[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 192 (Friday, October 2, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62321-62322]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-21078]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0030868; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains 
and Associated Funerary Objects in the Control of the U.S. Department 
of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office, 
Santa Fe, NM; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land 
Management, New Mexico State Office has corrected two Notices of 
Inventory Completion--a notice published in the Federal Register on 
March 20, 2001, and a notice correction published in the Federal 
Register on May 13, 2013. This notice corrects the minimum number of 
individuals and 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 Bureau of Land 
Management, New Mexico State Office. 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 the Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico 
State Office at the address in this notice by November 2, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Cynthia Herhahn, Deputy Preservation Officer and NAGPRA 
Coordinator, Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office, 301 
Dinosaur Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87508.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cynthia Herhahn, Deputy Preservation 
Officer and NAGPRA Coordinator, telephone (505) 761-8938, 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. Department of 
the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office, Santa 
Fe, NM. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed 
from Rio Arriba County, NM.
    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 the 
number of associated funerary objects published in a Notice of 
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (66 FR 15743-15744, March 
20, 2001) and a Notice of

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Inventory Completion Correction (78 FR 27993-27994, May 13, 2013). A 
re-inventory and reassessment of collections resulted in a revision to 
the minimum number of individuals. The minimum number of individuals 
increased because two human remains were identified in a faunal 
collection, and some infant and juvenile human remains were comingled 
with each other, as well as with adult human remains. The re-inventory 
also resulted in the discovery of additional associated funerary 
objects from site LA 297. Transfer of control of the items in this 
correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register of March 20, 2001, in FR Doc. 01-6840, on 
page 15743, make the following correction:
    1. On page 15743, column 2, fourth full paragraph, sentences 1 and 
2 are corrected to read as follows:

    In 1978, human remains representing four individuals were 
recovered from site LA 297 in New Mexico during legally authorized 
excavations and collections conducted by Mike O'Neill of the Bureau 
of Land Management. The remains of three individuals are presently 
curated at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New 
Mexico, and the remains of one individual are presently curated at 
the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM.

    In the Federal Register of May 13, 2013, in FR Doc. 2013-11229, on 
page 27993, make the following corrections:
    2. On page 27944, column 1, the correction to paragraph 7, sentence 
1, is corrected to read as follows:

    Between 1979 and 1981, human remains representing 17 individuals 
were recovered from site LA 297 in New Mexico during legally 
authorized excavations and collections by Occidental College.

    3. On page 27944, column 1, the correction to paragraph 7, sentence 
4, is corrected to read as follows:

    The 172 associated funerary objects include one whole ceramic 
vessel; one lot of burial matting; three lots of corn cobs; one 
turquoise fragment; one lot of chipped stone; 67 pieces of lithic 
debitage; 88 ceramic sherds; two pebbles; two lithic cores; one soil 
sample; four faunal remains; and one obsidian drill.

    4. On page 27944, column 1, the correction to paragraph 10, 
sentences 1 and 2, is corrected to read as follows:

    Based on the above information, officials of the Bureau of Land 
Management, New Mexico State Office have determined that, pursuant 
to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(1), the human remains listed above represent the 
physical remains of 22 individuals of Native American ancestry. 
Officials of the Bureau of Land Management have determined that, 
pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(2), the 172 objects listed above 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 Cynthia Herhahn, Deputy Preservation Officer 
and NAGPRA Coordinator, Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State 
Office, 301 Dinosaur Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87508, telephone (505) 761-
8938, email [email protected], by November 2, 2020. After that date, if 
no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects to the Ohkay Owingeh, New 
Mexico (previously listed as Pueblo of San Juan); Pueblo of Nambe, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; and the Pueblo of Tesuque, 
New Mexico, may proceed.
    The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, New 
Mexico State Office is responsible for notifying the Hopi Tribe of 
Arizona; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; Ohkay Owingeh, New 
Mexico (previously listed as Pueblo of San Juan); Pueblo of Acoma, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; 
Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of 
San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of 
Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; and the Zuni Tribe of 
the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, that this notice has been published.

    Dated: September 9, 2020.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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