Office of the Secretary March 9, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department of Health and Human Services is correcting a direct final rule that appeared in the Federal Register on January 3, 2005 amending its acquisition regulation (HHSAR). Significant adverse comments were not received and the direct final rule became effective on March 4, 2005. The final rule is being corrected to address non- adverse comments received in response to the direct final rule.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA), Department of the Interior (the Department), are revising their regulations dealing with the probate of Indian trust estates to reflect an organizational change. The Department is consolidating the probate adjudication functions previously handled by attorney decision makers in BIA and by administrative law judges and Indian probate judges in OHA into a new Probate Hearings Division within OHA. As a result, this rule transfers various regulatory provisions dealing with attorney decision makers from BIA's regulations to OHA's.