80_FR_55323 80 FR 55146 - Renewal of Agency Information Collection for Leases and Permits

80 FR 55146 - Renewal of Agency Information Collection for Leases and Permits

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 177 (September 14, 2015)

Page Range55146-55147
FR Document2015-22962

In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is seeking comments on the renewal of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the collection of information for Leases and Permits, 25 CFR 162. The information collection is currently authorized by OMB Control Number 1076-0155. This information collection expires November 30, 2015.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs

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Renewal of Agency Information Collection for Leases and Permits

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is seeking comments on the renewal of 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the collection of 
information for Leases and Permits, 25 CFR 162. The information 
collection is currently authorized by OMB Control Number 1076-0155. 
This information collection expires November 30, 2015.

DATES: Submit comments on or before November 13, 2015.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on the information collection to Ms. 
Sharlene Roundface, Office of Trust Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
1849 C Street NW., Mailstop 3642--MIB, Washington, DC 20240; email: 
[email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Sharlene Roundface, telephone: 
(202) 208-5831.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is seeking renewal of the 
approval for information collection conducted under 25 CFR 162, Leases 
and Permits, for the review and approval of leases and permits on land 
the United States holds in trust or restricted status for individual 
Indians and Indian tribes. This information collection allows BIA to 
review applications for leases and permits, modifications, and 
assignments, and to determine:
    (a) Whether or not a lease may be approved or granted;
    (b) The value of each lease;
    (c) The appropriate compensation to landowners; and
    (d) Provisions for violations of trespass.
    A response is required to obtain or retain a benefit.

II. Request for Comments

    The BIA requests your comments on this collection concerning: (a) 
The necessity of this information collection 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 (hours and cost) of the collection of information, including 
the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) Ways we could 
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be 
collected; and (d) Ways we could minimize the burden of the collection 
of the information on the respondents.
    Please note that an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and an 
individual need not respond to, a collection of information unless it 
has a valid OMB Control Number.
    It is our policy to make all comments available to the public for 
review at the location listed in the ADDRESSES section. 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.

III. Data

    OMB Control Number: 1076-0155.
    Title: Leases and Permits, 25 CFR 162.
    Brief Description of Collection: Generally, trust and restricted 
land may be leased by Indian landowners with the approval of the 
Secretary of the Interior, except when specified by statute. Submission 
of this information allows BIA to review applications for obtaining, 
modifying and assigning leases and permits of land that the United 
States holds in trust or restricted status for individual Indians and 
Indian tribes. The information is used to determine approval of a 
lease, amendment, assignment, sublease, mortgage or related document. 
Response is required to obtain or retain a benefit.
    Type of Review: Extension without change of currently approved 
collection.
    Respondents: Individual Indians and Indian tribes seeking to lease 
their trust or restricted land and businesses that lease trust and 
restricted land.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 127,110.
    Frequency of Response: One approval per lease, other collections 
occur fewer than once per lease, on average, upon

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request for modification or assignment or upon a trespass violation.
    Estimated Time per Response: Ranges from 15 minutes to 3 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 108,975 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour Dollar Cost: $1,813,000.

