[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 241 (Friday, December 16, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74840-74841]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-24105]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Indian Arts and Crafts Board


Proposed Agency Information Collection with Indian Artist/Artisan 
Survey; Comment Request

AGENCY: Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Indian Arts and Crafts Board (IACB) announces an 
information collection to generate baseline numbers for the Strategic 
Plan, as well as other statistics to be used for evaluating and 
strengthening our Congressional mandate. Comments on this collection 
are requested form the public. After the public review, the IACB will 
submit the information collection to OIRA-OMB for review and approval 
as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

DATES: Submit comments on or before February 14, 2006.

ADDRESSES: Send your written comments to Attention: Indian Arts and 
Crafts Board, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street, NW., MS-
2058 MIB, Washington, DC 20240. If you wish to submit comments by 
facsimile, the number is (202) 308-5196, or you may send them by e-mail 
to ``[email protected]''. Please mention that your comments concern the 
Indian Artist/Artisan Survey, OMB control  1085-0003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the Indian Artist/Artisan Survey, OMB Control  1085-
0003, i.e., the information collection instrument, should be directed 
to Meridith Z. Stanton, Director, Indian Arts and Crafts Board, 1849 C 
Street, NW., MS 2058 MIB, Washington, DC. 20240. You may also call 
(202) 208-3773 (not a toll free call), or sent your request by e-mail 
to ``[email protected]'' or by facsimile to (202) 208-5196.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    The IACB is responsible for promoting the development of American 
Indian and Alaska Native Arts and crafts, improving the economic status 
of members of Federally recognized Tribes, and helping to develop and 
expand marketing opportunities for arts and crafts produced by Native 
American Indians and Alaska Natives. This year, the Secretary of the 
Interior has mandated that each department complete a Strategic Plan. 
In conjunction with this plan, the Commissioners for the IACB have 
requested that the IACB generate baseline numbers that will be included 
in the Strategic Plan, as well as other statistics that will be used 
for evaluating and strengthening our Congressional mandate. The IACB 
has designed a questionnaire that would produce valid and reliable 
results that can be generalized to the entire universe of study. It is 
directed toward the Native American Indian and Alaska Native artist/
artisan constituency. The questionnaire is to be utilized at Indian 
markets across the country, which is where most artists and artisans 
served by the IACB sell their work. Recently, the IACB learned that it 
would be able to participate in the Santa Fe Indian Market, the largest 
event in the

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Southwest, and felt this would be an excellent opportunity to utilize 
the questionnaire. In order to do this, it requested emergency approval 
of the Indian Artist/Artisan Survey; OMB approved the survey under OMB 
Control Number 1085-0003. The IACB is planning to extend the 
information collection approval for the standard three years and to add 
additional surveys in other regions necessary to establish a national 
baseline.

II. Data

    (1) Title: Indian Artist/Artisan Survey.
    OMB Control Number: 1085-0003.
    Current Expiration Date: February 28, 2006.
    Type of Review: Information Collection Renewal.
    Affected Entities: Businesses or other for-profit entities; Tribes.
    Estimated annual number of respondents: 400.
    Frequency of response: Annual.
    (2) Annual reporting and record keeping burden.
    Total annual reporting per respondent: 10 minutes.
    Total annual reporting: 67 hours.
    (3) Description of the need and use of the information: This 
information is required to generate baseline numbers for our Strategic 
Plan, as well as other statistics to be used for evaluating and 
strengthening our Congressional mandate.

III. Request for Comments

    The Department of the Interior invites comments 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 of the 
collection and 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 
other forms of information technology.
    Burden means the total time, effort, or financial resources 
expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, 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.
    All written comments will be available for public inspection in 
Room 2058 of the Main Interior Building, 1849 C Street, NW., 
Washington, DC from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
excluding legal holidays. A valid picture identification is required 
for entry into the Department of the Interior. the comments, with names 
and addresses, will be available for public view during regular 
business hours. If you wish us to withhold your personal information, 
you must prominently state at the beginning of your comment what 
personal information you want us to withhold. We will honor your 
request to the extent allowable by law.
    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 Office of Management and Budget control number.

    Dated: December 9, 2005.
Meridith Z. Stanton,
Director, Indian Arts and Crafts Board.
[FR Doc. 05-24105 Filed 12-15-05; 8:45 am]
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