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Sharif D. Branham,
Assistant Director, Resources and Planning.
[FR Doc. 2023–24769 Filed 11–8–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Indian Gaming Commission
Fee Rate and Fingerprint Fees
National Indian Gaming
Commission, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
the National Indian Gaming
Commission has adopted its annual fee
rates of 0.00% for tier 1 and 0.08%
(.0008) for tier 2, which maintain the
current fee rates. These rates shall apply
to all assessable gross revenues from
each gaming operation under the
jurisdiction of the Commission. If a tribe
has a certificate of self-regulation, the
fee rate on Class II revenues shall be
0.04% (.0004) which is one-half of the
annual fee rate. The annual fee rates are
effective November 1, 2023, and will
remain in effect until new rates are
adopted. The National Indian Gaming
Commission has also adopted its
fingerprint processing fee of $53 per
card which represents an increase of $8
per card. The fingerprint processing fee
is effective November 1, 2023, and will
remain in effect until the Commission
adopts a new rate.
SUMMARY:
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Yvonne Lee, National Indian Gaming
Commission, 1849 C Street NW, Mail
Stop #1621, Washington, DC 20240;
telephone (202) 632–7003; fax (202)
632–7066.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA)
established the National Indian Gaming
Commission, which is charged with
regulating gaming on Indian lands.
Commission regulations (25 CFR 514)
provide for a system of fee assessment
and payment that is self-administered
by gaming operations.
Pursuant to those regulations, the
Commission is required to adopt and
communicate assessment rates and the
gaming operations are required to apply
those rates to their revenues, compute
the fees to be paid, report the revenues,
and remit the fees to the Commission.
All gaming operations within the
jurisdiction of the Commission are
required to self-administer the
provisions of these regulations, and
report and pay any fees that are due to
the Commission. It is necessary for the
Commission to maintain the fee rate to
ensure that the agency has sufficient
funding to fully meet its statutory and
regulatory responsibilities as the gaming
industry continues to emerge from the
pandemic. In addition, it is critical for
the Commission to maintain constantly
an adequate transition carryover balance
to cover any cash flow variations.
Pursuant to 25 CFR 514, the
Commission must also review annually
the costs involved in processing
fingerprint cards and set a fee based on
fees charged by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and costs incurred by the
Commission. Commission costs include
Commission personnel, supplies,
equipment & infrastructure costs, and
postage to submit the results to the
requesting tribe. The number of
fingerprint cards submitted to the NIGC
for processing has significantly
decreased since the pandemic. The
fingerprint processing fee increase is a
result of spreading the fixed costs
allocated to fingerprint processing over
a smaller number of cards processed. In
addition, the FY24 fingerprint
processing fee includes the cost
allocation from the one-time capital
investments associated with the
Washington, DC headquarters office
relocation and the Agency’s hardware
refresh of core networking and server
computing devices required to support
the Agency’s infrastructure operations.
Maintaining valid support agreements
and replacing aging hardware when
needed is vital to ensure maximum
uptime for IT operations while
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minimizing disruptions to business
processes, including the Tribal
fingerprint services. In FY24 the
Commission will also continue its
commitment to take necessary measures
to comply with the Federal Bureau of
Investigation Criminal Justice
Information Services (FBI CJIS)
requirements which ensure the NIGC
and participating tribes can continue to
use FBI criminal history report
information (CHRI) to assist in
determining a key employee or primary
management official’s eligibility for a
gaming license.
Dated: November 1, 2023.
Edward Simermeyer,
Chairman.
Dated: November 1, 2023.
Jean Hovland,
Vice Chair.
[FR Doc. 2023–24780 Filed 11–8–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
[Docket No. BOEM–2023–0013]
Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf
Oil and Gas Lease Sale 261
Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice regarding Lease Sale 261.
