Notice of Inventory Completion: Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, 14700-14701 [2024-04086]
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The
Settlement Act, Public Law 114–322,
was enacted to resolve certain claims to
water of the Choctaw Nation of
Oklahoma (Choctaw Nation) and the
Chickasaw Nation as set forth in the
State of Oklahoma, Choctaw Nation,
Chickasaw Nation, City of Oklahoma
City Water Settlement Agreement
(Settlement Agreement) and the
Settlement Act, including all claims or
defenses in and to Chickasaw Nation
and Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma v.
Fallin, et al., Case No. CIV 11–927–G
(W.D. Okla.) and Oklahoma Water
Resources Board v. United States, et al.,
Case No. CIV 12–275–G (W.D. Okla.).
The Settlement Parties include the
Choctaw Nation, Chickasaw Nation,
State of Oklahoma (State, including the
Oklahoma Water Resources Board
(OWRB)), City of Oklahoma City (City),
Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust
(Trust), and the United States.
The Settlement Act and Settlement
Agreement, inter alia, recognize and
protect the Chickasaw Nation and
Choctaw Nation’s respective existing
water uses and also provides procedures
for expanded water uses in the future;
create mechanisms by which the
Nations will participate in the OWRB’s
consideration of certain applications to
appropriate water within their historic
treaty territories; and resolve certain
issues related to Sardis Reservoir.
Although section 3608(i)(2) of the
Settlement Act established September
30, 2020 as the original deadline by
which the findings herein were to be
certified, the Settlement Parties twice
extended the deadline pursuant to
section 3608(i)(4) of the Settlement Act.
The current deadline for this
certification runs until March 31, 2024.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Statement of Findings
In accordance with section 3608(i)(1)
of the Settlement Act and section 4.1 of
the Settlement Agreement, I find and
certify as follows:
(1) To the extent the Settlement
Agreement conflicts with the Settlement
Act, the Settlement Agreement has been
amended to conform with the
Settlement Act;
(2) The Settlement Agreement, as
amended, has been executed by the
Secretary of the Interior, the Choctaw
Nation, the Chickasaw Nation, the
Governor and Attorney General of the
State, the OWRB, the City, and the
Trust;
(3) The Amended Storage Contract
has been amended to conform with the
Settlement Act;
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(4) The Amended Storage Contract, as
amended to conform with the
Settlement Act, has been executed by
the State, the City, and the Trust, and
approved by the Secretary of the Army;
(5) An order has been entered in
United States v. Oklahoma Water
Resources Board, Case No. Civ. 98–C–
521–E with any modifications to the
order dated September 11, 2009, as
provided in the Settlement Act;
(6) Orders of dismissal have been
entered in Chickasaw Nation and
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma v. Fallin,
et al., Case No. CIV 11–927–G (W.D.
Okla.) and Oklahoma Water Resources
Board v. United States, et al., Case No.
CIV 12–275–G (W.D. Okla.) as provided
in the Settlement Agreement;
(7) The OWRB has issued the City
Permit;
(8) The final documentation of the
Kiamichi Basin hydrologic model is on
file at the Oklahoma City office of the
OWRB;
(9) The Atoka and Sardis
Conservation Projects Fund has been
funded as provided in the Settlement
Agreement; and,
(10) The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw
Nation, and United States have executed
the required waivers and releases of
claims as required by the Settlement Act
and Settlement Agreement.
Deb Haaland,
Secretary of the Interior.
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Notice of Inventory Completion: Fort
Lewis College, Durango, CO
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Fort Lewis
College 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 La Plata County and
Montezuma County, CO.
DATES: Repatriation of the human
remains in this notice may occur on or
after March 29, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Amy Cao, Fort Lewis
College, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO
SUMMARY:
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81301, telephone (970) 247–7030, email
arcao@fortlewis.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 Fort Lewis
College. 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 Fort Lewis College.
Description
In 1978 and 1979, human remains
representing, at minimum, 21
individuals were removed from site 5LP
117 (also referred to as 5LP 138), in La
Plata County, CO. These were recovered
during survey and salvage excavations
conducted on private land in the Bodo
Industrial Park south of Durango along
the Animas River under the direction of
Dr. Susan Riches as part of Fort Lewis
College summer field school classes.
The 1978 excavation was assigned site
number 5LP 117 and initially, the 1979
excavations were assigned 5LP 138,
however, according to documentation,
Dr. Riches concluded that this was a
continuation of the 5LP 117 site. Bags,
labels, and other documentation may
list 5LP 138, but this all refers to the
1979 summer excavations of site 5LP
117. No associated funerary objects are
present. Based on the artifactual
evidence, this site is designated as
Ancestral Pueblo from the Pueblo I
period (A.D. 700–840) (Charles, MC,
1996. ‘‘The Emergency Excavations of
Three Human Burials in Bodo Industrial
Ranches, La Plata County, CO’’).
Between 1984 and 1997, human
remains representing, at minimum, nine
individuals were removed from site
5MT 4802 (the Pigg site), in Montezuma
County, CO, under the direction of Jim
Judge as part of Fort Lewis College field
school classes. No associated funerary
objects are present. Based on
architectural and artifactual evidence,
this site is designated as Ancestral
Pueblo from the Pueblo II/III period
(A.D. 1150–1250).
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
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trace the relationship: anthropological
information, archeological information,
biological information, folklore,
geographical information, historical
information, kinship, linguistics, oral
tradition, as well as expert opinion.
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Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, Fort Lewis College has
determined that:
• The human remains described in
this notice represent the physical
remains of 30 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 Hopi Tribe of
Arizona; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo
of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez,
New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo
of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San
Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San
Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa
Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa
Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos,
New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico;
Santo Domingo Pueblo; Ysleta del Sur
Pueblo; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni
Reservation, New Mexico.
