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address, phone number, e-mail address
or other personally identifiable
information, be advised that your entire
comment—including your personally
identifiable information—may be made
public at any time. While you may
request that we withhold your
personally identifiable information, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so. We do not consider anonymous
comments. All comments from
representatives of businesses or
organizations will be made public in
their entirety.
OMB is required to respond to this
request within 60 days after publication
of this notice in the Federal Register,
but may respond after 30 days;
therefore, your comments should be
submitted to OMB within 30 days of
publication to assure maximum
consideration.
III. Data
Title: Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Child
Welfare Act Annual Report, 25 CFR part
23.
OMB Control Number: 1076–0131.
Type of Review: Reinstatement.
Brief Description of Collection: Indian
tribes are required to collect selected
data on Indian child welfare cases and
submit them to the Bureau for
consolidation. This data is useful on a
local level, to the tribes and tribal
organizations that collect it, for case
management purposes and on
nationwide bases for planning and
budget purposes.
Respondents: Indian tribes or tribal
entities who are operating programs for
Indian tribes.
Number of Respondents: 536.
Estimated Time per Response: 30
minutes.
Frequency of Response: Quarterly.
Estimated Annual Burden to
Respondents: 1072 hours.
Dated: April 25, 2008.
Sanjeev ‘‘Sonny’’ Bhagowalia,
Chief Information Officer—Indian Affairs.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Information Collection Activities,
Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget
Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: This notice announces that
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the 25 CFR part 256, U.S. Department of
the Interior (DOI), Bureau of Indian
Affairs (BIA) Housing Improvement
Program, OMB Control # 1076–0084, is
being submitted to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget for
reinstatement. The collection expired
during the renewal process.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
June 2, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties are
invited to submit written comments
regarding this proposal to the Desk
Officer of the Department of the Interior
by facsimile to 202–395–6566. You may
also send comments by e-mail to:
[email protected].
Copies of comments should refer to
the proposal by name and/ or OMB
Control Number and should be sent to
Les Jensen, Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Department of the Interior, 1849 C
Street, NW., MS–4513–MIB,
Washington, DC 20240. Telephone 907–
586–7397.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Copies of the collection of information
form or requests for additional
information should be directed to Les
Jensen, Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Department of Interior, 1849 C Street,
NW., MS–4513–MIB, Washington, DC
20240. Telephone 907–586–7397.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The information is needed to establish
an applicant’s eligibility to receive
services under the Housing
Improvement Program and to establish
the priority order in which eligible
applicants may receive services under
the program. A Federal Register notice
requesting comments was published on
October 30, 2007 (72 FR61365). No
comments were received.
II. Method of Collection
The housing regulations at 25 CFR
part 256 contain the program eligibility
and selection criteria (§§ 256.6, 256.8,
256.9, 256.10, 256.13, 256.14), which
must be met by prospective applicants
seeking program services. Information
collected from applicants under these
regulations provides eligibility and
selection data used by the local
servicing housing office to establish
whether an applicant is eligible to
receive services. The local servicing
housing office may be a tribal housing
office under a Public Law 93–638,
Indian Self-Determination contract or a
Self-Governance annual funding
agreement, or part of the BIA.
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establish whether a request for waiver of
a specific housing regulation is in the
best interest of the applicant and the
Federal Government.
III. Data
(1) Title of the Collection of
Information: Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Housing
Improvement Program, 25 CFR Part 256.
OMB Control Number: 1076–0084.
Type of Review: Reinstatement of an
information collection.
(2) Summary of the Collection of
Information: The collection of
information provides pertinent data
concerning an applicant’s eligibility to
receive services under the Housing
Improvement Program and includes:
A. Applicant Information including:
Name, current address, telephone
number, date of birth, Social Security
Number, tribe, roll number, reservation,
marital status, name of spouse, date of
birth of spouse, tribe of spouse, and roll
number of spouse.
B. Family Information including:
Name, date of birth, relationship to
applicant, and tribe/roll number.
C. Income Information: Earned and
unearned income.
D. Housing Information including:
Location of the house to be repaired,
constructed, or purchased; description
of housing assistance for which
applying; knowledge of receipt of prior
Housing Improvement Program
assistance, amount, to whom and when;
ownership or rental; availability of
electricity and name of electric
company; type of sewer system; water
source; number of bedrooms; size of
house; and bathroom facilities.
E. Land Information including:
Landowner; legal status of land; or type
of interest in land.
F. General Information including:
Prior receipt of services under the
Housing Improvement Program and
description of such; ownership of other
housing and description of such;
identification of Housing and Urban
Development funded house and current
status of project; identification of other
sources of housing assistance for which
the applicant has applied and been
denied assistance if applying for a new
housing unit or purchase of an existing
standard unit; and advisement and
description of any severe health
problem, handicap or permanent
disability.
G. Applicant Certification including:
Signature of applicant and date, and
signature of spouse and date.
