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Secretary of the Interior shall publish in 

the Federal Register notice of approved 

Tribal-State compacts for the purpose of 

engaging in Class III gaming activities 

on Indian lands. As required by 25 CFR 

293.4, all compacts and amendments are 

subject to review and approval by the 

Secretary. The Amendment permits the 

Tribe to operate sports wagering within 

the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, 

defines terms for sports wagering and 

requires the Tribe to meet or exceed 

South Dakota’s hardware and software 

specifications. The Amendment is 

approved. 

Wizipan Garriott, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—Indian 

Affairs, Exercising by delegation the authority 

of the Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2022–08652 Filed 4–21–22; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–CRPS–NPS0033332; 

PPWOCRADI0, PPMRSCR1Y.Y00000, 

P103601 (222); OMB Control Number 1024– 

0271] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Gathering of Certain Plants 

or Plant Parts by Federally Recognized 

Indian Tribes for Traditional Purposes 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, 

the National Park Service (NPS) are 

proposing to renew an information 

collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before June 21, 

2022. 

ADDRESSES: Please provide a copy of 

your comments to the NPS Information 

Collection Clearance Officer (ADIR– 

ICCO), 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, 

(MS–242), Reston, VA 20191 (mail); or 

phadrea_ponds@nps.gov (email). Please 

include ‘‘1024–0271’’ in the subject line 

of your comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this information collection request (ICR) 

by mail, contact Dorothy FireCloud, 

Native American Affairs Liaison, 

National Park Service, 1849 C Street 

NW, Mail Stop 7360, Washington, DC 

20240; or by email at dorothy_

firecloud@nps.gov or by telephone at 

928–821–5831. Individuals in the 

United States who are deaf, deafblind, 

hard of hearing, or have a speech 

disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or 

TeleBraille) to access 

telecommunications relay services. 

Individuals outside the United States 

should use the relay services offered 

within their country to make 

international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. You may 

also view the ICR at https://

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, (PRA, 44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), all 

information collections require approval 

under the PRA. We may not conduct or 

sponsor and you are not required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) control number. 

As part of our continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burdens, we invite the public and other 

Federal agencies 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. 

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. 

(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. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this ICR. 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: Gathering and removing 

plants or plant parts is currently 

prohibited in National Park System 

areas unless specifically authorized by 

Federal statute or treaty rights or 

conducted under the limited 

circumstances authorized by an existing 

regulation codified in 36 CFR 2.1(c). 

Regulations codified in 36 CFR part 2 

allow the gathering and removal of 

plants or plant parts by enrolled 

members of federally recognized tribes 

for traditional purposes. The regulations 

authorize agreements between the NPS 

and federally recognized tribes to 

facilitate the continuation of tribal 

cultural practices on lands within areas 

of the National Park System where those 

practices traditionally occurred, without 

causing a significant adverse impact to 

park resources or values. The 

regulations: 

• Respect tribal sovereignty and 

cultural practices, 

• further the government-togovernment relationship between the 

United States and the Indian Tribes, and 

• provide system-wide consistency 

for this aspect of NPS-Tribal relations. 

The agreements explicitly recognize 

the special government-to-government 

relationship between the United States 

and Indian Tribes and are based upon 

mutually agreed upon terms and 

conditions subject to the requirements 

of 36 CFR 2.6(f). The agreements serve 

as the documents through which the 

NPS authorizes tribal gathering 

implemented by an accompanying 

permit authorized by 36 CFR 1.6. Only 

enrolled members of a federally 

recognized tribe are allowed to collect 

plants or plant parts, and the tribe must 

be traditionally associated with the 

specific park area. This traditional 

association must predate the 

establishment of the park. The plant 

gathering must meet a traditional 

purpose that is a customary activity and 

practice rooted in the history of the tribe 

and is important for the continuation of 

the tribe’s distinct culture. Authorized 

plant gathering must be sustainable and 

may not result in a significant adverse 

impact on park resources or values. The 

sale and commercial use of plants or 

plant parts within areas of the National 

Park System will continue to be 

prohibited by the NPS regulations in 36 

CFR 2.1(c)(3)(v). 

The information collections 

associated with 36 CFR part 2 include: 


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(1) The initial request from a tribe that 

we enter into an agreement with the 

tribe for gathering and removal of plants 

or plant parts for traditional purposes. 

The request must include the 

information specified in § 2.6(c). 

(2) The agreement defines the terms 

under which the NPS may issue a 

permit to a tribe for plant gathering 

purposes. To make determinations 

based upon tribal requests or to enter 

into an agreement, we may need to 

collect information from specific tribal 

members or tribes who make requests. 

The agreement must contain the 

information specified in § 2.6(f). 

(3) Tribes may submit an appeal to the 

NPS to provide additional information 

on historical relationship of the tribe, 

traditional uses of plants to be gathered, 

and/or the impact of gathering on the 

resource of concern in the event of a 

denial by the NPS on this issue. 

Title of Collection: Gathering of 

Certain Plants or Plant Parts by 

Federally Recognized Indian Tribes for 

Traditional Purposes, 36 CFR 2. 

OMB Control Number: 1024–0271. 

Form Number: None. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: Indian 

Tribes. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 30. 

Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: Varies between 4 hours and 

80 hours depending on respondent and/ 

or activity. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 530 hours. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

Total Estimated Annual Nonhour 

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.). 

Phadrea Ponds, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, 

National Park Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0033739; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Putnam Museum and Science 

Center, Davenport, IA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Putnam Museum and 

Science Center, in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations, has determined 

that the cultural items listed in this 

notice meet the definition of 

unassociated funerary objects. 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 to the 

Putnam Museum and Science Center. If 

no additional claimants come forward, 

transfer of control of the cultural items 

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 

the Putnam Museum and Science Center 

at the address in this notice by May 23, 

2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christina Kastell, Putnam Museum and 

Science Center, 1717 W 12th Street, 

Davenport, IA 52804, telephone (563) 

336–7293, email ckastell@putnam.org. 

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 Putnam 

Museum and Science Center, 

Davenport, IA, 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 museum, institution, or Federal 

agency that has control of the Native 

American cultural items. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

History and Description of the Cultural 

Items 

Sometime in the 1880s, six cultural 

items were removed from the 

Mississippi Valley in AL and MS. 

Captain W.P. Hall excavated these 

items. Subsequently, Miss Elizabeth 

Duncan Putnam donated these items to 

the museum. The six unassociated 

funerary objects are two Bell Plain 

Bowls, one miniature bowl, one animal 

effigy sherd, one ear plug, and one pipe 

fragment. 

These items have been determined to 

derive from Mississippian burial 

mounds in AL and MS. Based on this 

geographical and archeological 

information, they are connected to The 

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. 

Determinations Made by the Putnam 

Museum and Science Center 

Officials of the Putnam Museum and 

Science Center have determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), 

the six 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 unassociated funerary 

objects and The Choctaw Nation of 

Oklahoma. 

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 

Christina Kastell, Putnam Museum and 

Science Center, 1717 W 12th Street, 

Davenport, IA 52804, telephone (563) 

336–7293, email ckastell@putnam.org, 

by May 23, 2022. After that date, if no 

additional claimants have come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

unassociated funerary objects to The 

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma may 

proceed. 

The Putnam Museum and Science 

Center is responsible for notifying The 

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: April 13, 2022. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2022–08601 Filed 4–21–22; 8:45 am] 

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