Notice of Public Meeting for the Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names, 31817-31818 [2023-10636]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 96 / Thursday, May 18, 2023 / Notices consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations, the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Museum has determined that: • The human remains described in this notice represent the physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry. • There is a relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation; Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation; and the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. Requests for Repatriation lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 Written requests for repatriation of the human remains in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by: 1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice. 2. 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 human remains in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after June 20, 2023. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Museum must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing requests. The Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Museum is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes identified in this notice. Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10, and 10.14. Dated: May 10, 2023. Melanie O’Brien, Manager, National NAGPRA Program. [FR Doc. 2023–10555 Filed 5–17–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4312–52–P VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:05 May 17, 2023 Jkt 259001 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [NPS–WASO–D–COS–POL–35730; PPWODIREP0; PPMPSAS1Y.000000; PX.XDIRE0039] Notice of Public Meeting for the Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names National Park Service, Interior. Meeting notice. AGENCY: ACTION: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972, the National Park Service (NPS) is hereby giving notice that the Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names (Committee) will meet as noted below. DATES: The Committee will hold public meetings on Wednesday June 14, 2023, from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. (MOUNTAIN) and Thursday June 15, 2023, from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. (MOUNTAIN). Individuals that wish to participate must contact the person listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section no later than June 7, 2023, to receive instructions for accessing the meeting. ADDRESSES: The Committee will meet at the Horace M. Albright Training Center, 1 Albright Avenue, Grand Canyon, Arizona 86023. Electronic submissions of materials or requests are to be sent to reconciliation_committee@nps.gov. The meeting will also be accessible virtually via webinar and audio conference technology. SUMMARY: For information concerning attending the Committee meeting in-person or virtually, submitting written comments to the Committee, or requesting to address the Committee, contact Andrea DeKoter, Committee Manager for the Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names, Office of Policy, National Park Service, at reconciliation_ committee@nps.gov or by telephone at (202) 354–2220. Individuals in the United States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay services. Individuals outside the United States should use the relay services offered within their country to make international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Committee has been established by authority of the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) under 54 U.S.C. 100906 and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: PO 00000 Frm 00149 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 31817 is regulated by the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Purpose of the Meeting: The Committee will receive briefings and discuss topics related to identifying existing Federal land unit names and geographic feature names that may be considered derogatory and developing recommendations for potential replacement names. The final agenda and briefing materials will be posted to the Committee’s website prior to the meeting at https://www.nps.gov/orgs/ 1892/advisory-committee-onreconciliation-in-place-names.htm. The meeting is open to the public. Interested persons may choose to make oral comments at the meeting during the designated time for this purpose. Depending on the number of people wishing to comment and the time available, the amount of time for oral comments may be limited. Interested parties should contact the Committee Manager (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) for advance placement on the public speaker list for this meeting. Members of the public may also choose to submit written comments by emailing them to reconciliation_committee@ nps.gov. Due to time constraints during the meeting, the Committee is not able to read written public comments submitted into the record. All comments will be made part of the public record and will be electronically distributed to all Committee members. Detailed minutes of the meeting will be available for public inspection within 90 days of the meeting. Meeting Accessibility Please make requests in advance for sign language interpreter services, assistive listening devices, or other reasonable accommodations. We ask that you contact the person listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice at least seven (7) business days prior to the meeting to give the Department of the Interior sufficient time to process your request. All reasonable accommodation requests are managed on a case-by-case basis. Public Disclosure of Comments: 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. E:\FR\FM\18MYN1.SGM 18MYN1 31818 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 96 / Thursday, May 18, 2023 / Notices Authority: 5 U.S.C. ch. 10. Alma Ripps, Chief, Office of Policy. [FR Doc. 2023–10636 Filed 5–17–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4312–52–P DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0035865; PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Yuba County Water Agency, Marysville, CA National Park Service, Interior. Notice. AGENCY: ACTION: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Yuba County Water Agency (YCWA) intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from Yuba County, CA. DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on or after June 20, 2023. ADDRESSES: Jacob Vander Meulen, YCWA, 1220 F Street, Marysville, CA 95901, telephone (530) 443–7412, email jvandermeulen@yubawater.org. 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 YCWA. 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 YCWA. lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 SUMMARY: Description Four lots of objects of cultural patrimony were removed from Yuba County, CA. They are described below. In 1966, one lot of cultural items was removed from an area near the southwestern end of Garden Valley during excavations carried out under the direction of archeologist Stephen E. Humphreys prior to inundation of the area by the Yuba County Water Agency’s New Bullards Bar Project. The location was given archeological site numbers CA–YUB–018, P–58–0036, YUB–S21, and BB#4. They are currently located at the California State University VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:05 May 17, 2023 Jkt 259001 Sacramento (CSU Sacramento) curation facility. This lot contains projectile points and projectile point fragments, knives, scrapers, cores, choppers, ground or pecked stones including pestles, hammerstone, mano fragments, abrading stones, steatite objects, ochre, and other uncategorized objects. In 1966, one lot of cultural items was removed from an area near Garden Valley during excavations carried out under the direction of archeologist Stephen E. Humphreys prior to inundation of the area by the Yuba County Water Agency’s New Bullards Bar Project. The location was given archeological site numbers CA–YUB– 019, P–58–0037, YUB–S22, and BB#5. They are currently located at the CSU Sacramento curation facility. This lot contains projectile points and projectile point fragments, drills, knives and knife fragments, scrapers and halfted scrapers/knives, gravers, cores, choppers, ground or pecked stones including pestles, mano fragments, metates, and other uncategorized objects. In 1966, one lot of cultural items was removed from an area overlooking a tributary of Willow Creek during excavations carried out under the direction of archeologist Stephen E. Humphreys prior to inundation of the area by the Yuba County Water Agency’s New Bullards Bar Project. The location was given archeological site numbers CA–YUB–021, P–58–0039, YUB–S24, AR6(?), and BB#7. They are currently located at the CSU Sacramento curation facility. This lot contains groundstone flakes and other uncategorized objects. In 1966, one lot of cultural items was removed from the southeast side of Garden Valley during excavations carried out under the direction of archeologist Stephen E. Humphreys prior to inundation of the area by the Yuba County Water Agency’s New Bullards Bar Project. The location was given archeologically designated site numbers: CA–YUB–0024, YUB–S19, SSC1, BB#2, and P–58–0042. They are currently located at the CSU Sacramento curation facility. This lot contains projectile points and projectile point fragments, obsidian gravers, drills, spear points, halfted knives, scrapers, cores, choppers, ground/battered stone tools, rubbing stones, mortar fragments, a net sinker, an anvil stone, pestles, hammerstones, a shaped stone, a pendant, modified and unmodified steatite fragments (including bowl, cup, and dish fragments), red ochre, modified bones, a glass bead, a shaft polisher, shell fragments, and quartz crystals. PO 00000 Frm 00150 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 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: based on geographical, kinship, biological, archeological, anthropological, linguistic, folkloric, oral traditional, historical, and expert opinion, including tribal traditional knowledge. Determinations Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations, YCWA has determined that: • The four lots of cultural items described above have ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native American group or culture itself, rather than property owned by an individual. • There is a relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the United Auburn Indian Community of the Auburn Rancheria of California. 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 June 20, 2023. If competing requests for repatriation are received, YCWA 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. YCWA 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. E:\FR\FM\18MYN1.SGM 18MYN1

