Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 201 / Wednesday, October 19, 2005 / Notices 60849 

Services, on or before October 15 of 

each year. Although a single ranking is 

conducted, the BIA will utilize the 

scores to make funding decisions for 

projects supporting both the Water 

Rights Program and the Water Resources 

Program. Funding for all requests will 

be provided from the appropriate 

program consistent with the intent of 

Congress. 

Distribution Decision Making and 

Reserved Funds 

When the total amount of 

appropriations for each program is 

insufficient to fund all requests, the 

Deputy Director, Office of Trust 

Services, will determine the appropriate 

cut-off for funding the requests received 

and will reserve 3 percent to 5 percent 

of the total amount from each program 

to fulfill unforeseen high priority 

contingencies (e.g., court-ordered 

activities or other emergencies). This 

determination may include a decision 

not to fund lower-ranking requests and/ 

or to conduct across the board funding 

reductions, beginning first, and in 

magnitude, with water planning and 

pre-development activities, followed by 

water management, water rights 

negotiation, water rights adjudication 

and finally, and only when absolutely 

necessary and while maintaining 

efficiency and effective prosecution of 

each legal requirement, active water 

rights litigation support. 

Authority: This notice is published in 

accordance with the authority delegated by 

the Secretary of the Interior to the Principal 

Deputy Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs 

by part 209 of the Departmental Manual. 

Dated: October 3, 2005. 

Michael D. Olsen, 

Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—

Indian Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 05–20919 Filed 10–18–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–W7–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

60-Day Notice of Intention To Request 

Clearance of Collection of Information: 

Opportunity for Public Comment 

AGENCY: Department of the Interior, 

National Park Service. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The National Park Service 

(NPS) Office of International Affairs 

(OIA) proposes to collect information 

from property owners who volunteer for 

their properties to be included in a list 

of sites (Tentative List) that will be 

considered for nomination by the 

United States to the World Heritage List. 

In order to manage the U.S. World 

Heritage Program (37 CFR 73) effectively 

and in a timely manner NPS must 

prepare and submit through the 

Secretary of the Interior and the 

Secretary of State to the World Heritage 

Centre by February 1, 2007, a Tentative 

List of properties that appear to meet the 

criteria for nomination to the World 

Heritage List and which the United 

States intends to nominate during the 

ensuing decade (2007–2017). 

Only sites that have been found to be 

of national significance and that have 

such legal protections as are necessary 

to ensure the preservation of the 

properties and their environment may 

be considered for nomination by the 

United States. By law, all property 

owners must also concur in any World 

Heritage nomination. 

In order to gather the required 

information for the preparation of the 

Tentative List, it is proposed that an 

expanded and annotated version of the 

‘‘World Heritage Nomination Format’’

(or form, hereinafter referred to as the 

‘‘Application’’) be made available to 

owners who wish to apply for inclusion 

in the U.S. Tentative List. It would be 

made available on the Internet at http:// 

www.nps.gov/oia and http:// 

www.georgewright.org. 

Under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 5 

CFR part 1320, Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Requirements, the NPS 

invites comments on the need for and 

proposed manner of gathering the 

information in the study. Comments are 

invited on: (1) The practical utility of 

the information being gathered; (2) the 

accuracy of the burden hour estimate; 

(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (4) ways to minimize the 

burden of information collection to 

respondents, including the use of 

automated information collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. 

DATES: Public comments will be 

accepted on or before sixty days from 

the date of publication in the Federal 

Register. 

Send Comments to: Send comments 

and requests for copies of a draft of the 

proposed Application and the 

accompanying Guidebook to the U.S. 

World Heritage Program to James H. 

Charleton, Office of International 

Affairs, National Park Service, 1201 I 

Street NW. (0050). E-mail: james_ 

charleton@contractor.nps.gov. Phone: 

(202) 354–1802. Fax (202) 371–1446. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James H. Charleton, (202) 354–1802 or 

April Brooks, (202) 354–1808. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Instructions for Preparing U.S. 

World Heritage Nominations. 

Form: Format for the Nomination of 

Properties for Inscription on the World 

Heritage List. 

OMB Number: To be requested. 

Expiration Date: To be requested. 

Type of Request: Request for new 

clearance. 

Description of Need: The primary 

purpose of the proposed Collection of 

Information is to gather the information 

necessary to evaluate the potential of 

properties for nomination by the United 

States to the World Heritage List and to 

use the information for preparing a 

Tentative List of candidate sites. The 

World Heritage List is an international 

list of cultural and natural properties 

nominated by the signatories of the 

World Heritage Convention (1972). The 

following year, the United States was 

the first nation to ratify the treaty. U.S. 

participation and the roles of the 

Department of the Interior and the 

National Park Service are authorized by 

Title IV of the Historic Preservation Act 

Amendments of 1980 and conducted in 

accord with 36 CFR 73—World Heritage 

Convention. 

A Tentative List is a national list of 

natural and cultural properties 

appearing to meet the eligibility criteria 

for nomination to the World Heritage 

List. It is an annotated list of candidate 

sites which a country intends to 

nominate within a given time period. 

The World Heritage Committee has 

issued Operational Guidelines asking 

participating nations to provide 

Tentative Lists, which aid in evaluating 

properties for the World Heritage List on 

a comparative international basis and 

help the Committee to schedule its work 

over the long term. The Guidelines 

recommend that a nation review its 

Tentative List at least once every 

decade. The current U.S. Tentative List 

(formerly Indicative Inventory) dates to 

1982. 

The U.S. Tentative List will serve as 

a guide for at least the next decade 

(2007–2017) of U.S. nominations to the 

World Heritage List. The Tentative List 

will be structured so as to meet the 

World Heritage Committee’s December 

2004 request that the Tentative List 

allow for the nomination of no more 

than two sites per year by any one 

nation, at least one of which must be a 

natural site (excluding potential 

emergency nominations not at present 

foreseen). 

