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The Bureau of Indian Affairs
(BIA) has updated its Fee-to-Trust
Handbook to include procedural
guidance for its employees on
processing reservation proclamations,
including simultaneous requests for
trust acquisition and reservation
proclamations.

SUMMARY:

The updated Fee-to-Trust
Handbook is available at the following
link: http://www.bia.gov/WhatWeDo/
Knowledge/Directives/Handbooks/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Sharlene Round Face, Office of Trust
Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, (202)
208–3615, [email protected],
or Ms. Tana Fitzpatrick, Counselor,
Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs,
(202) 208–7163, tana.fitzpatrick@
bia.gov.
ADDRESSES:

The BIA
has updated its Fee-to Trust Handbook
to establish procedures for BIA to
process simultaneous requests for trust
land acquisitions under 25 CFR part 151
and reservation proclamations under the
Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984; 25
U.S.C. 467). This Handbook revision
will provide flexibility for Tribes who
wish to submit their requests
simultaneously. BIA has also updated
the Handbook to include guidance for
processing reservation proclamations
where the land has already been
acquired in trust.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 25 U.S.C. 2; 25
U.S.C. 9; 25 U.S.C. 467.
Dated: December 30, 2016.
Lawrence S. Roberts,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—Indian
Affairs.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLWO260000 L10600000.PC0000]

Renewal of Approved Information
Collection; OMB Control No. 1004–
0042
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for
comments.

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AGENCY:

The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) has submitted an
information collection request to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) to continue the collection of
information from those who wish to
adopt and obtain title to wild horses and
burros. The OMB previously approved

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this information collection activity, and
assigned it control number 1004–0042.
DATES: The OMB is required to respond
to this information collection request
within 60 days but may respond after 30
days. For maximum consideration,
written comments should be received
on or before February 13, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Please submit comments
directly to the Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior (OMB #1004–
0042), Office of Management and
Budget, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, fax 202–395–5806,
or by electronic mail at OIRA_
[email protected]. Please
provide a copy of your comments to the
BLM. You may do so via mail, fax, or
electronic mail.
Mail: U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, 1849 C
Street NW., Room 2134LM, Attention:
Jean Sonneman, Washington, DC 20240.
Fax: to Jean Sonneman at 202–245–
0050.
Electronic mail: [email protected].
Please indicate ‘‘Attn: 1004–0042’’
regardless of the form of your
comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Holle Hooks, at 405–234–1860. Persons
who use a telecommunication device for
the deaf may call the Federal Relay
Service at 1–800–877–8339, to leave a
message for Ms. Hooks. You may also
review the information collection
request online at http://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501–3521) and OMB regulations at 5
CFR part 1320 provide that an agency
may not conduct or sponsor a collection
of information unless it displays a
currently valid OMB control number.
Until OMB approves a collection of
information, you are not obligated to
respond. In order to obtain and renew
an OMB control number, Federal
agencies are required to seek public
comment on information collection and
recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR
1320.8(d) and 1320.12(a)).
As required at 5 CFR 1320.8(d), the
BLM published a 60-day notice in the
Federal Register on September 20, 2016
(81 FR 64502), and the comment period
ended November 21, 2016. The BLM
received two non-substantive public
comments, which did not address, and
were not germane to, this information
collection. Therefore, the BLM has not
changed the collection in responses to
the comments.
The BLM now requests comments on
the following subjects:
1. Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper

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functioning of the BLM, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
2. The accuracy of the BLM’s estimate
of the burden of collecting 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 information
collection burden on those who are to
respond, including the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other forms of
information technology.
Please send comments as directed
under ADDRESSES and DATES. Please
refer to OMB control number 1004–0042
in your correspondence. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
The following information pertains to
this request:
Title: Protection, Management, and
Control of Wild Horses and Burros (43
CFR part 4700).
Forms: Form 4710–10, Application for
Adoption of Wild Horse(s) or Burro(s).
OMB Control Number: 1004–0042.
Abstract: This notice pertains to the
collection of information that enables
the BLM to administer its private
maintenance (i.e., adoption) program for
wild horses and burros. The BLM uses
the information to determine if
applicants are qualified to provide
humane care and proper treatment to
wild horses and burros in compliance
with the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and
Burros Act (16 U.S.C. 1331–1340).
Frequency: On occasion.
Description of Respondents: Those
who wish to adopt and obtain title to
wild horses and burros.
Estimated Number of Responses
Annually: 7,093.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Hour’’ Burden
Annually: 3,545.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden Annually: $2,400.
The estimated burdens are itemized in
the following table:

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Type of response

Number of
responses

Time per
response
(minutes)

Total hours
(Column B ×
Column C)

A.

B.

C.

D.

Application for Adoption of Wild Horse(s) or Burro(s) 43 CFR 4750.3–1 and 4750.3–2 Form
4710–10 ...................................................................................................................................
Supporting Information and Certification for Private Maintenance of More Than Four Wild
Horses or Burros 43 CFR 4750.3–3 ........................................................................................
Request to Terminate Private Maintenance and Care Agreement 43 CFR 4750.4–3 ...............
Request for Replacement Animals or Refund 43 CFR 4750.4–4 ...............................................
Totals ....................................................................................................................................

