83 FR 12960 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Regulations
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 58 (March 26, 2018)
National Park Service
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 58 (March 26, 2018)
| Page Range | 12960-12962 | |
| FR Document | 2018-06056 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 58 (Monday, March 26, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 12960-12962] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-06056] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [NPS-WASO-CR-NAGPRA-21578; PPWOCRADN0, PCU00RP14.R50000; OMB Control Number 1024-0144] Agency Information Collection Activities: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Regulations AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Park Service is proposing to renew an information collection. DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before May 25, 2018. ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the information collection request (ICR) by mail to Tim Goddard, Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS-242, Reston, VA 20192; or by email to [email protected]. Please reference OMB Control Number 1024-0144 in the subject line of your comments. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information about this ICR, contact Melanie O'Brien, Manager, National Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Program, by email at melanie_o'[email protected], or by telephone at 202-354-2204. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We (National Park Service, NPS), in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, provide the general public and other Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed, revised, and continuing collections of information. This helps us assess the impact of our information collection requirements and minimize the public's reporting burden. It also helps the public understand our information collection requirements and provide the requested data in the desired format. We are soliciting comments on the proposed ICR that is described below. We are especially interested in public comment addressing the following issues: (1) Is the collection necessary for the proper functions of the NPS National Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Program; (2) will this information be processed and used in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate of burden accurate; (4) how might the NPS National NAGPRA Program enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (5) how might the NPS National NAGPRA Program minimize the burden of this collection on the respondents, including through the use of information technology. Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of public record. We will include or summarize each comment in our response to OMB to approve this ICR. Before including your address, phone number, email address, or other personal identifying information in your [[Page 12961]] 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. 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 OMB control number. Title of Collection: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Regulations, 43 CFR part 10. OMB Control Number: 1024-0144. Form Number: None. Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection. Respondents/Affected Public: Any institution or State or local government agency (including any institution of higher learning) that receives Federal funds and has possession of, or control over, Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, or objects of cultural patrimony (``museum''). Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 203. Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 4,597. Total Number of Annual Respondents: 139. Estimated Completion Time per Response: Varies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimated Total number completion Total number Total number Information collection of annual time per of annual of annual responses response burden hours respondents (hrs.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summaries (initial)............................. 6 100 600 6 Summaries (updated/amended)..................... 14 10 140 14 Inventories (initial)........................... 11 200 2,200 11 Inventories (updated/amended)................... 31 10 310 31 Notices of Inventory Completion................. 96 10 960 * 45 Notices of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items.. 38 10 380 * 26 Correcting Previously Published Notices......... 7 1 7 * 6 --------------------------------------------------------------- Totals...................................... 203 .............. 4,597 139 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Typically, a respondent will submit one response. However, some respondents submit multiple responses in one year. Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory. Frequency of Collection: On occasion. Total Estimated Annual Non-hour Burden Cost: None. Abstract: One of the purposes of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA, the Act) is to provide for the repatriation of Native American human remains and funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony (``cultural items'') to lineal descendants, and affiliated Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations. The Secretary of the Interior has several responsibilities under the Act, which include promulgating regulations to carry out the Act and publishing notices in the Federal Register. Under NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, a museum must compile an inventory of Native American human remains and associated funerary objects under its control and, to the extent possible based on the information it possesses, identify the geographical and cultural affiliation of the human remains and funerary objects. Inventories must be completed in consultation with Indian tribal government and Native Hawaiian organization officials, and traditional religious leaders. The NPS National NAGPRA Program, on behalf of the Secretary, collects information pertinent for determining the cultural affiliation and geographical origin of the human remains and associated funerary objects, including descriptions, acquisition data, and consultation concerning the human remains and objects, and it makes this information publicly available. The NPS National NAGPRA Program also provides sample inventories to assist museums. The Act and its implementing regulations require a museum to describe in a summary its holding or collection of Native American objects that might be unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, or objects of cultural patrimony. The summary is followed by consultation on the identity and cultural affiliation of objects with Indian tribal government and Native Hawaiian organization officials, and traditional religious leaders. The NPS National NAGPRA Program, on behalf of the Secretary, collects information pertinent for determining the cultural affiliation and identity of objects (as cultural items), including