Elizabeth K. Appel,
Director, Office of Regulatory Affairs and Collaborative Action--Indian 
Affairs.
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55146 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 177 / Monday, September 14, 2015 / Notices authorizes certain Federal and State Dated: August 24, 2015. II. Request for Comments agencies and Indian tribes to act on Charles Wooley, The BIA requests your comments on behalf of the public as Trustees for Acting Regional Director, Midwest Region, this collection concerning: (a) The affected natural resources. Under U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. necessity of this information collection CERCLA, these agencies and tribes are [FR Doc. 2015–23016 Filed 9–11–15; 8:45 am] for the proper performance of the authorized to assess natural resource BILLING CODE 4310–55–P functions of the agency, including injuries and to seek compensation, whether the information will have referred to as damages, from responsible practical utility; (b) The accuracy of the parties, including the costs of DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR agency’s estimate of the burden (hours performing the damage assessment. The and cost) of the collection of Bureau of Indian Affairs Trustees are required to use recovered information, including the validity of damages for the following purposes [156A2100DD/AAKC001030/ the methodology and assumptions used; only: To restore, replace, or acquire the A0A501010.999900 253G] (c) Ways we could enhance the quality, equivalent of the injured or lost utility, and clarity of the information to Renewal of Agency Information be collected; and (d) Ways we could resources and services. Collection for Leases and Permits minimize the burden of the collection of EPA’s Role in the EIS Process AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, the information on the respondents. Interior. Please note that an agency may not In addition to this Federal Register ACTION: Notice of request for comments. conduct or sponsor, and an individual notice, EPA is publishing a notice need not respond to, a collection of announcing the PEIS, as required under information unless it has a valid OMB SUMMARY: In compliance with the section 309 of the Clean Air Act (42 Control Number. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the U.S.C. 7401 et seq.; CAA). It is our policy to make all comments Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is seeking The EPA is charged under the CAA to comments on the renewal of Office of available to the public for review at the review all Federal agencies’ EISs and to Management and Budget (OMB) location listed in the ADDRESSES section. comment on the adequacy and the approval for the collection of Before including your address, phone acceptability of the environmental information for Leases and Permits, 25 number, email address or other personal impacts of proposed actions in the EISs. CFR 162. The information collection is identifying information in your EPA also serves as the repository (EIS currently authorized by OMB Control comment, you should be aware that database) for EISs prepared by Federal Number 1076–0155. This information your entire comment—including your agencies and provides notice of their collection expires November 30, 2015. personal identifying information—may availability in the Federal Register. The DATES: Submit comments on or before be made publicly available at any time. EIS database provides information about November 13, 2015. While you can ask us in your comment EISs prepared by Federal agencies, as to withhold your personal identifying ADDRESSES: You may submit comments well as EPA’s comments concerning the information from public review, we on the information collection to Ms. cannot guarantee that we will be able to EISs. All EISs are filed with EPA, which Sharlene Roundface, Office of Trust do so. publishes a notice of availability on Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1849 Fridays in the Federal Register. C Street NW., Mailstop 3642—MIB, III. Data For more information, see http:// Washington, DC 20240; email: OMB Control Number: 1076–0155. www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/ Sharlene.Roundface@bia.gov. Title: Leases and Permits, 25 CFR 162. eisdata.html. You may search for EPA FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Brief Description of Collection: comments on EISs, along with EISs Sharlene Roundface, telephone: (202) Generally, trust and restricted land may themselves, at https:// 208–5831. be leased by Indian landowners with the cdxnodengn.epa.gov/cdx-enepa-public/ SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: approval of the Secretary of the Interior, action/eis/search. except when specified by statute. I. Abstract Submission of this information allows Public Comments The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is BIA to review applications for seeking renewal of the approval for obtaining, modifying and assigning Comments are specifically requested information collection conducted under leases and permits of land that the regarding the alternatives, proposed 25 CFR 162, Leases and Permits, for the United States holds in trust or restricted restoration techniques and projects, review and approval of leases and status for individual Indians and Indian scope of analysis, and assessment of permits on land the United States holds tribes. The information is used to impacts. Please see the ADDRESSES in trust or restricted status for determine approval of a lease, section for how to submit information. individual Indians and Indian tribes. amendment, assignment, sublease, Before including your address, phone This information collection allows BIA mortgage or related document. Response number, email address, or other to review applications for leases and is required to obtain or retain a benefit. personal identifying information in your permits, modifications, and Type of Review: Extension without comment, you should be aware that assignments, and to determine: change of currently approved collection. your entire comment—including your (a) Whether or not a lease may be Respondents: Individual Indians and personal identifying information—may approved or granted; Indian tribes seeking to lease their trust tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES be made publicly available at any time. (b) The value of each lease; or restricted land and businesses that While you can ask us in your comment (c) The appropriate compensation to lease trust and restricted land. to withhold your personal identifying landowners; and Estimated Number of Respondents: information from public review, we (d) Provisions for violations of 127,110. trespass. 