[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 135 (Monday, July 19, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38120-38121]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-15255]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0032266; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Fremont Indian State Park and 
Museum, Sevier, UT

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Fremont Indian State Park and Museum has completed an 
inventory of human remains, in consultation with the appropriate Indian 
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and has determined that there 
is no cultural affiliation between the human remains and any present-
day Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. 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 Fremont Indian State Park and 
Museum. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control 
of the human remains to the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

DATES: 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 Fremont 
Indian State Park Museum at the address in this notice by August 18, 
2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kevin Taylor, Manager, Fremont Indian 
State Park and Museum, 3820 W Clear Creek Canyon Road, Sevier, UT 
84766-6058, telephone (435) 527-4631, 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 completion of an inventory of human remains under 
the control of the Fremont Indian State Park Museum, Sevier, UT. The 
human remains were removed from the Five Finger Ridge Site (42SV1686) 
and the Icicle Bench Site (42SV1372), Sevier County, UT.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 
43 CFR 10.11(d). 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.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the Fremont 
Indian State Park Museum professional staff in consultation with 
representatives of the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, 
Nevada and Utah; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians 
of the Kaibab Indian Reservation, Arizona; Northwestern Band of the 
Shoshone Nation (previously listed as Northwestern Band of Shoshoni 
Nation and the Northwestern Band of Shoshoni Nation of Utah 
(Washakie)); Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah (Cedar Band of Paiutes, Kanosh 
Band of Paiutes, Indian Peaks Band of Paiutes, and Shivwits Band of 
Paiutes (previously listed as Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah (Cedar City 
Band of Paiutes, Kanosh Band of Paiutes, Koosharem Band of Paiutes, 
Indian Peaks Band of Paiutes, and Shivwits Band of Paiutes)); Pueblo of 
Jemez, New Mexico; San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona; Shoshone-
Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation; Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of 
the Duck Valley Reservation, Nevada; Skull Valley Band of Goshute 
Indians of Utah; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute 
Reservation, Colorado; Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray 
Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain Ute Tribe (previously listed as Ute 
Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & 
Utah); and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico 
(hereafter referred to as ``The Consulted Tribes'').

History and Description of the Remains

    In 1983, human remains representing, at minimum, nine individuals 
were removed from the Five Finger Ridge Site (42SV1686) and the Icicle 
Bench Site (42SV1372) in Sevier County, UT. The remains of eight 
individuals were removed from the Five Finger Ridge Site and the 
remains of one individual were removed from the Icicle Bench Site by 
the Office of Public Archaeology (OPA) of Brigham Young University as 
part of the Interstate-70 construction project. Based on the excavated 
artifacts and architectural structures, both sites belong to the 
prehistoric Formative (Anasazi/Fremont) Period (from approximately 400 
B.C.E. to 1300 C.E.).
    OPA returned the human remains to the Fremont Indian State Park and 
Museum in 1987. From December 2018 to December 2020, a physical 
anthropology/forensics analyst from the Utah State Historic 
Preservation Office conducted a detailed examination of the fragmentary 
human remains, during which over 1,000 individual bone fragments were 
identified. Only by plotting the findspots of the human remains and 
through forensic reconstruction could the number of individuals be 
determined. No known individuals were identified. No associated 
funerary objects are present.

Determinations Made by the Fremont Indian State Park and Museum

    Officials of the Fremont Indian State Park and Museum have 
determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice are Native American, based on the culture represented by 
the excavated artifacts and architectural structures.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of nine individuals of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a relationship of shared 
group identity cannot be reasonably traced between the Native American 
human remains and any present-day Indian Tribe.
     According to final judgments of the Indian Claims 
Commission or the Court of Federal Claims, the land from which the 
Native American human remains were removed is the aboriginal land of 
the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah.
     Treaties, Acts of Congress, or Executive Orders indicate 
that the land from which the Native American human remains were removed 
is the aboriginal land of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray 
Reservation, Utah.
     Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the disposition of the 
human remains may be to the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray 
Reservation, Utah.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    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 Kevin Taylor, Manager, Fremont Indian 
State Park and Museum, 3820 W Clear Creek Canyon Road, Sevier, UT 
84766-6058, telephone (435) 527-4631, email [email protected], by 
August 18, 2021. After that date, if no additional requestors have come 
forward, transfer of control of the

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human remains to the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray 
Reservation, Utah may proceed.
    The Fremont Indian State Park and Museum is responsible for 
notifying The Consulted Tribes that this notice has been published.

    Dated: July 7, 2021.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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