[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 41 (Friday, March 1, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7117-7118]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-03589]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0027257; 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 August 22, 
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 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 37902-1401, 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 site 1MA10 in Madison 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 in a Notice 
of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (82 FR 39909-39911, 
August 22, 2017). Additional human remains from this site 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 39910, August 22, 2017), column 1, 
paragraph 2, sentence 1, under the heading ``History and Description of 
the Remains,'' is corrected by substituting the following sentence:

In March of 1934, human remains representing, at minimum, 47 
individuals

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were removed from site 1LI36, in Lawrence County, AL, by AMNH.

    In the Federal Register (82 FR 39910, August 22, 2017), column 1, 
paragraph 3, sentence 1, under the heading ``History and Description of 
the Remains,'' is corrected by substituting the following sentence:


From January 1939 to April 1940, human remains representing, at 
minimum, 262 individuals were removed from the Whitesburg Bridge 
site (1MA10) in Madison County, AL.

    In the Federal Register (82 FR 39910, August 22, 2017), column 2, 
paragraph 2, 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 499 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 
37902-1401, 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 Cherokee 
Nation; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; and the United Keetoowah Band 
of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma 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.

    Dated: February 1, 2019.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2019-03589 Filed 2-28-19; 8:45 am]
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