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interests. The purpose of the Council is 

to advise and make recommendations to 

the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership 

with respect to the development and 

implementation of a management plan 

and the operations of the Boston Harbor 

Islands NRA. 

Dated: October 19, 2007. 

Bruce Jacobson, 

Superintendent, Boston Harbor Islands NRA. 

[FR Doc. E7–21635 Filed 11–2–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–3B–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Federal Bureau of Investigation 

Meeting of the CJIS Advisory Policy 

Board 

AGENCY: Federal Bureau of Investigation 

(FBI). 

ACTION: Meeting notice. 

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is 

to announce the meeting of the Criminal 

Justice Information Services (CJIS) 

Advisory Policy Board (APB). The CJIS 

APB is a federal advisory committee 

established pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act. This meeting 

announcement is being published as 

required by Section 10 of the FACA. 

The CJIS APB is responsible for 

reviewing policy issues and appropriate 

technical and operational issues related 

to the programs administered by the 

FBI’s CJIS Division, and thereafter, 

making appropriate recommendations to 

the FBI Director. The programs 

administered by the CJIS Division are 

the Integrated Automated Fingerprint 

Identification System, the Interstate 

Identification Index, Law Enforcement 

Online, National Crime Information 

Center, the National Instant Criminal 

Background Check System, the National 

Incident-Based reporting System, Law 

Enforcement national Data Exchange, 

and Uniform Crime Reporting. 

The meeting will be open to the 

public on a first-come, first-seated basis. 

Any member of the public wishing to 

file a written statement concerning the 

CJIS Division programs or wishing to 

address this session should notify senior 

CJIS Advisory Roy g. Weise at (304) 

625–2730 at least 24 hours prior to the 

start of the session. The notification 

should contain the requestor’s name, 

corporate designation, and consumer 

affiliation or government designation 

along with a short statement describing 

the topic to be addressed and the time 

needed for the presentation. A requestor 

will ordinarily be allowed no more than 

15 minutes to present a topic. 

DATES AND TIMES: The APB will meet in 

open session from 8:30 a.m.until 5 p.m., 

on December 5–6, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place 

at the Renaissance Glendale Hotel and 

Spa, Glendale, Arizona, (623) 937–3700. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Inquiries may be addressed to Mrs. 

Rebecca S. Durrett; Management and 

Program Analyst; Adivsory Groups 

Management Unit, Liaison, Advisory, 

Training and Statistics Section; FBI CJIS 

Division; Module C3; 1000 Custer 

Hollow Road; Clarksburg; West Virginia 

26306–0149; telephone (304) 625–2617; 

facsimile (304) 625–5090. 

Dated: October 24, 2007. 

Roy G. Weise, 

Senior CJIS Advisory, Criminal Justice 

Information Services Division, Federal Bureau 

of Investigation. 

[FR Doc. 07–5472 Filed 11–02–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–02–M 

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

National Endowment for the 

Humanities; Guidance to Federal 

Financial Assistance Recipients 

Regarding Title VI Prohibition Against 

National Origin Discrimination 

Affecting Limited English Proficient 

Persons 

AGENCY: National Endowment for the 

Humanities. 

ACTION: Final guidance. 

SUMMARY: The National Endowment for 

the Humanities (NEH) is publishing 

final policy guidance on Title VI’s 

prohibition against national origin 

discrimination as it affects limited 

English proficient persons. 

DATES: This policy guidance is effective 

immediately. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Heather Gottry, Office of the General 

Counsel, National Endowment for the 

Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Room 529, Washington, DC 20506 

or by telephone at 202–606–8322 or 

TDD 1–866–372–2930, by facsimile at 

202–606–8600, or by e-mail at 

gencounsel@neh.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 

17, 2006, NEH published in the Federal 

Register at 71 FR 47541, proposed 

policy guidance on Title VI’s 

prohibition against national origin 

discrimination as it affects limited 

English proficient persons. The agency 

publishes this as its Final Guidance. 

Under NEH regulations implementing 

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 

42 U.S.C. 2000d, et seq. (Title VI), 

recipients of federal financial assistance 

from the NEH (recipients) have a 

responsibility to ensure meaningful 

access by persons with limited English 

proficiency (LEP) to their programs and 

activities. See 45 CFR 1170. Executive 

Order 13166, reprinted at 65 FR 50121 

(August 16, 2000), directs each Federal 

agency that extends assistance subject to 

the requirements of Title VI to publish, 

after review and approval by the 

Department of Justice, guidance for its 

recipients clarifying that obligation. The 

Executive Order also directs that all 

such guidance be consistent with the 

compliance standards and framework 

detailed in DOJ Policy Guidance 

entitled ‘‘Enforcement of Title VI of the 

Civil Rights Act of 1964—National 

Origin Discrimination Against Persons 

With Limited English Proficiency.’’ See 

65 FR 50123 (August 16, 2000). 

On March 14, 2002, the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) issued 

a report to Congress titled ‘‘Assessment 

of the Total Benefits and Costs of 

Implementing Executive Order No. 

13166: Improving Access to Services for 

Persons With Limited English 

Proficiency.’’ Among other things, the 

report recommended the adoption of 

uniform guidance across all federal 

agencies, with flexibility to permit 

tailoring to each agency’s specific 

recipients. Consistent with this OMB 

recommendation, the Department of 

Justice (DOJ) published LEP Guidance 

for DOJ recipients which was drafted 

and organized to also function as a 

model for similar guidance by other 

Federal grant agencies. See 67 FR 41455 

(June 18, 2002). This guidance is based 

upon and incorporates the legal analysis 

and compliance standards of the model 

June 18, 2002, DOJ LEP Guidance for 

Recipients. 

It has been determined that the 

guidance does not constitute a 

regulation subject to the rulemaking 

requirements of the Administrative 

Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 553. It has also 

been determined that this guidance is 

not subject to the requirements of 

Executive Order 12866. 

The text of the complete final 

guidance document appears below. 

Dated: October 30, 2007. 

Heather C. Gottry, 

Acting General Counsel, National Endowment 

for the Humanities. 

I. Introduction 

Most individuals living in the United 

States read, write, speak and understand 

English. There are many individuals, 

however, for whom English is not their 

primary language. For instance, based 


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