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Ohio 43266–0411

Please direct correspondence and

questions about intergovernmental

review to:

Linda Wise, Telephone: (614) 466–

0698, FAX: (614) 466–5400

RHODE ISLAND

Daniel W. Varin, Associate Director,

Department of Administration,

Division of Planning, One Capitol

Hill, 4th Floor, Providence, Rhode

Island 02908–5870, Telephone:

(401) 277–2656, FAX: (401) 277–

2083

Please direct correspondence and

questions to:

Review Coordinator, Office of

Strategic Planning

SOUTH CAROLINA,

Omeagia Burgess, State Single Point

of Contact, Grant Services, Office of

the Governor, 1205 Pendleton

Street—Room 477, Columbia, South

Carolina 29201, Telephone: (803)

734–0494, FAX: (803) 734–0385

TEXAS

Tom Adams, Governors, Officer,

Director, Intergovernmental

Coordination, P.O. Box 12428,

Austin, Texas 78711, Telephone:

(512) 463–1771, FAX: (512) 463–

1888

UTAH

Carolyn Wright, Utah State

Clearinghouse, Office of Planning

and Budget, Room 116 State

Capitol, Salt Lake City, Utah 84114

Telephone: (801) 538–1535, FAX:

(801) 538–1547

VERMONT

Nancy McAvoy, State Single Point of

Contact, Pavilion Office Building,

109 State Street, Montpelier,

Vermont 05609 Telephone: (802)

828–3326, FAX: (802) 828–3339

WEST VIRGINIA

Fred Cutlip, Director, Community

Development Division, W. Virginia

Development Office, Building #6,

Room 553, Charleston, West

Virginia 25305, Telephone: (304)

558–4010, FAX: (304) 558–3248

WISCONSIN

Martha Kerner, Section Chief, State/

Federal Relations, Wisconsin

Department of Administration, 101

East Wilson Street—6th Floor, P.O.

Box 7868, Madison, Wisconsin

53707, Telephone: (608) 266–2125,

FAX: (608) 267–6931

WYOMING

Sheryl Jeffries, State Single Point of

Contract, Herschler Building, 4th

Floor, East Wing, Cheyenne,

Wyoming 82002, Telephone: (307)

777–7574, FAX: (307) 638–8967

TERRITORIES

GUAM

Mr. Giovanni T. Sgambelluri,

Director, Bureau of Budget and

Management Research, Office of the

Governor, P.O. Box 2950, Agana,

Guam 96910, Telephone: 011–671–

472–2285, FAX: 011–671–472–2825

PUERTO RICO

Norma Burgos/Jose E. Caro,

Chairwoman/Director, Puerto Rico

Planning Board, Federal Proposals

Review Office, Minillas

Government Center, P.O. Box

41119, San Juan, Puerto Rico

00940–1119, Telephone (809) 727–

4444, (809) 723–6190, FAX: (809)

724–3270, (809) 724–3103

NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS

State Single Point of Contact,

Planning and Budget Office, Office

of the Governor, Saipan, CM,

Northern Mariana Islands 96590

VIRGIN ISLANDS

Jose George, Director, Office of

Management and Budget, #41

Norregade Emancipation Garden

Station, Second Floor, Saint

Thomas, Virgin Islands 00802

Please direct all questions and

correspondence about

intergovernmental review to:

Linda Clarke, Telephone: (809) 774–

0750, FAX: (809) 776–0069

[FR Doc. 95–31009 Filed 12–20–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4184–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Office of the Assistant Secretary for

Housing—Federal Housing

Commissioner

[Docket No. FR—3917–N–36]

Notice of Proposed Information

Collection for Public Comment

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing

Commissioner, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The proposed information

collection requirement described below

will be submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for

review, as required by the Paperwork

Reduction Act. The Department is

soliciting public comments on the

subject proposal.

DATES: Comments due: February 20,

1996.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are

invited to submit comments regarding

this proposal. Comments should refer to

the proposal by name and/or QMB

Control Number and should be sent to:

Oliver Walker, Housing, Department of

Housing & Urban Development, 451—

7th Street, SW, Room 9116, Washington,

DC 20410.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Oliver Walker, Telephone number (202)

708–1694 (this is not a toll-free number)

for copies of the proposed forms and

other available documents.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Department will submit the proposed

information collection to OMB for

review, as required by the Paperwork

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

Chapter 35, as amended).

