Notice of Intended Disposition: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Missouri Basin Region, Nebraska-Kansas Area Office, McCook, NE, 77186-77187 [2024-21545]
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conduct an archaeological survey and
impact mitigation along 31 miles of the
proposed sewer pipeline right-of-way
and two treatment plant locales located
on the Lummi Indian Reservation. Work
began under the direction of Dr. Garland
Grabert (WWU) in December of 1980
and continued until the summer of
1982.
During this work, numerous
archaeological sites were recorded, and
materials were collected from both
excavation and monitoring activities
(Grabert and Griffin 1983,
Archaeological Investigation on Lummi
Peninsula, Whatcom County,
Washington, Reports in Archaeology
No. 18, Department of Anthropology,
Western Washington University,
Bellingham, Washington). No known
individuals were identified. No
hazardous chemicals are known to have
been used to treat the human remains
while in the custody of WWU.
Cultural Affiliation
Repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor
may occur on or after October 21, 2024.
If competing requests for repatriation
are received, the WWU 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 WWU is
responsible for sending a copy of this
notice to the Indian Tribes and Native
Hawaiian organizations identified in
this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act, 25
U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing
regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: September 12, 2024.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Based on the information available
and the results of consultation, cultural
affiliation is clearly identified by the
information available about the human
remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0038745;
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Determinations
The WWU has determined that:
• The human remains described in
this notice represent the physical
remains of seven individuals of Native
American ancestry.
• The eight objects described in this
notice are reasonably believed to have
been placed intentionally with or near
individual human remains at the time of
death or later as part of the death rite
or ceremony.
• There is a connection between the
human remains and associated funerary
objects described in this notice and the
Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation
and the Nooksack Indian Tribe.
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Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the
human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice must be sent to the
authorized representative identified in
this notice under 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
an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization with cultural affiliation.
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Notice of Intended Disposition: U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Reclamation, Missouri Basin Region,
Nebraska-Kansas Area Office,
McCook, NE
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Reclamation, Nebraska-Kansas Area
Office (Reclamation Nebraska-Kansas
Area Office) intends to carry out the
disposition of human remains and
associated funerary objects removed
from Federal or Tribal lands to the
lineal descendants, Indian Tribe, or
Native Hawaiian organization with
priority for disposition in this notice.
DATES: Disposition of the human
remains and cultural items in this notice
may occur on or after October 21, 2024.
If no claim for disposition is received by
September 22, 2025, the human remains
and cultural items in this notice will
become unclaimed human remains and
cultural items.
ADDRESSES: Send written claims for
disposition of the human remains and
cultural items identified in this notice to
Catherine Griffin, Bureau of
Reclamation, Nebraska-Kansas Area
SUMMARY:
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Office, 1706 West 3rd Street, McCook,
NE 69001, telephone (308) 345–8324,
email cgriffin@usbr.gov.
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 Reclamation
Nebraska-Kansas Area Office, and
additional information on the human
remains and cultural items in this
notice, including the results of
consultation, can be found in the related
records. The National Park Service is
not responsible for the identifications in
this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available,
human remains representing, at least, 14
individuals have been reasonably
identified. The 10 associated funerary
objects are one lot of bracelets, three lots
of ceramic sherds, one lot of chipped
stone debitage, two stone scraper tools,
one stone tool fragment, one projectile
point fragment, and one lot of animal
bone. During a period between 1992 to
2020, the human remains and associated
funerary objects were discovered and
removed from federal lands in Jewell,
Mitchell, and Norton Counties, KS, and
Frontier and Greeley Counties, NE.
Determinations
The Reclamation Nebraska-Kansas
Area Office has determined that:
• The human remains described in
this notice represent the physical
remains of 14 individuals of Native
American ancestry.
• The 10 objects described in this
notice are reasonably believed to have
been placed intentionally with or near
individual human remains at the time of
death or later as part of the death rite
or ceremony.
• The Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma;
Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort
Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; and
the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes
(Wichita, Keechi, Waco, & Tawakonie),
Oklahoma have priority for disposition
of the human remains and cultural
items described in this notice.
