80 FR 76031 - Sovereignty in Indian Education
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 234 (December 7, 2015)
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 234 (December 7, 2015)
| Page Range | 76031-76033 | |
| FR Document | 2015-30806 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 234 (Monday, December 7, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 76031-76033] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-30806] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Indian Affairs [167 A2100DD/AAKC001030/A0A501010.999900] Sovereignty in Indian Education AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior. ACTION: Notice of availability and request for proposals. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) announces the availability of enhancement funds to tribes and their tribal education departments (TEDs) to promote tribal control and operation of BIE- funded schools on their reservations. This notice invites tribes with at least one BIE-funded school on their reservation/Indian land to submit grant proposals. DATES: Grant proposals must be received by December 18, 2015, at 4:00 p.m. [[Page 76032]] Eastern Time. BIE will hold pre-grant proposal training sessions. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for more information. ADDRESSES: Complete details on requirements for proposals and the evaluation and selection process can be found on the BIE Web site at http://www.bie.edu. Submit grant applications to: Bureau of Indian Education, Attn: Wendy Greyeyes, 1849 C Street NW., MS-4655-MIB, Washington, DC 20240. Email submissions will be accepted at this address: [email protected]. Limit email submissions to attachments compatible with Microsoft Office Word 2007 or later and files with a .pdf file extension. Emailed submissions may not exceed 3MB total in size. Fax submissions are NOT acceptable. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Wendy Greyeyes, Bureau of Indian Education, Office of the Director, Washington, DC 20240, (202) 208- 5810. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A. Background In 2013, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Education convened an American Indian Education Study Group (Study Group) to diagnose the systemic challenges facing the BIE and to propose a comprehensive plan for reform to ensure all students attending BIE-funded schools receive a world-class education. The Study Group drafted a framework for reform based on several listening sessions in the fall of 2013 with tribal leaders, Indian educators and others throughout Indian Country on how to facilitate tribal sovereignty in American Indian education and how to improve educational outcomes for students at BIE-funded schools. Overall, the Study Group met with nearly 400 individuals and received nearly 200 comments that helped it prepare the draft framework for educational reform that became the subject of four tribal consultation sessions held in April and May of 2014. These efforts resulted in the Blueprint for Reform, which was released by the Department of the Interior (DOI) on June 13, 2014. Acting on the recommendations in the Blueprint for Reform, BIE will award enhancement funds to tribes and their tribal education agencies to promote tribal control and operation of BIE-funded schools on their Indian reservations. The purpose of these enhancements is to support the tribes' capacity to manage and operate tribally controlled schools as defined in the Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (Pub. L. 100- 297). These funds will: (a) Support the development of a school-reform plan to improve educational outcomes for students, and: (b) improve efficiencies and effectiveness in the operation of BIE-funded schools within a reservation. Enhancement funding is a two-year program, and awards will range from $100,000 to $200,000 per fiscal year. The amounts are dependent on the number of schools involved, number of students, complexity of creating a new tribally managed school system and the tribe's technical approach. Tribes with at least one Bureau-funded school on or near their reservation are eligible for these funds. These enhancements will provide funds for the tribe to:Develop an implementation plan that will reform a tribe's current organizational structure toward an expert and independent Tribal Education Department that will support schools and students; Cover the execution of the implementation plan with identified staffing, projected timelines, proposed budgets, and activities; and Research an alternative definition of adequate yearly progress (AYP) which is optional for applicants. BIE is seeking proposals from tribes that support efforts to take control and operate BIE-funded schools located on the tribe's reservation. Each proposal must include a project narrative, a budget narrative, a work plan outline, and a Project Director to manage the execution of the grant. Project Directors will participate in monthly collaboration meetings, submit quarterly budget updates, ensure an annual report is submitted at the end of each project year, and ultimately ensure that the tribal education department fulfills the obligations of the grant. Complete details on requirements for proposals and the evaluation and selection process can be found on the BIE Web site at the address in the ADDRESSES section of this notice. In addition, BIE will hold pre-grant proposal training as noted below: BIE Pre-Grant Proposal Training ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Activity Date ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Webinar 11 a.m. (ET)......... December 8, 2015. To register go to: https://dcma100.webex.com/dcma100/k2/j.php?MTID=t6394cada3bc9d9b28993ecb06b7e8ecd and register.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Webinar 4 p.m. (ET).......... December 11, 2015. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To register go to: https://dcma100.webex.com/dcma100/k2/j.php?MTID=t6cbc6c13d4aeab46fd3e93caa597b394 and register.