Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Correction, 38053 [2019-16689]

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• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
• National Park Service

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 150 (Monday, August 5, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 38053]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-16689]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0028458; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Arizona State 
Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona has corrected 
an inventory of unassociated funerary objects, published in a Notice of 
Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items in the Federal Register on 
September 10, 2014. This notice corrects the number of unassociated 
funerary objects. Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian 
Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice 
that wish to claim these cultural items should submit a written request 
to the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona. If no additional 
claimants come forward, transfer of control of the cultural items to 
the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations 
stated in this notice may proceed.

DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or 
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
claim these cultural items should submit a written request with 
information in support of the claim to the Arizona State Museum, 
University of Arizona at the address in this notice by September 4, 
2019.

ADDRESSES: Claire S. Barker, Repatriation Coordinator, P.O. Box 210026, 
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, 
telephone (520) 626-0320, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 under the 
control of the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 
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 Native 
American cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.
    This notice corrects the number of unassociated funerary objects 
published in a Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items in the 
Federal Register (79 FR 53775-53777, September 10, 2014). The number of 
unassociated funerary objects increased due to a search through 
uncatalogued object collections. Transfer of control of the items in 
this correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 53776, September 10, 2014), column 
1, paragraph 3, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:
    In the years 1981 to 1987, 66 cultural items were removed from the 
Redtail Village site, AZ AA:12:149(ASM), in Tucson, Pima County, AZ.
    In the Federal Register (79 FR 53776, September 10, 2014), column 
1, paragraph 3, sentence 6 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:
    The 66 unassociated funerary objects are 18 animal bones, 42 
ceramic sherds, five chipped stones, and one ground stone.
    In the Federal Register (79 FR 53777, September 10, 2014), column 
1, paragraph 1, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:
    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 2,081 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 specific burial site of a Native 
American individual.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim 
these cultural items should submit a written request with information 
in support of the claim to Claire S. Barker, Repatriation Coordinator, 
P.O. Box 210026, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, 
AZ 85721, telephone (520) 626-0320, email [email protected], 
by September 4, 2019. After that date, if no additional claimants have 
come forward, transfer of control of the unassociated funerary objects 
to the Ak-Chin Indian Community (previously listed as the Ak Chin 
Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, 
Arizona); Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian 
Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa 
Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O'odham 
Nation of Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 
Mexico; hereafter referred to as ``The Tribes,'' may proceed.
    The Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona is responsible for 
notifying the Tribes that this notice has been published.

    Dated: July 16, 2019.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2019-16689 Filed 8-2-19; 8:45 am]
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