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to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, 

or Native Hawaiian organizations stated 

in this notice may proceed. 

DATES: Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

claim these cultural items should 

submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

Tuzigoot National Monument at the 

address in this notice by April 18, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lloyd Masayumptewa, Superintendent, 

Tuzigoot National Monument, P.O. Box 

219, Camp Verde, AZ 86322, telephone 

(928) 567–5276, email Lloyd_

Masayumptewa@nps.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

here given in accordance with the 

Native American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 

3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural 

items under the control of the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, National 

Park Service, Tuzigoot National 

Monument, Clarkdale, AZ, that meet the 

definition of unassociated funerary 

objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 

U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in 

this notice are the sole responsibility of 

the Superintendent, Tuzigoot National 

Monument. 

This notice corrects the number of 

unassociated funerary objects published 

in a Notice of Intent to Repatriate in the 

Federal Register on June 25, 2021 (86 

FR 33736–33737, June 25, 2021). During 

preparation for repatriation, it was 

discovered that two objects had been 

inadvertently omitted from the 

published notice. Transfer of control of 

the items in this correction notice has 

not occurred. 

Correction 

In the Federal Register (86 FR 33736, 

June 25, 2021), column 3, paragraph 6 

under the heading ‘‘History and 

Description of the Cultural Items,’’ is 

corrected by substituting the following 

paragraph: 

Between 1933–1934, 18 cultural items 

were removed from Hatalacva Pueblo in 

Yavapai County, AZ. The 18 

unassociated funerary objects are 14 

bowls, one pendant, one cup, one 

necklace, and one awl. 

In the Federal Register (86 FR 33737, 

June 25, 2021), column 1, paragraph 1 

is corrected by substituting the 

following paragraph: 

Between 1933–1934, 7,172 cultural 

items were removed from Tuzigoot 

Pueblo in Yavapai County, AZ. The 

7,172 unassociated funerary objects are 

one bow, two basketry fragments, one 

spindle whorl, two axes, one crystal, 

one prayer stick, 19 dendrochronology 

samples, 14 jars, 84 bowls, four 

miniature bowls, four pitchers, four 

ladles, one miniature jar, 6,969 beads, 

12 pendants, 19 bracelets, three 

unworked shells, eight projectile points, 

six necklaces, five rings, four worked 

shells, one worked sherd, two worked 

bones, two drills, two unworked bones, 

and one pigment. 

In the Federal Register (86 FR 33737, 

June 25, 2021), column 2, paragraphs 1 

and 2 are corrected by substituting the 

following paragraphs: 

Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 

8,086 cultural items described above are 

reasonably believed to have been placed 

with or near individual human remains 

at the time of death or later as part of 

the death rite or ceremony and are 

believed, by a preponderance of the 

evidence, to have been removed from a 

specific burial site of a Native American 

individual. 

Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is 

a relationship of shared group identity 

that can be reasonably traced between 

the 8,086 unassociated funerary objects 

and the Hopi Tribe of Arizona. 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Lineal descendants or representatives 

of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to claim these cultural items 

should submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

Lloyd Masayumptewa, Superintendent, 

Tuzigoot National Monument, P.O. Box 

219, Camp Verde, AZ 86322, telephone 

(928) 567–5276, email Lloyd_

Masayumptewa@nps.gov, by April 18, 

2022. After that date, if no additional 

claimants have come forward, transfer 

of control of the unassociated funerary 

objects to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona may 

proceed. 

The U.S. Department of the Interior, 

National Park Service, Tuzigoot 

National Monument is responsible for 

notifying the Ak-Chin Indian 

Community [previously listed as the Ak 

Chin Indian Community of the 

Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, 

Arizona]; Fort McDowell Yavapai 

Nation, Arizona; Gila River Indian 

Community of the Gila River Indian 

Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of 

Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa 

Indian Community of the Salt River 

Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O’odham 

Nation of Arizona; Yavapai-Apache 

Nation of the Camp Verde Indian 

Reservation, Arizona; Yavapai-Prescott 

Indian Tribe [previously listed as 

Yavapai-Prescott Tribe of the Yavapai 

Reservation, Arizona]; and the Zuni 

Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 

Mexico that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: March 9, 2022. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2022–05628 Filed 3–16–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 

and Enforcement 

[S1D1S SS08011000 SX064A000 

222S180110; S2D2S SS08011000 

SX064A000 22XS501520] 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

Navajo Transitional Energy Company’s 

Spring Creek Mine Federal Mining Plan 

Modification for Federal Coal Lease 

MTM–94378 

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) 

is publishing this notice to announce 

that, consistent with direction from the 

U.S. District Court of Montana, it will 

prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) for Navajo Transitional 

Energy Company’s (NTEC) Federal 

mining plan modification for Federal 

Coal Lease MTM–94378 (the Project). 

