[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 162 (Wednesday, August 23, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57469-57470]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-18137]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036439; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: University of 
Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of Anthropology, Knoxville, TN

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 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 
Department of Anthropology (UTK) has amended a Notice of Inventory 
Completion in the Federal Register on December 21, 2018. This notice 
amends the number of associated funerary objects in a collection 
removed from Stewart County, TN.

DATES: Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
in this notice may occur on or after September 22, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Ozlem Kilic, University of Tennessee, Office of the 
Provost, 527 Andy Holt Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0152, telephone (865) 
974-2454, email [email protected] and [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 UTK. 
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 UTK.

Amendment

    This notice amends the determinations published in a Notice of 
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (83 FR 65722-65724, 
December 21, 2018). Disposition of the items in the original Notice of 
Inventory Completion has not occurred. An additional five associated 
funerary objects, from 40SW47, the Allen site, in Stewart County, TN, 
were discovered after publication of the notice. The 24 associated 
funerary objects (previously identified as 19) are two lots consisting 
of faunal remains, two lots consisting of lithics, one lot consisting 
of ceramics, one chert biface fragment, one chert core fragment, one 
chert drill fragment, one flint blade or knife, one granite nutting 
stone or bipolar anvil, seven chert projectile points, two chert 
uniface scrapers, four chert unutilized flakes (one primary; one 
secondary; two tertiary/thinning), and one chert flake or angular 
shatter.

Determinations (as Amended)

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, UTK has determined 
that:
     The human remains represent the physical remains of two 
individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 24 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.
     No relationship of shared group identity can be reasonably 
traced between the human remains and associated funerary objects and 
any Indian Tribe.

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     The human remains and associated funerary objects 
described in this notice were removed from the aboriginal land of the 
Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; The Chickasaw 
Nation; and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.

Requests for Disposition

    Written requests for disposition of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition 
may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes 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, or who shows that the requestor is an aboriginal land 
Indian Tribe.
    Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects in 
this notice to a requestor may occur on or after September 22, 2023. If 
competing requests for disposition are received, UTK must determine the 
most appropriate requestor prior to disposition. Requests for joint 
disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects are 
considered a single request and not competing requests. UTK 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, 10.11, 
and 10.13.

    Dated: August 16, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-18137 Filed 8-22-23; 8:45 am]
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