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identify what information you want 

redacted. 

If you want to submit confidential 

business information as part of your 

comment but do not want it to be posted 

online, you must include the phrase 

‘‘CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS 

INFORMATION’’ in the first paragraph 

of your comment. You also must 

prominently identify confidential 

business information to be redacted 

within the comment. If a comment has 

so much confidential business 

information that it cannot be effectively 

redacted, all or part of that comment 

may not be posted on http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Personal identifying information and 

confidential business information 

identified and located as set forth above 

will be placed in the agency’s public 

docket file, but not posted online. If you 

wish to inspect the agency’s public 

docket file in person by appointment, 

please see the paragraph above entitled 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Statutory Background 

For more than two centuries, the 

Federal Government has recognized 

Indian tribes as domestic sovereigns that 

have unique government-to-government 

relationships with the United States. 

Congress has broad authority to legislate 

with respect to Indian tribes, however, 

and has exercised this authority to 

establish a complex jurisdictional 

scheme for the prosecution of crimes 

committed in Indian country. (The term 

‘‘Indian country’’ is defined in 18 U.S.C. 

1151.) Criminal jurisdiction in Indian 

country typically depends on several 

factors, including the nature of the 

crime; whether the alleged offender, the 

victim, or both are Indian; and whether 

a treaty, Federal statute, executive order, 

or judicial decision has conferred 

jurisdiction on a particular government. 

The Tribal Law and Order Act (TLOA) 

was enacted on July 29, 2010, as Title 

II of Public Law 111–211. The purpose 

of the TLOA is to help the Federal 

Government and tribal governments 

better address the unique public-safety 

challenges that confront tribal 

communities. Section 221(b) of the new 

law, now codified at 18 U.S.C. 1162(d), 

permits an Indian tribe with Indian 

country subject to State criminal 

jurisdiction under Public Law 280, P.L. 

83–280, 67 Stat. 588 (1953) to request 

that the United States accept concurrent 

jurisdiction to prosecute violations of 

the General Crimes Act and the Major 

Crimes Act within that tribe’s Indian 

country. 

Department of Justice Regulation 

Implementing 18 U.S.C. 1162(d) 

On December 6, 2011, 76 FR 76037 

the Department published final 

regulations that established the 

framework and procedures for a 

mandatory Public Law 280 tribe to 

request the assumption of concurrent 

Federal criminal jurisdiction within the 

Indian country of the tribe that is 

subject to Public Law 280. 28 CFR 

50.25. Among other provisions, the 

regulations provide that upon receipt of 

a tribal request the Office of Tribal 

Justice shall publish a notice in the 

Federal Register seeking comments 

from the general public. 

Request by the Table Mountain 

Rancheria 

By a request dated May 14, 2012, the 

Table Mountain Rancheria located in 

the State of California requested the 

United States to assume concurrent 

Federal jurisdiction to prosecute 

violations of 18 U.S.C. 1152 (the General 

Crimes, or Indian Country Crimes, Act) 

and 18 U.S.C. 1153 (the Major Crimes 

Act) within the Indian country of the 

tribe. This would allow the United 

States to assume concurrent criminal 

jurisdiction over offenses within the 

Indian country of the tribe without 

eliminating or affecting the State’s 

existing criminal jurisdiction. 

Solicitation of Comments 

This notice solicits public comments 

on the above request. 

Dated: October 15, 2012. 

Tracy Toulou, 

Director, Office of Tribal Justice. 

[FR Doc. 2012–25892 Filed 10–19–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–A5–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

[Docket No. OTJ 105] 

Solicitation of Comments on Request 

for United States Assumption of 

Concurrent Federal Criminal 

Jurisdiction; Hoopa Valley Tribe 

AGENCY: Office of Tribal Justice, 

Department of Justice. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice solicits public 

comments on the Request for United 

States Assumption of Concurrent 

Federal Criminal Jurisdiction recently 

submitted to the Office of Tribal Justice, 

Department of Justice by the Hoopa 

Valley Tribe pursuant to the provisions 

of 28 CFR 50.25. The initial notice 

soliciting public comments on this 

Request was published in the Federal 

Register on April 24, 2012; the comment 

period associated with the initial notice 

ended on June 8, 2012. The Office of 

Tribal Justice is publishing notice again 

in response to requests for additional 

time to provide public comments. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

postmarked and electronic comments 

must be submitted on or before 

December 6, 2012. Comments received 

by mail will be considered timely if they 

are postmarked on or before that date. 

