[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
Documented Petitions for Federal Acknowledgment as an Indian
Tribe, Submission to OMB for Renewal
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces that the Information Collection Request
for Documented Petitions for Federal Acknowledgment as an Indian Tribe
is submitted to Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget for extension.
DATES: Submit comments on or before March 30, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Send your written comments to Attention: Desk Officer for
the Department of the Interior, Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, either by facsimile to 202-
395-6566 or by e-mail to OIRA_DOCKET@omb.eop.gov. Please send a
duplicate copy to R. Lee Fleming, Director, Office of Federal
Acknowledgment, Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs, 1951 Constitution
Avenue, NW., MS-34B SIB, Washington, DC 20240.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection submission should be directed to
R. Lee Fleming, Director, Office of Federal Acknowledgment, Assistant
Secretary--Indian Affairs, 1951 Constitution Avenue, NW., MS-34B SIB,
Washington, DC 20240. You may also call (202) 513-7650.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The information collection is needed to establish whether a
petitioning group has the characteristics necessary to be acknowledged
as having a government-to-government relationship with the United
States. Federal recognition makes the group eligible for benefits from
the Federal government. No respondents made any comments regarding this
information collection.
II. Method of Collection
The acknowledgment regulations at 25 CFR Part 83 contain seven
criteria (Sec. 83.7) which unrecognized groups seeking Federal
acknowledgment as Indian tribes must demonstrate that they meet.
Information collected from petitioning groups under these regulations
provides anthropological, genealogical and historical data used by the
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs to establish whether a petitioning
group has the characteristics necessary to be acknowledged as having a
government-to-government relationship with the United States. BIA forms
8304, 8305, and 8306 are optional in providing a complete list of
members of the group seeking recognition. Respondents are not required
to retain copies of information submitted to the Department of the
Interior but will probably maintain copies for their own use. No
periodic reports are required.
III. Data
Title: Documents for Petition for Federal Acknowledgment as an
Indian Tribe, 25 CFR Part 83.
OMB Control Number: 1076-0104.
Current Expiration Date: February 28, 2007.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Affected Entities: Groups petitioning for Federal acknowledgment as
Indian tribes.
Response: Respondents are seeking to obtain a benefit.
Estimated Annual Number of Petitioners: 10.
Estimated Time per Petition: 2,075 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 20,750.
IV. Request for Comments
You are invited to comment on:
(a) Whether the collection of information is necessary 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 (including
hours and cost) of the proposed collection of
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information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
used;
(c) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
(d) Ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other collection techniques or
forms of information technology.
Burden means the total time, effort, or financial resources
expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or
provide information to or for a federal agency. This includes the time
needed to review instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize
technology and systems for the purpose of collecting, validating, and
verifying information, processing and maintaining information, and
disclosing and providing information; to train personnel and to be able
to respond to a collection of information, to search data sources, to
complete and review the collection of information; and to transmit or
otherwise disclose the information.
Individual respondents may request confidentiality. If you wish to
request that we consider withholding your name, street address, and
other contact information (such as Internet address, FAX, or phone
number) from public review or from disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act, you must state this prominently at the beginning of
your comment. We will make available for public inspection in their
entirety all submissions from organizations or businesses, and from
individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses.
An 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.
OMB has up to 60 days to make a decision on the submission for
renewal, but may make the decision after 30 days. Therefore, to receive
the best consideration of your comments, you should submit them closer
to 30 days than 60 days.
Dated: February 23, 2007.
Grayford Payne,
Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. E7-3498 Filed 2-27-07; 8:45 am]
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