[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 65 (Wednesday, April 4, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 14496]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-06830]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WAS-NAGPRA-NPS0025139; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: California Department of 
Transportation, Sacramento, CA, and California State University, 
Sacramento, CA; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and 
California State University, Sacramento, have corrected an inventory of 
associated funerary objects, published in a Notice of Inventory 
Completion in the Federal Register on March 15, 2011. 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 
Caltrans. 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 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 
Caltrans at the address in this notice by May 4, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Sarah Allred, Native American Cultural Studies Branch Chief, 
California Department of Transportation, 1120 North Street, MS-27, 
Sacramento, CA 95814, telephone (916) 653-0013, 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 associated funerary 
objects under the control of the California Department of 
Transportation. The associated funerary objects were removed from site 
CA-SJO-91, on private property, in San Joaquin County, CA.
    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 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 
(76 FR 14055, March 15, 2011). Three associated funerary objects 
originally listed as missing have since been found. Transfer of control 
of the items in this correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (76 FR 14055, March 15, 2011), column 2, 
full paragraph 3, sentences 4 and 5, are corrected by substituting the 
following sentences:

    The 4,670 associated funerary objects are 3,967 beads, 16 
bifaces, 4 pieces of charcoal, 1 charmstone fragment, 1 silicate 
core, 2 lots of debitage, 490 faunal bones, 5 flake tools, 61 tule 
mat impressions, 20 modified bones, 1 modified shell, 2 modified 
stones, 20 pieces of ochre, 14 ornaments, 3 pestles, 20 projectile 
points, 35 quartz crystals and pebbles, 6 soil samples, and 2 
whistles. In addition, there are 184 missing associated funerary 
objects (156 beads, 1 piece of charcoal, 1 igneous core, 12 lots of 
debitage, 5 faunal bones, 1 flake tool, 1 modified bone, 1 quartz 
rock, 1 steatite ring, and 5 bone whistles).

    In the Federal Register (76 FR 14056, March 15, 2011), column 1, 
full paragraph 2, sentence 2 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Officials of California State University, Sacramento, and 
Caltrans also have determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), 
that the 4,670 objects described 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 associated funerary objects should 
submit a written request with information in support of the request to 
Sarah Allred, Native American Cultural Studies Branch Chief, California 
Department of Transportation, 1120 North Street, MS-27, Sacramento, CA 
95814, telephone (916) 653-0013, email [email protected], by May 
4, 2018. After that date, if no additional requestors have come 
forward, transfer of control of the associated funerary objects to the 
Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; California 
Valley Miwok Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk 
Indians of California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California; 
Jackson Band of Miwuk Indians (previously listed as the Jackson 
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California); Picayune Rancheria of 
Chukchansi Indians of California; Santa Rosa Indian Community of the 
Santa Rosa Rancheria, California; Shingle Springs Band of Miwok 
Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; Table 
Mountain Rancheria (previously listed as the Table Mountain Rancheria 
of California); Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation, 
California; Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria 
of California; United Auburn Indian Community of the Auburn Rancheria 
of California; and the Wilton Rancheria, California, (``The Tribes''), 
may proceed.
    California State University, Sacramento, is responsible for 
notifying The Tribes, as well as three non-Federally recognized Indian 
groups, the Northern Valley Yokuts, Southern Sierra Miwoks of 
California, and Tubatulabals of Kern Valley, that this notice has been 
published.

    Dated: February 28, 2018.
Melanie O'Brian,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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