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Grant application submissions December 18, 2015, 4 p.m. (ET) due. Final implementation due..... August 26, 2016. Final Presentations.......... August 31, 2016. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The grant proposal is due December 18, 2015, at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The proposal should be packaged for delivery to permit timely arrival. The proposal package should be sent or hand delivered to the address in the ADDRESSES section of this notice. Faxed applications will NOT be accepted. Email submissions will be accepted at the address in the ADDRESSES section of this notice. Email submissions are limited to attachments compatible with Microsoft Office Word 2007 or later or files with a .pdf file extension. Emailed submissions shall not exceed 3MB total in size. Proposals submitted by Federal Express or Express Mail should be sent two or more days prior to the closing date. The proposal package should be sent to the address shown in the ADDRESSES section of this notice. The tribe is solely responsible for ensuring its proposal arrives in a timely manner. The information collection requirements contained in this notice have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under 44 U.S.C. 3504(h). The OMB control number is 1076-0182. The authorization expires on March 31, 2018. An agency may not sponsor, and you are not required to respond to, any information collection that does not display a currently valid OMB Control Number. [[Page 76033]] The information collected is used to determine whether a tribe is eligible for the Sovereignty in Indian Education Grant and to determine whether the tribe is using the funding for the stated purpose of promoting tribal sovereignty in BIE-funded schools. The information is supplied by the respondents to obtain and/or retain a benefit. The public reporting burden is estimated to be between 1 and 40 hours per response. This includes the time needed to understand the requirements; gather the information; complete the proposal, quarterly budget reports, and the annual report; and submit to the Department. Comments regarding the burden or other aspects of the information collection may be directed to the Information Collection Clearance Officer--Indian Affairs, 1849 C Street NW., MS-3642, Washington, DC 20240. Dated: November 20, 2015. Kevin K. Washburn, Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs. [FR Doc. 2015-30806 Filed 12-4-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4337-15-P
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parts except as permitted under the numbers of birds, nests, and eggs taken, requirements. We did not make any
terms of a valid permit or as permitted and the county or counties where take changes to our requirements as a result
by regulations. In 2006, we issued occurred. of this comment.
regulations establishing two Public health control order. Our
regulations at 50 CFR 21.52 authorize Request for Public Comments
depredation orders and three control
orders that allow State and tribal States and tribes of the lower 48 States We again invite comments concerning
wildlife agencies, private landowners, to conduct (via the State or tribal this information collection on:
and airports to conduct resident Canada wildlife agency) resident Canada goose • Whether or not the collection of
goose population management, control and management activities when information is necessary, including
including the take of birds. We monitor the geese pose a direct threat to human whether or not the information will
the data collected for activities under health. States and tribes operating under have practical utility;
these orders and may rescind an order this order must submit an annual report • The accuracy of our estimate of the
if monitoring indicates that activities are summarizing activities, including the burden for this collection of
inconsistent with conservation of numbers of birds taken and the county information;
Canada geese. where take occurred. • Ways to enhance the quality, utility,
Control order for airports. Our Population control. Our regulations at and clarity of the information to be
regulations at 50 CFR 21.49 allow 50 CFR 21.61 establish a managed take collected; and
managers at commercial, public, and program to reduce and stabilize resident • Ways to minimize the burden of the
private airports and military airfields Canada goose populations when collection of information on
and their employees or agents to traditional and otherwise authorized respondents.
implement management of resident management measures are not Comments that you submit in
Canada geese to resolve or prevent successful or feasible. A State or tribal response to this notice are a matter of
threats to public safety. An airport must wildlife agency in the Atlantic, public record. Before including your
be part of the National Plan of Integrated Mississippi, or Central Flyway may address, phone number, email address,
Airport Systems and have received request approval for this population or other personal identifying
Federal grant-in-aid assistance or be a control program. If approved, the State information in your comment, you
military airfield under the jurisdiction, or tribe may use hunters to harvest should be aware that your entire
custody, or control of the Secretary of a resident Canada geese during the month comment, including your personal
military department. Each facility of August. Requests for approval must identifying information, may be made
exercising the privileges of the order include a discussion of the State’s or publicly available at any time. While
must submit an annual report with the tribe’s efforts to address its injurious you can ask OMB and us in your
date, numbers, and locations of birds, situations using other methods, or a comment to withhold your personal
nests, and eggs taken. discussion of the reasons why the identifying information from public
Depredation order for nests and eggs. methods are not feasible. If the Service review, we cannot guarantee that it will
Our regulations at 50 CFR 21.50 allow Director approves a request, the State or be done.
