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existing pipelines, which would
increase the risk of impacts to the
public, property, and environment.
The Service has made a preliminary
determination that approval of the
proposed HCP qualifies as a categorical
exclusion under NEPA, as provided by
the Department of the Interior Manual
(516 DM 2 Appendix 1 and 516 DM 6
Appendix 1) and as a ‘‘low-effect’’ plan
as defined by the Habitat Conservation
Planning Handbook (November 1996).
Determination of Low-effect Habitat
Conservation Plans is based on the
following three criteria: (1)
Implementation of the proposed HCP
would result in minor or negligible
effects on federally listed, proposed, and
candidate species and their habitats; (2)
Implementation of the proposed HCP
would result in minor or negligible
effects on other environmental values or
resources; and (3) Impacts of the
proposed HCP, considered together with
the impacts of other past, present and
reasonably foreseeable similarly situated
projects, would not result, over time, in
cumulative effects to environmental
values or resources which would be
considered significant.
Based upon this preliminary
determination, we do not intend to
prepare further NEPA documentation.
We will consider public comments in
making the final determination on
whether to prepare such additional
documentation.
Before including your address, phone
number, e-mail 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.
This notice is provided pursuant to
section 10(c) of the Act. We will
evaluate the permit application, the
proposed HCP, and comments
submitted thereon to determine whether
the application meets the requirements
of section 10(a) of the Act. If the
requirements are met, we will issue a
permit to Calnev Pipeline Company,
LLC for the incidental take of the San
Bernardino kangaroo rat from petroleum
pipeline repair and maintenance in the
City of Rialto and unincorporated San
Bernardino County, California.

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Dated: May 21, 2008.
Jim A. Bartel,
Field Supervisor, Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife
Office, Carlsbad, California.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Notice of Submission of Information
Collection to the Office of Management
and Budget for Reinstatement
Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: The Department of the
Interior is submitting the information
collection, titled the Bureau of Indian
Education Higher Education Grant
Application Form, OMB Control #1076–
0101, for reinstatement. The Higher
Education Grant Application Form
needs to be reinstated because it expired
during the renewal process.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
June 30, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments on the
information collection to the Desk
Officer for the Department of the
Interior, by facsimile at (202) 395–6566
or you may send an e-mail to:
OIRA_DOCKET@omb.eop.gov. Send
copies of comments to the Bureau of
Indian Education, Department of the
Interior, 1849 C Street, NW., MS 3609
MIB, Washington, DC 20240.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You
may request further information or
obtain copies of the information
collection request submission from
Keith Neves, Bureau of Indian
Education, 1849 C Street, NW., MS 3609
MIB, Washington, DC 20240, 202–208–
3601.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Bureau of Indian Education Higher
Education Grant Program Annual Report
Form (OMB #1076–0106) was published
in a 60 day comment notice which
included the Higher Education Grant
Application Form, OMB #1076–0101 on
October 16, 2007 (72 FR 58680). A
review of the Higher Education Grant
Program Annual Report Form (OMB
#1076–0106) determined the
information collected no longer needs
clearance because it is information
already gathered under Higher
Education Grant Application Form,
OMB #1076–0101. Tribal employees,
under Pub. L. 93–638 acting as Federal
agents, prepared the report. The
information collection under 1076–0101

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is mandatory to be considered for a
benefit.
Request for Comments: The Bureau of
Indian Education requests you to send
your comments on this collection of
information to the locations listed in the
ADDRESSES section. Your comments
should address: (a) The necessity of this
collection of information for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
collection of information will have
practical utility; (b) The accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden (hours
and costs) of the collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Ways we could enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) Ways we could
minimize the burden of the collection of
the information on the respondents,
such as through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology. Please note that
an agency may not sponsor nor request,
and an individual need not respond to,
a collection of information unless it has
a valid OMB Control Number.
It is our policy to make all comments
available to the public for review at the
Bureau of Indian Education location
listed in the ADDRESSES section, room
3609, during the hours of 8 a.m. to 4
p.m. EDT, Monday through Friday
except for legal holidays. Before
including your address, telephone
number, e-mail address or other
personally identifiable information, be
advised that your entire comment
including your personally identifiable
information may be made public at any
time. While you may request that we
withhold your personally identifiable
information, we cannot guarantee that
we will be able to do so. We do not
consider anonymous comments. All
comments from representatives of
businesses or organizations will be
made available for review. We may
withhold comments from review for
other reasons.
OMB has up to 60 days to make a
decision on the submission for renewal,
but may make the decision after 30
days. Therefore, to receive the best
consideration of your comments, you
should submit them closer to 30 days
than 60 days.
Title of the Collection of Information:
Bureau of Indian Education Higher
Education Grant Application, 25 CFR
40.
OMB Control Number: 1076–0101.
Type of Review: Reinstatement.
Brief Description of the Collection of
Information: Respondents receiving a
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form to demonstrate unmet financial
need for consideration of a grant.
Respondents: Tribal members and
students.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
14,000.
Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour.
Proposed Frequency of Response:
Annual.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 14,000
hours.
Dated: May 19, 2008.
Sanjeev ‘‘Sonny’’ Bhagowalia,
Chief Information Officer—Indian Affairs.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural
Items: University of New Hampshire,
Durham, NH
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.

