[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 37 (Friday, February 24, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11931-11932]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-03815]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035385; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: New Mexico State 
University Museum, Las Cruces, NM; U.S. Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office, Las Cruces, NM; and 
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Gila National Forest, 
Silver City, NM, and Apache Sitgreaves National Forest, Springerville, 
AZ

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 New Mexico State University Museum; U.S. 
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State 
Office; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Gila 
National Forest and Apache Sitgreaves National Forest have amended a 
Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register on 
January 12, 2023. This notice amends the cultural affiliation of a 
collection removed from Apache County AZ, Do[ntilde]a Ana County, NM, 
Grant County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Luna County, NM, Otero County, 
NM, Sierra County, NM and, in certain instances, from locations 
unknown.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after March 27, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Fumi Arakawa, New Mexico State University Museum 
Director's Office, 1525 Stewart, Room 331, P.O. Box 30001, MSC:3BV, Las 
Cruces, NM 88003-8001, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the 
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA. 
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
New Mexico State University Museum (University Museum); U.S. Department 
of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office 
(BLM); and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Gila 
National Forest, Silver City, NM (Gila NF), and Apache Sitgreaves 
National Forest, Springerville, AZ (Apache Sitgreaves NF). 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 University Museum.

Amendment

    This notice amends the determinations published in a Notice of 
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (88 FR 2129-2132, January 
12, 2023). Repatriation of the items in the original Notice of 
Inventory Completion has not occurred. This amendment adds to the list 
of culturally affiliated Indian Tribes. Some of the culturally 
affiliated Indian Tribes were inadvertently omitted from the published 
notice.

Determinations (as Amended)

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the New Mexico State University Museum, Bureau of Land 
Management, Apache Sitgreaves National Forest, and Gila National Forest 
has determined that:
     The human remains represent the physical remains of 288 
individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 1,079 objects 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 and the Comanche Nation, Oklahoma; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; 
Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; Navajo 
Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico; Pueblo 
of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, 
New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; 
Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico;

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Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo 
of San Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo 
of Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa 
Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; Santo Domingo Pueblo; White Mountain 
Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona; Ysleta del Sur 
Pueblo; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. 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 March 27, 2023. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, the University 
Museum; BLM; Gila NF or Apache Sitgreaves NF 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 University 
Museum 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, Sec.  
10.10, Sec.  10.13, and Sec.  10.14.

    Dated: February 15, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-03815 Filed 2-23-23; 8:45 am]
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