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 March 29, 2024. If competing
requests for repatriation are received,
Fort Lewis College must determine the
most appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the human remains are
considered a single request and not
competing requests. Fort Lewis College
is responsible for sending a copy of this
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notice to the Indian Tribes and Native
Hawaiian organizations identified in
this notice.
This notice was submitted before the
effective date of the revised regulations
(88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023,
effective January 12, 2024). As the
notice conforms to the mandatory
format of the Federal Register and
includes the required information, the
National Park Service is publishing this
notice as submitted.
Authority: Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act, 25
U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing
regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: February 20, 2024.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Notice of Inventory Completion:
University of California, Riverside,
Riverside, CA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the
University of California, Riverside 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 Ventura, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human
remains in this notice may occur on or
after March 29, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Megan Murphy, University
of California, Riverside, 900 University
Avenue, Riverside, CA 92517–5900,
telephone (951) 827–6349, email
megan.murphy@ucr.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 the University of
California, Riverside. 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
SUMMARY:
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by the University of California,
Riverside.
Description
Human remains representing, at
minimum, one individual were removed
from Ventura County, CA. The cranium
of 1 young adult female Native
American individual was discovered in
a cave in Ventura County by a group of
young boys participating in the
‘‘Trailfinders’’ camp. The cranium was
housed at the University of California
James San Jacinto Mountain Natural
Reserve in a cabinet with other mammal
crania since its founding in 1966 by
Harry James who was also the founder
of Trailfinders. The cabinet and its
contents were reportedly given to the
reserve by the Department of Biology at
the University of California, Riverside
(UCR). Through conversations with
previous reserve directors, UCR
NAGPRA Staff found that there was an
oral history among individuals (now in
their 80s and 90s) who participated in
the Trailfinders organization about how
the cranium was discovered. Former
director of the James Reserve, Michael
Hamilton, indicated that he was told by
former Trailfinders that the cranium
was found in a cave in Ventura County
during a hike. Through speaking with
other former members, UCR NAGPRA
Staff discovered that the Trailfinders
owned property on Sespe Creek in
Ventura County north of Filmore where
they often had weekend camping trips.
They typically hiked upstream (north)
on Sespe Creek because that was the
only direction they could go for a hike.
Living Trailfinders who have spoken
with UCR NAGPRA Staff suggested that
it is likely that the cranium was found
in the Sespe Creek drainage in Ventura
County during one such hike.
Additional post-cranial human
remains representing one young adult
female Native American individual
were reported by the University of
California, Riverside’s Department of
Evolution Ecology & Organismal Biology
(EEOB) to the UCR NAGPRA Program.
The department staff indicated that the
human remains, which were stored in a
cardboard box labeled ‘‘Indian Bones’’,
had been in the department since at
least before the 1990s. Despite an
exhaustive attempt to contact previous
professors and department chairs, no
information was found by the NAGPRA
Program Staff to indicate how the
human remains became part of the
department’s collections. The cabinet
which the human remains were stored
in contained the post-cranial remains of
other vertebrate mammals. Examination
of the human remains by an osteologist
determined that there were also a few
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
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Notice of Inventory Completion: Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Fort Lewis College 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 La Plata County and Montezuma County, CO.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after March 29, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Amy Cao, Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO
81301, telephone (970) 247-7030, 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 Fort
Lewis College. 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 Fort Lewis
College.
Description
In 1978 and 1979, human remains representing, at minimum, 21
individuals were removed from site 5LP 117 (also referred to as 5LP
138), in La Plata County, CO. These were recovered during survey and
salvage excavations conducted on private land in the Bodo Industrial
Park south of Durango along the Animas River under the direction of Dr.
Susan Riches as part of Fort Lewis College summer field school classes.
The 1978 excavation was assigned site number 5LP 117 and initially, the
1979 excavations were assigned 5LP 138, however, according to
documentation, Dr. Riches concluded that this was a continuation of the
5LP 117 site. Bags, labels, and other documentation may list 5LP 138,
but this all refers to the 1979 summer excavations of site 5LP 117. No
associated funerary objects are present. Based on the artifactual
evidence, this site is designated as Ancestral Pueblo from the Pueblo I
period (A.D. 700-840) (Charles, MC, 1996. ``The Emergency Excavations
of Three Human Burials in Bodo Industrial Ranches, La Plata County,
CO'').
Between 1984 and 1997, human remains representing, at minimum, nine
individuals were removed from site 5MT 4802 (the Pigg site), in
Montezuma County, CO, under the direction of Jim Judge as part of Fort
Lewis College field school classes. No associated funerary objects are
present. Based on architectural and artifactual evidence, this site is
designated as Ancestral Pueblo from the Pueblo II/III period (A.D.
1150-1250).
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
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trace the relationship: anthropological information, archeological
information, biological information, folklore, geographical
information, historical information, kinship, linguistics, oral
tradition, as well as expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, Fort Lewis College has determined that:
The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 30 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 Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Ohkay
Owingeh, New Mexico; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti,
New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San
Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa
Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; Santo Domingo Pueblo; Ysleta del Sur
Pueblo; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
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 March 29, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, Fort Lewis College must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the human remains are considered a single request and
not competing requests. Fort Lewis College is responsible for sending a
copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
This notice was submitted before the effective date of the revised
regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, effective January 12,
2024). As the notice conforms to the mandatory format of the Federal
Register and includes the required information, the National Park
Service is publishing this notice as submitted.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: February 20, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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