[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 6 (Tuesday, January 9, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1689-1690]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-516]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs


Education Facilities Replacement Construction Priority List as of 
FY 2000, With Additions

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Indian Affairs is adding seven educational 
facilities to the Education Facilities Replacement Construction 
Priority List (Priority List)

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published January 31, 2000 in the Federal Register (65 FR 4623). The 
added schools are the Tiospa Zina Tribal School, Wide Ruins Community 
School, Low Mountain Boarding School, St. Francis Indian School, Turtle 
Mountain High School, Mescalero Apache School, and Enemy Swim Day 
School. In the 1999 application ranking process for replacement school 
construction projects, these schools received the next highest rankings 
after the 10 educational facilities placed on the Priority List. The 
Bureau will use the Priority List to determine the order in which 
Congressional appropriations are requested for funding education 
facilities replacement construction projects. Construction funding is 
not yet currently available for all projects on the Priority List.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions regarding the Education 
Facilities Construction Priority List may be addressed to Dr. Kenneth 
G. Ross, Assistant Director, Office of Indian Education Programs, 201 
Third St. NW, Suite 510, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102, (505) 346-6544/
5/6, Fax (505) 346-6553.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BIA is adding Tiospa Zina Tribal School, 
Wide Ruins Community School, Low Mountain Boarding School, St. Francis 
Indian School, Turtle Mountain High School, Mescalero Apache School, 
and Enemy Swim Day School to the 13 schools shown on the Priority List, 
in the event that Congressional appropriations are available to fully 
fund construction costs for these 13 education facilities projects 
currently on the Priority List prior to the BIA conducting another 
nationwide application solicitation and ranking process.
    On the Priority List as of FY 2000, with Additions (see below), 
Tiospa Zina Tribal School is ranked No. 14, Wide Ruins Community School 
is ranked No. 15, Low Mountain Boarding School is ranked No. 16, St. 
Francis Indian School is ranked No. 17, Turtle Mountain High School is 
ranked No. 18, Mescalero Apache School is ranked No. 19, and Enemy Swim 
Day School is ranked No. 20. Education Facilities Replacement 
Construction projects on the Priority List will be funded for 
construction in the order in which they are ranked, as appropriations 
become available, unless a school is not ready for the next phase of 
funding. In accordance with Congressional directives, the projects do 
not provide for new school starts nor grade level expansions, and a new 
cost share demonstration program requires a tribe to contribute 50% of 
the construction cost of a replacement school. (Pub. L. 106-291, Sec. 
153)
    This notice is published under authority delegated by the Secretary 
of the Interior to the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs in the 
Departmental Manual at 209 DM 8.

Education Facilities Replacement Construction Priority List as of 
FY 2000, With Additions

1. Tuba City Boarding School
2. Second Mesa Day School
3. Zia Day School
4. Baca/Thoreau (Dlo'ay Azhi) Consolidated Community School
5. Lummi Tribal School
6. Wingate Elementary School
7. Polacca Day School
8. Holbrook Dormitory
9. Santa Fe Indian School (Cost Share*)
10. Ojibwa Indian School
11. Conehatta Elementary School (Cost Share*)
12. Paschal Sherman Indian School
13. Kayenta Boarding School
14. Tiospa Zina Tribal School
15. Wide Ruins Community School
16. Low Mountain Boarding School
17. St. Francis Indian School
18. Turtle Mountain High School
19. Mescalero Apache School
20. Enemy Swim Day School

* Tribe or tribal organization commits to cost share in application.

    Note: Tribe or tribal organization is required to cost share 50% 
of the cost for a replacement school. Conehatta Elementary School is 
the only school that committed to a 50% cost share in its 
application.


    Dated: December 27, 2000.
Kevin Gover,
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
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