With this notice, OSMRE also 

announces that it will hold a public 

scoping meeting, including a 30-day 

public scoping period to receive 

comments on the environmental issues 

that OSMRE should analyze in this EIS. 

The Spring Creek Mine (SCM) is located 

in Big Horn County, Montana, 

approximately 32 miles from Sheridan, 

Wyoming. The SCM started operation in 

1974 and is expected to continue to 

operate until at least 2025 under the 

current approved mining plan. The 

proposed Project would allow 184.1 

acres of additional surface disturbance 

and recovery of an additional 51.5 

million tons (Mt) of Federal coal. Under 

the proposed Project, SCM would 

continue to mine approximately 13–18 

million tons per year (Mtpy) and the 

production would extend for an 

additional 3–4 years, depending on 

production rates. OSMRE plans to 

analyze the environmental effects of an 

annual production rate of 18 Mtpy for 

4 additional years of production, which 

is the maximum estimated future annual 

production rate. This rate is below the 


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maximum permitted production rate of 

30 Mtpy established by the Montana 

Department of Environmental Quality 

(MDEQ)-Air Quality Division (AQD) Air 

Quality Permit MAQP #1120–12. 

DATES: OSMRE requests comments 

concerning the scope of the analysis in 

the EIS, and identification of relevant 

information, studies, and analyses. All 

comments must be received April 18, 

2022. The public scoping meeting will 

be held via Zoom from 4:00–6:00 p.m. 

MST on March 31, 2022. Please register 

to attend and provide verbal comments 

during the Zoom public scoping 

meeting at the following address: 

(https://www.osmre.gov/laws-andregulations/nepa/projects). There will 

also be a telephone number provided 

upon registration. 

ADDRESSES: 

You may submit comments related to 

the Project by any of the following 

methods: 

• Email: SCM_LBA1_EIS@

wwcengineering.com. 

• Mail: ATTN: Spring Creek Mining 

Plan Modification EIS, C/O: Logan 

Sholar, OSMRE Western Regions 5, 7– 

11, P.O. Box 25065, Lakewood, CO 

80225–0065. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Logan Sholar, NEPA Project Manager; 

telephone (303) 236–6038; email: 

lsholar@osmre.gov or at the address and 

email provided in the ADDRESSES

section. 

Individuals who use 

telecommunication devices for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 

between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern 

Time, Monday through Friday. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OSMRE 

Regions 5, 7–11 will prepare an EIS for 

SCM’s mining plan modification to 

address issues identified by the U.S. 

District Court for the District of Montana 

(the Court) in a 2021 ruling related to 

the environmental analysis previously 

prepared by OSMRE for Federal Coal 

Lease MTM 94378. In accordance with 

the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, the 

Department of the Interior Assistant 

Secretary for Land and Minerals 

Management (ASLM) must approve, 

disapprove, or approve the Project with 

conditions because the Project contains 

leased Federal coal. The SCM is 

operated by NTEC under State Mine 

Permit C1979012, issued by MDEQ, in 

accordance with its regulatory authority. 

On February 3, 2021, the Court held 

that OSMRE failed to adequately 

examine the impacts of coal 

transportation, non-greenhouse gas 

emissions, and greenhouse gas 

emissions in preparing their 2012 

Environmental Assessment and 

recommending approval of the mining 

plan modification for Federal Coal Lease 

MTM–94378. The Court deferred 

vacatur of the mining plan modification 

decision for 240 days and is allowing 

OSMRE to conduct remedial NEPA 

analysis. On August 5, 2021, OSMRE 

notified the Court that it would prepare 

an EIS and requested an extension of the 

deferred vacatur until April 1, 2023, 

which the Court granted. 

