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51860 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 215 / Wednesday, November 8, 2017 / Notices part 990, NEPA, the Consent Decree, the Administrative Record passcode is 9793554. Additional Final PDARP/PEIS, the Phase III ERP/ The documents comprising the information is available at www.doi.gov/ PEIS and the Phase V ERP/EA. Administrative Record for the Draft OST/ITARA. The Florida TIG is considering the Phase V.2 RP/SEA can be viewed FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. second phase of the Florida Coastal electronically at http://www.doi.gov/ Elizabeth Appel, Director, Office of Access Project in the Draft Phase V.2 deepwaterhorizon/administrativerecord. Regulatory Affairs & Collaborative Action, Office of the Assistant RP/SEA to address lost recreational Authority opportunities in Florida caused by the Secretary—Indian Affairs, at Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In the Draft The authority of this action is the Oil [email protected] or (202) 273– Phase V.2 RP/SEA, the Florida TIG Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701 et 4680. proposes one preferred alternative, the seq.) and its implementing Natural SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OST was Salinas Park Addition, which involves Resource Damage Assessment established in the Department by the the acquisition and enhancement of a regulations found at 15 CFR part 990 American Indian Trust Fund 6.6-acre coastal parcel. The Florida and the National Environmental Policy Management Reform Act of 1994 (1994 Coastal Access Project was allocated Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). Act), Public Law 103–412, when approximately $45.4 million in early Kevin D. Reynolds, Congress decided a Special Trustee was restoration funds, and the Salinas Park Designated Department of the Interior Natural needed to oversee reforms relating to Addition would cost approximately $3.1 Resource Trustee Official. trust responsibilities throughout the million of the $6.4 million remaining [FR Doc. 2017–24197 Filed 11–7–17; 8:45 am] Department. In 1996, the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) transferred funds not utilized in the first phase of BILLING CODE 4333–15–P the Florida Coastal Access Project. The management of Indian trust funds from Florida TIG also considered two the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to the additional land acquisition and DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OST. See Secretarial Order No. 3197. improvement alternatives, as well as the OST has implemented reforms and no action alternative in the Draft Phase Office of the Secretary managed Indian trust funds for over 20 V.2 RP/SEA. One or more alternatives years. [18XD0120AF/DT20000000/DST000000/ In June 2016, Congress passed the may be selected for implementation by 241A/T0110100] Indian Trust Asset Reform Act (ITARA), the Florida TIG in the Final Phase V.2 Public Law 114–178. ITARA Section RP/SEA or in future restoration plans. Tribal Consultation on Indian Trust 304(a) requires the Secretary to prepare Details on the proposed second phase of Asset Reform Act (ITARA) Sec. 304, and submit a plan for the transition of the Florida Coastal Access Project are Transition Plan for the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians functions of the OST to other bureaus or provided in the Draft Phase V.2 RP/SEA. agencies within the Department within The proposed second phase of the AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Interior. two years of submission of the plan to Florida Coastal Access Project is ACTION: Notice. Congress. Beginning in August 2016, the intended to continue the process of Department held one listening session SUMMARY: using restoration funding to restore This notice announces that and 10 Tribal consultation sessions natural resources, ecological services, the Department of the Interior throughout Indian Country and held an and recreational use services injured or (Department) will be hosting two Tribal open period to solicit comments via a lost as a result of the Deepwater Horizon consultation sessions on a proposal to notice in the Federal Register. Based on oil spill. Additional restoration transfer the Office of the Special Trustee consultation feedback, the Department planning for the Florida Restoration for American Indians (OST) to report to determined that the most appropriate the Office of the Assistant Secretary— Area will continue. place for OST’s core functions is to Indian Affairs (AS–IA) in FY 2018 via remain with OST as a permanent Next Steps a Secretary’s Order. Under the proposal, organization. To ensure fully integrated the office would be headed temporarily Indian policy and programs, we propose As described above, a public meeting by the Principal Deputy Special Trustee, is scheduled to facilitate the public to realign OST to report to AS–IA. To who would be delegated the authorities meet the two-year deadline required by review and comment process on the of the Special Trustee for American Draft Phase V.2 RP/SEA. After the ITARA Section 304(a), the Department Indians. Subsequently, the Department proposes transferring the OST to AS–IA public comment period ends, the plans to appoint a career executive to Florida TIG will consider and address in FY 2018 via a Secretary’s Order. act as the Director of OST. Today, the OST holds approximately the comments received before issuing a DATES: Tribal consultation sessions will $5 billion under trust management and final Phase V.2 RP/SEA. be held by phone on Wednesday, administers approximately 3,400 tribal Public Availability of Comments December 13, 1:00 p.m.