Notice2025-01241
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Hydrography Addressing Tool
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Published
January 21, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentGeological Survey
Abstract
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is proposing to renew an information collection with revisions.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 21, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7155-7156]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01241]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey
[GX20EG31DW50100; OMB Control Number 1028-0129]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Hydrography
Addressing Tool
AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995,
the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is proposing to renew an information
collection with revisions.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
February 20, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection request (ICR) by selecting ``Currently under
Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
Please provide a copy of your comments by mail to U.S. Geological
Survey, Information Collections Officer, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS
159, Reston, VA 20192: or by email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4225316f2b2c242d1d212d2e2e2721362b2d2c3102373125316c252d34"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1c7b6f3175727a73437f737070797f687573726f5c696f7b6f327b736a">[email protected]</span></a>.
Please reference OMB Control Number 1028-0129 in the subject line of
your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Tinker by email at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2a474e5e4344414f586a5f594d59044d455c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="274a43534e494c4255675254405409404851">[email protected]</span></a> or by telephone at 303-202-4476. 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.
You may also view the ICR at <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the PRA of 1995 (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.
A Federal Register notice with a 60-day public comment period
soliciting comments on this collection of information was published on
October 1, 2024, 89 FR 79945. No comments were received.
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 the agency might 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 personally identifiable information (PII) in your
comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--including your
PII--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us
in your comment to withhold your PII from public review, we cannot
guarantee that we will be able to do so.
Abstract: This 30-day notice is a renewal, with revisions, for the
Hydrography Addressing Tool (HydroAdd), a website developed by the USGS
National Geospatial Program, National Geospatial Technical Operations
Center (NGTOC).
HydroAdd supports users by providing a mechanism for addressing (or
referencing) diverse external datasets to the National Hydrography
Dataset (NHD). For example, a user can utilize HydroAdd to reference
the geographic locations of field observations of fish presence to the
NHD. HydroAdd provides a framework for the
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management of addressed data and enables upstream and down-stream
analyses within the context of the stream network. Any type of
information can be addressed to the stream network, making this tool
highly useful for a broad range of purposes that benefit the Nation.
HydroAdd users are members of the public, and include State, local,
private sector, academic, or other users with a basic knowledge of GIS.
To use HydroAdd, users must first share their geospatial data as a
hosted web feature service from ArcGIS Online. HydroAdd displays the
user's data as a web feature service in the browser window. Users can
then utilize HydroAdd to address their data to the NHD. Note that
HydroAdd does not allow users to edit the NHD. Users are strictly
limited to editing their own data.
The information collection request is the user registration. Users
must register at the HydroAdd website. When registering, users are
required to fill out a profile with a username and email contact. This
information is stored in the application database.
Modifications to improve the HydroAdd tool are currently in
development. The modifications were necessary (a) to allow HydroAdd to
use the latest hydrography product from the USGS 3D Hydrography Program
(3DHP); (b) to implement an open-source hosting service for user data
(GeoServer), rather than ArcGIS Online; (c) to authenticate users with
<a href="http://login.gov">login.gov</a> rather than <a href="http://ArcGIS.com">ArcGIS.com</a> or DOI; (d) to update some of the
underlying logic to speed GIS processing, and (e) to update the name of
the tool to HydroAdd3d. These modifications do not affect the
information collection.
Title of Collection: Hydrography Addressing Tool.
OMB Control Number: 1028-0129.
Form Number: NA.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: 100.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 100.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 100.
Estimated Completion Time per Response: 1 minute.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 1-2/3 hour.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One time, or as needed if respondent
business contact information changes.
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 PRA of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et
seq.).
Ray Postolovski,
Deputy Associate for Operations, National Geospatial Technical
Operations Center.
[FR Doc. 2025-01241 Filed 1-17-25; 8:45 am]
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