[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 45 (Tuesday, March 8, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12120-12121]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-05061]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-20250; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains 
and Associated Funerary Objects in the Possession of the University of 
Denver Department of Anthropology and Museum of Anthropology, Denver, 
CO; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The University of Denver Museum of Anthropology has corrected 
an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, 
published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register 
on November 13, 2000. This notice corrects the number of associated 
funerary objects. Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian 
tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice 
that wish to request transfer of control of these associated funerary 
objects should submit a written request to the University of Denver 
Museum of Anthropology. If no additional requestors come forward, 
transfer of control of the associated funerary objects to the lineal 
descendants, Indian tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in 
this notice may proceed.

DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or 
Native Hawaiian organization not

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identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of 
these associated funerary objects should submit a written request with 
information in support of the request to the University of Denver 
Museum of Anthropology at the address in this notice by April 7, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Anne Amati, University of Denver Museum of Anthropology, 
2000 East Asbury Avenue, Denver, CO 80208, telephone (303) 871-2687, 
email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the 
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 
U.S.C. 3003, of the correction of an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects under the control of the University of 
Denver Museum of Anthropology, Denver, CO. The human remains and 
associated funerary objects were removed from Pueblo Blanco, Santa Fe 
County, NM.
    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.
    This notice corrects the number of associated funerary objects 
published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register 
(65 FR 67757-67758, November 13, 2000). Re-inventory discovered more 
associated funerary objects. Transfer of control of the items in this 
correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (65 FR 67757-67758, November 13, 2000), 
paragraph 4, sentence 4 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

The 21 associated funerary objects are 1 non-human bone, 15 ceramic 
sherds (black and red on white), 4 chipped stone tools, and 1 
projectile point fragment.

    In the Federal Register (65 FR 67757-67758, November 13, 2000), 
paragraph 6, sentence 2 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Officials of the University of Denver Department of Anthropology 
and Museum of Anthropology also have determined that, pursuant to 43 
CFR 10.2 (d)(2), the 21 objects listed above are 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.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to Anne Amati, University of Denver Museum of 
Anthropology, 2000 E. Asbury Avenue, Denver, CO 80208, telephone (303) 
871-2687, email [email protected], by April 7, 2016. After that date, 
if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of 
the and associated funerary objects to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona may 
proceed.
    The University of Denver Museum of Anthropology is responsible for 
notifying the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and the Colorado River Indian 
Tribes of the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona and 
California, that this notice has been published.

    Dated: February 3, 2016.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2016-05061 Filed 3-7-16; 8:45 am]
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