[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 47 (Friday, March 10, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15078-15079]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-04892]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035439; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: U.S. Department of the 
Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC

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. Department of the Interior, Bureau 
of Indian Affairs (BIA) has amended a Notice of Inventory Completion 
published in the Federal Register on April 10, 2013. This notice amends 
the cultural affiliation of a collection removed from San Juan County, 
UT.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after April 10, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Tamara Billie, NAGPRA Coordinator, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
1001 Indian School Road NW, Mailbox 44--Suite 345, Albuquerque, NM 
87104, telephone (505) 879-9711, 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 
BIA. 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 BIA.

Amendment

    This notice amends the determinations published in a Notice of 
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (78 FR 21408-21409, April 
10, 2013). Repatriation of the items in the original Notice of 
Inventory Completion has not occurred. The human remains and associated 
funerary objects are under the control of the BIA and in the physical 
custody of the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology. The human 
remains and associated funerary objects were removed from a site 
referenced as UT W:10:2, located south of the town of Bluff, in San 
Juan County, UT, and on the Navajo Indian Reservation. Based on 
geographic evidence, officials of the BIA have

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determined that the Native American human remains are culturally 
affiliated with the Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah.

Determinations (as Amended)

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the BIA has determined that:
     The human remains described in this amended notice 
represent the physical remains of one individual of Native American 
ancestry.
     The 47 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 Navajo Nation, Arizona, New 
Mexico, & Utah.

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 April 10, 2023. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, the BIA 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 BIA 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: March 1, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-04892 Filed 3-9-23; 8:45 am]
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