Claims for Disposition
Written claims for disposition of the
human remains and cultural items in
this notice must be sent to the
appropriate official identified in this
notice under ADDRESSES. If no claim for
disposition is received by September 22,
2025, the human remains and cultural
items in this notice will become
unclaimed human remains and cultural
items. Claims for disposition may be
submitted by:
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1. Any lineal descendant, Indian
Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization
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
they have priority for disposition.
Disposition of the human remains and
cultural items in this notice may occur
on or after October 21, 2024. If
competing claims for disposition are
received, the Reclamation NebraskaKansas Area Office must determine the
most appropriate claimant prior to
disposition. Requests for joint
disposition of the human remains and
cultural items are considered a single
request and not competing requests. The
Reclamation Nebraska-Kansas Area
Office is responsible for sending a copy
of this notice to the lineal descendants,
Indian Tribes, and Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice
and to any other consulting parties.
Authority: Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act, 25
U.S.C. 3002, and the implementing
regulations, 43 CFR 10.7.
Dated: September 12, 2024.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024–21545 Filed 9–19–24; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0038740;
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation:
California Department of
Transportation, Bishop, CA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), California
Department of Transportation (Caltrans)
intends to repatriate certain cultural
items that meet the definition of
unassociated funerary objects or objects
of cultural patrimony and that have a
cultural affiliation with the Indian
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations
in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice may occur on or after
October 21, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Jennifer Blake, Caltrans, 500
South Main Street, Bishop, CA 93514,
telephone (760) 937–3894, email
jennifer.blake@dot.ca.gov.
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SUMMARY:
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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 Caltrans and
additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including
the results of consultation, can be found
in the summary or related records. The
National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Abstract of Information Available
A total of 1,864 cultural items have
been requested for repatriation. The 735
unassociated funerary objects are
debitage, bifaces, flake tools, faunal
bone fragments, groundstone fragments,
ceramic sherds, beads, and modern/
historic items. The 1,129 objects of
cultural patrimony are debitage,
modified bone, projectile points,
bifaces, flake tools, faunal bone, cores,
groundstone fragments, ceramic sherds,
paleobotanical samples, and modern/
historic items. These cultural items are
housed at three repositories under the
following accession numbers: at the
University of California, Davis, Acc
406–19 from site CA–INY–371/H; at
California State University, Bakersfield,
Acc 5953–1 from site CA–INY–5953H,
Acc 5958 from site CA–INY–5958/H,
Acc 5964 from site CA–INY–5964, Acc
5966 from site CA–INY–5966, Acc 5981
from site CA–INY–5981, Acc 5984 from
site CA–INY–5984, and Acc 5990 from
site CA–INY–5990/H; and at the
University of California, Riverside, Acc
308 from site CA–INY–5961/H, Acc 309
from site CA–INY–5962/H, Acc 311
from site CA–INY–5969/5971/H, Acc
312 from site CA–INY–5990/H, Acc 265
from site CA–INY–7716, Acc 281 from
site CA–INY–7746, and Acc 313 from
site CA–INY–7746. The collections are
from sites located in the Owens Valley
of the Eastern Sierra region of
California, near Owens Lake. The
collections were recovered from
Caltrans right of way between 1993–
2011 during a surface or subsurface
archaeological investigation in
compliance with state and federal
environmental laws in support of
Caltrans’ Olancha-Cartago Four Lane
Project. Objects in these collections are
culturally affiliated with the Paiute and
Western Shoshone. Modern-day tribes
with ancestral ties to this area include
the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone
Reservation, the Big Pine Paiute Tribe of
the Owens Valley, the Bishop Paiute
Tribe, the Fort Independence Indian
Community of Paiutes, and the Death
Valley Timbisha-Shoshone Tribe. To the
best of Caltrans’ knowledge, the cultural
items in this archaeological collection
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have not been treated with hazardous
substances.
