IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA


ELOUISE PEPION COBELL, et al., ) 
) 
Plaintiffs, ) 
) 
v. ) Case No. 1:96CV01285 
) (Judge Robertson) 
DIRK KEMPTHORNE, Secretary of the Interior, ) 
et al., ) 
) 
Defendants. ) 

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NOTICE OF FILING OF DECEMBER 2006 STATUS REPORT BY 
THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFICE OF TRUST RECORDS 

The Department of the Interior Office of Trust Records hereby submits its status report 

for activity in December 2006. A copy of the report is attached hereto. 

Dated: January 16, 2007 
Respectfully submitted, 
PETER D. KEISLER 
Assistant Attorney General 
STUART E. SCHIFFER 
Deputy Assistant Attorney General 

J. CHRISTOPHER KOHN 
Director 
/s/ Robert E. Kirschman, Jr. 
ROBERT E. KIRSCHMAN, Jr. 

(D.C. Bar No. 406635) 
Assistant Director 
Commercial Litigation Branch 
Civil Division 
P.O. Box 875 
Ben Franklin Station 
Washington, D.C. 20044-0875 
Phone (202) 616-0238 
Fax (202) 514-9163 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 

I hereby certify that, on January 16, 2007 the foregoing Notice of Filing of December 
2006 Status Report by the Department of the Interior Office of Trust Records was served by 
Electronic Case Filing, and on the following who is not registered for Electronic Case Filing, by 
facsimile: 

Earl Old Person (Pro se) 
Blackfeet Tribe 

P.O. Box 850 
Browning, MT 59417 
Fax (406) 338-7530 
/s/ Kevin P. Kingston 
Kevin P. Kingston 


ACTMTY RFA~RT
OFFICE OF TRUST RECORDS
December 1 - 31, 2006


Labat-Anderson (Lahat Indexing Project) 

Labat reportexl that indexing of 1,140 boxes 0finaotive Indian records was 

completed in December 2006. The total number of boxes completed through 

December 2006 is approximatelyl 51,675. 

Movement of Records 

The Bureau of Indian Affairs 0~IA) and Office of the Special Trustee (OST) 

moved 2,441. boxes of inactive records from vaxious field locations to Lenexa, 

Kansas, for indexing and subsequent storage, at the American Indian Records 

Repository (AIRR) during this reporting period. 

Records R~tention Schedules 

In December 2006, OTR completed development of record retention schedules 

for the following BIA electronic records systems: Social Services Assistance 

System, Progeny, Facilities Management Information System, Fee-to-trust, 

Identity Information System, National Integrated Oil and Gas Electronic 

Management System, Timber Sales Accounting and Report Program/Operations 

Inventory, and Colorado River Electrical Utility Managemem System. 

Records retention schedules for the following OST electronic records systems 

were developed and forwarded to NARA during the last week of EMcember 2006: 

Risk Managemerrt Plus, Trust Bc:neficiary Cldl Center, and LockboxiTrust Funds 

P, eceivable Application. 

Site Assessments Statement 

During the month of December,the Office of Trust Review and Audit issued final 
records assessment reports for Minnesota Agency, Umatilla Agency, andCrow 
Creek Agency BIA offices; and Umafilla.Agency and Crow Creek Agency IIM 

offices. 

Records Training 

OTR provided records management training for 49 BIA and OST records 

conta~s. OTR inadvertently reported tlmt lg BIA and OST records contacts were 

trained in November 2006. The number of records comacts trained was actually. 


17. The November Monthly Activity Report is hereby cOrrected to refleot the
correct number: 

Equipment 

41 pieces of firepr0offiling equipment were delivered to tribal offices in 
December 2006. 

Litigation Support and Research Requests 

OTK continued to provide significant support to the Office of the Solicitor, Office 
0fHistorical Trust Accounting and its contractors, and the Department oflustice 
and its contractors. AIRR staffprovided responses to 216 research requests from 
BIA, OST and other requesters. 

ADMINISTRATIVE: General administrative activities cominued. 

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS: None. 

declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct 1o the best of myknowledge, information and b~lief..I express no opinion on the content of~he Site 
Assessments Statement described above. 

Ethel J. Abeit~" 

I declare under penalty of perjury that the content of the Site Assessments Sfatement 
described above is ~rue and correct to the best of’my knowledge, information and. 
I express no opinion on the contents of other secfions/subseoti0ns of the report. 

Director, Office of Trust Review and Audit 

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