[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 164 (Thursday, August 25, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 49947]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-16884]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Inventory Completion: Louisiana State University Museum 
of Natural Science, Baton Rouge, LA; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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    Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves 
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 43 CFR 10.8 (f), that, upon 
publication of this notice in the Federal Register, the Louisiana State 
University Museum of Natural Science, Baton Rouge, LA, rescinds the 
notice of inventory completion published in the Federal Register of 
December 13, 2000 (FR Doc 00-31659, 77908) because the Louisiana State 
University Museum of Natural Science has determined that the 
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Preservation 
Division, Jackson, MS, has legal control of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects from the Fatherland site (22AD001), Adams 
County, MS.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003 (d) (3). 
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native 
American human remains and associated funerary objects. The National 
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
    The December 13, 2000, notice identified the Louisiana State 
University Museum of Natural Science as having possession of human 
remains and associated funerary objects from the Fatherland site 
(22AD001), Adams County, MS. Following publication of the notice, 
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Preservation 
Division submitted additional documentation regarding control of the 
aforementioned items to the Louisiana State University Museum of 
Natural Science. Upon evaluation of the new documentation, Louisiana 
State University Museum of Natural Science reconsidered its control of 
the human remains and associated funerary objects from the Fatherland 
site (22AD001) and transferred possession to the Mississippi Department 
of Archives and History, Historic Preservation Division in March 2005. 
The human remains and associated funerary objects are now in the 
possession and control of the Mississippi Department of Archives and 
History, Historic Preservation Division.
    The Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic 
Preservation Division, as the museum in control of the human remains 
and associated funerary objects, is responsible for determining 
cultural affiliation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects from the Fatherland site (22AD001). The Mississippi Department 
of Archives and History, Historic Preservation Division will consult 
and notify the proper groups once cultural affiliation is determined.
    Representatives of any tribal government who wish to comment on 
this notice should address their comments to Pamela D. Edwards, 
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Preservation 
Division, P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205, telephone (601) 576-6940.
    Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science is responsible 
for notifying the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana that this notice has 
been published.

    Dated: July 22, 2005.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 05-16884 Filed 8-24-05; 8:45 am]
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