Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASCs)

USGS sent another Paperwork Reduction Act package to OMB — the kind of collection notice scientists forget until a field crew needs the form.

Information-collection renewals keep the Survey's monitoring and research paperwork legal; skip the comment window and you lose the only public lever on burden hours.

Filing abstract (agency text): In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is proposing to renew an information collection authorization. Projects supported under this cooperative agreement should advance Administration priorities, including, but not limited to, American energy dominance, critical mineral development, water security, infrastructure resilience, and natural hazard preparedness. Research and activities may incorporate scientific expertise in areas such as hydrology, geology, ge…

State geological surveys and cooperator labs: check which instruments and respondent classes the ICR covers before the comment clock runs out.

Federal Register filing: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/17/2026-19048/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-to-the-office-of-management-and-budget-for

This is a Notice Nearby publisher-desk Federal brief — a short in-house summary of a public federal filing. It is not official agency minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication. It does not satisfy a statutory notice requirement.