The electronic Federal Docket 

Management System (FDMS) will accept 

comments until Midnight Eastern Time 

at the end of that day. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail or Hand Delivery/Courier: 

submit written comments via regular or 

express mail to Mr. Tracy Toulou, 

Director, Office of Tribal Justice, 

Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW., Room 2310, Washington, 

DC 20530. 

• Fax: submit comments to the 

attention of Mr. Tracy Toulou, Office of 

Tribal Justice, Department of Justice, 

(202) 514–9078 (not a toll-free number). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Please contact Mr. Tracy Toulou, 

Director, Office of Tribal Justice, 

Department of Justice, at (202) 514–8812 

(not a toll-free number). To ensure 

proper handling of comments, please 

reference ‘‘Docket No. OTJ 105’’ on all 

electronic and written correspondence. 

The Department encourages all 

comments be submitted electronically 

through http://www.regulations.gov 

using the electronic comment form 

provided on that site. An electronic 

copy of the request for United States 

assumption of concurrent federal 

criminal jurisdiction submitted by the 

Hoopa Valley Tribe is also available at 

the http://www.regulations.gov Web site 

for easy reference. Paper comments that 

duplicate the electronic submission are 

not necessary as all comments 

submitted to http://www.regulations.gov 

will be posted for public review and are 

part of the official docket record. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Posting of 

Public Comments. Please note that all 

comments received are considered part 

of the public record and made available 

for public inspection online at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Such information 

includes personal identifying 

information (such as your name and 

address) voluntarily submitted by the 

commenter. 

You are not required to submit 

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order to comment on this rule. 

Nevertheless, if you want to submit 

personal identifying information (such 

as your name and address) as part of 

your comment, but do not want it to be 

posted online, you must include the 

phrase ‘‘PERSONAL IDENTIFYING 

INFORMATION’’ in the first paragraph 

of your comment. You also must locate 

all the personal identifying information 

you do not want posted online in the 

first paragraph of your comment and 

identify what information you want 

redacted. 

If you want to submit confidential 

business information as part of your 

comment but do not want it to be posted 

online, you must include the phrase 

‘‘CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS 

INFORMATION’’ in the first paragraph 

of your comment. You also must 

prominently identify confidential 

business information to be redacted 

within the comment. If a comment has 

so much confidential business 

information that it cannot be effectively 

redacted, all or part of that comment 

may not be posted on http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Personal identifying information and 

confidential business information 

identified and located as set forth above 

will be placed in the agency’s public 

docket file, but not posted online. If you 

wish to inspect the agency’s public 

docket file in person by appointment, 

please see the paragraph above entitled 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Statutory Background 

For more than two centuries, the 

Federal Government has recognized 

Indian tribes as domestic sovereigns that 

have unique government-to-government 

relationships with the United States. 

Congress has broad authority to legislate 

with respect to Indian tribes, however, 

and has exercised this authority to 

establish a complex jurisdictional 

scheme for the prosecution of crimes 

committed in Indian country. (The term 

‘‘Indian country’’ is defined in 18 U.S.C. 

1151.) Criminal jurisdiction in Indian 

country typically depends on several 

factors, including the nature of the 

crime; whether the alleged offender, the 

victim, or both are Indian; and whether 

a treaty, Federal statute, executive order, 

or judicial decision has conferred 

jurisdiction on a particular government. 

The Tribal Law and Order Act (TLOA) 

was enacted on July 29, 2010, as Title 

II of Public Law 111–211. The purpose 

of the TLOA is to help the Federal 

Government and tribal governments 

better address the unique public-safety 

challenges that confront tribal 

communities. Section 221(b) of the new 

law, now codified at 18 U.S.C. 1162(d), 

permits an Indian tribe with Indian 

country subject to State criminal 

jurisdiction under Public Law 280, P.L. 

