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Education Endowment—Perpetual investment of principal funds, expenditures from interest income earned after the endowment fund is established ......................................................................................................................................................... 4,000,000

Burial Fund Endowment—Perpetual investment of principal funds, expenditures from interest income earned after the endowment fund is established ......................................................................................................................................................... 2,000,000

Health Care Endowment—Perpetual investment of principal funds, expenditures from interest income earned after the endowment fund is established ......................................................................................................................................................... 2,000,000

Utilities Capital Improvement Fund—Principal and investment income earned after the account is established by the Tribe

will be available for water and sewer projects and for use as matching grant funds for such projects ................................... 1,500,000

.

Alternative and Additional Projects—Principal and investment income earned after the accounts are established by the

Tribe will be available for alternative and additional projects. Any funds remaining after completing the per capita distribution and the renovation and expansion of the tribal courthouse shall also be available for the following alternative

and additional projects: .................................................................................................................................................................. 218,665

a. Telecommunications/Emergency Government Improvements (est. $125,000) ....................................................................

b. Animal Shelter (est. $50,000) .................................................................................................................................................

c. Recreation Supplement (est. $50,000) ....................................................................................................................................

d. Eagles’ Nest Operations Funding Supplement (est. $50,000) ..............................................................................................

Use of Interest Funds—All interest earned on the judgment funds from the date of appropriation (September 27, 1999)

until the date the funds are transferred to the Tribe in accordance with this plan, shall be added to the Tribe’s FY 2000

Tribal budget (revenue side) to reduce the reliance on transfers from reserve by the like amount (Estimated to be

$1,500,000)..

C. Feasibility of Participation by Tribal

Members Not on or Near the Reservation

The vast majority of the proposed

uses of the judgment funds will be

available to all tribal members. A share

in the per capita distribution, eligibility

for burial assistance, and access to both

the health and education benefits

provided through the establishment of

these endowments means that 85

percent of the available settlement funds

will be available to all tribal members

regardless of residence.

D. General Provisions

The programming portion of the

judgment fund shall be disbursed to the

Tribe as soon as practical. If the tribal

payment roll is certified by the Bureau

of Indian Affairs Director, Midwest

Region prior to the effective date of the

plan, the program portion of the funds

shall be disbursed to the Tribe within 30

days of the effective date of the plan.

Otherwise, the program funds shall be

disbursed to the Tribe within 30 days of

the certification of the Tribal payment

roll. Once the program funds are

disbursed to the Tribe, the United States

Government shall no longer have any

trust responsibility for the investment,

supervision, administration, or

expenditure of the program portion of

the judgment funds.

None of the funds distributed per

capita, including the investment income

earned thereon while held in trust, or

made available under this plan for

programming shall be subject to Federal

or State income taxes. Nor can any of

these funds nor their availability be

considered as income or resources nor

otherwise utilized as the basis for

denying or reducing the financial

assistance or other benefits to which

such household or member would

otherwise be entitled under the Social

Security Act, or except for per capita

shares in excess of $2,000, any federal

or federally assisted program.

This notice is published in exercise of

authority delegated to the Assistant

Secretary—Indian Affairs under 25

U.S.C. 2 and 9 and 209 DM 8.

Dated: November 2, 2000.

Kevin Gover,

Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs.

[FR Doc. 00–29150 Filed 11–14–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–02–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[UT–912–01–1020–AE–24–1A]

Utah Resource Advisory Council

Meeting Postponed

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land

Management’s Utah Statewide Resource

Advisory Council meeting scheduled for

November 8–9, 2000, in Bluff, Utah, will

now be postponed until after the first of

next year.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Sherry Foot,

Special Programs, Coordinator, Utah

State Office, Bureau of Land

Management, 324 South State Street,

Salt Lake City, 84111; phone (801) 539–

4195.

Dated: November 7, 2000.

Robert A. Bennett,

Associate State Director.

[FR Doc. 00–29121 Filed 11–14–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–$$–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

National Register of Historic Places;

Notification of Pending Nominations

Nominations for the following

properties being considered for listing

in the National Register were received

by the National Park Service before

November 3, 2000. Pursuant to § 60.13

of 36 CFR Part 60 written comments

concerning the significance of these

properties under the National Register

criteria for evaluation may be forwarded

to the National Register, National Park

Service, 1849 C St. NW, NC400,

Washington, DC 20240. Written

comments should be submitted by

November 30, 2000.

Carol D. Shull,

Keeper of the National Register.

CONNECTICUT

New Haven County

New England Cement Company Kiln

and Quarry, Address Restricted,

Woodbridge, 00001454

GEORGIA

Echols County

Corbett Farm, Rte 2, Lake Park,

00001455

ILLINOIS

Vermilion County

Temple Building, 102–106 N.

Vermilion St., Danville, 00001457

IOWA

Marion County

East Amsterman School, 1010 198th

Place, Pella, 00001471

Polk County

Hallett Flat—Rawson & Co.

