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you can ask us in your comment to 

withhold from public review your 

personal identifying information, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Any adverse comments regarding the 

proposed sale will be reviewed by the 

BLM Nevada State Director or other 

authorized official of the Department of 

the Interior, who may sustain, vacate, or 

modify this realty action in whole or in 

part. In the absence of timely filed 

objections, this realty action will 

become the final determination of the 

Department of the Interior. 

Authority: 43 CFR 2711.1–2(a) and (c)). 

Thomas J. Seley, 

Field Manager, Tonopah. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–NER–BOHA–0112–9479; 1727–SZS] 

Boston Harbor Islands National 

Recreation Area Advisory Council; 

Notice of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Boston Harbor Islands National 

Recreation Area, National Park Service, 

Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of annual meeting. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a 

meeting of the Boston Harbor Islands 

National Recreation Area Advisory 

Council will be held on Wednesday, 

March 7, 2012, at 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 

Northeastern University, Forsyth Street, 

Shillman Hall, Room 220, Boston, MA. 

The agenda will include: A 

presentation about the geology of Boston 

Harbor Islands; elections of officers; 

bylaws review; park update; and, public 

comment. The meeting will be open to 

the public. Any person may file with the 

Superintendent a written statement 

concerning the matters to be discussed. 

Persons who wish to file a written 

statement at the meeting or who want 

further information concerning the 

meeting may contact Superintendent 

Bruce Jacobson at Boston Harbor 

Islands, 408 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 228, 

Boston, MA 02110, or (617) 223–8667. 

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. 

DATES: March 7, 2012, at 6 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Northeastern University, 

Forsyth Street, Shillman Hall, Room 

220, Boston, MA. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Superintendent Bruce Jacobson, (617) 

223–8667. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Advisory Council was appointed by the 

Director of National Park Service 

pursuant to Public Law 104–333. The 28 

members represent business, 

educational/cultural, community and 

environmental entities; municipalities 

surrounding Boston Harbor; Boston 

Harbor advocates; and Native American 

interests. The purpose of the Council is 

to advise and make recommendations to 

the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership 

with respect to the development and 

implementation of a management plan 

and the operations of the Boston Harbor 

Islands NRA. 

Dated: February 21, 2012. 

Bruce Jacobson, 

Superintendent, Boston Harbor Islands NRA. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS—OIA—WASO—0112—DTS:9376; 

0050–673] 

U.S. Nominations to the World Heritage 

List; 15-Day Notice of Opportunity for 

Public Comment 

AGENCY: National Park Service, 

Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: This is a First Notice for the 

public to comment on the next potential 

U.S. nominations from the U.S. World 

Heritage Tentative List to the UNESCO 

World Heritage List, and on possible 

additions to the Tentative List. This 

notice complies with Sec. 73.7(c) of the 

World Heritage Program regulations (36 

CFR part 73). 

The U.S. World Heritage Tentative 

List (formerly referred to as the 

Indicative Inventory) appears at the end 

of this notice. The current Tentative List 

was transmitted to the UNESCO World 

Heritage Centre on January 24, 2008 and 

includes properties that appear to 

qualify for World Heritage status and 

which may be considered for 

nomination by the United States to the 

World Heritage List. Any property 

nominated to the World Heritage List 

must have been on the Tentative List for 

at least a year prior to its nomination, 

according to the Operational Guidelines 

of the World Heritage Committee. 

On Thursday, July 14, 2011, the U.S. 

Department of the Interior announced 

that it had requested the preparation of 

draft World Heritage nominations for 

two properties or groups of properties 

on the Tentative List: The Frank Lloyd 

Wright Buildings and Poverty Point 

State Historic Site and National 

Monument. These draft nominations are 

currently in preparation. 

The United States Department of the 

Interior is now considering whether to 

initiate the preparation of draft 

nominations for any of the remaining 

properties on the Tentative List to the 

World Heritage List. The Department 

will consider both public comments 

received during this comment period 

and the advice of the Federal 

Interagency Panel for World Heritage 

(the Panel) in making a final decision on 

any future nominations. The United 

States is currently prohibited by law 

from providing any funding to 

UNESCO, including UNESCO and 

World Heritage member dues. The Panel 

will consider possible implications of 

this status in making its 

recommendation on future nominations. 

