Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, Mobile, AL, 25425-25426 [2023-08808]
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Areas. The Social Science Program will
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Title of Collection: Programmatic
Clearance for NPS-Sponsored Public
Surveys.
OMB Control Number: 1024–0224.
Form Number: Form 10–201.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents/Affected Public:
Individuals/Households.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Respondents: 44,125 (depending on
activity) Onsite Surveys—30,000; Mailback Surveys—2,000; All Non-response
surveys—5,000; Focus Groups/
Interview—2,125; and On-line Survey—
5,000.
Estimated Completion Time per
Response: (depending on activity) onsite
Surveys—15 minutes; Mail-back
Surveys—20 minutes; All Non-response
surveys—3 minutes; Focus Groups/
Interview—60 minutes; and On-line
Survey—15 minutes.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
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on activity) onsite Surveys—7500 hours;
Mail-back Surveys—667 hours; All Nonresponse surveys—250 hours; Focus
Groups/Interview—2125 hours; and Online Survey—1250 hours.
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Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 44,125 (depending on
activity) Onsite Surveys—30,000; Mailback Surveys—2,000; All Non-response
surveys—5,000; Focus Groups/
Interview—2,125; and On-line Survey—
5,000.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Total Estimated Annual Nonhour
Burden Cost: None.
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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 et seq.).
Phadrea Ponds,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
National Park Service.
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Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural
Items: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Mobile District, Mobile, AL
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile
District, intends to repatriate certain
cultural items that meet the definition of
unassociated funerary objects and that
have a cultural affiliation with the
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations in this notice. The
cultural items were removed from
Lowndes and Monroe Counties, MS.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice may occur on or after May
26, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Ms. Alexandria Smith, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile
District, 109 St. Joseph Street, P.O. Box
2288, Mobile, AL 36628–0001,
telephone (251) 690–2728, email
Alexandria.N.Smith@usace.army.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA. The
determinations in this notice are the
sole responsibility of the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Mobile District. The
National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
SUMMARY:
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Additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including
the results of consultation, can be found
in the summary or related records held
by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Mobile District.
Description
Thirty cultural items were removed
from Lowndes County, MS. The
Cofferdam Site (22LO599) is an Early
through Late Woodland occupation site
featuring some Miller II components.
Cofferdam was identified by Army
Corps of Engineers personnel during the
excavation of the cofferdam for the
Columbus Lock and Dam of the
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, and it
was excavated by the Mississippi State
University Department of Anthropology
under the direction of James R.
Atkinson and field crew chief G. Gerald
Berry from mid-August to the first week
of October 1975. The 30 lots of
unassociated funerary objects are
consist of four lots of lithics, one lot of
noncultural rock, two lots of pebbles,
two lots ceramics, three lots of shells,
seven lots of faunal remains, one lot of
flotation samples, one lot of sandstone,
three lots of clay, one lot of daub, two
lots of firecracked rock, two lots of
groundstone, and one lot of nuts.
Nine cultural items were removed
from Lowndes County, MS. The River
Cut site (22LO860) is a small village site
containing Woodland and Mississippian
components as well as Miller III
components with some signs of possible
Miller II habitation. The site was
reported to the USACE, Mobile District,
in 1983, and following the salvage
removal of a burial from an eroding
bank in 1984, the site was excavated by
the Cobb Institute of Archaeology,
Mississippi State University, under
principal investigator Janet Rafferty,
with Mary Evelyn Starr, between
December 29 and 30, 1985 and from July
23 through September 29, 1986. The
nine lots of unassociated funerary
objects consist of four lots of ceramics,
one lot of lithics, one lot of faunal
remains, one lot of shells, one lot of
charcoal, and one lot of soil samples.
Three cultural items were removed
from Monroe County, MS. One of
several sites identified during early
mitigation measures for the prospective
Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway, the
SW Amory site (22MO710) was
excavated between December 1978 and
May 1979 under the direction of Judith
A. Bense. No further work was ever
conducted. The three lots of
unassociated funerary objects consist of
one lot of faunal remains, one lot of
lithics, and one lot of soil samples.
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Cultural Affiliation
The cultural items in this notice are
connected to one or more identifiable
earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or
cultures. There is a relationship of
shared group identity between the
identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures and one or more
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations. The following types of
information were used to reasonably
trace the relationship: archeological,
geographical, historical, other
information, and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Mobile District has
determined that:
• The 42 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.
• There is a relationship of shared
group identity that can be reasonably
traced between the cultural items and
The Chickasaw Nation.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for
repatriation of the cultural items in this
notice must be sent to the Responsible
Official identified in ADDRESSES.
Requests for repatriation may be
submitted by any lineal descendant,
Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice
who shows, by a preponderance of the
evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or a culturally affiliated
Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the cultural items in
this notice to a requestor may occur on
or after May 26, 2023. If competing
requests for repatriation are received,
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Mobile District must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the cultural items are
considered a single request and not
competing requests. The U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Mobile District is
responsible for sending a copy of this
notice to the Indian Tribe identified in
this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act, 25
U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing
regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10, and
10.14.
