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your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you may ask the BLM in your 

comment to withhold your personal 

identifying information from public 

review, we cannot guarantee that we 

will be able to do so. 

For a period until December 6, 2025, 

subject to valid existing rights, the BLM 

lands described in this notice will be 

segregated from location and entry 

under the United States mining laws, 

but not from leasing under the mineral 

and geothermal leasing laws, while the 

withdrawal application is being 

processed, unless the application is 

denied, canceled, or the withdrawal is 

approved prior to that date. 

The public lands described in this 

notice would remain open to such forms 

of disposition as may be allowed by law 

on the public lands. Licenses, permits, 

cooperative agreements, or discretionary 

land use authorizations of a temporary 

nature and which would not 

significantly impact the values to be 

protected by the requested withdrawal 

may be allowed with the approval of the 

authorized officer during the temporary 

segregation period. 

This withdrawal application will be 

processed in accordance with the 

regulations set-forth at 43 CFR 2300. 

(Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1714) 

Melanie G. Barnes, 

State Director, New Mexico. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26756 Filed 12–5–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4331–23–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Indian Gaming Commission 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; New Collection: Information 

Management Standard Assessment 

Questionnaires 

AGENCY: National Indian Gaming 

Commission, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of new information 

collection; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), the National Indian Gaming 

Commission (NIGC or Commission) is 

providing notice to, and seeking 

comments from, the general public and 

other Federal agencies about a new 

information collection, to be 

administered by its CJIS (Criminal 

Justice Information Services) Audit Unit 

(CAU). 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

February 5, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

directed to the attention of: Tim Osumi, 

National Indian Gaming Commission 

and may be mailed to 1849 C Street NW, 

MS 1621, Washington, DC 20240; faxed 

to (202) 632–7066; or, electronically 

transmitted to info@nigc.gov, subject: 

PRA new collection. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tim 

Osumi via email at tim.osumi@nigc.gov; 

telephone at (202) 264–0676; fax at (202) 

632–7066 (not toll-free numbers). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act 

(IGRA), Public Law 100–497, 25 U.S.C. 

2701, et seq., was signed into law on 

October 17, 1988. The IGRA established 

the National Indian Gaming 

Commission (NIGC) and outlined a 

comprehensive framework for the 

regulation of gaming on Indian lands. 

Among the IGRA’s requirements is that 

persons who apply for a ‘‘key 

employee’’ (KE) or ‘‘primary 

management official’’ (PMO) position at 

a tribal gaming operation must undergo 

a background investigation 

((§ 2710(b)(2)(F)(i)). Similarly, the IGRA 

requires that persons who have direct or 

indirect financial interest in, or 

management responsibility for, a tribal 

gaming management contract, must 

undergo a background investigation and 

be evaluated for suitability as part of the 

NIGC’s management contract review 

process ((§ 2711(a), (e)(1)(D)). In keeping 

with these background investigative 

statutory requirements, NIGC 

regulations 25 CFR 522.2(g), 25 CFR 

556.4(a)(14), and 25 CFR 537.1(b)(2) 

stipulate that prospective KEs/PMOs 

and management contractors must 

submit their fingerprints to the Federal 

Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and 

undergo a criminal history record 

information (CHRI) check. 

Although CHRI checks are integral to 

the tribal KE/PMO applicant licensing 

process, tribes do not possess the 

necessary statutory authority to directly 

access FBI CHRI for this purpose. The 

NIGC, as a Federal agency empowered 

under the IGRA to access CHRI 

(§§ 2706(b)(3) & (7), 2708), accepts tribal 

fingerprint submissions and transmits 

them to the FBI for this purpose. In 

return, the FBI provides CHRI check 

results to the NIGC and the NIGC shares 

these results with the requesting tribe. 

In this process, the NIGC assumes the 

role of a CJIS Systems Agency (CSA), a 

duly authorized agency on the CJIS 

network that provides service to 

criminal justice users with respect to the 

criminal justice information (CJI) from 

the various systems managed by the 

Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) 

CJIS Division. 

The roles and responsibilities under 

which the NIGC, FBI, and tribes process 

CHRI checks are memorialized in 

Memoranda of Understanding between 

the FBI and the NIGC and between the 

NIGC and each requesting tribe. One 

such responsibility is to monitor the 

dissemination of CHRI to ensure FBIcompliant privacy and security 

standards are followed. This 

responsibility is detailed in FBI CJIS 

Security Policy, Policy Area 11 

(CJISSECPOL 5.11.2) which specifies 

that the NIGC, as a CSA, is required to 

establish a process to periodically audit 

tribes that receive CHRI to ensure 

compliance with applicable statutes, 

regulations and policies. To fulfill this 

obligation, the NIGC has established a 

CJIS Audit Unit (CAU), which is tasked 

with coordinating with tribal authorities 

to ensure that NIGC-disseminated CHRI 

is handled and managed in accordance 

with applicable statutes, regulations, 

and policies. 

In performing its oversight duties, the 

CAU will deploy questionnaires to 

gather information. This information 

will be used to assess and document 

tribal compliance with privacy and 

security standards and will enable the 

CAU to identify information 

management risk factors that may 

require remediation. This information 

collection is a vital tool for the NIGC 

CAU to be able to perform its function 

and the performance of this function 

helps to ensure that the NIGC can 

continue to support the successful 

operation of tribal gaming under IGRA. 

II. Request for Comments 

The Commission welcomes any 

comments on these collections 

concerning: (i) whether the collections 

of information are necessary for the 

proper performance of the functions of 

the agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(ii) the accuracy of the agency’s 

estimates of the burdens (including the 

hours and dollar costs) of the proposed 

collections of information, including the 

validity of the methodologies and 

assumptions used; (iii) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; (iv) ways to 

minimize the burdens of the 

information collections on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

collection techniques or forms of 

information technology. 

