[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 54 (Monday, March 21, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15120-15121]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-06235]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
[DT21200000 DST000000.T7AC00.241A]
Proposed Renewal of Information Collection: OMB Control Number
1035-0004, Trust Funds for Tribes and Individual Indians, 25 CFR Part
115
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Office of the Special Trustee for
American Indians.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Office of Special Trustee for American Indians, Office of the
Secretary, Department of the Interior, announces the proposed extension
of a public information collection and seeks public comments on the
provisions thereof, regarding, ``Trust Funds for Tribes and Individual
Indians, 25 CFR 115,'' OMB Control No. 1035-0004.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by May 20,
2016.
ADDRESSES: Send your written comments to Dianne M. Moran, Field
Operations, Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians, 4400
Masthead St. NE., Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109. You may also email
your comments to: [email protected]. Individuals providing
comments should reference OMB control number 1035-0004, ``Trust Funds
for Tribes and Individual Indians, 25 CFR 115.''
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the information
collection request, any explanatory information and related forms, see
the contact information provided in the ADDRESSES section above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
This notice is for renewal of information collection.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regulations at 5 CFR part
1320, which implement the Paperwork
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Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., require that interested
members of the public and affected agencies 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
will submit to OMB for renewal.
The American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994 (the
Reform Act) (Pub. L. 103-412) makes provisions for the Office of the
Special Trustee for American Indians to administer trust fund accounts
for individuals and tribes. The collection of information is required
to facilitate the processing of deposits, investments, and distribution
of monies held in trust by the U.S. Government and administered by the
Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians. The collection of
information provides the information needed to establish procedures to:
Deposit and retrieve funds from accounts, perform transactions such as
cashing checks, reporting lost or stolen checks, stopping payment of
checks, and general verification for account activities.
II. Data
(1) Title: Trust Funds for Tribes and Individuals Indians, 25 CFR
115.
OMB Control Number: 1035-0004.
Current Expiration Date: July 31, 2016.
Type of Review: Information Collection Renewal.
Affected Entities: Individual Indians and Tribes who wish to
initiate some activity on their trust accounts.
Obligation to respond: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
Estimated annual number of respondents: 85,562.
Frequency of responses: As needed, estimated 4 per year.
(2) Annual reporting and recordkeeping burden:
Total annual reporting per response: 15 minutes.
Total number of estimated responses: 342,247.
Total annual reporting: 85,562 hours.
(3) Description of the need and use of the information: This
information collection is needed and used to process deposits,
investments, and distribution of monies from accounts held in trust by
the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians, individual
Indians in the administration of these accounts. The respondents submit
information in order to gain or retain a benefit, namely, access to
funds held in trust.
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 of information 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
respondents, including the through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other collection techniques or other forms
of information technology.
``Burden'' means the total time, effort, and financial resources
expended by persons 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 purposes 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.
All comments, with names and addresses, will be available for
public inspection. Before including Personally Identifiable Information
(PII), such as your address, phone number, email address, or other
personal information in your comment(s), you should be aware that your
entire comment (including PII) may be made available to the public at
any time. If you wish us to withhold your personally identifiable
information (PII), you must prominently state it at the beginning of
your comments what information that you want us to withhold from public
view. While you may ask us in your comment to withhold PII from public
view, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. If you wish to
view any comments received, you may do so by scheduling an appointment
with the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians, by using
the contact information in the ADDRESSES section above. A valid picture
identification is required for entry into the Department of the
Interior.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for OMB approval of this information
collection; they also will become a matter of public record.
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: March 10, 2016.
Doug Lords,
Deputy Special Trustee--Field Operations, Office of the Special Trustee
for American Indians.
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