[Federal Register: February 28, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 39)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Submission of Information Collection for Probate to the Office of
Management and Budget
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Submission to Office of Management and Budget for
renewal.
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SUMMARY: As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are
submitting to the Office of Management and Budget the information
collection found in the general Probate of Indian Decedents' Estates,
Except for Member of the Five Civilized Tribes regulations. The purpose
of this data collection is to ensure that Probate regulations are
administered for the benefit of individual Indians and any persons
having claims against an Indian decedent's estate.
DATES: Comments on this proposed information collection must be
received by March 30, 2007.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments to the Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior by e-mail to OIRA_DOCKET@omb.eop.gov. or by
facsimile to (202) 395-6566.
Send a copy of the comments to Bill Titchwy, Bureau of Indian
Affairs Western Regional Office, Division of Probate, 400 N. Fifth
Street, 10th Floor, Two Arizona Center, Phoenix, AZ 85004. Comments may
also be telefaxed to (602) 379-4005. We cannot accept E-mail comments
at this time.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William Titchwy, 602-379-4002.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The information provided through collection
requirements is used by the Department of the Interior, BIA, to
determine heirs and divide any funds held by the BIA for an Indian
decedent and to divide the decedent's trust and restricted real
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property. The information is particularly used by the Bureau of Indian
Affairs in:
(a) Instructing an individual in starting the probate process;
(b) Preparing a probate package for review;
(c) Filing claims;
(d) Disbursing assets; and
(e) Filing appeals for adverse decisions.
Request for Comments
A notice requesting comments was published in the Federal Register
November 1, 2006 (71 FR 64391). No comments were received. The Bureau
of Indian Affairs now requests your comments on this collection be sent
to the Desk Officer for the Department of Interior at the Office of
Management and Budget. Please address the following:
(a) The necessity of this information collection for the proper
performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) The accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden (hours and
cost) of the collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Ways we could enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
(d) Ways we could minimize the burden of the collection of the
information on the respondents, such as facilitating use of automation
for collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Please note that an agency may not sponsor or request, and an
individual need not respond to, a collection of information unless it
has a valid OMB Control Number.
OMB has 60 days in which to make a decision about this collection
but may act after 30 days. Therefore, to ensure maximum consideration
of your comments, please send close to the 30 days after publication.
OMB Control Number: 1076-0156.
Type of Review: Renewal.
Title: Probate of Indian Estates, Except for Members of the Five
Civilized Tribes, 25 CFR 15.
Brief Description of Collection: Information is collected through
the probate process when BIA learns of a decedent's death from a
neighbor, friend, or any other interested person who provides a copy of
decedent's obituary notice from a local newspaper or when BIA receives
an affidavit of death prepared by someone who knows about the decedent.
BIA also requires other documents to process the probate package. An
interested party must inform BIA if any of the documents or information
identified are not available.
Respondents: Possible respondents include: Individual tribal
members, individual non-Indians, individual tribal member-owned
businesses, non-Indian owned businesses, tribal governments, and land
owners who are seeking a benefit.
Number of Responses: 208,073 annually.
Annual hours: 1,129,157.
Estimated Time per Response: Varies from 1/2 to 44.25 hours.
Frequency of Response: As required.
Dated: February 23, 2007.
Grayford Payne,
Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
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