[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 39 (Wednesday, February 28, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9024-9025]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-3498]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs


Documented Petitions for Federal Acknowledgment as an Indian 
Tribe, Submission to OMB for Renewal

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces that the Information Collection Request 
for Documented Petitions for Federal Acknowledgment as an Indian Tribe 
is submitted to Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 
Management and Budget for extension.

DATES: Submit comments on or before March 30, 2007.

ADDRESSES: Send your written comments to Attention: Desk Officer for 
the Department of the Interior, Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, either by facsimile to 202-
395-6566 or by e-mail to [email protected]. Please send a 
duplicate copy to R. Lee Fleming, Director, Office of Federal 
Acknowledgment, Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs, 1951 Constitution 
Avenue, NW., MS-34B SIB, Washington, DC 20240.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the information collection submission should be directed to 
R. Lee Fleming, Director, Office of Federal Acknowledgment, Assistant 
Secretary--Indian Affairs, 1951 Constitution Avenue, NW., MS-34B SIB, 
Washington, DC 20240. You may also call (202) 513-7650.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    The information collection is needed to establish whether a 
petitioning group has the characteristics necessary to be acknowledged 
as having a government-to-government relationship with the United 
States. Federal recognition makes the group eligible for benefits from 
the Federal government. No respondents made any comments regarding this 
information collection.

II. Method of Collection

    The acknowledgment regulations at 25 CFR Part 83 contain seven 
criteria (Sec.  83.7) which unrecognized groups seeking Federal 
acknowledgment as Indian tribes must demonstrate that they meet. 
Information collected from petitioning groups under these regulations 
provides anthropological, genealogical and historical data used by the 
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs to establish whether a petitioning 
group has the characteristics necessary to be acknowledged as having a 
government-to-government relationship with the United States. BIA forms 
8304, 8305, and 8306 are optional in providing a complete list of 
members of the group seeking recognition. Respondents are not required 
to retain copies of information submitted to the Department of the 
Interior but will probably maintain copies for their own use. No 
periodic reports are required.

III. Data

    Title: Documents for Petition for Federal Acknowledgment as an 
Indian Tribe, 25 CFR Part 83.
    OMB Control Number: 1076-0104.
    Current Expiration Date: February 28, 2007.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Entities: Groups petitioning for Federal acknowledgment as 
Indian tribes.
    Response: Respondents are seeking to obtain a benefit.
    Estimated Annual Number of Petitioners: 10.
    Estimated Time per Petition: 2,075 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 20,750.

IV. Request for Comments

    You are invited to comment 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 (including 
hours and cost) of the proposed collection of

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information, including 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 
forms of information technology.
    Burden means the total time, effort, or financial resources 
expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or 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.
    Individual respondents may request confidentiality. If you wish to 
request that we consider withholding your name, street address, and 
other contact information (such as Internet address, FAX, or phone 
number) from public review or from disclosure under the Freedom of 
Information Act, you must state this prominently at the beginning of 
your comment. We will make available for public inspection in their 
entirety all submissions from organizations or businesses, and from 
individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of 
organizations or businesses.
    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 OMB control number.
    OMB has up to 60 days to make a decision on the submission for 
renewal, but may make the decision after 30 days. Therefore, to receive 
the best consideration of your comments, you should submit them closer 
to 30 days than 60 days.

    Dated: February 23, 2007.
Grayford Payne,
Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. E7-3498 Filed 2-27-07; 8:45 am]
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