[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 79 (Wednesday, April 24, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17193-17194]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-08225]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0027461; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 
Omaha District, Omaha, NE, and State Archaeological Research Center, 
Rapid City, SD; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District (Omaha 
District) has corrected an inventory of human remains and associated 
funerary objects, published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the 
Federal Register on April 13, 2018. This notice corrects the number of 
associated funerary objects for site 39WW0003. 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 
the Omaha District. 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

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associated funerary objects should submit a written request with 
information in support of the request to the Omaha District at the 
address in this notice by May 24, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Ms. Sandra Barnum, U.S. Army Engineer District, Omaha, ATTN: 
CENWO-PM-AB, 1616 Capital Avenue, Omaha, NE 68102, telephone, (402) 
995-2674, 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. Army Corps of 
Engineers, Omaha District, Omaha, NE and in the physical custody of the 
South Dakota State Archaeological Research Center (SARC). The human 
remains and associated funerary objects were removed from sites 
39WW0003 and 39CA0006, Walworth and Campbell Counties, SD.
    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 number of associated funerary objects for 
site 39WW0003 published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the 
Federal Register (83 FR 16124-16125, April 13, 2018). The correction is 
being made due to additional catalogues being found. Transfer of 
control of the items in this correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (83 FR 16125, April 13, 2018), column 2, 
paragraph 1, sentence 6 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    The 846 associated funerary objects include 140 ceramic rim 
sherds, 629 ceramic body sherds, two ceramic handle sherds, three 
bone awls (faunal), two bone hoes (faunal), six modified bones 
(faunal), 12 unidentified bone fragments (faunal), two burnt corn 
cobs, one wood fragment, 12 glass beads, two abraders, one biface 
fragment, one biface knife, nine chipped stone flakes, one chipped 
stone tool, one groundstone, one modified flake, three projectile 
points, three uniface flakes, one catlinite fragment, one yellow 
mineral pigment vial, and 13 scrapers.

    In the Federal Register (83 FR 16125, April 13, 2018), column 3, 
paragraph 1, sentence 2 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 2,014 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.

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 
Ms. Sandra Barnum, U.S. Army Engineer District, Omaha, ATTN: CENWO-PM-
AB, 1616 Capital Avenue, Omaha, NE 68102, telephone, (402) 995-2674, 
email [email protected]. After that date, if no additional 
requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the associated 
funerary objects to the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold 
Reservation, North Dakota, may proceed.
    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District is responsible for 
notifying the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, 
North Dakota, that this notice has been published.

    Dated: March 11, 2019.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2019-08225 Filed 4-23-19; 8:45 am]
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