Purpose and Need for the Proposed 

Action: 

The purpose of this EIS is to respond 

to the Court’s ruling and analyze the 

effects of coal transportation and 

greenhouse and non-greenhouse gas 

emissions resulting from the proposed 

Project. The EIS will also consider any 

new information available in analyzing 

potential impacts to other resources in 

the environment that could result from 

the Project. 

The Project is needed to allow NTEC, 

the current mine operator, the 

opportunity to exercise its valid existing 

rights for Federal Coal Lease MTM– 

94378 granted by the Bureau of Land 

Management. 

Preliminary Proposed Project 

The proposed Project would allow 

184.1 acres of additional surface 

disturbance and recovery of an 

additional 51.5 Mt of federal coal. SCM 

started operation in 1974 and is 

expected to continue to operate until 

approximately 2025 under the current, 

approved mining plan. The proposed 

Project would extend the life of the 

mine for 3–4 years, allowing an 

additional 13–18 Mtpy, depending on 

production rates. 

Summary of Expected Impacts 

The Agency has completed internal 

scoping and identified preliminary 

analysis issues that will be evaluated in 

the EIS. Reasonably foreseeable effects 

of mining Federal coal will be evaluated 

for the following resources: 

• Air Quality (measured as 

concentration of criteria air pollutants 

regulated under the National Ambient 

Air Quality Standards, Hazardous Air 

Pollutants, and Air Quality Related 

Values such as visibility (haze) and 

atmospheric deposition) 

• Combustion of greenhouse gases as it 

relates to climate change measured in 

terms of carbon dioxide equivalent for 

both 20-year and 100-year global 

warming potentials 

• Surface water and groundwater 

quality and quantity 

• Socio-economic effects, including 

changes to state and local taxes, 

royalties, fees, lease bids and bonuses, 

as well as payroll benefits as well as 

effects to Environmental Justice 

populations 

• Federally listed threatened/ 

endangered species 

• Geology 

• Soils 

• Cultural Resources 

• Visual Resources 

• Wildlife 

Anticipated Permits and Authorizations 

None at this time. 

Schedule for the Decision-Making 

Process 

The Department plans to issue the 

Record of Decision on or before April 1, 

2023. 

Public Scoping Process 

All public scoping comments must be 

submitted by email or by mail to the 

addresses listed under ADDRESSES. 

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 public at any time. While you 

may request in your comment to 

withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, OSMRE 

cannot guarantee that this will occur. 

The Project web page located at 

(https://www.osmre.gov/laws-andregulations/nepa/projects) will include 

the description of the Project as 

submitted by NTEC, a map of the 

proposed mining plan modification, and 

information about how to submit public 

comment on issues or concerns related 

to the Project. 

OSMRE will review and consider all 

public scoping comments received and 

prepare a Scoping Summary Report. The 

Scoping Summary Report will be used 

by OSMRE to identify issues to be 

included in the EIS analysis, resources 

and issues that can be dismissed from 

detailed analysis because they are not 

present or not affected by the Project, 

and potential alternatives to be 

analyzed. 

Request for Identification of Potential 

Alternatives, Information, and 

Analyses Relevant to the Proposed 

Action 

In addition to comments concerning 

the scope of the EIS analysis, 

commenters are encouraged to identify 

relevant information, studies, and 

analyses that would assist the 

Department in making its decision and 

identify potential alternatives to the 

Project. 


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Lead and Cooperating Agencies 

OSMRE is the lead agency for this 

EIS. The BLM and MDEQ have been 

invited to be cooperating agencies on 

the OSMRE EIS. Other federal agencies, 

state, tribal, and local governments with 

jurisdiction by law or special expertise 

that are interested in participating in the 

preparation of this EIS should contact 

the above mentioned NEPA Project 

Manager. 

Decision Maker 

Assistant Secretary for Lands and 

Minerals Management. 

Nature of Decision To Be Made 

Informed by the EIS analysis, OSMRE 

will make a recommendation to the 

ASLM to approve, disapprove, or 

approve with conditions the mining 

plan modification for Federal Coal Lease 

MTM–94378. The ASLM will consider 

OSMRE’s recommendation when 

deciding to approve, disapprove, or 

approve with conditions the mining 

plan modification for Federal Coal Lease 

MTM–94378. OSMRE’s 

recommendation to the ASLM is based, 

at a minimum, on the documentation 

specified at 30 CFR 746.13. 

