[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 210 (Monday, October 30, 2000)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 64643]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-27783]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs

25 CFR Part 70

RIN 1076-AD98


Certificate of Degree of Indian or Alaska Native Blood

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.

ACTION: Proposed rule; Reopening of comment period and additional 
public meetings.

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SUMMARY: This notice reopens the comment period for the proposed rule 
published at 65 FR 38228 (June 20, 2000), to establish documentation 
requirements and standards for filing, processing, and issuing a 
Certificate of Degree of Indian or Alaska Native Blood (CDIB) by the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs; and announces two additional public meetings 
to discuss the proposed rule.

DATES: The comment period is extended from August 16, 2000, to the 
close of business, on December 20, 2000, Central Standard Time. The 
public meetings will be held on November 7, 2000 and November 8, 2000, 
9 a.m. to 4 p.m., local time.

ADDRESSES: You may mail your comments to Karen Ketcher, Branch of 
Tribal Operations, Eastern Oklahoma Region, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
101 North 5th Street, Muskogee, OK 74401.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Ketcher, Branch of Tribal 
Operations, Eastern Oklahoma Region, Department of the Interior, Bureau 
of Indian Affairs, 101 North 5th Street, Muskogee, OK 74401. You may 
also hand-deliver comments to us at Room 426, at the same address. For 
information about filing comment electronically, see the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section in the April 18, 2000, Federal Register notice.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On Tuesday, June 20, 2000, the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs published a proposed rule; notice of meeting and 
extension of comment period, 65 FR 38228, to establish documentation 
requirements and standards for filing, processing, and issuing a 
Certificate of Degree of Indian or Alaska Native Blood (CDIB). The 
deadline for receipt of comments was July 17, 2000, which was extended 
to August 16, 2000. We are now scheduling several additional public 
meetings for representatives of the California Indian tribes. The 
public meetings will be held as follows: Tuesday November 7, 2000, in 
Sacramento, California, at the Bureau of Indian Affairs Pacific 
Regional Office at 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, California 95825, 
telephone number (916) 978-6063 and Wednesday, November 8, 2000, at the 
Ontario Convention Center, 2000 Convention Center Way, Ontario, 
California 91764, telephone number (909) 937-3000. Persons who wish to 
testify at any future sessions scheduled where comments are recorded 
for the record are requested to observe the following rules: In order 
to assist the transcriber and to ensure an accurate record, we request 
that you give the transcriber a copy of your prepared testimony. In 
order to assist us in preparing appropriate responses or answers to 
your questions, we also ask that if you plan to testify, please submit 
an advance copy of your testimony to us at the address specified in the 
ADDRESSES section.

    Dated: October 24, 2000.
Kevin Gover,
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 00-27783 Filed 10-27-00; 8:45 am]
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