descriptions, acquisition data, and parties invited to consult about the objects, and it makes this information publicly available. The NPS National NAGPRA Program also provides sample summaries to assist museums. After the expiration of the statutory deadlines for completing an inventory and a summary, if a museum receives a new holding or discovers an unreported current holding, or has control of cultural items that are, or are likely to be, culturally affiliated with a newly federally recognized Indian tribe, the museum must update or amend its inventory or summary. The NPS National NAGPRA Program, on behalf of the Secretary, collects information pertinent for determining the cultural affiliation and geographical origin of the human remains and associated funerary objects (in the inventory update), or for determining the cultural affiliation and identity of objects as cultural items (in the summary update), and it makes this information publicly available. If a museum determines the cultural affiliation of human remains and associated funerary objects in an inventory, the museum must draft and send a written notice of its determination to the affected Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and copy the NPS National NAGPRA Program. The NPS National NAGPRA Program, in turn, publishes this notice of inventory completion in the Federal Register on behalf of the Secretary. Similarly, a museum must draft and send a notice of inventory completion to the NPS National NAGPRA Program for publication in the Federal Register where human remains determined by the museum to be culturally unidentifiable are claimed by an Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization having a geographical affiliation to the human remains. The information in a notice of inventory completion collected by the NPS National NAGPRA Program is based on the information in the museum's completed inventory. The [[Page 12962]] NPS National NAGPRA Program provides templates for notices of inventory completion to assist museums in drafting these notices. After receiving a request from an Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization to repatriate an object described in a summary, if a museum determines that the object being requested is an unassociated funerary object, a sacred object, or an object of cultural patrimony, and is culturally affiliated with the requestor, the museum drafts and sends a notice of intent to repatriate cultural items to the NPS National NAGPRA Program, which publishes the notice in the Federal Register. The information in a notice of intent to repatriate cultural items collected by the NPS National NAGPRA Program is based on the information in the museum's summary, and is supplemented by information pertinent to the identity and cultural affiliation of the cultural item. The NPS National NAGPRA Program provides a template for a notice of intent to repatriate cultural items to assist museums in drafting this notice. A museum that revises its decision in a way that changes the number or cultural affiliation of cultural items listed in a notice that was previously published in the Federal Register must draft and send a correction notice to the NPS National NAGPRA Program, which publishes the correction notice in the Federal Register. The NPS National NAGPRA Program provides a template for a correction notice to assist museums in drafting this notice. The NPS National NAGPRA Program collects and makes publicly available the above described information in order to ensure the protection of the constitutional due process rights of lineal descendants, Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations related to property. As evidence of a museum's compliance with the Act, the information collected by the NPS National NAGPRA Program serves the reporting museum because only where a museum repatriates a cultural item in good faith pursuant to the Act will it be immune from liability for claims by an aggrieved party or for claims of breach of fiduciary duty, public trust, or violations of state law that are inconsistent with the provisions of NAGPRA. Authorities: The authorities for this action are the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA; 25 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.), NAGPRA Regulations (43 CFR part 10), and the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Tim Goddard, Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service. [FR Doc. 2018-06056 Filed 3-23-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4312-52-P
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amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), variegata), brown lemur (Eulemur SUMMARY: In accordance with the
we invite public comment on these fulvus), Diana monkey (Cercopithicus Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
permit applications before final action is diana), and lar gibbon (Hylobates lar). National Park Service is proposing to
taken. This notification covers activities to be renew an information collection.
conducted by the applicant over a 5- DATES: Interested persons are invited to
III. Permit Applications year period. submit comments on or before May 25,
We invite the public to comment on 2018.
applications to conduct certain Multiple Trophies
ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the
activities with endangered species. With The following applicants each request information collection request (ICR) by
some exceptions, the ESA prohibits a permit to import sport-hunted trophies mail to Tim Goddard, Information
activities with listed species unless of a male bontebok (Damaliscus Collection Clearance Officer, National
Federal authorization is acquired that pygargus pygargus) culled from a Park Service, 12201 Sunrise Valley
allows such activities. captive herd maintained under the Drive, MS–242, Reston, VA 20192; or by
Applicant: NOAA/Pacific Islands management program of the Republic of email to tim_goddard@nps.gov. Please
Regional Office, Honolulu, HI; PRT– South Africa, for the purpose of reference OMB Control Number 1024–
022729 enhancing the propagation or survival of 0144 in the subject line of your
The applicant requests reissuance of the species. comments.
their permit to import from the high Applicant: Thomas McRae Sloan,
seas samples and/or whole carcasses of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
Midland, TX; PRT–63058C
short-tailed albatross (Phoebastria Applicant: Frazer Wadenstorer, Holly, request additional information about
albatrus) for the purpose of MI: PRT–44772C this ICR, contact Melanie O’Brien,
enhancement of the species through Applicant: Michael R. Sartorie, Billings, Manager, National Native American
scientific research. This notice covers MT; PRT–66543C Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
activities conducted by the applicant Applicant: Scott A. Lamphere, (NAGPRA) Program, by email at
over a 5-year period. Henderson, MI; PRT–69701C melanie_o’brien@nps.gov, or by
Applicant: Southwest Fisheries Science Applicant: Timothy Ferrall, Riverside, telephone at 202–354–2204.