AGENCY:
With this notice, the Bureau
of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is
announcing that it is postponing Gulf of
Mexico Lease Sale 261 pending further
action by the United States Court of
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. To comply
with an injunction sought and obtained
by the State of Louisiana and other
plaintiffs from the district court, as well
as a subsequent order from the Fifth
Circuit, BOEM had previously provided
notice of its intent to hold Lease Sale
261 on November 8, 2023. On October
26, 2023, however, the Fifth Circuit
stayed the relevant injunction and order
pending the merits panel’s decision on
appeal. To avoid preempting the Fifth
Circuit’s decision, and avoid
duplication of effort, BOEM is now
deferring Lease Sale 261 pending
disposition of the appeal that is before
the Fifth Circuit.
Therefore, BOEM will not open and
announce bids for the sale on November
8, 2023. BOEM will make future
announcements regarding when and
under what terms Lease Sale 261 will be
held after the Court issues its ruling or
provides additional direction to BOEM.
Additional information and
announcements will be made available
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on BOEM’s website prior to the sale
date. See https://www.boem.gov/sale261.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The
New Orleans Office Lease Sale
Coordinator, Greg Purvis, at
BOEMGOMRLeaseSales@boem.gov or
504–736–1729.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August
25, 2023, BOEM published in the
Federal Register the Final Notice of Sale
(NOS) for Lease Sale 261. See 88 FR
58300. In that Final NOS, BOEM
announced that the sale would be held
on September 27, 2023. The State of
Louisiana and other plaintiffs then
challenged the Final NOS in the U.S.
District Court for the Western District of
Louisiana, seeking preliminary
injunctions to force BOEM to (1) include
lease blocks previously excluded to
protect the Rice’s whale and (2) remove
provisions in Stipulation No. 4
(‘‘Protected Species’’) that BOEM had
added to protect the Rice’s whale from
certain oil and gas activities while
BOEM engaged in a reinitiated
consultation under the Endangered
Species Act.
On September 21, 2023, six days
before the planned sale, the district
court issued a preliminary injunction
order requiring BOEM to include the
previously excluded blocks and modify
the stipulation by removing the new
Rice’s whale protections. The court also
ordered BOEM to hold the sale on or
before September 30, 2023. On
September 22, 2023, the government
appealed and filed an emergency
motion in the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Fifth Circuit, requesting that the
court stay or modify the injunction to
avoid an inequitable sale and to allow
for the administrative and legal
processes necessary to hold the
modified sale and provide the
statutorily required notice to the public
of the revised lease sale terms. (Case No.
23–30666). Intervenor-Defendants also
appealed and filed an emergency
motion in the Fifth Circuit, requesting
that the Court stay the injunction in its
entirety. On September 25, 2023, the
Fifth Circuit issued an order directing
BOEM to hold Lease Sale 261 as
required by the district court, but
permitting BOEM until November 8,
2023, to hold the sale. On October 6,
2023, BOEM published a revised Final
NOS in accordance with the September
25, 2023, order, announcing the
modified terms of the sale and notifying
bidders that it would open bids on
November 8, 2023. See 88 FR 69660. On
October 26, 2023, the Fifth Circuit
stayed the injunction in its entirety
pending further action by that court and
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scheduled oral argument for November
13, 2023.
Under the Outer Continental Shelf
Lands Act, BOEM has inherent
discretion to postpone lease sales on
reasonable grounds, including, as
described in the October 6, 2023, notice,
to comply with court orders. Because
BOEM anticipates that the Fifth Circuit
will further clarify the scope of BOEM’s
discretion and obligations concerning
Lease Sale 261, BOEM has concluded
that holding Lease Sale 261 before the
Fifth Circuit resolves the appeal could
result in duplication of effort and bidder
confusion in the event that the
November 8, 2023, sale is inconsistent
with the Fifth Circuit’s subsequent
guidance. BOEM will therefore not hold
Lease Sale 261 on November 8, 2023.
Bidders wishing to participate in Lease
Sale 261 should not submit bids until
receiving further instructions from
BOEM. Bids that were already received
will be held by BOEM, and BOEM will
notify bidders of how those bids will be
handled once it receives further
direction from the Fifth Circuit. In
reaching this conclusion, BOEM is
cognizant that the Inflation Reduction
Act of 2022 directs BOEM to hold Lease
Sale 261 by September 30, 2023, a
deadline that BOEM was prepared to
meet prior to plaintiffs’ lawsuits.
