[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 215 (Friday, November 6, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68874-68875]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-28318]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-CRPS-NAGPRA-19351; PPWOCRADN0, PCU00RP14.R50000 (166)]


Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for Approval; Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: We (National Park Service, NPS) have sent an Information 
Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for review and approval. We summarize 
the ICR below and describe the nature of the collection and the 
estimated burden and cost. This collection is set 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 currently 
valid OMB Control Number.

DATES: You must submit comments on or before December 7, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Send your comments and suggestions on this information 
collection to the Desk Officer for the Department of the Interior at 
OMB-OIRA at (202) 395-5806 (fax) or [email protected] 
(email). Please also send a copy of your comments to Madonna L. Baucum, 
Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service, 12201 
Sunrise Valley Dr. (MS-242, Rm. 2C114), Reston, VA 20192 (mail); or 
[email protected] (email). Please reference OMB Control Number 
``1024-0144'' in the subject line of your comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Melanie O'Brien, Manager, National 
NAGPRA Program, National Park Service, 1849 C Street NW., Washington, 
DC 20240; (202) 354-2204 (phone); (202) 371-5179 (fax); or 
Melanie_O'[email protected] (email). You may review the ICR online at 
http://www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to review Department of 
the Interior collections under review by OMB.

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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. Museums must 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. The summaries 
are 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 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 25 years of the administration of NAGPRA, approximately 
50,000 Native American human remains, of a possible collection of over 
200,000 individuals, have been listed in NAGPRA notices. Information 
collected in previous years is of lasting benefit, and creates 
diminishing efforts in future years.

II. Data

    OMB Control Number: 1024-0144.
    Title: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation, 43 CFR 
part 10.
    Type of Request: Extension of a previously approved collection of 
information.
    Description of Respondents: Museums and tribes.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion.

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                                                   Annual                                          Total annual
                  Activity                      respondents          Average time/response         burden hours
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New Summary/Inventory.......................                3  100 hours.......................          300
Updated Summary/Inventory Data..............              471  10 hours........................            4.710
Notices.....................................              105  10 hours........................        1,050
Notify Tribes and Request...................               14  30 minutes......................            7
Respond to Request for Information..........               16  48 minutes......................           13
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    Totals..................................              609  ................................        6,080
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    Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: There are no nonhour burden 
costs associated with this collection.

III. Comments

    On February 17, 2015, we published in the Federal Register (80 FR 
8339) a notice of our intent to request that OMB renew approval for 
this information collection. In that notice, we solicited comments for 
60 days, ending on April 20, 2015. We did not receive any comments in 
response to that notice.
    We again 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 our estimate 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 of the collection of 
information on respondents.
    Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of 
public record. 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 OMB and us in your comment to withhold your personal 
identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that it 
will be done.

    Dated: November 2, 2015.
Madonna L. Baucum
Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 2015-28318 Filed 11-5-15; 8:45 am]
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