– 4:00 p.m. EST, trust accounts for more than 250 Indian and Thursday, December 14, 9:00 a.m.– Tribes and over 400,000 Individual Before including your address, phone 12:00 p.m. EST. Comments on this Indian Money (IIM) accounts. Each year, number, email address, or other proposal must be received by January OST disburses roughly $1.2 billion to personal identifying information in your 15, 2018. individual Indians and tribes. comment, you should be aware that ADDRESSES: Please submit comments via Receipting, investing, and disbursing your entire comment—including your email to [email protected] or mail to activity is accomplished through the personal identifying information—may Attn: ITARA Transition, c/o Elizabeth processing of 10.3 million financial be made publicly available at any time. Appel, Office of Regulatory Affairs & transactions. While you can ask us in your comment Collaborative Action—Indian Affairs, The OST organization features five to withhold your personal identifying 1849 C Street NW., Mail Stop 4660, Regional Trust Administrators with information from public review, we Washington, DC 20240. The toll free extensive backgrounds in trust cannot guarantee that we will be able to call-in number for the consultation management, with over 50 Fiduciary do so. sessions is: (888) 324–2907, and the Trust Officers to serve as the primary VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:26 Nov 07, 2017 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00060 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\08NON1.SGM 08NON1 ethrower on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 215 / Wednesday, November 8, 2017 / Notices 51861 point-of-contact for beneficiaries on and associated funerary objects and Afognak, Native Village of Akhiok, trust matters, allowing OST to present-day Indian Tribes or Native Native Village of Larsen Bay, Native coordinate trust asset management Hawaiian organizations. Lineal Village of Ouzinkie, Native Village of activities with the BIA, tribes, and descendants or representatives of any Port Lions, Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak individual beneficiaries in their Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian (previously listed as the Shoonaq’ Tribe respective geographic areas. The OST organization not identified in this notice of Kodiak), and the Tangirnaq Native operates a Trust Beneficiary Call Center that wish to request transfer of control Village (formerly Lesnoi Village (aka (TBCC) to support a strong beneficiary of these human remains and associated Woody Island)). funerary objects should submit a written trust relationship as envisioned in the History and Description of the Remains original reform goals. request to the Alaska Region USFWS. If Section 306 of ITARA requires the no additional requestors come forward, Beginning in 1961 and continuing Secretary to identify cost savings that transfer of control of the human remains through 1963, human remains would result from the elimination of and associated funerary objects to the representing, at minimum, 23 ‘‘any program, function, service, or lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or individuals, including 17 adults (two activity . of the Office of the Special Native Hawaiian organizations stated in possible males, two possible females, Trustee that will not be operated or this notice may proceed. and 13 individuals of indeterminate carried out as a result of a transfer of DATES: Lineal descendants or sex), five sub adults, and one infant functions and personnel following representatives of any Indian Tribes or were removed from the Three Saints enactment of this Act’’. As the proposed Native Hawaiian organizations, not Bay site (049–KOD–00083) on Kodiak plan calls for all functions of OST to be identified in this notice that wish to Island as part of the Aleut-Konyag transferred under AS–IA intact, there request transfer of control of these project conducted by the University of will be no cost savings as defined by human remains and associated funerary Wisconsin-Madison, under the direction ITARA. objects should submit a written request of Morgan Usadel, Donald Clark, Moreover, appropriations for OST with information in support of the William Workman, and Peter Storck. increased relatively quickly after its request to the Alaska Region USFWS at The collection was curated and stored at inception as functions were transferred the address in this notice by December the University of Wisconsin-Madison from other organizations within the 8, 2017. until 2006. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, working with the Regional Department to OST.