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Colette Pollard,
Department Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal
Nations
Office of the Secretary, Interior.
Notice of Tribal Consultations.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Cobell Class Action
Settlement Agreement established a
Trust Land Consolidation Fund to be
used for acquiring fractional interests in
trust and restricted fee lands. Based on
tribal consultation in the spring and
summer of 2011, the Department issued
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a draft plan dated January 2012. The
Department has developed this Initial
Implementation Plan for the Land BuyBack Program for Tribal Nations
incorporating input received through
subsequent consultations and public
input. This notice announces
consultation with Indian tribes on the
Initial Implementation Plan and the
Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal
Nations (Buy-Back Program).
DATES: Written input/suggestions are
due Monday, March 4, 2013. Please see
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section
of this notice for dates of tribal
consultation sessions.
ADDRESSES: See the SUPPLMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this notice for
the location of the tribal consultation
sessions. The Initial Implementation
Plan for the Buy-Back Program is
available at: www.doi.gov/cobell. Submit
comments by email to:
buybackprogram@ios.doi.gov or by mail
to U.S. Department of the Interior, MS–
7323–MIB, 1849 C Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20240.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anthony Walters, Office of the Land
Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations;
PO 00000
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (4) Minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond; including
through the use of appropriate
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
This notice also lists the following
information:
Title of Proposed: Healthy Home and
Lead Hazard Control Grant Programs
Data Collection—Progress Reporting.
OMB Approval Number: 2539–0008.
Form Numbers: HUD–96006.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: This
data collection is designed to provide
HUD timely information on progress of
Healthy Homes Demonstration Program,
Healthy Homes Technical Studies
Program, Lead Base paint Hazard
Control program, Lead Hazard
Reduction Demonstration Program, Lead
Outreach Program, Lead Technical
Studies Program, and Operation Lead
Elimination Action Program grant
activities. HUD will provide Congress
with status report as required by statute.
10,800
Anthony.Walters@bia.gov; (202) 513–
0897.
The
Cobell Settlement Agreement (as
confirmed by the Claims Resolution Act
of 2010 (Pub. L. 11–291) and approved
with finality after appeals to the U.S.
Supreme Court were exhausted
(Settlement)), provides, in part, for a
$1.9 billion Trust Land Consolidation
Fund (Fund). The Settlement charges
the Department of the Interior
(Department) with the responsibility to
expend the Fund within a 10-year
period to acquire, at fair market value,
fractional interests in trust or restricted
fee land that individuals are willing to
sell to the Department. The Secretary
has established the Buy-Back Program to
implement this aspect of the Settlement.
There are approximately 150
reservations with 2.9 million
purchasable fractional interests that are
owned by more than 218,000 unique
individuals. The overall goal of the BuyBack Program is to reduce the number
of those fractional interests through
voluntary land purchases, which will
create consolidated trust land bases for
beneficial use by tribal communities.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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The Department has prepared an
Initial Implementation Plan based on
preliminary planning and tribal
consultation. The Plan has the following
purposes:
• Recognize and address comments
received on the Draft Plan dated January
31, 2012, and during the public
comment period through March 15,
2012;
• Outline initial goals and priorities;
• Summarize key parameters and
operational concepts for the Buy-Back
Program;
• Outline ways in which tribes might
participate in the Buy-Back Program
through cooperative agreements;
• Describe the primary land
consolidation processes—outreach, land
research, valuation, and acquisition; and
• Describe next steps for additional
tribal consultation, public comment,
and continued program planning and
implementation, including pilot efforts
that will allow for improvement of the
Buy-Back Program.
The Plan also provides additional
data concerning fractionation to provide
context for planning efforts and to
respond to tribes’ requests for more
complete information. This Initial
Implementation Plan is not a final plan.
The Department expects to continually
update its plans to reflect tribal
feedback, lessons learned, and best
practices.
Tribal consultation sessions on the
Plan and Buy-Back Program will be held
at the following dates and cities.
Information about the specific venue or
location of the consultation can be
found at www.doi.gov/cobell once they
are confirmed.
Date
Time
January 31, 2013 .............................................................
February 6, 2013 ..............................................................
February 14, 2013 ............................................................
9 a.m.–4 p.m. ..................................................................
9 a.m.–4 p.m. ...................................................................
9 a.m.–4 p.m. ..................................................................
Dated: December 14, 2012.
David Hayes,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Safety and Environmental
Enforcement
[Docket ID BSEE–2012–0017]
Draft Safety Culture Policy Statement:
Request for Public Comments
Bureau of Safety and
Environmental Enforcement (BSEE),
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of Safety and
Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is
issuing this Draft Statement of Policy to
announce its expectation that
individuals and organizations
performing or overseeing activities
regulated by BSEE establish and
maintain a positive safety culture
commensurate with the significance of
their activities and the nature and
complexity of their organizations and
functions. The BSEE defines safety
culture as the core values and behaviors
resulting from a collective commitment
by leaders and individuals to emphasize
safety, over competing goals, to ensure
protection of people and the
environment. This draft policy
statement would apply to all lessees, the
owners or holders of operating rights,
designated operators or agents of the
lessee(s), pipeline right-of-way holders,
State lessees granted a right-of-use and
easement, and contractors. The BSEE is
requesting comments on the Draft Safety
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DATES: Submit comments by March 20,
2013. The BSEE may not fully consider
comments received after this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on this notice by any of the following
methods. Please use Draft Safety Culture
Policy Statement as an identifier in your
message. See also Public Availability of
Comments below.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. In the entry titled
‘‘Enter Keyword or ID,’’ enter BSEE–
2012–0017 then click search. Follow the
instructions to submit public comments
and view supporting and related
materials available for this notice. The
BSEE will post all comments.