The Notice is soliciting comments

from members of the public and

affecting agencies concerning the

proposed collection of information to:

(1) Evaluate whether the proposed

collection of information is necessary

for the proper performance of the

functions of the agency, including

whether the information will have

practical utility; (2) Evaluate the

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the

burden of the proposed collection of

information; (3) Enhance the quality,

utility, and clarity of the information to

be collected; and (4) Minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on those who are to respond; including

through the use of appropriate

automated collection techniques or

other forms of information technology,

e.g., permitting electronic submission of

responses.

This Notice also list the following

information:

Title of Proposal: Request for Credit

Approval of Substitute Mortgagor.

OMB Control Number: 2502–0036.

Description of the need for the

information and the proposed use:

Section 204(b) of the National Housing

Act (P.L. 479, 48 Stat. 1246, 12 U.S.C.

1701 et. seq.) provides that the Secretary

of Housing and Urban Development

(HUD) may at any time, under such

terms and conditions as he may

prescribe, consent to the release of the

mortgagor from his liability under the

mortgage or the credit instrument

secured thereby, or consent to the

release of parts of the mortgaged

property from the lien of the mortgage.

Agency form numbers: HUD–92210.

Members of affected public:

Individuals or households.

An estimation of the total numbers of

hours needed to prepare the information

collection is 10,000, number of

respondents is 10,000, frequency

response is monthly and the response is

one hour.

Status of the proposed information

collection: Extension of a currently

approved collection.
Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 245 / Thursday, December 21, 1995 / Notices 66315

Authority: Section 3506 of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35,

as amended.

Dated: December 7, 1995.

Stephanie A. Smith,

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for

Housing—Federal Housing Commissioner.

[FR Doc. 95–31077 Filed 12–20–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4210–27–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Final Determination for Federal

Acknowledgment of the Huron

Potawatomi, Inc.

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Final Determination.

SUMMARY: This notice is published in

the exercise of authority delegated by

the Secretary of the Interior to the

Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs

(Assistant Secretary) by 209 DM 8.

Pursuant to 25 CFR 83.10(m), notice

is hereby given that the Assistant

Secretary acknowledges that the Huron

Potawatomi, Inc., 221 11⁄2 Mile Road,

Fulton, Michigan 49052, exists as an

Indian tribe within the meaning of

Federal law. This notice is based on a

determination that the group satisfies

the criteria set forth in 25 CFR 83.7 as

modified by 25 CFR 83.8.

DATES: This determination is final and

will become effective 90 days from

publication of the Final Determination,

pursuant to 25 CFR 83.10 (l)(4), unless

a request for reconsideration is filed

pursuant to 25 CFR 83.11.

A notice of the Proposed Finding to

acknowledge the Huron Potawatomi,

Inc. (HPI) was published in the Federal

Register on May 31, 1995, 60 F.R. 104,

28426–28427. The 180-day period

provided for in the regulations for

comment on the Proposed Finding

closed November 27, 1995. No

substantive third-party comments were

received by the BIA. The only public

comments received were two

resolutions in support of the proposed

finding. The petitioner waived the 60-

day period provided for in the

regulations (25 CFR Part 83.10(k)) for

the petitioner to respond to third-party

comments. This determination is made

following a review of Huron

Potawatomi, Inc.’s response to the

Proposed Finding to acknowledge,

which consisted of the submission of an

updated membership list.

The petitioner or any interested party

may file a request for reconsideration of

this determination with the Interior

Board of Appeals (§ 83.11(a)(1)). The

petitioner’s or interested party’s request

must be received no later than 90 days

after publication of the Assistant

Secretary’s determination in the Federal

Register (§ 83.11(a)(2)).