Center, La Jolla, CA; PRT–68677C CA; PRT–61303C SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We
(Previously PRT–844694) Applicant: James Toney, Baker, LA; (National Park Service, NPS), in
The applicant requests reissuance of PRT–61596C accordance with the Paperwork
the permit to import biological samples Applicant: Robert Hennen, Isle, MN; Reduction Act of 1995, provide the
collected from wild and captive-bred PRT–61302C general public and other Federal
animals of Kemp’s ridley sea turtle IV. Next Steps agencies with an opportunity to
(Lepidochelys kempii), hawksbill sea comment on proposed, revised, and
turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), If the Service decides to issue permits continuing collections of information.
leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys to any of the applicants listed in this This helps us assess the impact of our
coriacea), green sea turtle (Chelonia notice, we will publish a notice in the information collection requirements and
mydas), loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta Federal Register. You may locate the minimize the public’s reporting burden.
caretta), and olive ridley sea turtle Federal Register notice announcing the It also helps the public understand our
(Lepidochelys olivacea) for the purpose permit issuance date by searching in information collection requirements and
of scientific research. Samples are www.regulations.gov under the permit provide the requested data in the
collected from live or salvaged number listed in this document (e.g., desired format.
specimens. This notification covers PRT–12345X). We are soliciting comments on the
activities conducted by the applicant VI. Authority proposed ICR that is described below.
over a 5-year period. We are especially interested in public
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 comment addressing the following
Applicant: Zoological Society of San U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).
Diego; PRT–53381C issues: (1) Is the collection necessary for
The applicant requests a permit to Joyce Russell, the proper functions of the NPS
import one male and two female Government Information Specialist, Branch National Native American Graves
captive-born quokka (Setonix of Permits, Division of Management Protection and Repatriation Act
brachyurus) to enhance the propagation Authority. (NAGPRA) Program; (2) will this
and survival of the species. This [FR Doc. 2018–06036 Filed 3–23–18; 8:45 am] information be processed and used in a
notification is for a single import. BILLING CODE 4333–15–P timely manner; (3) is the estimate of
Applicant: Zoological Society of burden accurate; (4) how might the NPS
Pittsburgh; PRT–69379C National NAGPRA Program enhance the
The applicant requests a permit to DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR quality, utility, and clarity of the
import African elephant (Loxodonta information to be collected; and (5) how
africana) semen to enhance the National Park Service might the NPS National NAGPRA
propagation and survival of the species. [NPS–WASO–CR–NAGPRA–21578; Program minimize the burden of this
This notification is for multiple imports. PPWOCRADN0, PCU00RP14.R50000; OMB collection on the respondents, including
Applicant: Charles Jordan, d/b/a NBJ Control Number 1024–0144] through the use of information
Zoological Park, LTD., Spring Ranch, technology.
Agency Information Collection Comments that you submit in
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TX; PRT–751619
The applicant requests a captive-bred Activities: Native American Graves response to this notice are a matter of
wildlife registration under 50 CFR Protection and Repatriation public record. We will include or
17.21(g) for the following species to Regulations summarize each comment in our
enhance species propagation or AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. response to OMB to approve this ICR.
survival: Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx), Before including your address, phone
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta), black number, email address, or other
request for comment.
and white ruffed lemur (Varecia personal identifying information in your
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NPS National NAGPRA Program and the Paperwork Reduction Act of domestic industries, one comprised of
provides templates for notices of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). domestic producers of HFC components
inventory completion to assist museums and the other of domestic producers of
Tim Goddard,
in drafting these notices. HFC blends. The Commission then
Information Collection Clearance Officer, determined that the domestic industry
After receiving a request from an National Park Service.
producing HFC blends was materially
Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian [FR Doc. 2018–06056 Filed 3–23–18; 8:45 am] injured by reason of subject imports of
organization to repatriate an object BILLING CODE 4312–52–P HFC blends, whereas the domestic
described in a summary, if a museum
industry producing HFC components
determines that the object being
was not materially injured or threatened
requested is an unassociated funerary INTERNATIONAL TRADE with material injury by reason of subject
object, a sacred object, or an object of COMMISSION imports of HFC components. Petitioners
cultural patrimony, and is culturally appealed the determination to the U.S.