Comments may also be made on 

suggestions for additions to the 

Tentative List, although the Department 

is not required to make additions to the 

List. All previous suggestions made 

during the public comment period held 

from December 14, 2010–January 14, 

2011, as well as those made since that 

time, are still on file for consideration 

and should not be resubmitted at this 

time. 

DATES: Comments will be accepted on or 

before fifteen days from the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. 

If additional site(s) are selected by the 

Department for nomination, public 

notice will be made of the decision. The 

site’s owner(s) will be responsible, in 

cooperation with the National Park 

Service, for preparing the draft 

nomination in the nomination Format 

required by the World Heritage 

Committee and for gathering 

documentation in support of it. Legal 

protective measures must be in place 

before a property may be nominated. 

Any such nominations must be received 

from the preparers by the National Park 

Service in substantially complete draft 

form by a date on or near July 15, 2013. 

Such draft nominations will be 

reviewed, revisions requested if 

necessary, and, if considered by the 

Department to be technically and 


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substantively adequate, as well as in 

consideration of other relevant factors, 

may be provided to the World Heritage 

Centre for technical review no later than 

September 30, 2013. The Centre would 

then provide comments by 

approximately November 15, 2013, with 

final submittal to the World Heritage 

Centre by the Department of the Interior 

through the Department of State no later 

than January 30, 2014. Any nomination 

submitted by that date will be 

considered by the World Heritage 

Committee at its meeting in the summer 

of 2015. The Committee, composed of 

representatives of 21 nations elected as 

the governing body of the World 

Heritage Convention, makes the final 

decisions on which nominations to 

accept on the World Heritage List. If a 

nomination cannot be completed in 

accordance with this timeline, work 

may continue on the nomination for 

possible submission to UNESCO in a 

subsequent year. 

ADDRESSES: Please provide all 

comments directly to Jonathan Putnam, 

Office of International Affairs, National 

Park Service, 1201 Eye Street NW., 

(0050). Washington, DC 20005 or by 

Email to: jonathan_putnam@nps.gov. 

Phone: 202–354–1809. Fax 202–371– 

1446. All comments will be a matter of 

public record. Before including an 

address, phone number, email address, 

or other personal identifying 

information in a comment, members of 

the public should be aware that the 

entire comment—including personal 

identifying information—may be made 

public at any time. While commenters 

can request that personal identifying 

information be withheld from public 

review, it may not be possible to comply 

with this request. 

Comments on whether to nominate 

any of the properties on the Tentative 

List must address: 

(i) How well the property(ies) meet 

the World Heritage nomination criteria, 

requirements for authenticity, integrity, 

legal protection and management. 

Information on these criteria and 

requirements can be found on the 

National Park Service Office of 

International Affairs Web site http:// 

www.nps.gov/oia/topics/worldheritage/ 

worldheritage.htm under ‘‘General 

Information’’; and 

(ii) The readiness and ability of the 

property owner(s) to prepare a 

satisfactory nomination document 

according to the timeline outlined 

above. 

Only the 10 properties or groups of 

properties included in U.S. Tentative 

List and not previously selected to 

prepare nominations are eligible to be 

considered for nomination by the 

United States to the World Heritage List 

at this time. One property on the List, 

Papahanaumokuakea Marine National 

Monument, was nominated in 2009 and 

listed as a World Heritage Site in 2010. 

Brief descriptions of the properties 

appear on the Web site just noted. 

Suggestions for additions to the 

Tentative List not previously submitted 

must address: 

(i) How well the property(ies) meet 

the World Heritage nomination criteria, 

requirements for authenticity, integrity, 

legal protection and management. 

Information on these criteria and 

requirements can be found on the 

National Park Service Office of 

International Affairs Web site http:// 

www.nps.gov/oia/topics/worldheritage/ 

worldheritage.htm under ‘‘General 

Information;’’ and 

(ii) The U.S. legal prerequisites that 

include the agreement of all property 

owners to the nomination of their 

property, an official determination that 

the property is nationally significant 

(such as by designation as a National 

Historic or National Natural Landmark), 

and effective legal protection. 

All previous suggestions for the 

Tentative List made during the public 

comment period held from December 

14, 2010–January 14, 2011, as well as 

those made since that time, are still on 

file for consideration and should not be 

resubmitted at this time. 

