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3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), all 

information collections require approval 

under the PRA. The BLM may not 

conduct or sponsor a collection of 

information and a response to a request 

for information is not required unless it 

displays a current valid OMB control 

number. 

As part of our continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burdens, we invite the public and other 

Federal agencies to comment on new, 

proposed, revised and continuing 

collections of information. This helps 

the BLM assess impacts of its 

information collection requirements and 

minimize the public’s reporting burden. 

It also helps the public understand BLM 

information collection requirements and 

ensure requested data are provided in 

the desired format. 

The BLM is especially interested in 

public comment addressing the 

following: 

(1) whether collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

if the information will have practical 

utility; 

(2) determination of the accuracy of 

the BLM’s estimate of the burden for 

collection of information, including 

validity of methodology and 

assumptions used; 

(3) methods to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of information to be 

collected; and 

(4) how the agency can minimize the 

burden of information collection on 

those who respond, including use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice are a matter of public record. 

The BLM will include or summarize 

each comment in its request to OMB to 

approve this ICR. 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. 

Abstract: This collection of 

information enables the BLM to process 

assignments of record title interest and 

transfers of operating rights in a lease 

for oil and gas or geothermal resources. 

Each assignment or transfer is a contract 

between private parties but, by law, 

must be approved by the Secretary. The 

BLM uses information about 

assignments and transfers to prevent 

unlawful extraction of mineral 

resources, to ensure prompt payment of 

rentals and royalties for the rights 

obtained under a Federal lease, and to 

ensure that leases are not encumbered 

with agreements that cause the minerals 

to be uneconomical to produce, 

resulting in lost revenues to the Federal 

Government. The information also 

enables the BLM to ensure the assignee 

or transferee is in compliance with the 

bonding requirements, when necessary, 

before approval of the transfer or 

assignment. OMB control number 1004– 

0034 is currently scheduled to expire on 

September 30, 2024. The BLM plans to 

request that OMB renew this OMB 

control number for an additional thee 

(3) years. 

Title of Collection: Oil and Gas, or 

Geothermal Resources: Transfers and 

Assignments (43 CFR Subparts 3106, 

3135, and 3216). 

OMB Control Number: 1004–0034. 

Form Number: 3000–003; 3000–003a. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Assignors and assignees of record title 

interest in a lease for oil and gas or 

geothermal resources; and transferors 

and transferees of operating rights 

(sublease) in a lease for oil and gas or 

geothermal resources. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 8,818. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 8,818. 

Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: 30 minutes. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 4,410. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

Total Estimated Annual Nonhour 

Burden Cost: $881,800. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor and, notwithstanding any other 

provision of law, a person is not 

required to respond to a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

The authority for this action is the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

Darrin A. King, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24553 Filed 11–6–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036872; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Nevada Historical Society, Reno, NV 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Nevada 

Historical Society has completed an 

inventory of human remains and has 

determined that there is no cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and any Indian Tribe. The human 

remains were removed from Churchill 

County, NV. 

DATES: Disposition of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after December 7, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Anna J. Camp, Nevada State 

Museum, Carson City, 600 North Carson 

Street, Carson City, NV 89701, 

telephone (775) 687–4810, email 

acamp@nevadaculture.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the Nevada 

Historical Society. The National Park 

Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the inventory or related records held 

by the Nevada State Museum, Carson 

City. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, 10 individuals were removed 

from Churchill County, NV. The 

ancestral remains were removed from 

two surface locations—Sites 8 and 13— 

in the Humboldt Sink (an intermittent 

dry lakebed) by L.L. Loud, who 

conducted research for the University of 

California, Berkeley between April 1 

and August 1, 1912. Site 8 was located 

at the end of a ridge near Humboldt 

Lake and Site 13 was uncovered by 

drifting sands and/or a rise in lake 

water. The Nevada Historical Society 

(NHS) received approval to purchase 

part of the objects collected by Loud in 

1912. The collection arrived in Reno in 

the summer of 1918. Institutional 

history and documentation indicate that 

one third of the collection was 

purchased by the Nevada Historical 


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Society and there is some information 

showing that one third was retained by 

the University of California, Berkeley 

(UCB). The remaining third purportedly 

was retained by the Heye Museum of 

the American Indian, but according to 

Loud and Harrington (1924), ‘‘[t]he 

collection was divided between the 

University of California and the Nevada 

Historical Society.’’ Consequently, we 

believe that the collection was split in 

half between UCB and NHS. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Aboriginal Land 

The human remains in this notice 

were removed from known geographic 

locations. These locations are the 

aboriginal lands of one or more Indian 

Tribes. The following information was 

used to identify aboriginal land: a final 

judgment of the Indian Claims 

Commission or the United States Court 

of Claims. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes, the Nevada Historical 

Society has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 10 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• No relationship of shared group 

identity can be reasonably traced 

between the human remains and any 

Indian Tribe. 

• The human remains described in 

this notice were removed from the 

aboriginal land of the Lovelock Paiute 

Tribe of the Lovelock Indian Colony, 

Nevada. 

Requests for Disposition 

Written requests for disposition of the 

human remains in this notice must be 

sent to the Responsible Official 

identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for 

disposition may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes identified in this notice. 

2. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 

not identified in this notice who shows, 

by a preponderance of the evidence, that 

the requestor is a lineal descendant or 

a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization, or who 

shows that the requestor is an aboriginal 

land Indian Tribe. 

Disposition of the human remains 

described in this notice to a requestor 

may occur on or after December 7, 2023. 

If competing requests for disposition are 

received, the Nevada Historical Society 

must determine the most appropriate 

requestor prior to disposition. Requests 

for joint disposition of the human 

remains are considered a single request 

and not competing requests. The 

Nevada State Museum, Carson City is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribe identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9 and § 10.11. 

Dated: October 27, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24530 Filed 11–6–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036873; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology, Harvard University, 

Cambridge, MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology, Harvard University (PMAE) 

has completed an inventory of human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and has determined that there is a 

cultural affiliation between the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed from Coahoma County, 

MS. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

December 7, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, PMAE, 

Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, 

Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 

496–3702, email pcapone@

fas.harvard.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the PMAE. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the inventory or related records held 

by the PMAE. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, 30 individuals were removed 

from the Oliver site (state site number 

22Co503) in Coahoma County, MS, in 

1901, as part of a Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology expedition 

to Mississippi led by Charles Peabody 

and William C. Farabee. The 68 

associated funerary objects include 66 

objects that are present at the PMAE and 

two objects that are not currently 

located. The 66 present associated 

funerary objects are one bone tool, one 

brass bell, two lots consisting of ceramic 

sherds, eight ceramic vessels or vessel 

fragments, one bag of charcoal 

fragments, two faunal bones, 39 glass 

beads, 10 shell beads, one lot consisting 

of shells, and one lot consisting of wood 

fragments. The two associated funerary 

objects that are not currently located are 

one lot consisting of a bone tool and one 

lot consisting of a brass point. 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, 15 individuals were removed 

from the Oliver Site (state site number 

22Co503) in Coahoma County, MS, in 

1902, as part of a Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology expedition 

to Mississippi led by Charles Peabody 

and William C. Farabee. The 10 

associated funerary objects include nine 

objects that are present at the PMAE and 

one object that is not currently located. 

The nine associated funerary objects 

present at the PMAE are two ceramic 

vessels, five glass beads, and two shell 

beads. The one associated funerary 

object not present is one lot consisting 

of a ceramic vessel. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: anthropological 

information, archeological information, 

biological information, folklore, 

geographical information, historical 

information, kinship, linguistics, oral 

tradition, other relevant information, or 

expert opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 


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