24974 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 81 / Thursday, April 26, 2012 / Notices 

The meeting will be open to the 

public as indicated below, with the 

attendance limited to space available. 

Individuals who plan to attend and 

need special assistance, such as sign 

language interpretation or other 

reasonable accommodations, should 

notify the Contact Person listed below 

in advance of the meeting. 

The meeting will be closed to the 

public as indicated below in accordance 

with the provisions set forth in section 

552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., as amended 

for the review, discussion, and 

evaluation of individual intramural 

programs and projects conducted by the 

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National 

Institute of Child Health & Human 

Development, including consideration 

of personnel qualifications and 

performance, and the competence of 

individual investigators, the disclosure 

of which would constitute a clearly 

unwarranted invasion of personal 

privacy. 

Name of Committee: Board of Scientific 

Counselors, NICHD. 

Date: June 1, 2012. 

Open: 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. 

Agenda: A report by the Scientific Director, 

NICHD, on the status of the NICHD Division 

of Intramural Research. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 

Building 31, 9000 Rockville Pike, Room 

2A48, Bethesda, MD 20892. 

Closed: 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate personal 

qualifications and performance, and, 

competence of individual investigators. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 

Building 31, 31 Center Drive, Room 2A48, 

Bethesda, MD 20892. 

Contact Person: Constantine A. Stratakis, 

MD, D(med)Sci, Scientific Director, Eunice 

Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child 

Health and Human Development, NIH, 9000 

Rockville Pike, Building 31, Room 2A46, 

Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–594–5984, 

stratakc@mail.nih.gov. 

Information is also available on the 

Institute’s/Center’s home page: 

www.nichd.nih.gov/about/bsd/htm, where an 

agenda and any additional information for 

the meeting will be posted when available. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos.93.864, Population Research; 

93.865, Research for Mothers and Children; 

93.929, Center for Medical Rehabilitation 

Research; 93.209, Contraception and 

Infertility Loan Repayment Program, National 

Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: April 19, 2012. 

Jennifer S. Spaeth, 

Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Secretarial Commission on Indian 

Trust Administration and Reform 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Office of the Secretary is 

announcing that the Secretarial 

Commission on Indian Trust 

Administration and Reform (the 

Commission) will hold a public webinar 

meeting on May 16, 2012. Having 

gathered valuable background 

information during the first meeting 

held in Washington, DC, March 1–2, 

2012, the Commission is beginning to 

develop a comprehensive evaluation of 

how the Department of the Interior 

manages and administers trust 

responsibilities to American Indians. 

The Secretarial Commission’s charter 

requires the Commission to provide 

well-reasoned and factually-based 

recommendations for potential 

improvements to the existing 

management and administration of the 

trust administration system. The 

Commission is committed to early 

public engagement and welcomes your 

participation in these important 

meetings. 

DATES: The Commission’s webinar 

meeting will begin at 3:30 p.m. and end 

at 6 p.m. Eastern Time on May 16, 2012. 

Attendance is open to the public, but 

limited space is available. Members of 

the public who wish to attend must 

RSVP by May 11, 2012, by registering at 

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/ 

115154409. Instructions for joining the 

webinar will be emailed after 

registration occurs. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Designated Federal Official, Jodi 

Gillette, Deputy Assistant Secretary— 

Indian Affairs, 1849 C Street NW., MS– 

4141, Washington, DC 20240; or email 

to Jodi.Gillette@bia.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of 

President Obama’s commitment to 

fulfilling this nation’s trust 

responsibilities to Native Americans, 

the Secretary of the Interior appointed 

five members to serve on the Secretarial 

Commission on Indian Trust 

Administration and Reform, established 

under Secretarial Order No. 3292, dated 

December 8, 2009. The Commission will 

play a key role in the Department’s 

ongoing efforts to empower Indian 

nations and strengthen nation-to-nation 

relationships. 

The Commission will complete a 

comprehensive evaluation of the 

Department’s management and 

administration of the trust assets within 

a two-year period and offer 

recommendations to the Secretary of the 

Interior of how to improve in the future. 

The Commission will: 

(1) Conduct a comprehensive 

evaluation of the Department’s 

management and administration of the 

trust administration system; 

(2) Review the Department’s provision 

of services to trust beneficiaries; 

(3) Review input from the public, 

interested parties, and trust 

beneficiaries which should involve 

conducting a number of regional 

listening sessions; 

(4) Consider the nature and scope of 

necessary audits of the Department’s 

trust administration system; 

(5) Recommend options to the 

Secretary to improve the Department’s 

management and administration of the 

trust administration system based on 

information obtained from the 

Commission’s activities, including 

whether any legislative or regulatory 

changes are necessary to permanently 

implement such improvements; and 

(6) Consider the provisions of the 

American Indian Trust Fund 

Management Reform Act of 1994 

providing for the termination of the 

Office of the Special Trustee for 

American Indians, and make 

recommendations to the Secretary 

regarding any such termination. 

The following items will be on the 

agenda: 

• Update on action items from March 

2012 meeting; 

• Report and discuss progress of 

subcommittees; 

• Review and update work plan; 

• Discuss draft communications and 

outreach plan; 

• Report on Commission meeting 

dates and locations, anticipated agenda 

for June; and 

• Public comments. 

Written comments may be sent to the 

Designated Federal Official listed in the 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section above. To review all related 

material on the Commission’s work, 

please refer to http://www.doi.gov/ 

cobell/commission/index.cfm. All 

meetings are open to the public. 

Dated: April 20, 2012. 

David J. Hayes, 

Deputy Secretary. 

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