[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 17 (Friday, January 26, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3870-3871]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-1217]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of the Secretary


Notice of Proposed Information Collection

AGENCY: Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: A proposal to extend the collection of information listed 
below (OMB Control Number 1035-0004) has been submitted to the Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval under the provisions of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). Public comments on this 
submission are solicited.

DATES: OMB has up to 60 days to approve or disapprove the information 
collection, but may respond after 30 days. Therefore, public comments 
should be submitted to OMB by February 26, 2007, in order to be assured 
of consideration.

ADDRESSES: Send your written comments to the Office of Management and 
Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attention, 
Department of the Interior Desk Officer, by fax to 202-395-6566, or by 
e-mail to [email protected]. Please send a copy of your written 
comments to the Office of the Secretary Information Collection 
Clearance Officer, Sue Ellen Sloca, 1951 Constitution Avenue NW., MS 
120 SIB, Washington, DC 20240, or via e-mail to [email protected]. Individuals providing comments should reference OMB 
Control Number 1035-0004, ``Trust Funds for Tribes and Individual 
Indians, 25 CFR Part 115.''

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on this 
proposed information collection or to obtain a copy of the proposal and 
associated collection instrument, please write to the above address, or 
call Sue Ellen Sloca, on 202-208-6045, or e-mail her on [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regulations at 5 CFR 1320, 
which implement the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13), 
require that interested members of the public and affected agencies 
have an opportunity to comment on information collection and 
recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR 1320.8 (d)). This notice identifies 
an existing information collection activity that the Office of the 
Special Trustee for American Indians has submitted to OMB for 
extension.
    Public Law 103-412, The American Indian Trust Fund Management 
Reform Act of 1994, makes provision for the Office of the Special 
Trustee for American Indians, within the Office of the Secretary, to 
administer trust funds on behalf of individual Indians and of Indian 
tribes. This information collection, which covers one form and four 
different non-form occasions on which the government is required by law 
to collect information from account holders and third parties with a 
legal interest in particular individual accounts, e.g., guardians of 
account holders who are minors, allows the Office of the Special 
Trustee to collect the information needed to establish and maintain 
trust accounts for individual Indians and Indian tribes. If this 
information were not collected, the Office of the Special Trustee would 
not be able to comply with The American Indian Trust Fund Management 
Reform Act of 1994, and the Office of the Special Trustee would not be 
able to carry out its fiduciary responsibilities to individual Indians 
and Indian tribes with respect to trust funds.

II. Data

    (1) Title: Trust Funds for Tribes and Individual Indians, 25 CFR 
Part 115.
    OMB Control Number: 1035-0004.
    Current Expiration Date: 01/31/2007.
    Type of Review: Information Collection: Renewal.
    Affected Entities: Individuals or households. State, Local, and 
Tribal Governments.
    Form-based information collection:
    Estimated annual number of respondents: 302,065.
    Frequency of response: 4 times per year.
    Non-form information collections:
    Estimated annual number of responses: 151,425.
    Frequency of response: On occasion.
    (2) Annual reporting and record keeping burden.
    Form-base information collection:
    Estimated number of responses annually: 1,208,260.
    Estimated burden per response: \1/4\ hour.
    Total annual reporting: 302,065 hours.
    Non-form information collections:
    Estimated number of responses annually: 151,425.
    Estimated burden per response: Varies with collection.
    Total annual reporting: 154,463 hours.
    Total annual public burden: 456,528 hours.
    (3) Description of the need and use of the information: The 
statutorily-required information is needed to provide the Office of the 
Special Trustee with a vehicle to collect the information needed to 
establish and maintain trust accounts for individual Indians and Indian 
tribes.

III. Request for Comments

    An initial opportunity for the public to comment on the Office of 
the Secretary's proposal to extend this information collection was 
announced in the Federal Register on August 3, 2006. The Office of the 
Secretary received no comments in response to its 60-day notice and 
request for comments. The public now has a second opportunity to 
comment on this proposal.
    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;

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    (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.
    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: January 23, 2007.
Ross O. Swimmer,
Special Trustee for American Indians.
[FR Doc. E7-1217 Filed 1-25-07; 8:45 am]
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