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security screening provided by TSA
Federal employees. TSA will initially
acknowledge receipt of the application,
then provide an official response within
120 days from the date of
acknowledgement.
The application collects the following
information from each airport operator
seeking to participate in SPP:
• Basic airport information: airport
name, Federal Aviation Administration
identifier, and airport operating
authority.
• Authorized Requestor information:
name, position, primary and alternate
phone number, mailing address, and
email address.
• An indication of whether or not the
airport authority plans to provide its
own private security screening services.
• A recommendation on which
private screening company should
perform the screening function and the
basis for the recommendation.
• Information on any major activities
scheduled to occur at the airport within
the next 18 months that could impact
the transition from Federal screening to
private screening (for example, major
construction).
• Optional information may be
provided to support the consideration of
their application.
The application contains no
personally identifiable information,
sensitive security information, or
classified information, so no special
handling or protection is required.
Twenty airports are currently
participating in SPP. TSA estimates the
annual burden for the information
collection related to SPP is 30 minutes
(0.50 hours). While TSA anticipates that
only two airport operators will respond
annually, the burden estimates presume
that 10 or more airport operators could
respond. The agency estimates that each
respondent airport operator will spend
approximately 15 minutes (.25) hour to
complete the application for a total
burden of 30 minutes (0.50 hours). TSA
does not require the airport operators to
maintain records of the application
submission. If the airport operator
chooses to do so, the estimated burden
associated with this action is minimal.
Dated: October 21, 2024.
Christina A. Walsh,
TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer,
Information Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
[256A2100DD/AAKC001030/
A0A501010.999900; OMB Control Number
1076–0153]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Request for Certificate
of Degree of Indian or Alaska Native
Blood
Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we,
the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) are
proposing to renew an information
collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before
November 25, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection request (ICR)
should be sent within 30 days of
publication of this notice to the Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs
(OIRA) through https://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRA/
icrPublicCommentRequest?ref_
nbr=202405-1076-010 or by visiting
https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain and selecting ‘‘Currently
under Review—Open for Public
Comments’’ and then scrolling down to
the ‘‘Department of the Interior.’’
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Steven Mullen,
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Office of Regulatory Affairs and
Collaborative Action—Indian Affairs,
U.S. Department of the Interior, 1001
Indian School Road NW, Suite 229,
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104;
[email protected]; (202) 924–2650.
Individuals in the United States who are
deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have
a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY,
TDD, or TeleBraille) to access
telecommunications relay services. You
may also view the ICR at https://
www.reginfo.gov/public/Forward?
SearchTarget=PRA&textfield=10760153.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA, 44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), we
provide the general public and other
Federal agencies with an opportunity to
comment on new, proposed, revised,
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and continuing collections of
information. This helps us assess the
impact of our information collection
requirements and minimize the public’s
reporting burden. It also helps the
public understand our information
collection requirements and provide the
requested data in the desired format.
A Federal Register notice with a 60day public comment period soliciting
comments on this collection of
information was published on June 21,
2024 (89 FR 52076). No comments were
received.
As part of our continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent
burdens, we are again soliciting
comments from the public and other
Federal agencies on the proposed ICR
that is described below. We are
especially interested in public comment
addressing the following:
(1) Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether or not the
information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) How might the agency 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 technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of response.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. 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.
Abstract: The BIA is seeking renewal
of the approval for the information
collection conducted under the
numerous laws authorizing BIA to
administer program services to Indians,
provided that the individual possesses a
minimum degree of Indian or Alaska
Native blood. When applying for
program services authorized by these
laws, an applicant must provide
acceptable documentation to prove that

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he or she meets the minimum required
degree of Indian or Alaska Native blood.
Currently, the BIA certifies an
individual’s degree of Indian or Alaska
Native blood if the individual can
provide sufficient information to prove
his or her identity and prove his or her
descent from an Indian ancestor(s) listed
on historic documents approved by the
Secretary of the Interior that include
blood degree information. To obtain the
CDIB, the applicant must fill out an
application form and provide
supporting documents.
Title of Collection: Request for
Certificate of Degree of Indian or Alaska
Native Blood.
OMB Control Number: 1076–0153.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents/Affected Public:
Individuals.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Respondents: 100,000 per year, on
average.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 100,000 per year, on average.
Estimated Completion Time per
Response: 1.5 hours.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 150,000.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
Obtain a Benefit.
Frequency of Collection: Once.
Total Estimated Annual Nonhour
Burden Cost: $2,500,000.
Authority
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 authority for this action is the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
Steven Mullen,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
Office of Regulatory Affairs and Collaborative
Action—Indian Affairs.
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National Environmental Policy Act
Implementing Procedures for the
Bureau of Land Management (516 DM
11)
Office of the Secretary, Interior.
Notice of revisions.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

This notice announces
revisions to the Bureau of Land

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Management’s (BLM) procedures for
compliance with the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as
amended, which remove four
administratively established categorical
exclusions (CXs) and incorporate two
CXs statutorily created by Congress.
DATES: The revisions are incorporated
into BLM’s NEPA procedures, located at
chapter 11 of part 516 of the
Departmental Manual (516 DM 11),
effective October 24, 2024.
ADDRESSES: The BLM’s NEPA
procedures can be found on the
Department of the Interior’s
(Department or Interior) Electronic
Library of Interior Policies (ELIPS) at:
https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/
elips/documents/516-dm-11_0.pdf.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Heather Bernier, Division Chief,
Decision Support, Planning, and NEPA,
at (303) 239–3635, or [email protected].
Individuals in the United States who are
deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have
a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY,
TDD, or TeleBraille) to access
telecommunications relay services for
contacting Heather Bernier. Individuals
outside the United States should use the
relay services offered within their
country to make international calls to
the point-of-contact in the United
States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department is revising the list of BLM
actions that are categorically excluded
from the requirement to complete an
environmental assessment (EA) or
environmental impact statement (EIS),
unless any extraordinary circumstances
exist that make application of the
categorical exclusion (CX) inappropriate
(42 U.S.C. 4336e(1); 40 CFR 1501.4(a);
1508.1(e)).1 The BLM’s NEPA
procedures, 516 DM 11, were last
updated December 10, 2020.
With this revision, the Department
removes four administrative CXs from
the BLM’s NEPA procedures due to
consideration of sound land
management, legal frameworks, and
other factors. The BLM is removing the
following CXs: 516 DM 11.9 C(10)
regarding the salvaging of dead and
dying trees; 516 DM 11.9 D(10)
1 On May 1, 2024, CEQ issued a final rule to
amend its NEPA implementing regulations, which
became effective July 1, 2024. 89 FR 35442 (May 1,
2024). The Department’s February 26, 2024, Federal
Register Notice seeking public comment on these
revisions predated the CEQ final rule and thus cited
to the CEQ regulations in effect at the time. 89 FR
14087 (Feb. 26, 2024). The Department has
determined that the amendments to the CEQ
regulations do not have a material impact on these
revisions, which comply with the requirements of
CEQ’s regulations both before and after the recent
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regarding vegetation management
activities; 516 DM 11.9 D(11) regarding
issuance of livestock grazing permits or
leases; and 516 DM 11.9 J(1) regarding
certain activities within sagebrush and
sagebrush-steppe plant communities to
manage pinyon pine and juniper trees
for the benefit of mule deer or sagegrouse habitats. The BLM previously
discontinued use of these four CXs
through instruction memoranda (IMs)
(available online at https://
www.blm.gov/policy/instructionmemorandum). The BLM discontinued
use of 516 DM 11.9 D(10) and 516 DM
11.9 D(11) on August 21, 2009, through
IM 2009–199; discontinued use of 516
DM 11.9 C(10) on August 3, 2022,
through permanent IM (PIM) 2022–010;
and discontinued use of 516 DM 11.9
J(1) on November 30, 2022, through PIM
2023–002. When proposing actions to
which these CXs would have applied,
the BLM now must assess whether
another CX applies or whether it will
prepare an EA or EIS.
The Department also is incorporating
two CXs statutorily created by Congress
in the Infrastructure Investment and
Jobs Act (Pub. L. 117–58) (IIJA) into the
BLM NEPA procedures. Section 11318
of the IIJA created a CX for issuance of
sundry notices or rights-of-way for
gathering lines and associated field
compression or pumping units on
Federal land servicing oil and gas wells
under certain conditions described in
the statute. Section 40806 of the IIJA
created a CX for forest management
activities for the establishment of fuel
breaks in forests and other wildland
vegetation. Because these are statutory
CXs, the Department does not have the
discretion to change their terms.
However, before applying either of the
CXs, the BLM will evaluate the
proposed action for extraordinary
circumstances consistent with Section
40806 of the IIJA and 40 CFR 1501.4(b).
Comments on the Proposed Revisions
The proposed revisions to the BLM’s
NEPA procedures were available for
public review and comment for 30 days,
beginning with the publication of a
Federal Register notice on February 26,
2024 (89 FR 14087). The BLM received
33 comment submissions. Comments
were submitted by State and local
governments, interest groups, and
private citizens. The BLM received
comments both in support of and
opposition to the proposed revisions.
Some comments were beyond the scope
of the proposal to modify the BLM’s
NEPA procedures to add and remove
CXs and included critiques of the BLM’s
NEPA analysis and management of
livestock grazing as well as requests to

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