[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 167 (Tuesday, August 30, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52999-53000]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-18736]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0034425; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers, Mobile District, Mobile, AL

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; amendment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile 
District, has amended a Notice of Inventory Completion published in the 
Federal Register on April 5, 2016. This notice amends the previously 
reported minimum number of 21 individuals and 5,281 associated funerary 
objects in a collection removed from the Burnt Village Site 9TP9, Troup 
County, GA.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after September 29, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Ms. Alexandria Smith, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile 
District, 109 St. Joseph Street, P.O. Box 2288, Mobile, AL 36628-0001, 
telephone (251) 690-2728, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the

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National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA. 
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District. The National Park 
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice. 
Additional information on the amendments and determinations in this 
notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in the 
inventory or related records held by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 
Mobile District.

Amendment

    This notice amends the determinations published in a Notice of 
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (81 FR 19628-19629, April 
5, 2016). Repatriation of the items in the original Notice of Inventory 
Completion has not occurred. This notice amends the counts of the 
minimum number of individuals and the number of associated funerary 
objects as listed in the original notice. From the Burnt Village Site 
9TP9, Troup County, GA, 23 individuals were removed (previously 
identified as 21 individuals). The 5,297 associated funerary objects 
(previously identified as 5,281 associated funerary objects) are six 
metal armbands, 37 metal bells, five copper bracelets, 64 metal buckles 
and fasteners, 34 metal buttons, 14 metal rings, three metal neckbands, 
33 metal cone ornaments, 31 metal ornaments, 33 metal tinklers, five 
metal fragments with beads, 4,067 beads (glass, shell, clay, seed), 11 
lots of beads, three shell ornaments, three brass thimbles, three metal 
nails, two iron knife blade fragments, two horse bridle pieces, three 
metal tools, 28 pieces of metal/metal fragments, two ceramic balls/
knobs, two ceramic bowls, 455 ceramic sherds, six clay fragments, 27 
pieces of daub, 14 lithic flakes or shatter, two lithic projectile 
points, one stone gaming piece, four pipe stems, 19 fragments of 
fabric, two fragments of fabric with beads, 10 pieces of cord or thread 
or string, one mirror fragment, three glass fragments, one glass 
bottle, one cork, seven musket balls, nine gun flints, six unmodified 
shell pieces, one lot of modified mica, one piece of unmodified mica, 
172 unmodified faunal skeletal elements, one modified faunal skeleton 
element, 24 fire cracked rocks, 89 rocks, four samples of botanical 
remains, one piece of sandstone, 29 pieces of organic materials (e.g., 
botanicals and wood), six pieces of charcoal, two pieces of red ochre, 
two fired rocks, and six samples of charcoal and soil.

Determinations (as Amended)

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, has 
determined that:
     The human remains described in this amended notice 
represent the physical remains of 23 individuals of Native American 
ancestry.
     The 5,297 objects described in this amended 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.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary 
objects described in this notice and The Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to Ms. 
Alexandria Smith, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, 109 
St. Joseph Street, P.O. Box 2288, Mobile, AL 36628-0001, telephone 
(251) 690-2728, email [email protected]. Requests for 
repatriation may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations identified in this notice.
    2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a 
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal 
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization.
    Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after September 29, 2022. 
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the U.S. Army 
Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, must determine the most 
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint 
repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects are 
considered a single request and not competing requests. The U.S. Army 
Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, is responsible for sending a copy 
of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations 
identified in this notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10, 
10.13, and 10.14.

    Dated: August 24, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2022-18736 Filed 8-29-22; 8:45 am]
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