83–280, 67 Stat. 588 (1953) to request 

that the United States accept concurrent 

jurisdiction to prosecute violations of 

the General Crimes Act and the Major 

Crimes Act within that tribe’s Indian 

country. 

Department of Justice Regulation 

Implementing 18 U.S.C. 1162(d) 

On December 6, 2011, 76 FR 76037 

the Department published final 

regulations that established the 

framework and procedures for a 

mandatory Public Law 280 tribe to 

request the assumption of concurrent 

Federal criminal jurisdiction within the 

Indian country of the tribe that is 

subject to Public Law 280. 28 CFR 

50.25. Among other provisions, the 

regulations provide that upon receipt of 

a tribal request the Office of Tribal 

Justice shall publish a notice in the 

Federal Register seeking comments 

from the general public. 

Request by the Hoopa Valley Tribe 

By a request dated January 17, 2012, 

the Hoopa Valley Tribe located in the 

State of California requested the United 

States to assume concurrent Federal 

jurisdiction to prosecute violations of 18 

U.S.C. 1152 (the General Crimes, or 

Indian Country Crimes, Act) and 18 

U.S.C. 1153 (the Major Crimes Act) 

within the Indian country of the tribe. 

This would allow the United States to 

assume concurrent criminal jurisdiction 

over offenses within the Indian country 

of the tribe without eliminating or 

affecting the State’s existing criminal 

jurisdiction. 

Solicitation of Comments 

This notice solicits public comments 

on the above request. 

Dated: October 15, 2012. 

Tracy Toulou, 

Director, Office of Tribal Justice. 

[FR Doc. 2012–25895 Filed 10–19–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–A5–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2012–0019] 

National Advisory Committee on 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NACOSH) 

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration (OSHA), Labor. 

ACTION: Announcement of meetings of 

the National Advisory Committee on 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NACOSH) and a NACOSH Work 

Group. 

SUMMARY: NACOSH will meet 

November 15, 2012, in Washington, DC. 

In conjunction with the committee 

meeting, the NACOSH Effectiveness 

Measures Work Group will meet on 

November 14, 2012. 

DATES: NACOSH meeting: NACOSH will 

meet from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, 

November 15, 2012. 

NACOSH Work Group meeting: The 

NACOSH Effectiveness Measures Work 

Group will meet from 1–4 p.m., 

Wednesday, November 14, 2012. 

Submission of comments, requests to 

speak, speaker presentations and 

requests for special accommodation: 

You must submit (postmark, send, 

transmit, deliver) comments, requests to 

speak at the NACOSH meeting, speaker 

presentations, and requests for special 

accommodations for the NACOSH and 

NACOSH Work Group meetings by 

November 2, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: NACOSH and NACOSH 

Work Group meetings: NACOSH and 

NACOSH Work Group meetings will 

meet in Room S–4215 A/B/C U.S. 

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210. 

Submission of comments, requests to 

speak and speaker presentations: You 

may submit comments, requests to 

speak at the NACOSH meeting and 

speaker presentations, which you must 

identify by the docket number in this 

Federal Register notice (Docket No. 

OSHA–2012–0019), by one of the 

following methods: 

Electronically: You may submit 

materials, including attachments, 

electronically at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal. Follow the online 

instructions for making submissions. 

Facsimile: If your submission, 

including attachments, does not exceed 

10 pages, you may fax it to the OSHA 

Docket Office at (202) 693–1648. 

Mail, express delivery, messenger or 

courier service: You may submit your 

materials to the OSHA Docket Office, 

Docket No. OSHA–2012–0019, Room N– 

2625, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20210; telephone (202) 693–2350 

(TTY (887) 889–5627). Deliveries (hand, 

express mail, messenger, courier 

service) are accepted during the 

Department of Labor’s and OSHA 

Docket Office’s normal business hours, 

8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., e.t., weekdays. 

Requests for special accommodation: 

Please submit requests for special 


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