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In August and September 2008,
Hurricanes Ike and Gustave struck the
United States causing catastrophic
damage. On September 23, 2008, HUD
and FEMA executed an Interagency

Agreement under which HUD shall act
as the servicing agency of DHAP-Ike.
The paperwork involved in this action
all activities related to DHAP-Ike from
Number of
respondents

Annual
response

120

3196

Reporting Burden ..............................................................................

Total Estimated Burden Hours:
1,838,520.
Status: Extension of a currently
approved collection.
Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 35, as
amended.
Dated: May 13, 2009.
Lillian Deitzer,
Departmental Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. E9–11684 Filed 5–19–09; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Special Trustee for
American Indians; Notice of Proposed
Renewal of Information Collection
AGENCY: Office of the Special Trustee for
American Indians, Interior.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
SUMMARY: In compliance with section
3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the
Special Trustee for American Indians,
Department of the Interior, announces
the proposed renewal of a public
information collection required by The
American Indian Trust Fund
Management Reform Act of 1994,
‘‘Application to Withdraw Tribal Funds
from Trust Status, 25 CFR part 1200,’’
OMB Control No. 1035–0003, and that
it is seeking comments on its provisions.
After public review, the Office of the
Special Trustee for American Indians
will submit the information collection
to Office of Management and Budget for
renewal.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by July 20, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations on this information
collection should be sent to the Office
of the Special Trustee, Office of External
Affairs, Attn: Frank Perniciaro, 4400
Masthead St., NE., Room 323,
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109. You
may also e-mail comments to
[email protected].
Individuals providing comments should

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reference OMB control number 1035–
0003, ‘‘Application to Withdraw Tribal
Funds from Trust Status, 25 CFR 1200.’’
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on this
information collection or to obtain a
copy of the collection instrument,
please write to the above address.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) regulations at 5 CFR part 1320,
which implement the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13),
require that interested members of the
public and affected parties 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 is
submitting to OMB for renewal.
Public Law 103–412, The American
Indian Trust Fund Management Reform
Act of 1994, allows Indian tribes on a
voluntary basis to take their funds out
of trust status within the Department of
the Interior (and the Federal
Government) in order to manage such
funds on their own. 25 CFR part 1200,
subpart B, Sec. 1200.13, ‘‘How does a
tribe apply to withdraw funds?’’
describes the requirements for
application for withdrawal. The Act
covers all tribal trust funds including
judgment funds as well as some
settlements funds, but excludes funds
held in Individual Indian Money
accounts. Both the Act and the
regulations state that upon withdrawal
of the funds, the Department of the
Interior (and the Federal Government)
have no further liability for such funds.
Accompanying their application for
withdrawal of trust funds, tribes are
required to submit a Management Plan
for managing the funds being
withdrawn, to protect the funds once
they are out of trust status.
This information collection allows the
Office of the Special Trustee to collect
the tribes’ applications for withdrawal
of funds held in trust by the Department
of the Interior. If this information were
not collected, the Office of the Special

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execution of the grant agreement to case
management.
Frequency of Submission: Quarterly,
Annually.
×

Hours per
response
4.793

=

Burden hours
1,838,520

Trustee would not be able to comply
with the American Indian Trust Fund
Management Reform Act of 1994, and
tribes would not be able to withdraw
funds held for them in trust by the
Department of the Interior.
II. Data
(1) Title: Application to Withdraw
Tribal Funds from Trust Status, 25 CFR
1200.
OMB Control Number: 1035–0003.
Current Expiration Data: August 31,
2009.
Type of Review: Information
Collection Renewal.
Affected Entities: State, Local and
Tribal Governments.
Estimated annual number of
respondents: 2.
Frequency of response: Once per
respondent.
(2) Annual reporting and record
keeping burden:
Total annual reporting per
respondent: 400 hours.
Total annual reporting: 800 hours.
(3) Description of the need and use of
the information: The statutorilyrequired information is needed to
provide a vehicle for tribes to withdraw
funds from accounts held in trust for
them by the United States Government.
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
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 those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Burden means the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons

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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 purpose 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.
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: May 14, 2009.
James P. Barham,
Director, Office of External Affairs, Office of
the Special Trustee for American Indians.
[FR Doc. E9–11711 Filed 5–19–09; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R7–ES–2009–N0076; 70120–1113–
0000–C4]

