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respondents: The study contains four
pieces where data collection will occur.
First, the researchers will administer
twenty five on-site interviews over two
day periods, conducting an average of
six interviews at each site visit with
Executive Directors, public housing
directors, Housing Choice Voucher
directors, staff that determine eligibility
and tenant rents, and two local housing
market experts. Each interview
performed is expected to last up to one
hour. An additional 180 phone surveys
will be conducted with a nationally
representative sample of PHA staff
across the country. Each phone survey
is expected to last 60 minutes.
Interviews with PHA staff will provide
information on their waiting lists,
experience with the current system,
experience with rent flexibility and
related efforts, and views on alternative
rent structures. Additionally, up to
1,500 interviews with eligible
participants on the waiting list and/or
those recently admitted into the
program will be completed. These
interviews are expected to last
approximately three-quarters of an hour
and will provide insight into how they
are or would be affected by the current
system and the proposed alternatives.
Lastly, up to 470 follow-up interviews
with PHA staff and households may be
completed with each interview lasting
from three-quarters of an hour to one
hour each. Total respondents inclusive
of all data collection processes are 2,300
and the total reporting burden is 1,863
hours.
Status of the proposed information
collection: New collection.
Authority: Section 3506 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35,
as amended.
Dated: February 21, 2008.
Bessy Kong,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy,
Programs, and Legislative Initiatives.
[FR Doc. E8–3632 Filed 2–26–08; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
Meeting Announcements: North
American Wetlands Conservation
Council; Neotropical Migratory Bird
Conservation Advisory Group
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of meetings.

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AGENCY:

SUMMARY: The North American
Wetlands Conservation Council
(Council) will meet to select North

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American Wetlands Conservation Act
(NAWCA) grant proposals for
recommendation to the Migratory Bird
Conservation Commission
(Commission). This meeting is open to
the public. The Advisory Group for the
Neotropical Migratory Bird
Conservation Act (NMBCA) grants
program (Advisory Group) will meet.
This meeting is open to the public, and
interested persons may present oral or
written statements.
DATES: Council: March 18, 2008, 1–3
p.m. Advisory Group: March 19, 2008,
9 a.m.–3 p.m.

Both meetings will be held
at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay,
100 Heron Boulevard at Route 50,
Cambridge, MD 94920. The meeting is
coordinated by the Council Coordinator,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 4401 N.
Fairfax Drive, Mail Stop: MBSP 4501–
4075, Arlington, VA. 22203.

ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mike Johnson, Council Coordinator,
(703) 358–1784 or [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Council: In accordance with NAWCA
(Pub. L. 101–233, 103 Stat. 1968,
December 13, 1989, as amended), the
State-private-Federal Council meets to
consider wetland acquisition,
restoration, enhancement, and
management projects for
recommendation to, and final funding
approval by, the Commission. Proposal
due dates, application instructions, and
eligibility requirements are available on
the NAWCA Web site at http://
birdhabitat.fws.gov. Proposals require a
minimum of 50 percent non-Federal
matching funds. The Council will
consider Canadian and U.S. Small Grant
proposals at the meeting. The tentative
date for the Commission meeting is June
11, 2008.
Advisory Group: The Advisory Group,
named by the Secretary of the Interior
under NMBCA (Pub. L. 106–247, 114
Stat. 593, July 20, 2000), will hold its
meeting to advise the Director, Fish and
Wildlife Service, on the strategic
direction and management of the
NMBCA program. Proposal due dates,
application instructions, and eligibility
requirements are available on the
NMBCA Web site at http://
birdhabitat.fws.gov.
Dated: February 6, 2008.
Paul Schmidt,
Assistant Director, Migratory Birds.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Western Shoshone Application Form
Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of proposed renewal for
information collection.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Indian Affairs
(BIA) is seeking comments from the
public on the renewal of a tribal
enrollment information collection as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act. The information collected under
OMB Control Number 1076–0165 will
be used to establish that the applicants
meet the eligibility requirements to
share in the Western Shoshone
judgment fund distribution authorized
by the Act of July 7, 2004, Public Law
108–270.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
April 28, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Please submit a copy of
comments to Iris Drew, Office of Indian
Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1001
Indian School Road, NW., Albuquerque,
New Mexico 87104. Fax number: (505)
563–3060.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Iris Drew, Tribal Relations Specialist,
Tribal Government Services, (505) 563–
3530.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
collection was originally approved and
assigned OMB Control No. 1076–0165
when it was submitted with a proposed
rulemaking, 25 CFR part 61, which was
published in the Federal Register on
May 19, 2005, 70 FR 28859. The final
rule was published in the Federal
Register on March 5, 2007, 72 FR 9836.
Request for Comments:
We are requesting your comments
about the proposed collection to
evaluate:
(a) The necessity of the information
collection for proper performance of the
Bureau functions, including its practical
utility;
(b) The accuracy of the burden hours,
including the validity of the
methodology used and assumptions
made;
(c) The quality, utility and clarity of
the information to be collected; and
(d) The ways we could minimize the
burden of the collection of the
information on the respondents, such as
with automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
The public is advised that an agency
may not conduct or sponsor, and a
person is not required to respond to a
collection of information unless it has a
valid OMB control number. For example