All public comments will be 

summarized and provided to 

Department of the Interior officials, who 

will obtain the advice of the Federal 

Interagency Panel for World Heritage 

before making any selection of 

properties for World Heritage 

nomination. The selection may include 

the following considerations: 

(i) How well the particular type of 

property (i.e., theme or region) is 

represented on the World Heritage List 

in both the United States and other 

nations; 

(ii) The balance between cultural and 

natural properties already on the List 

and those under consideration; 

(iii) Opportunities that the property 

affords for public visitation, 

interpretation, and education; 

(iv) Potential threats to the property’s 

integrity or its current state of 

preservation; 

(v) Likelihood of being able to 

complete a satisfactory nomination 

according to the timeline described 

above; and 

(vi) Other relevant factors, including 

the possible implications of nonpayment of U.S. dues to UNESCO or the 

World Heritage Fund. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jonathan Putnam, 202–354–1809 or 

April Brooks, 202–354–1808. General 

information about U.S. participation in 

the World Heritage Program and the 

process used to develop the Tentative 

List is posted on the Office of 

International Affairs Web site at: 

http://www.nps.gov/oia/topics/ 

worldheritage/worldheritage.htm. 

To request a paper copy of the U.S. 

Tentative List, please contact April 

Brooks, Office of International Affairs, 

National Park Service, 1201 Eye Street, 

NW (0050) Washington DC 20005. 

Email: april_brooks@nps.gov. 

For the World Heritage nomination 

Format, see the World Heritage Centre 

Web site at http://whc.unesco.org/en/ 

nominations. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The World Heritage List is an 

international list of cultural and natural 

properties nominated by the signatories 

to the World Heritage Convention 

(1972). The United States was the prime 

architect of the Convention, an 

international treaty for the preservation 

of natural and cultural heritage sites of 

global significance proposed by 

President Richard M. Nixon in 1972, 

and the U.S. was the first nation to ratify 

it. The United States has served several 

terms on the elected 21-nation World 

Heritage Committee, but is not currently 

on the Committee. There are 936 sites in 

153 of the 188 signatory countries. 

Currently there are 21 World Heritage 

Sites in the United States. 

U.S. participation and the roles of the 

Department of the Interior and the 

National Park Service are authorized by 

Title IV of the Historic Preservation Act 

Amendments of 1980 and conducted in 

accordance with 36 CFR part 73—World 

Heritage Convention. 

The National Park Service serves as 

the principal technical agency for the 

U.S. Government to the Convention and 

manages all or parts of 17 of the 21 U.S. 

World Heritage Sites currently listed, 

including Yellowstone National Park, 

the Everglades, and the Statue of 

Liberty. 

A Tentative List is a national list of 

natural and cultural properties 

appearing to meet the World Heritage 

Committee eligibility criteria for 

nomination to the World Heritage List. 

It is a list of candidate sites which a 

country intends to consider for 

nomination within a given time period. 

A country cannot nominate a property 

unless it has been on its Tentative List 

for a minimum of a year. Countries also 

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two sites in any given year. If two are 

nominated, at least one must be a 

natural site or a cultural landscape. 

Neither inclusion in the Tentative List 

nor inscription as a World Heritage Site 

imposes legal restrictions on owners or 

neighbors of sites, nor does it give the 

United Nations any management 

authority or ownership rights in U.S. 

World Heritage Sites, which continue to 

be subject only to U.S. laws. Inclusion 

in the Tentative List merely indicates 

that the property may be further 

examined for possible World Heritage 

nomination in the future. 

The World Heritage Committee’s 

Operational Guidelines ask 

participating nations to provide 

Tentative Lists, which aid in evaluating 

properties for the World Heritage List on 

a comparative international basis and 

help the Committee to schedule its work 

over the long term. 

In order to guide the U.S. World 

Heritage Program effectively and in a 

timely manner, NPS prepared and 

submitted (through the Secretary of the 

Interior and the Secretary of State) to the 

World Heritage Centre of UNESCO on 

January 24, 2008, the previously 

referenced Tentative List of properties 

that appear to meet the criteria for 

nomination. Information on how the 

Tentative List was developed is 

available on the Office of International 

Affairs Web site at http://www.nps.gov/ 

oia/topics/worldheritage/ 

worldheritage.htm. 

