Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 35 / Tuesday, February 22, 2022 / Notices 9639 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments on 

this information collection request (ICR) 

to the Office of Management and 

Budget’s Desk Officer for the 

Department of the Interior by email at 

OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov; or via 

facsimile to (202) 395–5806. Please 

provide a copy of your comments to 

Steven Mullen, Information Collection 

Clearance Officer, Office of Regulatory 

Affairs and Collaborative Action— 

Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the 

Interior, 1001 Indian School Road NW, 

Suite 229, Albuquerque, New Mexico 

87104; or by email to comments@

bia.gov. Please reference OMB Control 

Number 1076–0183 in the subject line of 

your comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Jeanette Hanna, Deputy 

Bureau Director, Indian Services, Office 

of Indian Services, BIA, by email at 

jeanette.hanna@bia.gov or telephone at 

(202) 208–2874. You may also view the 

ICR at http://www.reginfo.gov/public/ 

do/PRAMain. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, we provide the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on new, proposed, revised, 

and continuing collections of 

information. This helps us assess the 

impact of our information collection 

requirements and minimize the public’s 

reporting burden. It also helps the 

public understand our information 

collection requirements and provide the 

requested data in the desired format. 

A Federal Register notice with a 60- 

day public comment period soliciting 

comments on this collection of 

information was published on 

September 7, 2021 (86 FR 50153). No 

comments were received. 

As part of our continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burdens, we are again soliciting 

comments from the public and other 

Federal agencies on the proposed ICR 

that is described below. We are 

especially interested in public comment 

addressing the following: 

(1) Whether or not the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether or not the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the 

burden for this collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(4) How might the agency minimize 

the burden of the collection of 

information on those who are to 

respond, including through the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of response. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. Before including your 

address, phone number, email address, 

or other personal identifying 

information in your comment, you 

should be aware that your entire 

comment—including your personal 

identifying information—may be made 

publicly available at any time. While 

you can ask us in your comment to 

withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Abstract: Under the Indian 

Reorganization Act, Tribes have the 

right to organize and adopt 

constitutions, bylaws, and any 

amendments thereto, and ratify charters 

of incorporation, through elections 

called by the Secretary of the Interior, 

according to rules prescribed by the 

Secretary. See 25 U.S.C. 476, 477, 503. 

The Secretary’s rules for conducting 

these elections, known as ‘‘Secretarial 

elections,’’ and approving the results are 

at 25 CFR 81. In most cases, the Tribe 

requests a Secretarial election; however, 

an individual voting member of a Tribe 

may also request a Secretarial election 

by petition. These rules also establish 

the procedures for an individual to 

petition for a Secretarial election. 

The BIA requires the Tribe to submit 

a formal request for Secretarial election, 

including: A Tribal resolution; the 

document or language to be voted on in 

the election; a list of all Tribal members 

who are age 18 or older in the next 120 

days (when the election will occur), 

including their last known addresses, 

voting districts (if any), and dates of 

birth, in an electronically sortable 

format. 

While much of the information the 

Tribe prepares for a Secretarial election 

(e.g., list of members eligible to vote) 

would be required if the Tribe instead 

conducted its own Tribal election, the 

Secretary’s rules establish specifics on 

what a Tribal request or petition for 

election must contain. These specifics 

are necessary to ensure the integrity of 

Secretarial elections and allow the BIA 

and Tribal personnel the ability to 

consistently administer elections. 

Title of Collection: Secretarial 

Elections. 

OMB Control Number: 1076–0183. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Federally recognized Tribes and their 

members. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 252,041. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 252,041. 

Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: Varies from 15 minutes to 40 

hours. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 64,305. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

Obtain a Benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

Total Estimated Annual Nonhour 

Burden Cost: $146,160. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor and a person is not required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

The authority for this action is the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq). 

