[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 84 (Wednesday, May 3, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 20628]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-08860]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-23011; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Department of the Interior, 
National Park Service, Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon, AZ; 
Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 
Grand Canyon National Park, has corrected an inventory of human remains 
and associated funerary objects, published in a Notice of Inventory 
Completion in the Federal Register on April 10, 2013. This notice 
corrects the location from which the remains and objects were removed. 
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 to Grand Canyon 
National Park. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of 
control of the human remains and 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 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 Grand Canyon National Park at the address in 
this notice by June 2, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Christine Lehnertz, Superintendent, Grand Canyon National 
Park, P.O. Box 129, Grand Canyon, AZ 86023, telephone (928) 638-7945, 
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 U.S. Department of 
the Interior, National Park Service, Grand Canyon National Park, Grand 
Canyon, AZ. The human remains and associated funerary objects were 
removed from AZ A:13:0007, Mohave County, AZ.
    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 
Superintendent, Grand Canyon National Park.
    This notice corrects the location from which remains and objects 
were removed published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the 
Federal Register (78 FR 21407-21408, April 10, 2013). It was recently 
discovered that information from two sites had been inadvertently 
combined into one record. Transfer of control of the items in this 
correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (78 FR 21407, April 10, 2013), column 1, 
paragraph 4, sentence 2, under the heading SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION is 
corrected by replacing ``Muav Cave'' with ``site AZ A:13:0007.''
    In the Federal Register (78 FR 21407, April 10, 2013), column 2, 
paragraph 1, sentence 1, under the heading ``History and Description of 
the Remains'', is corrected by substituting the following sentence:

    In 1965, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual 
were removed from site AZ A:13:0007 in Mohave County, AZ by river 
runner Bill Belknap and turned in to Bob Euler, Grand Canyon 
National Park Anthropologist.

    In the Federal Register (78 FR 21407, April 10, 2013), column 2, 
paragraph 2, under the heading ``History and Description of the 
Remains'', is corrected by deleting the entire paragraph.
    In the Federal Register (78 FR 21407, April 10, 2013), column 2, 
paragraph 3, sentence 1, under the heading ``History and Description of 
the Remains'', is corrected by substituting the following sentence:

    The ceramics, which date to A.D. 900-1500, and lithics found at 
site AZ A:13:0007 are consistent with materials identified by 
archeologists as being associated with the Cerbat culture.

    In the Federal Register (78 FR 21407, April 10, 2013), column 2, 
paragraph 3, sentence 4, under the heading ``History and Description of 
the Remains'', is corrected by replacing ``Muav Cave'' with ``site AZ 
A:13:0007.''
    In the Federal Register (78 FR 21407, April 10, 2013), column 3, 
paragraph 1, sentence 1, under the heading ``History and Description of 
the Remains'', is corrected by replacing ``Muav Cave'' with ``site AZ 
A:13:0007.''

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 Christine Lehnertz, Superintendent, Grand 
Canyon National Park, P.O. Box 129, Grand Canyon, AZ 86023, telephone 
(928) 638-7945, email [email protected], by June 2, 2017. After 
that date, if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of 
control of the human remains and associated funerary objects to the 
Havasupai Tribe of the Havasupai Reservation, Arizona; Hualapai Indian 
Tribe of the Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona; Kaibab Band of 
Paiute Indians of the Kaibab Indian Reservation, Arizona; Las Vegas 
Tribe of Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas Indian Colony, Nevada; Moapa 
Band of Paiute Indians of the Moapa River Indian Reservation, Nevada; 
and Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah (Cedar Band of Paiutes, Kanosh Band of 
Paiutes, Koosharem Band of Paiutes, Indian Peaks Band of Paiutes, and 
Shivwits Band of Paiutes (formerly Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah (Cedar 
City Band of Paiutes, Kanosh Band of Paiutes, Koosharem Band of 
Paiutes, Indian Peaks Band of Paiutes, and Shivwits Band of Paiutes)) 
(``The Tribes'') may proceed.

    Dated: March 1, 2017.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2017-08860 Filed 5-2-17; 8:45 am]
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