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property. The information is 

particularly used by the Bureau of 

Indian Affairs in: 

(a) Instructing an individual in 

starting the probate process; 

(b) Preparing a probate package for 

review; 

(c) Filing claims; 

(d) Disbursing assets; and 

(e) Filing appeals for adverse 

decisions. 

Request for Comments 

A notice requesting comments was 

published in the Federal Register 

November 1, 2006 (71 FR 64391). No 

comments were received. The Bureau of 

Indian Affairs now requests your 

comments on this collection be sent to 

the Desk Officer for the Department of 

Interior at the Office of Management and 

Budget. Please address the following: 

(a) The necessity of this information 

collection for the proper performance of 

the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

(b) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden (hours and cost) 

of the collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) Ways we could enhance the 

quality, utility and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and 

(d) Ways we could minimize the 

burden of the collection of the 

information on the respondents, such as 

facilitating use of automation for 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Please note that an agency may not 

sponsor or request, and an individual 

need not respond to, a collection of 

information unless it has a valid OMB 

Control Number. 

OMB has 60 days in which to make 

a decision about this collection but may 

act after 30 days. Therefore, to ensure 

maximum consideration of your 

comments, please send close to the 30 

days after publication. 

OMB Control Number: 1076–0156. 

Type of Review: Renewal. 

Title: Probate of Indian Estates, Except 

for Members of the Five Civilized 

Tribes, 25 CFR 15. 

Brief Description of Collection: 

Information is collected through the 

probate process when BIA learns of a 

decedent’s death from a neighbor, 

friend, or any other interested person 

who provides a copy of decedent’s 

obituary notice from a local newspaper 

or when BIA receives an affidavit of 

death prepared by someone who knows 

about the decedent. BIA also requires 

other documents to process the probate 

package. An interested party must 

inform BIA if any of the documents or 

information identified are not available. 

Respondents: Possible respondents 

include: Individual tribal members, 

individual non-Indians, individual 

tribal member-owned businesses, nonIndian owned businesses, tribal 

governments, and land owners who are 

seeking a benefit. 

Number of Responses: 208,073 

annually. 

Annual hours: 1,129,157. 

Estimated Time per Response: Varies 

from 1/2 to 44.25 hours. 

Frequency of Response: As required. 

Dated: February 23, 2007. 

Grayford Payne, 

Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—

Indian Affairs. 

[FR Doc. E7–3497 Filed 2–27–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–W7–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

Documented Petitions for Federal 

Acknowledgment as an Indian Tribe, 

Submission to OMB for Renewal 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces that 

the Information Collection Request for 

Documented Petitions for Federal 

Acknowledgment as an Indian Tribe is 

submitted to Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget for extension. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

March 30, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Send your written 

comments to Attention: Desk Officer for 

the Department of the Interior, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, 

either by facsimile to 202–395–6566 or 

by e-mail to 

OIRA_DOCKET@omb.eop.gov. Please 

send a duplicate copy to R. Lee Fleming, 

Director, Office of Federal 

Acknowledgment, Assistant Secretary—

Indian Affairs, 1951 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., MS–34B SIB, 

Washington, DC 20240. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

submission should be directed to R. Lee 

Fleming, Director, Office of Federal 

Acknowledgment, Assistant Secretary—

Indian Affairs, 1951 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., MS–34B SIB, 

Washington, DC 20240. You may also 

call (202) 513–7650. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The information collection is needed 

to establish whether a petitioning group 

has the characteristics necessary to be 

acknowledged as having a governmentto-government relationship with the 

United States. Federal recognition 

makes the group eligible for benefits 

from the Federal government. No 

respondents made any comments 

regarding this information collection. 

II. Method of Collection 

The acknowledgment regulations at 

25 CFR Part 83 contain seven criteria 

(§ 83.7) which unrecognized groups 

seeking Federal acknowledgment as 

Indian tribes must demonstrate that they 

meet. Information collected from 

petitioning groups under these 

regulations provides anthropological, 

genealogical and historical data used by 

the Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs 

to establish whether a petitioning group 

has the characteristics necessary to be 

acknowledged as having a governmentto-government relationship with the 

United States. BIA forms 8304, 8305, 

and 8306 are optional in providing a 

complete list of members of the group 

seeking recognition. Respondents are 

not required to retain copies of 

information submitted to the 

Department of the Interior but will 

probably maintain copies for their own 

use. No periodic reports are required. 

III. Data 

Title: Documents for Petition for 

Federal Acknowledgment as an Indian 

Tribe, 25 CFR Part 83. 

OMB Control Number: 1076–0104. 

Current Expiration Date: February 28, 

2007. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Entities: Groups petitioning 

for Federal acknowledgment as Indian 

tribes. 

Response: Respondents are seeking to 

obtain a benefit. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Petitioners: 10. 

Estimated Time per Petition: 2,075 

hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 20,750. 

IV. Request for Comments 

You are invited to comment on: 

(a) Whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden (including hours 

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information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(d) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including through 

the use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

collection techniques or forms of 

information technology. 