Determinations
Caltrans has determined that:
• The 735 unassociated funerary
objects described in this notice are
reasonably believed to have been placed
intentionally with or near human
remains, and are connected, either at the
time of death or later as part of the death
rite or ceremony of a Native American
culture according to the Native
American traditional knowledge of a
lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or
Native Hawaiian organization. The
unassociated funerary objects have been
identified by a preponderance of the
evidence as related to human remains,
specific individuals, or families, or
removed from a specific burial site or
burial area of an individual or
individuals with cultural affiliation to
an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
• The 1,129 objects of cultural
patrimony described in this notice have
ongoing historical, traditional, or
cultural importance central to the
Native American group, including any
constituent sub-group (such as a band,
clan, lineage, ceremonial society, or
other subdivision), according to the
Native American traditional knowledge
of an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
• There is a reasonable connection
between the cultural items described in
this notice and the Lone Pine PaiuteShoshone Tribe.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for
repatriation of the cultural items in this
notice must be sent to the authorized
representative identified in this notice
under 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 October 21, 2024. If competing
requests for repatriation are received,
Caltrans 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. Caltrans is
responsible for sending a copy of this
notice to the Indian Tribes and Native
Hawaiian organizations identified in
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038745; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Disposition: U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Reclamation, Missouri Basin Region, Nebraska-Kansas Area
Office, McCook, NE
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. Department of the Interior, Bureau
of Reclamation, Nebraska-Kansas Area Office (Reclamation Nebraska-
Kansas Area Office) intends to carry out the disposition of human
remains and associated funerary objects removed from Federal or Tribal
lands to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization with priority for disposition in this notice.
DATES: Disposition of the human remains and cultural items in this
notice may occur on or after October 21, 2024. If no claim for
disposition is received by September 22, 2025, the human remains and
cultural items in this notice will become unclaimed human remains and
cultural items.
ADDRESSES: Send written claims for disposition of the human remains and
cultural items identified in this notice to Catherine Griffin, Bureau
of Reclamation, Nebraska-Kansas Area Office, 1706 West 3rd Street,
McCook, NE 69001, telephone (308) 345-8324, 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
Reclamation Nebraska-Kansas Area Office, and additional information on
the human remains and cultural items in this notice, including the
results of consultation, can be found in the related records. The
National Park Service is not responsible for the identifications in
this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, 14 individuals have been reasonably identified. The 10
associated funerary objects are one lot of bracelets, three lots of
ceramic sherds, one lot of chipped stone debitage, two stone scraper
tools, one stone tool fragment, one projectile point fragment, and one
lot of animal bone. During a period between 1992 to 2020, the human
remains and associated funerary objects were discovered and removed
from federal lands in Jewell, Mitchell, and Norton Counties, KS, and
Frontier and Greeley Counties, NE.
Determinations
The Reclamation Nebraska-Kansas Area Office has determined that:
The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 14 individuals of Native American ancestry.
The 10 objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally with or near individual
human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite
or ceremony.
The Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; Three Affiliated Tribes of
the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; and the Wichita and
Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco, & Tawakonie), Oklahoma have
priority for disposition of the human remains and cultural items
described in this notice.
Claims for Disposition
Written claims for disposition of the human remains and cultural
items in this notice must be sent to the appropriate official
identified in this notice under ADDRESSES. If no claim for disposition
is received by September 22, 2025, the human remains and cultural items
in this notice will become unclaimed human remains and cultural items.
Claims for disposition may be submitted by:
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1. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization 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 they have priority for disposition.
Disposition of the human remains and cultural items in this notice
may occur on or after October 21, 2024. If competing claims for
disposition are received, the Reclamation Nebraska-Kansas Area Office
must determine the most appropriate claimant prior to disposition.
Requests for joint disposition of the human remains and cultural items
are considered a single request and not competing requests. The
Reclamation Nebraska-Kansas Area Office is responsible for sending a
copy of this notice to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, and
Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice and to any
other consulting parties.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3002, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.7.
Dated: September 12, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-21545 Filed 9-19-24; 8:45 am]
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