The final determination incorporates

the proposed finding and the technical

reports to the proposed finding. Under

25 CFR 83.8, Huron Potawatomi, Inc.,

also known as the Nottawaseppi Huron

Potawatomi Band, was deemed to have

had prior unambiguous Federal

acknowledgment in 1833, the date of the

last treaty signed by the Potawatomi of

Huron Band’s chiefs. Between 1833 and

1840, the tribe’s ancestors continued to

reside on the Nottawaseppi Reserve. In

1840, the tribe’s ancestors either

avoided attempts of the Federal

Government to remove the Potawatomi

to Kansas or returned to Michigan

within a few years after removal. The

community was reestablished by 1842,

and from that date until the present has

consistently been identified as a

settlement of Michigan Potawatomi in

Federal, state, and local documents.

Huron Potawatomi, Inc. meets criterion

83.7(a) as modified by criterion 83.8(d).

A geographical residential focus on

the Pine Creek Indian Reservation in

Calhoun County, Michigan, use of the

Potatomi language as late as 1960, and

a level of in-group or culturally

appropriate patterned out-group

marriages to other Michigan Indians

from 1842 through 1960 of more than 50

percent were evidence that the tribe met

the requirements of criterion 83.7(b) for

community up to 1960 under the

provisions of 83.7(b)(2). Since 1960, the

migration of the tribe’s members off the

Pine Creek Reservation to specific

locations in Michigan was patterned.

The outlying settlements not only

maintained close social and kinship ties

with the central Pine Creek settlement

area, but also among the five external

settlement areas. Huron Potawatomi,

Inc. meets criterion 83.7(b) as modified

by section 83.8(d).

Because Huron Potawatomi, Inc. met

the requirements of criterion 83.7(b)

between 1833 and 1934 by showing a

sufficient level of evidence under

83.7(b)(2), pursuant to 83.7(c)(3) they

also met criterion 83.7(c) for that time

period. From 1934 through 1970, the

leadership was by a committee closely

associated with the Methodist Indian

mission on the Pine Creek reservation.

In 1970, the tribe incorporated and has

since been administered by an elected

chairman and council. Huron

Potawatomi, Inc. meets criterion 83.7(c)

as modified by criterion 83.8(d).

The tribe has provided a copy of its

governing document, which describes

its membership criteria. Huron

Potawatomi, Inc. meets criterion 83.7(d).

The 1994 membership list of the

Huron Potawatomi, Inc. contained 850

entries. The membership has been

documented to descend from persons

listed on the 1904 Taggart Roll,

compiled by the Bureau of Indian

Affairs in connection with the issuance

of Potawatomi annuity payments under

Federal treaties. The Proposed Finding

concluded that the 1994 HPI

membership list, after eliminating

deceased members and duplicate

names, contained 819 actual living

persons. The Proposed Finding noted

the following items pertaining to the

HPI membership: (1) That 171 of the

HPI members were also, by ancestry,

eligible for membership in the Pokagon

Potawatomi Band; (2) that a small

number of the HPI members were

eligible for enrollment in other federally

acknowledged tribes and that two large

families appeared to be dually enrolled

with the Saginaw Chippewa Indian

Tribe; and (3) that 126 individuals on

the February 18, 1994, HPI membership

list had notified the BIA that they

wished to be part of the petition for

Federal acknowledgment submitted by

the Match-e-be-nash-she-wish

Pottawatomi Band, while about 150

others were eligible to be included in

the membership of the Match-e-be-nashshe-wish Pottawatomi Band if they so

desired. Because of extensive

intermarriage among American Indian

tribes in Michigan, the above

determinations contained overlaps: the

same individual might be eligible for

more than one of the enrollment

options. The Proposed Finding

concluded that if the persons who fell

into the categories listed above chose to

disenroll from HPI, their removal from

the HPI membership would not

adversely affect the ability of the Huron

Potawatomi, Inc. to meet the mandatory

criteria of the Federal acknowledgment

regulations.

The December 1, 1995, membership

list submitted by Huron Potawatomi,

Inc. used both the prior membership list

dated June 27, 1991 (numbers 1 through

849) and that dated February 15, 1994,

as the basis for the changes submitted:

it utilized the 1991 membership

numbers, whereas the 1994 list did not

include membership numbers, and

added #850 for one individual (whose

name was on the February 19, 1994,

list). The December 1, 1995, HPI list

represents the following changes from

the February 18, 1994, HPI list: 11

former members were noted as

deceased; 2 former members enrolled in

the Grand Traverse Band; 42 former

members enrolled in the Pokagon