[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 31 (Tuesday, February 17, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8339-8340]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-03111]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-CR-NAGPRA-17655; PPWOCRADN0, PCU00RP14.R50000]


Proposed Information Collection; Native American Graves 
Protection and Repatriation Regulations

AGENCY: National Park Service (NPS), Interior.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: We (National Park Service) will ask the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection described below. 
As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and as part of our 
continuing efforts to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, we invite 
the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity 
to comment on this IC. This IC is scheduled to expire on November 30, 
2015. We may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to 
respond to a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB 
control number.

DATES: To ensure we are able to consider your comments, we must receive 
them on or before April 20, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the IC to Madonna L. Baucum, 
Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service, 1849 C 
Street NW., MS 2601, Washington, DC 20240 (mail); or 
[email protected] (email). Please reference OMB Control Number 
``1024-0144, NAGPRA'' in the subject line of your comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Melanie O'Brien, Acting Manager, 
National NAGPRA Program, National Park Service, 1201 Eye Street NW., 
8th floor, Washington, DC 20005; or via phone at 202/354-2204; or via 
fax at 202/354-5179; or via email at Melanie_O'[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act 
(NAGPRA), requires museums to compile certain information (summaries, 
inventories, and notices) regarding Native American cultural items in 
their possession or control and provide that information to lineal 
descendants, likely interested Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, and the National NAGPRA Program (acting on behalf of the 
Secretary of the Interior, housed in the National Park Service), to 
support consultation in the process of publishing notices that 
establish rights to repatriation. The summaries are general 
descriptions of the museum's Native American collection, sent to all 
possibly interested tribes to disclose the collection, should the tribe 
desire to consult on items and present a claim. The inventories are 
item-by-item lists of the human remains and their funerary objects, 
upon which the museum consults with likely affiliated tribes to 
determine cultural affiliation, tribal land origination, or origination 
from aboriginal lands of Federal recognized tribes. Consultation and 
claims for items require information exchange between museums and 
tribes on the collections. Notices of Inventory Completion, published 
in the Federal Register, indicate the museum decisions of rights of 
lineal descendants and tribes to receive human remains and funerary 
objects; Notices of Intent to Repatriate, published in the Federal 
Register, indicate the agreements of museums and tribes to transfer 
control to tribes of funerary objects, sacred objects and objects of 
cultural patrimony. Museums identify NAGPRA protected items in the 
collection through examination of museum records and from consultation 
with tribes.
    The National NAGPRA Program maintains the public databases of 
summary, inventory and notice information to support consultation. In 
the first 20 years of the administration of NAGPRA approximately 40,000 
Native American human remains, of a possible collection of 180,000 
individuals, have been listed in NAGPRA notices. Information collection 
of previous years is of lasting benefit, diminishing efforts in future 
years.

II. Data

    OMB Number: 1024-0144.
    Title: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation 
Regulations, 43 CFR part 10.

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    Service Form Number: None.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    Description of Respondents: Museums that receive Federal funds and 
have possession of or control over Native American cultural items.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion.

 
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                                         Annual          Annual         Average time/ response     Total annual
      Information collections          respondents      responses                (hr)              burden hours
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New Summary/Inventory
    --Private Sector...............               1               1  100 hours..................             100
    --Govt.........................               2               2  200 hours..................             200
Update Summary/Inventory
    --Private Sector...............             226             226  10 hours...................           2,260
    --Govt.........................             245             245  10 hours...................           2,450
Notices
    --Private Sector...............              41              41  10 hours...................             410
    --Govt.........................              64              64  10 hours...................             640
Notify Tribes and Request
 Information
    --Private Sector...............               4               4  30 minutes.................               2
    --Govt.........................              10              10  30 minutes.................               5
Respond to Request for Information
    --Govt.........................              16              16  48 minutes.................              13
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        Totals.....................             609             609  ...........................           6,080
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    Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: None.

III. Comments

    We invite comments concerning this information collection on:
     Whether or not the collection of information is necessary, 
including whether or not the information will have practical utility;
     The accuracy of the burden for this collection of 
information;
     Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
     Ways to minimize the burden to respondents, including use 
of automated information techniques or other forms of information 
technology.
    Please note that the comments submitted in response to this notice 
are a matter of public record. We will include or summarize each 
comment in our request to OMB to approve this IC. Before including your 
address, phone number, email address, or other personal identifying 
information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire 
comment, including your personal identifying information, may be made 
publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to 
withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we 
cannot guarantee that it will be done.

    Dated: February 10, 2015.
Madonna L. Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 2015-03111 Filed 2-13-15; 8:45 am]
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