Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 244 / Thursday, December 20, 2007 / Notices 72391 

SUMMARY: This is a correction to a 

petition for modification notice that was 

published in the Federal Register on 

December 3, 2007 (72 FR 67970), for 

Affirmative Decisions on Petitions for 

Modification. In the notice we 

inadvertently listed the petition for 

modification, docket number M–2005–

079–C, RS&W Coal Company, RS&W 

Drift Mine, MSHA I.D. No. 36–01818, as 

a granted petition. This petition for 

modification has not been granted. 

Dated: December 12, 2007. 

Jack Powasnik, 

Deputy Director, Office of Standards, 

Regulations, and Variances. 

[FR Doc. 07–6094 Filed 12–19–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–43–M 

MORRIS K. UDALL SCHOLARSHIP 

AND EXCELLENCE IN NATIONAL 

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 

FOUNDATION 

Notice to Extend the Request for 

Comment on Draft Convening Report 

Regarding Negotiated Rulemaking and 

Bureau of Indian Affairs Funded 

School Facilities Repair, Renovation & 

Construction 

AGENCY: United States Institute for 

Environmental Conflict Resolution, 

Morris K. Udall Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice to extend the public 

comment period for the Draft Convening 

Report Regarding Negotiated 

Rulemaking and Bureau of Indian 

Affairs Funded School Facilities Repair, 

Renovation, & Construction. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Institute for 

Environmental Conflict Resolution gives 

notice that the comment period 

announced in the October 22, 2007 (72 

FR 59556) on the draft convening report 

regarding Department of the Interior’s 

(DOI) Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)- 

funded school facilities construction as 

identified in the No Child Left Behind 

Act of 2001 (NCLB Act) will be 

extended to February 1, 2008. The draft 

report was prepared at the request of the 

DOI, BIA, and Bureau of Indian 

Education (BIE). Such a convening 

report is described generally in the 

Negotiated Rulemaking Act of 1996, 

Public Law 104–320, Section 563(b). 

As a neutral, independent federal 

program, the U.S. Institute and its 

impartial contractor team, Consensus 

Building Institute (CBI) conducted twohundred (200) interviews of people with 

an interest in BIA-funded school 

facilities construction. The purpose of 

the interviews was to explore the 

opportunities for, and barriers to, using 

negotiated rulemaking to develop 

regulations implementing the 

requirements of the NCLB Act related to 

BIA-funded school facilities. The draft 

report covers school facility topics 

identified from the NCLB Act: 

• Methods to catalog school facilities; 

• Determining formulas for priority 

and funding for school replacement 

construction and new construction; 

• Determining formulas for priority 

and funding for school renovation and 

repair; 

• Facilities standards for home living 

(dormitory) situations. 

In the draft report, CBI identified 

several key themes from its interviews: 

• There is a strong willingness to go 

forward with a negotiated rulemaking, 

as it is required by statute. 

• Interviewees were supportive of 

negotiating to improve the fairness, 

efficiency and transparency of the 

funding formulas for all aspects of 

school facilities funding. 

• There is a need to integrate the 

formal negotiation with less formal 

methods of consulting with the tribes 

who will not have seats at the table. CBI 

suggests a national workshop for all 

tribes with school facilities as part of the 

preparation for the negotiation process. 

This workshop could help identify 

options for the negotiating committee to 

work with. 

• Representation of the tribes on the 

negotiating committee is required by the 

NCLB Act to be roughly proportional to 

the percent of students each tribe has in 

the system. For the majority of tribes 

(i.e. beyond the top eleven for student 

population), there will need to be a 

process for sharing seats or otherwise 

developing representation structures. 

The draft convening report may be 

accessed at: http://www.cbuilding.org 

and at: http://www.ecr.gov. This notice 

invites interested individuals, 

organizations and governments to 

review and offer comments that focus 

on the findings and recommendations 

presented draft convening report. 

DATES: Please submit comments on or 

before February 1, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• Email: bie@cbuilding.org. 