In order to be included, a proposed 

site must meet several U.S. prerequisites 

in addition to appearing to meet the 

stringent World Heritage criteria of 

international importance. The U.S. 

prerequisites include the written 

agreement of all property owners to the 

nomination of their property, a prior 

official determination that the property 

is nationally important (such as by 

designation as a National Historic or 

National Natural Landmark), and 

effective legal protection. Support from 

stakeholders, including elected officials, 

is also considered important. 

U.S. World Heritage Tentative List 

Cultural Sites (9) 

Civil Rights Movement Sites, Alabama 

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist 

Church, Montgomery 

Bethel Baptist Church, Birmingham 

16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham 

Dayton Aviation Sites, Ohio 

Dayton Aviation Heritage National 

Historical Park, including: 

—Huffman Prairie (part of WrightPatterson Air Force Base) 

—Wright Cycle Company and Wright & 

Wright Printing, Dayton 

—Wright Hall (housing the Wright Flyer 

III), Dayton 

—Hawthorn Hill, Dayton 

Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, Ohio 

Fort Ancient State Memorial, Warren 

County 

Hopewell Culture National Historical 

Park, near Chillicothe 

Newark Earthworks State Historic 

Site, Newark and Heath, including: 

—Wright Earthworks 

—The Octagon Earthworks 

—Great Circle Earthworks 

Jefferson (Thomas) Buildings, Virginia 

Poplar Forest, Bedford County 

Virginia State Capitol, Richmond 

(Proposed jointly as an extension to 

the World Heritage listing of Monticello 

and the University of Virginia Historic 

District) 

Mount Vernon, Virginia 

Poverty Point National Monument and 

State Historic Site, Louisiana [Selected 

To Prepare a Nomination in 2011; Draft 

Nomination in Preparation] 

San Antonio Franciscan Missions, 

Texas 

Mission San Antonio de Valero (The 

Alamo) 

San Antonio Missions National 

Historical Park, including: 

—Mission Concepcion 

—Mission San Jose 

—Mission San Juan 

—Mission Espada (including Rancho de 

las Cabras) 

Serpent Mound, Ohio 

Wright (Frank Lloyd) Buildings 

[Selected To Prepare a Nomination in 

2011; Draft Nomination in Preparation] 

Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona 

Hollyhock House, Los Angeles, 

California 

Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, 

California 

Frederick C. Robie House, Chicago, 

Illinois 

Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois 

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New 

York, New York 

Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma 

Fallingwater, Mill Run, Pennsylvania 

S. C. Johnson and Son, Inc., 

Administration Building and 

Research Tower, Racine, Wisconsin 

Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin 

Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House, 

Madison, Wisconsin 

Natural Sites (4) 

Fagatele Bay National Marine 

Sanctuary, American Samoa 

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, 

Georgia 

Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona 

White Sands National Monument, New 

Mexico 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 470 a–1, a–2, d; 36 

CFR 73. 

Dated: February 10, 2012. 

Rachel Jacobson, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Fish and 

Wildlife and Parks. 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

[OMB Number 1105–0091 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comments Requested: Office of Tribal 

Justice; Assumption of Concurrent 

Federal Criminal Jurisdiction in Certain 

Areas of Indian Country 

ACTION: 30-Day notice of information 

collection under review. 

The Department of Justice, Office of 

Tribal Justice, will be submitting the 

following information collection request 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. The proposed 

information collection is published to 

obtain comments from the public and 

affected agencies. This proposed 

information collection was previously 

published in the Federal Register 

Volume 76, Number 250, pages 81966– 

81967, on December 29, 2011, allowing 

for a 60 day comment period. 

The purpose of this notice is to allow 

for an additional 30 days for public 

comment until April 4, 2012. This 

process is conducted in accordance with 

5 CFR 1320.10. 

If you have comments, especially on 

the estimated public burden or 

associated response time, suggestions, 

or need additional information, please 

contact Mr. Tracy Toulou, Director, 

Office of Tribal Justice, Department of 

Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 

Room 2310, Washington, DC 20530. 

Written comments and suggestions 

from the public and affected agencies 

concerning the proposed collection of 

information are encouraged. Comments 

should address one or more of the 

following four points: 


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