private landowners and managers of tribe must (1) keep annual records of Dated: December 1, 2015.
public lands to destroy resident Canada activities carried out under the authority Tina A. Campbell,
goose nests and eggs on property under of the program, and (2) provide an
Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and
their jurisdiction, provided they register annual summary, including number of Management Programs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
annually on our Web site at https:// individuals participating in the program Service.
epermits.fws.gov/eRCGR. Registrants and the number of resident Canada [FR Doc. 2015–30696 Filed 12–4–15; 8:45 am]
must provide basic information, such as geese shot. Additionally, participating
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name, address, phone number, and States and tribes must monitor the
email, and identify where the control spring breeding population by providing
work will occur and who will conduct an annual estimate of the breeding DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
it. Registrants must return to the Web population and distribution of resident
site to report the number of nests with Canada geese in their State. Bureau of Indian Affairs
eggs they destroyed. Our regulations at 50 CFR 21.49,
Depredation order for agricultural 21.50, 21.51, and 21.52 require that [167 A2100DD/AAKC001030/
facilities. Our regulations at 50 CFR A0A501010.999900]
persons or entities operating under the
21.51 allow States and tribes, via their depredation and control orders must Sovereignty in Indian Education
wildlife agencies, to implement immediately report the take of any
programs to allow landowners, species protected under the Endangered AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs,
operators, and tenants actively engaged Species Act (ESA). This information Interior.
in commercial agriculture to conduct ensures that the incidental take limits ACTION: Notice of availability and
damage management control when authorized under section 7 of the ESA request for proposals.
geese are committing depredations, or to are not exceeded.
resolve or prevent other injury to SUMMARY: The Bureau of Indian
agricultural interests. State and tribal Comments Received and Our Responses Education (BIE) announces the
wildlife agencies in the Atlantic, On August 18, 2015, we published in availability of enhancement funds to
Central, and Mississippi Flyway the Federal Register (80 FR 50021) a tribes and their tribal education
departments (TEDs) to promote tribal
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portions of 41 States may implement the notice of our intent to request that OMB
provisions of the order. Each renew approval for this information control and operation of BIE-funded
implementing agricultural producer collection. In that notice, we solicited schools on their reservations. This
must maintain a log of the date and comments for 60 days, ending on notice invites tribes with at least one
number of birds taken under this October 19, 2015. We received one BIE-funded school on their reservation/
authorization. Each State and tribe comment. The commenter objected to Indian land to submit grant proposals.
exercising the privileges of the order the taking of Canada geese, but did not DATES: Grant proposals must be received
must submit an annual report of the address the information collection by December 18, 2015, at 4:00 p.m.
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The information collected is used to Written comments to this notice must be No Action Alternative, the existing
determine whether a tribe is eligible for received by February 5, 2016. resource management strategies will be
the Sovereignty in Indian Education ADDRESSES: The public is invited to assessed. Additional strategies or
Grant and to determine whether the submit written comments to this Notice. alternatives or variations of those
tribe is using the funding for the stated Written comments may be submitted by proposed above may be developed as a
purpose of promoting tribal sovereignty mail, email, hand carry, or fax to: Ms. result of public scoping. Significant
in BIE-funded schools. The information Anna Schmidt, Wildlife Biologist, BIA issues to be covered during the scoping
is supplied by the respondents to obtain Northwest Regional Office, 911 NE. 11th process may include, but will not be
and/or retain a benefit. The public Avenue, Portland, OR 97232–4169, limited to, air quality, geology and soils,
reporting burden is estimated to be Phone: (503) 231–6808, Fax: (503) 231– surface and groundwater resources,
between 1 and 40 hours per response. 6774, Email: anna.schmidt@bia.gov. wildlife habitat, threatened and
This includes the time needed to FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. endangered species, cultural resources,
understand the requirements; gather the Anna Schmidt at (503) 231–6808 or socioeconomic conditions, land use,
information; complete the proposal, anna.schmidt@bia.gov. aesthetics, and Indian trust resources.
