[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 117 (Monday, June 18, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28258-28259]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-13035]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0025535; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Arkansas Highway and 
Transportation Department, Little Rock, AR; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department has 
corrected an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects 
published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register 
on August 21, 2008. This notice corrects the minimum number of 
individuals and 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 human remains should submit a written 
request to the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. 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 the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation 
Department at the address in this notice by July 18, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Kristina Boykin, Arkansas State Highway and Transportation 
Department, P.O. Box 2261, Little Rock, AR 72203, telephone (501) 569-
2079, 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 Arkansas State 
Highway and Transportation Department, Little Rock, AR. The human 
remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Poinsett 
County, AR.
    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 minimum number of individuals and the 
number of associated funerary objects published in a Notice of 
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (73 FR 49483, August 21, 
2008). The additional individuals and funerary objects were reported to 
the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department by the 
University of Missouri, American Archeology Division. Transfer of 
control of the items in this correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (73 FR 499483, August, 21, 2008), column 1, 
paragraph 4 is corrected by substituting the following paragraph:

    In 1988, human remains representing a minimum of 16 individuals 
were recovered from the Priestly site (3PO490) in Poinsett County, 
AR, by the Center for Archaeological Research, Southwest Missouri 
State University, Springfield, MO. The human remains were sent to 
the University of Missouri, Columbia for analysis. The human remains 
were transferred to the Arkansas Highway and Transportation 
Department in 2004 and 2018 and then to the Arkansas Archeological 
Survey for curation in 2008 and 2018. No known individuals were 
identified. The 57 associated funerary objects are two Landers 
points, one Gary point, one point, 42 plain shell-tempered body 
sherds, 10 sherds, and one plain shell-tempered sherd from the rim 
of a bowl.

    In the Federal Register (73 FR 499483, August, 21, 2008), column 2, 
paragraph 7, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Officials of the Arkansas Highway and Transportation have 
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 2001 (9-10), the human 
remains described above represent the physical remains of at least 
16 individuals of Native American ancestry.

    In the Federal Register (73 FR 499483, August, 21, 2008), column 2, 
paragraph 7, sentence 2 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Officials of the Arkansas Highway and Transportation also have 
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 57 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 human remains and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to Kristina Boykin, Arkansas State Highway and 
Transportation Department, P.O. Box 2261, Little Rock, AR 72203, 
telephone (501) 569-2079, email [email protected], by July 
18, 2018. After that date, if no

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additional requestors have come forward,, transfer of control of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects to the Quapaw Tribe of 
Indians may proceed.
    The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department is 
responsible for notifying the Quapaw Tribe of Indians that this notice 
has been published.

    Dated: May 3, 2018.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2018-13035 Filed 6-15-18; 8:45 am]
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