23738 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 96 / Wednesday, May 20, 2009 / Notices 

In August and September 2008, 

Hurricanes Ike and Gustave struck the 

United States causing catastrophic 

damage. On September 23, 2008, HUD 

and FEMA executed an Interagency 

Agreement under which HUD shall act 

as the servicing agency of DHAP-Ike. 

The paperwork involved in this action 

all activities related to DHAP-Ike from 

execution of the grant agreement to case 

management. 

Frequency of Submission: Quarterly, 

Annually. 

Number of 

respondents 

Annual 

response × Hours per response = Burden hours 

Reporting Burden .............................................................................. 120 3196 4.793 1,838,520 

Total Estimated Burden Hours: 

1,838,520. 

Status: Extension of a currently 

approved collection. 

Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork 

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

amended. 

Dated: May 13, 2009. 

Lillian Deitzer, 

Departmental Reports Management Officer, 

Office of the Chief Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–11684 Filed 5–19–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of the Special Trustee for 

American Indians; Notice of Proposed 

Renewal of Information Collection 

AGENCY: Office of the Special Trustee for 

American Indians, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with section 

3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the 

Special Trustee for American Indians, 

Department of the Interior, announces 

the proposed renewal of a public 

information collection required by The 

American Indian Trust Fund 

Management Reform Act of 1994, 

‘‘Application to Withdraw Tribal Funds 

from Trust Status, 25 CFR part 1200,’’ 

OMB Control No. 1035–0003, and that 

it is seeking comments on its provisions. 

After public review, the Office of the 

Special Trustee for American Indians 

will submit the information collection 

to Office of Management and Budget for 

renewal. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by July 20, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations on this information 

collection should be sent to the Office 

of the Special Trustee, Office of External 

Affairs, Attn: Frank Perniciaro, 4400 

Masthead St., NE., Room 323, 

Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109. You 

may also e-mail comments to 

frank_perniciaro@ost.doi.gov. 

Individuals providing comments should 

reference OMB control number 1035– 

0003, ‘‘Application to Withdraw Tribal 

Funds from Trust Status, 25 CFR 1200.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on this 

information collection or to obtain a 

copy of the collection instrument, 

please write to the above address. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, 

which implement the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13), 

require that interested members of the 

public and affected parties have an 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection and recordkeeping activities 

(see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)). This notice 

identifies an information collection 

activity that the Office of the Special 

Trustee for American Indians is 

submitting to OMB for renewal. 

Public Law 103–412, The American 

Indian Trust Fund Management Reform 

Act of 1994, allows Indian tribes on a 

voluntary basis to take their funds out 

of trust status within the Department of 

the Interior (and the Federal 

Government) in order to manage such 

funds on their own. 25 CFR part 1200, 

subpart B, Sec. 1200.13, ‘‘How does a 

tribe apply to withdraw funds?’’ 

describes the requirements for 

application for withdrawal. The Act 

covers all tribal trust funds including 

judgment funds as well as some 

settlements funds, but excludes funds 

held in Individual Indian Money 

accounts. Both the Act and the 

regulations state that upon withdrawal 

of the funds, the Department of the 

Interior (and the Federal Government) 

have no further liability for such funds. 

Accompanying their application for 

withdrawal of trust funds, tribes are 

required to submit a Management Plan 

for managing the funds being 

withdrawn, to protect the funds once 

they are out of trust status. 

This information collection allows the 

Office of the Special Trustee to collect 

the tribes’ applications for withdrawal 

of funds held in trust by the Department 

of the Interior. If this information were 

not collected, the Office of the Special 

Trustee would not be able to comply 

with the American Indian Trust Fund 

Management Reform Act of 1994, and 

tribes would not be able to withdraw 

funds held for them in trust by the 

Department of the Interior. 

II. Data 

(1) Title: Application to Withdraw 

Tribal Funds from Trust Status, 25 CFR 

1200. 

OMB Control Number: 1035–0003. 

Current Expiration Data: August 31, 

2009. 

Type of Review: Information 

Collection Renewal. 

Affected Entities: State, Local and 

Tribal Governments. 

Estimated annual number of 

respondents: 2. 

Frequency of response: Once per 

respondent. 

(2) Annual reporting and record 

keeping burden: 

Total annual reporting per 

respondent: 400 hours. 

Total annual reporting: 800 hours. 

(3) Description of the need and use of 

the information: The statutorilyrequired information is needed to 

provide a vehicle for tribes to withdraw 

funds from accounts held in trust for 

them by the United States Government. 

III. Request for Comments 

The Department of the Interior invites 

comments on: 

(a) Whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the collection 

and the validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 

(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 those 

who are to respond, including through 

the use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Burden means the total time, effort, or 

financial resources expended by persons 

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to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or 

provide information to or for a Federal 

agency. This includes the time needed 

to review instructions; to develop, 

acquire, install and utilize technology 

and systems for the purpose of 

collecting, validating and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information; to train 

personnel and to be able to respond to 

a collection of information, to search 

data sources, to complete and review 

the collection of information; and to 

transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. 

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 

Office of Management and Budget 

control number. 

Dated: May 14, 2009. 

James P. Barham, 

Director, Office of External Affairs, Office of 

the Special Trustee for American Indians. 

