Information Collection Submitted to the Office of Management and Budget for Review Under the Paperwork Reduction Act

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Biological Service

Information Collection Submitted to the Office of Management and

Budget for Review Under the Paperwork Reduction Act

The proposal for the collection of information listed below has

been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget for approval

under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter

35). Copies of the proposed collection of information and related forms

may be obtained by contacting the Service's clearance officer at the

phone number listed below. Comments and suggestions on the proposal

should be made directly to the bureau clearance officer and to the

Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project,

Washington, D.C. 20503, telephone (202) 395-7340, with copies of Anne

Frondorf, Information and Technology Services, MS 3660, National

Biological Service, 1849 C St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20240.

Title: Information Surveys for the National Biological Information

Infrastructure.

Abstract: The National Biological Service is developing a National

Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) which will provide

increased electronic (Internet) access to data and information on

biological resources that are available from many different sources

around the U.S. NBS works with public agencies and private

organizations that wish to make the biological data and information

they maintain more accessible through the NBII by helping them prepare,

describe, and electronically serve their data and information. NBS

wishes to collect information, through a set of three related surveys,

to better identify prospective sources of biological data and

information that could be made electronically accessible to the public

through the NBII. Information will be collected through surveys in the

following three areas: identifying and describing State-level

biological data and information bases, identifying and describing

sources of taxonomic expertise, and identifying and describing research

systematics collections.

Bureau form number: none.

Frequency: Three related surveys will each be completed one time.

Resulting information will be made electronically accessible via the

National Biological Information Infrastructure. [[Page 30099]]

Description of respondents: Individuals, Federal, State, and local

government agencies, non-profit institutions, and businesses and other

for-profits.

Estimated completion time: 1 hour for the survey of State biological

data and information bases; .5 hour for the survey of taxonomic

expertise; 1 hour for the survey of systematics collections.

Annual responses: 500 for the survey of State biological data and

information bases; 500 for the survey of taxonomic expertise; 500 for

the survey of systematics collections.

Annual burden hours: 500 for the survey of State biological data and

information bases; 250 for the survey of taxonomic expertise; 500 for

the survey of systematics collections.

Bureau clearance officer: Don W. Minnich, (202) 482-4838.

Dated: May 25, 1995.

Doyle G. Frederick,

Assistant Director.

[FR Doc. 95-13847 Filed 6-6-95; 8:45 am]

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