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part 990, NEPA, the Consent Decree, the 

Final PDARP/PEIS, the Phase III ERP/ 

PEIS and the Phase V ERP/EA. 

The Florida TIG is considering the 

second phase of the Florida Coastal 

Access Project in the Draft Phase V.2 

RP/SEA to address lost recreational 

opportunities in Florida caused by the 

Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In the Draft 

Phase V.2 RP/SEA, the Florida TIG 

proposes one preferred alternative, the 

Salinas Park Addition, which involves 

the acquisition and enhancement of a 

6.6-acre coastal parcel. The Florida 

Coastal Access Project was allocated 

approximately $45.4 million in early 

restoration funds, and the Salinas Park 

Addition would cost approximately $3.1 

million of the $6.4 million remaining 

funds not utilized in the first phase of 

the Florida Coastal Access Project. The 

Florida TIG also considered two 

additional land acquisition and 

improvement alternatives, as well as the 

no action alternative in the Draft Phase 

V.2 RP/SEA. One or more alternatives 

may be selected for implementation by 

the Florida TIG in the Final Phase V.2 

RP/SEA or in future restoration plans. 

Details on the proposed second phase of 

the Florida Coastal Access Project are 

provided in the Draft Phase V.2 RP/SEA. 

The proposed second phase of the 

Florida Coastal Access Project is 

intended to continue the process of 

using restoration funding to restore 

natural resources, ecological services, 

and recreational use services injured or 

lost as a result of the Deepwater Horizon 

oil spill. Additional restoration 

planning for the Florida Restoration 

Area will continue. 

Next Steps 

As described above, a public meeting 

is scheduled to facilitate the public 

review and comment process on the 

Draft Phase V.2 RP/SEA. After the 

public comment period ends, the 

Florida TIG will consider and address 

the comments received before issuing a 

final Phase V.2 RP/SEA. 

Public Availability of Comments 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Administrative Record 

The documents comprising the 

Administrative Record for the Draft 

Phase V.2 RP/SEA can be viewed 

electronically at http://www.doi.gov/

deepwaterhorizon/administrativerecord. 

Authority 

The authority of this action is the Oil 

Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701 et 

seq.) and its implementing Natural 

Resource Damage Assessment 

regulations found at 15 CFR part 990 

and the National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). 

Kevin D. Reynolds, 

Designated Department of the Interior Natural 

Resource Trustee Official. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of the Secretary 

[18XD0120AF/DT20000000/DST000000/ 

241A/T0110100] 

Tribal Consultation on Indian Trust 

Asset Reform Act (ITARA) Sec. 304, 

Transition Plan for the Office of the 

Special Trustee for American Indians 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces that 

the Department of the Interior 

(Department) will be hosting two Tribal 

consultation sessions on a proposal to 

transfer the Office of the Special Trustee 

for American Indians (OST) to report to 

the Office of the Assistant Secretary— 

Indian Affairs (AS–IA) in FY 2018 via 

a Secretary’s Order. Under the proposal, 

the office would be headed temporarily 

by the Principal Deputy Special Trustee, 

who would be delegated the authorities 

of the Special Trustee for American 

Indians. Subsequently, the Department 

plans to appoint a career executive to 

act as the Director of OST. 

DATES: Tribal consultation sessions will 

be held by phone on Wednesday, 

December 13, 1:00 p.m.– 4:00 p.m. EST, 

and Thursday, December 14, 9:00 a.m.– 

12:00 p.m. EST. Comments on this 

proposal must be received by January 

15, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Please submit comments via 

email to consultation@bia.gov or mail to 

Attn: ITARA Transition, c/o Elizabeth 

Appel, Office of Regulatory Affairs & 

Collaborative Action—Indian Affairs, 

1849 C Street NW., Mail Stop 4660, 

Washington, DC 20240. The toll free 

call-in number for the consultation 

sessions is: (888) 324–2907, and the 

passcode is 9793554. Additional 

information is available at www.doi.gov/ 

OST/ITARA. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Elizabeth Appel, Director, Office of 