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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 96 (Thursday, May 18, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31817-31818]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-10636]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

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Notice of Public Meeting for the Advisory Committee on 
Reconciliation in Place Names

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Meeting notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972, 
the National Park Service (NPS) is hereby giving notice that the 
Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names (Committee) will 
meet as noted below.

DATES: The Committee will hold public meetings on Wednesday June 14, 
2023, from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. (MOUNTAIN) and Thursday June 15, 
2023, from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. (MOUNTAIN). Individuals that wish 
to participate must contact the person listed in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section no later than June 7, 2023, to receive 
instructions for accessing the meeting.

ADDRESSES: The Committee will meet at the Horace M. Albright Training 
Center, 1 Albright Avenue, Grand Canyon, Arizona 86023. Electronic 
submissions of materials or requests are to be sent to 
[email protected]. The meeting will also be accessible 
virtually via webinar and audio conference technology.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information concerning attending 
the Committee meeting in-person or virtually, submitting written 
comments to the Committee, or requesting to address the Committee, 
contact Andrea DeKoter, Committee Manager for the Advisory Committee on 
Reconciliation in Place Names, Office of Policy, National Park Service, 
at [email protected] or by telephone at (202) 354-2220.
    Individuals in the United States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of 
hearing, or have a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or 
TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay services. Individuals 
outside the United States should use the relay services offered within 
their country to make international calls to the point-of-contact in 
the United States.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Committee has been established by 
authority of the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) under 54 U.S.C. 
100906 and is regulated by the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
    Purpose of the Meeting: The Committee will receive briefings and 
discuss topics related to identifying existing Federal land unit names 
and geographic feature names that may be considered derogatory and 
developing recommendations for potential replacement names. The final 
agenda and briefing materials will be posted to the Committee's website 
prior to the meeting at https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1892/advisory-committee-on-reconciliation-in-place-names.htm.
    The meeting is open to the public. Interested persons may choose to 
make oral comments at the meeting during the designated time for this 
purpose. Depending on the number of people wishing to comment and the 
time available, the amount of time for oral comments may be limited. 
Interested parties should contact the Committee Manager (see FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) for advance placement on the public 
speaker list for this meeting. Members of the public may also choose to 
submit written comments by emailing them to 
[email protected]. Due to time constraints during the 
meeting, the Committee is not able to read written public comments 
submitted into the record. All comments will be made part of the public 
record and will be electronically distributed to all Committee members. 
Detailed minutes of the meeting will be available for public inspection 
within 90 days of the meeting.

Meeting Accessibility

    Please make requests in advance for sign language interpreter 
services, assistive listening devices, or other reasonable 
accommodations. We ask that you contact the person listed in the FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice at least seven (7) 
business days prior to the meeting to give the Department of the 
Interior sufficient time to process your request. All reasonable 
accommodation requests are managed on a case-by-case basis.
    Public Disclosure of Comments: 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.

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    Authority: 5 U.S.C. ch. 10.

Alma Ripps,
Chief, Office of Policy.
[FR Doc. 2023-10636 Filed 5-17-23; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4312-52-P

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