AGENCY:

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ACTION:

Notice is here given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent
to repatriate cultural items in the
possession of the University of New
Hampshire, Durham, NH, that meet the
definition of ‘‘unassociated funerary
objects’’ under 25 U.S.C. 3001.
This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations
in this notice are the sole responsibility
of the museum, institution, or Federal
agency that has control of the cultural
items. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in
this notice.
The University of New Hampshire has
consulted with the Western Abenaki
coalition representatives of the Abenaki
Nation of New Hampshire, a nonfederally recognized Indian group, and
Cowasuck Band of the PennacookAbenaki People, a non-federally
recognized Indian group. The University
of New Hampshire also engaged
Independent Archeological Consulting,
LLC, which performed an inventory of
the entire University of New Hampshire
collection and issued a report in 2006.
In March 1999, the New Hampshire
Division of Historical Resources, acting
on behalf of the University of New
Hampshire and three other museums,
presented a disposition proposal to the
NAGPRA Review Committee for
culturally unidentifiable Native
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Committee considered the proposal at
its May 1999 meeting. On January 11,
2000, the Departmental Consulting
Archeologist, writing on behalf of the
Secretary of the Interior, transmitted the
authorization to effect disposition. The
published Notice of Inventory
Completion for the disposition of the
human remains to the Abenaki Nation
of Missisquoi on behalf of a coalition of
Western Abenaki groups, including the
Abenaki Nation of New Hampshire and
Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook–
Abenaki People, non–federally
recognized Indian groups, is in the
Federal Register of July 9, 2002 (FR Doc
02–17090, pages 45536–45539). After
disposition of the human remains, the
University of New Hampshire found
funerary objects that had been
associated with the human remains.
Under NAGPRA, 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(2)(ii),
the funerary objects are now considered
to be unassociated funerary objects.
In 1975, human remains representing
a minimum of four individuals were
removed from the Rocks Road site (also
known as the Seabrook Station site),
Rockingham County, NH, during
excavations by Dr. Charles Bolian of the
University of New Hampshire. The
human remains were transferred to the
New Hampshire Division of Historical
Resources for curation in 1999. No
known individuals were identified. The
human remains were repatriated to the
Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi on behalf
of a coalition of Western Abenaki
groups. Subsequently, the University of
New Hampshire discovered among its
collections certain cultural items
associated with these burials, but not
previously reported. The 10
unassociated funerary objects are one lot
of 4 pottery sherds and one lot of 6
lithic materials (including copper points
recorded but missing). The University
also discovered 13 boxes of soil infill
from these burials.
During consultation, representatives
of the Abenaki Nation of New
Hampshire, a non–federally recognized
Indian group, and Cowasuck Band of
the Pennacook–Abenaki People, a non–
federally recognized Indian group,
reviewed the collection and identified
the cultural items as funerary objects
associated with the Rocks Road burials.
The Rocks Road site has a radiocarbon
date from associated charcoal of 650
B.P. Archeological, historical, and
ethnographic sources, along with oral
traditions of the Western Abenaki,
indicate that this portion of New
Hampshire is within the aboriginal and
historic homeland of the Western
Abenaki from at least the Late Archaic
period (4000–2000 B.C.) through the
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Eastern Abenaki and Wampanoag
appear also to have cultural ties to
coastal New Hampshire in the Historic
period.
In 1975, human remains representing
a minimum of three individuals were
removed from the Seabrook Marsh site
in Seabrook, NH, by Dr. Charles Bolian
and Brian Robinson of the University of
New Hampshire. The human remains
were transferred in 1999 to the New
Hampshire Division of Historical
Resources for curation. No known
individuals were identified. The human
remains were dispositioned to the
Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi on behalf
of a coalition of Western Abenaki
groups. Subsequently, the University of
New Hampshire discovered among its
collections certain cultural items
associated with these burials, but not
previously reported. The 19
unassociated funerary objects are one lot
of 10 lithic materials (including several
rocks recorded but missing) and one lot
of 9 faunal remains (not including
swordfish swords reported but missing).
During consultation, representatives
of the Abenaki Nation of New
Hampshire, a non–federally recognized
Indian group, and Cowasuck Band of
the Pennacook–Abenaki People, a non–
federally recognized Indian group,
reviewed the collection and identified
the cultural items as funerary objects
associated with the Seabrook Marsh
burials. The Independent Archeological
Consulting, LLC report speculates that
one lithic artifact (a small quartzite
blade of a projectile point) may be
associated with one of the three burials
and is included in the lot of lithic
materials.
The Seabrook Marsh site is dated to
the Late Archaic period (4000–2000
B.C.) based on radiocarbon dating.
Archeological, historical, and
ethnographic sources, along with oral
traditions of the Western Abenaki,
indicate that this portion of New
Hampshire is within the aboriginal and
historic homeland of the Western
Abenaki from at least the Late Archaic
period (4000–2000 B.C.) through the
Historic period (post–A.D. 1500). The
Eastern Abenaki and Wampanoag
appear also to have cultural ties to
coastal New Hampshire in the Historic
period.
Officials of the University of New
Hampshire have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the 29
cultural items described above are
reasonably believed to have been placed
with or near individual human remains
at the time of death or later as part of
the death rite or ceremony and are
believed, by a preponderance of the
evidence, to have been removed from a

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