David Berry, 

Regional Director, Interior Regions 5, 7–11. 

[FR Doc. 2022–05623 Filed 3–16–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Proposed 

Consent Decree Under the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act 

On March 3, 2022, the Department of 

Justice lodged a proposed consent 

decree with the United States District 

Court for the Northern District of 

Indiana in the lawsuit entitled United 

States and State of Indiana v. Northern 

Indiana Public Service Company, LLC, 

Civil Action No. 2:22–cv–48. 

The United States and the State of 

Indiana (the ‘‘State’’) filed a complaint 

in this lawsuit under the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act (CERCLA). The United States and 

the State’s complaint names Northern 

Indiana Public Service Company, LLC 

(‘‘NIPSCO’’), as the defendant. The 

complaint requests recovery of costs 

that the United States and the State 

incurred responding to releases of 

hazardous substances at the Town of 

Pines Superfund Site (‘‘the ‘‘Site’’) in 

Porter County, Indiana. The complaint 

also seeks injunctive relief. The United 

States, the State, and NIPSCO signed the 

consent decree to resolve the claims in 

the complaint. NIPSCO agrees to pay 

$619,632.16 of the United States’ 

response costs already incurred, to pay 

for the United States’ and the State’s 

costs to be incurred, and to perform the 

remedial action that EPA selected for 

the Operable Unit 2 portion of the Site 

at an estimated cost of $11.8 million. In 

return, the United States and the State 

of Indiana agree not to sue the 

defendant under sections 106 and 107 of 

CERCLA for work done under the 

consent decree and for Past Response 

Costs and Future Response Costs as 

defined by the decree. 

The publication of this notice opens 

a period for public comment on the 

consent decree. Comments should be 

addressed to the Assistant Attorney 

General, Environment and Natural 

Resources Division, and should refer to 

United States and State of Indiana v. 

Northern Indiana Public Service 

Company, D.J. Ref. No. 90–11–3–12060. 

All comments must be submitted no 

later than thirty (30) days after the 

publication date of this notice. 

Comments may be submitted either by 

email or by mail: 

To submit 

comments: Send them to: 

By email ....... pubcomment-ees.enrd@

usdoj.gov. 

By mail ......... Assistant Attorney General, 

U.S. DOJ—ENRD, P.O. 

Box 7611, Washington, DC 

20044–7611. 

During the public comment period, 

the consent decree may be examined 

and downloaded at this Justice 

Department website: https://

www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees. 

We will provide a paper copy of the 

consent decree upon written request 

and payment of reproduction costs. 

Please mail your request and payment 

to: Consent Decree Library, U.S. DOJ— 

ENRD, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 

20044–7611. 

Please enclose a check or money order 

for $53 (25 cents per page reproduction 

cost) payable to the United States 

Treasury. For a paper copy without the 

appendices, the cost is $13. 

Patricia Mckenna, 

Assistant Section Chief, Environmental 

Enforcement Section, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division. 

[FR Doc. 2022–05579 Filed 3–16–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Request for Public 

Comment 

AGENCY: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration (EBSA), Department of 

Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (the 

Department), in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, provides the 

general public and Federal agencies 

with an opportunity to comment on 

proposed and continuing collections of 

information. This helps the Department 

assess the impact of its information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand the 

Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. The 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration (EBSA) is soliciting 

comments on the proposed extension of 

the information collection requests 

(ICRs) contained in the documents 

described below. A copy of the ICRs 

may be obtained by contacting the office 

listed in the ADDRESSES section of this 

notice. ICRs also are available at 

reginfo.gov (http://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain). 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office shown in the 

ADDRESSES section on or before May 16, 

2022. 

ADDRESSES: James Butikofer, 

Department of Labor, Employee Benefits 

Security Administration, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW, Room N– 

5718, Washington, DC 20210, or 

ebsa.opr@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Current Actions 

This notice requests public comment 

on the Department’s request for 

extension of the Office of Management 

and Budget’s (OMB) approval of ICRs 

contained in the rules and prohibited 

transaction exemptions described 

below. The Department is not proposing 

any changes to the existing ICRs at this 

time. An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, an information collection 

unless it displays a valid OMB control 

number. A summary of the ICRs and the 

current burden estimates follows: 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 


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