[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 139 (Monday, July 20, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43874-43875]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-15582]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0030423; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: The University of Tennessee, 
Department of Anthropology, Knoxville, TN; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The University of Tennessee, Department of Anthropology (UTK), 
has corrected an inventory of human remains and associated funerary 
objects, published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal 
Register on December 21, 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 UTK. 
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.

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 UTK at the address in this notice by August 
19, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Robert Hinde, University of Tennessee, Office of the 
Provost, 527 Andy Holt Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0152, telephone (865) 
974-2445, email [email protected] and [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 University of 
Tennessee, Department of Anthropology, Knoxville, TN. The human remains 
and associated funerary objects were removed from Bedford County, 
Lincoln County, and Stewart County, TN.
    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 65722-65724, December 21, 2018). Additional associated funerary 
objects were discovered after publication of the notice. Transfer of 
control of the items in this correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (83 FR 65723, December 21, 2018), column 1, 
9th sentence from the top, is corrected to read as follows:

    The 4,809 associated funerary objects include: 2,120 chert waste 
flakes, 27 bifacially worked tools or tool fragments, one core 
fragment, two gravers, one projectile point base, one piece of 
ochre, 130 pieces of burned clay, one ceramic sherd, 2,000 faunal 
bones, teeth and claws (of which 53 show evidence of polishing), 523 
fragments of gastropod and mussel shell, two pieces of charcoal, and 
one bag of sediment.

    In the Federal Register (83 FR 65723, December 21, 2018), column 1, 
1st full paragraph, sentence 5 is corrected to read as follows:

    The 98 associated funerary objects include: two pieces of 
charcoal, three ceramic sherds, two chert waste flakes, and 91 small 
fragments of faunal bone.

    In the Federal Register (83 FR 65724, December 21, 2018), column 1, 
paragraph 1, sentence 3, under the heading ``Determinations Made by the 
University of Tennessee, Department of Anthropology,'' is corrected to 
read as follows:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 6,329 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 Dr. Robert Hinde, University of Tennessee, 
Office of the Provost, 527 Andy Holt Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0152, 
telephone (865) 974-2445, email [email protected] and [email protected], by 
August 19, 2020. After that date, if no additional requestors have come 
forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to the Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band of Cherokee 
Indians; The Chickasaw Nation; and the United Keetoowah Band of 
Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma may proceed.
    The University of Tennessee, Department of Anthropology is

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responsible for notifying the Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band of Cherokee 
Indians; The Chickasaw Nation; and the United Keetoowah Band of 
Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma that this notice has been published.

    Dated: June 4, 2020.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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