[Federal Register: October 29, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 209)]
[Notices]
[Page 61679-61680]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Federal Acknowledgment; Documented Petitions for
Federal Acknowledgment as an Indian Tribe, Submission to OMB for
Renewal
AGENCY: Office of Federal Acknowledgment, 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 the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget for extension.
DATES: Submit comments on or before November 28, 2003.
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, 725 17th Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20503. Please send a duplicate copy to R. Lee Fleming,
Director, Office of Federal Acknowledgment, Office of the Assistant
Secretary--Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street,
NW., MS-4660 MIB, Washington, DC 20240.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of the information or copies of the information collection
submission should be directed to R. Lee Fleming, Director, Office of
Federal Acknowledgment, Office of the Assistant Secretary--Indian
Affairs, Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street, NW., MS-4660 MIB,
Washington, DC 20240. You may also call (202) 208-3592.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Abstract
The information collection is needed to establish whether a
petitioning group has the characteristics necessary to be acknowledged
as having a sovereign-to-sovereign relationship with the United States.
Federal acknowledgment makes the group eligible for benefits from the
Federal government.
II. Method of Collection
The Federal acknowledgment regulations at 25 CFR Part 83 contain
seven criteria (Sec. 83.7) which groups seeking Federal acknowledgment
as Indian tribes must demonstrate that they meet. Information collected
from petitioning groups under these regulations provide
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 sovereign-
to-sovereign relationship with the United States. Respondents are not
required to retain copies of information submitted to the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, but will probably maintain copies for their own use. No
periodic reports are required.
III. Data
Title: Collection of Information for Federal Acknowledgment Under
25 CFR part 83.
OMB Number: 1076-0104.
Expiration Date: September 30, 2003.
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 the status of a tribal
entity in order to be eligible for funding and services from the Bureau
of Indian Affairs by virtue of their status as Indian tribes.
Estimated Number of Petitioners: 10.
Estimated Time per Petition: 2,237.7 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 22,377.
Estimated Annual Salary Costs: $895,080 (2,237.7 hours x $40.00 per
hour x 10).
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 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
the 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: October 22, 2003.
Aurene M. Martin,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 03-27199 Filed 10-28-03; 8:45 am]