Burden means the total time, effort, or 

financial resources expended by persons 

to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose 

or provide information to or for a federal 

agency. This includes the time needed 

to review instructions; to develop, 

acquire, install and utilize technology 

and systems for the purpose of 

collecting, validating, and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information; to train 

personnel and to be able to respond to 

a collection of information, to search 

data sources, to complete and review 

the collection of information; and to 

transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. 

Individual respondents may request 

confidentiality. If you wish to request 

that we consider withholding your 

name, street address, and other contact 

information (such as Internet address, 

FAX, or phone number) from public 

review or from disclosure under the 

Freedom of Information Act, you must 

state this prominently at the beginning 

of your comment. We will make 

available for public inspection in their 

entirety all submissions from 

organizations or businesses, and from 

individuals identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

OMB has up to 60 days to make a 

decision on the submission for renewal, 

but may make the decision after 30 

days. Therefore, to receive the best 

consideration of your comments, you 

should submit them closer to 30 days 

than 60 days. 

Dated: February 23, 2007. 

Grayford Payne, 

Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—

Indian Affairs. 

[FR Doc. E7–3498 Filed 2–27–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–4J–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended; 

Amendment of an Existing System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Proposed amendment of an 

existing system of records. 

SUMMARY: Under the Privacy Act of 

1974, as amended (5 U.S.C. 552a), the 

Office of the Secretary is issuing public 

notice of our intent to amend the 

existing Privacy Act system of records 

entitled, LLM–2 ‘‘Range Management 

System.’’ The system notice is 

published in its entirety below. Editorial 

changes have been made to ‘‘Categories 

of individuals covered by the system’’

and ‘‘Categories of Records in the 

System’’ to clarify who is covered and 

the type of information in the system. 

Under ‘‘Routine Uses,’’ there are 

changes in the provisions for 

‘‘Disclosures outside the Department of 

the Interior.’’

Changes are also made to the ‘‘Record 

access procedures’’ and ‘‘Retention and 

disposal’’ under ‘‘Policies and practices 

for storing, retrieving, accessing, 

retaining, and disposing of records in 

the system.’’

The Department of the Interior is 

issuing public notice of its intent to 

amend portions of an existing Privacy 

Act system of records subject to the 

Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a). 

This action is necessary to meet the 

requirements of the Privacy Act to 

publish in the Federal Register notice of 

amendment of an existing records 

system maintained by the agency (5 

U.S.C. 552a(e)(4)). 

DATES: 5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(11) requires that 

the public be provided a 30-day period 

in which to comment on the agency’s 

intended use of the information in the 

system of records. The Office of 

Management and Budget, in its Circular 

A–130, requires an additional 10-day 

period (for a total of 40 days) in which 

to make these comments. Any persons 

interested in commenting on this 

proposed amendment may do so by 

submitting comments in writing to the 

Privacy Act Officer, Bureau of Land 

Management, U.S. Department of the 

Interior, 1849 C Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20240. Comments 

received within 40 days of publication 

in the Federal Register will be 

considered. The system will be effective 

as proposed at the end of the comment 

period unless comments are received 

that would require a contrary 

determination. The Department will 

publish a revised notice if changes are 

made based upon a review of comments 

received. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert Roudabush, Acting Division 

Chief, Rangeland Resources Division, 

1849 C St., NW., Room 201 LS, 

Washington, DC 20240, phone number 

202–785–6569, or e-mail 

Rob_Roudabush@blm.gov 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The intent 

of amending this system notice is to 

align the LLM–2 system more closely 

with the mission of the BLM Rangeland 

Management Program, to address 

administrative changes and the current 

needs of the bureau, and to correct 

minor typographical errors. The 

following changes are being proposed to 

LLM–2. 

The BLM is updating this system 

notice to delete the overly broad 

language of a Routine Use disclosure to 

certain members of the general public. 

BLM is further rewriting Routine Use (2) 

to assist Federal, State and local 

agencies to better manage their activities 

related to grazing programs. 

Under ‘‘Categories of individuals 

covered by the system,’’ ‘‘Individuals 

owning grazing leases and permits 

issued by BLM’’ is changed to 

‘‘Individuals to whom BLM issues 

grazing leases and permits.’’

The ‘‘Categories of Records in the 

System’’ has been rewritten to clarify 

the types of information in the system 

and to make explicit that both paper and 

electronic records are included. 

Routine Uses have been renumbered 

to reflect the deletion of one Routine 

Use. 

A previous Routine Use that stated 

that the records would be released ‘‘to 

a member of the general public in 

response to a specific request for 

pertinent information,’’ did not provide 

a discernable standard for determining 

the scope of the Routine Use. 

Routine Use (2) has been revised to 

provide for release of information from 

the system to Federal, State and local 

agencies to enable them to adequately 

manage their activities relating to the 

BLM’s grazing program. The changes to 

this Routine Use will assist in the 

efficient administration of Federal, State 

and local activities related to the BLM 

grazing program and is therefore 

compatible with the purpose for which 

we collected the information. 

Under ‘‘Retention and disposal,’’ we 

have updated the BLM manual section 

reference to the current manual section. 

Under ‘‘Records Access Procedures,’’

we have deleted the phrase ‘‘as 

specifically as possible.’’ The Access 


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