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife
and Plants; Short-Tailed Albatross
(Phoebastria albatrus): Initiation of 5Year Status Review; Availability of
Final Recovery Plan
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability of final
recovery plan; initiation of 5-year status
review and request for information.
SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (Service), announce the
availability of our final recovery plan for
and the initiation of a 5-year status
review for the short-tailed albatross
(Phoebastria albatrus), a bird species
listed as endangered under the
Endangered Species Act of 1973, as
amended (Act). Our recovery plan
describes the status, current
management, recovery objectives and
criteria, and specific actions needed to
enable us to reclassify the short-tailed
albatross from endangered to
threatened, or from threatened to
delisted. It also includes criteria that
would justify reclassifying the species
from threatened back to endangered. We
conduct 5-year reviews to ensure that
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Endangered and Threatened Wildlife
and Plants is accurate. We request any
new information on this species that
may have a bearing on its classification
as endangered. Based on the results of
this 5-year review, we will make a
finding on whether this species is
properly classified under the Act.
DATES: To allow us adequate time to
conduct our 5-year review, we are
requesting that you submit your
information no later than July 20, 2009.
However, we accept new information
about any listed species at any time.
ADDRESSES: For instructions on how to
submit information as well as the
information that we receive for our 5year review, see ‘‘Request for New
Information.’’ To obtain a copy of our
recovery plan, see ‘‘Contacts.’’
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Greg
Balogh, Endangered Species Branch
Chief, at the above address or by phone
at (907) 271–2778.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

overexploitation for its feathers prior to
and following the turn of the 20th
century. This threat no longer exists, but
its effect lingers. The species is thought
to have once numbered 5 million
individuals, but birds were harvested
until only a few dozen remained.
Numbering about 2,400 individuals in
2008, the short-tailed albatross is
currently threatened by volcanic
activity, extreme weather, small
population size, a limited number of
breeding sites, contamination by oil and
other pollutants, and commercial
fishery bycatch. Key recommendations
for immediate action, as described in
the recovery plan, are: (1) Formation of
new breeding colonies at safe locations
on Torishima and in the Bonin Islands;
(2) stabilization of existing breeding
habitat on Torishima Island; and (3)
reduction of seabird bycatch in all North
Pacific fisheries that may take this
species.

I. Background
We originally listed the short-tailed
albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) in 1970
(35 FR 8491), under the thenEndangered Species Conservation Act of
1969, before passage of today’s Act (16
U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). However, as a
result of an administrative error (and
not from any biological evaluation of
status), we listed the species as
endangered throughout its range, except
within the United States (50 CFR 17.11).
On July 31, 2000, we corrected this error
when we published a final rule listing
the short-tailed albatross as endangered
throughout its range (65 FR 46643). This
listing was effective August 30, 2000.
For description, taxonomy, distribution,
status, breeding biology and habitat, and
a summary of factors affecting the
species, please see the final listing rule.
In that rule, we also determined
designation of critical habitat to be not
prudent because, among other reasons,
we could not find habitat-related threats
to the species within U.S. territory.
The species occurs in waters
throughout the North Pacific, primarily
along the east coast of Japan and Russia,
in the Gulf of Alaska, along the Aleutian
Islands and in the Gulf of Alaska south
of 64° north latitude. At the time of our
2000 final listing rule, the short-tailed
albatross population consisted of about
1,200 individuals known to breed on
two islands: Torishima, an active
volcanic island in Japan, and MinamiKojima, an island whose ownership is
under dispute by Japan, China, and
Taiwan.
The severe decline in short-tailed
albatross was caused by

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II. Availability of Final Recovery Plan

Recovery of endangered or threatened
animals and plants to the point where
they are again secure, self-sustaining
members of their ecosystems is a
primary goal of our endangered species
program. To help guide the recovery
effort, we are working to prepare
recovery plans for most listed species
native to the United States. Recovery
plans describe actions considered
necessary for the conservation and
survival of the species, establish criteria
for reclassifying or delisting listed
species, and estimate time and cost for
implementing needed recovery
measures.
The Act requires us to develop
recovery plans for listed species, unless
such a plan would not promote the
conservation of a particular species.
Section 4(f) of the Act requires us to
provide public notice and an
opportunity for public review and
comment during recovery plan
development. We made our draft
recovery plan for the short-tailed
albatross available for public comment
from October 27 through December 27,
2005 (70 FR 61988). We considered
information we received during this
comment period, along with
information we received from five peer
reviewers and the Government of Japan,
in our preparation of our final recovery
plan. The Short-tailed Albatross
Recovery Team has taken into account
these comments in redrafting the
recovery plan and in revising and
justifying the new recovery criteria we
set forth in this final plan.

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