[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 41 (Friday, March 1, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7122-7123]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-03586]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0027258; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Tennessee Valley Authority, 
Knoxville, TN; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has corrected an 
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects published in 
a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on September 
5, 2017. This notice corrects the minimum number of individuals. 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 TVA. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer 
of control of the human remains to the Indian Tribes 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 should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to the TVA 
at the address in this notice by April 1, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Thomas O. Maher, TVA, 400 West Summit Hill Drive, WT11C, 
Knoxville, TN 37902, telephone (865) 632-7458, 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 under 
the control of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, TN. The human 
remains were removed from sites 1JA27, 1JA28 and 1MS121 in Jackson and 
Marshall County, AL.
    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. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.
    This notice corrects the minimum number of individuals published in 
a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (82 FR 41990-
41991, September 5, 2017). Additional human remains from these sites 
were discovered during improvement of the curation of the non-NAGPRA 
TVA archeological collection. Transfer of control of the items in this 
correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (82 FR 41990, September 5, 2017), column 3, 
paragraph 3, sentence 1, under the heading ``History and Description of 
the Remains,'' is corrected by substituting the following sentence:

From March to April of 1938, human remains representing, at minimum, 
49 individuals were removed from the Hardin site (1JA27) in Jackson 
County, AL, after TVA acquired the site on October 16, 1936.

    In the Federal Register (82 FR 41990, September 5, 2017), column 3, 
paragraph 4, sentence 1, under the heading ``History and Description of 
the Remains,'' is corrected by substituting the following sentence:

From January to June of 1938, human remains representing, at 
minimum, 162 individuals were removed from the Saulty and Riley site 
(1JA28) in Jackson County, AL, after TVA purchased the site on 
October 16, 1936.

    In the Federal Register (82 FR 41991, September 5, 2017), column 1, 
paragraph 2, sentence 1, under the heading ``History and Description of 
the Remains,'' is corrected by substituting the following sentence:

From October to November of 1937, human remains representing, at 
minimum, 14 individuals were removed from site 1MS121 on Pine Island 
in Marshall County, AL, after TVA purchased the site on April 19, 
1937.

    In the Federal Register (82 FR 41991, September 5, 2017), column 2, 
paragraph 1, sentence 2, under the heading ``Determinations Made by the 
Tennessee Valley Authority,'' is corrected by substituting the 
following sentence:

Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described in this 
notice represent the physical remains of 309 individuals of Native 
American ancestry.

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 should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to Dr. 
Thomas O. Maher, TVA, 400 West Summit Hill Drive, WT11C, Knoxville, TN 
37902, telephone (865) 632-7458, email [email protected], by April 1, 
2019. After that date, if no additional requestors have come forward, 
transfer of control of the human remains to the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe 
of Texas (previously listed as the Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas); 
Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; and The 
Muscogee (Creek) Nation may proceed.
    The Tennessee Valley Authority is responsible for notifying the 
Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Alabama-Coushatta Tribe 
of Texas (previously listed as the Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas); 
Cherokee Nation; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; Eastern Band of Cherokee 
Indians; Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians; Poarch Band of Creeks 
(previously listed as the Poarch Band of Creek Indians of Alabama); The 
Chickasaw Nation; The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; The Muscogee (Creek) 
Nation; The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma; and the United Keetoowah Band 
of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma that this notice has been published.


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    Dated: February 1, 2019.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2019-03586 Filed 2-28-19; 8:45 am]
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