Mark Purdy,
Bureau of Land Management, Management
Analyst.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
Bureau of Indian Affairs
[LLESM00000.L14400000.FR0000; MNES–
058082]

Identifying Lands Subject to
Secretarial Order of Restoration of
February 22, 1945
Bureau of Land Management,
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

On February 22, 1945, the
Secretary of the Interior issued an Order
restoring to the Red Lake Band of
Chippewa Indians of Minnesota
(‘‘Tribe’’) certain lands that the Tribe
had previously ceded to the United
States for use by non-Indians. The lands
restored to the Tribe by the 1945 Order
are lands that were continuously held in
trust by the United States since the
cessions, that were never sold or
otherwise disposed of, and for which
the Tribe was never paid. This notice
provides a partial list of the legal
descriptions of lands restored to the
Tribe by the 1945 Order. The Secretary
included in the 1945 Order ‘‘lands
which have been assessed for drainage
works by the State of Minnesota under
the authority of the Volstead Act of May
20, 1908 . . . subject to any existing
valid rights.’’ The Department has
reviewed and resolved title issues that
arose regarding applicability of the
Volstead Act. Thus, without further
delay, these legal descriptions are
published as representing lands among
the lands restored to the Tribe as trust
lands.
DATES: Restoration of lands was
effective on February 22, 1945.

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Bureau of Land
Management, Eastern States, 20 M Street
SE., Suite 950, Washington, DC 20003.
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Midwest
Regional Office, 5600 American Blvd.,
West, Suite 500, Bloomington, MN
55437. Detailed information concerning
this action is available for review at
these addresses.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dominica VanKoten, Deputy State
Director, Division of Geospatial
Services, by telephone at (202) 912–
7756, or by email at [email protected].
Persons who use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD) may call the
Federal Information Relay Service
(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to contact the
above individual during normal
business hours. The FIRS is available 24
hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a
message or question with the above
individual. You will receive a reply
during normal business hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Nelson Act of January 14, 1889, ch. 24,
25 Stat. 642, created and authorized a
Federal commission to negotiate a
cession of lands in northern Minnesota
from the Red Lake Band of Chippewa
Indians of Minnesota to the United
States. By agreement dated July 8, 1889,
2.9 million acres of land known as
‘‘Royce 706’’ were ceded by the Tribe to
the United States for the benefit of the
Tribe. The Tribe retained a much
smaller area known as ‘‘Royce 707.’’
On March 10, 1902, another
agreement was negotiated between the
Tribe and the United States for the
cession of an additional 256,152 acres of
land in the western portion of Royce
707. This agreement was approved, with
amendments, by Congress under the Act
of February 20, 1904, ch. 161, 33 Stat.
46. Consistent with the provisions of the
Nelson Act, the lands the Tribe ceded to
the United States were opened for
timber sales and homesteading, and
most of the lands were disposed of by
the 1930s.
The Indian Reorganization Act of
1934 (‘‘IRA’’), 25 U.S.C. 461 et seq.,
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authorized the Secretary of the Interior,
if he found it to be in the public interest,
‘‘to restore to tribal ownership the
remaining surplus lands to any Indian
reservation [that prior to June 18, 1934
were] opened, or authorized to be
opened, to sale or any other form of
disposal by Presidential proclamation,
or by any of the public land laws of the
United States[.]’’ 25 U.S.C. 463(a).
On February 22, 1945, exercising this
authority granted by the IRA, the
Secretary of the Interior issued an Order
of Restoration (‘‘1945 Order’’), 10 FR
2448 (1945). The 1945 Order ‘‘Restored
to tribal ownership all those lands of the
Red Lake Indian Reservation which
were ceded by the Indians under [the
Nelson Act and the Act of February 20,
1904] and which were opened for sale
or entry but for which the Indians have
not been paid and which now are or
hereafter may be classified as
undisposed of.’’ 10 FR at 2449. See also
Act of December 4, 1942, ch. 673, 56
Stat. 1039 (‘‘All right, title, and interest
of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe in and
to the so-called Red Lake Indian ceded
lands, including any administrative
reserves, is hereby declared
extinguished and title thereto vested in
the Red Lake Band of Chippewa
Indians.’’).
On May 28, 1945, the Acting
Commissioner of the General Land
Office forwarded to the Commissioner
of the Office of Indian Affairs a list of
lands that satisfied the criteria of the
1945 Order and could be returned to the
Tribe. On April 29, 1946, and January 9,
1947, amendments to the list of lands
were made. The list of May 28, 1945,
and the amendments of April 29, 1946,
and January 9, 1947 (collectively, the
‘‘1945 List’’) totaled approximately
157,499 acres of noncontiguous lands.
The 1945 List was to have been
published in the Federal Register to
provide public notice of lands that were
subject to the 1945 Order. However,
shortly after the 1945 List was
completed, several title and legal
description problems with lands on the
list were discovered, and the 1945 List

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