[FR Doc. E9–11711 Filed 5–19–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–2W–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R7–ES–2009–N0076; 70120–1113– 

0000–C4] 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants; Short-Tailed Albatross 

(Phoebastria albatrus): Initiation of 5- 

Year Status Review; Availability of 

Final Recovery Plan 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of final 

recovery plan; initiation of 5-year status 

review and request for information. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service), announce the 

availability of our final recovery plan for 

and the initiation of a 5-year status 

review for the short-tailed albatross 

(Phoebastria albatrus), a bird species 

listed as endangered under the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

amended (Act). Our recovery plan 

describes the status, current 

management, recovery objectives and 

criteria, and specific actions needed to 

enable us to reclassify the short-tailed 

albatross from endangered to 

threatened, or from threatened to 

delisted. It also includes criteria that 

would justify reclassifying the species 

from threatened back to endangered. We 

conduct 5-year reviews to ensure that 

our classification of each species as 

threatened or endangered on the List of 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants is accurate. We request any 

new information on this species that 

may have a bearing on its classification 

as endangered. Based on the results of 

this 5-year review, we will make a 

finding on whether this species is 

properly classified under the Act. 

DATES: To allow us adequate time to 

conduct our 5-year review, we are 

requesting that you submit your 

information no later than July 20, 2009. 

However, we accept new information 

about any listed species at any time. 

ADDRESSES: For instructions on how to 

submit information as well as the 

information that we receive for our 5- 

year review, see ‘‘Request for New 

Information.’’ To obtain a copy of our 

recovery plan, see ‘‘Contacts.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Greg 

Balogh, Endangered Species Branch 

Chief, at the above address or by phone 

at (907) 271–2778. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

We originally listed the short-tailed 

albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) in 1970 

(35 FR 8491), under the thenEndangered Species Conservation Act of 

1969, before passage of today’s Act (16 

U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). However, as a 

result of an administrative error (and 

not from any biological evaluation of 

status), we listed the species as 

endangered throughout its range, except 

within the United States (50 CFR 17.11). 

On July 31, 2000, we corrected this error 

when we published a final rule listing 

the short-tailed albatross as endangered 

throughout its range (65 FR 46643). This 

listing was effective August 30, 2000. 

For description, taxonomy, distribution, 

status, breeding biology and habitat, and 

a summary of factors affecting the 

species, please see the final listing rule. 

In that rule, we also determined 

designation of critical habitat to be not 

prudent because, among other reasons, 

we could not find habitat-related threats 

to the species within U.S. territory. 

The species occurs in waters 

throughout the North Pacific, primarily 

along the east coast of Japan and Russia, 

in the Gulf of Alaska, along the Aleutian 

Islands and in the Gulf of Alaska south 

of 64° north latitude. At the time of our 

2000 final listing rule, the short-tailed 

albatross population consisted of about 

1,200 individuals known to breed on 

two islands: Torishima, an active 

volcanic island in Japan, and MinamiKojima, an island whose ownership is 

under dispute by Japan, China, and 

Taiwan. 

The severe decline in short-tailed 

albatross was caused by 

overexploitation for its feathers prior to 

and following the turn of the 20th 

century. This threat no longer exists, but 

its effect lingers. The species is thought 

to have once numbered 5 million 

individuals, but birds were harvested 

until only a few dozen remained. 

Numbering about 2,400 individuals in 

2008, the short-tailed albatross is 

currently threatened by volcanic 

activity, extreme weather, small 

population size, a limited number of 

breeding sites, contamination by oil and 

other pollutants, and commercial 

fishery bycatch. Key recommendations 

for immediate action, as described in 

the recovery plan, are: (1) Formation of 

new breeding colonies at safe locations 

on Torishima and in the Bonin Islands; 

(2) stabilization of existing breeding 

habitat on Torishima Island; and (3) 

reduction of seabird bycatch in all North 

Pacific fisheries that may take this 

species. 

II. Availability of Final Recovery Plan 

A. Background 

Recovery of endangered or threatened 

animals and plants to the point where 

they are again secure, self-sustaining 

members of their ecosystems is a 

primary goal of our endangered species 

program. To help guide the recovery 

effort, we are working to prepare 

recovery plans for most listed species 

native to the United States. Recovery 

plans describe actions considered 

necessary for the conservation and 

survival of the species, establish criteria 

for reclassifying or delisting listed 

species, and estimate time and cost for 

implementing needed recovery 

measures. 

The Act requires us to develop 

recovery plans for listed species, unless 

such a plan would not promote the 

conservation of a particular species. 

Section 4(f) of the Act requires us to 

provide public notice and an 

opportunity for public review and 

comment during recovery plan 

development. We made our draft 

recovery plan for the short-tailed 

albatross available for public comment 

from October 27 through December 27, 

2005 (70 FR 61988). We considered 

information we received during this 

comment period, along with 

information we received from five peer 

reviewers and the Government of Japan, 

in our preparation of our final recovery 

plan. The Short-tailed Albatross 

Recovery Team has taken into account 

these comments in redrafting the 

recovery plan and in revising and 

justifying the new recovery criteria we 

set forth in this final plan.