(3) Description of the Need for the
Information and Proposed Use of the
Information: Submission of this
information is required in order to

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receive services under the Housing
Improvement Program. The information
is collected to determine applicant
eligibility for services and applicant
priority order to receive services under
the program.
(4) Description of Affected Entities:
Individual members of federally
recognized Indian tribes who are living
within a designated tribal or legally
defined service area. Lack of funding
drives our number of respondents
which we will estimate as one (1) to
keep the information collection current.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
8,000.
Proposed Frequency of Response:
Annually or less frequently, depending
on length of waiting list, funding
availability and dynamics of service
population.
Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 8,000.
Estimated Time per Application: 1
hour.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 8,000 hours.
IV. Request for Comments
We specifically request your
comments concerning the following:
1. Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the BIA,
including whether the information will
have practical utility;
2. The accuracy of the BIA’s estimate
of the burden to collect the information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
3. The quality, utility and clarity of
the information to be collected; and,
4. How to minimize the burden of the
information collection on those who are
to respond, including the use of
appropriate automated electronic,
mechanical or other forms of
information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
the comments will also 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 OMB
control number. The comments, names
and addresses of commenters will be
available for public view during regular
business hours. Before including your
address, phone number, e-mail address,
or other personal identifying
information in your comment, be
advised that your entire comment—
including your personal identifying
information—may be made publicly
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us in your comment to withhold from
public review your personal identifying
information, we cannot guarantee that
we will be able to do so. We may
withhold comments for other reasons,
but we will not consider anonymous
comments. The complete comments for
businesses or organizations will be
made public, including the
representative’s name.
OMB is required to respond to this
request within 60 days after publication
of this notice in the Federal Register,
but may respond after 30 days;
therefore, your comments should be
submitted to OMB within 30 days to
assure maximum consideration.
Dated: April 25, 2008.
Sanjeev ‘‘Sonny’’ Bhagowalia,
Chief Information Officer—Indian Affairs.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Grant Program to Build Tribal Energy
Development Capacity
Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Solicitation of Proposals.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: The Energy Policy Act of 2005
authorizes the Secretary to provide
assistance to Indian tribes for use in
developing and sustaining the
managerial and technical capacity
needed to develop energy resources on
Indian land, and to properly account for
resulting energy production and
revenues. In furtherance of this goal, the
Department of the Interior’s Office of
Indian Energy and Economic
Development is soliciting proposals
from tribes and tribal energy resource
development organizations. The
Department will use a competitive
evaluation process to select several
proposed projects to receive an award.
DATES: Submit grant proposals by June
30, 2008. We will not consider grant
proposals received after this date.
ADDRESSES: You must submit the Tribal
Energy Development Capacity proposal
by mail or hand-carry to the Department
of the Interior, Office of Indian Energy
and Economic Development, Attention:
Tribal Energy Development Capacity
Proposal, Room 20—South Interior
Building, 1951 Constitution Avenue,
NW., Washington, DC 20245.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Darryl Francois, Office of Indian Energy
and Economic Development, Room 20—
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Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20245, Telephone (202) 219–0740 or
Fax (202) 208–4564.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Background
B. Items To Consider Before Preparing an
Application for a Tribal Energy
Development Capacity Grant
C. How To Prepare an Application for Tribal
Energy Development Capacity Funding
D. Submission of Application in Digital
Format
E. Award Evaluation and Administrative
Information
F. When To Submit
G. Where To Submit
H. Transfer of Funds
I. Reporting Requirements for Award
Recipients

A. Background
Title V, section 503 of the Energy
Policy Act of 2005 (Pub. L. 109–58)
amends Title XXVI (Indian Energy) of
the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to require
the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary)
to offer Indian tribes the opportunity to
enter into a Tribal Energy Resource
Agreement (TERA) with the Department
of the Interior. The intent of these
agreements is to promote tribal
oversight and management of energy
and mineral resource development on
tribal lands and further the goal of
Indian Self-Determination. A TERA
offers a tribe an entirely new alternative
for entering into energy-related business
agreements and leases and for granting
rights-of-way for pipelines and electric
transmission and distribution lines
without further approval of the
Secretary.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005
requires that the Secretary, before
approving a TERA with a tribe, make a
determination of a tribe’s capacity to
manage the full scope of administrative,
regulatory, and energy resource
development that the tribe proposes to
assume under an approved TERA.
Recognizing that a tribe wanting to enter
into a TERA with the Department may
need technical assistance in building its
management capacity, the Energy Policy
Act of 2005 also authorizes the
Secretary to provide financial assistance
to Indian tribes for use in developing
and sustaining the managerial and
technical capacity needed to develop
energy resources on Indian land, and to
properly account for resulting energy
production and revenues. In furtherance
of this goal, the Department of the
Interior’s Office of Indian Energy and
Economic Development (IEED) is
soliciting proposals from tribes and
tribal energy resource development
organizations to achieve the following
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