IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

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

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NOTICE OF FILING OF FEBRUARY 2007 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 February 2007. A copy of the report is attached hereto. 
Dated: March 15, 2007	Respectfully submitted, PETER D. KEISLER Assistant Attorney General MICHAEL F. HERTZ Deputy Assistant Attorney General 
J. CHRISTOPHER KOHN Director
  /s/ Robert E. Kirschman, Jr. ROBERT E. KIRSCHMAN, Jr. 
(D.C. Bar No. 406635) Deputy 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 March 15, 2007 the foregoing Notice of Filing of February 2007 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 
ACTIVITY REPORT OWICEOFTRUSTRECORDS 
February 1 -28,2007 
PROGRAMNIATIC:: 

e Labat-Anderson (Labat Indexing Project) 
Labat reponed that indexing of 824 boxes of inactive Indian records was completed in February 2007. The total number of boxes completed through February 2007 is approximately153,550. 
e Movement of Records 
The Bureau of Indian Mairs (BIA) and OEce of the Special Trustee (OST) moved 1,17 1 boxes of inactive records from various field Iocations to Lenexa, Kansas, for indexing and subsequent storage ax the American Indian Records Repository (AZRR)during this reporting period. 
e Site Assessments Statement 
During the month of February, the Office of Trusr Review and Audit issued final records assessment reports for the Western Nevada Agency and Choctaw Agency BIA ofices and the Ofice of the Special Trustee Budget, Finance and Administration, Albuquerque office. 
e Records Training 
OTR provided records management training for 153BIA, OST and Tribal records contacts. OTR provided training on vital records for 39 BIA and OST employees. 
e Equipment 
265 pieces of fireproof filing equipment were delivered to BIA, OSTand Tribal 
offices in February 2007. 
e Boxes Requiring Preservation andlor Remediation 
In February, the OTR contractor completed work on the six boxes which required conservation. As previously reponed, only two boxes out of the six contain trust records. The conservator separated pages, flattened documents, cleaned documents, repaired documents, and set up parallel files as necessary (parallel files are composed of copies of the original documents which will be used for research, when necessary, in order PO safeguard the original documents). The large maps were cleaned, repaired and flattened (flattened when possible). 
Although previously OTR reponed that the maps would be copied, OTRdoes not 
anticipate copying these maps unless there is a need to do so. 
e Litigation Support and Research Requests 
OTRcontinued to provide significant support to the Office of the Solicitor, Ofice of Historical Tmst Accounting and its contractors, and the Deparunent of Justice and its contractors. AlRR staffprovided responses to 181research requests fiom BIA, OSTand other requesters. 
ADMINISaTRGTWE: General administrative activities continued. 
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS:None. 
I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct to the best of my knowledge, informarion and belief. I[ express no opinion on the content of the Site Assessments Statement described above. 
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I declare under penalty of perjury that the conrent of the Site Assessments Statement 
described above is true and correct to the best of my knowledge, information and belief: 
I express no opinion on the contents of other sections/subseaions of the report. 


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Jeff Lords Director, Office of Trust Review and Audit