Notice of Inventory Completion: Los Rios Community College District, Sacramento, CA, 25630 [2025-11146]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
• National Park Service

[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 115 (Tuesday, June 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 25630]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11146]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040402; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Los Rios Community College 
District, 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), the Los Rios Community College District 
(LRCCD) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated 
funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural 
affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects 
and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after July 17, 2025.

ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains 
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Jamey Nye, Los Rios 
Community College District, 1919 Spanos Ct, Arden-Arcade, CA 95825, 
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 LRCCD, 
and additional information on the determinations in this notice, 
including the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or 
related records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the 
determinations in this notice.

Abstract of Information Available

    Based on the information available, human remains representing, at 
least, two individuals have been reasonably identified. Likely in 1937, 
the individuals were removed from an ``Indian Mound'' in Casmalia, 
Santa Barbara County, CA by Jeremiah B. Lillard, the first president of 
Sacramento Junior College, now Sacramento City College (SCC). In 2024, 
the ancestors and associated funerary object were located in the SCC 
Geology department during a campus-wide audit of collections. The one 
associated funerary object is a stone mano. LRCCD does not have record 
of the presence of any potentially hazardous substances used to treat 
the human remains and associated funerary object.
    Based on the information available, human remains representing, at 
least, one individual have been reasonably identified. On an unknown 
date before 1941, the individual was removed from Santa Cruz Island, 
Santa Barbara County, CA by Jeremiah B. Lillard. In 2024, the 
individual was located in the SCC Geology department during a campus 
wide audit of collections. LRCCD does not have record of the presence 
of any potentially hazardous substances used to treat the human 
remains.

Cultural Affiliation

    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.

Determinations

    LRCCD has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of three individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The one object 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 reasonable connection between the human remains 
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Santa 
Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation, 
California.

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 a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization.
    Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after July 17, 2025. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, LRCCD 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. LRCCD 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: June 11, 2025
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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