Regulatory Affairs & Collaborative 

Action, Office of the Assistant 

Secretary—Indian Affairs, at 

elizabeth.appel@bia.gov or (202) 273– 

4680. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OST was 

established in the Department by the 

American Indian Trust Fund 

Management Reform Act of 1994 (1994 

Act), Public Law 103–412, when 

Congress decided a Special Trustee was 

needed to oversee reforms relating to 

trust responsibilities throughout the 

Department. In 1996, the Secretary of 

the Interior (Secretary) transferred 

management of Indian trust funds from 

the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to the 

OST. See Secretarial Order No. 3197. 

OST has implemented reforms and 

managed Indian trust funds for over 20 

years. 

In June 2016, Congress passed the 

Indian Trust Asset Reform Act (ITARA), 

Public Law 114–178. ITARA Section 

304(a) requires the Secretary to prepare 

and submit a plan for the transition of 

functions of the OST to other bureaus or 

agencies within the Department within 

two years of submission of the plan to 

Congress. Beginning in August 2016, the 

Department held one listening session 

and 10 Tribal consultation sessions 

throughout Indian Country and held an 

open period to solicit comments via a 

notice in the Federal Register. Based on 

consultation feedback, the Department 

determined that the most appropriate 

place for OST’s core functions is to 

remain with OST as a permanent 

organization. To ensure fully integrated 

Indian policy and programs, we propose 

to realign OST to report to AS–IA. To 

meet the two-year deadline required by 

ITARA Section 304(a), the Department 

proposes transferring the OST to AS–IA 

in FY 2018 via a Secretary’s Order. 

Today, the OST holds approximately 

$5 billion under trust management and 

administers approximately 3,400 tribal 

trust accounts for more than 250 Indian 

Tribes and over 400,000 Individual 

Indian Money (IIM) accounts. Each year, 

OST disburses roughly $1.2 billion to 

individual Indians and tribes. 

Receipting, investing, and disbursing 

activity is accomplished through the 

processing of 10.3 million financial 

transactions. 

The OST organization features five 

Regional Trust Administrators with 

extensive backgrounds in trust 

management, with over 50 Fiduciary 

Trust Officers to serve as the primary 


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point-of-contact for beneficiaries on 

trust matters, allowing OST to 

coordinate trust asset management 

activities with the BIA, tribes, and 

individual beneficiaries in their 

respective geographic areas. The OST 

operates a Trust Beneficiary Call Center 

(TBCC) to support a strong beneficiary 

trust relationship as envisioned in the 

original reform goals. 

Section 306 of ITARA requires the 

Secretary to identify cost savings that 

would result from the elimination of 

‘‘any program, function, service, or 

activity . . . of the Office of the Special 

Trustee that will not be operated or 

carried out as a result of a transfer of 

functions and personnel following 

enactment of this Act’’. As the proposed 

plan calls for all functions of OST to be 

transferred under AS–IA intact, there 

will be no cost savings as defined by 

ITARA. 

Moreover, appropriations for OST 

increased relatively quickly after its 

inception as functions were transferred 

from other organizations within the 

Department to OST. Funding levels 

peaked in FY 2007 when OST received 

$223.3 million. In the last decade, 

however, funding has steadily decreased 

as reforms have been completed and 

efficiencies have been realized. In FY 

2017, OST received $138.8 million—a 

38 percent decrease from its peak 

funding. Any cost savings resulting from 

trust reforms have already been 

captured in the form of decreased 

budget requests. 

Authority: E.O. 13175, 65 FR 67250. 

