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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Keith L. Pardieck at (301) 497–5843.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Comment Request
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of an extension of an
information collection (1028–0079).
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), we are notifying the public that
we will submit to OMB an information
collection request (ICR) to renew
approval of the paperwork requirements
for ‘‘North American Breeding Bird
Survey, (1 USGS form).’’ This notice
provides the public an opportunity to
comment on the paperwork burden of
this form.
DATES: Submit written comments by
May 19, 2008.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on this information collection to the
Department of the Interior, USGS, via:
• E-mail: atravnic@usgs.gov. Use
Information Collection Number 1028–
0079 in the subject line.
• FAX: (703) 648–7069. Use
Information Collection Number 1028–
0079 in the subject line.
• Mail or hand-carry comments to the
Department of the Interior; USGS
Clearance Officer, U.S. Geological
Survey, 807 National Center, Reston, VA
20192. Please reference Information
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Title: North American Breeding Bird
Survey.
OMB Control Number: 1028–0079.
Form Number: 840.
Abstract: Respondents supply the
U.S. Geological Survey with avian
population data for more than 600 North
American bird species. The raw survey
data, resulting population trend
estimates, and relative abundance
estimates will be made available via the
Internet and through special
publications, for use by Government
agencies, industry, education programs,
and the general public.
We will protect information from
respondents considered proprietary
under the Freedom of Information Act
(5 U.S.C. 552) and its implementing
regulations (43 CFR Part 2), and under
regulations at 30 CFR 250.197, ‘‘Data
and information to be made available to
the public or for limited inspection.’’
Responses are voluntary. No questions
of a ‘‘sensitive’’ nature are asked.
Frequency: Annually.
Estimated Number and Description of
Respondents: Approximately 1,500
individuals skilled in avian
identification will participate.
Estimated Number of Responses:
2500.
Annual burden hours: 27,500.
Estimated Annual Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Hour’’ Burden: The
currently approved ‘‘hour’’ burden for
this form is 12,500 hours. We estimate
the public reporting burden averages 11
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hours per response. This includes the
time for reviewing instructions,
gathering and maintaining data, and
completing and reviewing the
information.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: Mileage costs are on average
$44.85 per response. This includes an
approximate 100-mile round trip for
data collection.
Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA
(44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an
agency may not conduct or sponsor, and
you are not required to respond to, a
collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number. Until OMB approves a
collection of information, you are not
obligated to respond.
Comments: Before submitting an ICR
to OMB, PRA section 3506(c)(2)(A) (44
U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) requires each
agency‘‘ * * * to provide notice * * *
and otherwise consult with members of
the public and affected agencies
concerning each proposed collection of
information * * *’’ Agencies must
specifically solicit comments to: (a)
Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the agency to perform its duties,
including whether the information is
useful; (b) evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
enhance the quality, usefulness, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) minimize the burden
on the respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
To comply with the public
consultation process, we publish this
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Federal Register notice announcing that
we will submit this ICR to OMB for
approval. The notice provided the
required 60-day public comment period.
USGS Information Collection
Clearance Officer: Alfred Travnicek,
703–648–7231.
Dated: March 12, 2008.
Susan D. Haseltine,
Associate Director of Biology.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Final Determination Against Federal
Acknowledgment of the Steilacoom
Tribe of Indians
Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Final Determination.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Pursuant to 25 CFR
83.10(l)(2), notice is hereby given that
the Department of the Interior
(Department) declines to acknowledge
the group known as the Steilacoom
Tribe of Indians (STI) of 1515 Lafayette
Street, P.O. Box 88419, Steilacoom,
Washington 98388, c/o Mr. Danny
Marshall, as an Indian tribe within the
meaning of Federal law. This notice is
based on a determination that the
petitioner does not satisfy four of the
seven mandatory criteria for
acknowledgment, specifically §§ 83.7(a),
83.7(b), 83.7(c), and 83.7(e), as defined
in 25 CFR part 83. Consequently, the
STI does not meet the requirements for
a government-to-government
relationship with the United States.
