[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 12 (Friday, January 17, 2003)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 2465-2466]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-1061]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs

25 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter E


Negotiated Rulemaking, No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Public 
Law 107-110

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.

ACTION: Extension of time for submitting nominations for tribal 
representatives for the No Child Left Behind Negotiated Rulemaking 
Committee.

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SUMMARY: The Secretary of the Interior is extending the deadline from 
January 9, 2003, to January 24, 2003, for nominations for tribal 
representatives for the No Child Left Behind Negotiated Rulemaking 
Committee. This committee will work with the Department of the Interior 
to develop regulations to implement the No Child Left Behind Act.

DATES: Nominations for tribal committee members and comments on the 
establishment of this committee must be received by mail or fax by 
January 24, 2003.

ADDRESSES: Send nominations and comments to: No Child Left Behind 
Negotiated Rulemaking Committee Nominations, c/o Starr Penland, Office 
of Indian Education Programs, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department 
of the Interior, MS 3512-MIB, 1849 C Street NW., Washington, DC 20240, 
or FAX to Starr Penland at 202-273-0030. Nominations and comments 
received will be available for inspection at the address listed above 
from 7:45 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal 
holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Catherine Freels, Designated Federal 
Official, No Child Left Behind Negotiated Rulemaking, U.S. Department 
of the Interior, Office of the Regional Solicitor, Southwest Region, 
505 Marquette Avenue NW., Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87102, FAX 505-248-
5623.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 10, 2002, we published a notice 
requesting nominations for a negotiated rulemaking committee that will 
develop regulations to implement the No Child Left Behind Act. (The 
notice appeared at 67 FR 75828 and is available on our Web site at 
http://www.OIEP.bia.edu under ``Negotiated Rulemaking.'') In this 
notice we invited representatives of tribal schools (both contract and 
grant) and tribally operated schools to nominate representatives and 
alternates to serve on the committee. In order to have an adequate pool 
of nominations, we are extending the deadline for tribes and tribal 
organizations to submit nominations.
    Because committee membership should reflect the diversity of tribal 
interests, tribal schools and tribally operated schools should nominate 
representatives who will:
    1. Represent the interests of students, parents, teachers, school 
board members, and school administrators they are nominated to 
represent;
    2. Reflect the spectrum of grant/tribally-controlled schools, off-
reservation boarding schools, various size schools, and alternative 
schools in the geographic regions;
    3. Communicate with the constituencies they represent; and
    4. Participate fully in the committee's activities.
    We will consider nominations for tribal committee representatives 
only if they are nominated through the process identified in this 
notice and in the notice that we published on December 10, 2002. We 
will not consider any nominations that we receive in any other manner. 
We will also not consider nominations for Federal representatives. Only 
the Secretary may nominate Federal employees to the committee.
    Nominations must include the following information about each 
nominee for tribal committee member:
    (1) The nominee's name, business address, telephone and fax number 
(and e-mail address, if applicable);
    (2) The tribal interest(s) to be represented by the nominee 
(teacher, parent, school administrators, or school board member) and 
whether the nominee will represent the interest of grant/tribally-
controlled school, off-reservation boarding school, small or large 
school or alternative school in a specific geographic region or other 
interest related to this rulemaking, as the tribe may designate; and
    (3) The nominee's qualifications and experience in Indian education 
(including being a parent of a student attending a Bureau-funded 
school) to

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adequately represent the interest(s) identified above.
    To be considered, we must receive nominations by the close of 
business on January 24, 2003, at the location indicated in the 
ADDRESSES section.

    Dated: January 10, 2003.
Aurene M. Martin,
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 03-1061 Filed 1-16-03; 8:45 am]
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