Indian Affairs Bureau March 9, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This notice publishes the Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria's Liquor Control Ordinance. The Ordinance regulates and controls the possession, sale and consumption of liquor within the Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria's tribal land. The land is located on trust land and this Ordinance allows for the possession and sale of alcoholic beverages within the Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria's tribal land and will increase the ability of the tribal government to control the tribe's liquor distribution and possession, and at the same time will provide an important source of revenue for the continued operation and strengthening of the tribal government and the delivery of tribal services.

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.