DATES: This determination is final and
will become effective on June 17, 2008,
pursuant to § 83.10(l)(4), unless a
request for reconsideration is filed
pursuant to § 83.11.
ADDRESSES: Requests for a copy of the
Summary Evaluation under the Criteria
should be addressed to the Office of the
Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs,
Attention: Office of Federal
Acknowledgment, 1951 Constitution
Avenue, NW., MS: 34B–SIB,
Washington, DC 20240.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
R. Lee Fleming, Director, Office of
Federal Acknowledgment, (202) 513–
7650.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On
January 14, 2000, the Department issued
a proposed finding (PF) that the STI was
not an Indian tribe within the meaning
of Federal law because the STI did not
meet four of the seven mandatory
criteria for Federal acknowledgment as
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an Indian tribe. The Department
published a notice of the PF in the
Federal Register on February 7, 2000
(65 FR 5880). The Federal Register
notice initiated a 180-day comment
period during which any individual or
organization wishing to comment on the
proposed finding could submit factual
or legal arguments or evidence to
support or rebut the PF.
The Department extended the
comment period on several occasions.
On March 27, 2007, the Department sent
a letter to the STI outlining a plan to
bring the regulatory comment and
response periods to a close. The
Department reopened and extended the
comment period for 90 days to allow the
STI and other parties to file comments.
The Department also noted that this
comment period could be extended
further if the petitioner filed a detailed
description of a work plan, a description
of the work it had already completed,
and established good cause for any
further extension. To receive
consideration for another extension of
the comment period, the STI had to mail
its request by June 14, 2007; otherwise,
the comment period would close on July
6, 2007.
On June 25, 2007, the Department
received a letter from the STI requesting
an extension of the comment period by
an additional 180 to 300 days. The
letter’s June 20, 2007, postmark was six
days later than the June 14, 2007,
deadline, and the petitioner’s letter
contained neither a work plan nor a
description of work completed. The
Department declined to extend the
comment period again. The final
comment period closed without the
Department having received any
additional comments. After the
comment period closed, the regulatory
60-day response period began. The STI
submitted no response materials during
this period, which ended on September
4, 2007.
On November 2, 2007, the Department
sent a consultation letter to the STI and
several interested and third parties
informing them that in mid-November
the Department planned to begin
evaluating the evidence for the FD on
the STI petition. None of the parties
raised an objection or responded in any
other way to the Department’s intention
to begin preparation of the FD.
However, due to workload
considerations, the Department was not
able to begin work in November. On
January 7, 2008, the Department sent a
letter to the STI and interested parties
stating that it would begin the
evaluation for the FD on January 15,
2008, and complete it by March 15,
2008.
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During the comment period and the
extended comment periods the STI
commented only on the PF’s analysis for
83.7(b) for the period from after the
1950s. Overall, given the petition’s
significant deficiencies in meeting
criteria 83.7(a), (b), (c), and (e), the STI’s
comments were limited and did not
substantively address the PF. Two
neighboring federally recognized Indian
tribes—the Puyallup Tribe of the
Puyallup Reservation and the Nisqually
Indian Tribe of the Nisqually
Reservation—submitted third-party
comments opposing acknowledgment of
the STI. None of the material submitted
changed the conclusions of the PF.
The STI claims to descend as a group
from the historical Steilacoom Indian
tribe that occupied the territory north of
the Nisqually River up to Point Defiance
in the western part of the state of
Washington. The Hudson’s Bay
Company founded Fort Nisqually in the
1830s, and the STI claims that its
Steilacoom ancestors worked at the fort
for over two decades. The STI claims its
ancestors signed the Medicine Creek
Treaty (10 Stat. 1132) in 1854 and that
its ancestors resided briefly on the
reservations created by the treaty. The
STI further contends that some of these
Indians left the reservations and settled
in ‘‘community pockets’’ in their
traditional homelands. These Indians,
the STI claims, are the ‘‘ancestors of the
modern-day Steilacoom tribe’’ who have
formed ‘‘an unbroken line of leadership
and a continuous existence of
community pockets within their
traditional territory.’’