The National Park Service Office of 

International Affairs (NPS–OIA) and the 

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George Wright Society (GWS) are 

working cooperatively to prepare a new 

U.S. Tentative List. After various 

reviews and approvals, NPS–OIA will 

forward a recommended list to the 

Secretary of the Interior for 

consideration and then to the U.S. 

Department of State for submittal to the 

World Heritage Committee. 

The proposed Application that is the 

subject of this Notice will document 

properties that are owner-nominated for 

inclusion in the Tentative List and for 

subsequent nomination by the United 

States to the World Heritage List. The 

information proposed to be collected 

will be used to determine whether the 

properties meet the criteria established 

for inclusion. The documentation also 

will be used to assist in preserving and 

protecting the properties and for 

heritage education and interpretation. 

Automated data collection: The 

proposal is to have the Application 

available from the Internet and for it to 

be submitted electronically by e-mail to 

the cooperator in the Office of 

International Affairs who is preparing 

the draft Tentative List. Those without 

access to electronic means will be able 

to obtain copies of the Application via 

a telephone, fax, or mail request and 

return them by mail. 

Description of respondents: 

Individual private property owners, 

groups of private and/or public property 

owners and Federal land managers. 

Participation would be strictly 

voluntary and only respondent owners 

who submit, or who authorize to be 

submitted on their behalf, a completed 

Application would have their sites 

considered for inclusion in the U.S. 

Tentative List. 

Estimated Annual Reporting Burden: 

3200 hours. The expected range is 

2000–6000 total hours, depending on 

the balance between less complex sites 

and more complex ones. If 50 individual 

Applications are received, of which 35 

are of single buildings and 15 are of 

more complex sites, the total burden 

hours would be 3200. 

Estimated Average Burden Hours per 

Response: 64. 

Depending on the complexity of the 

site for which an Application for 

inclusion in the Tentative List is being 

prepared, the average burden hours per 

response would vary considerably 

because of many complex factors. In 

general, to fulfill minimum proposed 

program requirements describing the 

property and demonstrating its 

eligibility under the World Heritage 

criteria, the average burden hours likely 

would range from 40 hours for a single 

building Application to upward of 120 

hours for a more complex group of 

buildings or a natural area Application, 

such as a major national or state park 

unit or wildlife refuge. The proposed 

Application is structured electronically 

so as to be used without continuation 

sheets, with space being inserted 

between sections as needed. The 

calculations of average burden hours 

provided here rest upon review of 

sample nominations of average length. 

Estimated Average Number of 

Respondents: 50. 

Frequency of Response: 1 time per 

respondent. 

Doris Lowery, 

Acting National Park Service Information and 

Collection Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 05–20912 Filed 10–18–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Minor Boundary Revision at Fort 

Moultrie Unit of Fort Sumter National 

Monument 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Announcement of park 

boundary revision. 

SUMMARY: Notice is given that the 

boundary of the Fort Moultrie Unit of 

Fort Sumter National Monument has 

been revised pursuant to the Acts 

specified below to encompass lands 

depicted on drawing 392/92,002A of 

Fort Sumter National Monument (which 

includes Fort Moultrie) prepared by the 

National Park Service. The revision to 

the boundary includes tract 01–109, as 

depicted on the map. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Superintendent; Fort Sumter National 

Monument; 1214 Middle Street; 

Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina 29482 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Joint 

Resolution of April 28, 1948, (Pub. L. 

80–504, 62 Stat. 204) authorized the 

establishment of Fort Sumter National 

Monument. Fort Moultrie was acquired 

under authority of the 1935 Historic 

Sites Act (45 Stat 666, 16 U.S.C. 461 et 

seq.). Sections 7(c)(i) and 7(c)(ii) of the 

Land and Water Conservation Fund Act, 

as amended by the Act of June 10, 1977 

(Pub. L. 95–42, 91 Stat. 210), and the 

Act of March 10, 1980 (Pub. L. 103–333, 

110 Stat. 4194), further authorized the 

Secretary of the Interior to make minor 

revisions in the boundaries whenever 

the Secretary determines that it is 

necessary for the preservation, 

protection, interpretation or 

management of an area. 

The map is on file and available for 

inspection in the Land Resources 

Program Center, Southeast Regional 

Office, 100 Alabama Street, SW., 

Atlanta, Georgia 30303, and in the 

Offices of the National Park Service, 

Department of the Interior, Washington 

DC 20013–7127. 

Dated: August 19, 2005. 

Patricia A. Hooks, 

Regional Director, Southeast Region. 

[FR Doc. 05–20918 Filed 10–18–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Public Notice 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to 36 CFR 51.23, 

public notice is hereby given that the 

National Park Service proposes to 

extend the following expiring 

concession contracts for a period of up 

to one year, or until such time as a new 

contract is executed, whichever occurs 

sooner. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: All of the 

listed concession authorizations will 

expire by their terms on or before 

September 30, 2005. The National Park 

Service has determined that the 

proposed short-term extensions are 

necessary in order to avoid interruption 

of visitor services and has taken all 

reasonable and appropriate steps to 

consider alternatives to avoid such 

interruption. These extensions will 

allow the National Park Service to 

complete and issue prospectuses 

leading to the competitive selection of 

concessioners for new long-term 

concession contracts covering these 

operations. 

Concid ID No. Concessioner name Park 

GATE019–01 ...................................................... Dover Gourmet Corporation ............................ Gateway National Recreation Area. 

STLI–003–89 ...................................................... ARAMARK Sports and Entertainment Services, Inc.Statue of Liberty National Monument.