As set forth above, BOEM is
postponing the sale beyond its
originally scheduled date in response to
plaintiffs’ lawsuits and the resulting
judicial orders.
Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1337; 30 CFR
part 556.
Elizabeth Klein,
Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management.
[FR Doc. 2023–24834 Filed 11–8–23; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4340–98–P
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Information Collection Activities;
Comment Request
Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a pre-clearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing collections of
information in accordance with the
SUMMARY:
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[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-24780]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Indian Gaming Commission
Fee Rate and Fingerprint Fees
AGENCY: National Indian Gaming Commission, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the National Indian Gaming
Commission has adopted its annual fee rates of 0.00% for tier 1 and
0.08% (.0008) for tier 2, which maintain the current fee rates. These
rates shall apply to all assessable gross revenues from each gaming
operation under the jurisdiction of the Commission. If a tribe has a
certificate of self-regulation, the fee rate on Class II revenues shall
be 0.04% (.0004) which is one-half of the annual fee rate. The annual
fee rates are effective November 1, 2023, and will remain in effect
until new rates are adopted. The National Indian Gaming Commission has
also adopted its fingerprint processing fee of $53 per card which
represents an increase of $8 per card. The fingerprint processing fee
is effective November 1, 2023, and will remain in effect until the
Commission adopts a new rate.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Yvonne Lee, National Indian Gaming
Commission, 1849 C Street NW, Mail Stop #1621, Washington, DC 20240;
telephone (202) 632-7003; fax (202) 632-7066.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA)
established the National Indian Gaming Commission, which is charged
with regulating gaming on Indian lands.
Commission regulations (25 CFR 514) provide for a system of fee
assessment and payment that is self-administered by gaming operations.
Pursuant to those regulations, the Commission is required to adopt
and communicate assessment rates and the gaming operations are required
to apply those rates to their revenues, compute the fees to be paid,
report the revenues, and remit the fees to the Commission. All gaming
operations within the jurisdiction of the Commission are required to
self-administer the provisions of these regulations, and report and pay
any fees that are due to the Commission. It is necessary for the
Commission to maintain the fee rate to ensure that the agency has
sufficient funding to fully meet its statutory and regulatory
responsibilities as the gaming industry continues to emerge from the
pandemic. In addition, it is critical for the Commission to maintain
constantly an adequate transition carryover balance to cover any cash
flow variations.
Pursuant to 25 CFR 514, the Commission must also review annually
the costs involved in processing fingerprint cards and set a fee based
on fees charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and costs
incurred by the Commission. Commission costs include Commission
personnel, supplies, equipment & infrastructure costs, and postage to
submit the results to the requesting tribe. The number of fingerprint
cards submitted to the NIGC for processing has significantly decreased
since the pandemic. The fingerprint processing fee increase is a result
of spreading the fixed costs allocated to fingerprint processing over a
smaller number of cards processed. In addition, the FY24 fingerprint
processing fee includes the cost allocation from the one-time capital
investments associated with the Washington, DC headquarters office
relocation and the Agency's hardware refresh of core networking and
server computing devices required to support the Agency's
infrastructure operations. Maintaining valid support agreements and
replacing aging hardware when needed is vital to ensure maximum uptime
for IT operations while
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minimizing disruptions to business processes, including the Tribal
fingerprint services. In FY24 the Commission will also continue its
commitment to take necessary measures to comply with the Federal Bureau
of Investigation Criminal Justice Information Services (FBI CJIS)
requirements which ensure the NIGC and participating tribes can
continue to use FBI criminal history report information (CHRI) to
assist in determining a key employee or primary management official's
eligibility for a gaming license.
Dated: November 1, 2023.
Edward Simermeyer,
Chairman.
Dated: November 1, 2023.
Jean Hovland,
Vice Chair.
[FR Doc. 2023-24780 Filed 11-8-23; 8:45 am]
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