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human remains should submit a written
request with information in support of
the request to the Dallas Water Utilities
at the address in this notice by
September 30, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Terry Hodgins, 405 Long
Creek Road, Sunnyvale, TX 75182,
telephone (214) 670–8658, email
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
hereby given in accordance with the
Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
3003, of the completion of an inventory
of human remains under the control of
the Dallas Water Utilities. The human
remains were removed from Lake Ray
Hubbard, Rockwall County, TX.
This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in
this notice are the sole responsibility of
the museum, institution, or Federal
agency that has control of the Native
American human remains. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
Consultation
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by AR Consultants,
Inc. and Dallas Water Utilities
professional staff in initial consultation
with representatives of the Caddo
Nation of Oklahoma and the Wichita
and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi,
Waco & Tawakoni).

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History and Description of the Remains
In November 2011 and in the fall of
2013, human remains representing, at
minimum, six individuals were
removed from site 41RW2 in Rockwall
County, TX, near the Shores Golf
Course. The human remains were found
along the lakebed exposed by low
reservoir water levels. The lake is
property of the City of Dallas, but the
area in which the remains were found
is in Rockwall County. Human remains
on the surface of the lakebed were
collected and released to the Dallas
County Medical Examiner’s Office for
identification. Once the remains were
determined to be of no forensic
significance, Dallas Water Utilities was
notified of their presence. Dallas Water
Utilities contacted Dr. Catrina Banks
Whitley of AR Consultants, Inc. to
conduct skeletal analysis and to assist in
determining potential disposition
options. No known individuals were
identified. No associated funerary
objects are present.
Site 41RW2, the Upper Rockwall Site,
is a Wiley Focus Site dating from A.D.
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Dallas Archeological Society in 1963,
and the subsequent report describes the
site as being very extensive, 400 yards
by 150 yards, and is in the west end of
a terrace adjacent to the East Fork of the
Trinity River. During those excavations,
the Dallas Archeological Society
encountered nine burials, shell pits,
shell cooking pits, and numerous
artifacts including pottery, lithic debris,
points, beads, awls, bone needles, and
bone pins. The burials included
cremated and primary interments, some
with funerary objects such as conch
shell beads. The site was excavated
again in 1966 by the Texas
Archeological Salvage Project.
Approximately nine trenches were
placed across the site and excavation by
hand occurred. Two primary interments
were excavated that included a broken
sherd, worked mussel shell, gar scales,
and fish vertebrae in one grave and
small shell beads and large conch shell
beads, near the neck of the other burial.
Additional non-funerary items included
bifaces, knives, pottery, and beads
among others.
Given the location and age of the site,
a relationship of shared group identity
can be reasonably traced between the
human remains and the Caddo Nation of
Oklahoma and the Wichita and
Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco
& Tawakoni).
Determinations Made by the Dallas
Water Utilities
Officials of the Dallas Water Utilities
and AR Consultants, Inc. have
determined that:
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the
human remains described in this notice
represent the physical remains of a
minimum number of six individuals of
Native American ancestry.
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there
is a relationship of shared group
identity that can be reasonably traced
between the Native American human
remains and the Caddo Nation of
Oklahoma and Wichita and Affiliated
Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco &
Tawakoni).
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Lineal descendants or representatives
of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice
that wish to request transfer of control
of these human remains should submit
a written request with information in
support of the request to Terry Hodgins,
405 Long Creek Road, Sunnyvale, TX,
75182, telephone (214) 670–8658, email
[email protected], by
September 30, 2015. After that date, if
no additional requestors have come
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human remains to the Caddo Nation of
Oklahoma or the Wichita and Affiliated
Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco &
Tawakoni) may proceed.
The Dallas Water Utilities is
responsible for notifying the Caddo
Nation of Oklahoma and Wichita and
Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco
& Tawakoni) that this notice has been
published.
Dated: July 31, 2015.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Natural Resources Revenue
[Docket No. ONRR–2011–0019; DS63610000
DR2PS0000.CH7000 156D0102R2]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Accounts Receivable
Confirmations—OMB Control Number
1012–0001; Comment Request
Office of Natural Resources
Revenue (ONRR), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of renewal of an existing
Information Collection.
AGENCY:

To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), ONRR is inviting comments on
an information collection request that
we will submit to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. This Information
Collection Request (ICR) covers the
paperwork requirements under the
Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990
(CFO). This notice also provides the
public a second opportunity to
comment on the paperwork burden of
the regulatory requirements.
DATES: Submit written comments on or
before September 30, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit your
written comments directly to the Desk
Officer for the Department of the
Interior (OMB Control Number 1012–
0001), Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, OMB, by email to
[email protected] or
telefax at (202) 395–5806. Please also
mail a copy of your comments to Mr.
Luis Aguilar, Regulatory Specialist,
ONRR, P.O. Box 25165, MS 61030A,
Denver, Colorado 80225–0165, or email
[email protected]. Please reference
OMB Control Number 1012–0001 in
your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
questions on technical issues, contact
Mr. Hans Meingast, Financial
Management, ONRR, telephone (303)
SUMMARY:

