1835 in Lake Ontario. For a time,
Niagara Falls served as a natural barrier, confining sea lampreys to
Lake Ontario and preventing them from entering the remaining four Great
Lakes. However, in the early 1900s, modifications were made to the
Welland Canal, which bypasses Niagara Falls and provides a shipping
connection between Lakes Ontario and Erie. These modifications allowed
sea lampreys access to the rest of the Great Lakes system. Within a
short time, sea lampreys spread throughout the system: into Lake Erie
by 1921, Lakes Michigan and Huron by 1936 and 1937, and Lake Superior
by 1938. Sea lampreys were able to thrive once they invaded the Great
Lakes, because of the availability of excellent spawning and larval
habitat, an abundance of host fish, a lack of predators, and their high
reproductive potential--a single female can produce as many as 100,000
eggs.
The Sea Lamprey Control Program (SLCP) maintains an internal
database. In existence for more than 20 years, it contains information
critical to the delivery and evaluation of an integrated control
program to manage invasive sea lamprey populations in the five Great
Lakes. The storage of data in this database not only documents the
history of the SLCP since inception in 1953, but
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it also provides data to steer assessment and control of invasive sea
lamprey populations in the Great Lakes in partnership with the GLFC. We
provide annual population data to Federal and State regulatory agencies
to inform critical evaluations used to receive the appropriate permits
to allow us to conduct sea lamprey control actions.
The SLCP database maintains the points of contact for landowners to
request landowner permission to access their land for treatment. The
Service collects basic contact information for the landowner (name,
home address, phone number, cell phone number, and email address),
along with alternate contact information, whether they allow access to
their land, methods of transportation allowed on property, whether a
gate key or gate combination is needed to access the land, whether the
landowner irrigates the land, and an opportunity to ask additional
questions about treatment or sea lamprey management.
Title of Collection: Sea Lamprey Control Program.
OMB Control Number: 1018-0179.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals, private sector, and
State/local/Tribal governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 640.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 640.
Estimated Completion Time per Response: 5 minutes.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 53 (rounded).
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: Annually.
Total Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: None.
An agency 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.
The authority for this action is the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
Madonna Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service.
[FR Doc. 2023-20832 Filed 9-25-23; 8:45 am]
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