The PF found that over 90 percent of
the 612 STI members documented that
they are Indian descendants, but only
three of them documented descent from
persons described in 19th and early
20th century documents as Steilacoom
Indians. The PF found that STI members
have Indian ancestry from other sources.
One source of Indian ancestry is
marriages between Indian women from
various Indian tribes in the Pacific
Northwest and employees of the
Hudson’s Bay Company. Just under twothirds of the members descend from
Indian women who were not Steilacoom
and who, between 1839 and 1870,
married employees of the Hudson’s Bay
Company who had come to the Pacific
Northwest. The descendants of these
marriages could not be classified as a
´
metis, or mixed-blood, group descended
from the historical Steilacoom band
because the Indian wives came from a
wide variety of tribal origins, including
the Nisqually, Puyallup, Cowlitz,
S’Klallam, Chimacum, Quinault,
Duwamish, Skokomish, Yakima, and
Snohomish Indian tribes. Furthermore,
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey
Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request
AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of an extension of an information collection (1028-
0079).
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SUMMARY: To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), we
are notifying the public that we will submit to OMB an information
collection request (ICR) to renew approval of the paperwork
requirements for ``North American Breeding Bird Survey, (1 USGS
form).'' This notice provides the public an opportunity to comment on
the paperwork burden of this form.
DATES: Submit written comments by May 19, 2008.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on this information collection to
the Department of the Interior, USGS, via:
E-mail: atravnic@usgs.gov. Use Information Collection
Number 1028-0079 in the subject line.
FAX: (703) 648-7069. Use Information Collection Number
1028-0079 in the subject line.
Mail or hand-carry comments to the Department of the
Interior; USGS Clearance Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 807 National
Center, Reston, VA 20192. Please reference Information Collection 1028-
8-0079 in your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Keith L. Pardieck at (301) 497-5843.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: North American Breeding Bird Survey.
OMB Control Number: 1028-0079.
Form Number: 840.
Abstract: Respondents supply the U.S. Geological Survey with avian
population data for more than 600 North American bird species. The raw
survey data, resulting population trend estimates, and relative
abundance estimates will be made available via the Internet and through
special publications, for use by Government agencies, industry,
education programs, and the general public.
We will protect information from respondents considered proprietary
under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) and its
implementing regulations (43 CFR Part 2), and under regulations at 30
CFR 250.197, ``Data and information to be made available to the public
or for limited inspection.'' Responses are voluntary. No questions of a
``sensitive'' nature are asked.
Frequency: Annually.
Estimated Number and Description of Respondents: Approximately
1,500 individuals skilled in avian identification will participate.
Estimated Number of Responses: 2500.
Annual burden hours: 27,500.
Estimated Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Hour'' Burden: The
currently approved ``hour'' burden for this form is 12,500 hours. We
estimate the public reporting burden averages 11 hours per response.
This includes the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and
maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the information.
Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping ``Non-Hour Cost'' Burden:
Mileage costs are on average $44.85 per response. This includes an
approximate 100-mile round trip for data collection.
Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.)
provides that an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and you are not
required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays
a currently valid OMB control number. Until OMB approves a collection
of information, you are not obligated to respond.
Comments: Before submitting an ICR to OMB, PRA section
3506(c)(2)(A) (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) requires each agency`` * * * to
provide notice * * * and otherwise consult with members of the public
and affected agencies concerning each proposed collection of
information * * *'' Agencies must specifically solicit comments to: (a)
Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary
for the agency to perform its duties, including whether the information
is useful; (b) evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of information; (c) enhance the
quality, usefulness, and clarity of the information to be collected;
and (d) minimize the burden on the respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or other forms of information
technology.
To comply with the public consultation process, we publish this
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Federal Register notice announcing that we will submit this ICR to OMB
for approval. The notice provided the required 60-day public comment
period.
USGS Information Collection Clearance Officer: Alfred Travnicek,
703-648-7231.
Dated: March 12, 2008.
Susan D. Haseltine,
Associate Director of Biology.
[FR Doc. E8-5447 Filed 3-18-08; 8:45 am]
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