Apartment Building, 1301–1307

Locust St., Des Moines, 00001456

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MARYLAND

Baltimore Independent City

Standard Oil Building, 501 St. Paul

St., Baltimore (Independent City),

00001461

Washington County

Hills, Dales, and the Vineyard, 16

Dogstreet Rd., Keedysville,

00001460

MASSACHUSETTS

Berkshire County

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, George

Carter Rd., Becket, 00001458

MISSISSIPPI

Hinds County

Evers, Medgar, House, 2332 Margaret

Walker Alexander Dr., Jackson,

00001459

Hinds County Armory, 1012

Mississippi St., Jackson, 00001462

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Coos County

Weeks, William Dennis, Memorial

Library, 128 Main St., Lancaster,

00001464

Merrimack County

Durgin, Gershom, House, 391

Franklin Hwy.,

Rockingham County

Danville Town House, 210 Main St.,

NH 111A, Danville, 00001465

NEW JERSEY

Somerset County

Relief Home Company No. 2 Engine

House, 16 Anderson St., Raritan

Borough, 00001466

NEW YORK

Niagara County

District #10 Schoolhouse,

(Cobblestone Architecture of New

York State MPS) 9713 Seaman Rd.,

Hartland, 00001467

Oswego County

Oswego West Pierhead Lighthouse,

Lake Ontario, 0.5 mi. N of Oswego

R., Oswego, 00001468

WASHINGTON

Whatcom County

Nuxwt’iqw’em, Address Restricted,

Upper Middle Fork, 00001472

WISCONSIN

Vernon County

Masonic Temple Building, 116 S.

Main St., Viroquoa, 00001469

WYOMING

Converse County

North Douglas Historic District,

Roughly bounded by Second St.,

Clay St., Sixth St., and Center St.,

Douglas, 00001470

A Request for a MOVE has been made

for the following resource:

CONNECTICUT

Litchfield County

Sloan-Raymond-Fitch House, 249

Danbury Rd., Wilton, 82004344

[FR Doc. 00–29120 Filed 11–14–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Bureau of Justice Statistics

[OJP (BJS)–1307]

Hate Crime Statistics Data Collection

in Selected Police and Sheriffs’

Departments

AGENCY: Office of Justice Programs,

Bureau of Justice Statistics, Justice.

ACTION: Notice of solicitation for award

of cooperative agreement.

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is

to announce a public solicitation for

services related to understanding why

police and sheriff’s departments do not

report hate crimes to the FBI that are

known to officers in their jurisdiction.

DATES: Proposals must arrive at the

Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) on or

before 5 p.m. ET, Sunday, December 31,

2000, or be postmarked on or before

December 31, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Proposals should be mailed

to: Application Coordinator, Bureau of

Justice Statistics, 810 Seventh St. NW.,

Washington, DC 20531; (202) 616–3497.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Charles R. Kindermann, Ph.D., Senior

Statistician, Bureau of Justice Statistics,

(202) 616–3489 or Carol Kaplan, Chief,

National Criminal History Improvement

Program (202) 307–0759.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The Hate Crime Statistics Act,

reauthorized in June 1996, mandates

that the Attorney General collect

statistics and publish an annual report

on hate crimes. During hearing

testimony and in subsequent letters,

members of Congress expressed an

interest in a study that will facilitate

better participation by police agencies.

BJS, consistent with its role as the

statistical arm of the Justice Department

and its longstanding interest in hate

crime statistics, developed this

solicitation to learn more about the

impediments to local jurisdictions’

participation in the collection of hate

crime statistics and transmission of the

statistics to the FBI for compilation at

the national level.

BJS funded a project that resulted in

the report Improving the Quality and

Accuracy of Bias Crime Statistics

Nationally: An Assessment of the First

Ten Years of Bias Crime Data

Collection. The project included a

review of national hate crime trends, a

summary of results from a national law

enforcement survey regarding officer

attitudes about hate crime, and several

other sources. The compilation of these

data sources gives key insight into how

hate crime reporting can be improved

and how hate crime data should be

interpreted. Electronic copies of the full

report and an executive summary can be

found at <www.dac.neu.edu/cj/>.

A survey of 2,657 law enforcement

agencies was conducted to document

impressions from law enforcement

departments about the factors which

impede or encourage accurate hate

crime reporting. The findings from the

report are as follows:

• There are serious disparities

between what officers believed about

the prevalence of bias crime and their

agencies’ official hate crime statistics.

• One of the major reasons cited for

the disparity involves the break down in

the two-step process of a local agency

reporting to a state agency, which then

compiles the hate crime reports. Many

respondents felt that the indication of

bias was occasionally lost within the

departmental bureaucracy or process of

transmitting data.

• Although it has been recommended

by the International Association of

Chiefs of Police, as well as advocacy

groups, that police agencies develop and

approve a formal policy for dealing with

hate crime incidents, still only a

minority of police agencies from across

the country state that they had an

official policy regarding hate crime.

The impetus for this solicitation is the

report’s recommendation that ‘‘the data

indicate that in some number of cases

an information disconnect occurs

between the investigating officer and

UCR reporting. Many officers stated that

they knew of hate crimes that occurred

in their jurisdiction but were not

reflected in the official report. It is

possible that officers note bias

motivation in incident report narratives,

but the information from such narrative

is never documented into the UCR

records. A more detailed analysis of the

breakdown between hate crimes that are

investigated locally and those that are

reported nationally should be

undertaken.’’

There are a number of possible

explanations why an agency’s numbers

reported to the FBI might not reflect

hate crimes that are known to officers

on the street. Among the possibilities

are these: