[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 139 (Wednesday, July 21, 2004)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 43547-43548]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-16658]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
25 CFR Parts 30, 37, 39, 42, 44, 47
RIN 1076-AE49
Home-living Programs and School Closure and Consolidation
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.
ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of comment period.
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SUMMARY: As required by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, the
Secretary of the Interior has developed proposed regulations using
negotiated rulemaking that address the following issues: Defining
adequate yearly progress, which is the measurement for determining that
schools are providing quality education; establishing separate
geographic attendance areas for Bureau-funded schools; establishing a
formula for determining the minimum amount necessary to fund Bureau-
funded schools; establishing a system of direct funding and support of
all Bureau-funded schools under the formula established in the Act;
establishing guidelines to ensure the Constitutional and civil rights
of Indian students; and establishing a method for administering grants
to tribally controlled schools. The Secretary is reopening the comment
period for 10 days to allow submission of comments by the Department of
Education and other interested parties.
DATES: Comments are due by the close of business on August 2, 2004.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by the number 1076-AE51,
by any of the following methods:
Direct Internet response: http://www.blm.gov/nhp/news/regulatory/index.html, or at http://www.blm.gov, or at regulations.gov under
Indian Affairs Bureau.
Mail: Director (630), Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States
Office, 7450 Boston Boulevard, Springfield, Virginia 22153, Attention:
RIN 1076-AE51.
Hand delivery: 1620 L Street NW., Room 401, Washington, DC 20036.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Catherine Freels, Designated Federal
Official, PO Box 1430, Albuquerque, NM 87103-1430; Phone: 505-248-7240;
e-mail: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of the Interior published
proposed rules on February 25, 2004 (69 FR 8751), that address the
following issues: (1) Defining adequate yearly progress, which is the
measurement for determining that schools are providing quality
education; (2) establishing separate geographic attendance areas for
Bureau-funded schools; (3) establishing a formula for determining the
minimum amount necessary to fund Bureau-funded schools; (4)
establishing a system of direct funding and support of all Bureau-
funded schools under the formula established in the Act; (5)
establishing guidelines to ensure the Constitutional and civil rights
of Indian students; and (6) establishing a method for administering
grants to tribally controlled schools. We published these rules to
implement part of the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act
(Pub. L. 107-110; enacted January 8, 2002). The comment period for the
proposed rules ended on June 24, 2004. Since then, we have learned that
the Department of Education has developed comments on the rules. In
order to allow time for the Department of Education and any other
interested parties to submit comments for consideration during
development of the final rules, we are reopening the comment period for
10 days. During this period we will accept comments on any aspect of
the rules from any interested parties.
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Although these rules are published by the Bureau of Indian Affairs
(BIA), the Bureau of Land Management is processing comments under
agreement with BIA. If you wish to comment on these proposed rules, you
may submit your comments by any one of several methods:
(1) You may mail comments to Director (630), Bureau of Land
Management, Eastern States Office, 7450 Boston Boulevard, Springfield,
Virginia 22153, Attention: RIN 1076-AE51.
(2) You may submit comments electronically by direct Internet
response to either http://www.blm.gov/nhp/news/regulatory/index.html,
or http://www.blm.gov, or at regulations.gov under Indian Affairs
Bureau.
(3) You may hand-deliver comments to 1620 L Street, NW., Room 401,
Washington, DC 20036.
Our practice is to make comments, including names and home
addresses of respondents, available for public review during regular
business hours. Individual respondents may request that we withhold
their home address from the rulemaking record. We will honor the
request to the extent allowable by law. There may be circumstances in
which we would withhold from the rulemaking record a respondent's
identity, as allowable by law. If you wish us to withhold your name
and/or address, you must state this prominently at the beginning of
your comment. However, we will not consider anonymous comments. We will
make all submissions from organizations or businesses, and from
individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses, available for public inspection in their
entirety.
Dated: July 16, 2004.
David W. Anderson,
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 04-16658 Filed 7-19-04; 10:58 am]
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