[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 215 (Wednesday, November 8, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51866-51867]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-24234]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0024192: PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, 
National Park Service, Tuzigoot National Monument, Clarkdale, 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, 
Tuzigoot National Monument, has corrected an inventory of human remains 
and associated funerary objects, published in a Notice of Inventory 
Completion in the Federal Register on July 28, 2014. This notice 
corrects the minimum number of individuals and 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 human remains and 
associated funerary objects should submit a written request to Tuzigoot 
National Monument. 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 Tuzigoot National Monument at the address in 
this notice by December 8, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Dorothy FireCloud, Superintendent, Tuzigoot National 
Monument, P.O. Box 219, Camp Verde, AZ 86322, telephone (928) 567-5276, 
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, Tuzigoot National Monument, 
Clarkdale, AZ. The human remains and associated funerary objects were 
removed from multiple locations in Coconino and Yavapai Counties, 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, Tuzigoot National Monument.
    This notice corrects the minimum number of individuals and number 
of associated funerary objects published in a Notice of Inventory 
Completion in the Federal Register (79 FR 43774, July 28, 2014). The 
human remains and associated funerary objects were inadvertently 
omitted from the published notice. Transfer of control of the 
additional items in this correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 43775, July 28, 2014), column 2, 
paragraph 3, sentence 1, under the heading ``History and Description of 
the Remains,'' is corrected by substituting the following sentence:

    At unknown dates, human remains representing, at minimum, 20 
individuals were removed from unknown locations in Yavapai County, 
AZ.

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 43775, July 28, 2014), column 2, 
paragraph 5, under the heading ``History and Description of the 
Remains,'' is corrected by substituting the following paragraph:

    At unknown dates, human remains representing, at minimum, 19 
individuals were removed from unknown locations in Yavapai County, 
AZ. The remains were found in Tuzigoot National Monument collections 
at the National Park Service's Western Archeological and 
Conservation Center and so were likely removed from the area of the 
monument. No known individuals were identified. The one associated 
funerary object is a soil sample.

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 43775, July 28, 2014), column 2, 
under the heading ``History and Description of the Remains,'' is 
corrected by adding the following paragraph after paragraph 7:

    In 1954, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual 
were removed from the Will Steele property in Coconino County, AZ by 
Tapco workmen working on the property. No known individuals were 
identified. The one associated funerary object is a bead.


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    In the Federal Register (79 FR 43775, July 28, 2014), column 3, 
paragraph 2, under the heading ``Determinations Made by Tuzigoot 
National Monument,'' is corrected by substituting the following 
paragraphs:

     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains 
described in this notice represent the physical remains of 51 
individuals of Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the two objects 
described in this notice 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. The National Park Service 
intends to convey the associated funerary objects to the Tribes 
pursuant to 54 U.S.C. 102503(g) through (i) and 54 U.S.C 102504.

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 object should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to Dorothy FireCloud, Superintendent, Tuzigoot 
National Monument, P.O. Box 219, Camp Verde, AZ 86322, telephone (928) 
567-5276, email [email protected], by December 8, 2017. After 
that date, if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of 
control of the human remains and associated funerary objects to the Ak 
Chin Indian Community (previously listed as the Ak Chin Indian 
Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona); 
Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, Arizona; Fort 
Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Gila River Indian Community of the Gila 
River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Hualapai 
Indian Tribe of the Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona; Jicarilla 
Apache Nation, New Mexico; Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero 
Reservation, New Mexico; Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of 
the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San 
Carlos Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; Tonto 
Apache Tribe of Arizona; White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache 
Reservation, Arizona; Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian 
Reservation, Arizona; Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe (previously listed 
as the Yavapai-Prescott Tribe of the Yavapai Reservation, Arizona); and 
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico (hereafter referred to 
as ``The Tribes'') may proceed.
    Tuzigoot National Monument is responsible for notifying The Tribes 
that this notice has been published.

    Dated: September 21, 2017
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2017-24234 Filed 11-7-17; 8:45 am]
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