Steven Mullen, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, 

Office of Regulatory Affairs and Collaborative 

Action—Indian Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2022–03722 Filed 2–18–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4337–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

[2231A2100DD/AAKC001030/ 

A0A501010.999900; OMB Control Number 

1076–0112] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Tribal Reassumption of 

Jurisdiction Over Child Custody 

Proceedings 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, 

the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) are 

proposing to renew an information 

collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before March 

24, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments on 

this information collection request (ICR) 

to the Office of Management and 

Budget’s Desk Officer for the 

Department of the Interior by email at 

OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov; or via 


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facsimile to (202) 395–5806. Please 

provide a copy of your comments to 

Steven Mullen, Information Collection 

Clearance Officer, Office of Regulatory 

Affairs and Collaborative Action— 

Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the 

Interior, 1001 Indian School Road NW, 

Suite 229, Albuquerque, New Mexico 

87104; or by email to comments@

bia.gov. Please reference OMB Control 

Number 1076–0112 in the subject line of 

your comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Jeanette Hanna, Deputy 

Bureau Director, Indian Services, Office 

of Indian Services, BIA, by email at 

jeanette.hanna@bia.gov or telephone at 

(202) 208–2874. You may also view the 

ICR at http://www.reginfo.gov/public/ 

do/PRAMain. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, we provide the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on new, proposed, revised, 

and continuing collections of 

information. This helps us assess the 

impact of our information collection 

requirements and minimize the public’s 

reporting burden. It also helps the 

public understand our information 

collection requirements and provide the 

requested data in the desired format. 

A Federal Register notice with a 60- 

day public comment period soliciting 

comments on this collection of 

information was published on 

September 7, 2021 (86 FR 50153). No 

comments were received. 

As part of our continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burdens, we are again soliciting 

comments from the public and other 

Federal agencies on the proposed ICR 

that is described below. We are 

especially interested in public comment 

addressing the following: 

(1) Whether or not the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether or not the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the 

burden for this collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(4) How might the agency minimize 

the burden of the collection of 

information on those who are to 

respond, including through the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of response. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. Before including your 

address, phone number, email address, 

or other personal identifying 

information in your comment, you 

should be aware that your entire 

comment—including your personal 

identifying information—may be made 

publicly available at any time. While 

you can ask us in your comment to 

withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Abstract: The BIA is seeking to renew 

the information collection conducted 

under 25 CFR 13, Tribal Reassumption 

of Jurisdiction over Child Custody 

Proceedings, which prescribes 

procedures by which a federally 

recognized Tribe that occupies Tribal 

lands over which a State asserts any 

jurisdiction pursuant to Federal law 

may reassume jurisdiction over Indian 

child proceedings as authorized by the 

Indian Child Welfare Act, Public Law 

95–608, 92 Stat. 3069, 25 U.S.C. 1918. 

The collection of information will 

ensure that the provisions of Public Law 

95–608 are met. Any federally 

recognized Tribe that became subject to 

State jurisdiction pursuant to the 

provisions of the Act of August 15, 1953 

(67 Stat. 588), as amended by title IV of 

the Act of April 11, 1968 (82 Stat. 

73,78), or pursuant to any other Federal 

law, may reassume jurisdiction over 

child custody proceedings. The 

collection of information provides data 

that will be used in considering the 

petition and feasibility of the plan of the 

Tribe for reassumption of jurisdiction 

over Indian child custody proceedings. 

We collect the following information: 

Full name, address, and telephone 

number of petitioning Tribe or Tribes; a 

Tribal resolution; estimated total 

number of members in the petitioning 

Tribe of Tribes with an explanation of 

how the number was estimated; current 

criteria for Tribal membership; citation 

to provision in Tribal constitution 

authorizing the Tribal governing body to 

exercise jurisdiction over Indian child 

custody matters; description of Tribal 

court; copy of any Tribal ordinances or 

Tribal court rules establishing 

procedures or rules for exercise of 

jurisdiction over child custody matters; 

and all other information required by 25 

CFR 13.11. 

Title of Collection: Tribal 

Reassumption of Jurisdiction over Child 

Custody Proceedings. 

OMB Control Number: 1076–0112. 

Form Number: None. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Federally recognized Tribes who submit 

Tribal reassumption petitions for review 

and approval by the Secretary of the 

Interior. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 1. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 1. 

Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: 8 hours. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 8 hours. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

Obtain or Retain a Benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

Total Estimated Annual Non-hour 

Burden Cost: None. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor and a person is not required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

The authority for this action is the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq). 

Steven Mullen, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, 

Office of Regulatory Affairs and Collaborative 

Action—Indian Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2022–03719 Filed 2–18–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4337–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

[2231A2100DD/AAKC001030/ 

A0A501010.999900; OMB Control Number 

1076–0184] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Bureau of Indian Affairs 

Housing Improvement Program 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, 

the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) are 

proposing to renew an information 

collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before March 

24, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments on 

this information collection request (ICR) 

to the Office of Management and 

Budget’s Desk Officer for the 

Department of the Interior by email at 

OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov; or via 


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