[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 15, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7756-7757]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-2902]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs


Law and Order on Indian Reservations

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.

ACTION: Rescission of notice of intent to reassume judicial 
jurisdiction.

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SUMMARY: This notice rescinds the Notice of Intent published by the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Federal Register on April 29, 2003.

DATES: Effective Dates: February 15, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kenneth Reinfeld, Office of Self-
Governance and Self-Determination, Office of the Assistant Secretary--

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Indian Affairs, 1849 C Street, NW., Mail Stop 4628-MIB, Washington, DC 
20240, (202) 208-5734.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published in accordance with 
the authority delegated by the Secretary of the Interior to the 
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs under part 209, Chapter 8, of the 
Departmental Manual (209 DM 8).
    By letter dated August 4, 2004, the Assistant Secretary--Indian 
Affairs advised the Kaw Nation that the Notice of Intent published by 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Federal Register on April 29, 2003 
(68 FR 22728) would be rescinded by publication of a new Federal 
Register notice. The April 20, 2003 notice expressed the intent of the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs to reassume judicial jurisdiction for the Kaw 
Nation of Oklahoma and to administer court cases under the Court of 
Indian Offenses for the Southern Plains Region, until the Kaw Nation 
reestablished its court. As reflected in and confirmed by the 2004 
amendment to the Nation's multi-year funding agreement, the Kaw Nation 
has operated its court system under its law and order codes and 
constitution without interruption. The April 20, 2003 notice is hereby 
rescinded.

    Dated: January 27, 2005.
David W. Anderson,
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 05-2902 Filed 2-14-05; 8:45 am]
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