[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 170 (Tuesday, September 3, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46046-46047]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-18859]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0028653; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Historic Westville, Inc., 
Columbus, GA; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: Historic Westville, Inc. has corrected an inventory of human 
remains and associated funerary objects, published in a Notice of 
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on November 13, 2018. This 
notice corrects 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 and associated funerary 
objects should submit a written request to the Historic Westville, Inc. 
If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects to the 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 Historic Westville, Inc. at the address 
in this notice by October 3, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Terra Martinez, Historic Westville, Inc., 1130 Martin Luther 
King Jr. Boulevard, Columbus, GA 31906, telephone (706) 940-0057, 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 Historic 
Westville, Inc. The human remains and associated funerary objects were 
removed from unknown parts of northern Georgia and southern Tennessee.
    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 
published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register 
(83 FR 56375-56376, November 13, 2018). Upon beginning the move of 
museum collections to a new site from the current warehouse, boxes 
containing funerary objects were discovered. Transfer of control of the 
items in this correction notice has not occurred.

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Correction

    In the Federal Register (83 FR 56375, November 13, 2018), column 3, 
paragraph 3, sentence 6 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    The 376 associated funerary objects are 255 beads, 29 gorgets 
and possible gorgets, 35 celts and possible celts, 19 turtle and 
mollusk shells, 21 clay pots that may be reproduction, two intact 
pottery bowls, one intact pottery vessel, one sandstone hawk effigy, 
five flutes that are possible reproductions, five large decorated 
sherds, one pipe, one mask that is a possible reproduction, and one 
unknown ceramic.

    In the Federal Register 83 FR 56376, November 13, 2018, column 1, 
paragraph 2, sentence 3 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 376 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

    Representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization 
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 Terra Martinez, Historic 
Westville, Inc., 1130 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Columbus, GA 
31906, telephone (706) 940-0057, email [email protected], by October 
3, 2019. After that date, if no additional requestors have come 
forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to The Muscogee (Creek) Nation may proceed.
    The Historic Westville, Inc. is responsible for notifying the 
Indian Tribes listed in the original notice that this notice has been 
published.

    Dated: August 6, 2019.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2019-18859 Filed 8-30-19; 8:45 am]
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