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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 177 / Monday, September 14, 2015 / Notices 55147 request for modification or assignment of Indian Gaming, to ensure that the schemes, the proposed procedures, and or upon a trespass violation. applicable requirements for the Indian other documents deemed necessary. Estimated Time per Response: Ranges Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), 25 Type of Review: Extension without from 15 minutes to 3 hours. U.S.C. 2701 et seq., are met with regard change of currently approved collection. Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: to Class III gaming procedures, tribal Respondents: Federally recognized 108,975 hours. revenue allocation plans, and Indian tribes. Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour applications for gaming on trust lands Number of Respondents: 12. Dollar Cost: $1,813,000. acquired after October 17, 1988. Estimated Time per Response: 320 Elizabeth K. Appel, hours. II. Request for Comments Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: Director, Office of Regulatory Affairs and Collaborative Action—Indian Affairs. The Assistant Secretary—Indian 3,840 hours. Affairs requests your comments on this Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour [FR Doc. 2015–22962 Filed 9–11–15; 8:45 am] collection concerning: (a) The necessity Dollar Cost: $0. BILLING CODE 4337–15–P of this information collection for the OMB Control Number: 1076–0152. proper performance of the functions of Title: Tribal Revenue Allocation DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR the agency, including whether the Plans, 25 CFR 290. information will have practical utility; Brief Description of Collection: An Bureau of Indian Affairs (b) The accuracy of the agency’s Indian tribe must ask the Secretary to estimate of the burden (hours and cost) approve a tribal revenue allocation plan. [156A2100DD/AAKC001030/ of the collection of information, A0A501010.999900 253G] In order for Indian tribes to distribute including the validity of the net gaming revenues in the form of per Renewal of Agency Information methodology and assumptions used; (c) capita payments, information is needed Collection for Class III Gaming; Tribal Ways we could enhance the quality, by the BIA to ensure that tribal revenue Revenue Allocation Plans; Gaming on utility, and clarity of the information to allocation plans include (1) Assurances Trust Lands be collected; and (d) Ways we could that certain statutory requirements are minimize the burden of the collection of met, (2) a breakdown of the specific uses AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, the information on the respondents. to which net gaming revenues will be Interior. Please note that an agency may not allocated, (3) eligibility requirements for ACTION: Notice of request for comments. conduct or sponsor, and an individual participation, (4) tax liability need not respond to, a collection of notification, and (5) the assurance of the SUMMARY: In compliance with the information unless it displays a valid protection and preservation of the per Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the OMB Control Number. capita share of minors and legal Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs is It is our policy to make all comments incompetents. Sections 290.12, 290.17, seeking comments on the renewal of available to the public for review at the 290.24 and 290.26 of 25 CFR part 290, Office of Management and Budget location listed in the ADDRESSES section. Tribal Revenue Allocation Plans, (OMB) approval for the collection of Before including your address, phone specify the information collection information for Class III Gaming number, email address or other personal requirement. The information to be Procedures authorized by OMB Control identifying information in your collected includes: the name of the Number 1076–0149, Tribal Revenue comment, you should be aware that tribe, tribal documents, the allocation Allocation Plans authorized by OMB your entire comment—including your plan, and other documents deemed Control Number 1076–0152, and personal identifying information—may necessary. Gaming on Trust Lands Acquired After be made publicly available at any time. Type of Review: Extension without October 17, 1988 authorized by OMB While you can ask us in your comment change of currently approved collection. Control Number 1076–0158. These to withhold your personal identifying Respondents: Federally recognized information collections expire January information from public review, we Indian tribes. 31, 2016. cannot guarantee that we will be able to Number of Respondents: 20. DATES: Submit comments on or before do so. Estimated Time per Response: 100 November 13, 2015. hours. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments III. Data Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: on the information collection to Paula OMB Control Number: 1076–0149. 2,000 hours. Hart, U.S. Department of the Interior, Title: Class III Gaming Procedures, 25 Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour Office of Indian Gaming, 1849 C Street CFR 291. Dollar Cost: $0. NW., Mail Stop 3657, Washington, DC Brief Description of Collection: The OMB Control Number: 1076–0158. 20240; email: indiangaming@bia.gov. collection of information will ensure Title: Gaming on Trust Lands FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: that the provisions of IGRA and other Acquired After October 17, 1988, 25 Paula Hart, (202) 219–4066. applicable requirements are met when CFR 292. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: federally recognized tribes submit Class Brief Description of Collection: The III procedures for review and approval collection of information will ensure I. Abstract by the Secretary of the Interior. Sections that the provisions of IGRA, Federal The Assistant Secretary—Indian 291.4, 291.10, 291.12 and 291.15 of 25 law, and the trust obligations of the Affairs is seeking comments on the CFR part 291, Class III Gaming United States are met when federally tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Class III Gaming Procedures, Tribal Procedures, specify the information recognized tribes submit an application Revenue Allocation Plans, and Gaming collection requirement. An Indian tribe under 25 CFR part 292. The applications on Trust Lands Acquired After October must ask the Secretary to issue Class III covered by this OMB Control No. are 17, 1988, as we prepare to renew these gaming procedures. The information to those seeking a Secretarial collections are required by the be collected includes: The name of the determination that a gaming Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of request for comments.
DatesSubmit comments on or before November 13, 2015.
ContactMs. Sharlene Roundface, telephone: (202) 208-5831.
FR Citation80 FR 55146 
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