IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

ELOUISE PEPION COBELL, et al.,  )  
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Plaintiffs,  )  
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v.  )  Case No. 1:96cv01285(JR)  
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KEN SALAZAR, Secretary of the Interior,  )  
et al.,  )  
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Defendants.  )  

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NOTICE OF FILING OF DECEMBER 2009 STATUS REPORT BY THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFICE OF TRUST RECORDS 
The Department of the Interior Office of Trust Records hereby submits its status report 
for activity in December 2009.  A copy of the report is attached. 
Dated: January 15, 2010 Respectfully submitted, 
TONY WEST Assistant Attorney General MICHAEL F. HERTZ Deputy Assistant Attorney General 
J. CHRISTOPHER KOHN Director
  /s/ Robert E. Kirschman, Jr.      ROBERT E. KIRSCHMAN, JR. Deputy Director 
(D.C. Bar No. 406635) JOHN R. KRESSE Trial Attorney Commercial Litigation Branch Civil Division 
P.O. Box 875, Ben Franklin Station Washington, D.C. 20044-0875 Telephone: (202) 616-0328 
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 
I hereby certify that, on January 15, 2010 the foregoing Notice of Filing of December 2009 Status Report by the Department of the Interior Office of Trust Records was served by Electronic Case Filing, and on the following who is not registered for Electronic Case Filing, by facsimile: 
Earl Old Person (Pro se) Blackfeet Tribe 
P.O. Box 850 Browning, MT 59417 Fax (406) 338-7530
 /s/ Kevin P. Kingston Kevin P. Kingston 
ACTIVITY REPORT OFFICE OF TRUST RECORDS December 1-31, 2009 
PROGRAMMATIC: 
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Indexing 

OTR staff completed indexing of 728 boxes in December 2009. The total number ofboxes completec through December 2009 is approximately 197,630. 

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Movement of Records 


The Bureau ofIndill1 Affairs (BIA) and Office ofthe Special Trustee (OST) 
moved 730 boxes cf inactive records from various field locations to Lenexa, 
Kansas, for indexirg and subsequent storage at the American Indian Records 
Repository (AIRR) during this reporting period. 
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Site Assessments Statement 

During the month 0 'December, OTRA did not perform any records management assessments. OTRA issued five records management assessment reports, one each at the following locati')lls: Warm Springs Agency BIA office; Warm Springs Agency OST IIM field offic~; OST Office ofAppraisal Services, Rocky Mountain Region; Crow Agency BIA nffice; and Northern Cheyenne Agency BIA office. 

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Records Training 

In December 2009, OTR provided records management training for 45 BIA/OST records contacts and 3 tribal employees. 

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Litigation Support ll1d Research Requests 


OTR continued to provide significant support to the Office ofthe Solicitor, Office ofHistoricalTrust Accountingandits contractors,theDepartment ofJusticeand its contractors, and tribal attorneys and their contractors. OTR continued to receive requests fo' information regarding litigation-related document requests. Many of these reql.ests have very short deadlines. 
During December :~009, OTR AIRR staffprovided responses to 172 non­litigation research requests from BIA and OST. 
ADMINISTRATIVE: General administrative activities continued. 
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GENERAL OBSERVAT lONS: None. 
Ideclareunderpenalty ofperjurythattheforegoingistrueandcorrectto thebest ofmy knowledge, information and belief. I express no opinion on the content ofthe Site Assessments Statement de"cribed above. ~~ 
Ethel J. leila 
Director 
I declare under penalty ofperjury that the content ofthe Site Assessments Statement described above is true ane correct to the best ofmy knowledge, information and belief. I express no opinion on tht: contents ofother sections/subsections ofthe report. 



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