Notice2025-17655
Agency Information Collection Activities; Application To Withdraw Tribal Funds From Trust Status
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Published
September 12, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentIndian Affairs Bureau
Abstract
The Bureau of Trust Funds Administration (BTFA) is proposing to renew an information collection in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 175 (Friday, September 12, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44211-44212]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-17655]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
[Docket No. BIA-2022-0005; OMB Control Number 1035-0003; 256A2100DD/
AAKP300000/A0A501010.000000]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Application To Withdraw
Tribal Funds From Trust Status
AGENCY: Bureau of Trust Funds Administration, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Trust Funds Administration (BTFA) is proposing
to renew an information collection in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
November 12, 2025.
ADDRESSES: To submit comments, please visit <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/docket/BIA-2022-0005/document">https://www.regulations.gov/docket/BIA-2022-0005/document</a> or use the search
field on <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> to find the ``BIA-2022-0005''
docket. Please follow the instructions on <a href="http://Regulations.gov">Regulations.gov</a> for
submitting a comment; and reference the ``OMB Control Number 1035-
0003'' within your comment submission. You may also mail comments to
Indian Affairs, RACA, 1001 Indian School Road NW, Suite 229,
Albuquerque, NM 87104.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 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;
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501) 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, 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.
As part of our continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent
burdens, we invite the public and other Federal agencies to comment on
new, proposed, revised, and continuing collections of information. 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 Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994 (the
Act), which is codified at 25 U.S.C. chapter 42, allows Indian Tribes
on a voluntary basis to take their funds out of trust status within the
Department of the Interior (and the Federal Government) in order to
manage such funds on their own. The Act's implementing regulations
describe the requirements for application for withdrawal. See 25 CFR
1200.13 ``How does a Tribe apply to withdraw funds?''
The Act generally covers all tribal trust funds including judgment
funds as well as some settlements funds, but excludes funds held in
individual Indian money accounts and other trust funds. Both the Act
and the regulations state that upon withdrawal of the funds, the
Department of the Interior (and the Federal Government) have no further
liability for such funds. Accompanying their application for withdrawal
of trust funds, Tribes are required to submit a management plan for
managing the funds being withdrawn to protect the funds once they are
out of trust status. This information collection allows the BTFA to
collect a Tribe's applications for withdrawal of funds held in trust by
the Department of the Interior.
Title of Collection: Application to Withdraw Tribal Funds from
Trust Status, 25 CFR part 1200.
Control Number: 1035-0003.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: Tribal governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: One respondent, on
average, every 3 years.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 1.
Estimated Completion Time per Response: 750 hours.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 750.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: One per Tribe per trust fund withdrawal
application.
Total Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: None.
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).
Janel Broderick,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs, Exercising the
delegated authority of the Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2025-17655 Filed 9-11-25; 8:45 am]
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