[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 47 (Friday, March 9, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 14191]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-5833]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs


Sisseton and Wahpeton Mississippi Sioux Enrollment Application 
Deadline

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the deadline for filing enrollment 
applications to share in the Sisseton and Wahpeton Mississippi Sioux 
judgment fund distribution to the lineal descendants authorized under 
25 U.S.C. 1300d-3(b). This notice is published in accordance with the 
enrollment regulations contained in 25 CFR 61.4(s)(2).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Daisy West, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
Division of Tribal Government Services, MS-4631-MIB, 1849 C Street, 
NW., Washington, DC 20240. Telephone number: (202) 208-2475.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published in exercise of 
authority delegated to the Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs under 25 
U.S.C. 2 and 9 and 209 DM 8.

Sisseton and Wahpeton Mississippi Sioux Enrollment Application 
Deadline

    The regulations governing the enrollment application process were 
published in the Federal Register on April 23, 1999, 64 FR 19896. The 
three-step process for establishing the application deadline date was 
set forth as follows:
    Step 1. On August 23, 1999, we will count all applications that we 
have received.
    Step 2. We will note the date on which we complete processing 90 
percent of the applications that we receive by August 23, 1999.
    Step 3. The application deadline will be 90 days after the date in 
Step 2.
    On August 23, 1999, we received 2,597 enrollment applications. On 
February 1, 2001, we completed processing 2,338 applications which is 
90 percent of the applications received as of August 23, 1999. The 
deadline date for filing enrollment applications to share in the 
Sisseton and Wahpeton Mississippi Sioux judgment fund distribution to 
the lineal descendants is hereby established as of close of business on 
Wednesday, May 2, 2001.
    Application forms filed by mail must be postmarked no later than 
midnight on May 2, 2001. Where there is no postmark date showing on the 
envelope or the postmark is illegible, applications forms mailed from 
within the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, received more 
than 15 days and application forms mailed from outside of the United 
States received more than 30 days after May 2, 2001, in the office of 
the Great Plains Region Director (formerly the Aberdeen Area Director) 
will be denied for failure to file in time.
    Applications forms filed by personal delivery must be received in 
the office of the Great Plains Region Director no later than 4:30 p.m. 
Central Daylight Savings time on May 2, 2001.
    The enrollment applications can be obtained from the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs website at http://www.doi.gov/bureau-indian-affairs.html 
or by mail from the Great Plains Region Office, Bureau of Indian 
Affairs, 115 4th Avenue, SE, Aberdeen, SD 57401.

    Dated: February 28, 2001.
James H. McDivitt,
Deputy Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs (Management).
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