[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 150 (Monday, August 5, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38047-38048]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-16687]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0028456; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Arizona State Museum, University 
of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona has corrected 
an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, 
published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register 
on September 10, 2014. This notice corrects the minimum number of 
individuals and 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 and associated funerary 
objects should submit a written request to the Arizona State Museum, 
University of Arizona. 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.

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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 Arizona State Museum, University of 
Arizona at the address in this notice by September 4, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Claire S. Barker, Repatriation Coordinator, Arizona State 
Museum, P.O. Box 210026, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, 
Tucson, AZ 85721, telephone (520) 626-0320, 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 Arizona State 
Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. The human remains and 
associated funerary objects were removed from Pima County, AZ.
    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 number 
of associated funerary objects published in a Notice of Inventory 
Completion in the Federal Register (79 FR 53754-53759, September 10, 
2014). The number of human remains and associated funerary objects has 
changed due to a search through uncatalogued collections. Transfer of 
control of the items in this correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 53757, September 10, 2014), column 
1, paragraph 1, sentence 5 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:
    The 106 associated funerary objects include 62 animal bones, three 
bone awls, 16 ceramic sherds, one ceramic vessel, one lot of charcoal, 
16 chipped stones, one ground stone, two minerals, three soil samples, 
and one turquoise fragment.
    In the Federal Register (79 FR 53757, September 10, 2014), column 
1, paragraph 3, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:
    In the years 1981 to 1987, human remains representing, at minimum, 
57 individuals were removed from the Redtail Village site, AZ 
AA:12:149(ASM), in Tucson, Pima County, AZ.
    In the Federal Register (79 FR 53757, September 10, 2014), column 
1, paragraph 3, sentence 7 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:
    The 965 associated funerary objects are 45 animal bones, two 
ceramic bowls, two ceramic jars, two ceramic scoops, 730 ceramic 
sherds, five lots of charcoal, 74 chipped stones, 78 flotation fraction 
lots, two ground stones, one metate, one mineral, five pollen samples, 
three shells, two stone projectile points, and 13 turquoise fragments.
    In the Federal Register (79 FR 53757, September 10, 2014), column 
3, paragraph 1, sentence 5 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:
    The 142 associated funerary objects are two animal bones, two lots 
of botanical material, 126 ceramic sherds, one lot of charcoal, and 11 
chipped stones.
    In the Federal Register (79 FR 53758, September 10, 2014), column 
1, paragraph 2, sentence 6 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:
    The 259 associated funerary objects are six ceramic bowls, three 
ceramic jars, 17 ceramic jar fragments, 166 ceramic sherds, two lot of 
charcoal, 27 chipped stones, two chipped stone knives, two flotation 
fraction lots, 20 flotation samples, one glass fragment, one ground 
stone, one mano, three minerals, two polishing stones, one shell, one 
shell bracelet, one soil sample, two stone artifacts, and one stone 
palette fragment.
    In the Federal Register (79 FR 53758, September 10, 2014), column 
3, paragraph 4, sentence 1 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 626 individuals of Native 
American ancestry.
    In the Federal Register (79 FR 53758, September 10, 2014), column 
3, paragraph 4, sentence 2 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:
    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 7,419 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 human remains and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to Claire S. Barker, Repatriation Coordinator, 
Arizona State Museum, P.O. Box 210026, Arizona State Museum, University 
of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, telephone (520) 626-0320, email 
[email protected], by September 4, 2019. After that date, if 
no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects to the Ak-Chin Indian 
Community (previously listed as the Ak Chin Indian Community of the 
Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona); Gila River Indian 
Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of 
Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River 
Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; and the Zuni 
Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico; hereafter referred to as 
``The Tribes,'' may proceed.
    The Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona is responsible for 
notifying The Tribes that this notice has been published.

    Dated: July 16, 2019.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2019-16687 Filed 8-2-19; 8:45 am]
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