• Email: Keith.Petka@bsee.gov.
• Mail or hand-carry comments to the
Department of the Interior; Bureau of
Safety and Environmental Enforcement;
Attention: Regulations and Standards
Branch (RSB); 381 Elden Street, HE–
3313, Herndon, Virginia 20170–4817.
Please reference, Draft Safety Culture
Policy Statement in your comments and
include your name and return address.
Public Availability of Comments
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 we will be able to
do so.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Keith Petka, Safety and Environmental
Management Systems Branch at (703)
PO 00000
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Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Rapid City, South Dakota.
Seattle, Washington.
787–1762 to request additional
information.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
A major component of each report
that has followed the Deepwater
Horizon explosion and resulting oil spill
is the recommendation to improve the
safety culture upon the Outer
Continental Shelf (OCS). The
Department of the Interior Outer
Continental Shelf Safety Oversight
Board’s Report to Secretary Ken Salazar
(2010) advocated a program that would
‘‘create and maintain industry, worker,
and regulator awareness of, and
commitment to, measures that will
achieve human safety and
environmental protection’’ that would
also rely heavily on the industry to
‘‘make a widespread, forceful and longterm commitment to cultivating a
serious approach to safety that sets the
highest safety standards and
consistently meets them.’’
The National Commission on the
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and
Offshore Drilling (2011) observed,
‘‘Government oversight must be
accompanied by the oil and gas
industry’s internal reinvention:
Sweeping reforms that accomplish no
less than a fundamental transformation
of its safety culture.’’ The National
Commission recommended looking at
the nuclear industry for an example of
drastic improvement in safety culture.
Following the partial meltdown in 1979
of the radioactive core in Unit Two at
the Three Mile Island Nuclear
Generating Station, the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC), the U.S.
government’s regulatory agency for the
nuclear industry, began initiatives to
help influence the safety culture of the
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[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 2012-30622]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Tribal Consultations.
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SUMMARY: The Cobell Class Action Settlement Agreement established a
Trust Land Consolidation Fund to be used for acquiring fractional
interests in trust and restricted fee lands. Based on tribal
consultation in the spring and summer of 2011, the Department issued a
draft plan dated January 2012. The Department has developed this
Initial Implementation Plan for the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal
Nations incorporating input received through subsequent consultations
and public input. This notice announces consultation with Indian tribes
on the Initial Implementation Plan and the Land Buy-Back Program for
Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program).
DATES: Written input/suggestions are due Monday, March 4, 2013. Please
see the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice for dates of
tribal consultation sessions.
ADDRESSES: See the SUPPLMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice for
the location of the tribal consultation sessions. The Initial
Implementation Plan for the Buy-Back Program is available at:
www.doi.gov/cobell. Submit comments by email to:
buybackprogram@ios.doi.gov or by mail to U.S. Department of the
Interior, MS-7323-MIB, 1849 C Street NW., Washington, DC 20240.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anthony Walters, Office of the Land
Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations; Anthony.Walters@bia.gov; (202)
513-0897.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Cobell Settlement Agreement (as
confirmed by the Claims Resolution Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 11-291) and
approved with finality after appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court were
exhausted (Settlement)), provides, in part, for a $1.9 billion Trust
Land Consolidation Fund (Fund). The Settlement charges the Department
of the Interior (Department) with the responsibility to expend the Fund
within a 10-year period to acquire, at fair market value, fractional
interests in trust or restricted fee land that individuals are willing
to sell to the Department. The Secretary has established the Buy-Back
Program to implement this aspect of the Settlement.
There are approximately 150 reservations with 2.9 million
purchasable fractional interests that are owned by more than 218,000
unique individuals. The overall goal of the Buy-Back Program is to
reduce the number of those fractional interests through voluntary land
purchases, which will create consolidated trust land bases for
beneficial use by tribal communities.
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The Department has prepared an Initial Implementation Plan based on
preliminary planning and tribal consultation. The Plan has the
following purposes:
Recognize and address comments received on the Draft Plan
dated January 31, 2012, and during the public comment period through
March 15, 2012;
Outline initial goals and priorities;
Summarize key parameters and operational concepts for the
Buy-Back Program;
Outline ways in which tribes might participate in the Buy-
Back Program through cooperative agreements;
Describe the primary land consolidation processes--
outreach, land research, valuation, and acquisition; and
Describe next steps for additional tribal consultation,
public comment, and continued program planning and implementation,
including pilot efforts that will allow for improvement of the Buy-Back
Program.
The Plan also provides additional data concerning fractionation to
provide context for planning efforts and to respond to tribes' requests
for more complete information. This Initial Implementation Plan is not
a final plan. The Department expects to continually update its plans to
reflect tribal feedback, lessons learned, and best practices.
Tribal consultation sessions on the Plan and Buy-Back Program will
be held at the following dates and cities. Information about the
specific venue or location of the consultation can be found at
www.doi.gov/cobell once they are confirmed.
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Date Time Venue
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January 31, 2013....................... 9 a.m.-4 p.m.............. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
February 6, 2013....................... 9 a.m.-4 p.m.............. Rapid City, South Dakota.
February 14, 2013...................... 9 a.m.-4 p.m.............. Seattle, Washington.
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Dated: December 14, 2012.
David Hayes,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-30622 Filed 12-19-12; 8:45 am]
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