[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 89 (Friday, May 8, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25542-25543]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-12269]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration


Indian Reservation Roads Program Transportation Planning 
Procedures and Guidelines; Public Meeting

AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Highway Administration in cooperation with the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) will jointly hold a meeting to present 
the final draft of the document, ``Indian Reservation Roads (IRR) 
Program Transportation Planning Procedures and Guidelines'' and to 
verify that all comments received were addressed.

DATES: The meeting will be held on June 8-11, 1998, beginning at 2:00 
p.m. on June 8, running from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m on June 9-10, and 
from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. on June 11.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Wool Warehouse, located at 
516 First Street, NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For the FHWA: Ms. Julianne Stevenson, 
HFL-11, Room 4206, (202) 366-9490, Federal Lands Highway Office; or Mr. 
Wilbert Baccus, HCC-10, Room 4230, (202) 366-0780, Office of the Chief 
Counsel, Federal Highway Administration, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., 
e.t., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. For the BIA: Mr. 
LeRoy Gishi, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Transportation, 
(202) 208-4359, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1849 C. Street, NW. 
(Code 260 MS 4058 MIB), Washington, DC 20240.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Electronic Access

    An electronic copy of this public meeting notice may be downloaded 
using a modem and suitable communications software from the Federal 
Register Electronic Bulletin Board Service at (202) 512-1661. Internet 
users may reach the Federal Register's home page at: <a href="http://
www.nara.gov/nara/fedreg">http://
www.nara.gov/nara/fedreg</a> and the Government Printing Office's database 
at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su__docs. The final draft IRR Program 
Transportation Planning Procedures and Guidelines will be available May 
15, 1998, on the Federal Lands Highway Office home page at: <a href="http://
www.fhwa.dot.gov/lands.html">http://
www.fhwa.dot.gov/lands.html</a>.

Public Meeting

    The purpose of this public meeting is to present the final draft of 
the document, ``Indian Reservation Roads Program Transportation 
Planning Procedures and Guidelines and to verify that all comments 
received were addressed.
    On March 24, 1997, the first draft of this document was mailed to 
all Indian Tribal Governments, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the 
Federal Highway Administration for review and comment. June 9-12, 1997, 
the comments were reviewed and the second draft of the document was 
prepared. On September 4, 1997, the second draft of this document was 
mailed to all Indian Tribal Governments, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
the Federal Highway Administration and other interested parties for 
review and comment. The comment period closed on November 21, 1997. In 
addition, a national meeting was held on September 24-25, 1997, in 
Denver, Colorado to review and discuss the subject document in detail. 
Comments were solicited and received at this meeting. On December 8-12, 
1997, February 3-6, 1998, March 10-13, 1998, and April 6-10, 1998, the 
comments received were addressed by the Transportation Planning Policy 
and Procedures Team (the Team). This team is comprised of the following 
individuals:

Francine Shaw-Whitson--Federal Highway Administration, Federal Lands 
Highway Office, Washington, DC
Julianne Stevenson--Federal Highway Administration, Federal Lands 
Highway Office, Washington, DC
Dee Spann--Federal Highway Administration, Office of Environment and 
Planning, Washington, DC
Joseph Martin--Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Transportation, 
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Galen Balster--Bureau of Indian Affairs, Aberdeen Area Office, 
Aberdeen, South Dakota
Robert D. Maxwell, Jr.--Bureau of Indian Affairs, Phoenix Area Office, 
Phoenix, Arizona
Harold Riley--Bureau of Indian Affairs, Navajo Area Office, Gallop, New 
Mexico
R. Evan Fulton--Tribal Technical Assistance Program, Houghton, MI
Everett Waller--Intertribal Transportation Association (Osage Nation, 
of Oklahoma, Oklahoma)
Don Ellis--Oklahoma Department of Transportation (Comanche Indian 
Tribe, Oklahoma)
Robert Endicott--Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Oklahoma
Roy Begay--Navajo Nation of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah; Arizona
James Mark Wright--Jicarilla Apache Tribe of the Jicarilla Apache 
Indian Reservation, New Mexico
Becky Rey--Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Washington
Larry L. Keeler--Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt 
River Reservation, Arizona
Alvin Moyle--Paiute Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and 
Colony, Nevada

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Herbert Tate--White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache 
Reservation, Arizona
Dennis Smith--Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, 
Nevada
Rebecca Torres--Alabama/Quassarte Tribal Town of the Creek Nation of 
Oklahoma, Oklahoma
James Garrigan--Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians of the Red Lake 
Reservation, Minnesota
Kevin R. Alford--Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina, 
North Carolina
Tracy VanRite--Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, Wisconsin
Henry Hoggatt--Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma
Sandra Shade--Gila River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Gila 
River Indian Reservation of Arizona, Arizona
Tim Longie, Sr.--Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota
Lewis B. George--Catawba Indian Nation, South Carolina
David McKinney--Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Oklahoma
Louis Hood--Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Indian Community of the Fort 
McDowell Indian Reservation, Arizona
Emil Tojola--Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico
Glenn Wasson--Lovelock Paiute Tribe of the Lovelock Indian Colony, 
Nevada
Frederick Murillo--Mesa Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the 
Mesa Grande Reservation, California
Mark Tibbetts--Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council, New Mexico
R.T. Eby--Cocopah Tribe or Arizona
Levi Valdez--Bureau of Indian Affairs, Albuquerque Area Office, 
Northern Pueblo Agency, New Mexico

    Also, these meetings were attended by members of various other 
tribes who provided input into the revision of this document.
    Copies of the document will be available May 15, 1998, and can be 
obtained from the Federal Highway Administration, Federal Lands Highway 
Office, HFL-11, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590.

    Authority: 23 U.S.C. 315; 49 CFR 1.48.
Allen W. Burden,
Acting Federal Lands Highway Program Administrator.
[FR Doc. 98-12269 Filed 5-7-98; 8:45 am]
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