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231–3382, or email at hans.meingast@
onrr.gov. For other questions, contact
Mr. Luis Aguilar, telephone (303) 231–
3418, or email [email protected].
You may also contact Mr. Aguilar to
obtain copies (free of charge) of (1) the
ICR, (2) any associated forms, and (3)
the regulations that require the subject
collection of information. You may also
review the information collection
request online at http://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1. Abstract
The Secretary of the U.S. Department
of the Interior is responsible for mineral
resource development on Federal and
Indian lands and the Outer Continental
Shelf (OCS). Under various laws, the
Secretary’s responsibility is to manage
mineral resources production on
Federal and Indian lands and the OCS,
collect the royalties, and other mineral
revenues due, and distribute the funds
collected under those laws. Public laws
pertaining to mineral leases on Federal
and Indian lands and the OCS are
posted at http://www.onrr.gov/Laws_R_
D/PubLaws/default.htm.
The Secretary also has a trust
responsibility to manage Indian lands
and seek advice and information from
Indian beneficiaries. Minerals produced
from Federal and Indian leases vary
greatly in the nature of occurrence,
production, and processing methods.
When a company or an individual
enters into a lease to explore, develop,
produce, and dispose of minerals from
Federal or Indian lands, that company
or individual agrees to pay the lessor a
share in an amount or value of
production from the leased lands. The
lessee is required to report various kinds
of information to the lessor relative to
the disposition of the minerals. Such
information is generally available
within the records of the lessee or others
involved in developing, transporting,
processing, purchasing, or selling such
minerals. The information collected
includes data necessary to ensure that
production is accurately valued and that
royalties are appropriately paid.
Every year, under the CFO, the
Department’s Office of Inspector
General, or its agent (agent), audits the
Department’s financial statements. The
Department’s goal is to receive an
unqualified opinion. Accounts
receivable confirmations are a common
practice in the audit business. Due to
continuously increasing scrutiny on
financial audits, third-party
confirmation on the validity of ONRR’s
financial records is necessary.
As part of CFO audits, the agent
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confirmation responses confirming that
ONRR accounts receivable records agree
with royalty payor records, for the
following items: customer
identification; royalty/invoice number;
payor-assigned document number; date
received; original amount reported; and
remaining balance due ONRR as of a
specified date. In order to meet this
requirement, ONRR must mail letters on
ONRR letterhead, signed by the Deputy
Director for Office of Natural Resources
Revenue, to royalty payors selected by
the agent at random, asking them to
respond to the agent, confirming the
accuracy and/or validity of selected
royalty receivable items and amounts.
Verifying the amounts reported and the
balances due requires time for research
and analysis by payors.
This collection does not require
proprietary, trade secret, or other
confidential information not protected
by agency procedures. No items of a
sensitive nature are collected. The
requirement to respond is voluntary.
OMB Approval
We are requesting OMB’s approval to
continue to collect this information. Not
collecting this information would limit
the Secretary’s ability to discharge the
duties of the office and may also result
in the loss of royalty payments.
Proprietary information submitted is
protected, and there are no questions of
a sensitive nature included in this
information collection.
II. Data
Title: Accounts Receivable
Confirmations.
OMB Control Number: 1012–0001.
Bureau Form Number: None.
Frequency: Annually.
Estimated Number and Description of
Respondents: 24 randomly selected
Federal and Indian oil and gas and solid
mineral royalty payors.
Estimated Annual Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Hour’’ Burden: 6 hours.
We estimate that each response will take
15 minutes for payors to complete.
Estimated Annual Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-hour’’ Cost
Burden: We have identified no ‘‘nonhour’’ cost burden associated with the
collection of information.
III. Request for Comments
Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA
requires each agency to ‘‘. . . publish a
60-day notice in the Federal Register
. . . and otherwise consult with
members of the public and affected
agencies concerning each proposed
collection of information . . . .’’
Agencies must specifically solicit
comments to: (a) Evaluate whether the

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proposed collection of information is
necessary for the agency to perform its
duties, including whether the
information is useful; (b) evaluate the
accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information; (c) enhance the quality,
usefulness, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d)
minimize the burden on the
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
To comply with the public
consultation process, we published a
notice in the Federal Register on
February 10, 2015 (80 FR 7494),
announcing that we would submit this
ICR to OMB for approval. The notice
provided the required 60-day comment
period. We received no comments in
response to the notice.
If you wish to comment in response
to this notice, you may send your
comments to the offices listed under the
ADDRESSES section of this notice. The
OMB has up to 60 days to approve or
disapprove the information collection
but may respond after 30 days.
Therefore, to ensure maximum
consideration, OMB should receive
public comments by September 30,
2015.
Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) provides that 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.
Public Comment Policy: ONRR will
post all comments, including names and
addresses of respondents at http://
www.regulations.gov. 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.
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.
Dated: August 27, 2015.
Gregory J. Gould,
Director, Office of Natural Resources
Revenue.
[FR Doc. 2015–21621 Filed 8–28–15; 8:45 am]
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