[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 101 (Friday, May 24, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31573-31574]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-12444]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

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Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request: Social Values 
of Ecosystem Services at Cape Lookout National Seashore

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: We (National Park Service) will ask the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) to approve the Information Collection Request (ICR) 
described below. This collection will be used to survey two subsets of 
visitor groups and local community members about the values they place 
on cultural and natural resources at Cape Lookout National Seashore 
(CALO). To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and as a 
part of our continuing efforts to reduce paperwork and respondent 
burden, we invite the general public and other Federal agencies to 
comment on this ICR. A Federal 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.

DATES: To ensure that your comments on this ICR are considered, OMB 
must receive them on or before June 24, 2013.

ADDRESSES: Please submit written comments on this information 
collection directly to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Office 
of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Desk Officer for the 
Department of the Interior, via email to [email protected] 
or fax at 202-395-5806; and identify your submission as 1024-NEW: CALO 
Survey. Please also send a copy of your comments to Phadrea Ponds, 
Information Collection Coordinator, National Park Service, 1201 
Oakridge Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80525 (mail); or [email protected] (email). Please reference Information Collection 1024-
NEW: CALO Survey in the subject line.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eva DiDonato at [email protected] 
(email); or by mail at 1201 Oakridge Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80525. You 
may also access this ICR at www.reginfo.gov.

I. Abstract

    We will conduct a survey of Cape Lookout National Seashore visitors 
and a random sample of the general public in the local communities 
surrounding the park. The collection will be used to understand the 
social values that visitors and residents of the local community place 
on cultural and natural resources of the park. The information from 
this collection will provide National Park Service managers and 
planners with scientifically sound data about visitors that can be used 
to prepare resource management planning documents.

II. Data

    OMB Control Number: None. This is a new collection.
    Title: Social Values of Ecosystem Services at Cape Lookout National 
Seashore.
    Type of Request: New.
    Affected Public: General Public; Park Visitors and Local Residents.
    Respondent Obligation: Voluntary.
    Frequency of Collection: One time.
    Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 5,547.
    Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 842 hours. We estimate the public 
reporting burden will average 20 minutes to

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complete the visitor or resident survey and two minutes to complete the 
initial onsite contact and/or nonresponse survey.
    Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-Hour Cost'': 
None.

III. Request for Comments

    On August 2, 2012, we published a Federal Register notice (77 FR 
46113) announcing that we would submit this ICR to OMB for approval. 
Public comments were solicited for 60 days ending October 1, 2012. We 
received one comment that did not address the information collection 
requirements; therefore, we did not make any changes to this collection 
based on this comment.
    We again invite comments concerning this ICR on: (1) Whether or not 
the proposed collection of information is necessary for the agency to 
perform its duties, including whether or not the information will have 
practical utility; (2) the accuracy of our estimate of the burden for 
this 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, 
including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of 
information technology.
    Please note that the comments submitted 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 in your comment to withhold your 
personal identifying information from public review, we cannot 
guarantee that it will be done.

    Dated: May 21, 2013.
Leonard Stowe,
Acting Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 2013-12444 Filed 5-23-13; 8:45 am]
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