Dated: April 19, 2023.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Notice of Inventory Completion
Amendment: Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice; amendment.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the
SUMMARY:
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University (PMAE)
has amended a Notice of Inventory
Completion Amendment published in
the Federal Register on September 15,
2022. This notice amends the number of
associated funerary objects in a
collection removed from Marion
County, TN.
Disposition of the human
remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice may occur on or after May
26, 2023.
DATES:
Patricia Capone, PMAE,
Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617)
496–3702, email pcapone@
fas.harvard.edu.
ADDRESSES:
This
notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA. The
determinations in this notice are the
sole responsibility of PMAE. The
National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
Additional information on the
amendments and determinations in this
notice, including the results of
consultation, can be found in the
inventory or related records held by
PMAE.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Amendment
This notice amends the
determinations published in a Notice of
Inventory Completion and Notice of
Inventory Completion Amendment in
the Federal Register (83 FR 65733–
65734, December 21, 2018 and 87 FR
56697–56698, September 15, 2022).
Disposition of the items in the original
and Amended Notice of Inventory
Completion notices has not occurred.
This notice amends the count of the
number of associated funerary objects.
ASSOCIATED FUNERARY OBJECTS
Site
Original No.
Cave near Jasper in Marion County,
TN.
Holloway Mounds in Marion County,
TN.
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Determinations (As Amended)
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes, PMAE has determined
that:
• The human remains represent the
physical remains of 23 individuals of
Native American ancestry.
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26 faunal bone fragments and one ground stone.
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one biface, 14 projectile points, one broken projectile point, one quartz
discoidal, 39 shell beads, and one box of shell beads.
• The 84 objects 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.
• No relationship of shared group
identity can be reasonably traced
between the human remains and
associated funerary objects and any
Indian Tribe.
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• The human remains and associated
funerary objects were removed from the
aboriginal land of the Cherokee Nation;
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; and
the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee
Indians in Oklahoma.
Requests for Disposition
Written requests for disposition of the
human remains and associated funerary
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035710; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Mobile District, Mobile, AL
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile
District, intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the
definition of unassociated funerary objects and that have a cultural
affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in
this notice. The cultural items were removed from Lowndes and Monroe
Counties, MS.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after May 26, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Ms. Alexandria Smith, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile
District, 109 St. Joseph Street, P.O. Box 2288, Mobile, AL 36628-0001,
telephone (251) 690-2728, email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA.
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Additional information on the determinations in this notice, including
the results of consultation, can be found in the summary or related
records held by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District.
Description
Thirty cultural items were removed from Lowndes County, MS. The
Cofferdam Site (22LO599) is an Early through Late Woodland occupation
site featuring some Miller II components. Cofferdam was identified by
Army Corps of Engineers personnel during the excavation of the
cofferdam for the Columbus Lock and Dam of the Tennessee-Tombigbee
Waterway, and it was excavated by the Mississippi State University
Department of Anthropology under the direction of James R. Atkinson and
field crew chief G. Gerald Berry from mid-August to the first week of
October 1975. The 30 lots of unassociated funerary objects are consist
of four lots of lithics, one lot of noncultural rock, two lots of
pebbles, two lots ceramics, three lots of shells, seven lots of faunal
remains, one lot of flotation samples, one lot of sandstone, three lots
of clay, one lot of daub, two lots of firecracked rock, two lots of
groundstone, and one lot of nuts.
Nine cultural items were removed from Lowndes County, MS. The River
Cut site (22LO860) is a small village site containing Woodland and
Mississippian components as well as Miller III components with some
signs of possible Miller II habitation. The site was reported to the
USACE, Mobile District, in 1983, and following the salvage removal of a
burial from an eroding bank in 1984, the site was excavated by the Cobb
Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University, under principal
investigator Janet Rafferty, with Mary Evelyn Starr, between December
29 and 30, 1985 and from July 23 through September 29, 1986. The nine
lots of unassociated funerary objects consist of four lots of ceramics,
one lot of lithics, one lot of faunal remains, one lot of shells, one
lot of charcoal, and one lot of soil samples.
Three cultural items were removed from Monroe County, MS. One of
several sites identified during early mitigation measures for the
prospective Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway, the SW Amory site (22MO710)
was excavated between December 1978 and May 1979 under the direction of
Judith A. Bense. No further work was ever conducted. The three lots of
unassociated funerary objects consist of one lot of faunal remains, one
lot of lithics, and one lot of soil samples.
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Cultural Affiliation
The cultural items in this notice are connected to one or more
identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures. There is a
relationship of shared group identity between the identifiable earlier
groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures and one or more Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations. The following types of information were
used to reasonably trace the relationship: archeological, geographical,
historical, other information, and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District has
determined that:
The 42 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.
There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and The Chickasaw
Nation.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by any lineal
descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization not
identified in this notice who shows, by a preponderance of the
evidence, that the requestor is a lineal descendant or a culturally
affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice to a requestor
may occur on or after May 26, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile
District must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the cultural items are
considered a single request and not competing requests. The U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Mobile District is responsible for sending a copy
of this notice to the Indian Tribe identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: April 19, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-08808 Filed 4-25-23; 8:45 am]
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