Notice of Inventory Completion: California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 39454-39455 [2023-12857]
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Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the California State
University, Sacramento has determined
that:
• The one cultural item described
above is 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 is believed, by a
preponderance of the evidence, to have
been removed from a specific burial site
of a Native American individual.
• The 28 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 Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians
of the Tuolumne 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 July 17, 2023. If competing
requests for repatriation are received,
California State University, Sacramento
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. California
State University, Sacramento 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: June 6, 2023.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036002;
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion:
California State University,
Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), California
State University, Sacramento has
completed an inventory of human
remains and has determined that there
is a cultural affiliation between the
human remains and Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations in this
notice. The human remains were
removed from Tuolumne County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human
remains in this notice may occur on or
after July 17, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Dianne Hyson, Dean of
the College of Social Sciences and
Interdisciplinary Studies, California
State University, Sacramento, 6000 J
Street, Sacramento, CA 95819,
telephone (916) 278–6504, email
dhyson@csus.edu.
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 California State
University, Sacramento. 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 inventory or related records held
by California State University,
Sacramento.
SUMMARY:
Description
Human remains representing, at
minimum, one individual, were
removed from Cave Man Cave, in
Tuolumne County, CA. The
documentation associated with these
ancestral remains is limited. Possibly,
Louis Payen collected the human
remains in the 1960s, during his cave
survey work in the vicinity. In 2022, the
University of California, Riverside (UC
Riverside) informed California State
University, Sacramento that human
remains from Cave Man Cave were at
UC Riverside and were believed to be
under the control of California State
University, Sacramento. (It is not known
who sent these human remains to UC
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Riverside or when, but they were likely
sent for radiocarbon dating.) In June of
2022, these human remains were
returned to California State University,
Sacramento. No known individual was
identified. No associated funerary
objects are present.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains 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: anthropological,
archeological, geographical, historical,
and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the California State
University, Sacramento has determined
that:
• The human remains described in
this notice represent the physical
remains of one individual of Native
American ancestry.
• There is a relationship of shared
group identity that can be reasonably
traced between the human remains in
this notice and the Chicken Ranch
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of
California and the Tuolumne Band of
Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne
Rancheria of California.
Requests for Repatriation
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 July 17, 2023. If competing
requests for repatriation are received,
California State University, Sacramento
must determine the most appropriate
requestor prior to repatriation. Requests
for joint repatriation of the human
remains are considered a single request
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and not competing requests. California
State University, Sacramento 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: June 6, 2023.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
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Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement and
Notice To Solicit Comments and Hold
Public Scoping Meetings on the
Development of Post-2026 Operational
Guidelines and Strategies for Lake
Powell and Lake Mead
Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
The Secretary of the Interior
(Secretary) has directed the Bureau of
Reclamation (Reclamation) to develop
post-2026 Colorado River reservoir
operational guidelines and strategies for
Lake Powell and Lake Mead (referred to
as ‘‘post-2026 operations’’). Several
important reservoir and water
management decisional documents and
agreements that govern operation of
Colorado River facilities and
management of Colorado River water are
currently scheduled to expire at the end
of 2026. Through this Federal Register
notice, Reclamation is formally
initiating the process to prepare an
environmental impact statement (EIS)
for the development of post-2026
operations.
SUMMARY:
This Federal Register notice
initiates the public scoping process for
the EIS. Reclamation requests that the
public submit comments concerning the
scope of specific operational guidelines,
strategies, and any other issues that
should be considered on or before
August 15, 2023.
Reclamation will host three virtual
public meetings/webinars to provide
summary information and receive oral
comments:
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• Monday, July 17, 2023, 1 p.m. to 2
p.m. (MDT)
• Tuesday, July 18, 2023, 10 a.m. to 11
a.m. (MDT)
• Monday, July 24, 2023, 6 p.m. to 7
p.m. (MDT)
ADDRESSES: Please send written
comments pursuant to this notice to
crbpost2026@usbr.gov or Bureau of
Reclamation, Attn: Post-2026 (Mail Stop
84–55000), P.O. Box 25007, Denver, CO
80225.
The registration link for the webinar
held on Monday, July 17, 2023, is
https://swca.zoom.us/webinar/register/
WN_-_hvFoMcRJ-I98k4n7-GvQ, or the
dial in option (audio only) is (602) 753–
0140 or (720) 928–9299; Webinar ID:
918 5524 0606.
The registration link for the webinar
held on Tuesday, July 18, 2023, is
https://swca.zoom.us/webinar/register/
WN_sbSwzBJhQ66Z-E65TGXX1g, or the
dial in option (audio only) is (602) 753–
0140 or (720) 928–9299; Webinar ID:
963 7946 3234.
