[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 217 (Friday, November 8, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 60448]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-24396]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0029121; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Arkansas Archeological Survey, 
Fayetteville, AR; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Arkansas Archeological Survey has corrected an inventory 
of human remains published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the 
Federal Register on December 22, 2014. 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 Arkansas Archeological Survey. 
If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains 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 human remains should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to the 
Arkansas Archeological Survey at the address in this notice by December 
9, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Dr. George Sabo, Arkansas Archeological Survey, 2475 N Hatch 
Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72704, telephone (479) 575-3556, 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 Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville, AR. The 
human remains were removed from Arkansas County, AR.
    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 (79 FR 76351-
76361, December 22, 2014). Private individuals removed the human 
remains from Arkansas County in the 1930s and 1940s. These collections 
were acquired by the Joint Educational Consortium of Henderson State 
University and Ouachita Baptist University in 1977 and were transferred 
to the Arkansas Archeological Survey in 2017 to undergo the NAGPRA 
process. Transfer of control of the items in this correction notice has 
not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 76351, December 22, 2014), column 3, 
paragraph 7, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    In the 1930s to 1940s and in 1979, human remains representing a 
minimum of two individuals were recovered from the Menard-Hodges 
site (3AR4) in Arkansas County, Arkansas.
    In the Federal Register (79 FR 76351, December 22, 2014), column 
3, paragraph 7, sentence 4 is corrected by substituting the 
following sentence:
    Diagnostic artifacts found at the Menard-Hodges site (3AR4) 
indicate that these human remains were probably buried during the 
Menard Complex (late A.D. 1500) or the Protohistoric Period (A.D. 
1500-1700)
    In the Federal Register (79 FR 76361, December 22, 2014), column 
3, paragraph 1, 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 441 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. 
George Sabo, Arkansas Archeological Survey, 2475 N Hatch Avenue, 
Fayetteville, AR 72704, telephone (479) 575-3556, email [email protected], 
by December 9, 2019. After that date, if no additional requestors have 
come forward, transfer of control of the human remains to The Quapaw 
Tribe of Indians may proceed.
    The Arkansas Archeological Survey is responsible for notifying The 
Quapaw Tribe of Indians that this notice has been published.

    Dated: October 15, 2019.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2019-24396 Filed 11-7-19; 8:45 am]
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