Jerold Gidner, 

Principal Deputy Special Trustee. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0024147; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska 

Region, Anchorage, AK 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, Alaska Region, (Alaska Region 

USFWS), has completed an inventory of 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects, in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations, and has 

determined that there is a cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and associated funerary objects and 

present-day Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations. Lineal 

descendants or representatives of any 

Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to request transfer of control 

of these human remains and associated 

funerary objects should submit a written 

request to the Alaska Region USFWS. If 

no additional requestors come forward, 

transfer of control of the human remains 

and associated funerary objects to the 

lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or 

Native Hawaiian organizations stated in 

this notice may proceed. 

DATES: Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian Tribes or 

Native Hawaiian organizations, not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

request transfer of control of these 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects should submit a written request 

with information in support of the 

request to the Alaska Region USFWS at 

the address in this notice by December 

8, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Edward J. DeCleva, Regional 

Historic Preservation Officer, U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service, Alaska Region, 

1011 East Tudor Road, MS–235, 

Anchorage, AK 99503, telephone (907) 

786–3399, email edward_decleva@

fws.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

here given in accordance with the 

Native American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 

3003, of the completion of an inventory 

of human remains and associated 

funerary objects under the control of the 

Alaska Region USFWS. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were recovered from site 049–KOD– 

00083, Kodiak Island Borough, AK. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 

U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in 

this notice are the sole responsibility of 

the museum, institution, or Federal 

agency that has control of the Native 

American human remains and 

associated funerary objects. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Consultation 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by the Alaska Region 

USFWS professional staff in 

consultation with representatives of the 

Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological 

Repository of Kodiak, Alaska, acting as 

agent for the Alutiiq Tribe of Old Harbor 

(previously listed as Native Village of 

Old Harbor and Village of Old Harbor), 

Kaguyak Village, Native Village of 

Afognak, Native Village of Akhiok, 

Native Village of Larsen Bay, Native 

Village of Ouzinkie, Native Village of 

Port Lions, Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak 

(previously listed as the Shoonaq’ Tribe 

of Kodiak), and the Tangirnaq Native 

Village (formerly Lesnoi Village (aka 

Woody Island)). 

History and Description of the Remains 

Beginning in 1961 and continuing 

through 1963, human remains 

representing, at minimum, 23 

individuals, including 17 adults (two 

possible males, two possible females, 

and 13 individuals of indeterminate 

sex), five sub adults, and one infant 

were removed from the Three Saints 

Bay site (049–KOD–00083) on Kodiak 

Island as part of the Aleut-Konyag 

project conducted by the University of 

Wisconsin-Madison, under the direction 

of Morgan Usadel, Donald Clark, 

William Workman, and Peter Storck. 

The collection was curated and stored at 

the University of Wisconsin-Madison 

until 2006. The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, working with the Regional 

Historic Preservation Officer of the 

Alaska Region USFWS to determine 

locations of Alaskan archeological 

collections, located and recovered this 

collection, conducted a complete 

inventory, and returned the human 

remains to the Alaska Region USFWS 

for storage. No known individuals were 

identified. The 23 associated funerary 

objects include 19 unmodified faunal 

remains, 1 lot of charcoal samples, 1 

carved bone figurine pin, 1 amber bead, 

and 1 bone buckle. 

The Three Saints Bay site is a two 

component site, the lower component 

corresponds to the prehistoric late 

Kachemak tradition winter settlement 

dating to BP 2000 to 1100. The upper 

component consists of seven or eight log 

houses, warehouse, barns, bunkhouses, 

carpentry shop, and storage buildings of 

the first settlement established in North 

America by the Russian American 

Company in 1784. Five to nine burials 

were encountered at Three Saints Bay 

which, according to Donald Clark’s 1970 

report, exhibited burial practices that fit 

within the general Kachemak traditional 

pattern. 

The present-day descendant of the 

Kachemak tradition is the Alutiiq Tribe 

of Old Harbor (previously listed as 

Native Village of Old Harbor and Village 

of Old Harbor). 

Determinations Made by the Alaska 

Region USFWS 

Officials of the Alaska Region USFWS 

have determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 


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