quarterly budget reports, and the annual SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Directions for Submitting Public
report; and submit to the Department. proposed action is the preparation of an Comments: Please include your name,
Comments regarding the burden or other IRMP for the Nez Perce Reservation and return address, and the caption
aspects of the information collection BIA approval of long-term natural and ‘‘ ‘Programmatic EIS, Nez Perce
may be directed to the Information cultural resource planning goals and Reservation IRMP’ ’’ on the first page of
Collection Clearance Officer—Indian objectives for the Nez Perce Reservation. any written comments you submit. You
Affairs, 1849 C Street NW., MS–3642, The Tribe may use the Programmatic may also submit comments at the public
Washington, DC 20240. EIS (PEIS) for tiered, project-specific scoping meetings. The public scoping
Dated: November 20, 2015. environmental assessments to cover meetings will be held to seek comments
Kevin K. Washburn, specific actions as the IRMP is from all parties concerning the use of
Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs. implemented. The Tribe has managed natural and cultural resources on the
[FR Doc. 2015–30806 Filed 12–4–15; 8:45 am] its natural and cultural resources under Nez Perce Reservation, concerns
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the goals and objectives of various regarding impacts to those resources,
department-specific plans under the and preferred management strategies.
direction of the Nez Perce Tribal The meetings will be held at various
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Executive Committee. The PEIS will Nez Perce Reservation communities,
consider a proposed strategy in the and notices will be published in the
Bureau of Indian Affairs IRMP to provide a framework for all Nez Lewiston Tribune, Moscow-Pullman
Perce Tribal agencies to manage natural Daily News, Ta’c Tito’oqan, Clearwater
[167A2100DD/AAKC001030/
A0A501010.999900 253G] and cultural resources within the Nez Tribune, Idaho County Free Press, Lewis
Perce Reservation. County Herald, the Clearwater Progress,
Notice of Intent To Prepare a It is anticipated that the PEIS will and Cottonwood Chronicle. Additional
Programmatic Environmental Impact assess four management strategy information will also be posted at the
Statement for the Proposed Integrated alternatives and a No Action Tribe’s Web site at www.nezperce.org.
Resource Management Plan for the Alternative. Under the Maximum Public Comment Availability:
Nez Perce Reservation in North Central Resource Development Alternative, the Comments, including names and
Idaho Tribe’s resource management strategy addresses of respondents, will be
would be to maximally promote human available for public review at the BIA
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, land uses, growth, and the use of natural
Interior. address shown in the ADDRESSES section
and cultural resources to generate of this notice, during regular business
ACTION: Notice of intent. revenue for the Tribe. Under the hours, Monday through Friday, except
Development Emphasis Alternative, the holidays. Before including your address,
SUMMARY: This notice advises the public Tribe’s resource management strategy
that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) phone number, email address, or other
would be to emphasize human land use, personal identifying information in your
as lead agency intends to prepare a growth, and the use of natural and
programmatic environmental impact comment, you should be aware that
cultural resources to generate revenue your entire comment—including your
statement (PEIS) and conduct public for the Tribe, while ensuring a moderate
scoping meetings to evaluate potential personal identifying information—may
level of natural and cultural resource be made publicly available at any time.
environmental impacts of the proposed conservation, protection, and
Integrated Resource Management Plan While you can ask us in your comment
enhancement. Under the Conservation to withhold your personal identifying
(IRMP) for the Nez Perce Reservation Emphasis Alternative, the Tribe’s
located in north central Idaho. The PEIS information from public review, we
resource management strategy would be cannot guarantee that we will be able to
will be prepared in accordance with the to emphasize natural and cultural
requirements of the National do so.
resource conservation, protection, and
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). enhancement, while ensuring a Authority: This notice is published in
DATES: The dates and locations of public moderate level of human land use, accordance with sections 1503.1 of the
Council on Environmental Quality
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scoping meetings will be published in growth, and the use of natural and
Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 through
the Lewiston Tribune, Moscow-Pullman cultural resources to generate revenue
1508) and Sec. 46.305 of the Department of
Daily News, Ta’c Tito’oqan, Clearwater for the Tribe. Under the Maximum the Interior Regulations (43 CFR part 46),
Tribune, Idaho County Free Press, Lewis Conservation Alternative, the Tribe’s implementing the procedural requirements of
County Herald, The Clearwater Progress, resource management strategy would be NEPA, as amended (42 U.5.C. 4321 et seq.),
and Cottonwood Chronicle. Additional to maximally promote natural and and is in the exercise of authority delegated
information will also be posted on the cultural resource conservation, to the Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs, by
Tribe’s Web site at www.nezperce.org. protection, and enhancement. Under the part 209 of the Departmental Manual.
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| Action | Notice of availability and request for proposals. | |
| Dates | Grant proposals must be received by December 18, 2015, at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. BIE will hold pre-grant proposal training sessions. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for more information. | |
| Contact | Ms. Wendy Greyeyes, Bureau of Indian Education, Office of the Director, Washington, DC 20240, (202) 208- 5810. | |
| FR Citation | 80 FR 76031 |
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