• Fax: 1–617–492–1919. 

• Mail: Consensus Building Institute; 

Attn: BIE Convening Draft Report 

Comment, 238 Main Street, Suite 400, 

Cambridge, MA 02142. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Patrick Field, Consensus Building 

Institute, 238 Main Street, Suite 400, 

Cambridge, MA 02142, (617) 492–1414 

x118, pfield@cbuilding.org; Sarah 

Palmer, Senior Program Manager, U.S. 

Institute for Environmental Conflict 

Resolution, 130 S. Scott Avenue, 

Tucson, AZ 85701, phone (520) 901–

8556, fax (520) 901–8557, 

palmer@ecr.gov; Michele F. Singer, 

Director, Office of Regulatory 

Management, Office of the Assistant 

Secretary, Indian Affairs, 1001 Indian 

School Road, NW., Albuquerque, NM 

87104, phone (505) 563–5415, fax (505) 

563–3811, 

michele_f_singer@ios.doi.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB 

Act) requires the Department of the 

Interior to use procedures set out in the 

Negotiated Rulemaking Act of 1996, 

Pub. L. 104–320, Section 563 when 

developing regulations to implement the 

NCLB Act’s provisions regarding 

schools operated or funded by the BIA. 

BIA has used negotiated rulemaking to 

address six (6) of the seven (7) 

regulations required under the NCLB 

Act. DOI and BIA want to assess the 

feasibility of using the negotiated 

rulemaking process to develop the final 

rule, dealing with school construction 

and repair. 

In the fall of 2006 DOI sought 

assistance with this effort from the U.S. 

Institute, an independent impartial 

government entity with expertise in 

convening, assessment and alternative 

dispute resolution processes. In 

accordance with its statutory authority, 

the 1998 Environmental Policy and 

Conflict Resolution Act (Pub. L. 105–

156, codified at 20 U.S.C. 5601, et seq.), 

the U.S. Institute conducted a 

convening assessment. For more 

information on the U.S. Institute, please 

visit http://www.ecr.gov. 

The U.S. Institute contracted with an 

independent, impartial convening team, 

the Consensus Building Institute (CBI), 

to carry out interviews and prepare a 

draft convening report. The scope of the 

draft convening report includes views 

on school facility topics identified from 

the NCLB Act and the opportunities of 

and barriers to negotiated rulemaking. 

To understand the range of perspectives 

on or interests in these topics, the 

convening team conducted 200 

confidential interviews with tribal 

officials or their designees, 

representative of BIA-funded or grantfunded tribal schools, and others with 

an interest in Bureau-funded school 

facilities construction on the following: 

• Interviewees’ views on the 

substantive issues listed above; 

• Suggestions for how diverse 

geographic, size, and tribal interests can 

best be represented on a Negotiated 

Rulemaking Committee; 


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• Any concerns or barriers to the 

establishment of and successful 

execution of a Negotiated Rulemaking 

Committee on these topics; and 

• Consultative activities and potential 

approaches to consultation that the 

Bureau might undertake regarding these 

issues. 

The draft convening report reflects 

CBI findings and preliminary 

recommendations to DOI, BIA, and BIE 

based on these interviews. The draft 

report will be made available to all 

interviewees for comment. Upon receipt 

of comments, CBI and the U.S. Institute 

will consider all comments and prepare 

a final report for the Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs and 

Bureau of Indian Education. All 

comments received on the draft will be 

made available to DOI, BIA, and BIE. 

The final report will also be made 

available to the interviewees, all 

interested tribes, and the general public 

via a Web site link. 

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 5601, et seq. 

Dated: December 13, 2007. 

Christopher L. Helms, 

Executive Director, Morris K. Udall 

Scholarship and Excellence in National 

Environmental Policy Foundation. 