Please note that an agency may not 

conduct or sponsor, and an individual 

need not respond to, a collection of 


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information unless it has a valid OMB 

Control Number. 

It is the Commission’s policy to make 

all comments available to the public for 

review at the location listed in the 

ADDRESSES section. Before including 

your address, phone number, email 

address, or other personally identifiable 

information (PII) in your comment, you 

should be aware that your entire 

comment—including your PII—may be 

made publicly available at any time. 

While you may ask in your comment 

that the Commission withhold your PII 

from public review, the Commission 

cannot guarantee that it will be able to 

do so. 

II. Data 

Title: Information Management 

Standard Assessment Questionnaires. 

OMB Control Number: 3141–xxxx. 

Brief Description of Collection: The 

collection involves questions that seek 

information about tribal security and 

privacy protections governing the 

processing, handling, and storing of 

NIGC-disseminated CHRI. The questions 

closely track the FBI’s standard CJIS 

compliance questionnaires but have 

been streamlined and adapted to tribal 

specific standards. The information 

collected is generally policies, 

procedures, system configurations as 

well as some type and amount of 

measurable evidence that confirms their 

proper implementation. 

Respondents: Indian tribal gaming 

operations. 

Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 140. 

Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 140. 

Estimated Time per Response: 37.5 

minutes. 

Frequency of Responses: Annually. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours on Respondents: 87.5. 

Estimated Total Non-hour Cost 

Burden: $0. 

Dated: November 29, 2023. 

Edward Simermeyer, 

Chairman. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26775 Filed 12–5–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7565–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

[RR83550000, 254R5065C6, 

RX.59389832.1009690] 

Quarterly Status Report of Water 

Service, Repayment, and Other WaterRelated Contract Actions 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of contract actions. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of 

contractual actions that have been 

proposed to the Bureau of Reclamation 

(Reclamation) and are new, 

discontinued, or completed since the 

last publication of this notice. This 

notice is one of a variety of means used 

to inform the public about proposed 

contractual actions for capital recovery 

and management of project resources 

and facilities consistent with section 9(f) 

of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939. 

Additional announcements of 

individual contract actions may be 

published in the Federal Register and in 

newspapers of general circulation in the 

areas determined by Reclamation to be 

affected by the proposed action. 

ADDRESSES: The identity of the 

approving officer and other information 

pertaining to a specific contract 

proposal may be obtained by calling or 

writing the appropriate regional office at 

the address and telephone number given 

for each region in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michelle Kelly, Reclamation Law 

Administration Division, Bureau of 

Reclamation, P.O. Box 25007, Denver, 

Colorado 80225–0007; mkelly@usbr.gov; 

telephone 303–445–2888. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Consistent 

with section 9(f) of the Reclamation 

Project Act of 1939, and the rules and 

regulations published in 52 FR 11954, 

April 13, 1987 (43 CFR 426.22), 

Reclamation will publish notice of 

proposed or amendatory contract 

actions for any contract for the delivery 

of project water for authorized uses in 

newspapers of general circulation in the 

affected area at least 60 days prior to 

contract execution. Announcements 

may be in the form of news releases, 

legal notices, official letters, 

memorandums, or other forms of 

written material. Meetings, workshops, 

and/or hearings may also be used, as 

appropriate, to provide local publicity. 

The public participation procedures do 

not apply to proposed contracts for the 

sale of surplus or interim irrigation 

water for a term of 1 year or less. Either 

of the contracting parties may invite the 

public to observe contract proceedings. 

All public participation procedures will 

be coordinated with those involved in 

complying with the National 

Environmental Policy Act. Pursuant to 

the ‘‘Final Revised Public Participation 

Procedures’’ for water resource-related 

contract negotiations, published in 47 

FR 7763, February 22, 1982, a tabulation 

is provided of all proposed contractual 

actions in each of the five Reclamation 

regions. When contract negotiations are 

completed, and prior to execution, each 

proposed contract form must be 

approved by the Secretary of the 

Interior, or pursuant to delegated or 

redelegated authority, the Commissioner 

of Reclamation or one of the regional 

directors. In some instances, 

congressional review and approval of a 

report, water rate, or other terms and 

conditions of the contract may be 

involved. 

Public participation in and receipt of 

comments on contract proposals will be 

facilitated by adherence to the following 

procedures: 

1. Only persons authorized to act on 

behalf of the contracting entities may 

negotiate the terms and conditions of a 

specific contract proposal. 

2. Advance notice of meetings or 

hearings will be furnished to those 

parties that have made a timely written 

request for such notice to the 

appropriate regional or project office of 

Reclamation. 

3. Written correspondence regarding 

proposed contracts may be made 

available to the general public pursuant 

to the terms and procedures of the 

Freedom of Information Act, as 

amended. 

4. Written comments on a proposed 

contract or contract action must be 

submitted to the appropriate regional 

officials at the locations and within the 

time limits set forth in the advance 

public notices. 

5. All written comments received and 

testimony presented at any public 

hearings will be reviewed and 

summarized by the appropriate regional 

office for use by the contract approving 

authority. 

6. Copies of specific proposed 

contracts may be obtained from the 

appropriate regional director or his or 

her designated public contact as they 

become available for review and 

comment. 

7. In the event modifications are made 

in the form of a proposed contract, the 

appropriate regional director shall 

determine whether republication of the 

notice and/or extension of the comment 

period is necessary. 

Factors considered in making such a 

determination shall include, but are not 

limited to, (i) the significance of the 

modification, and (ii) the degree of 

public interest which has been 

expressed over the course of the 

negotiations. At a minimum, the 

regional director will furnish revised 

contracts to all parties who requested 

the contract in response to the initial 

public notice. 


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