The registration link for the webinar
held on Monday, July 24, 2023, is
https://swca.zoom.us/webinar/register/
WN_r0ozNRpmRu-hmEpYxe0-Qg, or the
dial in option (audio only) is (602) 753–
0140 or (720) 928–9299; Webinar ID:
949 1587 3150.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Amanda Erath, Colorado River Post2026 Program Coordinator, Bureau of
Reclamation, at (303) 445–2766, or by
email at crbpost2026@usbr.gov. Please
also visit the project website at https://
www.usbr.gov/ColoradoRiverBasin/
Post2026Ops.html. 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: This
document provides notice that
Reclamation intends to prepare an EIS
for post-2026 operations and conduct
public scoping. Reclamation is issuing
this Federal Register notice pursuant to
the National Environmental Policy Act
of 1969, as amended (NEPA), 42 U.S.C.
4321 et seq.; the Council on
Environmental Quality’s regulations for
implementing NEPA, 43 CFR parts 1500
through 1508; and the Department of the
Interior (Department or Interior) NEPA
regulations, 43 CFR part 46.
Background
The Colorado River Basin has been in
a prolonged period of drought and low-
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runoff conditions, and despite current
projections of 2023 runoff being well
above average, the period from 2000
through 2023 is currently estimated as
the second driest period in more than a
century and one of the driest periods in
the last 1,200 years. From 2000 to 2004,
Lake Powell and Lake Mead lost nearly
half of their combined storage. The
onset of this period of acute drought
spurred the development of the 2007
Interim Guidelines for Lower Basin
Shortages and Coordinated Operations
for Lake Powell and Lake Mead (2007
Interim Guidelines). Over the past 15
years since the adoption of the 2007
Interim Guidelines, as drought and lowrunoff conditions continued, additional
responsive actions were needed to
complement the 2007 Interim
Guidelines (e.g., 2019 Colorado River
Basin Drought Contingency Plan (DCP)).
At the end of 2026, a number of
reservoir and water management
decisional documents and agreements
that govern the operation of Colorado
River facilities and management of the
Colorado River are scheduled to expire.
These include the 2007 Interim
Guidelines, the DCP, and other
important management documents
within the United States, as well as
Minute 323 between the United States
and Mexico pursuant to the United
States-Mexico Treaty on Utilization of
Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana
Rivers and of the Rio Grande (1944
Water Treaty).
Since 2021, the Department has
undertaken several actions to protect
critical infrastructure in response to
declining reservoir elevations and the
deepening of drought conditions from
2020 to 2022. As the summer of 2022
ended with near record low elevations
in Lake Powell and Lake Mead, the
Department recognized that, absent a
change in hydrologic conditions, water
use patterns, or both, Colorado River
reservoirs would continue to decline to
critically low elevations before the 2007
Interim Guidelines expired. In order to
modify guidelines for the operation of
Glen Canyon and Hoover Dam for the
remainder of the interim period
(through 2026) to address these historic
drought and low runoff conditions in
the Basin, the Department initiated a
NEPA process on November 17, 2022, to
prepare a Supplemental Environmental
Impact Statement (SEIS) for Near-term
Colorado River Operations. The draft
SEIS was released for public review on
April 14, 2023. In light of the Lower
Basin states’ consensus-based system
conservation proposal submitted on
May 22, 2023, the Department
temporarily withdrew the draft SEIS so
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036002; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: California State University,
Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), California State University, Sacramento has
completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there
is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes
or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains were
removed from Tuolumne County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after July 17, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Dianne Hyson, Dean of the College of Social Sciences and
Interdisciplinary Studies, California State University, Sacramento,
6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819, telephone (916) 278-6504, 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
California State University, Sacramento. 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 inventory or related records held
by California State University, Sacramento.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual, were
removed from Cave Man Cave, in Tuolumne County, CA. The documentation
associated with these ancestral remains is limited. Possibly, Louis
Payen collected the human remains in the 1960s, during his cave survey
work in the vicinity. In 2022, the University of California, Riverside
(UC Riverside) informed California State University, Sacramento that
human remains from Cave Man Cave were at UC Riverside and were believed
to be under the control of California State University, Sacramento. (It
is not known who sent these human remains to UC Riverside or when, but
they were likely sent for radiocarbon dating.) In June of 2022, these
human remains were returned to California State University, Sacramento.
No known individual was identified. No associated funerary objects are
present.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains 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: anthropological,
archeological, geographical, historical, and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the California State University, Sacramento has
determined that:
The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains in this notice and the
Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California and the
Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of
California.
Requests for Repatriation
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 July 17, 2023. If competing requests for repatriation
are received, California State University, Sacramento must determine
the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for
joint repatriation of the human remains are considered a single request
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and not competing requests. California State University, Sacramento 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: June 6, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-12857 Filed 6-15-23; 8:45 am]
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