Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 74 / Tuesday, April 17, 2012 / Notices 22799 

U.S.C. App. 2, we announce that the 

21st Century Conservation Service 

Corps Advisory Committee will hold a 

meeting. 

Background 

Chartered in November 2011, the 

Committee is a discretionary advisory 

committee established under the 

authority of the Secretary of the Interior. 

The purpose of the Committee is to 

provide the Secretary of Interior with 

recommendations on: (1) Developing a 

framework for the 21CSC, including 

program components, structure, and 

implementation, as well as 

accountability and performance 

evaluation criteria to measure success; 

(2) the development of certification 

criteria for 21CSC providers and 

individual certification of 21CSC 

members; (3) strategies to overcome 

existing barriers to successful 21CSC 

program implementation; (4) identifying 

partnership opportunities with 

corporations, private businesses or 

entities, foundations, and non-profit 

groups, as well as state, local, and tribal 

governments, to expand support for 

conservation corps programs, career 

training and youth employment 

opportunities; (5) and developing 

pathways for 21CSC participants for 

future conservation engagement and 

natural resource careers. 

Background information on the 

Committee is available at www.doi.gov/ 

21csc. 

Meeting Agenda 

The Committee will convene to 

consider draft recommendations from 

the subcommittees; and other 

Committee business. The public will be 

able to make comment on Wednesday, 

May 2, 2012 starting at 5 p.m. The final 

agenda will be posted on www.doi.gov/ 

21csc prior to the meeting. 

Public Input 

Interested members of the public may 

present, either orally or through written 

comments, information for the 

Committee to consider during the public 

meeting. Speakers who wish to expand 

upon their oral statements, or those who 

had wished to speak, but could not be 

accommodated during the public 

comment period, are encouraged to 

submit their comments in written form 

to the Committee after the meeting. 

Individuals or groups requesting to 

make comment at the public Committee 

meeting will be limited to 2 minutes per 

speaker, with no more than a total of 45 

minutes for all speakers. Interested 

parties should contact Lisa Young, DFO, 

in writing (preferably via email), by 

Friday, April 27, 2012. (See FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT), to be 

placed on the public speaker list for this 

meeting. 

In order to attend this meeting, you 

must register by close of business 

Friday, April 27, 2012. The meeting 

location is open to the public. Space is 

limited, so all interested in attending 

should pre-register. Please submit your 

name, time of arrival, email address and 

phone number to Lisa Young via email 

at Lisa_Young@ios.doi.gov or by phone 

at (202) 208–7586. 

Dated: April 11, 2012. 

Lisa Young, 

Designated Federal Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9130 Filed 4–16–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–10–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Royalty Policy Committee (RPC) Notice 

of Renewal 

AGENCY: Office of Natural Resources 

Revenue, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of renewal of the Royalty 

Policy Committee. 

SUMMARY: Following consultation with 

the General Services Administration, 

notice is hereby given that the Secretary 

of the Interior is renewing the Royalty 

Policy Committee. 

The Royalty Policy Committee 

provides advice to the Secretary of the 

Interior on the management of Federal 

and Indian mineral leases and revenues 

under the laws governing the 

Department of the Interior. The 

Committee will also review and 

comment on revenue management and 

other mineral and energy-related 

policies, and provide a forum to convey 

views representative of mineral lessees, 

operators, revenue payors, revenue 

recipients, governmental agencies, and 

public interest groups. The Royalty 

Policy Committee reports to the 

Secretary of the Interior through the 

Director of the Office of Natural 

Resources Revenue. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Shirley Conway, Office of Natural 

Resources Revenue; 1801 Pennsylvania 

Avenue; Washington, DC 20006; 

telephone number (202) 254–5554. 

Certification 

I hereby certify that the renewal of the 

Royalty Policy Committee is in the 

public interest in connection with the 

performance of duties imposed on the 

Department of the Interior by 43 U.S.C. 

1331 et. seq. 

Dated: April 2, 2012. 

Ken Salazar, 

Secretary of the Interior. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9155 Filed 4–16–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–T2–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

Tribal Consultation Sessions— 

Administrative Organizational 

Assessment Draft Report, 

Organizational Streamlining of BIA and 

BIE, and BIE Topics 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Indian 

Education (BIE) will be adding three 

tribal consultation sessions to the 

previously scheduled sessions. The 

additional sessions will focus on the 

proposed Memorandum of 

Understanding (MOU) between the 

Department of Education (ED) and the 

Department of the Interior (DOI) to 

improve American Indian and Alaska 

Native education. The MOU is 

authorized by the President’s Executive 

Order on Improving American Indian 

and Alaska Native Educational 

Opportunities and Strengthening Tribal 

Colleges and Universities (Executive 

Order 135092) and section 9204 of the 

Elementary and Secondary Education 

Act. 

DATES: See the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this notice for 

dates of the tribal consultation sessions. 

We will consider all comments on the 

proposed MOU between DOI and ED 

received by close of business on June 

15, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: See the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this notice for 

locations of the tribal consultation 

sessions. Submit comments by email to: 

consultation@bia.gov or by U.S. mail to: 

Organizational Streamlining Comments, 

Office of the Assistant Secretary— 

Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Mail Stop 4141 MIB, 

Washington, DC 20240. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

the proposed MOU between ED and 

DOI, contact: Brian Drapeaux, Chief of 

Staff, Bureau of Indian Education, DOI 

(202) 208–6123; or Don Yu, Special 

Advisor to the Secretary, Office of the 

Secretary, ED (202) 453–6600. For the 

Administrative Organizational 

Assessment Draft Report, contact: Paul 

Tsosie, Chief of Staff, Office of the 

Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs, 

(202) 208–7163. For the BIA 


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