[FR Doc. 07–6090 Filed 12–19–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–FN–M 

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS 

ADMINISTRATION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: National Archives and Records 

Administration (NARA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: NARA is giving public notice 

that the agency has submitted to OMB 

for approval the information collections 

described in this notice. The public is 

invited to comment on the proposed 

information collections pursuant to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to OMB at the address below 

on or before January 22, 2008 to be 

assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Desk 

Officer for NARA, Office of Management 

and Budget, New Executive Office 

Building, Washington, DC 20503; fax: 

202–395–5167. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the proposed information 

collections and supporting statements 

should be directed to Tamee Fechhelm 

at telephone number 301–713–1694 or 

fax number 301–713–7409. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(Pub. L. 104–13), NARA invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to comment on proposed 

information collections. NARA 

published a notice of proposed 

collection for these information 

collections on October 9, 2007 (72 FR 

57351). No comments were received. 

NARA has submitted the described 

information collections to OMB for 

approval. 

In response to this notice, comments 

and suggestions should address one or 

more of the following points: (a) 

Whether the proposed information 

collections are necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of NARA; 

(b) the accuracy of NARA’s estimate of 

the burden of the proposed information 

collections; (c) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (d) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on 

respondents, including the use of 

information technology; and (e) whether 

small businesses are affected by these 

collections. In this notice, NARA is 

soliciting comments concerning the 

following information collections: 

1. Title: Statistical Research in 

Archival Records Containing Personal 

Information. 

OMB number: 3095–0002. 

Agency form number: None. 

Type of review: Regular. 

Affected public: Individuals. 

Estimated number of respondents: 1. 

Estimated time per response: 7 hours. 

Frequency of response: On occasion. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

7 hours. 

Abstract: The information collection 

is prescribed by 36 CFR 1256.28 and 36 

CFR 1256.56. Respondents are 

researchers who wish to do biomedical 

statistical research in archival records 

containing highly personal information. 

NARA needs the information to evaluate 

requests for access to ensure that the 

requester meets the criteria in 36 CFR 

1256.28 and that the proper safeguards 

will be made to protect the information. 

2. Title: Application and Permit for 

Use of Space in Presidential Library and 

Grounds. 

OMB number: 3095–0024. 

Agency form number: NA Form 

16011. 

Type of review: Regular. 

Affected public: Private organizations. 

Estimated number of respondents: 

1,000. 

Estimated time per response: 20 

minutes. 

Frequency of response: On occasion. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

333 hours. 

Abstract: The information collection 

is prescribed by 36 CFR 1280.94. The 

application is submitted to a 

Presidential library to request the use of 

space in the library for a privately 

sponsored activity. NARA uses the 

information to determine whether use 

will meet the criteria in 36 CFR 1280.94 

and to schedule the date. 

3. Title: Request to use personal 

paper-to-paper copiers at the National 

Archives at the College Park facility. 

OMB number: 3095–0035. 

Agency form number: None. 

Type of review: Regular. 

Affected public: Business or other forprofit. 

Estimated number of respondents: 5. 

Estimated time per response: 3 hours. 

Frequency of response: On occasion. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

15 hours. 

Abstract: The information collection 

is prescribed by 36 CFR 1254.86. 

Respondents are organizations that want 

to make paper-to-paper copies of 

archival holdings with their personal 

copiers. NARA uses the information to 

determine whether the request meets 

the criteria in 36 CFR 1254.86 and to 

schedule the limited space available. 

Dated: December 13, 2007. 

Martha Morphy, 

Assistant Archivist for Information Services. 

[FR Doc. E7–24744 Filed 12–19–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7515–01–P 

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

Determination of Trade Surplus in 

Certain Sugar and Syrup Goods and 

Sugar Containing Products of Chile, 

Morocco, the Dominican Republic, El 

Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and 

Nicaragua 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with relevant 

provisions of the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTS), the 

Office of the United States Trade 

Representative (USTR) is providing 

notice of its determination of the trade 

surplus in certain sugar and syrup goods 

and sugar-containing products of Chile, 

Morocco, the Dominican Republic, El 

Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and 

Nicaragua. As described below, the level 

of a country’s trade surplus in these 

goods relates to the quantity of sugar 


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