[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 97 (Thursday, May 20, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28280-28281]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-11923]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Deadline for Submission of Applications To Be Included on the
Roll of Western Shoshone Identifiable Group of Indians for Judgment
Fund Distribution
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice establishes the deadline by which applications
must be received for eligible individuals to be listed on the roll that
will be used as the basis for distributing the judgment funds awarded
by the Indian Claims Commission to the Western Shoshone Identifiable
Group of Indians in Docket No. 326-K.
DATES: Applications must be received by close of business (5 p.m.
Mountain Time) August 2, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Submit applications to Bureau of Indian Affairs Western
Shoshone, Tribal Government Services, P.O. Box 3838, Phoenix, AZ 85030-
3838.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sharlot Johnson, Tribal Government
Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Western Regional Office, 2600 North
Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85004, (602) 379-6786.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under section 3(b)(1) of the Act of July 7,
2004, Public Law 108-270, 118 Stat. 805, the Secretary of the Interior
(Secretary) will prepare a roll of all individuals who meet the
eligibility criteria established under the Act and who file timely
applications prior to the date listed in the DATES section of this
Federal Register notice. The roll will be used as the basis for
distributing the judgment funds awarded by the Indian Claims Commission
to the Western Shoshone Identifiable Group of Indians in Docket No.
326-K. Department of the Interior regulations at 25 CFR 61.4(k) set out
the eligibility requirements for inclusion on this roll. To be eligible
a person must:
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(i) Have at least \1/4\ degree of Western Shoshone blood;
(ii) Be living on July 7, 2004;
(iii) Be a citizen of the United States; and
(iv) Not be certified by the Secretary to be eligible to receive a
per capita payment from any other judgment fund based on an aboriginal
land claim awarded by the Indian Claims Commission, the United States
Claims Court, or the United States Court of Federal Claims, that was
appropriated on or before July 7, 2004.
The Secretary will use Indian census rolls prepared by the Agents
or Superintendents at Carson or Western Shoshone Agencies between the
years of 1885 and 1940 and other documents acceptable to the Secretary
in establishing proof of eligibility of an individual to be listed on
the judgment roll and receive a per capita payment under the Western
Shoshone Claims Distribution Act.
In the preamble to the regulation governing the creation of the
roll of Western Shoshone identifiable group of Indians for judgment
fund distribution, the Bureau of Indian Affairs set out a non-
regulatory formula for determining the application deadline. Because
that formula has proven to be administratively impractical to
administer, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, in conjunction with tribal
leaders and the Western Shoshone Claims Steering Committee, has
selected an application deadline that approximates what the deadline
would be under the formula in the preamble, if that formula had worked
as intended.
The information collection requirement contained in this notice has
been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under 44
U.S.C. 3504(h). The OMB control number is 1076-0165 and expires on
November 30, 2011. Response is required to obtain a benefit. An agency
may not sponsor, and you are not required to respond to, any
information collection that does not display a currently valid OMB
control number.
Dated: May 10, 2010.
Larry Echo Hawk,
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2010-11923 Filed 5-19-10; 8:45 am]
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