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this collection is listed by OMB as
Control No. 1076–0165, and it expires
June 30, 2008. The response is voluntary
to obtain or retain a benefit.
Please submit your comments to the
person listed in the ADDRESSES section.
Please note that comments, names and
addresses of commentators are open for
public review during the hours of 8 a.m.
to 3 p.m., MST, Monday through Friday
except for legal holidays. If you wish
your name and address withheld, you
must state this prominently at the
beginning of your comments. We will
honor your request to the extent
allowable by law.
Information Collection Abstract
OMB Control Number: 1076–0165.
Type of Review: Renewal.
Title: Application to Share in the
Western Shoshone Funds as a Lineal
Descendant of the Western Shoshone
Identifiable group pursuant to the Act of
July 7, 2004, Public Law 108–270.
Brief Description of Collection: The
information collected is mandatory for
individuals to participate in the per
capita distribution pursuant to the Act
of July 7, 2004, Public Law 108–270.
Subsection 3(b) of Public Law 108–270,
requires the Secretary of the Interior to
prepare a Western Shoshone judgment
roll consisting of all individuals who—
(a) have at least 1⁄4 degree of Western
Shoshone blood; (b) are citizens of the
United States; and (c) are living on July
7, 2004.
Ineligible Individuals: Any individual
that is certified by the Secretary to be
eligible to receive a per capita payment
from any other judgment funds based on
an aboriginal land claim awarded by the
Indian Claims Commission, the United
States Claims Court, or the United States
Court of Federal claims, that was
appropriated on or before July 7, 2004,
will not be listed on the judgment roll.
Respondents: Individual Indians able
to prove lineal descendancy of the
Western Shoshone Identifiable group
pursuant to the Act of July 7, 2004,
Public Law 108–270.
Number of Respondents: We have
received approximately 7,000
applications since the application
period opened in April 2007. We expect
to receive an additional 6,000
applications over a three-year period.
Frequency of Response: Each
applicant will be required to file only
once.
Estimated Time per Response: The
burden of preparing and submitting an
application to share in the judgment
fund distribution will vary widely,
depending upon the applicant’s age and
family history, from 1 hour for older
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nonenrolled individuals. We are using
18 hours as an average per individual
response.
Total Annual Burden to Respondents:
2,000 requests per year at 18 hours per
response, for a total reporting and
recordkeeping annual burden of 36,000
hours. Additional costs per applicant:
estimated to average $23.75 per
applicant for an annual total of $47,500.
Total Annual Cost to Respondents
(salary and documents): $82,833.33.

disclaimer of interest by the United
States affecting the following described
land: Parcel A and Parcel B, section 35,
Township 6 South, Range 30 East,
Willamette Meridian. The subject land
(and other land) was acquired by the
United States from a private entity in
the Northeast Oregon Assembled Land
Exchange on December 29, 2000.
In August 2006, the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) conducted a
cadastral survey and discovered that the
Headys’ dwelling encroached on the
Dated: February 14, 2008.
United States parcel such that the
Carl J. Artman,
boundaries as stated in the titles varied
Assistant Secretary, Indian Affairs.
from the boundaries existing on the
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ground. A subsequent ‘‘Encroachment
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Report’’ was completed and submitted
to the Office of the Regional Solicitor for
an opinion of the effect of an adjacent
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
landowner’s occupancy on United
States title to acquired lands.
Bureau of Land Management
The Office of the Regional Solicitor,
[OR–930–08–3130–HN; OR–64688; HAG–08– Pacific Northwest Office, concludes that
0037]
the prior owners to the Headys, Donald
Roy Shanafelt and Priscilla L. Shanafelt,
Proposed Issuance of Recordable
acquired title by adverse possession
Disclaimer of Interest; Umatilla County, against a private entity and then
Oregon
conveyed that interest to the Headys.
The Shanafelts vested claim diminished
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
the title that the private entity conveyed
Interior.
to another entity and that entity
ACTION: Proposed Issuance of
conveyed to the United States.
Recordable Disclaimer of Interest.
Section 315 of the FLPMA authorizes
the Secretary of the Interior to issue a
SUMMARY: An application has been filed
recordable disclaimer of interest in land
by Kent and Celia Heady for a
where the disclaimer will help to
recordable disclaimer of interest
remove a cloud on the title under
involving 0.65 acre of land in Umatilla
certain criteria. One criterion is where a
County, Oregon, to remove a cloud on
record interest of the United States in
the title. The United States did not
the land has terminated by operation of
acquire title to the entire subject parcel
law or is otherwise invalid. The Bureau
because the land had been adversely
of Land Management has reviewed the
possessed prior to the United States
official records and has determined that
taking title to it. Therefore, the United
States of America hereby gives notice of the United States has no claim to or
interest in the above described land and
its intention to disclaim and release all
that the issuance of a recordable
interest in the land to the owner of
disclaimer of interest will help to
record.
remove a cloud on the title to the land.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
Accordingly, a recordable disclaimer of
May 27, 2008. Only written comments
interest will be issued shortly after the
will be accepted.
90-day comment period.
ADDRESSES: Address all written
Public Comments: On or before May
comments to Fred O’Ferrall, Chief,
27, 2008, any person may submit
Branch of Lands and Mineral Resources written comments regarding the
(OR–936), Oregon State Office, Bureau
proposed issuance of a recordable
of Land Management, P.O. Box 2965,
disclaimer of interest to the Chief,
Portland, Oregon 97208. Comments
Branch of Lands and Mineral Resources
expressed verbally or in electronic
(OR–936), Oregon State Office, Bureau
format will not be accepted.
of Land Management, P.O. Box 2965,
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Portland, Oregon 97208.
Pamela Chappel, Land Law Examiner, at
Before including your address, phone
(503) 808–6170.
number, e-mail address, or other
personal identifying information in your
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant
comment, you should be aware that
to section 315 of the Federal Land
your entire comment—including your
Policy and Management Act of 1976
personal identifying information—may
(FLPMA), 43 U.S.C. 1745, an
be made publicly available at any time.
application has been filed by Kent and
Celia Heady for issuance of a recordable While you can ask us in your comment

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