affiliated with the requestor, the [Investigation No. 731–TA–1279 (Final)
(Remand)] Court of International Trade (‘‘CIT’’),
museum drafts and sends a notice of challenging the Commission’s
intent to repatriate cultural items to the Hydrofluorocarbon Blends and determination that there were two
NPS National NAGPRA Program, which Components From China domestic like products consisting of
publishes the notice in the Federal HFC blends and HFC components. The
Register. The information in a notice of AGENCY: United States International CIT remanded two issues to the
intent to repatriate cultural items Trade Commission. Commission and affirmed all other
collected by the NPS National NAGPRA ACTION: Notice of remand proceedings. aspects of the Commission’s like
Program is based on the information in product determination. Arkema, Inc. v.
the museum’s summary, and is SUMMARY: The U.S. International Trade United States, Court No. 16–00179, Slip.
supplemented by information pertinent Commission (‘‘Commission’’) hereby Op. 18–12 (Ct. Int’l Trade Feb. 16,
to the identity and cultural affiliation of gives notice of the court-ordered remand 2018).
the cultural item. The NPS National of its final determination in the Participation in the proceeding.—
antidumping duty investigation of Only those persons who were interested
NAGPRA Program provides a template
hydrofluorocarbon blends and parties that participated in the
for a notice of intent to repatriate
components (‘‘HFC’’) from China. For investigations (i.e., persons listed on the
cultural items to assist museums in
further information concerning the Commission Secretary’s service list) and
drafting this notice.
conduct of these remand proceedings also parties to the appeal may
A museum that revises its decision in and rules of general application, consult participate in the remand proceedings.
a way that changes the number or the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Such persons need not make any
cultural affiliation of cultural items Procedure. additional notice of appearances or
listed in a notice that was previously DATES: Applicable Date: March 16, applications with the Commission to
published in the Federal Register must 2018. participate in the remand proceedings,
draft and send a correction notice to the unless they are adding new individuals
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
NPS National NAGPRA Program, which to the list of persons entitled to receive
publishes the correction notice in the Joanna Lo (202–205–1888), Office of
Investigations, U.S. International Trade business proprietary information
Federal Register. The NPS National (‘‘BPI’’) under administrative protective
NAGPRA Program provides a template Commission, 500 E Street SW,
Washington, DC 20436. Hearing- order. BPI referred to during the remand
for a correction notice to assist proceedings will be governed, as
impaired persons can obtain
museums in drafting this notice. appropriate, by the administrative
information on this matter by contacting
The NPS National NAGPRA Program the Commission’s TDD terminal on 202– protective order issued in the
collects and makes publicly available 205–1810. Persons with mobility investigation. The Secretary will
the above described information in impairments who will need special maintain a service list containing the
order to ensure the protection of the assistance in gaining access to the names and addresses of all persons or
constitutional due process rights of Commission should contact the Office their representatives who are parties to
lineal descendants, Indian tribes and of the Secretary at 202–205–2000. the remand proceedings, and the
Native Hawaiian organizations related General information concerning the Secretary will maintain a separate list of
to property. As evidence of a museum’s Commission may also be obtained by those authorized to receive BPI under
compliance with the Act, the accessing its internet server (https:// the administrative protective order
information collected by the NPS www.usitc.gov). The public record of during the remand proceedings.
National NAGPRA Program serves the Written Submissions.—The
Investigation No. 731–TA–1279 (Final)
reporting museum because only where a Commission is not reopening the record
may be viewed on the Commission’s
museum repatriates a cultural item in and will not accept the submission of
electronic docket (EDIS) at https:// new factual information for the record.
good faith pursuant to the Act will it be edis.usitc.gov. The Commission will permit the parties
immune from liability for claims by an
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: to file comments concerning how the
aggrieved party or for claims of breach Background.—In August 2016, the Commission could best comply with the
of fiduciary duty, public trust, or Commission issued its unanimous Court’s remand instructions.
violations of state law that are determination in Hydrofluorocarbon The comments must be based solely
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inconsistent with the provisions of Blends and Components from China, on the information in the Commission’s
NAGPRA. Inv. No. 731–TA–1279 (Final), USITC record. The Commission will reject
Authorities: The authorities for this Pub. 4629 (August 2016). Applying the submissions containing additional
action are the Native American Graves five-factor finished/semi-finished factual information or arguments
Protection and Repatriation Act product analysis, the Commission found pertaining to issues other than those on
(NAGPRA; 25 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.), that there were two domestic like which the Court has remanded this
NAGPRA Regulations (43 CFR part 10), products, and consequently two matter. The deadline for filing
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| Section | Notices | |
| Action | Notice of information collection; request for comment. | |
| Dates | Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before May 25, 2018. | |
| Contact | To request additional information about this ICR, contact Melanie O'Brien, Manager, National Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Program, by email at melanie_o'[email protected], or by telephone at 202-354-2204. | |
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