[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 47 (Friday, March 10, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15070-15071]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-04897]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035446; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California San 
Diego, San Diego, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California San Diego has 
completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects 
and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the 
human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or 
Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and 
associated funerary objects were removed from San Diego County, CA.

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

ADDRESSES: Eva Trujillo, University of California San Diego, 9500 
Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, telephone (858) 414-4609, 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 
University of California San Diego. The National Park Service is not 
responsible for the determinations in this notice. Additional 
information on the determinations in this notice, including the results 
of consultation, can be found in the inventory or related records held 
by the University of California San Diego.

Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed 
from a location near Oceanside, located on the north side of the Loma 
Alta Valley, in San Diego County, CA. This location is identified as 
Hubbs site number ``1963:III:31(A).'' In 1963, Dr. Carl Leavitt Hubbs, 
an employee of the University of California, San Diego/Scripps 
Institution of Oceanography, removed the human remains and associated 
funerary objects from the site and incorporated them into what became 
known as the ``Hubbs Collection.'' The eight associated funerary 
objects are one lot of charcoal, one lot of chipped stone cores, one 
lot of chipped stone scrapers, one lot of river rock, one lot of 
organic residue, one lot of unmodified shell, one lot of unworked 
flakes, and one lot of utilized flakes.
    Dr. Hubbs bequeathed the Hubbs Collection to the Museum of Us 
(formerly the San Diego Museum of Man) in 1973. In March of 2004, the 
Museum of Us (MoU) deaccessioned the Hubbs Collection and donated it to 
the University of San Diego (USD) Anthropology Department, although 
some of the collection remained at MoU. In June of 2020, the University 
of California, San Diego (UCSD) became aware of the Hubbs Collection 
and, in December of 2020, given the scope of the collection and 
complexities related to provenance, UCSD, MoU, and USD reached an 
agreement to work together to facilitate NAGPRA compliance.

Cultural Affiliation

    The human remains and associated funerary objects described in this 
notice are connected to one or more identifiable earlier groups, 
tribes, peoples, or cultures. There is a relationship of shared group 
identity between the identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 
cultures and one or more Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations. The following types of information were used to 
reasonably trace the relationship: oral tradition, archeological 
information, and geographical information.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the University of California San Diego, CA, has 
determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.

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     The eight objects described in this 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 Campo Band of Diegueno Mission 
Indians of the Campo Indian Reservation, California; Capitan Grande 
Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California (Barona Group of Capitan 
Grande Band of Mission Indians of the Barona Reservation, California; 
Viejas (Baron Long) Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of 
the Viejas Reservation, California); Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay 
Indians, California; Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel, California 
(previously listed as Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of 
the Santa Ysabel Reservation); Inaja Band of Diegueno Mission Indians 
of the Inaja and Cosmit Reservation, California; Jamul Indian Village 
of California; La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians, California (previously 
listed as La Jolla Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the La Jolla 
Reservation); La Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the La Posta 
Indian Reservation, California; Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission 
Indians of the Manzanita Reservation, California; Mesa Grande Band of 
Diegueno Mission Indians of the Mesa Grande Reservation, California; 
Pala Band of Mission Indians (previously listed as Pala Band of Luiseno 
Mission Indians of the Pala Reservation, California); Pauma Band of 
Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pauma & Yuima Reservation, California; 
Pechanga Band of Indians (previously listed as Pechanga Band of Luiseno 
Mission Indians of the Pechanga Reservation, California); Rincon Band 
of Luiseno Mission Indians of Rincon Reservation, California; San 
Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California; Soboba Band of 
Luiseno Indians, California; and the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay 
Nation.

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 University of 
California San Diego 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 of California San Diego is 
responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes 
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, 
and 10.14.

    Dated: March 1, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-04897 Filed 3-9-23; 8:45 am]
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