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OMB Control No: 1024-0021	ICR Reference No: 201704-1024-001
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201401-1024-001
Agency/Subagency: DOI/NPS	Agency Tracking No:
Title: National Capital Region Application for Public Gathering, 36 CFR 7.96 (g)
Type of Information Collection: Extension without change of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 08/02/2017
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 05/26/2017
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	08/31/2020	36 Months From Approved	08/31/2017
Responses	7,477	0	7,346
Time Burden (Hours)	6,188	0	6,123
Cost Burden (Dollars)	152,280	0	139,200

Abstract: The Public Gathering Permit System is an extension of the National Park Service (NPS) statutory responsibilities to protect the park areas it administers and to manage public use. NPS regulations, as applicable to demonstrations and special events in National Capital Region (NCR) parks, are designed to implement statutory mandates to provide for resource protection and public enjoyment. These regulations reflect the special demands on many of the urban NCR parks as sites for demonstrations and special events. The NPS collects information in the Public Gathering Permit application to allow NPS officials to determine that groups conducting demonstrations and special events will use adequate measures to ensure order within their own ranks and to assist in protecting demonstrating groups. Permit applications also provide a means to request waivers of numerical limitations on the White House sidewalk and in Lafayette Park and to ensure demonstrating groups take adequate measures to minimize the possibility of danger to the White House and its occupants.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 54 USC 100101 Name of Law: The NPS Organic Act

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	81 FR 62172	09/08/2016
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	82 FR 24395	05/26/2017
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	7,477	7,346	131
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	6,188	6,123	65
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	152,280	139,200	13,080

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: We are reporting 7,477 annual responses totaling 6,188 burden hours and $152,280 in non-hour burden costs. This is a net increase of 131 responses, 65 annual burden hours, and $13,080 in non-hour costs. The increase is annual burden is attributed to a rather slight increase in the overall number of applications received since the last report. The increase in non-hour costs is attributed to realigning the cost with each information collection corresponding to a response for a special event rather than estimating it across each response for an Application for a Public Gathering as was previously reported. This submission aligns the application fee to requests for special events.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $295,945

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Is the Supporting Statement intended to be a Privacy Impact Assessment required by the E-Government Act of 2002? No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Uncollected

Agency Contact: Tim Goddard 970 420-9590 tim_goddard@nps.gov

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